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monsterisland.bsky.social
A lazy rascal, spending his substance, and more, in riotous living.
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The moment is so big, and our leaders are so small.

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Comparisons to Rome are cliché, but a major difference is that during the Roman Republic, talking like this was considered such a red flag it could end your public career if you were lucky or justify your assassination if you weren't

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Most people don't know this but Ancient Rome was fully remote until Julius Caesar implemented a return to office program and well you know what happened next

submitted 5 days ago • 140 comments

someone put their pronouns in their email signature in 2017 and now the world's most irksome Boer has my social security number

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

If your argument is "sure, a terrible modern event has a parallel in the 1920s and 30s but don't worry we turned out just fine", might I suggest reading about the 1940s.

submitted 10 days ago • 393 comments

Drake rn:

submitted 14 days ago • 69 comments

Starting to suspect the material world was created by some sort of malevolent demiurge 🤔

submitted 19 days ago • 46 comments

I'm not donating to your political party if all you're going to do is post. I can do that for free. I will donate if you have a project to resurrect FDR and give him a gun

submitted 21 days ago • 582 comments

I've assembled a team of the most horrible perverts and criminals you've ever seen and we're going to fix this country

submitted 24 days ago • 632 comments

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

submitted 26 days ago • 47 comments

Ugh, I hate all this rain on my skin. Can't someone else feel it for me?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

They killed Jim Henson because he was on the verge of building a muppet that had a soul

submitted 36 days ago • 134 comments

Credit to Elon for creating common ground in one of the feuds of the modern era: Paris and the German Army

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Many of us in the hoagie fandom have dedicated years of our lives to promoting the hoagie lifestyle. I understand that new users are excited, but please remember to respect the longtime hoagieheads who built this community up from nothing before you start spamming the forum with stale Dagwood memes

submitted 41 days ago • 27 comments

(replying) Hey man your post should've been different. You should've used a different word or possibly expressed a totally different idea entirely. Preferably the one I would've used

submitted 41 days ago • 86 comments

Did you hear the one about the Polish general and the anti-tank mines?

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sorry, but you can't convince me this isn't Connor O'Malley doing a bit

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why are they called porn bots and not intrusive thots

submitted 47 days ago • 163 comments

Nosferatu is a Christmas movie

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Should sort of go without saying that nationalist anti-immigration sentiments should have no place in what is supposed to be an international humanist movement to free people from toil and oppression

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

The House Speaker election is soon. I'm no expert on House procedures, but I watched Conclave the other night and got the basic gist. My prediction: Johnson will by the 5th ballot if he has blackmail material on enough cardinals, but that could change if any Reps in pectore unexpectedly arrive

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Mister Rogers never misses

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We're rawdogging water in 2025. We're dysentery maxing. We're cholera pilled

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

AND It's THE NUMBER ONE TOM THE DANCING BUG OF 2024 - NEWS OF THE TIMES: CEO MANHUNT 👇

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

When I was young I thought once I had money I’d be happy. Now that I have money it’s clear the Cleveland Browns have ruined my life.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I am normal and can be trusted with the Object

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

Me at the start of 2024/Me at the end of 2024

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

realizing i never posted it here….but too long have we been limited by the 2-dimensional political alignment chart. i think by using my new tool we can truly map another person's politics. here it is: The Ideology Cube

submitted 58 days ago • 72 comments

Revised Butleran Jihad: Thou shalt not make a machine in a shitty approximation of a human mind

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats need their own Rogan Josh, imagine a delicious aromatic curry dish that everyone associated with the Democratic Party. Voters probably couldn’t get enough.

submitted 108 days ago • 7 comments

I can’t help thinking how much better the world would be if that piece of shit George Bailey jumped off a bridge

submitted 61 days ago • 35 comments

Did you hear about Scrooge? Yeah, completely different guy now. Keeps Christmas in his heart. No, he’s still a moneylender; foreclosed on that orphanage last week. Bought ‘em a turkey though

submitted 71 days ago • 13 comments

Scrooge: You there, boy! What day is it? ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974

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