Spencer Fleury

@spencerfleury.bsky.social

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Author, HOW I’M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE (2021) and I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (2024) (malarkeybooks.com/store/iblamemyself). Hat enthusiast. Former Florida man. My Erdos number is four.

Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:49 UTC

This is the crux of it.

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:47 UTC

I just watched Space Babies and am seriously considering stopping there forever, it was so godawful.

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:44 UTC

I hope you enjoy it. 😁

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:12 UTC

A stampede toward … wait, who is this, now?

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

They’re out in the world now. What an exhilarating and terrifying realization!

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 01:17 UTC

When I lived there as a child, my liberal family was a Free Press household. My old-world Catholic grandmother read the News. No idea if the alignment is any different now that they've entered a joint operating agreement.

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:01 UTC

Thinking of logging out of this account for a while to see if I miss it. I get almost no engagement here; it's the most "shouting into the void" experience I've ever had on social media.

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:12 UTC

Don't let this happen to you—buy the ebook version of my new short story collection, I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (and other stories)! It's only three bucks!

malarkeybooks.com/ebooks/blame...

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:48 UTC

Got a few boxes of these in today’s mail. Good thing my signing pen is all warmed up.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 21:13 UTC

"Joe Biden is a zero on infrastructure" is a "Stephen Curry isn't a good shooter" level take, I cannot believe someone actually threw that out there

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:18 UTC

I watched the Fifth Element last night, and I know this is an annoying thing to say, but it is nice to see an expansive sci fi world which only exists in one movie. No spin offs, no sequels, no prequels, just one story.

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:53 UTC

Oh that sounds shitty.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:38 UTC

yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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mf format @spasmbot.com
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:13 UTC

can't even wish dril a good day anymore, because of woke

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:12 UTC

Don't let this happen to you—buy the ebook version of my new short story collection, I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (and other stories)! It's only three bucks!

malarkeybooks.com/ebooks/blame...

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:21 UTC

Do you have a permanent place now?

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

I don't fucking want politics to be interesting. I want it to be like watching golf or reading stereo instructions. Is that too much to ask?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:03 UTC

christian rock is so funny bc they’re all singing about being in love with the same guy

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

Ugh, this is really it, isn’t it?

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:09 UTC

One lousy interaction? That’s all a publication day announcement is worth to you people? Come on! Show some love!

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:58 UTC

Nah.

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:13 UTC

Today's the day, punks — publication day!
open.substack.com/pub/spencerf...

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

Can we finally fire Berhalter now?

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:59 UTC

I think about this line a lot these days.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:30 UTC

Oh boy, $150,000!

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:00 UTC

holy fuck i can’t think of anyone i want to hear less from than ralph nader

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:50 UTC

If I were you, I would strongly consider never coming back.

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[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:26 UTC

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drow zelensky @dov.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:43 UTC

the problem with the phrase "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds" is, at core, that it is simply complete nonsense and anyone who claims to actually believe this needs to stop drinking toilet water

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 22:32 UTC

There it is: A position completely untethered from empirical evidence, as ridiculous analytically as it is dangerous politically, propagated by anti-liberal leftwing intellectuals who are solely animated by their disdain for “the Libs” and have abandoned any regard for accuracy.

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Norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

Petition to change the Washington Post's slogan to "Democracy Died in Broad Daylight"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:05 UTC

Or maybe just turning it off and leaving it that way.

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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:38 UTC

Why does Joe Biden, the stronger candidate, not simply kill his opponent as an official act

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:23 UTC

Bah.

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 22:38 UTC

It’s not that he wasn’t aware enough. It’s that he suffers from the same disease that RBG and most of the Democratic gerontocracy suffers from, the delusion that Only I Can Save Us All.

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:31 UTC

YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 23:03 UTC

NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

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Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:31 UTC

Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.

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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 13:26 UTC

So, realistically, there are four months before the presidential election. How, precisely, does anyone not named Kamala Harris put together a meaningful presidential campaign from scratch after pushing out Joe Biden? Where does the money come from? The staffing? The constituency outreach?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 02:33 UTC

tweeted this four years ago and it pretty much sums up my feelings on this shit

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 19:55 UTC

I definitely like his take on the character, and he's just innately compelling to watch. I'm much less of a fan of how the show now feels so "Disney-ified," but that's another topic for another thread.

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:10 UTC

Yeah, if Biden were to step aside, the only candidate who could replace him without completely blowing up the coalition would be Harris. And I'm not sure that's a better path forward at this point.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:41 UTC

Just saw a white guy with dreadlocks crash his unicycle. It’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me

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Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 21:24 UTC

We make jokes about how dystopia is a lot more boring in reality than all the books we had to read in high school made it out to be. I think what we're forgetting is that the part we're in now - where the characters might have stopped it & didn't - is the backstory of these books, not the story.

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 03:37 UTC

I just started watching the latest iteration of Doctor Who, and it turns out that the £30 f/x budget of seasons past was a huge part of the show’s charm. Gone now, alas.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:19 UTC

LLMs are useless for lawyering and other tasks involving actual analysis and understanding not because the technology hasn't gotten there yet, but because that's fundamentally not what statistical word association is capable of doing. Not only can't it understand, it's not even trying to understand.

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Malarkey Books Small Publishing Conglomerate @malarkeybooks.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

Malarkey news open.substack.com/pub/malarkey...

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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:01 UTC

I don’t even wish them that much. #GoBolts

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Dude @prosaic.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 15:49 UTC

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