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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 2d

Perfect posting from Tim Heidecker, 24 hours apart.

What an incredible experience, getting to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. I left feeling grateful and humbled by his majesty's generosity. I'll never forget this memorial experience and all the fun we had. Hope to do it again soon.

upon further reflection, there is a small part of me that feels I sent the wrong message, regarding the Riyahd Comedy Festival last night. While, I do think it's important for comedy to have the opportunity to thrive in all parts of the globe, there are some aspects of The Royal Highness, King Salmon and his leadership in the region that i don't agree with entirely, but it's a different culture when it comes to freedom and rights and I gotta respect that we are all different and have different values. My manager is now investigating the possibility of donating some of my fee to a charity for Vetrans of War.

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 4d

"Artificial intelligence?" I say to my students, "more like fartificial insmelligence" (wild cheering)

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 5d

Also, there should only be two movies (Schindler's List and Friday)

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 5d

Standing athwart history yelling "What, me worry?"

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 5d

Very frustrating being the *other* "contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville"

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 5d

Once again Laszlo Krasznaorkai wins a prize that is rightfully mine—Krasznahorkaied again, I cry out upon reading the news

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 6d

You should read all of them in college and get a certificate, and then move on to listening to all 15 albums

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 6d

There are too many books. There should be like 30-35 tops

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 8d

Really starting to get the sense that some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 13d

It's cool that the world's only remaining superpower is run by guys whose main shared thing is that they are insanely bad at posting and homicidally desperate for a laugh. The Flop Sweat Regime

m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 13d

loserocracy

Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 13d

Vance: I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries righ now, if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 13d

The thing is, it isn't just on these shitheads to not play Riyadh—now the ethical responsibility shifts to the audience, to not go to their shows or listen to their podcasts, to banish them from polite society

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 14d

Fuckin yikes, man

Some comics were transparent about their willingness to ignore their moral convictions in order to play at the festival. “So what, they have slaves?” asked Tim Dillon in a podcast segment that led to his firing from the festival. “They’re paying me enough money to look the other way.” Pete Davidson offered a similar take, acknowledging in a chat with Von that people have asked him why, given his father’s death on 9/11, he would take a paycheck from the Saudi government. He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’”

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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 15d

Greatest NFL quote graphic ever made

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 15d

Oh okay, so let me explain. No it has not been abolished. It's not a direct comparison to WWII, it's meant as overstatement for comic effect regarding how obsolete third person is now. Hope that helps!

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 15d

Do you really not understand the post?

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 15d

Feel like writers (like myself) who still care about third person are like that Japanese soldier in the Philippines who continued fighting for 30 years after the war was over

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 16d

Belatedly realized the joke should be "medbed sticker on a Cadillac." Ah well

AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 16d

Out on the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a medical bed

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 16d

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 19d

Wow look at this email I just received from the New Yorker

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 20d

me (utterly deranged, writing on bullet casings): I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH FASCISTS

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21d

Does Tylenol cause childhood autism? We asked an elderly man dressed as Uncle Sam who drove 2100 miles to attend the Charlie Kirk memorial stadium event.

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 23d

Lmao

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 24d

- The Light Misting Song
- No Eighth
- Three Sticks
- In My Time of Mild Illness
- The Skirmish of Littlewhile

okay I'll stop lol

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 24d

Some SOSO songs:

- Stairway to the Second Floor
- A Moderate Amount of Love
- Okay Times, Meh Times
- Going to Connecticut
- Beige Dog
- When the Levee Requires a Minor Repair

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 25d

Absolutely!

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 25d

Starting a Led Zeppelin cover band with a bunch of other mediocre musicians and calling it SOSO

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