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Music, typography, comics, design, art, vintage things. Opinions/rants/japes my own. Living on Boonwurrung land, never ceded. He/him, dad, lapsed MeFite
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November 16, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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pattymo.com
Dog’s brain while trying to stop you from taking away something disgusting it grabbed off the sidewalk
February 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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skot.bsky.social
Equal Pay Public Service Announcement from 1972 styled after the Batman TV series. Burt Ward and Yvonne Craig reprised their roles Robin and Batgirl, respectively. However, Dick Gautier assumed the role of Batman because Adam West was, at the time, trying to distance himself from the role.
October 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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itsabbyyep.bsky.social
[donut shop]
Boss: I finally did it
Worker: You sold secretly MDMA-laced donuts to customers??
Boss: Just a couple

[squad car]
Cop: I wanna be firm with perps but detached, without anger
Cop2: Your wisdom's a gift. I'm so lucky I'm your partner
Cop: I'M THE LUCKY ONE
October 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Maybe my favorite Food Map, ever.
A map from the Economist, of how dumplings spread from Italy to Japan by way of the Mongolian Empire
April 11, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
This is just to say

I have bulldozed

the East Wing

that you were probably

hoping to pass down

to future generations

Well, fuck you

it was in the way

so inconvenient

and so old
October 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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tomforsyth.bsky.social
Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
October 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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matineemode.bsky.social
Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.
October 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy. A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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benedictsred.bsky.social
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September 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Queen
September 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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marcchannick.bsky.social
It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.
chriso-wiki.bsky.social ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · Sep 14
Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
September 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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xrayeyes.bsky.social
The Addiction, Abel Ferrara (1995)
September 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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theterminizer.bsky.social
this is why I pay for photoshop
the movie poster for Midsommar with the young woman wearing a floral laurel around her head and crying is replaced by the face of Ernest P. Worrell from the Ernest movies making one of his trademark contorted expressions with one eye pointing inward and one looking at the camera and his mouth twisted into an O-face with an Elvis lip curl. The poster says "Ernest Goes to Midsommar" in the comic sans-esque "Ernest goes to" font in red with a yellow drop shadow and the original serif "Midsommar" font in a weathered off-white
August 31, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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brandonbird.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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slop.guru
nobody has seen the president in three days

[burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy
August 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
What idiot called it a bikini wax and not Bush Administration
August 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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ifyoucantwell.bsky.social
Can folks do me a favor?

I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.

I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.

I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.

Here’s two favorite set photos.

Repost? I am in the wilderness.
Kerry Bishe in costume as Donna and Mackenzie Davis in costume as Cameron Howe on the set of Halt and Catch Fire Scoot McNairy and Lee Pace on the set of Halt and Catch Fire
August 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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blueheronfarm.bsky.social
I'm sorry, but I need you to see this rock that looks like a sandwich that I just found on Instagram.
The caption says it's Willow Creek Jasper, but it looks like meat and pickles and onions and sauce on a flatbread
August 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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ozkitsch.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
davebelling.bsky.social
This is a good tip. Also libraries rock generally
jessielilley.bsky.social Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · Aug 14
If you want to support all the writers boycotting Bendigo Writers Festival, borrow their books from your library. They get paid and libraries buy more of their books.
August 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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kels316.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
davebelling.bsky.social
This was me today
johnxuandou.bsky.social America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · Aug 13
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
davebelling.bsky.social
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are
August 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM