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kevinmkruse.bsky.social • 17 days ago

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

Reposted from Moby Dick

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

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tremes15.bsky.social•17 days ago

At this point, I think we need more people repeating Bartleby the Scrivener's "I'd prefer not to."

oldeluke.bsky.social•17 days ago

I equate Trump more to a Moby Dick than an Ahab.

beu4ic.bsky.social•17 days ago

Trump is more of a white whale, isn’t he?

lacemuse.bsky.social•16 days ago

I think it's rather appropriate

stevie-z.bsky.social•17 days ago

Well, the whale is white, so....

avaldes725.bsky.social•17 days ago

The room has been read correctly.

mateohh.bsky.social•17 days ago

2 months ago… everyone called it but congressional democrats.

stephens.website•16 days ago

Wait'll you see what ol' Willie's been posting. https://bsky.app/profile/shakespeare.lol/post/3lhhceud5jc2f

ksader.bsky.social•16 days ago

I keep thing about: "Tis a tale told by a madman, full of sound and fury signifying nothing"

russbengtson.bsky.social•17 days ago

fuckin herman istg

thedamarchivist.bsky.social•16 days ago

I'm in more of a Bartleby mood right now.

eliza-upstairs.bsky.social•17 days ago

I can't be the only one who has the line from TLOTR "A thousand years this city has stood. Now at the whim of a madman, it will fall" running through my head on a loop, am I?

bsky.ltd•16 days ago

We can shutdown Trump in 60 days if we focus and work together to flip the Special Elections in Florida blue.

The House would be 217-217.

Help spread the word....

jocetta.bsky.social•15 days ago

Won't happen. They are both solidly Red districts. The majority would rather vote for a convicted sex-offender than vote for a Democrat.

bsky.ltd•15 days ago

Gotta try...giving up is not an option

arknet.bsky.social•17 days ago

Call me Ishmael.

pauldu.bsky.social•17 days ago

And the Pequod went down in the end

tokay13.bsky.social•16 days ago

Melville is just telling it like it is...

feathersmcgraw.bsky.social•16 days ago

Does Betteridge's Law apply here?

davidmfinnerty.bsky.social•16 days ago

Oh damned whale!

deblavoy.bsky.social•16 days ago

Actually it’s exactly this.

holleranrealestate.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yes, yes he will

kfanyo.bsky.social•17 days ago

Rocker, you.

rainwalkerak.bsky.social•17 days ago

The Moby Dick generator has just been NAILING it lately, hasn’t it? Almost scary.

erin1reads.bsky.social•17 days ago

Damn you, Melville. How dare you be relevant!

jswatz.bsky.social•17 days ago

Meanwhile, a lot of people On Here are metaphorically arguing over inaccuracies in the cetacean physiology passages.

randomminutia.bsky.social•16 days ago

My 🧠 is funny because you yelling about Moby Dick made my brain think of Lily Sloan and Jean-Luc Picard yelling about Moby Dick.

simmsr.bsky.social•16 days ago

me too!!!

twayn.bsky.social•16 days ago

Melville: “I would prefer not to.”

sps888.bsky.social•17 days ago

😂

granitehull.bsky.social•17 days ago

Insular Tahiti time...

arorzoff.bsky.social•17 days ago

I would prefer not to.

brainmist.bsky.social•15 days ago

Um. He kinda did.

redrocklvr.bsky.social•16 days ago

Big Richard spud!

scottwhall.bsky.social•16 days ago

Call me Ishmael.

jcinhct.bsky.social•17 days ago

As I said- probably got a terminal diagnosis and is now Ahab and we are the Pequod

jsamdrolet.bsky.social•15 days ago

No, let him cook.

itsjustjenn.bsky.social•16 days ago

Herman Melville. ALWAYS SO DAMNED AWKWARD.

somerandosalt.bsky.social•17 days ago

Unrelated: As someone who dragged himself through the book as an act of pretentious, self-aggrandizing, delusional will in a former life, my favorite take on Moby Dick is Mastodon’s breakout album Leviathan.

https://youtu.be/TsdIO8RHMTc?si=oO_I3br6ggIzU8a-

sandymaxey.bsky.social•16 days ago

This has held far to much of my focus today

skipwebb.bsky.social•16 days ago

There was this gem as well.
https://bsky.app/profile/mobydickatsea.bsky.social/post/3lh6jxvjbnz2a

artrage.bsky.social•16 days ago

this is the best follow of all, every day a gem

abroflake.bsky.social•15 days ago

doesn't feel like we are reigning here, mel

celticdragon1.bsky.social•17 days ago

Lmao him and George Lucas just dragging us these last two weeks

dmeee.bsky.social•16 days ago

We would have to name the reboot Moby Dickhead.

lilannielaurie.bsky.social•16 days ago

🤣

ncweatherhound.bsky.social•17 days ago

akacharliefuller.bsky.social•15 days ago

So weird you posted this when you did. My husband and I just finished watching the PBS miniseries of Moby Dick (with Charlie Cox as Ishmael), and I said nearly the exact same thing.