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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 18h

Eh, close enough on a dipsomaniacal weekend

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 18h

What are Marvel Cinematic Universe movies?

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 18h

Paul Giamatti as John Adams, drinking in Air Force Number Two

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 18h

Well that’s just nitpicking, innit

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 19h

I found a used copy in our local used media store and buddy you know I snagged that shit

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 21h

Helen Mirren in “The Cook, The Thief, The Wife, And The Lover” settling accounts with a pistol.

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 1d

The only King of America that I (and at most 17 of you) recognize

Cover art for Elvis Costello's "King of America", available at all participating Sam Goody's.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 1d

I had Lehrer and Weird Al battling to the death, can’t believe Al killed him

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 1d

They Might Be Giants
Elvis Costello
Lyle Lovett
Nanci Griffith
Queen
Beatles
J.S. Bach
Tom Lehrer

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Dik Tater 🥔 @chaensaw.com · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Yes
Skinny Puppy
Jane’s Addiction
Lords of Acid
Rush
KMFDM
Primus
Peaches

Tabby Lavalamp @tabbylavalamp.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:
The Warning
Rosemary Clooney
Count Basie
Sarah McLachlan
Johnny Cash
Atarashii Gakko!
Blondie
Olivia Rodrigo

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 2d

“Yes, due to my agonies.”

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 2d

Ubiquitous, year-round plague in Houston

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d

Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 2d

“Akinator touched Pete’s piece.”

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 3d

Rest assured, Microsoft. I already talk to my work PC everyday, which has resulted in 483 HR complaints and a revolving door of anger management classes

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 3d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday
I was one of the living people
Now you're flying next to me
Mourning dove for me

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 4d

THE BOOK OF SPACELY

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 4d

Bring back “Embassy Lament” or prepare to close on Thursday

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 4d

*Linda Richman standing in triple digit heat for Barbra Streisand tickets*

“I’m getting vercleft”

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 5d

Mitch Miller cosplay is back, now in gravy form

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 5d

That poster is so good it almost makes me want to watch that piece of shit movie adaptation again.

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 5d

Even worse, some nerds (*cough*) have two entries into this

Alexander from “Plato’s Stepchildren”, holding a lyre, theoretically around the time he made The Frog Sounds

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Funsize-tioned Boo-boo-nery @bemopolis.bsky.social · 6d

There was a PBS doc in the 90s about Edgar Allan Poe that included “The Cask of Amontillado” with RA two-handing it with John Heard, and I have never forgotten his performance as Fortunato

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 6d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 8d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 13d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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