Buddy Toledo
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Buddy Toledo
@jessefuchs.bsky.social
· Feb 6
finally began work on my magnum opus of critical détournement, “1,000 Snoopy Butts”
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this music cue perfectly captures that feeling of when there's a cat and you see the cat
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
this music cue perfectly captures that feeling of when there's a cat and you see the cat
@connorratliff.bsky.social was listening to this interview with Peter Langston, original head of Lucasfilm, and came across this fun fact…do we know any more about george’s career as a second baseman?
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
@connorratliff.bsky.social was listening to this interview with Peter Langston, original head of Lucasfilm, and came across this fun fact…do we know any more about george’s career as a second baseman?
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It’s just like that old saying, “Everybody loves a cane.”
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
It’s just like that old saying, “Everybody loves a cane.”
I am Wico, king of kings
consumer electronics show, las vegas (1984) archive.org/details/msx-...
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I am Wico, king of kings
I’m already a little nostalgic for 2021-22 AI slop, which was at least horrific
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I’m already a little nostalgic for 2021-22 AI slop, which was at least horrific
this basically encapsulates what was always my position in the endless Souls debates: just because a game’s difficulty sliders are *diagetic* doesn’t mean there aren’t difficulty sliders, and in fact it may even be a sign they’ve been given an uncommon amount of thought and attention
Why Silksong doesn't have difficulty settings or sliders: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
this basically encapsulates what was always my position in the endless Souls debates: just because a game’s difficulty sliders are *diagetic* doesn’t mean there aren’t difficulty sliders, and in fact it may even be a sign they’ve been given an uncommon amount of thought and attention
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Just for you, the three spirits.
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just for you, the three spirits.
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
these are delightful, even if like me your brain insists on hearing them all in the voice of Colonel Gentleman
In 1657, Jin Shengtan 金聖嘆 broke off from his commentary on 'The Romance of the Western Chamber' to list "33 Nice Things" 不亦快哉三十三則.
It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
these are delightful, even if like me your brain insists on hearing them all in the voice of Colonel Gentleman
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Fun news for puzzle fans! The golden hare from the 1979 armchair treasure hunt book Masquerade by Kit Williams will be auctioned at Sotheby's, estimated at a value of £15,000 to £20,000 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... (Who wants to crowdfund with me? 👀)
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Fun news for puzzle fans! The golden hare from the 1979 armchair treasure hunt book Masquerade by Kit Williams will be auctioned at Sotheby's, estimated at a value of £15,000 to £20,000 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... (Who wants to crowdfund with me? 👀)
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Images from Masquerade (1979) by Kit Williams, an illustrated puzzle book that led clever readers to a buried golden hare. This book was immensely popular upon release and inspired the genre we now call "armchair treasure hunts"
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Images from Masquerade (1979) by Kit Williams, an illustrated puzzle book that led clever readers to a buried golden hare. This book was immensely popular upon release and inspired the genre we now call "armchair treasure hunts"
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Original Hank Ketcham art with my new favorite design for a centaur.
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Original Hank Ketcham art with my new favorite design for a centaur.
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Sixty years ago this week in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle: "Saturday, Richard J. Robbins, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish...."
web.archive.org/web/20201125... 1/2
web.archive.org/web/20201125... 1/2
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Sixty years ago this week in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle: "Saturday, Richard J. Robbins, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish...."
web.archive.org/web/20201125... 1/2
web.archive.org/web/20201125... 1/2
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Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
I should have specified surname: I imagine there’s a few decent Lizzies and maybe even a Mazzy with really, really Gen X parents out there in a State Senate somewhere
Meet Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, D-Texas.
Lizzie Fletcher - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I should have specified surname: I imagine there’s a few decent Lizzies and maybe even a Mazzy with really, really Gen X parents out there in a State Senate somewhere
my question is, is Frank Rizzo now somehow the least bad political figure with a double z in their name
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
my question is, is Frank Rizzo now somehow the least bad political figure with a double z in their name
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Closest thing you'll see from me maybe ever to a personal essay about a video game vgbees.com/im-great-at-...
I'm Great At Baby Steps Because I Walk Like That In Real Life - VGBees
CW: medical talk, surgical talk, bones, car accident In late May, an uninsured Lexus driver ran a yellow light and pulled in front of me...
vgbees.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Closest thing you'll see from me maybe ever to a personal essay about a video game vgbees.com/im-great-at-...
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Genuinely moving moment in that documentary the alcohol years where it becomes clear every major male figure from Factory was pretty dodgy and chauvinist but there's an emphatic "except Vini" throughout
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Genuinely moving moment in that documentary the alcohol years where it becomes clear every major male figure from Factory was pretty dodgy and chauvinist but there's an emphatic "except Vini" throughout
pictured below, a young Tom Hanks on the set of The Love Boat
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
pictured below, a young Tom Hanks on the set of The Love Boat
[a million spidery, delicate klaxons go off, evoking wind chimes in the middle distance]
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
[a million spidery, delicate klaxons go off, evoking wind chimes in the middle distance]
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Happy 103rd to my hero ❤️
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Happy 103rd to my hero ❤️