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them: you better not be a 1920s bellova gnome lamp when i get there
me:
1920s bellova gnome lamp. they are called this because they have a squat round base and a large pointy triangular shade so it looks like a gnome wearing a big hat. this one is covered in cute flowers and brightly colored triangles
October 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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LOVE IS STORED IN THE BONK
“Love is stored in the bonk” meme but instead of two cats smushing their heads together, it is cal raleigh and josh naylor of the seattle mariners
October 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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dani this thing lives in my house
September 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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media day is not what "mandatory reporters" means but dw brother i know a cry for help when i hear one
Screenshot from @AlexDaugherty1 on twitter: "Erik Haula tells us he was "very much a part of the process" in the trade to get him to Nashville. "it was my top choice."" below is a photo of Haula in yellow preds tshirt & cap at media availability speaking to the press.
September 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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ok but like. which professor. it doesn't take a genius to know midterms are ~400 days out & they got dinguses on faculties everywhere so i'm gonna need a name & some recent publications. y'all gotta stop thinking the name of the university alone is a sufficient indicator of how smart/right they are.
a screenshot of a tweet from @joromiahh that reads: "a professor at the university of oxford just predicted americans only have 400 days to save our democracy. anyway, cheers." below is a photo of a man in a tshirt and baseball cap with pursed lips raising a glass of red wine
September 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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side note, this first edition cover goes so hard. like i've seen some other more recent cover designs that are also bangers but a little commotion for the original dress!
first edition cover of IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE by Sinclair Lewis, which has the tagline "What will happen when America has a dictator?" and behind the title text is the fasces symbol, a bundle of rods with the protruding axe head, surrounded by laurels, that was the original icon of the fascisti
September 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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moomin the cat stares down into the camera with her pink nose and big eyes right up close to the camera
September 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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mmmm,,yep
screenshot of dorinda medley (black turtleneck, white blonde bob haircut) saying "i'll tell you how i'm doing. not well, bitch!"
September 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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creature!!!!!
moomin the cat lays on her back with her paws in the air and a very fluffy tum. you can’t see her face, just the bottom of her chin, because she is watching baseball upside down moomin the cat on her back with her paws in the air, but with wide angle camera lens so her paws look silly and her head looks tiny. she is approximately a mile long and she has dinosaur toes.
August 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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“guardians don’t play today, how is yash coping without her baseball”

me:
screenshot showing the song “drifter” by hippie sabotage on repeat - this is kyle manzardo’s walkup song and this is the thread my sanity is hanging by
August 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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she’s snuggling her blanket in a way that feels clearly reproachful of me, my restlessness, and my inability to provide quality lap for snoozing
moomin the white cat snuggling her white fluffy blanket while scowling at me closeup of moomin snuggling her white blanket with downcast eyes bc she is sooo pitiful with no lap to snooze on
August 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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what is @tonytula.com doing in my crossword
Aug 11 New Yorker crossword - 55 across is “author of Rejection (2024)” and the answer is my friend tony tulathimutte!
August 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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hey siri play bad day by daniel powter
July 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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my friend emma found the original and it is somehow weirder. drake stay away from julia armfield get a real job!!!!!
July 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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the spines on this are so badly photoshopped that i can't even focus long enough to make a joke about obama's book lists or drake being a literary it-girl poseur
July 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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@cora.bsky.social
screenshot from twitter: @CoraCHarrington posted "Living under a plutocratic gerontocracy is ass" on July 3 2025
July 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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"The expense, of course, was tremendous, but the splendid financial condition of the "M" (total resources: $11.98).."

"...a vent in the earth exuded a peculiar smokey gas. Mr O'Donnell vociferously demanded that the gas company of Delphi be summoned at once."

roger goofing off AGAIN
The Delphian Oracle Sings the Future: The compilers of the "M," in accordance with their avowed and unalterable purpose of making the 1930 "M" a literary monument and beacon to posterity, after a momentous executive session, decided that only the Oracle of Delphi should sing the prophecies of the Mechanic Arts Class of '30. The expense, of course, was tremendous, but the splendid financial condition of the "M" (total resources: $11.98) proved adequate, and as a result, an ocean liner was chartered, and a distinguished group of six was engaged to consult the renowned On the committee were Marvin Kreidberg, Dorothy Shave, DeEtte Handford, Roger O'Donnell, Cornelia Vandersluis, and Robert Atkinson, not one of whom needs any biographical sketch; their lives and deeds are known to all. The liner sailed from New York on the 3rd of March, 1930, and arrived in Delphi a number of weeks later. They found the oracle, a priestess of Apollo, engaged in a heated dispute concerning the relative advantages of long skirts as opposed to facial veils. The committee forthwith addressed the priestess, and exhorted her to begin singing the prophecies at once, pointing out that life was short and time was fleeting. The priestess at once repaired to the Temple of Apollo; the committee followed her, Miss Shave audibly voicing her opinion that the oracle, as a woman, wasn't much to look at, and as for her dress- The priestess, in the middle of Apollo's Temple, seated herself on a bowl placed on a tripod. Beneath the tripod a vent in the earth exuded a peculiar, smoky gas. Mr. O'Donnell vociferously demanded that the gas company of Delphi be summoned at once. The Oracle suddenly began raving, and thus were her prophecies (Translated into english):
June 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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high school astrology, 1930s remix ft. even more sonnets
i will try to repost with alt text! they are wildly over the character limit and the formatting goes way wonky but i will try. At the top, it says Character Readings Based on Physiognomy: All character sketches have been read from the profiles on preceding pages. In preparing these sketches, we have consulted the best authorities available on phrenology and physiognomy and we have attempted to make our readings entirely scientific." They are clearly being so silly but this is so many pages to commit to a bit
June 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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so not only did they do photos, they did drawings of their photos. okay. but then? they do PHRENOLOGICAL READINGS? of their drawings of their photos. they couldn't just do normal senior quotes, no, they had to do whatever this is
A page of thumbnail pencil sketches showing the silhouettes of each student. Two more pages of thumbnail pencil sketches showing the silhouettes of each student. Yet another two more (we are up to 5 total) pages of thumbnail pencil sketches showing the silhouettes of each student. Final page thumbnail pencil sketches showing the silhouettes of each student.
June 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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if you thought i was joking about the abundance of poetry i Was Not. look at mister poetic license over here with another sultry sonnet
To A Flapper's Eyebrow by Olaf Brandt (Poetic license No. B346-784 Minn.) Your eyebrow, dear one, I delight to watch when in math class you twitch it vexedly And flake off tiny pieces of burnt match While agile X pursued perplexedly. The two precise thin curves, so artful plucked Seem like twin arrows toward your ruby lips (Which once I might have tasted but you ducked) Directing notice - but whoa back! He slips, My pegasus when I relax the rein, And from your eyebrows let him turn aside. Let that bright lipstick - by it's hue you'd fain Have it a stop sign - check his headlong stride. About your eyebrows now; let's put it thus; —S'no use! My muse is in a hopeless fuss.
June 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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this is the lovebird roger (aka Hrothgar O'Shaughnessy, oookay roger), who was clearly obsessed with his lil girlfriend
Scrawled below his picture, Roger has written "To my pal De Ette, who could ask for more, De Ette, oh, She's my honey child" and to the left of that he's written some song lyrics. Underneath his nickname, he's written "I wish I were a blond athlete". He looks plain and serious but was clearly a goofball
June 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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jeannette babe are you good
Moods, by Jeannette Micko '30 Lash me! Whip me! Sting me with thy strength Oh wind and rain while rushing on thy way, When my sad soul relief seeks for a length From petty details life exacts by day, Harrassing [sic] thoughts and strange disturbing dreams, When in thy roaring midst, earth fades away And you and I are left alone it seems To my soul courage creeps - a shining ray. Sometimes in need of gentler things am I, Then deep into the misty gray I creep- To feel my face uplifted to the sky, Soft wind and soothing rain against my cheek, You are my friends; my heart with rapture sings For the deep joy thy understanding brings. Jeannette Micko aka Mike, looks normal and pleasant with a slight smile and a waved blonde bob
June 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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look at this diva
Priscilla Moore aka "Cela" has a dramatic side profile photo instead of a normal portrait, and her hair is in dramatic waves. She rly was doing the most
June 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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this yearbook is fun bc the guy she was dating signed her yearbook a zillion times and wrote little poems about her. (this whole school appears to have been churning out poems at a shocking rate. mechanical arts indeed)
R. O'D has written a poem called Why? and it goes "There we sat. She and I, Gosh, but why?" and then next to it, he has handwritten: There we sat, De Ette [this is her full name but the yearbook says her nickname was Dee] and I, just she and I alone — Oboy oboy oboy and **I** knew why!" signed again R o'D
June 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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back on my old yearbook bullshit with my friend murl honk
from a 1930 St Paul Mechanical Arts High yearbook - Myrl Hoenck "Myrl came from Fargo High in North Dakota. Myrl spends most of her summer swimming"
June 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM