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Charles PM
@charlespulliam.bsky.social
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Now: Film & TV writer @ The Verge. As previously seen in: io9 + Gizmodo + NPR. GLAAD Award-winning comics wonk. Adjunct Pokémon Professor. Quite gay. Friend to all cats. charles@theverge.com
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Briefly thought my island got deleted, but Roscoe and I have been reunited
An Animal Crossing: New Horizons screenshot depicting Roscoe the horse gifting someone a peach
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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"I could smell the onions and mustard."
A Pokémon Violet screenshot depicting two Miraidon in Area Zero
November 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Lmao, see y'all back on the island
An Animal Crossing: New Horizons screenshot featuring the new Legend of Zelda items
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Got cut for length, but the Scheinhardt Wig Company of it all has been making me chuckle for the past few days
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts only existed for a few years before it was acquired by Kinney National Company — a firm whose other holdings included funeral homes, parking facilities, and publications like the precursor to DC Comics — in 1969. And by 1971, Kinney was well on its way to spinning off the service industry side of its business in order to focus on its entertainment divisions, which became known as Warner Communications, Inc.
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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My boy got that shit on
A Pokémon Legends: Z-A trainer posing with his Zygarde in its complete form
October 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Désolée 🚀
A Pokémon Legends: Z-A trainer dressed like a Team Rocket member who is posing with a Sableye
October 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Thought I was going to have to wait for Home support rolling out next year to bring my number one guy to Lumiose, but the postgame had other plans. GOTY 😭
A pokémon trainer posing with an Alolan Raichu
October 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Still working on making enough money to buy all the fits Lumiose has to offer, but can confirm that the gender-locked clothes are a thing of the past. Viva la drip
A male-presenting pokémon trainer wearing a tube top, jacket, short shorts, and sneakers A male-presenting pokémon trainer wearing a black beret, a pink fur coat, black fishnets, and black boots
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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And this, friends, is why Pokémon are great
Aesculus hippocastanum, the horse chestnut, is a species of flowering plant in the maple, soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is a large, deciduous, synoecious (hermaphroditic-flowered) tree. It is also called horse-chestnut, European horsechestnut, buckeye, and conker tree. It is not to be confused with the sweet chestnut or Spanish chestnut, Castanea sativa, which is a tree in another family, Fagaceae. A photo of conkers with their spiky exteriors removed. The Bulbapedia entry for Chespin, the spiny nut pokémon
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Nah this rules, actually www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Are Labubus big and flat and shiny? No, they’re vaguely hellish-looking dolls that have become collectible because they also come in mystery boxes. Can someone please tell gen Z that they’re doing conkers wrong? Are they? How do you do conkers, then? You put a shoelace through the middle of them, and try to destroy everyone else’s conkers. Wow, really? That’s bizarre. Yeah. You’ll have a much better chance of winning if you soak the conker in vinegar overnight and then bake it like a pie. Seriously? Seriously. And if you end up collecting too many conkers, you can hurl them across the playground and all the other kids will fight each other for them. A beautiful, natural thing like a conker, and you use it as a weapon? A weapon that comes with a long set of arcane and bewildering rules?
October 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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This kinda stuff used to depress me, but now
An Invincible still of Omni-Man saying to Mark: Look what they need just to mimic a fraction of our power
October 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Weapons (2025)
A screenshot from Super Mario Galaxy depicting Mario running with his arms stretched out to the side
October 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Fuckin yikes, man
Some comics were transparent about their willingness to ignore their moral convictions in order to play at the festival. “So what, they have slaves?” asked Tim Dillon in a podcast segment that led to his firing from the festival. “They’re paying me enough money to look the other way.” Pete Davidson offered a similar take, acknowledging in a chat with Von that people have asked him why, given his father’s death on 9/11, he would take a paycheck from the Saudi government. He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’”
September 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Got trimmed for length, but this was also good:
Cordova: But I also believe that cartoons are about freedom. Some of the best animated characters on an even broader level are people for whom everything is game. Like, Bugs Bunny is kind of gay and that's part of what makes him interesting as a character because he has this true freedom. I wanted Women Wearing Shoulder Pads to have that same kind of freedom and the energy of an Almodóvar film where it feels like anything could happen, and part of that is sexuality.
September 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Ah well, nvm
A Japanese chart explaining that both versions of Mega Raichu come from Kantonian Raichu
September 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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If Mega Raichu X & Y end up being distinct evos for Raichu's two regional forms that regain some of their Pikachu characteristics, might lose my mind a little bit
Kantonian Raichu Alolan Raichu Mega Raichu X Mega Raichu Y
September 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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LFGGGGGGG
Promo art for Pokemon: Legends Z-A's Mega Dimensions DLC depicting Mega Raichu X and Y
September 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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She's gonna do the Akira slide
Samus in Metroid Beyond rising a motorcycle
September 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Sorry, Silksong. My mistress is calling
Nintendo's announcement that Hades II releases on the Switch 2 September 25, 2025
September 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Welcome to the House of M(alamar)
Mega Malamar Malamar’s brain has become enlarged as a result of Mega Evolution. Greatly enhanced psychic power overflows from its body, emitting a bright glow. This vividly colored light further amplifies the Pokémon’s hypnotic abilities, allowing it to freely overwrite the personalities or even memories of others—a terrifying power that can make someone seem like an entirely different person. An edited comics panel depicting Wanda Maximoff saying "My Friend Malamar"
September 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Welp www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...
A Newsweek article headlined: "Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment"
September 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Still thinking about Doja hitting this JRPG pose like she's about to do a nasty Limit Break
Doja Cat performing at the 2025 VMAs
September 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Same energy
Kendrick Lamar performing Not Like Us at the Super Bowl
September 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Probably the last Pokemon cards I’m gonna be able to import smh
Pokémon TCG cards from the Mega Brave set. Lt. Surge’s Deal illustrated by asare, Marshadow by unknown, and Garganacl by Yano Keiji
September 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Got cut for length, but: the ducks are good
Question: How are your ducks? Answer: You know, it's so funny — well, I guess it's not that funny, but for the first three years I had them, I was very sensitive about them and really didn't want them to be online. I never posted photos of them because at my old house I was keeping them illegally. But now they are out and I think people are probably more interested in my ducks than they are in any other project that I've got going on because they're incredible. They're great pets and I'm kind of surprised more people don't have them
September 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM