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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 23h

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

Zohran Mamdani looking uncharacteristically calculating

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 1d

In the kids' defense, "6-7" is really fun to say, these uptight adults should try it out

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

New York mag published an article about how kids running around yelling “6-7!” is stressing grown ups out and I guess, yeah, part of the existential experience of aging is not knowing what the kids are talking about but I find this hilarious and mundane and not worthy of think-pieces lol

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 1d

I never imagined a day when 90% of the government’s official functions would involve acting like a shitty little edgelord online

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🎃Nosferascoob🎃 @scoobydouchebag.bsky.social · 2d

And Alexander wept, for there was no more hamburger to help

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

“Blah,” said Toad.

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 2d

I never actually WANT the Google AI answer but when it takes a bunch of scrolling to get past, sometimes that ends up being what I engage with. As someone who works in digital media, feels bad!

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 2d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 3d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 2d

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 2d

Define “hostility”

The Trump administration isn't only targeting
organizations or groups but even individuals and
"entities" whom NSPM-7 says can be identified by
any of the following "indicia" (indicators) of violence:
• anti-Americanism,
• anti-capitalism,
• anti-Christianity,
• support for the overthrow of the United States
Government,
• extremism on migration,
• extremism on race,
• extremism on gender
• hostility towards those who hold traditional
American views on family,
• hostility towards those who hold traditional
American views on religion, and
• hostility towards those who hold traditional

A framed images with the following in red and blue text on a white poster

IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE:
THE AMERICAN DREAM IS A SCAM
POLICING ORIGINATES FROM
RUNAWAY SLAVE PATROLS
CAPITALISM EXPLOITS
COLONIALISM IS EVIL
THE FOUNDING FATHERS WERE RACIST
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM MUST END
AMERICA WAS BUILT ON
GENOCIDE & SLAVERY
THIS COUNTRY IS ON STOLEN INDIGENOUS LAND

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 2d

Was literally my first thought

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 2d

I love when all the Cannes movies start rolling out to theaters

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 2d

“I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.”

A photo of the old He-Man Battle Bones carrier that looks like a skeleton alligator you clip the figures into

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 3d

What a silly and self-servicing "argument," sorry but whether or not you meant to recreate another artist's style literally all AI images are iterating off other people's work!

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 3d

I think the reason most Americans don't use mass transit is because it, uh, doesn't exist for them. But I'd love to hear from all the New Yorkers who are legitimately "too scared" to ride the subway. They definitely exist!

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james folta @jamesfolta.com · 3d

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 3d

It's weird* that our current political spectrum encompasses both Zohran and Trump

*kind of awful

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 3d

Knitting is one of those things that sounds fun to learn but which I will probably never, ever truly attempt (see also, playing the ukulele, playing the piano). Or at least not until my kids move out

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 3d

Over-explaining your mythology always makes for a satisfying series finale that all fans will definitely love

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 3d

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 4d

Me Projected to Watch 'One Battle After Another' a Dozen More Times

‘One Battle After Another’ Projected to Lose $100 Million Theatrically as ‘Smashing Machine’ and Others Also Struggle Due to Oversized Budgets

Why "The Smashing Machine," "One Battle After Another" and other buzzy films are failing to make a profit at the box office.

variety.com

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 4d

Perhaps my genius will reveal itself in the fullness of time? (Wish I could swap out After the Hunt and Bugonia for OBAA though.)

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 4d

Coming to you live from his mom's basement in Berwyn

Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 4d

It’s very possible Nick Fuentes will appear on Tucker Carlson’s show next week— the largest MAGA platform outside the White House. Fuentes has been on many large shows in recent weeks, barreling towards the mainstream at “6 million miles an hour” as he told followers last night

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 4d

I appear to have been either drunk, depressed, or deluded when I drafted my Vulture Movie Fantasy League Roster. Perhaps all three

Your Team
Display Name: Sissy SpaceX
Current Score: 0
Current Rank: 11,674 out of 17,956
Movie Roster:
• Sentimental Value: o points
• Bugonia: o points
• Hamnet: o points
• After the Hunt: o points
• Dog Man: o points
• Bring Her Back: 0 points
• The Woman in Cabin 10: 0 points
• The Thursday Murder Club: o points
Mini-League: garys supreme

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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