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Popcornbender Spatch

@spatch.bsky.social

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Writer/old-time radio actor/roller coaster rider/CAT TOWN guy/funy computar maker/etc. Wrote Pick Up The Phone Booth and Die once. Married and we have a cat. Often tells you to enjoy the show at the Somerville Theatre. Aquarius. Hi

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1h

CT scan showed nothing
So nobody knows what is going on to make the left side of my face hurt constantly
Always glad to go through so much medical nonsense, spending time and money traveling to Kenmore and Burlington, just to get ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 5h

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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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 5h

People do not leave bad jobs, they leave bad management.

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 8h

"so I hear yer a racist now, terf"

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 8h

Theory: Something terrible happened to the deep-voiced guy who used to do the voice overs for movie trailers, and he can now only communicate by pressing a single key on a piano.

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 9h

it's really remarkable that if you cry enough at strangers they will eventually after passing you from dept to dept prescribe you one pill which actively kills enough of the screaming spike through skull pain so that the past 96 hrs of no sleep and constant pain can catch up on you and you pass out

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Brian Box Brown @boxbrown.bsky.social · 9h

i really feel bad for the other types of commercial artists

Malachi Ward @malachiward.bsky.social · 15h

Facts About Cartoonists

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A tired Veteran @saltyvet1991.bsky.social · 1d

We live in a society (especially in America) where we have decided that if you are not working you don’t deserve food, housing, or medical care. With this in mind, eliminating jobs without talking about UBI or some other kind of safety net you are just saying those people can go die

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 22h

benny had been dead for two and a half years

Zach Wilson @televisionaryzw.bsky.social · 1d

Tuesday night August 2nd, 1977: what would you watch?

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 23h

What if nah

Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 23h

remember, esso upside-down is ossa

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

if pep boys said that now the pep boys could call you up and talk sexy to you you wouldn't think that pep boys was doing really well, as a company

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

Great Moments in GameCenter CX:

That write-in segment in Series 10 where Arino sings viewer-submitted lyrics to video game music, and gets clowned on for his troubles

Chief Arino, a cheerful man in his 30s holding a microphone and reaching for the PLAY button on a tape recorder, says "Well then, I will sing."

Chief Arino sings the lyrics a viewer has written for the Final Fantasy II chocobo ride music. The first half goes "Chief Arino's wife is beautiful."

Chief Arino sings the lyrics a viewer has written for the Final Fantasy II chocobo ride music. The first half went "Chief Arino's wife is beautiful." The second half goes "It's a shame their kids look more like him."

Chief Arino stops singing, looks at the camera, and says "Shut up."

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red 🎃 @prettypinkpansy.bsky.social · 2d

im fucking sobbing i thought he had a pair of really tiny shitty legs sticking out

Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.com · 2d

Cable Guy: A New Hope Darth Vader Star Wars Phone Stand & Controller Holder - Officially Licenced - Exquisite Gaming $15.92 via Amazon (Prime Eligible). https://ow.ly/8c7C50X6GRb

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

the energy these dancers are giving to their performance is not matched by the music and it's really something

Saucy Seventies @saucyseventies.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 85th Birthday to Cliff Richard. Here's he and Una Stubbs Foot tappin'!

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

gonna learn something in this exchange

ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 1d

VDLM2 Message From: N770YX / YX3482

Message: WE HAVE PAX OF INTEREST. BY HER NAME IS SVAN. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS /Q/.

Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N770YX

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA

#acars #vdlm2 #N770YX #YX3482

Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

postscript: ragequit

Chief Arino, sitting at a table covered in viewer submissions and prizes, says "I believe there won't be a next time."

The camera pulls back on Chief Arino sitting with unclaimed prizes and the boombox. He announces "This has been 'Sing Whatever the Hell You Want!'"

Chief Arino sits at the table and waits for the segment to end. The caption "The End" appears onscreen. Below that is the announcement "Due to circumstances, this segment has come to an end. Thank you for your support."

Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

Great Moments in GameCenter CX:

That write-in segment in Series 10 where Arino sings viewer-submitted lyrics to video game music, and gets clowned on for his troubles

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

[stepping out of library stacks with record in hand, squinting at name on request slip] uh, I don't know who needs to hear this, but

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

also I don't know if you ever had the good fortune to take it but Mr Gerstein's Old West through popular media class was the most eye-opening class I ever took, for both good and bad, it shaped so much for me and I will be ever grateful to him and his memory for it

Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

Oh such amazing energy, yes

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merritt @merrittk.com · 2d

love to hear family members being like "can you believe they give $50,000 to refugees for doing nothing i read it on facebook" homie you were forwarding me chain emails about mars inverting the earth's gravity in 2003 you should not be allowed access to the internet

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