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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · Oct 17

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 4h

The House of Leaves table is lit but I kept losing balls in it

Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 6h

Dumb question: Have any BOOKS ever had a licensed pinball? Not movie or tv adaptations of books- an actual prose novel licensed as a theme for a pinball game.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 6h

Dumb question: Have any BOOKS ever had a licensed pinball? Not movie or tv adaptations of books- an actual prose novel licensed as a theme for a pinball game.

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 5h

Now is the time for the perfect comedown before bed: About 20 Minutes of Music Videos. If you're having trouble calming your mind, try About 20 Minutes of Music Videos tonight

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 4h

Oh I remembered one. For a while whenever someone interrupted me when I was trying to concentrate on something I'd do Chief Wiggums' "What, whatwhatwhatwhat??? This better be about pizza!"

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 13d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 4h

They didn't have the budget to really meet their ambitions but yeah, #4 is packed full of interesting ideas

Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 4h

The dude worked for Hitler, are we surprised

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 5h

There was a time nerds got mad that the LotR movies had New World foods like potatoes and tomatoes. They should have gone even harder in that direction. The Council of Elrond chowing down on corn-on-the-cob. Sam looking at the camera saying "Look away, Blanco Niño" and devouring a whole Ghost Pepper

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5h

One of many alarmed reports from the 1963 Young Republicans convention where John Birchers seemed to be in ascendancy.

Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, July 7, 1963
'MOB RULE' TACTICS CITED
YGOP Convention
Shocked Ex-Leader
By MERCER CROSS
Minneapolls Tribune Staff Writer
Leonard Nadasdy said Sat-
rushes at the podium to take
urday he is "still in a state
the gavel away from me."
of shock"
because
of the
"There
Young Repub-
the floor!" Were fistfights on
lican
Nation-
At one point the national
al Federation
anthem had to be played to
convention
in
make the delegates sit down.
San Francisco,
and police were summoned to
Calif.
keep order.
"The whole
Radicals distributed scurri-
thing has been
lous printed matter attacking
very
disillu-
Nadasdy.
sioning. for
McDevitt's hotel room was
me,"
said the
immediate
Nadasdy•
broken into
and campaign
past president of the 500,000-
literature, two typewriters
member federation.
and some
briefcases: were
elected. to suc-
ceed Nadasdy for the two -years was Donald Lu;
Washington, D.C.,
who campaigned as
porter of Sen. Barry Goldwa-er R-Ariz., for president. beleated was Charles.Me Devitt, 30, Boise, Idaho, who took no stand on a GOP presidential candidate. McDevitt had the unantmous support of the 15-member Minnesota
McDevitt had the edge go: ing into the YGOP conven-tion, said Nadasdy,
32,
General Mills public rélations san who lives in Plymouth.
But, he said, Lukens' supporters
"used the old Communist technique of causing a lot of dissension and a lot of furor, at which they were eminently successful."
THEIR PURPOSE, said Na-
dasdy,
"was to completely
ensnarl the convention and confuse everyone.
All this
was accompanied by scream-oing and hollering."'
At the center of the confu-
sion
were members of the John Birch Society and the radical right, Nadasdy said.
Two years ago the Minnesotan was elected chairman as a member of the Young Republicans'
moderate fac-
tion. As convention chairman this year, he said:
Right-wing delegates shouted at him to "go back to Russia."
"They made a couple of
• "Tve never seen such violence at a Young Republican affair," s…

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 6h

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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 14h

Some more pages. #PortfolioDay

A green-lit scene set in the vampire city of Selene. Lord Ruthven confronts Carmilla, who is sitting and reading beneath a bright red sumac tree.

A paper doll of the vampire Clarimonde, with clothing options based on costumes worn by Gary Oldman as Dracula.

Two Japanese mechas about to fight, surrounded by ornithopters.

Luchador wrestlers in a match.

Fashion magazine spreads of the character Moonchild, dressed in outfits reminiscent of various magic-based superheroes.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11h

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

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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👻Wereman 🐺🎃 @spookarties.bsky.social · Dec 1

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

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Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · 9h

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Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 1d

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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Farts "sʇɹɐℲ" Johnson @fartsjohnson.bsky.social · 16h

RIP Drew Struzan, the best to ever do a movie poster. Here's my favorite of his posters

Poster for Squirm. tree whose roots look like a human skull with worms coming out of it

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 18h

It's the logical continuation of democracy! It's why I think anarchism is a thread that's been part of the US for a long time even if, again, that's not what most US citizens would have called themselves

Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 18h

As people have been saying, if libertarians were intellectually consistent they'd be joining us on the front lines (and a very very few of them have been on our side, they've just been a squelched minority)

Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 18h

Even within conservativism, libertarianism is clearly the better tendency than the usual oppressive authoritarianism, the problem is just that conservative libertarianism individualizes it and tries to paint it as the work of Special Chosen Boys

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 18h

The degree to which the internet COULD be used to fulfill a lot of the traditional infrastructure and communication roles filled by the state and empower communities to step in remains staggering, I think that's why it's become a battleground. The right realized what a threat it was

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 18h

I'm trying to avoid crediting a vast capitalist conspiracy but the boundless possibilities of the internet, the communities that were arising from it, and the burgeoning swing leftward all being strangled by various top-down capitalist factors probably isn't a coincidence

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 18h

Also, I can accept that a lot of anarchist ideals probably weren't practically realizable for much of history once we started to get kingdoms and empires...but having genuinely populist mass media via the internet has been and might still be a game changer on that front

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 18h

The great thing about this is that I think it mostly arises naturally? We're literally seeing this right now, the state and capitalist forces get too heavy-handed and people start to both push back and look for alternatives

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 18h

Anarchism is more than that (though you can argue that's the emotional fountainhead), it's "if we don't want some asshole telling us what to do we have to work together to prevent it"