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A.J. Ditty @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social · 1d

Jake was, as always, a dream guest and I also got my buddy Eliza to voice the interstitial for this one and she absolutely knocked it out of the park. Go give the whole thing a listen on the ole Patreon dot com!

the worst of all possible worlds @worstpossible.world · 1d

TWOAPW #211: FAYE ANYTHING (FEAT. I HATE JAMES DOBSON) [WHIT'S ENDLESS SUMMER 47]
Jake from @ihatejamesdobson.bsky.social and the lads return to Odyssey for further adventures in proposals, mayoral espionage, and the ingrained sexism at the heart of John Avery Whittaker.

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A.J. Ditty @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social · 1d

Brian don't go down there that's their HOUSE.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 3d

Translators of ancient works written in dead languages should be allowed to explore the space a little and go nuts

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 4d

good afternoon

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Kill James Bond! @killjamesbond.bsky.social · 6d

BA DA BA DAAAAA

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

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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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 7d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Dark Grimiano @doctor1hundred.bsky.social · 8d

I subscribe to two podcast Patreons and now both of them have covered Into the Woods this fall (listen to both this one and Soundtracker!)

the worst of all possible worlds @worstpossible.world · 8d

TWOAPW #210: INTO THE WOODS
@mattielubchansky.com and the lads grab their cow as white as milk, their cape as red as blood, their hair as yellow as corn, their slipper as pure as gold, and feed a potion to a rapping witch as they cover Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1986 fairy tale musical.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 10d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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A.J. Ditty @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social · 8d

Nobody I'd rather gab with about the Wolf and his many, MANY allegations than the great @mattielubchansky.com

the worst of all possible worlds @worstpossible.world · 8d

TWOAPW #210: INTO THE WOODS
@mattielubchansky.com and the lads grab their cow as white as milk, their cape as red as blood, their hair as yellow as corn, their slipper as pure as gold, and feed a potion to a rapping witch as they cover Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1986 fairy tale musical.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 9d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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A.J. Ditty @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social · 10d

I wonder if this means the triumphant return of a certain dentist/oral surgeon/script doctor from Long Island...I wish...

the worst of all possible worlds @worstpossible.world · 10d

We recorded for almost four hours with @mattielubchansky.com on the Stephen Sondheim musical INTO THE WOODS and on Wednesday you’re going to hear at least three hours of that conversation. See you then.

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Tom the Anime Sicko 🔜 Hell @tomharrison.bsky.social · 10d

Hey do you like @bosh.worstpossible.world from @worstpossible.world and @illconceivedpodcast.com? Do you want to see him do live comedy in Chicago in two weeks? Perhaps a stupid live bracket with @dono.bsky.social from Radio Free Tote Bag? Then you must go to GENIUS NIGHT Mon Oct 20 or I'll die

Genius Night poster.

Monday, Oct 20, 7pm
Cafe Mustache
2313 N Milwaukee Ave

Hosted by Josh Watkins
Feat
Tom Harrison
Joe Anderson
Josh Boerman
Donovan Eyre
Lynda Cortez
Sadie Lancrete
and Kevin Johnson with da news quiz

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A.J. Ditty @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social · 10d

We love 2b vaxxed.

A.J., a white bearded man in a mask, holds a thumbs up to the camera after getting a flu and Covid vaccination.

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A.J. Ditty @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social · 11d

Scritchums

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11d

I ended up on swifty TikTok and the comments are absolutely killing me. "9th grade slam poetry", [a photo of boiled chicken], "album for cop wives", "If Taylor wrote this that's bad, if ChatGPT wrote this that's worse, and if Travis wrote this I'm actually kind of proud of him".

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 11d

Working on getting my account back but follow me here for now. Proof of identity

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13d

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

“Eldest Daughter" is a symptom of my overall issue with Taylor Swift: the scale of her music just feels fucking off. In 2025, she's no longer a lovelorn kid singing about Romeo and Juliet; she's a 35-year-old billionaire who's played sold out stadiums all over the world. She's Taylor Swift. That's her name. Damn near every living person knows who she is, and she's singing about the internet? About the fucking comments section? When she sings "I'm not a bad bitch," is she even aware that she's lying, that she's worshipped by more girls and women than almost anybody else? Even her love songs feel incorrect to me on these grounds. When I think about the real circumstances of her life, I just start wondering where the songs are about the housekeepers, the assistants, the cooks, the drivers, and every other person who's changed her life way more than the man in the Musso and Frank's booth in "Elizabeth Taylor." I struggle to trust her as the lyrical steward of ordinary human experiences. I am certain it's been many years since she's had one the way I have them, with all the waiting for a table that implies, and the navigating of customer service phone trees, the dithering over $35 travel insurance that I can never decide if I actually need, the frantic emails about unpaid freelance invoices, the trip back to the grocery store for the thing I forgot when I went earlier in the day, and all the other boring crap I have to do because I can't buy up other people's lifetimes so they have to do it for me.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 13d

This guy not wearing a mask makes him the bravest ICE agent and yet is still, like all of them, a pathetic bullying coward. Look at him grab Fuentes, who’s literally just standing there. Look at the hatred in his dumb face.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 13d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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A.J. Ditty @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social · 13d

One of the funniest live readings I've ever been to in my life. Long live Gurgle, the moistest agent of chaos in fiction.

jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 13d

it would do me a great honor if you watched the table read for CHRONICLES OF TREVOR, the pilot i wrote with Phil Jamesson that has been described as a "business manager isekai"

ft. Demi Adejuyigbe, Josh Gondelman, Michael Longfellow, Natalie Walker, Ike Ufomadu, Dina Hashem, Tim Platt, & Eli Yudin

CHRONICLES OF TREVOR w/ Demi Adejuyigbe, Michael Longfellow, Josh Gondelman & more!

YouTube video by Chronicles of Trevor

www.youtube.com

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A.J. Ditty @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social · 13d

What a joy to record this episode and talk at length about a movie that answers the question: "what if Treasure Planet was bad?"

Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 13d

New bonus episode! We were joined by @bosh.worstpossible.world and @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social to talk about 2000's Titan AE, a weird animated scifi movie that flopped so badly it killed Fox Animation. Available on the FTL Patreon at any tier!
www.patreon.com/posts/titan-...

Titan AE (w. Josh Boerman & AJ Ditty) | Failure To Launch

www.patreon.com

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AJB @berardbro.bsky.social · Sep 16

what if Bloodborne was an animated series?

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A.J. Ditty @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social · 14d

May we all feel the joy that this cameraperson felt when they turned around to see the entire class behind them.

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 14d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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Spock's Brian @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 15d

There's an evil version of Marisa Tomei named Warisa Tomei

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 16d

honestly this spectacle today makes me feel better. there's something very obviously physically wrong with trump, and these guys are all just clowns desperate for an audience to unicycle in front of. unserious

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