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Freek Van Ostrand

@sullenfish.com

The guy you think you know. Lead software engineer. Poodle lover. Sometime standup comedian, host, and producer. __seize the means of computation__

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[IN HR OFFICE]

"…do they have to be called, 'meat mountai—'"

"YES."

04.03.2026 21:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Finally, a character I could potentially cosplay

04.03.2026 19:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There’s a certain ineffable purity to the time when a small but important part of my day was devoted to discussing Animaniacs with strangers.

03.03.2026 01:03 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

02.03.2026 10:20 👍 13388 🔁 4257 💬 131 📌 173
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4 servings… OF JUSTICE!

27.02.2026 23:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you love racist bullshit, check out the comments section of any post about Ryan Coogler’s X-Files revival.

26.02.2026 02:04 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

When I said birth control was in danger people said I was catastrophizing. But here we are, wait until they come for the right to own property. It's a fantasy where only wealthy white men have rights. No one else

25.02.2026 16:21 👍 185 🔁 79 💬 2 📌 1
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What’s really striking in Saruman’s speech to Gandalf is how broadly (and unusually for Tolkien) relevant it is. Take out the one specific reference to the Elves and Númenor and it is just an absolute classic rationale for collaborating with evil in the confidence you can ultimately direct it.

25.02.2026 15:31 👍 1052 🔁 307 💬 19 📌 30

If I just tell people that I'm a "crypto superpac," will they wire me money?

20.02.2026 21:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So what you're saying is he's the **perfect** running-mate for Gavin Newsom? ❤️❤️❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️🦄🦄🦄

20.02.2026 20:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Interior car view of a frozen windshield and The Replacements on the radio.

Interior car view of a frozen windshield and The Replacements on the radio.

Frozen windshield in Los Angeles. The Replacements on the radio. Minnesota’s coming for me, friends.

20.02.2026 15:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal

20.02.2026 12:50 👍 13430 🔁 3032 💬 317 📌 131

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

08.03.2025 00:13 👍 18876 🔁 4614 💬 127 📌 153
https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/14/viral-video-purportedly-shows-student-holding-pro-ice-sign-getting-punched-by-another-student-at-lake-zurich-high-school/

https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/14/viral-video-purportedly-shows-student-holding-pro-ice-sign-getting-punched-by-another-student-at-lake-zurich-high-school/

"you're going to face consequences" #pixelart #humanart #humanartist

15.02.2026 17:01 👍 1663 🔁 355 💬 9 📌 7
Riker rips off sideburns
Riker rips off sideburns YouTube video by dittbub

youtu.be/MVFWJ6DxVZc?...

16.02.2026 17:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As if William Riker would ever need to ask this.

Thomas Riker, maybe.

16.02.2026 16:56 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tomorrow, we begin greeting each other by screaming, “FIRE HORSE!” and making little horse heads with our hands and fingers.

16.02.2026 16:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language."
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.

15.02.2026 13:57 👍 5309 🔁 1187 💬 200 📌 93

Best sci-fi/horror trio since Fringe

15.02.2026 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Jesus H Christ, Chuck. It's time to diminish and go into the west.

15.02.2026 16:14 👍 87 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 0

This, in particular, deserves a lot of rumination bsky.app/profile/timk...

15.02.2026 16:13 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Today you can buy an honest to goodness science fiction dream machine" #archaic

15.02.2026 06:10 👍 39 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1

[looks at dog’s skeleton in detective mode]

14.02.2026 14:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Said it before, and I’ll say it again, but for people like me, this would be transformative - it would stabilise our incomes, and allow us to plough more time into creative work and less into stuff anyone could be doing.

AND it’s a net economic benefit to the country.

11.02.2026 10:57 👍 555 🔁 197 💬 8 📌 5
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Bridal shop threw out formal gowns despite charities’ request Shortly before bridal shop Priscilla of Boston closed last month in Edina, Pam Philipp said she asked store officials to donate couture gowns to her Mendota Heights nonprofit. Philipp runs Operatio…

You may be familiar with that area specifically from this story that went national in 2012:

www.twincities.com/2012/01/02/b...

10.02.2026 22:43 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s hard to overstate how mainstream defiance of the federal occupation of Minnesota is. This is from 5:00 yesterday at 50th and France. 50th and France! Minnesotans aren’t having this.

10.02.2026 18:25 👍 187 🔁 38 💬 5 📌 10

We could incapacitate him with a single schwa

10.02.2026 04:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Somehow south of a cluster of “American MAGA Patriots”…?

For the record, #ICEOUT

09.02.2026 04:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

09.02.2026 01:32 👍 6633 🔁 1125 💬 52 📌 38

Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane

09.02.2026 02:42 👍 673 🔁 136 💬 14 📌 3