R. Aughtnik
They/them. Trying to stay on the funny side of smart, the kind side of funny, & the employable side of relevant. Objectively correct about everything (trans rights are human rights, capitalism is a death cult, abolish private motor vehicle ownership)
- oh these are incredible! That expression on the tourist Pikachu? Ugh! Makes me want to up my game haha #PokemonGo #PokemonGoAR
- Without saying "All-Star Superman" (AND I FUCKING MEAN THAT, MILLENNIALS)... ...what is your favorite individual issue of a Superman comic? (Elseworlds stories can count, pastiche Supermen like Hyperion or Supreme do NOT count)
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- ooh, good choice. I'm not sure which of the four I'd pick... issue three, probably?
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- kind of ironic for Millar, in hindsight
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- ugh, i've been meaning to get my spare copies of this framed... putting actual 3-D glasses in your comic book automatically bumps it up a full letter grade *at least*
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- This was my immediate thought too lol. "Yield!" "Never!" "He's wrestling an angel..." jumps to my mind so often I'd actually forgotten this was during the electric blue era (a top-tier costume design if you didn't have to compare it to THE iconic superhero outfit)
- Sandygast Spotlight Hour success: *two* shinies (vs my previous “none”)! If you know what the regular version looks like, you can see why I wanted to grind for these ✨🏝️🏰 #Pokémon #PokemonGO #GoSnapshot #PokemonGoAR #ShinyPokemon #Sandygast #Pallosand #Groudon #PrimalGroudon
- I'm cautiously pessimistic about this shit
- wait, as in you’re not hopeful but you’ll give them a chance to surprise you? (Sorry, coffee’s worn off and double-negatives have me spinning)
- getting to the point of a long-term project where it’s *allllllmost* off the ground enough to really start showing people what I’ve done so far… “But I don’t want to wait, I want to tell people about it now!” no, no, I should wait, I should wait, bide my time… ugh. Delayed gratification is garbage
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- and if the answer is “you will never directly use this, but it’s a component to understanding something you will use”? Fine! There’s this anecdote about a math teacher explaining calculus as the mental equivalent to what running those tire-stepping drills is for football players. It’s like that.
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- ugh, could I forget the joker? Please?
- The average cishet man is so starved for self-reflection that he will literally consider American Psycho & Fight Club to be sincere philosophical treatises
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- yes, I do conceptualize toxic patterns of thought and discourse as the bad guy from The Digimon Movie. No, I don’t see a problem with that
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- More t-shirts for me!
- Found myself making this image just now, because so far being forty is awesome
- Swimming in Rock Creek. Sure, why not sell lemonade made from water out of the C&O Canal, too? Pump ‘em full of that deregulated American entrepreneurial spirit! 🇺🇸💩🚰 It is a strong argument against the existence of a just & loving God that the problem of RFK Jr. has still somehow not solved itself.
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- Hard to see how anyone believes in a just & loving God when RFK Jr. is somehow a problem which has still not solved itself
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- damn girl, you look great!
- Got new off-brand noise-cancelling headphones recently… been meaning to for a while, figured I should buy before the prices went up 📈💸😬 Just tried them in the field, where they did pretty decent work at blunting the existential horrors of Costco. Nice 👍 Note also: I’m adorable ☺️
- I desperately need to see this
- Surely the concerns here are not merely “ethical” but, you know, “legal” and “blatant corruption” and “an immeasurably vast security threat”? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
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- That’s the thing, though. Any and every foreign entity hostile to the interests of the United States of America has a strong vested interest in keeping Donald Trump free, safe & alive.
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- it did inspire me personally to watch Three Days of the Condor, and I was really glad to have done so! But no, yeah, anecdotes ≠ data, you’re right
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- Yeah, funny how all these “efficiency” cuts are to essential agencies that were already skin-and-bones, rather than cut any budget from our military that throws entire jet planes off their gigantic mid-east party boats just because they’re bored
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- that’s what it always comes down to. The slop machine has no ethics or self-regard, so it’ll lick all the boots you want.
- I once saw something along the lines of “you either live long enough to be disabled, or you die young.” That stuck with me.
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- FA-18s overboard yet healthcare we can’t afford buT IT’S JUST THE PRIIIICE I PAYYY PETE HEGSETH IS TEXTING ME
- this may be the whitest thing I’ve ever posted on Bluesky
- The fact that she’s starting from the same specific example of my personal bête noire (toy robot too ‘spensive 🤖💸🥺) doesn’t change that wage stagnation is, also, a genuine actual problem you should care about
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- the in-group that must be protected but not bound is “me, personally, and specifically my right to absolute wrathful-god control over my children” and the out-group that must be bound but not protected is “literally anyone who would stand in the way of that, especially my kids themselves”
- If I’ve got some footwear that’s reached the end of the Sam Vimes life cycle—waterproof hiking boots that leak, shoes with the soles worn smooth— —is there anything special we do with those these days, or just in the regular trash? 😕
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- …accidentally changed to a foreign language layout? I can keep guessing, I’ve had a lot of goofy keyboard errors over time lol
- Was the num lock on? Been there 🤦🏻♀️
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- a girl raised among grunglers
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- Awesome, the more time they waste on fucking with the Catholic Church the better
- Friend of mine’s going through a tough time. Trying to think of material ways I could help… I’d make my usual “I care about you” muffins or carrot soup, but I just don’t have the spoons today Literally, the spoons are all packed away between moves, I don’t have them right now
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- annoying ≠ wrong, of course
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- I have to imagine she’s been approached about it like six times and she’s all “I’m holding out for the right one”
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- yeah, they throw it up in the air right at the beginning
- one day I’ll parse “PMC” on first reading as “professional/managerial class” instead of “private military contractor.” Not today, but one day. Probably.
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- Genuinely, the whole concept that “legally, the board of a company must do whatever shareholders feel is in their interest” is in fact what led us here!
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- “‘Give me a writing credit and I’ll give you enough traumatized kids to fill a basketball arena,’ that’s the Stan Berkowitz Promise”
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- People think this is why no superhero story in the Spider-Man vein works once the hero is an “established” or “settled” adult, but that just reveals their own personal stagnancy—if they feel like there’s a point in their own life where they no longer feel a need to think about who they might become.
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- It’s not quite a Watchmen Dr. Manhattan meme but the period between Hollywood-reject Republican fascist Reagan ratfucking ATCs in 1981 and Hollywood-reject Republican fascist Trump ratfucking ATCs in 2025 is bisected cleanly by Republican fascist Bush II… something something 9/11?
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- no millennial American will drive behind a logging truck in our lives and that was just from the TV spots!
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- I searched “cp14” in my collection expecting nothing and folks, when I tell you it was like catching a shiny all over again
