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I Am A Pyrite King

@iamapyriteking.bsky.social

Mining fools' good since before you were born. I can either tell you who I am, or show you who I am, but on social media it's tough to do both.

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I Am A Pyrite King@iamapyriteking.bsky.social · yesterday

REPUBLICANS: Vote for us. We are going to do horrible things. ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRATS: Vote for us. We are going to try half-heartedly to (maybe) postpone some of the horrible things, temporarily -- no guarantees! But keep voting for us, or more of the horrible things will happen. And send money!

I Am A Pyrite King@iamapyriteking.bsky.social · 5d ago

My keyboard has switched to Hungarian, and my autofill is in Norwegian. And since it's a replacement phone, it hasn't learned my vocabulary yet and thinks I am very stupid. I should just keep what my phone turns my posts into without correcting them. That would be fun. Incomprehensible, but fun.

I Am A Pyrite King@iamapyriteking.bsky.social · 7d ago

If anybody remembers the ancient Greek general Kleonymous today, it's because Aristophanes pilloried him in his comedies for being such a coward that he threw away his shield and ran from battle. So if anybody thinks making fun of That Guy for the catering truck incident is pointless...

I Am A Pyrite King@iamapyriteking.bsky.social · 2w ago

I had to go to a far-distant Walmart yesterday, and as much as I hate going to Walmart, I have to say this cheered me up. Not only is this a surprising number of physical media (especially horror), the category heading is 😙👌. The existence of a Last Drive-in DVD makes me think this was intentional.

A rack of DVDs and Blu-rays at a Walmart. They are all horror. The display is labeled "Family", and I could not agree more.
I Am A Pyrite King@iamapyriteking.bsky.social · 2w ago

That copy of an uncommon, out-of-print book the AI companies bought, scraped, and pulped may not be the *last* copy. But it could have been the copy someone eventually bought, and loved, and passed on. Now it definitely won't be. And for what? For something even more destructive to culture.

I Am A Pyrite King@iamapyriteking.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's bad enough when the horror movie I'm watching sets up its Unpredictable Plot Twist™ in a ridiculously obvious way. But when our protagonist walks by a theatre marquee where the movies Now Playing spell out the rest of the plot, well... that's just offensive.

I Am A Pyrite King@iamapyriteking.bsky.social · 3w ago

Uh-huh.

Iconic Moon Face from Classic Film

Alt: Famous moment from the Meliès film A TRIP TO THE MOON, in which a space ship/projectile hits the Man in the Moon straight smack in the right eye, causing him to grimace and stick out his tongue.

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Forbes@forbes.com · 3w ago

The collision itself will occur on the moon’s sunlit surface and won’t be visible from Earth even in large telescopes, but the resulting dust cloud may be, according to new research.