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J. Chris Mueller
@jchrismueller.bsky.social
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News editor, TTRPG enthusiast, comedy fan.
Madison, Wis.
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Me listening to the beginning of today's @ridiculouscrime.bsky.social episode
a football player for the patriots is talking to a reporter
ALT: a football player for the patriots is talking to a reporter
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January 16, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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This guy gets it
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen makes a stink face at the Capitol in Washington.
January 15, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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"Opening a new tab and forgetting why" is my new "walking into a room and forgetting why"
December 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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@ridiculouscrime.bsky.social - You know what's ridiculous?

apnews.com/article/rent... 
Employee accused of stealing 47 vehicles from Avis Budget car rental site at New York airport
Employee accused of stealing 47 vehicles from Avis Budget car rental site at New York airport
Police in upstate New York say a car rental employee at the Syracuse airport stole 47 vehicles from the business and rented them out at other locations around the region.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Quick question: Did anyone listen to the lyrics of either of these songs?
ROME (AP) — Speakers blasted songs including “Born in the U.S.A.” and “American Pie” as six cardinal electors from the United States gathered in Rome on Friday to share their thoughts on the election of the first U.S.-born pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost.
May 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I hope it's him
May 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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@ridiculouscrime.bsky.social

You know what's ridiculous?
apnews.com/article/gard...
Ant smugglers arrested in Kenya as government warns of changing trafficking trends
Two Belgian teenagers have been charged in Kenya with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficki...
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April 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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🤔
AP news story: “It seems like we’ve decided to begin a trade war on all fronts,″ said Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina. He said he wanted to know who in the Trump administration he should hold responsible — and “choke″ — if the tariffs fail and Americans suffer from higher prices and slower economic growth. "We're all trying to find the guy who did this" meme
April 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Famously Real Person Uncle Sam
March 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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A company town you say? Seems like a cool and unprecedented idea that has no unfortunate history
Headline: ‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’ Subhead: The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.
March 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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'Puppy Mountain' photo draws onlookers to a Chinese riverside
A vacation photo posted online by Shanghai-based designer Guo Qingshan and captioned “Puppy Mountain” has become a sensation in China.
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February 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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This is certainly one of the ideas of 2025
Progresso soup-flavored hard candy
January 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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This is how the Bible got started
Caption to a photo: A controlled fire whirl burns during a test in the department of Fire Protection Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, speaks to a reporter, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Worcester, Mass.
January 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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This headline is pretty metal

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Lasers help archaeologists study ancient tattoos on Peruvian mummies
Researchers have used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru.
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January 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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My friend is in LA so she explained the fires to me in Midwest terms
January 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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This State Journal photo from Jimmy Carter's 1976 campaign visit to Madison shows a little of the city's (missing) irreverent side:
December 30, 2024 at 2:54 AM
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Orang cat with a surly expression
December 26, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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the one and only www.youtube.com/watch?v=EznG...
Tom Waits - Silent Night & Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
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December 24, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:
December 24, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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TIL this is a Real Guy
December 24, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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as someone who works at News I agree
December 19, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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The gender pay gap strikes again
9 Ladies Dancing, $8,557.37; 10 Lords a Leaping, $15,579.65
December 17, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
July 6, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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WaPo: Good morning! Time for existential dread!
November 23, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Become ungovernable
Headline: Rats are high on marijuana evidence at an infested police building, New Orleans chief says
March 13, 2024 at 5:29 PM