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Brian Gawalt
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this late-breaking paragraph has gotta be one of the mayoral fatalities of all time
medium.com/3streams/zoh...
Screenshot of a late paragraph in the linked Medium essay: "The war [WWI] resulted in more than Mitchel’s electoral defeat. After the election, he volunteered to learn to fly military aircraft and died in a training accident: failing to wear his seatbelt, he simply fell out of his airplane (Wallace 2017, 997). You can find his monument in Central Park."
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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TO makecircle :numSides :perimeter
pd
right 90
repeat :numSides [
left 180 / :numSides
forward :perimeter / :numSides
left 180 / :numSides
wait 120 / :numSides
]
left 90
end
clearscreen
repeat 10 [
makecircle (2 * repcount + 1) 1200
]
Logo turtle that's run the above program, now sitting at the base of a large number of overlapping shapes, looking up into them. An inverted triangle and an inverted pentagon (pointy sides down) are most obvious. But after that it's pretty much just a bunch of overlapping janky circles.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Rip in peace
Still from the movie "alien" where a human astronaut is approaching the telescope wielding skeleton of an alien race that died from xenomorphic chest burst
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Agreed
George W Bush in a flight suit for the Mission Accomplished where he flew to an aircraft carrier
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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i have not seen this movie and don't know how many people could name it from this still image, but
sally field as norma rae holding up a handwritten (scrawled) sign that says UNION from a factory floor. she's lookin grungy.
October 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Hey that's a neat peanuts thing to learn. Reminds me of this one:
The Bob The Angry Flower book "Pamplemouse", where the angel flower is holding up for display a pineapple. There's a couple comics inside confusing the French word "pamplemouse" for "pineapple" instead of the correct "grapefruit"
October 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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i don't know have a sense for how ridiculous this was, but, this reminds me of our beloved fake digital twin in "escape from new york"
www.reddit.com/r/Moviesinth...
triplet of photos: ONE - a man leaning over a table top, the table top is covered in strictly rectangular boxes that are meant to look like the skyscrapers and buildings of manhattan. the man is applying dayglo tape that wraps one of the wtc twin towers; the buildings all have this applied all over TWO: two people viewed in profile applying more dayglow meant to be streets and alley around a different table, where it's like a "zoomed out" street grid of manhattan. the man on the left has just the nicest, pleased-est smile on his face. THREE: the actual shot from "escape from new york" that looks like computer vector graphics, a green wireframe version of manhattan viewed from the air from the southern battery looking up across the island. some seven-segment display text is overlain reading NOSE VIEW, ALT. 535, AIR 70 and a big ol targeting reticle overlain. it looks like computer graphics but it's just those big tables and dayglo tape.
October 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Board room from Hudsucker Proxy. All the executives are seated, turned on their chairs, looking at CEO Waring Hudsucker (Charles During) who is standing at the far end of the large long conference table.
October 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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i genuinely don't know this one. i'm eighty pct "biden".
screenshot of pbump's "who was president" tool Title: Who was the president? text box where i've asked: "will smith oscars slap" Response: Unknown date or event background: buncha floating question marks
October 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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louis the chef from the little mermaid leaning forward slightly with a huge grin looking off to the side while he delicately stirs something in a pan. rene auberjonois does the voice including for the le poisson song.
October 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Semi famous tattoo cover up where a guy stick-and-poked a shabby Pikachu tattoo, t then later got a real tattoo all around it where a nicely done Pikachu is seated and now painting the original tattoo on a canvas on an easel. Painter Pikachu looks buzzed and has a beer sitting next to him.
October 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Screenshot of my fantasy football app ("sleeper") showing league awards for the week, cropped to just me winning "most efficient manager" where the best my team could do in terms of shuffling starter-vs-bench roles around was 109.67 points and I scored 109.67 points. That's a terrible score, my opponent cleared 200 (league best this week but still)
October 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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"are we still in the game?"
guy who is about to be shot to death by jude law and jennifer jason leigh at the end of existenz
October 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Baaaaaad week in a not-great season
Screenshot of my fantasy football team's bench, where * Lamar jackson, my QB that anchors everything,is almost certainly not playing this week * D'andre swift, Rome Odunze, and Drake London, who are all pretty good, are on byes * Quincy Williams is still on injured reserve
October 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Michael Cera from the Arrested Development episode where he's Adam from the Michaelangelo "Creation of Adam" except he's wearing cutoff jorts like a nevernude
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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This part is exceptiona, I did love this part: the sound design and everything. It's just a very small part of the game and it's very replaceable with even a halfway cinematic movie.
Black pyramid inverted to point downward against a bright white background: "The Board" from CONTROL
September 30, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Screenshot of a tweet Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton 5:20 PM Sep 16, 2015 Two replies, 66 retweets, 92 favs #GOPDebate For those not at a TV tonight, CNN's live blog of the debate seems pretty accurate. [attached image is a spoofed CNN Politics page reading:] WATCH LIVE: Republican debate Welcome to the CNN live blog, where we'll be bringing you all the best moments from the debate -- on the stage, on social media and behind the scenes. 08:12 -- the candidates have assumed their places on stage. "We have a big surprise for you," says Wolf Blitzer as the house lights go down and fog machines fire up. 08:14 -- James Brown's "Living in America" begins playing. A Ronald Reagan hologram, created by Industrial Light and Magic according to insiders, appears on top of Air Force One. He's not wearing a suit, in an unexpected design decision. He's wearing a long sleeve brown plaid snap shirt and a cowboy hat. "Well," the hologram says slowly and deliberately, "welcome to the terrordome." 08:15 -- Donald Trump raises both fists in the air approvingly. No visible reaction from other candidates.
September 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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I'm seein' double! Four Cronenbergs!
Public library's BluRays of "Possessor" and "Crimes of the Future"
September 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Cheerful
A big chalk doodle of a smiley gorilla on blacktop
September 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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¿Está bien Pepsi?
screencap of an online restaurant's order button in the "Beverages" that reads "Mexican Coca Cola / $4.00" and has a picture of a Pepsi in a glass bottle
September 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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"*Four* letter words."
Harland Williams hitchhiker scene from Something About Mary where he pitches Seven Minute Abs
September 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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album cover for Rage Against The Machine's "The Battle of Los Angeles" which is a white wall with a graffiti silhouette of a guy with a revolutionarily raised fist that matches what grok put on the upsampling of the possible kirk assassin
September 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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This specific letter is the primary thing to remember:
www.npr.org/sections/cor...
But the risks of congregating during a global pandemic shouldn't keep people from protesting racism, according to dozens of public health and disease experts who signed an open letter in support of the protests. "White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19," the letter said. Initially written by infectious disease experts at the University of Washington, the letter cited a number of systemic problems, from the disproportionately high rate at which black people have been killed by police in the U.S. to disparities in life expectancy and other vital categories — including black Americans' higher death rate from the coronavirus.
September 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Making dinner over here but I got you
Butt-terrible babadook in black dry erase marker on my family's whiteboard events calendar that's mostly just the elementary school menu. The babadook just looks like a fanged up pacman ghost.
September 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Close-up of Bart Simpson's orange baseball cap that reads TIME FOR CHILI with a clock in the middle of it, from the S8E9 Guatemalan insanity pepper vision quest episode
September 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM