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Holiday Spice Justin

@thebitterguy.bsky.social

Old nerd. Just four bad ideas in a trenchcoat. Half the weirdos on Is That Some Kind of Japanimation Thing? and regular contributor to Ghost Show Press’s Everyone’s Gone to the Movies series. They say I cannot be killed by normal means. He/him

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The waterboarder thought of that.

11.12.2025 18:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Justin, do you want to see the new Lobo?”

“No, fuck that guy!”

“What if it’s Momoa?”

“Oookay”.

11.12.2025 18:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Air Pirates finally vindicated.

11.12.2025 17:36 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“OSR!”
“Trad!”
“OSR!”
“Trad!”
“Ok, Boggs, you asked for it!”

11.12.2025 17:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Christmas Music for People Who Aren't So Sure About Christmas Music - A Playlist for You Playlist - Christmas Music for People Who Aren't So Sure About Christmas Music - A Playlist for You - 24 items

So I had a sort of anti-mondegreen moment today while listening to @yourewrongabout.bsky.social’s holidays playlist. Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses came up and there’s a line I generally just mumble over but today I realize it’s “most of ‘81 passed along those lines”. So there you go!

11.12.2025 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man with long hair is sitting in front of a laptop computer Alt: Antonio Banderas is delighted by this.

I need to rewatch The Batman just because of Giacchino's penchant for slightly puntastic track titles. Can't Fight City Halloween and Highway to the Anger Zone are just

11.12.2025 16:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Which is what's in the snow in the middle. Derp.

11.12.2025 16:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

100%. Their Oat Nog is out in stores now, too.

11.12.2025 16:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Washington Star

Dec. 11, 1925: New York Gov. Al Smith issues a pardon to Benjamin Gitlow, a radical publisher who had just begun a 5- to 10-year sentence in Sing Sing for advocating strikes to bring about socialism. "He has been sufficiently punished for a political crime,” Smith says.

11.12.2025 15:34 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Stealworkers

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Statute of Westminster, 1931 The Statute of Westminster is a British law that was passed on 11 December 1931. It was Canada’s all-but-final achievement of independence from Britain. It en...

Happy Statute of Westminster day!

11.12.2025 15:36 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
The cover of The Price of Freedom by Greg Costikyan.

The cover of The Price of Freedom by Greg Costikyan.

Thankfully, @costik.bsky.social knew the score. Nice American made M-16 instead.

11.12.2025 15:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ohh, Matinee showing at the Revue on the 27th.

11.12.2025 15:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a heart shaped mirror that says " be kind " on the side ALT: a heart shaped mirror that says " be kind " on the side
11.12.2025 14:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Couldn't recall the name of the recent Hawke/Linklater collab so I just googled "ethan hawke as tiny guy". Blue Moon! Still want to see that.

11.12.2025 14:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Heh. That last one would be popular around graduation.

11.12.2025 14:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲

If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:

- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy

I will boost you!

Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄

03.12.2025 11:46 — 👍 365    🔁 327    💬 79    📌 10
A little Lego droid.

A little Lego droid.

I do the Lego Star Wars advent calendar each year. This years is somewhat controversial cause it’s heavily following a theme. But I am digging that. Today’s fog is (I think) B2 from Andor.

11.12.2025 12:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Does this look like a man who had… all he could eat?

11.12.2025 12:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is there a downloadable commentary for it? I’m thinking of going to catch it again tomorrow.

11.12.2025 00:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still looking forward to your architectural digest spotlight.

10.12.2025 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh God I'd buy this.

10.12.2025 19:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#ITSKOJT

10.12.2025 16:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The university bought Claude AI for students to use.

Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.

Great stuff, academia.

09.12.2025 12:20 — 👍 580    🔁 184    💬 24    📌 38
Top: an illustration of a hyperbaric chamber, basically a long blue pill shaped capsule with a window in one end. Label reads ‘Hyperbaric chamber’
Bottom: the same, but with a capybara inside. Label reads ‘Capybaric Chamber’

Top: an illustration of a hyperbaric chamber, basically a long blue pill shaped capsule with a window in one end. Label reads ‘Hyperbaric chamber’ Bottom: the same, but with a capybara inside. Label reads ‘Capybaric Chamber’

Hyperbaric/Capybaric.
#art #capybara

10.12.2025 11:59 — 👍 1319    🔁 358    💬 7    📌 4
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a man wearing sunglasses says " at last " in a dark room Alt: Morpheus says " at last " in a dark room
10.12.2025 15:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

TIL Jane Wiedlin was in TVH. That’s pretty neat. 🖖🏽

10.12.2025 12:20 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me: What if Allan Sherman were in Daft Punk. He'd be all like, "hello muddah, hello faddah, fasta stronga, betta hahda 🎶"
My date who I will NOT be seeing again: you don't have to do the voices 🙄

10.12.2025 07:50 — 👍 778    🔁 194    💬 27    📌 4
microphone, pop filter, and interface 
Never Used Podcast Equipment

microphone, pop filter, and interface Never Used Podcast Equipment

did it in four words hemmingway

09.12.2025 22:15 — 👍 3880    🔁 803    💬 23    📌 16
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DEAR CHARLIE MANSEN (Stephen Chbosky, 2021)

An alienated high-school student (Ben Platt) yearns for respect and status. He finds himself the center of a fast crowd after writing a review of The White Album. With Anna Kendrick as Susan Atkins and Brittany Snow as Squeaky Fromme.

12.08.2025 21:52 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

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