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Jerod Poore
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Retired curmudgeon. Former mad overlord of CrazyMeds, Fringe & SciFi editor for FactSheet5, big iron coder, and zine publisher.
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"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week."
Screenshot of a tweet from Donald Trump. This time he is lying about the price of Walmart's annual Thanksgiving Meal Basket costing 25% less than last year. Community Notes adds the context that 6 fewer items are included in the basket, and most of the brand-name items were replaced with Walmart's cheaper house brand.
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Well, Trump does get all his spiritual advice from the ghost of Charlie Manson...
Slightly altered painting showing the spirit of Charlie Manson standing behind a seated Donald Trump. The very Christ-like Charlie appears to be giving Mr. Trump - who is wearing his usual cheap, ill-fitting blue suit with an over-long red tie - a shoulder rub.
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Scotty, so disappointed whenever he is not eating people food or being cradled in my arms like the big babby he is...
Color photograph of an orange tabby cat with green eyes lounging between a window and a laptop computer. His ears are permanently bent forward - due to injuries he sustained as a stray kitten - and looking extremely disappointed. He has resting disappointment face. He's really pretty cheerful and purrs all the time.
October 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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You'll always know what time it is on Ganymede!
Color screenshot from the "Cowboy Bebop" episode "Ganymede Elegy" (S1E10 1998) showing a closeup of a pocket watch with 15 hours in the palm of Jet Black's right hand.
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Change my mind.
Change my mind meme. A color photograph of some far-right asshole with a podcast (apologies for the multiple redundancies) seeking a bad-faith 'debate' at a college campus is sitting at a card table drinking something from a coffee mug. In front of the table is a sign that originally had his 'debate' subject on it. It has been altered to read, "The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi." Unchanged is the tagline, "Change my mind."
September 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Happy Naughty And Nice Days Until Halloween to all who celebrate.
Screenshot of text that reads, "Only 69 days until Halloween". White text on black background, with 69 in orange.
August 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."

Too unpopular to find an animated GIF. Flagged as graphic for spider content.
Color screenshot from Alex Cox's 1987 film WALKER showing two men buried in sand up to their chins as a tarantula crawls onto one of them. Behind them another man dressed in mid-19th century cowboy fashion lounges behind them, drinking Coca Cola and smoking a Marlboro.
August 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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"My favorite doctor and companion" - regeneration edition
Color still from Robert Altman's M*A*S*H (1970) showing Radar O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff) and Col. Henry Blake (Roger Bowman) watching the approach of more helicopters carrying wounded soldiers. Radar is wiping off his hands. Col. Blake's operating scrubs are covered in blood. Color still from the TV series M*A*S*H showing Radar O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff) clutching a one-eyed teddy bear. Col. Blake (McLean Stevenson) is standing next to him looking disappointed.
August 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Life hack for my fellow cyclists that I wish I had known about much sooner.
Color photograph of a sign on a metal fence outside of a brick patio . The furniture suggests it is a cafe of some sort. The sign reads, "Do not secure bikes to feces".
August 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Results obviously hacked by the Laughing Man collective...
Animated GIF from the anime series "Ghost in the Shell: Standalone / Complex". It shows the logo for the Laughing Man, a cyberterrorist organization from the series. The logo is a stylized face of a smiling person wearing a baseball cap. Around the face rotates the words, "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes" - a quote from J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye".
July 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Why I am never, ever leaving tumblr.com chapter MMMDCXVII
Screenshot of a post from Tumblr with four reblogs & added comments. User dykewoman made the initial post, "imagine cloth mother and wire mother in family court competing for custody of the baby monkey" And Tumblr did just that. User clothmotherofficial added, "I Have Softness For You", to which user officialwiremother added, "i have milk for you". babymonkeyofficial posted, "Stop." And kingsolomonofficial weighed in with, "Cut the baby monkey in half"
July 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Life imitates "Futurama"
Allegedly animate GIF of a short scene from "Futurama" showing Dr. Zoidberg, Fry, Leela, Bender, and Amy at a gym walking behind a woman using the Kegelcizer. As she grimaces a dozen or so weights behind her lift.
July 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Two color screen captures in meme format. On top is a scene from one of the numerous "Jurassic Park" films showing a T. Rex smashing vehicles and roaring. The text over the image reads, "Democrats fighting Zohran Mamdami". On the bottom is a scene from an episode of "Barney & Friends" showing the eponymous purple dinosaur smiling and shrugging. The text over the image reads, "Democrats fighting Donald Trump".
June 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Finally managed the perfect picture for my dating profile.
Sepia-toned photograph of a person wearing a full body leather suit and mask covered with sharp spikes. There is no place to touch this human porcupine without injuring yourself. Written over the image is, "i desire intimacy".
June 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Here she is in training...
Animated GIF from an episode of "Futurama" showing Zoidberg, Fry, Leela, Bender, and Amy (most in gym clothing) walking behind a woman sitting at the gym's Kegelcizer. She squints and grimaces as half of the weights behind lift.
June 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Must be why this shirt showed up at a Goodwill. I thought Edolph Twitler sold all his used underwear to his incel fanboys.
Color photograph of a gray shirt with images of lightning and monster trucks. Above the trucks in red and green lettering the shirt reads, "I got FISTED on KETAMINE at the MONSTER TRUCK DERBY". Over the photo the original poster wrote, "goodwill requirements are nonexistent".
June 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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From a Tumblr post many, many years ago. How to write "nice ass" in hieroglyphics. A truly essential piece of information.
Tumblr post and replies. The original post, by user badmoonraisin is the key part of the image. They write, "I am reading an essay called 'Male-Male Desire in Pharaonic Egypt' (by Alex Clayden) which is actually pretty good. But. I just need to draw attention to this little gem of a pick-up line:" Followed by several hieroglyphics, including pronunciation. It translates as, "How beautiful are thy buttocks!"
June 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Color photograph from the point of view of a Marine looking into their helmet. The photograph is titled, "MARINES IN L.A. Never forget what you're fighting for." Inside of the helmet is one of the dozens of photographs of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump posing for the camera.
June 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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We are literally living 20 minutes into the future.
Screenshot from "Max Headroom". It's a tight close-up of a sign reading, "Nightingale's Body Bank open 24 hours".
June 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Alien vs. Sexual Predator: The Bromance is Over.
Cover of "Republican Monsters" issue 74 featuring Elon Musk and Donald Trump on the cover to promote their new movie "Alien vs. Sexual Predator".
June 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Some of y'all can't handle two high agency males going at it and it really shows...
Black and white photograph of Leonid Brezhnev and another Soviet official from that era kissing each other. On the mouth. With tongue. Which is how totally straight, high-agency men in the Communist Party greeted each other.
June 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The spiritual descendant of Atticus
Atticus the fabulous cat whose turds cost over $2,000.
May 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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I just love the complete non-sequiturs that are ads on Tumblr. How is the image related to the text? The text or image related to the sponsor? Whichever sponsor is involved. Case in point:
Screenshot of an ad served up by Tumblr. It shows an orange tabby cat sitting in a sink with his right foreleg up in the air. He's screaming about something. The ad is sponsored by something called 5D ascension art. They promise to unlock your DNA with potent Love-N-Light reminders to elevate your spirit frequency. Somehow a site called samadhilove.art.blog is involved. The "learn more" link goes to smartadserver.com. How are any of the parts related?
May 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Different colors, different shades.
Over each mistakes were made
I took the blame.
Directionless so plain to see.
A loaded gun won't set you free.
So you say ...
Color scene from THE SOUND OF MUSIC showing Julie Andrews in a meadow with several of her young and extremely blonde charges. She is playing an acoustic guitar and teaching them "Do-Re-Mi".
May 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Dodge Ball of Prophesy meme. A color photograph from Getty Images of four tween girls frolicking on a suburban lawn playing dodge ball. The three girls attempting to dodge the ball are labelled, "The Onion just trying to be comedic." The girl with the ball is labelled as Apollo. The red ball is labelled "the gift of prophesy".
April 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM