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Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 2d

Downtown Portland versus the White House.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 2d

Emperor Palpatine

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Comic. Scatter chart with Emperor Palpatine character age on Y axis and Ian McDiarmid age during filming on X axis. Plot with descending arrow beginning from Return of the Jedi (emperor age 90, McDiarmid age 40) → Revenge of the Sith, Attack of the Clones, and The Phantom Menace (emperor age 50-70, McDiarmid age 50-60) → The Rise of Skywalker (cloned body, undefined age) with a gradient vertical line (McDiarmid age over 70) → Now (emperor age under 10, McDiarmid age over 80). [caption] To continue the trend, they should make a Star Wars movie where 81-year-old Ian McDiarmid plays the emperor as a toddler.

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nightylamp @nightmare-fueler.bsky.social · 3d

"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 2d

Instead of requesting a traditional wake-up call in a hotel, the French writer Alphonse Allais would have the concierge call the room on either side of his one in order ‘to be gently woken by the sound of your neighbours’ protests’.

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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 2d

I keep hearing about SORA and wondering why people suddenly care about soap opera rapid aging.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 4d

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 4d

"Sacre bleu over heah!"

Guidelines for an audiobook narration. It reads "Notes from the rights holder: Looking for one person that can do two voices or two narrators. Accents are NY mixed with french for one guy and" (Image cuts off there.)

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 5d

POV: nobody knows what the fuck POV means anymore.

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 6d

What did you do for a Klondike bar?
WHAT DID YOU DO?!

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 6d

Best view of the Seattle protests so far

Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 6d

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

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🎃Nosferascoob🎃 @scoobydouchebag.bsky.social · 7d

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

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 7d

oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter

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Little Greenis @durtmchurtt.bsky.social · 7d

Heavens to Betsy
Betsy to Heavens
Heavens BACK to Betsy
Betsy GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 9d

I know everyone is sick of hearing this but Dorothy is a mom’s friend’s name, NOT a mom’s name. If your mom is named Dorothy: SHE’S NOT REALLY YOUR MOM

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 10d

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10d

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11d

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 11d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 11d

Alec Baldwin is in old episodes of Knots Landing. He plays a TV preacher. And it’s impossible not to hear his I AM GOD speech from Malice.

Alec Baldwin, looking about eight years old.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 12d

BUSTER KEATON

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 12d

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 12d

I cannot overstate how utterly formative this man and his work was for me, a baby comedy nerd in the pre-Internet, pre-sprawling cable TV days. He introduced me to Carlin. And Python. And so much more.

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 12d

The influential, top hat-wearing DJ, Dr. Demento, wrapped his long-running radio show yesterday with a countdown of his top 40 most requested songs.

www.avclub.com/dr-demento-f...

Dr. Demento ends 55-year run as radio's weirdest DJ

www.avclub.com

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 12d

Any time I see a therapy session on some dumbass reality show I think Oh what a shitty therapist for agreeing to do this

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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t hate this.

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 13d

Colbert will voice the "digital dean" of the titular school, delivering announcements to students from the safety of his voice acting booth.
www.avclub.com/stephen-colb...

Stephen Colbert already picking up side hustles, joins Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 13d

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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