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Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

'Hello' from my eldest son Doctor Octopus (Christian name/government name), Little Man (commonly known as), Littles, Spicy Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbler, Pigoletto, Nyanko Sensei @valeriedouglas.bsky.social

A ridiculous, delightfully plump nine year-old tabby cat waving hello as he lounges

October 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

Give me a fucking break. We're being gaslit on a cosmic level.

A photo of the weeping widow of racist, bigoted hatemonger Charlie Kirk with the headlines, "Erika Kirk Says she forgives Tyler Robinson, Husband's Alleged Killer: 'What Charlie Would Do' "

and below the photo, it quotes her as saying, "That young man, that young man...On the cross, our savior said, 'Father forgive them, for they know not what they do' ".

September 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

"Satan Welcomes Racist Demagogue Back To Hell", mixed media, 2025

Picture depicts two vinyl toys of monsters from the Ultraman series, Black King and Earthtron, about to "high five" each other and featuring the word "BRO!" floating in between them in a brotherly greeting.

September 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

The first photo is two toys of Japanese Robots from the 1970's; on the left is Mobile Suit Gundam RX-78-2, on the right is Mechagodzilla. The second photo is of both figures transformed into spherical shapes; the Gundam into the ball-like shape of the robot Haro from the show, and Mechagodzilla folded up into an egg-like shape.

July 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM

Eddie Utrata

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June 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

Perfectly on-brand FIFA corruption, equivocating about the US government offices rather than the people holding them then and now...Loretta Lynch and, for all his sins, James Comey are a very, very, very far cry from Pam Bondi and Kash Patel.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A clipping from an article about ongoing corruption in FIFA that reads: "In a statement a Fifa spokesperson said: “A few weeks ago, the very same authorities that had to intervene [against] Fifa in 2015 – the US attorney general and FBI director – travelled to our offices in Miami, to meet Fifa leadership and work together as a highly respected partner."

May 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

The character Cinta from the show Andor drives the drug-addicted owner of Twitter to an uncertain fate.

April 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

Out of context, or even in context, this sure is something!

A picture featuring the New York Mets' co-mascot "Mrs. Met", a lady in a Mets uniform with a massive baseball head, eyelashes, and a shock of red hair, alongside other female mascots from other US professional sports teams...and this isn't a drawing, but a composite photo of (presumably) human beings inside these massive costumes with baseball heads, elephant heads, horse heads, and tiger heads. Under the assembled mascots it says, "HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY".

March 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

A screenshot of a news story about the feckless charlatan husband-and-wife MSNBC broadcasters "Morning Joe" and Mika stating that "Morning Joe" has praised Fox "News" personality Brian Kilmeade for "trying" to challenge Donald Trump on his criticism of Ukraine...Joe is quoted as saying that you've "gotta hand it to him!" in regards to Kilmeade. The next image is a screenshot of the popular Twitter user "dril" and his famous Tweet stating: "issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them" "

February 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

Those are awesome, and I know they're the Monsterverse versions, but imagine if you walked into Target and could walk out with a box of 2nd Form ShinGoji Valentines?

"I CHOO-CHOO**TORRENTIAL GILL-BLOOD EXPULSION**"

February 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

#AI : it starts with ruining your dinner and doesn't stop until it's eradicated your entire species

Google's often wildly wrong Artificial Intelligence suggesting that you cook White Castle "Sliders" in the microwave oven for between 10 and 20 MINUTES...the second pic shows the side of the actual box that suggests heating the "Sliders" in the microwave between 45 and 80 SECONDS, depending if the sandwiches are frozen or thawed.

February 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

Sorry, singing along to a John Denver song with 77 million people who voted for a Nazi regime isn't my idea of "unity".

February 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

"I love you so much, I would've paid the full six pound, yeah?"

Advertisement for a very cheap "Valentine's Bundle" from the discount store Poundland that includes balloons, LED heart-shaped lights, napkins, heart-shaped chocolates, and a fake rose in a plastic vase for the sum of two pounds.

February 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

'The taxation of trade routes' and the like doesn't seem so funny now, does it?

Opening crawl of the movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace which says "Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute."

February 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

A photo of a parody Halloween costume from Spirit Halloween Store which features Melania Trump in her strange and severe 2025 Inauguration outfit and the product is labeled, "Evil 19th Century Parson"

January 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

wimp

January 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

CHALLENGERS (2024)

Smurfette, playing tennis, is gazed upon by two befuddled male Smurfs.

December 30, 2024 at 9:56 PM

Eddie Utrata

@eddieutrata.bsky.social

Merry Christmas! For our card this year, my wife @valeriedouglas.bsky.social helped me recreate this Ultraman Christmas commercial from 1995 that I've loved and watched obsessively each Christmas for the past 15 years; we put a QR code leading to a video of it on the back:
youtu.be/V_R0aVA2ONI?...