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Charles Shopsin
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Social media cicada, I post for a while, then disappear for years at a time. This place seems nice, maybe I’ll stick around this time. 🤞
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Virtually everything Carlin said is timeless. This one really got me given the current choice of headgear worn by the fascists in charge of our country. youtube.com/shorts/Chu9-...
Carlin Said It Best
YouTube video by Austerity Studios
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June 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Sometimes the product images on AliExpress are unintentionally great.
May 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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And we’re back. Apparently the fire was in the water next door.
#phillymakerfaire
April 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Philly Maker Faire was just evacuated because the building next door is on fire.
April 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
shopsinc.bsky.social
In the latest episode of Tigg Talk, he decides to put tarrifs on all his friends and it's rather topical, accurate and hilarious.
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Tigg Talk - Ep. 485: Pog Corto
YouTube video by Neural Viz
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March 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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IMHO the best thing on YT/TT/etc is the Monoverse by @neuralviz. This is a collection of "alien" tv programs all set in the same universe. All of the videos are made by one, incredibly talented and funny, guy who uses AI tools to make the videos. (Not to write them).

www.youtube.com/@NeuralViz
Neural Viz
Exploring The Monoverse through past, present, and future broadcasts of multimedia— which includes the poorly-reviewed show “Unanswered Oddities” and the critically slammed series “The Cop Files.” Ho...
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March 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Reposted by Charles Shopsin
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Goodnight friends.
February 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Reposted by Charles Shopsin
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More true every day
Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
February 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre
February 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again
February 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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What will it take for SpaceX employees to either quit or start sabotaging things? He just blackmailed Ukraine with the lives of their citizens.
Does he need to rename the Starship Factory to Peenemünde? Or is it when when he starts using slave labor?
#spacex #nazi
February 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I feel like there are an increasing number of “it’ll get much worse before it gets better” timelines where trump dies of old age and Elon Musk ends up on trial in The Hague. That might just be idiotic optimism on my part though.
February 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I have watched this video at least 50 times over the last 15 years and it’s still just as amazing the first time.
Do yourself a favor and watch Hurra Torpedo play the best ever rendition of Total Eclipse of he Heart on a single guitar and a pole of kitchen appliances.

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Hurra Torpedo - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (live)
YouTube video by frozentoast
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February 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I found this ad gross in more than one way. (That’s about $17.50 fyi)
Advertisement outside a bar for that says “Our best seller, LOVE BUCKET 1L 125dkk”. With a photo of a firm drinking out of a bucket that says Absolut on the side.
February 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The elevator from the parking deck at my hotel in Aarhus is themed like a pay phone. Though an MRI might have been more accurate.

Denmark is incredibly progressive but also has some of the least handicap accessible locations I’ve ever been.

A lot of it is justifiable because of old buildings.
February 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Same man, same.

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i am tired
TikTok video by Philip Labes is on YT / Insta
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February 17, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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It’s astonishing how much this killer feels like a real horse. You hardly even notice it has 8 legs.

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Up And Close With The War Horse Puppet Joey #warhorse #puppet #theatre
YouTube video by BFBS Radio
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February 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Just watched this great doc about the team behind LIGO and their discovery of gravitational waves colliding black holes, etc. It’s amazing.

It shows just how brilliant and dedicated and human the people behind this wonder are. It’s well worth your time.
#ligo #physics

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"LIGO" - Director's Cut
YouTube video by Advanced LIGO Documentary Project
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February 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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One result of Amazon not being present in Denmark is that they still have very nice, very busy, department stores. I walked into this place and it looked gorgeous. I definitely want to check out the roof garden with that walkway. #arhus #dk
February 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I rented a car for the weekend and am taking a road trip to Aarhus. Stopped at a travel center. It cost a dollar to use the bathroom. I feel like there would get destroyed in the US.
Image of Circle K gas station Entrance to bathroom with electric gate with a payment terminal.
February 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Literally the first thing I saw on Blue Sky after posting the picket pointer was this ring debarker, so if course I had to share that too.
machinepix.bsky.social MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social · Feb 14
Ring debarker.
February 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This Picket Pointer is a very satisfying and beautiful machine for making picket fences pointy. He explains why picket fences are shaped like that. I’d never thought about why they are shaped like that. Apparently it’s all about keeping the end grain of the wood dry.
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~1890 Portland Picket Pointer~ Awesome old school woodwork tech! #woodworking #oldschool #Tools
YouTube video by blueoxmillworks
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February 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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TIL that Denmark has a children’s show called John Dillerman about a guy with the with the world longest penis and all of the trouble it gets him into, and out of. To be clear, not sexual at all. It looks pretty fun. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Ymn17w/
If you’re hating on John it’s pure jealousy #johndillermand #dansk #cartoon #tegneserie #danish #john #diller #børneserie #dansker #danmark #satire #johndillerman #funny #humor #scandinavia #danishtv ...
TikTok video by Laura 🇩🇰
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February 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM