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Greg Merklin
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Scientist, artist, musician, athlete, all-around malcontent.
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“Say hello to my little friend.”
Pope Leo, wearing white, holding a baseball bat.
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Post from Dr. Sarah Bond ® @SarahEBond| It is peak lowa city to have a tardis randomly in a backyard. (Photo of an outbuilding with a TARDIS sitting next to it. )
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Post your favorite Star Trek character.
Wrong answers only.
HAL 9000, a glowing red camera.
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Evergreen.
Nein. @NeinQuarterly Follow Dystopia. I expected it to be oppressive, cruel, and ruthless. But I admit that I never thought it would be quite this tacky. 10:39 PM • Jan 29, 2017
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Why do I have to keep reposting this? Am I Sisyphus, is this my rock?
Nein. @NeinQuarterly Follow Dystopia. I expected it to be oppressive, cruel, and ruthless. But I admit that I never thought it would be quite this tacky. 10:39 PM • Jan 29, 2017
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Don’t make me tap the sign! 👍
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Nein. @NeinQuarterly Follow Dystopia. I expected it to be oppressive, cruel, and ruthless. But I admit that I never thought it would be quite this tacky. 10:39 PM • Jan 29, 2017
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I wouldn’t worry.
October 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Brown is memorialized in this mural in the Kansas State Capitol building in Topeka.
Brown is in Tragic Prelude, a mural in the Kansas State Capitol. He carries in one hand a Bible and in the other a Beecher's Bible rifle. Union and Confederate forces are fighting, with casualties. A tornado approaches in the background, as does a prairie fire, both common in Kansas.
October 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I’m just here for the
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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September 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Let’s not waste energy…
Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt If you're mad and find yourself yelling that you want someone launched into the Sun, take a moment, calm yourself, and remember that it takes a lot less Delta v to launch them out of the Solar System instead. 9:29 AM • 2020-05-01 - Twitter for iPhone 548 Retweets 2,023 Likes Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt • 21h Replying to @physicsmatt You can be mad, but that's no excuse to be inefficient with propellant.
September 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Lenin, pointing to the viewers left, above a red banner and the text „We will seize the memes of production“
September 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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September 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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She should leave that to experts.
Black-and-white police cruiser, with the words “SANDWICH POLICE” on the side.
September 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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These guys
August 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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“Nosferatu”-Style vampire giving a thumbs -up; below is text “YESFERATU”
August 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I like this portrait of Brown, but the State of Kansas may not be willing to part with it (it’s on a wall in the Capitol in Topeka)
“Tragic Prelude”, by John Steuart Curry.
August 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Wilfred Owen died in action a week before the Armistice.

Apologists for WWI can fuck off right into the sun.
DULCE ET DECORUM EST WILFRED OWEN (1917) Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned out backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.-- Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
August 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I grew up in Kansas, where we were taught that John Brown was a hero. This mural, “Tragic Prelude”, is in the State Capitol in Topeka.
“Tragic Prelude”, by John Steuart Curry, depicting John Brown with arms outstretched, a Bible in his left hand and a rifle in his right. On his left, below, are Confederate soldiers and a prairie fire; to his right Union soldiers and a tornado.
August 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Obligatory:
Photo of a black-and-white police cruiser from the Sandwich, MA police department; SANDWICH POLICE in bold slanted letters on the side of the car.
August 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Evergreen
Nein. @NeinQuarterly ••• Dystopia. I expected it to be oppressive, cruel, and ruthless. But l admit that I never thought it would be quite this tacky. 10:39 PM • Jan 29, 2017
August 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness.
Rocky and Bullwinkle arch-villains Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. They are seated in a car, with Boris holding the steering wheel and Natasha is pointing at Boris, who is smiling.
August 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Nein. @NeinQuarterly Dystopia. I expected it to be oppressive, cruel, and ruthless. But I admit that I never thought it would be quite this tacky. 10:39 PM • Jan 29, 2017
August 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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On a more existential level
White UK road directional sign that reads: Chingford Ponders End A110
July 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM