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sperate miseri, cavete faelices (they/them) — now in my crone-in-the-woods era — tonstant weader
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it’s meg ryan as sally albright in 1989’s when harry met sally. she’s a blonde white woman wearing a red aran sweater
December 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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also, ron headrest, the electronic spirit of ronald reagan ran for the republican nomination in 1988 (& probably took over the world)
a panel from doonesbury ca 1986 with the character ron headrest, a ronald reagan version of max headroom. the picture depicts a figure that looks like reagan in a kind of black and white raster version of himself saying “gre-gre-gre-greetings! ron headrest here!”
December 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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new york times headline: DealBook Summit: Gavin Newsom Implores Democrats to Be 'More Culturally Normal’ in the accompanying picture newsom is pontificating from a chair on a stage dressed in dark blue pants, a dark blue blazer, and white shirt with no tie, unbuttoned at the neck a split image of the scene in 2014’s the babadook where the mother turns to her son in her car and cries "why can't you just be normal?" the child responds by shrieking. in this picture the mother is labeled “gavin newsom” and the child is labeled “me”
December 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"Tonight on Sick, Sad World; prime-time special, with people just like you, only more pathetic."
the headline to a new york times story titled “Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?”
December 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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thomas harriot introducing potatoes to england
it’s sean astin as sam gamgee in the lord of the rings. in six frames he’s explaining what a potato is to gollum: “po — ta — toes — boil ‘em — mash ‘em — stick ‘em in a stew”
December 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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this just in: bruno airmont, the al capone of cheese in exile is the new abe froman, sausage king of chicago
an early paragraph from thomas pynchon’s shadow ticket "What's this, ol' Bruno back in the picture once more?" referring to local multimillionaire Bruno Airmont, known throughout the dairy industry as the Al Capone of Cheese in Exile since one middle of the night not that many years ago having packed a trunk full of banknotes and skipped, “Supposed to be taking it easy in a hammock, Hicks pretends to recall, "some remote tropical island nobody's sure which, drinkin Singapore Slings out of a fire hose. What's up, retirement's making him a lil restless?"
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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google out there trying to get me to use something called “nano banana”
it’s 1970s icon charles nelson reilly dressed as a bright yellow banana waving and yelling about bic banana ball point pens in an elementary school classroom
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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no puppet no puppet
a picture of a hand inside a felt thanksgiving hand-puppet with big eyes. it's cute
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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perky pat ass fantasies
the scene from david cronenberg's 1999 movie eXistenZ where jude law and jennifer jason lee eat fast food from a bag labeled perky pat's, itself a reference to philip dick's short story the days of perky pat where the survivors of a nuclear war retreat into escapist fantasies by playing with a doll named perky pat
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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on the other side of the stargate
the cover of julian may's sci fi novel magnificat. the cover depicts some kind of futuristic starbase against a range of high mountains with a ghostly white-eyed star child rising above them
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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it's betty rubble making the sign of the square
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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a two panel comic featuring walter white and jesse pinkman from the tv show breaking bad. both in desert, in the first panel walter says “jesse, why are you wearing two hoodies?” in the second panel jesse replies “it’s called gender dysphoria, bitch!” 2cultofthechillpill is written on the edge of the second panel
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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these are the four types of guys online. no exceptions
a painting by pieter van der plas the elder titled portrait of four kneeling men. it depicts four kneeling men in the black clothes and white collars of the 17th century dutch bourgeoisie
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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“welcome to the desert of the real”
it’s leo dicaprio pointing with a beer and a cigarette in his hand
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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"No hay historia muda. Por mucho que la quemen. por mucho que la rompan, por mucho que la mientan, la historia humana se niega a callarse la boca" (no history is mute. no matter how much they burn it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth) (Eduardo Galeano) the closing epigraph from pedro almodóvar’s 2021 movie *madres paralelas*
November 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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i remember just … meditating on this book when i was a kid — the picture that fascinated & terrified me the most was “m”
from space alphabet (1964). a blue and green moon with black craters floats against a green background. the caption says “m is for the moon, a dead, dead world.” the illustration is by peter plasencia; the text by irene zacks
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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the red and black cover of omar el akkad’s book one day, everyone will have always been against this
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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stuart jeffries writes: “one more mystery surrounding walter benjamin’s death remains. what was in the black attaché case [that benjamin was carrying when he died] and what happened to it?”
it’s samuel l jackson as jules winnfield in quentin tarentino’s 1994 movie pulp fiction. jules is at the diner opening the briefcase to show pumpkin what’s inside while pumpkin points a gun at jules. we just see the inside of the briefcase glowing
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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it’s “bread and jam for frances” in the zohran for new york font, orange letters against a deep blue background
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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a world-historical DOH

(stuart jeffries on benjamin’s the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction)
Where Huxley, in words that Benjamin quoted in a footnote, had taken this change as facilitating vulgarity and the output of trash, Benjamin imagined its liberating potential. Not that he was naive enough to argue that the output of trash had not also increased thanks to technological change. For him, the new standard of technical reproduction was what alcohol was for fellow dialectician Homer Simpson - the cause of, and remedy for, the impoverishment of human experience. Its easy to imagine what this impoverishment looks like: D. H. Lawrence imagined it when he wrote about humans “sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces”
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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the cake was the best bit of this whole debacle
Cake Delivered to Iranians Was Strictly Kosher By BOB DROGIN Feb. 27. 1987 12 AM PT TIMES STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON - If historians decide that the Iranian arms operation wasn't kosher, at least the chocolate cake delivered to the fiercelv anti-Israel leaders of Iran was. A delegation led by former National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane carried a chocolate cake "from a kosher bakery in Tel Aviv" when they flew to Tehran to meet the strict Islamic leaders in secret last May, according to the report of the presidential commission that investigated the Iran- contras scandal. The cake, a participant told the commission, was offered as a token of good will, but was "more of a joke than anything else" between former NSC staff member Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North and Iranian middleman Manucher Ghorbanifar, who had arranged the visit. The cake and several other items given to the Iranians during the arms sale negotiations have been the subject of confused and conflicting reports since the operation's disclosure last fall.
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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a portal to the march 2 1961 alien first contact!
it’s a picture from the mayor-elect’s website. mamdani and several other people are standing beneath the 1964’s world’s fair unisphere in queens. above the picture, the caption says “the mayor-elect has opened a portal”
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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it’s pat benatar and friends taking on a pimp in 1983’s video for love is a battlefield
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM