ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) / Redsky

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www.walmart.com/ip/bettergoo...

2/9/2025, 2:59:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Walmart now has a house brand that are pretty good

1/9/2025, 10:09:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Not even close

1/9/2025, 9:30:54 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Now, now--those poor clumsy folks *fell* out of those previously-secured, unopenable windows...

1/9/2025, 3:50:42 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

brb, gonna go win me a biathlon gold at the next Winter Olympics...

31/8/2025, 8:33:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

"Now hiring: Mechanical Turks..."

31/8/2025, 7:33:07 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

All Ozzy, NIИ and Metalica parodies...

31/8/2025, 6:52:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

You fool! Now your fingerprints are on it! :D

31/8/2025, 6:30:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 5:33:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 5:03:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

"March on Paris?" So, what--go *around* Warsaw while their flanks are being chewed to pieces? This is an "army" (and I use the term loosely at this point) that lost 1 million+ troops over 3.5 years and *still* never took Kyiv!

31/8/2025, 3:19:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

You're a monster

31/8/2025, 3:01:18 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

OK, so I *like* licorice, and this is a bridge too far, even for me!

30/8/2025, 5:00:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social)

This is just a huge, clumsy version of "Rick and Morty's" butter robot

30/8/2025, 4:52:07 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social)

I suspect @andypriceart.bsky.social would appreciate this...

30/8/2025, 4:49:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social)

Blocking me gets a mosquito lodged in your ear.

30/8/2025, 3:04:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

lol I *just* checked, and it dropped a few hours ago :)

30/8/2025, 3:33:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Waiting for this to *finally* drop on Disney+...

30/8/2025, 3:07:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

exactly!

30/8/2025, 2:37:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't wait for the inevitable sequel!

30/8/2025, 2:32:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Every regime gets the Konstantin Chernenko it deserves...

30/8/2025, 2:27:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Correct--far too many of them suffer from terminal Main Character Syndrome, and see everyone else as NPCs...

29/8/2025, 10:15:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

He was a solid century-and-a-half ahead of the Absurdists :)

29/8/2025, 10:03:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Final diary entry: "Morning, August 30th, I died today at Krispy Kreme (of diabetes)."

29/8/2025, 9:53:58 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Winklevoss? Oh--you mean Zuck...

29/8/2025, 9:00:39 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social)

Holy crap! It's been 10 years to the day since I started posting my first fic on FiMFiction--the first writing I'd done in 25 years. Off and on over the next 6 years, I generated 350K words, but stalled out again, almost 4 years ago. Wish I could catch that lightning in a bottle again...

29/8/2025, 8:57:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

"These wasps could have been an email"

29/8/2025, 7:15:20 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

And half their babies will die of 18th-century diseases and foodborne pathogens anyway...

29/8/2025, 7:10:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 4:10:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Great Khan ftw!

29/8/2025, 3:59:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Where's my 4K DS9 remaster?! (yes, yes, I know the historical, technical issues, but *still*...)

29/8/2025, 3:53:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Is there a chair of some sort involved?

29/8/2025, 3:50:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly! This ball of gases/water/rock has been through multiple, catastrophic cycles, and it's still here, life included. But during *huge* swathes of time, we modern humans and our constructs absolutely could not have thrived, or even survived, in many cases. We're likely heading towards another.

29/8/2025, 3:43:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

You'll probably have to go in just to ask for directions for how to get *away* from it!

29/8/2025, 12:25:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

You cool hep cat, you

28/8/2025, 11:49:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Tragic

28/8/2025, 11:47:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

I can't honestly imagine *anyone* catching shit for shipfic stuff back in the day--it was *everywhere*!

28/8/2025, 11:26:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Star Wars Cantina Band tunes

28/8/2025, 9:56:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think she *can*...

28/8/2025, 9:33:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Miss Pointy-Face

28/8/2025, 9:29:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Because the Navy is famous for their formation marching and drills...

28/8/2025, 9:01:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

"700 2-second videos about turtles..."

28/8/2025, 7:20:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

I always wanted to see a corned beef golem...

28/8/2025, 6:59:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

seems legit

28/8/2025, 2:06:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Are you going to spend the $$ to upgrade to archlich?

28/8/2025, 3:55:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait 'til he sees hands in pockets...

28/8/2025, 1:23:05 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess I missed this episode of "Quantum Leap"

28/8/2025, 1:10:52 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social)

Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title: "Are You There, God? It's Me, Tom Clancy." (I know this violates the model, but I just couldn't resist)

27/8/2025, 10:52:32 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

I live in Oklahoma; now I have to check for Picatinny purses...

27/8/2025, 10:39:59 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

27/8/2025, 10:34:56 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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hoist_with_your_own_petard.docx

27/8/2025, 10:32:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social)

Ruin any book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title Tom Clancy's Henry and June

27/8/2025, 9:32:36 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

27/8/2025, 9:14:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

"No? Would you *like* to be?"

27/8/2025, 8:41:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

To say nothing of the fact that I grew up with devout Catholics (the kind who had the Bishop over for dinner twice a year), and met a Franciscan monk and 2 Jesuit priests who were *at a minimum* agnostics, and possibly even atheists! :) In my experience, often "Man of the Cloth" =/= true believer.

27/8/2025, 8:41:18 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

And I highly doubt that they actually know much about Christianity, either...

27/8/2025, 7:59:55 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

The quintessential maknae :)

27/8/2025, 6:26:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 6:20:31 PM | 600 6 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

we used to be a country (store)...

27/8/2025, 1:20:40 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Peach dragon and her hoard :)

27/8/2025, 1:17:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

You live a very interesting life....

27/8/2025, 2:51:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

NOW WITH RADIUM!

26/8/2025, 11:54:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

My favorite Big Toe

26/8/2025, 11:30:26 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

I hear this in Bill Murray's voice...

26/8/2025, 11:26:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Are there no rocks for them to whitewash?

26/8/2025, 11:19:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

RETVRN to the single wing!

26/8/2025, 10:58:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Platonic ideal

26/8/2025, 10:00:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

"What does God need with a TED Talk?"

26/8/2025, 9:13:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

*And*, as a Ferengi bonus, they don't wear clothes, as a rule...

26/8/2025, 8:50:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

"Sounds like a skill issue"

26/8/2025, 8:33:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

"We didn't start the fire..."🎶

26/8/2025, 1:05:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

"Which lake do we sink 'em in *this* week, eh?"

25/8/2025, 10:28:29 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Better than slices of *sea* cucumber...

25/8/2025, 10:23:16 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

"Can I just have my text-to-speech app read it to the class? I don' read so good..."

25/8/2025, 8:42:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/8/2025, 8:11:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

I didn't know the Klingons made pizza topped with gagh...

25/8/2025, 8:10:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

25/8/2025, 6:41:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

See also: radium craze of the early 1900s

25/8/2025, 4:22:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

lol I've written several fics that have a few sexytime scenes, and I'm still never quite sure how to find that middle way between "wtf?!" and "Vulcan describing an alien mating ritual"

25/8/2025, 1:36:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

"Feline Vertical Transport Engineer" was the title I gave myself years ago when I had an old cat who demanded I put her up on the bed, since she could no longer make the jump.

24/8/2025, 10:25:19 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsET...

24/8/2025, 10:13:45 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Arnold Schwarzenegger put out a good video on this a couple of years ago, describing the broken losers of his dad's generation who came back from the war, wrecked and empty.

24/8/2025, 9:29:44 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you have wizard's robes to go with it?

24/8/2025, 7:11:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

No one does the Batutsi anymore...

24/8/2025, 7:07:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social)

Share a favorite TV show character who isn't the main character. I would happily watch 3 seasons of a show with him as the main character.

24/8/2025, 5:56:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, one's the literal avatar of night, and the other's as pale as sour cream, so...

24/8/2025, 5:48:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/8/2025, 5:45:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Must. Resist. Blowing dust. Off DVD collection...Have. Chores. To do.

24/8/2025, 5:41:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

THANK YOU, AMERICA'S LOUDEST WRITER!!

24/8/2025, 5:38:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

brutal

24/8/2025, 4:43:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Every century gets the Professor Henry Higgins it needs, apparently...

24/8/2025, 4:42:59 AM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Did anyone commit to the bit and wear a stack of multiple T-shirts, each to be removed at the appropriate moment?

24/8/2025, 2:39:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

This is just one step removed from it being a black-and-white checkerboard pattern

24/8/2025, 2:35:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Unused location from "The Venture Bros."

23/8/2025, 9:57:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

borgkkake

23/8/2025, 6:37:21 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

I looks like someone dropped a teabag atop a scoop of vanilla ice cream, then let it melt in the sun...

23/8/2025, 6:35:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social)

"I can still fix it!!" Rumi/Twilight Sparkle #MLP #KPDH (this is a *very* niche post)

23/8/2025, 6:14:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Every regime needs its Iron Cross 2nd Class, I suppose...

23/8/2025, 6:12:46 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social)

When you can't get the transparency right on that last edit

Rumi's jacket's torn arm covered by a checkered cloth (KPDH)

23/8/2025, 5:12:48 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy" (@marktspence.bsky.social) reply parent

Gotta teach The Classics...

23/8/2025, 3:20:13 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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