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A scene from the musical Little Shop of Horrors in which the giant green, carnivorous plant, Audrey II, is sweeping up Seymour (Rick Moranis) into it's arms... er, vines.

November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Amen

October 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM

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This shit is going mainstream

a screenshot of a podcast put out by Vox Media. The podacst is called "Today Explained," and the episode title is "Is Empathy Toxic?"

October 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM

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"To real divide in America today is not between left and right, but between the Liams, the Olivers and the Noahs..." @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

a map of the most popular boy names by state in 2024. The map is dominated by "Liam" in yellow and "Oliver" in purple, with a few green "Noah" states. And some weird outliers, like both Alabama and Mississippi are light green "William" states, and New Hampshire is a lone island of pink "Theodore".

October 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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The feathers do make a dope state seal, tho

September 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM

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a meme of increasingly large dominoes about to be pushed over. The first domino is labeled "Battle of Milvian Bridge" which is the 4th c. battle in which Constantine supposedly had a vision to paint a Christian symbol of all of the his army's shields. The last domino says, "Fall of American Democracy." It reflects how Christianity, at least some strains, has been tied to power, empire and values antithetical to the teachings of Christ for a very long time.

August 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM

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a tweet from Omar El Akkad from Oct 25, 2023. It reads, "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

July 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM

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What's fun about @theatlantic.com is that it is impossible to tell whether this is a good faith article about the right's attacks on academia, or yet another "colleges are to woke" piece.

I'm not gonna subscribe to find out.

A screen shot of an Atlantic article titled "The Dark Ages Are Back: Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great. By Alan Lightman" There is a drawing of a classic pencil on a green background, surrounded and being choked by green vines. Do you get the heavy-handed metaphor??

July 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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A still from the cartoon Peanuts in which Lucy is offering the football to Charlie Brown, even though she is obviously going to pull it away again when he tries to kick it.

June 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM

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Hey @nytimes.com what is this? This is your A1, above the fold, color photo story???
Anything else happening right now that maybe your readers would’ve like to see there??

A picture of the front page of the New York Times. The lead story on the front page with a big photo is a travel story about going on a train through South Africa

March 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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The same picture

An add for Gavin Newsom’s podcast, ‘This is Gavin Newsom’ with a picture of Newsom with slicked back hair and a perfect toothy smile that doesn’t quite reach his eyes. His guest is Steve Bannon, who is pictured with similarly slicked back hair, and a face that looks like it has been shaped by constant frowns.

A screenshot from the Simpsons of news anchor Kent Brockman, who has decided to welcome invading space ants as new overlords of humanity. He has a toothy smile that doesn’t quite reach his eyes.

March 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM

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To wit:

A screenshot of an article from WBUR. The headline reads: “Healey taps former Boston police commissioner to advise on shelter security.” That’s migrant shelters, to be clear

January 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM

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@daryllmarie.bsky.social any idea who this itty bitty lsnake is? Looks like he got run over 😢🐍

Beautiful tho, and idk what spp.

A small brown snake on a sidewalk. Its head has been crushed or run over.

A small, dead snake on its back, showing its white belly.

A closer look at the pattern on the back of a small, brown, dead snake on the sidewalk.

November 18, 2024 at 2:25 PM

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Who among us can say who Captain America would vote for? Just a toss up I guess.

The cover of a Captain America comic from March 1, 1941. The Captain, decked out in red white and blue, is punching Hitler in the fucking face. Hard.

Like, Mike-Tyson-ending-the-match Hard. You’ll-forget-your-mother’s-name Hard. He’s treating Hitler like all Nazi’s should be treated.

Hitler is taking the punch like a little bitch.

November 5, 2024 at 11:28 AM

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MOR

August 22, 2024 at 10:15 PM

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coming back for one reason and one reason only: to share these neat mushrooms. Look!!!
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August 22, 2024 at 10:11 PM

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Hey #BTS #Army, who’s my neighbor!? Come by and say hi 👋🏻

A silver Ford Fusion with white BTS Army stickers on the back window

July 11, 2024 at 9:21 PM

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July 10, 2024 at 3:12 PM

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@lukelukeluke.bsky.social I saw a good mushroom

July 8, 2024 at 1:04 PM

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I've spent YEARS searching for an obscure 90's fps that I played as a kid, & at last I've found it!!

Does anyone else remember Pathways Into Darkness?