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Sixpence None the Wiser
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It seems a little on the nose that the thing labeled a business school puzzle looks comically easy
product page of an online store; you can buy a "London Business School Puzzle" which is a metal desktop item that's kind of a 3-D jigsaw puzzle but there are only eight pieces so it's pretty simple.
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Maybe he's building Andy a guest house
two news headlines on top of each other: PRINCE ANDREW IN ADVANCED TALKS ABOUT MOVING OUT OF ROYAL LODGE, REPORTS SAY and EAST WING OF WHITE HOUSE REDUCED TO RUBBLE AS PART OF TRUMP'S BALLROOM CONSTRUCTION
October 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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What the fuck Bluesky the next time I went to skeet it popped this up:
text box at the bottom of the reply field that asks "Are you writing in Latin?" with a button to choose "Yes"
September 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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funny thing is this is actually Mao's origin story
Photo of text from a hospital intake form which reads: 71 - OTHER 55YOM C/O PAIN TO TESTICLES WHEN THE NEW LANDLORD THOUGHT HIS APT WASEMPTY KICKED THE DOOR DOWN STRIKING HIM IN THE TESTICLES AND FACE*
September 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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shot of Tony Soprano from The Sopranos with a quote from the show: "But lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over."
September 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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It's the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo but it says "Nipple Baring Ziggy Knitwear" instead
September 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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kept having this in my head
the famous stupid patent diagram where it's a person watching TV and a McDonald's commercial comes on so the TV says "Say McDonald's to end commercial!" except I've made it say "Say HELL to end commercial!" The next panel of the patent diagram edited so the person jumps up from their couch and screams "HELL!" at their TV
July 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Wow, what a... question
screenshot of a skeet reading "god damn you're good at this. has the onion ever had a headline about ABBA?" I promise you nothing in context prompted that
June 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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I can't imagine these being that good tbh
A bag of coffee flavor Doritos
June 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Me when I’m not #3:
Earthquake bed gif. If you haven’t seen this before it’s a computer animation of a terrible invention that’s a bed that automatically drops you into an armored cabinet if it detects an earthquake happening
May 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Wild detail
“He was one of the soldiers who forcibly integrated Little Rock Central High School in September 1957. He wrote in a letter at the time this was “the first time [he] really [felt] like a solider”
April 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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I love to read the news
A news article titled “Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate: Two Bayeux scholars at loggerheads over whether dangling shape depicts dagger or the embroidery’s 94th phallus”
April 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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I think the "judginess" article sees itself as soft and moderate (it suggests we should understand that everybody is struggling, and be more forgiving) but there's a connection: vaccines being a personal choice only matters if personal choices are supposed to be immune from judgement.
Text from a Propublica article dated March 28 about the CDC weakening guidance on vaccines: "“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” the statement said, echoing a line from a column Kennedy wrote for the Fox News website. “People should consult with their healthcare provider to understand their options to get a vaccine and should be informed about the potential risks and benefits associated with vaccines.” ProPublica shared the new CDC statement about personal choice and risk with Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health. To her, the shift in messaging, and the squelching of this routine announcement, is alarming. “I’m a bit stunned by that language,” Nuzzo said. “No vaccine is without risk, but that makes it sound like it’s a very active coin toss of a decision. We’ve already had more cases of measles in 2025 than we had in 2024, and it’s spread to multiple states. It is not a coin toss at this point.”
March 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I’m at the scooter repair shop. I’m at the honey store. I’m at the combination
Photo is of a combination motor scooter repair shop and honey store in Taipei. The honey cabinet is next to one of the scooter lifts. A sign advertises that the owner raises the bees themselves and that the honey is pure.
March 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Wheel of Time season 3: I love this hat as a costume choice because it looks like Rosamund Pike was just wearing it in between takes and everyone forgot about it when the cameras started rolling. It looks like the hat a tourist buys when they didn’t realize how sunny it would be.
It’s a shot of Rosamund Pike as Moiraine from the Wheel of Time show and she’s wearing a straw hat that just looks like a regular straw hat, not like a fantasy world straw hat. Like a regular hat you’d buy at the store.
March 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Link playing the ocarina
March 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Extremely apt comparison considering that their unused ideas for the “I’d buy that for a dollar!” guy included him getting MeToo’d and later becoming the President
Mattie Lubchansky skeet reading: “american society has been at “TV Interstitial from ROBOCOP” for a while but “president does a car commercial on the white house lawn” is really pushin it”
March 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Not enough gay heterosexuals, too many bi/homosexual straight men: every day we move closer to some kind of realignment event in which “gay” and “straight” stop referring to sexuality altogether.
A skeet that reads as follows: The solution to the “male crisis” is for the loser youth to act like gay guys (let their partner earn more, split chores evenly, do well and value doing well at school, etc.) but societally, for the loser youth, masculinity is defined as the opposite of that so good fucking luck. A skeet that reads: A not insignificant part of my Grindr options at any given time are "str8" because men have invented a category of gay sex that is straight rather than just, you know, come out as bi
March 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Saw one of the bottom right ones in person a few years back (we turned around)
A sign at a trailhead listing information about the hiking trail. A bright yellow warning affixed to the sign says “Watch out for rockfalls.” The sign itself has been hit and knocked flat by a falling rock; it rests against a pile of stones and vegetation.
February 23, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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That's the kind of honesty we like to see.
The words "this program will be in English" where the word English is in quotation marks
February 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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I looked it up (“In Retrospect”, his impeccably titled book about how badly the US messed up with Vietnam) and it’s not as explicit as I thought, but the guys mentioned were all fired for being too “soft” towards communist movements in Asia:
McGeorge Bundy, military adviser Maxwell Taylor, and many others. When it came to Vietnam, we found ourselves setting policy for a region that was terra incognita. Worse, our government lacked experts for us to consult to compensate for our ignorance. When the Berlin crisis occurred in 1961 and during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, President Kennedy was able to turn to senior people like Llewellyn Thompson, Charles Bohlen, and George Kennan, who knew the Soviets intimately. There were no senior officials in the Pentagon or State Department with comparable knowledge of Southeast Asia. I knew of only one Pentagon officer with counterinsurgency experience in the region—Col. Edward Lansdale, who had served as an adviser to Ramon Magsaysay in the Philippines and Diem in South Vietnam. But Lansdale was relatively junior and lacked broad geopolitical expertise. The irony of this gap was that it existed largely because the top East Asian and China experts in the State Department—John Paton Davies, Jr., John Stewart Service, and John Carter Vincent—had been purged during the McCarthy hysteria of the 1950s. Without men like these to provide sophisticated, nuanced insights, we—certainly I—badly misread China’s objectives and mistook its bellicose rhetoric to imply a drive for regional hegemony. We also totally underestimated the nationalist aspect of Ho Chi Minh’s movement. We saw him first as a Communist and only second as a Vietnamese nationalist. Why did we fail to consider China and Vietnam in the same light as we did Yugoslavia—a Communist nation independent of Moscow? For several reasons, I believe. Tito seemed unique; he and Stalin had openly fallen out. China’s and North Vietnam’s heated rhetoric made us think they sought regional hegemony. And Cuba’s recent tilt toward the Soviet Union seemed illustrative of how ostensibly independent Third World movements quickly placed themselves within the Communist orbit. Thus, we equated Ho Chi Minh not with Marshal Tito but with Fidel Castro. Such ill-founded judgments were accepted without debate by
February 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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I can’t even tell what’s supposed to be going on here.
A van done up like a fake cop car in black and white, with what looks like the Decepticon logo on the side, and the “to punish and enslave” motto (like the decepticon Barricade) and 911 written on it, but instead of saying POLICE it says PLEASE
December 31, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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I like to think they mean they’ll just spoon it into my mouth
A sign in a restaurant saying “Order a latte to get a FREE SPOON of PUMPKIN SPICE”
December 21, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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@milesklee.bsky.social have they sent the Kansai okonomiyaki chips over there yet?
Two bags of Lays chips with labeling in Chinese (the supermarket is in Taiwan); one of them is 關西大阪燒 or “Kansai okonomiyaki” and the other one is 沖繩柑橘拉麵 or “Okinawa citrus ramen”
December 9, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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Forget century eggs and durian, the real adventurous palates in Asia are whoever’s eating the chicken drumsticks off the luwei tray at the 7-11
Some sad-looking chicken sitting on a warmer tray in a 7-Eleven along with several preparations of tofu, fishcake, and pig’s blood cake
December 4, 2024 at 8:37 AM