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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t know design from a hole in the ground, but surely whoever designed my new keyboard would think putting a calculator key right above the backspace key would cause no shortage of issues. Well, one issue: the calculator keeps popping up. It’s … irritating.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 3h

RIP, Drew Struzan.

The comic adaptation of Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp.

A cover he did for Star Trek: The Next Generation: Enemy Unseen.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“Keep out of the way of officers, ‘cos they ain’t healthy. That’s what you learn in the army. The enemy dun’t really want to fight you, ‘cos the enemy is mostly blokes like you who want to go home with all their bits still on. But officers’ll get you killed.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

The late (or at least severely delayed) Bergholt Stuttley Johnson was generally recognized as the worst inventor in the world, yet in a very specialized sense. Merely bad inventors made things that failed to operate. He wasn’t among these small fry. Any fool could make something that did absolutely nothing when you pressed the button. He scorned such fumble-fingered amateurs. Everything he built worked. It just didn’t do what it said on the box. If you wanted a small ground-to-air missile, you asked Johnson to design an ornamental fountain.

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 22h

Also for some reason Gillian Anderson is playing the role as Margaret Thatcher.

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 23h

Greta Lee’s performance is like the performance you’d see in a movie parody about making blockbuster movies, like in HBO’s The Franchise.

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 23h

Guess what I saw today?

I will say it’s lovely to look at and listen to.

John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 5d

Just bringing this back as Tron: Ares is opening tomorrow.

“New Tron movie looks pretty co – aw, shit is Jared Leto in this?”

New Tron movie looks pretty co - aw, shit is Jared Leto in this?

Saint John, New Brunswick - Initial excitement over the latest entry in Disney’s sci-fi Tron franchise was ruined when it was discovered it also stars Jared Leto. During a recent family movie night, a...

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 23h

A man with smoked lenses glasses and moustache is dressed as a Catholic priest.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2d

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 1d

That was a blast. If you get a chance, go see Bear Grease Live.

It was also the original Sandy’s last night after 250 performances so that was kind of special.

John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to seeing Bear Grease tonight - the all Indigenous hip hop parody of Grease.

Home - LightningCloud Presents BEAR GREASE

Bear Grease The all-Indigenous hip hop musical parody of Grease! “MASTERFUL… RIDICULOUSLY ENTERTAINING!” – DC Theatre Arts “FULL OF HEART AND HUMOUR!” – Broadway World “REIMAGINES GREASE… THROUGH A CO...

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 2d

Heinz makes a pickle mayonnaise now so congrats on inventing tartar sauce I guess.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 2d

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 13, Episode 18

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 2d

I’m new to the AEW fandom but I love how half the wrestlers aren’t these massive, muscular hulks. They’re just, like, these dudes.

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 2d

Anthony Bowens strutting in with his framed magazine covers will never not be funny. #AEW

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 2d

On The Police’s “Born in Fifties” from their debut album, Outlandos d’Amour, you can really see how his background as a schoolteacher, and his literary influences, shaped Sting’s art with lyrics like, “Oh, we hated our Aunt / And we messed in our pants.”

John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to seeing Bear Grease tonight - the all Indigenous hip hop parody of Grease.

Home - LightningCloud Presents BEAR GREASE

Bear Grease The all-Indigenous hip hop musical parody of Grease! “MASTERFUL… RIDICULOUSLY ENTERTAINING!” – DC Theatre Arts “FULL OF HEART AND HUMOUR!” – Broadway World “REIMAGINES GREASE… THROUGH A CO...

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 3d

On the face of it, it’s a wonder any babies are born.

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Momus "Bones" Jones @boyq.bsky.social · Oct 12

It's #SCTVSaturday , Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, so it's time for Canadian content!

Dd you know know that since Canadian Thanksgiving comes first, Canadians must have invented it?

it's a canadian fact
Brought to you by the Canadian Fact Ministry

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 3d

My friends told me the weirdest, most disturbing stuff I’ve ever heard so I told my mum and it turns out it was all true.

jessica BONEStown @midnightmasseffect.bsky.social · May 16

did anyones parents *actually* talk to them about sex?

its been a plot point in like every TV show and movie about raising kids for like centuries at this point but does it actually happen?

i think "the birds and the bees" speech is entirely a ficticious construct

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 3d

Like, I’m not saying this as a fan of Carney’s or anything. I’m just saying Canadians would vote in Saddam Hussein if he promised to make tax filing easier.

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 3d

What in the friggin Gul Dukat…?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 3d

Watching the John Candy documentary and I forgot how insane the SCTV sketch, Yellowbelly, was.

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 3d

Saw an ad for some sports betting app that was this gross animated AI thing but I guess the two would be natural allies.

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 3d

Just want to say I cannot put this book down.

(I mean. I’m not reading it *now* because I’m posting this and gonna have spaghetti later and was running errands earlier but it is being read often throughout the day.)

JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 11d

Oh, I guess I should tell everyone about my novel.
#writing #booksky #sf

Reality's End

Reality's End: Babb, J.P.: 9781997596110: Books - Amazon.ca

www.amazon.ca

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 3d

Now watching the Satanic Rites of Dracula in honour of @virginiabarksdale.bsky.social and forgot how much Joanna Lumley was in films and TV at this time.

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