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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 47m

whomst amongst us

2 panel comic

Panel 1: Smug Orange Man says “Let he who has NOT had a Nazi phase cast the first stone”

Panel 2: Orange man shits his pants as he is simultaneously pelted with a shitload of stones

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 1h

Right now there's some crappy game studio in Europe creating White House Destruction Simulator 2025

leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1h

i know it sucks but it must feel a little fun to be that guy with the backhoe destroying the white house. that’s like the final boss of operating heavy machinery

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 3h

Detectives patrolling outside the proctology departments of all local hospitals

blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 3h

Seems as reasonable a theory as any

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you all for coming out! I'd like to perform my new track titled 'French Fries For Lunch', it goes a little something like this: (hum of air fryer for 24 minutes)

blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 4h

I like headlines like this because they really have no idea. They may be melted down, maybe they won't be. Maybe they'll be put on a plane and flown somewhere. Maybe there's a guy pissing on them. I am a journalist!

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve stopped linking my self-worth to my productivity and started linking it to how many mini Hostess donuts I can fit in my mouth at the same time and honestly I’ve never been happier.

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 5h

Your worth isn't linked to your productivity.

Just reminding others, because sometimes, I forget, too.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 6h

You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.

timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 7h

I liked the Platner ads too but I think there's a difference between "guy who had some bad reddit posts a decade ago" and "ex-Blackwater merc who still has a Nazi tattoo." Sucks bigtime that he's the only one taking positions and talking policy I like, but them's the breaks!

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fredesque @fredtaming.bsky.social · 4d

ive crunched the numbers, and its not looking good. theyre pretty much ruined by all the crunching, i owe you new numbers

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 5h

I think this is kind of a French cultural thing... just cram in ideas and don't worry about how they interact or if they really make much sense. Tons of French media like this, games, movies, etc.

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 6h

Haha it's great, these kids fall into an alternative universe where the sun is a machine breaking down and they get into a living ship and travel the "stratas", each one a different historical/mythical setting, to try to find a way to fix it. Chased by singing comic-relief pirates in fish-hovercraft

blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 6h

Ancient civilizations were guided by Aliens? Cities of Gold. Your starship is alive? Spartakus. Freezing people in cryo statis? Cities of Gold. Moving to a different location moves you to a different time period? The 'Stratas' in Spartakus. Etc. The cartoons sucked but were jam-packed with concepts

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 6h

I used to joke that every science fiction idea came from two French cartoons from France that Nickelodeon aired before they had the budget to produce their own cartoons: Seven Cities of Gold, and Spartakus and the Sun Beneath The Sea

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 6h

The internet is great for looking up half-remembered shows and proving to yourself that they weren’t just a weird dream.

Was there really a cartoon about Punky Brewster hanging out with a raccoon with a goatee from another dimension? Apparently so!

A screenshot from the cartoon It’s Punky Brewster showing Punky and her friends riding a giant roller skate with a dog and an extra dimensional raccoon-like creature with a goatee. It was a very weird show.

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Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.social · 7h

TOON TUESDAY
#ToonTuesday

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 7h

Back when every single US city had its own children's programming, and you went off to college and started to talk to people and were like "haha this is just like when Winky the Clown says 'hamburder steaks?' to Arfy the Dog" they'd look at you like you were crazy, but it was normal then I suppose

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

NFTs are amazing because you apparently “own” them but the AWS outtage yesterday took out everyones apes lol

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 7h

Sure NOW there's a video of even the most obscure failed cartoon on YouTube uploaded by someone with a handle like "Retro Dreams 1982", but for DECADES there was nothing. You half-remembered the Turbo Teen and everybody thought you were crazy

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 7h

I bet Kids These Days don't realize the shockingly long time after stuff like instant messages, social networks, etc. were on the internet but before you could go to a search engine and type "1980s cartoon where kid turns into a red car" and get any meaningful results

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 7h

I AM NOT CRAZY both 1999: Texas Israeli War and Turbo Teen were REAL THE WHOLE TIME!!!

blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 7h

Another thing I used to commonly half-remember was a cartoon show in which a guy turned into a car, and for YEARS and YEARS I'd tell people about this show and they thought I was crazy and then finally I found evidence that it existed and was called Turbo Teen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j18e...

Turbo Teen : Intro [HQ]

YouTube video by Nostalgia Network

www.youtube.com

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 7h

When I was a little kid I read this book, and sometimes I still look up the cover and Wikipedia page to convince myself it was a real book and not just some weird half-remembered fever-dream: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tex...

The Texas-Israeli War: 1999 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 16h

It's kind of funny that back in the 80s when pop culture was OBSESSED with billionaires-- Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, every sitcom having a billionaire in it even the ones where it made no sense (like the latter seasons of Cheers)-- the gap between rich and poor was much less than it is now

blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 17h

"Because my 'dry look' hairspray is extremely flammable, please no smoking within 50 feet"

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Alex/Digital Geist 🎹 @digitalgeist.com · 23h

My Starcrash soundtrack in action:

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