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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 5h

Encore - Johnny Dollar's Summer Vacation (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar)

MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 5h

TFW you are listening to a radio program from the 1940s and a cheerful, socially awkward mystery-obsessed librarian shows up as a character

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 8h

even now, as an adult who has experienced Tadpole Golf, the thought of someone buying me dinner feels like a lot. yes, I'm weird.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 8h

all through the dinner date scene, and the wedding scene, and the inexplicable tadpoles meeting a golf ball scene, I just thought to myself, WHY IS HE BUYING HER DINNER? WHAT IS UP WITH THAT? DID HE LET HER GET A CHEESEBURGER OR DID SHE HAVE TO HAVE A HAMBURGER? **DID SHE GET TO HAVE DESSERT?!**

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 8h

in the first sex ed class I ever had, they showed us a video that began with a man taking a woman on a date and buying her dinner. I was so BLOWN AWAY that someone would get to go out to dinner WHEN IT WASN'T EVEN THEIR BIRTHDAY that I was too distracted to pay attention to anything that followed

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 9h

it has a Ham Cam

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 10h

how old is the World's Oldest Ham

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 10h

oh, that sounds really good

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 11h

ME, SCREAMING WITH RAGE AT THE LBJ PAPERS: you've been out with that Robert Caro again! admit it! what kind of dirty little games did you two play?!

Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 12h

If I have to read the phrase "a virgin archive" in a dealer description ONE MORE TIME

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James Lyden @jameslyden.com · 1d

I always said that conspiracy theorists should be forced to organize an office holiday party

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Oct 31

Book cover for Pet Cemetery featuring an angry cat’s face hissing as a silhouette of a man stares off. Text and title read:

I just
FED YOU
Stop yelling at me...

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

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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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 2d

apparently the lyrics to "Walk Like a Man" by the Four Seasons do NOT include the phrase

"no woman's worth/trolling Colin Firth"

but in my defense: that's also a true statement.

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 2d

Behold the striking colors of the blue-spotted stingray! Its bright spots are a warning to onlookers that it's venomous—& if its colors aren’t enough to ward off foes, it’s equipped w/ a tail that can inject a lethal dose of toxins.
Photo: Derek Keats, CC-BY-2.0, Wikimedia Commons

A photo of a blue spotted stingray. The animal is a dark greenish gray with a multitude of vibrant blue spots. Its body is flat and pancake-shaped.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 2d

Pobl y Gofod

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 2d

Pitch

Big budget space opera in which every character is aggressively Welsh. No explanation given.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 2d

I love her winter album, but even that has some inexplicable Yale songs from a male chorus. (And same male chorus providing the "wolf" line from Baby It's Cold Outside in unison. Not to start Discourse, but that song does not become less creepy when it's one woman and twenty men.)

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 2d

Microfilm smells like pickles

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 2d

"I'm a ghost, and I'm bleeding, *and* I'm a nun, which made it really hard to date, but Ray just seemed to see through all that..."

"Well, you made it easy, being transparent and all..."

"True."

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 4d

Marian Wilson Kimber: It’s painful to realize the people in charge of Iowa’s history apparently have no idea how history works. If they did, they'd know there is no way to predict what parts of the collection will be of interest 5, 20, or 100 years from now. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/10/t...

The theft of history

Marian Wilson Kimber: I have wondered if the box of women’s club programs that changed my life will end up in the dumpster.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 3d

I would dearly love to hear a telling of this story from the ghost's perspective

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 3d

Whomst among us hadn’t made this exact mistake

Plot detail from Matthew Lewis’s novel The Monk:

Raymond and Agnes made plans to elope before Agnes left her aunt's castle for the convent. Agnes planned to dress as the Bleeding Nun, a ghost who haunted the castle and exited its gates at midnight. Raymond accidentally eloped with the real ghost of the real Bleeding Nun.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 3d

do i wish the transcription worked better? yes. does it also provide us with moments like this? yes. (the word actually said was "aunado")

the detroit pitcher looking sad. it says Ha llorado [He has cried.]

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