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Ben
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Sacramento, CA via TX and NC. UAW 4811. No one gets there alone.
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this is the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me @whatatimepod.bsky.social
email from What a Time To Be Alive Patreon: SURPRISE Hellraiser Movie Commentary!
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Trump's talking about his own death like Clyde Bruckman in that scene where the network wouldn't let the X-Files writers use the word "maggots" www.youtube.com/watch?v=975z...
"I'm not concerned with where I am or how I got there. I'm at peace and it's then that I realize I'm dead. My body begins to turn a greenish-white with spots of purple. Next, the insects arrive. The inevitable follows, putridity and liquescence. Before I know it, I'm nothing but bones."
October 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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@damonagnos.bsky.social really need you to see one of the greatest caption errors ever in this Dancing Queen timeout segment during the Spurs preseason game
photo of a TV--a blurry picture of a young girl with pom poms in the crowd of a basketball game. the caption reads "the time of your life. Divac girl, watch...", a transcription error of the lyrics of ABBA's "Dancing Queen"
October 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Watching the WNBA Finals
A California license plate that reads HOOPS. From Society (1989).
October 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Tis the season.
LP jacket of Roky Erickson and the Aliens - The Evil One. It depicts a black and white photo of a door with a spooky shadow arm reaching for the doorknob.
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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gobsmacked by the idea that Operation Paperclip was enabled by a guy finding a list titled HERE ARE ALL THE BEST NAZI SCIENTISTS in a toilet
screenshot from Brian Crim's book Our Germans. "...Council. During his assignment fulfilling Hitler’s June 1942 decree requiring “leading men of science” to work on military projects, Osenberg compiled a list of approximately fifteen thousand names. 106 In March 1945, a Polish lab technician discovered portions of the list in an unflushed toilet, from which it promptly found its way to the Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS) organized by British and American (Anglo-American for short) intelligence services. Osenberg voluntarily surrendered the complete list along with summaries of the scientists’ expertise and a trove of documents, such as research contracts and the status of “special weapons” like the V-2. 107 US Army major Robert Staver relied on the Osenberg file to create the military’s black list of targets used to direct Project Paperclip recruiting efforts for the next decade. The Osenberg list led Allied forces to von Braun’s..."
September 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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wanted to make sure you saw the news about Cuban and Nico's new Zep tribute act
Headline cropped from RealGM: Mark Cuban Reveals Communication Breakdown with Nico Harrison
August 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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I'm in Wisconsin
can of New Glarus Spotted Cow Beer--can art depicts a cow jumping over an outline of the state of Wisconsin against a yellow/orange background
August 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Homer Simpson slouched on the sofa next to Marge, who is seated upright with Maggie on her lap. He's saying "cris-atunity!" to a standing Lisa.
August 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Those horses are praying to Mecca
The back of a red van. The doors of the van say "Budweiser clydesdales," with Budweiser in the company's trademark script logo.
July 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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thank you for reminding me of one of the all-time tweets
Tweet from May 21, 2014 by user @hamsandcastle. The Spurs coyote mascot (with his trademark veiny green eyes) is operating a giant double-barreled t-shirt cannon. Both barrels are emitting clouds from having just fired. There's a man in a black baseball cap crouching right behind the coyote. @hamsandcastle has captioned the image "War. War Never Changes."
July 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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read it a couple years ago so I was fuzzy on the primary details, helpful refresher from wikipedia
wikipedia screenshot: lthough winning the Democratic primary was normally considered tantamount to election in heavily Democratic Chicago, after his primary victory Washington found that his Republican opponent, former state legislator Bernard Epton (earlier considered a nominal stand-in), was supported by many high-ranking Democrats and their ward organizations, including the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, Alderman Edward Vrdolyak.
June 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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It's more than six words, but "Willie Cauley-Stein jersey-wearing Kings bear in the window of a downtown Sacramento pawn shop" could give Hemingway's sad story a run for its money. (sorry about the reflection, it was noon when I got off the bus coming back from the airport.)
A teddy bear in a purple Kings jersey that says SAC with the number 00 (which Willie Cauley-Stein wore for the team from '15-'19). It's still in the box, and the picture is a close up of it sitting in a pawn shop display window.
June 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Incredible things are happening in Oak Park, Sacramento.
Sheet of paper with "YOU TOOK MY LEAF BLOWER. I WILL FIND YOU" printed on it and taped to a roadside light pole. Trees and city street in the background.
June 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Prog is a state of mind
Jerry Lee Lewis record at the front of a record bin with a divider marked "Krautrock/Prog"
June 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Pulling for the Pacers because I think they have the better chance to take down the Thunder, but in case this is the last game of the Knicks' season, I choose to honor their great season with "confused AAVE Fox Mulder."
Tall, brown-haired white man (David Duchovny as Fox Mulder) in a sweaty, sleeveless gray New York Knicks T-shirt faces the camera. A red-headed woman in a black jacket (Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully) has her back to the camera. They're in a gym with a basketball backboard in the background. The caption is of Mulder saying "Hey, homegirl. Word Up." Same characters as in the previous image, this time closer together. Caption shows Mulder saying, "No, I'm ready to J-O-B, just not on some jagoff shoeshine tip."
June 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Fox Mulder (David Duchovny, brown haired man in suit and tie, standing) and Clyde Bruckman (Peter Boyle, bald man in rumpled shirt, seated)
May 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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perhaps the most important NBA photoshop
one very large man (Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets) posting up another very large man (Rudy Gobert of the Minnesota Timberwolves), leaning his elbow into the second man's chest as the courtside crowd watches. the two men are in their NBA jerseys but have been photoshopped to be wearing jeans instead of basketball shorts.
May 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Feeling anxious? Lonely? Despairing at the state of the world? Consider Assembling a Microscope. You will surely not regret Assembling a Microscope.
A bunch of cardboard boxes in the corner of a room, both on the floor and stacked atop a desk. A couple boxes are open. The contents of the boxes in the previous picture, assembled: a large, mostly beige stereomicroscope (Zeiss AxioZoom V16) with multiple cameras attached, sitting atop a desk. There's a computer monitor and keyboard next to them, and various electronic equipment for running the microscope behind it.
May 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Reading a paper in which the protein Laminin is depicted as looking almost exactly like the Blue Öyster Cult logo
Blue Öyster Cult hook and cross logo: what looks like an upside down question mark with three straight lines emerging from the dot of the question mark at 0 (upright), 90 (right), and 270 (left) degree angles Crop of part of figure 1 in Fidler et al. 2017, "Collagen IV and basement membrane at the evolutionary dawn of metazoan tissues." The protein laminin is depicted in many colors but generally in the same shape described in the previous image.
May 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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a million movies on the to-watch list but i'm going to the little art theater to watch suspiria again
Bugs Bunny w/ old timey gun "Lord Forgive Me But It's Time to Go Back to Tha Old Me" meme
May 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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science job prospects shrinking by the day...really hope I can find a job in the only other field I am qualified for, "guy who suggests obscure psychedelic rock needle drops for TV" (see below)
Screenshot from Yellowjackets, young Shauna (Sophie Nelisse) is in bed next a fire. Caption indicates "Dear One" by Pisces is playing as non-diegetic music.
May 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Meme showing a rear view of a man in all black scratching his head. The man is labeled "aging punks." In front of him are two escalators, one going downward to a pit of fire with the label "rockabilly" the other going upward toward a heavenly light with the label "developing an interest in jazz." A traffic sign reading "It's your choice" stands between the escalators.
May 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Thinking about when Pop took time out of a Finals film session to recognize Eddie Mabo Day. www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
From a 2017 Kevin Arnovitz ESPN piece: "But rather than dive into the session with a strategic imperative, or even a parable on the virtues of resiliency, Popovich began by posing a question to the room. "He asks, 'Does anyone know what today is?'" says Mills, an Australian of Aborigine and Torres Strait Island descent. "There are a lot of different backgrounds in the room, but for me, obviously, I knew what day it was, but I didn't say anything. I just wanted to see where he was going with this." In Australia, June 3 is Mabo Day, a commemoration of the nation's most notable activist for indigenous rights. Mills was floored as Popovich proceeded to introduce Eddie Koiki Mabo's story to the team. A few minutes into the seminar, a picture of Mabo appeared on the video screen."
May 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I know I'll never be a father to modern embryology but hopefully I can be one of its uncles.
Picture of text from Lewis Wolpert's "The Triumph of the Embryo" centered on the phrase "one of the uncles of modern embryology," written in reference to August Weismann.
April 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM