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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social

Vance was born in 1984. What did Orwell know?

aug 31, 2025, 4:36 am • 505 69

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Vintagetele @vintagetele.bsky.social

What did John Fogerty know when he wrote Vance can’t dance but he steal your money.

aug 31, 2025, 5:22 am • 1 0 • view
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Rob L @robll.bsky.social

Why is it that going far right ages you massively?

sep 1, 2025, 11:11 am • 0 0 • view
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Corey Todalen @lifesahaskell.bsky.social

fuck you dude and your silly taunts man.

aug 31, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Corey Todalen @lifesahaskell.bsky.social

but also love the work.

aug 31, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Corey Todalen @lifesahaskell.bsky.social

you knew what you were up to you mother fucker.

aug 31, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Corey Todalen @lifesahaskell.bsky.social

you wanted those kids not to die in vain too. I hope it works.

aug 31, 2025, 4:56 am • 0 0 • view
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Corey Todalen @lifesahaskell.bsky.social

How to write a book and make people go fucking crazy over it?

aug 31, 2025, 4:37 am • 0 0 • view
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Corey Todalen @lifesahaskell.bsky.social

You wanna help me write a book Will?

aug 31, 2025, 4:38 am • 1 0 • view
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Corey Todalen @lifesahaskell.bsky.social

I was born in 1997. A true blue zoomer. To boomer parents. In Austin, MN. A place that's never had a mass shooting. That's my dad's fault. I just gotta take after my dad, man. Fix some shit, y'know?

aug 31, 2025, 4:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Corey Todalen @lifesahaskell.bsky.social

I could write a fuckin' book. A midwestern boy who likes magic the gathering. doesn't hate blue players like a fucking chump. Maybe I could be VP one day. I probably won't. But I *could* try. Another guy from this part of the world tried. He failed. Isn't that right? @governorwalz.mn.gov

aug 31, 2025, 4:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Corey Todalen @lifesahaskell.bsky.social

This is a call out buddy. You fucked up @governorwalz.mn.gov Trust in what you know man. Listen to your #1 constituent from Austin, MN. You're a teacher. My wife's a catholic and a teacher. My dad was a teacher. I'm talking from a former teachers house. surrounded by teachers in my life.

aug 31, 2025, 4:51 am • 0 0 • view
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Corey Todalen @lifesahaskell.bsky.social

scratch that. My dads still teachin'. still doing range days and I gotta do those with him. I gotta lot to learn from that guy. I love my dad. My dad made me a failed school shooter. Let's spread the love my dad gave me to every mother fucker who thinks shooting praying kids is ok.

aug 31, 2025, 4:53 am • 0 0 • view
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Corey Todalen @lifesahaskell.bsky.social

those kids were praying to god. and god gave me this calling. My wife could have worked there walz. We were fucked up and living in two different places and she was in MSP. I was in Austin, MN. I stayed and she was there. I brought her back so she didn't get shot. She saved me.

aug 31, 2025, 4:54 am • 0 0 • view
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Corey Todalen @lifesahaskell.bsky.social

So @governorwalz.mn.gov give me a call please. I got some ideas on how to fix this shit. dm me for the number.

aug 31, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Harry H @wonkywilliam.bsky.social

I'm reading 1984 right now, as a response to a lecture by Christopher Hitchens. The beginning of the world of 1984 is evident in the US's swing towards authoritarianism.

aug 31, 2025, 11:07 am • 1 0 • view
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Rebecca Ore @rebeccaore.bsky.social

The dream of generations of factory workers, no social mobility, not really considering who will buy what's produced or who will produce what's necessary, strike me as horrific.

aug 31, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Harry H @wonkywilliam.bsky.social

Yes yes

aug 31, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Seth W James @sethwjames.bsky.social

As was Neuromancer. That motherfucker is going to stick Kraznov in a freezer, on some shit spaceX orbital, pray it doesn't explode on liftoff, and then claim the orange blob is running the show as he runs the country into the ground. Man, do we ever need Molly.

aug 31, 2025, 8:52 am • 1 0 • view
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thinman @ismy.social

How much hooch was too much hooch?

aug 31, 2025, 5:13 am • 0 0 • view
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uselaine.bsky.social @uselaine.bsky.social

And when did he know it?

aug 31, 2025, 4:38 am • 1 0 • view
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Stefan Scholl @stefan-s-from-h.de

Orwell’s publisher removed the couch chapter.

aug 31, 2025, 10:00 am • 0 0 • view
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IntactJeff @actualjeff.bsky.social

19JD4

aug 31, 2025, 11:52 am • 1 0 • view
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Sister Daphvne @sisterdavinalouise.bsky.social

What was on Orwell’s laptop?

aug 31, 2025, 6:24 am • 0 0 • view
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DKBodhi @dkbohdi.bsky.social

I dunno about Orwell, but Revelations might be relevant: "The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed."

aug 31, 2025, 9:56 am • 0 0 • view
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Franck Boulègue @franckboulegue.bsky.social

Orwell was clearly in ad/Vance of his time

aug 31, 2025, 7:36 am • 2 0 • view
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social

I had not previously realized he was born that specific year. Per the anecdotal school district employees minding the kids, that appeared to be a particularly shit crop. 1986 was the next really great cohort.

aug 31, 2025, 4:39 am • 6 0 • view
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jonbjohns.bsky.social @jonbjohns.bsky.social

Thanks

aug 31, 2025, 12:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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Chel @mynnna.bsky.social

I extremely agree, for definitely arbitrary reasons

aug 31, 2025, 5:02 am • 2 0 • view
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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. Keep this one particular guy off your couch.

aug 31, 2025, 5:40 am • 9 1 • view
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otterhat.bsky.social @otterhat.bsky.social

If he were to become president this month, he would share with the Beast of Revelation 42 months of uninterrupted recreation.

aug 31, 2025, 4:40 am • 4 0 • view
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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org

"And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast." Revelation 13:3. Oh Jesus Christ (and I mean this as a prayer) I have to wonder if they are doing a paint by numbers Apocalypse here.

aug 31, 2025, 4:49 am • 5 0 • view
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norcalbob @norcalbob.bsky.social

Too much.

aug 31, 2025, 4:43 am • 0 0 • view
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Tassyr @tassyr.bsky.social

A lot, apparently.

aug 31, 2025, 5:21 am • 0 0 • view
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Mike Bartley @anothermike100.bsky.social

"It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence." George Orwell

aug 31, 2025, 4:39 am • 7 1 • view
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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social

It’s very clear Orwell was a witch.

aug 31, 2025, 4:38 am • 5 0 • view
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Keiþ Fowler 🔭 @ichewporridge.bsky.social

Born? I assumed he congealed.

aug 31, 2025, 6:52 am • 1 0 • view