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Jaded Cynic
@jadedcynic.bsky.social
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Walking paradox:
Would-be writer but chronic procrastinator,
Pet lover with a dander allergy,
Admirer of old things from 'new media'.
Newfie; ask me how!
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Being west of you by a bunch of time zones, I only discovered this after the other party had deleted their post, and thus I 'missed out' on the relevance...

...but nonetheless, I did derive a fair bit of amusement from what I saw:
A post that quotes another, saying "Heh, great minds think alike"... ...but the source post has since been deleted, implying what? This replier thinks THEY should delete their post too? Should we all just remove our posts? Or are they agreeing that the source poster should have deleted their post? Or.... *ad infinitum*
December 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Top Caption: "There is no way that you can summarise a 2,500-year-old philosophy like Daoism in nine words." Me: (Image of Krillan from Dragonball Z, with this mouth open as speaking and a relaxed, chill expression: "Thinking gives me stress, so I stopped doing that.")
December 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Scene from "The Road to El Dorado" with Tulio and Miguel holding large stones with angry, fierce expressions, ready to throw them at people. Caption reads "When you spot someone being ableist but you are a cainist"
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Gee, looks like the corporations that study and deal in the "And Find Out" bit don't want anything to do with this...
FT article header: "Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts" (AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots)
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Look, I'm not sayin'....I'm just sayin'.
A screen capture of a completely coincidental situation of adjacent posts in a blue-sky feed.
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Pic of person holding a box full of spruce tree needles. Caption reads: "IKEA is now selling Christmas trees. It's gonna be a long night."
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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first panel: Gandalf in the Mines of Moria looking left, toward caption "Monitor 1" second panel: Gandalf looking right, toward caption "Monitor 2" third panel: Gandalf looking confused "Where is the cursor?" fourth panel: Jurassic Park with protags sitting in the tour vehicle, confronted by the loose T.Rex: "Stay absolutely still. His vision is based on movement."
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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A black cat in a doorway, with a thick yarn wrapper stuck over its neck like a cervical collar. Caption: "Someone came out of the yarn room"
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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The exec who ran that 'project' likely got given this as a 'parting gift' instead of a watch...
a 'motivational poster' parody - a picture of a sinking ship, with the caption of: "MISTAKES It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
A table of verb tenses: Columns are "Past Tense" and "Past Participle" with two rows - one for the verb "to grow", and the other with the verb "to fly" Under Past Tense, there is "Grew" and "Flew", but under Past Participle, there's "Grown" and then "?" - we have an unknown that we need to figure out the past participle tense for 'fly'. What follows is a series of equations: 'grew' is over 'grown', which equals 'flew' over the unknown or 'x' Next we solve for x, or 'flew' * 'grown' over 'grew' and then is simplified: the 'gr' on both sides is cancelled out with a green line, and then the 'ew' on both sides is cancelled out with a red line, which then equals the remaining letters: 'fl' and 'own'....which equals the actual Past Participle tense of 'fly', "flown" Cut to an animated movie scene with two characters: one is freaking out with the caption "English teacher" and the other serene (and a little smug) with the caption "Math teacher"
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Picture of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman in front of the United States of America flag during the American Civil War. Sherman is in period uniform, but is wearing mirrored Ray-Ban sunglasses with a reflection of a bonfire on them. Caption: "Remember, remember the Tenth of November and Sherman's March to the Sea. I can think of no reason the banner of treason should fly in the land of the free"
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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A series of social media posts: first with the picture of a 'housewares tchotchke' - a wood plank sing with the word PARIS painted on it with the letters made up of streetnames and sites and streets from that city, but the 'I' is represented by the Eiffel Tower, making the word look more like "PARAS" and the caption: "If only there was a letter in PARIS that resembles the Eiffel Tower" then a reply to this post of "Paras is lovely this time of year" and finally another reply with the picture of a Pokemon - presumably named Paras - saying 'bonjour'
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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repost with an iconic fictional band
Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi & Adam Sandler as the titular band in the film "Airheads"
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Indeed is eating your lunch! Get in the GAME, LinkedIn!
job posting on Indeed: Looking For Crew Of 30-50 Good Men $$$ 60,000 - 100,000 a year (if we find treasure) Full job requirements: ~Sail around the world looking for treasure ~Get drunk on beer and rum ~Sing sea shanties Pictured, a smallish three-masted, square-rigged ship with sails furled, perhaps a brigantine. Appears to have ports for eight guns on the broadside.
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Shot of Obi-Wan Kennobi from "A New Hope" after feeling the destruction of Aldreaan through the Force. Caption reads: I felt a great disturbance in the Force As if a million bisexuals gasped all at once
November 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Photo of a fire department with a sign in front: BENSON FIRE DEPARTMENT Satisfaction guaranteed or your fire back 313 S Elm Street
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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A Venn Diagram with one circle containing "Trust, Partnership, Innovation, Performance" and a second circle with "OUR VALUES" that only barely touches the first...
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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A tomato on the vine, that has lobes growing off of it, making it look roughly like a rabbit. CAPTION: "i am a normal tomato; i can be trusted around lettuce"
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers".
Two 'spider robots' from the 1984 film "Runaway" (with Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons)
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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(tumblr post) ISSUE: the kittens are still trying to learn words. 'gus' knows his name and 'daisy' knows hers, but they don't seem to quite grasp that when I say "babies!" im referring to both of them. HYPOTHESIS: "babies" is too similar to "daisy" and they're getting confused TEST: start saying "gamers" instead OUTCOME: they're understanding it and it's hysterically funny (follow post by OP) me, calling down the mail from stirring a can of cat food: LET'S GO, GAMERS the kittens: (Picture of a sleek cat in full gallop going really fast, it's ears flattened by the wind resistance)
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Wrong answers only.
Picture of actor Omar Sy, playing Assane Diop, in the Netflix series "LUPIN". He is pictured walking casually...across the water feature outside the famous skylight of the Louvre museum.
October 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Tumblr post showing a blurb for a romance novel: "THE VILLAGE Nestled in the fog-shrouded mountains of northern Saskatchewan, the village of Kroder's Pass evokes an aura of mystery and intrigue to all outsiders who enter. Although a mere 150 miles away from the metropolis of Toronto, the village seems to be a world of its own, alien yet somehow familiar with its rustic, simple charm." text post concludes: "trying to imagine a map of canada where this could be possible" Reply Tumblr post: A map of Canada, with the prairie province of Saskatchewan suddenly having a 50 mile-wide corridor that extends from the northeastern corner, crosses the border between Manitoba and Nunavut, follows the coast of Hudson bay down what used to be Mantoba's cost, continues to steal the coast from Ontario, rides down its eastern border with Quebec to plunge into the Golden Triangle to stop 150 miles from Toronto, sitting on the shores of Lake Ontario, last of the Great Lakes before the St. Lawrence Seaway reaches for the Atlantic Ocean. This 'North Saskatchewan Corridor' is over two thousand miles long before it terminates in 'sexy werewolf village'. text post concludes: "it's the best I can do boss"
October 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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An online marketplace listing of a "Engine hoist for sale" - for lifting an automobile engine out of the car. Picture shows the hoist lifting a bull terrier in a harness. 'Description' field is "Dog not included"
October 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM