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DataShade
@datashade.bsky.social
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I am not Bob the Angry Flower. I am not a content creator. I am a normie-adjacent weirdo with a lifelong lucky streak of falling into the social orbit of talented and amazing people.

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Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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war broke
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Huh, that's weird! It says "26" for replies, but there's only one comment!

Hey, what's that mean
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Weird how there's only one comment! Wait, what's that?
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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a copy of the webcomic, Bob the Angry Flower, The Inner Light (https://angryflower.com/innerl.gif). A monk sitting in lotus position says to the titular anthropomorphic flower, "Now remember, Bob, the purpose of meditation is to EMPTY your mind, to free yourself from DISTRACTION." Bob, saluting, says, "Got it!" The next few panels show Bob, eyes closed, with a thought-bubble full of the word "ROBOTS" overlapping into illegibility, slowly dropping away until the thought bubble is empty. Bob's face relaxes as the words disappear. After his thoughts are empty, Bob is depicted smiling cheerfully, and his mental bubble depicts a robotic figure who tells him, "Hello, Bob. I'm unit X-5. I'll be your robot guide for the next phase of this meditation. Success at this stage is measured in terms of the SHEER NUMBER of robots you can conjure up in your mind!!" Row upon row of cuboid robots are depicted in the background as X-5 shouts "YES! EXCELLENT MEDITATING! NOW TRY TO MAKE THEM FIGHT!!" In the final panel, the thought bubble is filled with explosions and flames and burning robot parts as X-5 cries "YES! GLORIOUS DESTRUCTION!!!" Bob, still smiling, says, "I am SO GOOD at this!!!" The monk, looking extremely dour, says "No."
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I'm still getting a spellcheck? I'd say it could be my browser but I turn off the AI in FIrefox
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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The comic, "Gifted," from oglaf.com (www.oglaf.com/gifted/) In 11 panels, the comic depicts an adverturing being stricken with a curse by a vengeful wraith. The curse is "the best in the world at blowjobs," which prompts the adventurer to respond "I've never sucked cock before. As long as I don't start, it never becomes a problem." The wraith cries out "Squander your talent? Unthinkable! You are the best! The very very beeesssstttt..." as it fades away. Late the adventurer interrupts himself telling the story of what happened. "Apparently I'm now a world champion!" "Yeah? At what?" "..." "Nothing"
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Frozen Peppermint
Hot Chocolate

Best of both worlds!
an image from Rookie of the Year depicting Daniel Stern as Phil Brickman as he delivers the line "I discovered the secret. Hot ice!"
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Oh, PBS had the scoop? I guess if come for the Count you best not miss
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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I got my 2026 platform ready
An image in the style of the Zohran Mamdani campaign posters, made from https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html , reading "CONSEQUENCES for Elected Representatives"
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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What the fuck is "fiercely accountable"
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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2025: the Year of the Hater
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Who's the tough guy now, Andrew? You gonna let Dick Cheney one-up you?
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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"I don't think there's anything that's going to get me into heaven"
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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1,000,001.
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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The Verge, by Lightfarm Studios
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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A still from The Untouchables, specifically the scene where Jim Malone lectures Eliot Ness on how he must escalate in response to threats or his foes won't take him seriously because "that's the Chicago way"
November 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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lifted from Tumblr
a version of the Kombucha meme with the top line depicting the woman grimacing at the taste, followed by the text "weird ai music"; the second line depicts the woman, now with tightly curled hair, a Hawaiian shirt, an accordion, glasses, and a thin mustache, followed by the text "Weird Al music." The letters a and i are capitalized in the top row to make them appear visually indistinct from the "Al" in Weird Al Yankovic.
October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Conflict of interest statements need to be up front at the top of articles like this.
A screenshot from https://people.com/human-interest/sexual-harassment-claims-suspended-yale-law-professor-jed-rubenfeld/ "Former students of disgraced Yale Law professor Jed Rubenfeld are recounting alleged sexual harassment they faced before he was suspended from the school. Last fall, 62-year-old Rubenfeld was issued a two-year suspension from the Yale faculty with restrictions put in place when he returns on how he'll be allowed to interact with students. Rubenfeld has been a well-known leading professor at Yale, and along with his wife Amy Chua, author of the controversial 2011 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother." A screenshot from https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/jd-and-usha-vance-amy-chua-yale-law-school "What JD and Usha Vance Learned From Their “Tiger Mom” at Yale Law School Amy Chua, the professor whose 2011 parenting memoir made her a household name, looms large in the legal and political trajectories of numerous figures who have matriculated from the powerful Ivy League law school, including the Vances."
October 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM