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Derek John Boczkowski
@derekboczkowski.bsky.social
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University writing center guy (The Ohio State University at Newark). Composition and literacies researcher. Chicago Cubs fan. Teacher, learner, molder of minds and minder of molds.
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The Svengali President
A close up of the image in the original post, which really shows the boy’s stunned face and President Hunchy McWeirdvibes dangling the challenge coin between his fingers as if her were attempting to enchant the young man into believing that tax cuts for the wealthy is good, actually.
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I know every's referencing the original, so I'll contribute the SNL parody.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Very serious, factual website.
A screenshot from the home page of Blinkist, apparently a website that distills reading into easily-digestible niblets of information for the addled gopher brains of "busy" business leaders. There's an image of some blown-dried corporate grifter (white, blonde woman with her hands splayed like she simply doesn't know who wiped the cranberries off of the wheel of brie) making the laughable claim that "most CEOs read a book a week." The rest of her quote is a spilled box of Alpha-Bits: "Many use programs like this to acquire key concepts that help them keep a fresh perspective helping hone vision, strategy and action." Inexplicably--but probably because these people need constant positive reinforcement and validation--the quote is preceded by 5 gold stars.
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Turns out this was a prediction? #Brewers #Dodgers #Cubs
Brewers ball club hoisting the L flag after their NLDS victory over the Cubs in an effort to troll the Chicago team. They went on to get swept by the Dodgers.
October 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Slipping in some antisemitism like extra garlic into the gravy.
At the Anti-Mamdami protest discussed in the article, a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese in human form wearing a MAGA hat holds a sign that readers “Anyone but Communist Mamdani” in which the two I’s are dotted by the Star of David.
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Sneaking in some antisemitism like extra garlic into the gravy.
At the Anti-Mamdami protest discussed in the article, a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese in human form wearing a MAGA hat holds a sign that readers “Anyone but Communist Mamdani” in which the two I’s are dotted by the Star of David.
October 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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It seem that Not Long! Day comes quicker and quicker each year.
Your humble poster wearing his NOT LONG! shirt (a blue shirt with a pumpkin and stocking feet and white gloves doing a little wave and jig next to the text “NOT LONG!” The shirt is a reproduction of a graphic from 1980s Birmingham, Alabama, newscast.
October 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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We can eat her spaghetti in her memory.

www.domenicacooks.com/blog/spaghet...
A black-and-white photo of the stunning Claudina Cardinale, in all her ethereal splendor wearing a low-cut dress and smiling as she slurps spaghetti off of a fork.
September 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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For the non-olds: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nKG...
Old "you got your peanut butter on my chocolate/you got your chocolate in my peanut butter" Reese's commercial with cute young dude wearing headphones holding a chocolate bar dripping with chocolate labeled "COLD," a cute young woman pulling some chocolate from her peanut butter jar (that she was eating openly from ON THE STREET) labeled "SALT," and an older shopkeeper holding up a pack of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups between them labeled "MEAL."
September 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Melania hanging out in back doing her best Orin impression.
Orin from Parks and Rec lurking ominously at April and Chris's wedding party behind the unnerved Benjamin Wyatt.
September 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Can see why Pool would want to tap into Johnston's vast Civil War knowledge.
September 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Chipocalypse
September 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Chipocalypse
September 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The famous image of Macaulay Culkin with his hands up to his cheeks and screaming from the movie Home Alone. The McCallister house is washed out in blue behind him, and snow is falling.
August 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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This past weekend, I celebrated the completion of the first trimester into the next Wet Day in the appropriate manner.
@scottaukerman.bsky.social @pftompkins.bsky.social @cbbworld.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 it's Gavin Willie Ames
Photo of 80's teenage heartthrob Willie Ames
August 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Laverne “Dirty” DeFazio
Penny Marshall as Laverne DeFazio from “Laverne and Shirley” pouring equal parts milk and Pepsi into a large bucket.
July 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Dammit. I’ve been online less, so I missed this news. I am so sorry to hear about the passing of Lulu. I always enjoyed seeing her in my feed, going back to the old place. We lost our two long-time fur babies in consecutive Marches in 2023 (Noami) and 2024 (Brody), and we still occasionally sigh.
A pair of dogs laying down and looking through a glass front door. They are nuts. On the left is Noami, who is white with brown and black markings and whose ears were always up. On the right is Brody, who is brown and black and whose ears were always down.
June 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Swanson vs. Svanson as tonight’s game nears its swan song [that’s the 9th inning for non-baseball folk].

Stop making those faces. So, I’ll pick you kids up in front of the Orange Julius in 4 hours, right?
A screen grab of an at bat from tonight’s Cubs Cardinals game, where the batter for the Cubs, Dansby Swanson faced off against the Cardinals pitcher, Matt Svanson. Of special note: the Cubs are winning 8 to zilch.
June 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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An image of a comic panel in which Batman is falling face-first onto the ground with a large "THUD" written above in yellow letters.
June 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Adding alt text.
Cover page of the July/August 2018 issue of The Atlantic The Issue is Subtitled THE HEALTH REPORT Stories Headlines at the top of the cover page: "Being Black in America Can Take Years off Your Life" BY OLGA KHAZAN "We're Not Prepared for the Next Pandemic" BY ED YONG Cover story (with a picture of a trans man looking off to the side) Your Child Says She's Trans. She Wants Hormones and Surgery. She's 13. BY JESSE SINGAL Headlines in the bottom left corner: "The Stealth B-2 Bombing Raid on Libya" "The Surprising Wisdom of Russell Brand" "Searching for Basquiat" "What Book Should Everyone on Earth Read?" In the original post, the successive three images are progressive zooms on the story on the top right corner, "We're Not Prepared for the Next Pandemic" BY ED YONG
June 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Well, that was the surest bet I could have made.
Test of post exchange: mg81992 &E @mg81992.bsky.social Israel is not an "apartheid regime." June 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM Follow 企 ••• Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczko... • 50s You're wrong, of course, but it wont matter to point it out. You'll just ignore any evidence contrary to how you feel and block those who bother to supply it so you can go on living in denial. www.hrw.org/news/2024/07. World Court Finds Israel Responsible for Apartheid The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, with significan... Text of screenshot immediately after: Post hidden You have blocked the author or you have been blocked by the author. Retry Go Back
June 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Any @magictavern.bsky.social fans out here? @usidore.bsky.social
The “American flag wizard hat” pic of Slotkin from above, but saying the full name of Usidor the Blue from Hello from the Magic Tavern (text below) “I am Usidore, Wizard of the 12th Realm of Ephysiyies, Master of Light and Shadow, Manipulator of Magical Delights, Devourer of Chaos, Champion of the Great Halls of Terr'akkas. The elves know me as Fi’ang Yalok. The dwarfs know me as Zoenen Hoogstandjes. And I am also known in the Northeast as Gaismunēnas Meistar.”
June 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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A picture of Will Ferrell in a white beard in front of a series of screens in his role of Larry the Architect from the a spoof of The Matrix Reloaded that originally aired on the MTV music awards many moons ago. The text reads “ergo, vis-a-vis, concordantly.”
June 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM