James Simonian
@cutts.bsky.social
GR/DET/PH Chronically ill butcher, beer cicerone and anti-authoritarian trade unionist. I write when I'm not on the block. ❌Minors 🇮🇹/🇲🇽/🇦🇲/🇵🇸OK
created March 20, 2024
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Chris Franklin (@errant-signal.com) reposted
For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
Most doctors are rude assholes.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
COVID really fucked up the healthcare system here. Nurses said fuck this shit and quit en masse.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
DONT GET ME STARTED. Fucking send me across Michigan just for a psychiatric bed after an SI landed me in the hospital for a couple weeks. This place is so fucked.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
It's a nice breezy warm day out here. Good day to be alive.
assbutt (@nasboat.org) reposted
you ever think about how Budd Dwyer killed himself after doing a corruption that wouldn’t even last 5 minutes in the present-day news cycle?
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
Y'all zoomers need to figure out ways of avoiding a draft soon and I don't think Canada is gonna be tolerable of a bunch of Yanks overstaying visas this time around.
Karly Kingsley (@karlykingsley.bsky.social) reposted
An $8 coffee isn’t your coffee shop’s fault. It’s beans, labor, rent, paper goods, utilities. Global coffee prices are near a 50-year high. Tariffs & policy drive costs up and when cheaper inventory runs out, prices will climb again. PSA Don’t blame the barista, blame the ballot box.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Trump wants to get us into a huge war with cartels because: -He's dying slowly -He wants to be remembered as a wartime president -the military industrial complex needs money
amy brown (@amybrown.xyz) reposted
told my telehealth psychiatrist i'm recovering from covid and she said "i thought covid was over?" ma'am you're a doctor wtf
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
...What do you mean there's Arapaima in Kerala now? Fucking Aquaculturists, man.
vanilla3272 🪼✹ (@vanilla3272.bsky.social) reposted
arapaima 🏷️ #fish #fishart #digitalart #pixelart #art #animalart #arapaima #cuteart
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
There's a video of an Arapaima inhaling a bologna log going around. Same, big guy. I'm broke and hungey.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
could be a nasty mix of any communicable illness, but common logic will dictate more often than not it's 'rona. *ahem* IF YOU ARE SICK STAY THE FUCK HOME, YOU NASTY MOTHERFUCKERS.
Fünhilde (@funhilde.bsky.social) reposted
Remember that Con Crud is possibly Covid-19 and that you should probably be testing for that (and maybe other things) before going around other people in public without precautions.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
this is an old disproven claim. I have research from @jama.com that says so. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Autism is a heritable condition from one or both parents. RFK Jr. should step down. #Autism #ActuallyAutistic
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Some seventh-day adventists tried leaving their crappy plagarized book on my porch because my mom lives for halloween. Ellen White smacked her head and started seeing Jesus. She also stole a ton of work from Vitologists of the era to write said book. Go to a real church. Like a Catholic one. :^)
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
I can't imagine fumbling the bag this badly. Could be worse, though. Could be a Randy Pitchford movie like Borderlands. 🤮💩
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Imagine not wanting to have STEVEN FUCKING SPIELBERG in charge of your IP. Activision is fucking dumb.
Travis from 93-94: A Music Podcast (@9394podcast.bsky.social) reposted
Mike Rogers can STFU about sending the National Guard into Detroit. It’s the safest it’s been in decades. Grandstanding, fear-mongering, and government overreach will not get you elected, Rogers.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
also you took the time to write a reply, ergo...you do care. If you'd be so kind to go jump in a fast moving body of water with 20 pound plates tied to your ankles, that'd be cool.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
>using AI for anything HOW EMBARASSING. Fuck off and die.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Uh oh.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
BTW, people with EDS go in and out of Hospice care all the time for pain management. This is the medical opinion of a former oncologist who now works to try and raise awareness for our condition.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
Why does God allow us to suffer at all? It's how life is. There are worse illnesses than cancer. I got one of them, and this has no cure, no treatment other than "here's opiates that make your organs fail slowly." Cancer eventually ends in one of two outcomes. This is forever for me.
The Blogging Goth (@theblogginggoth.bsky.social) reposted
Robert Smith has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
only upshot of this is feeling badass when you're prepping for work by throwing on eighties British Punk while taping up your problematic joints. Triple points if it's The Exploited or GBH.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
My mental image is that it's a group of older ladies from some California suburb somewhere, like Burlingame. "does that say Bitch Rat? Denied!"
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
I hate it too. Mostly cause I have yet to find an athletic tape that doesn't take off a layer of my epidermis when I go to decompress after a shift.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
ten bucks someone in the california government is mulling replacing them with some AI program that's even worse.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, I do use them. Mostly with braces cause my joints are crap. Also, all lgtbqia+ folks should be armed and trained in the use of said arms.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Porky is having one of those horrifying moments where he sees his own species parted up and sold off as food. He's going to need EMDR and some strong anti-psychotics after this.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
it's like "aw fuck, why do I not have this irritating bore blocked yet."
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
"comedians" too.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
There's a lot of insufferable people who work gaming journalism. They just drain the energy out of you as soon as you come across their work, even if it's in a short form like this.
Nick Simon (@nicksimon.bsky.social) reposted
NBA investigators in Atlantic City in 1993:
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
"oh no a youtuber has slightly different views on leftism than i do i must unperson them now"
mayoisspicyy.bsky.social (@mayoisspicyy.bsky.social) reposted
America doesn't need a nepo baby heroin addict telling us not to vaccinate our children.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Four years ago, I tested for COVID. I'd had dinner with someone with cancer the night before. Thanks to the vaccine, I did not give that dinner companion COVID. And I only ran a low-grade fever for a few days. Fuck that idiot RFK Jr. and the equally stupid buffoon who hired him.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
There was talk of people seeing Jaguars in Texas a year or so ago. Unfortunately, these have only been rumors as they've been extirpated from the state. Last time a confirmed sighting happened was 1986.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait, the O'Jays are from Ohio, my bad.
Josh Sawyer (@jesawyer.bsky.social) reposted
theonion.com/fuck-everyth...
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
Dead Milkmen? John Coltrane? Dizzie Gillespie? The O'Jays?
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
It's only use is to make more money. Look at cinema and music.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
I told y'all LGBT people to arm up. These people will use any excuse to deprive you of life and liberty. Do it now while you still can.
Palette Swap (@paletteswap.site) reposted
In a recently translated interview, game director and creator of the Kingdom Hearts series Tetsuya Nomura confirmed that his cult hit Nintendo DS title The World Ends With You was actually based on Kevin Smith’s 1995 film Mallrats. paletteswap.site/dif...
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
We're the sickest people on earth because our medical system is so incomprehensibly fucked by big business. This isn't hard to understand.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
"What do you mean I can't play Steam games on Ubuntu? This is shits." *uninstalls partition and never touches that neckbearded shit ever again*
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Eh, the WWE already held an event for one dictatorial bloodthirsty shitter country, maybe after China they can go to Russia and North Korea next and have the "Greatest Leader Battle Royale".
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
this argument you're making isn't new either. This is from the 1600s.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
pssst, people can do both. I do volunteer work when I don't play games or work or help organize my workshop.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
"Video games are clearly the culprit for the moral degredation of the West." No, It's shit fathers, thanks for playing. youtu.be/G8iOmVd1W_g
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
how dare people try to distract themselves from all the horrible shit in the world for a few hours. This fucking guy, man.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
The US now has more unemployed people than job openings.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Academia in the US is about to fall off El Capitan, and I for one could not be happier. Maybe in 10 years I can finally afford a tuition to Eastern.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Good luck. I remember one year seeing someone pull a ruined hot tub out of the creek.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
When you're doing so, make sure it's your shin hitting the yam bag, you don't want to break your toes or the top of your foot.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
here you go, boo boo.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
*presents to the hospital at a 10 on the pain scale, both hips badly subluxed* Nurse: "Okay Mr. Simonian, I see on your chart you have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, you're my first zebra in a long time. I'm gonna start you on some fentanyl for your pain." When the fentanyl hits: youtu.be/WJpQJWpVJds?...
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
"Nicotine can also help with pain." Me: *smokes a jay with some old pipe tobacco* Me: What the fuuuuu
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
"Studies have shown anti-depressants help with chronic pain!" *takes anti-depressants for decades due to dysthymia, still feel hella pain*
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Cause pork don't got a ton of iron in it. "Sir, your blood iron levels are low. We're gonna suggest a night at a nice steakhouse, order the spinach sides and a 32 ounce porterhouse."
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
See there's the fun weed drowsy and then the Gabapentin "I feel like I been up for 72 hours straight at the train terminal" drowsy.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
www.youtube.com/shorts/3W9d1...
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Stop killing Palestinian women and children, you cunts.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
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NPR (@npr.org) reposted
A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."
Gematsu (@gematsu.com) reposted
Natsume Atari has filed a trademark for Shatterhand in Japan: chizai-watch.com/t/2025097921 Shatterhand is a 2D action game originally released for NES. The trademark might suggest a remake or sequel is in the works, a la Shadow of the Ninja Reborn or Pocky & Rocky Reshrined.
Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 (@scumbelievable.bsky.social) reposted
Crow T. Robot said trans rights
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
NYC Guido Voice: "Whadda ya mean cripples got rights? I thought they only counted for halfa person?"
Jasozz (@jasozzgames.bsky.social) reposted
Rise again. Finish the fight. CULTIC: Chapter Two launches September 18th! Check out the link in the Replies to Wishlist and read more about the launch!
Dan (@golazodan.bsky.social) reposted
You know a wrestler is young when they’re doing leg drops like
Ghostdog Millionaire 🇿🇦 (@projectauuman.bsky.social) reposted
@shaneo2.bsky.social here ya go. zionist Kryptonite. mandela did say this and israel HATED him in genreal. and here he is with jewish south african and ANC member and close friend to mandela,joe slovo
John E Warren 🤠🐝♿️ (@floppyadult.com) reposted
People hate disability more than death
Trish Greenhalgh (@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social) reposted
Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
if Matt Groening gets named in the Epstein Files, I'm gonna be sad. I loved the Simpsons and Futurama. Especially how those shows gave some really funny people a start in comedy.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
forever botchamania (@maffewgregg.bsky.social) reposted
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPPU... I appreciate MMA On Point giving me Sakuraba content
Ayo (@darrylayo.bsky.social) reposted
your kid is autistic because YOU are autistic. your kid is *ALIVE* because of vaccines
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
79 is the wrong age to start worrying about your immortal soul, man. Especially when you've allegedly done some of the shit you did.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
My grandmother's family founded the first Polish community in the New World. 1848. A few years later the Thumb fire happened and they lost almost everything. The Irish side of my family however I can trace back to a rake poet in 1680. They didn't come here until at least the 1900s.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
what a douche.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Hell yeah, Monica. Some barn cats I know aren't even that prodigious about their ratting skills.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Holy shit, I remember spending hours trying to animate these in GIMP as a wee babby child.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
They call it trickle down economics cause it's billionaires just pissing in the faces of the poor and middle class.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
I grew up just down the road from their cider mill. it's astounding to see them get so big. They even have an edibles line now.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
I hate it here so much. I want to go out to Arizona, dig a pit and just forget the world exists.
BeijingPalmer (@beijingpalmer.bsky.social) reposted
this is correct though the entire career - what we know of it - of Wallace Fard Muhammad is a crazy story, ending with him being chased out of Detroit after one of his followers performed a human sacrifice. we have no idea what happened to him afterward
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Does this mean those two assholes Dave and Chuck can fuck off into a black hole now? Bring back Drew Lane.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
No shit? Here I was thinking we were the pride of the midwe-hahahaa
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
Bryan Gregory's brother is a retired fireman around here somewhere.
WDET 101.9 FM (@wdet.bsky.social) reposted
Happy Labor Day, Detroit! 💪 pc: @uawarchivist.bsky.social
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
alyssa mercante (@alyssamerc.bsky.social) reposted
I am looking to chat with people who have been disparagingly featured in Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt’s content. I would like to see how this affected you, especially if you can provide ample receipts and clear timelines. Please signal boost this anywhere you’d like, as I’m not on Twitter anymore.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
So McDonald's tried this thing in the eighties where they tried separating the cold ingredients in a sandwich from the hot component by storing them in close Styrofoam shells. It...didn't really work. The lettuce would still be wilted.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
youtu.be/oNCiH8DOmhI?...
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
"But wouldn't that hu-" SSSSSSSSSSSSSH!!!
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry, your hard drive filled with "bit coins" doesn't count.
James Simonian (@cutts.bsky.social)
To me, you're not a real billionaire unless you have a massive vault full of gold bullion and gems complete with diving board.