Josh Fruhlinger
@jfruh.bsky.social
I am the Comics Curmudgeon, among several other things.
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Josh Fruhlinger
@jfruh.bsky.social
· Nov 19
i am disappointed that george pataki is not president yet
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ME: *passing around a bowl of spaghetti* and here are his guts *passing around a plate of meatballs* and his eyeballs *passing around a plate of garlic bread* and his uh crackly femurs
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
ME: *passing around a bowl of spaghetti* and here are his guts *passing around a plate of meatballs* and his eyeballs *passing around a plate of garlic bread* and his uh crackly femurs
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Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
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Computer, Milano, skateboard sized
Computer, 15 feet of spaghetti, single strand, lukewarm
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Computer, Milano, skateboard sized
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My side tangent take on Oswald is that he was 100% a spec-op asset to like 3 sides, but like super low rung and like a bunch of big wigs went "what? Lee? That dipshit? Huh? HE DID WHAT. FUCK."
JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
My side tangent take on Oswald is that he was 100% a spec-op asset to like 3 sides, but like super low rung and like a bunch of big wigs went "what? Lee? That dipshit? Huh? HE DID WHAT. FUCK."
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mfing Whoville lookin’ ass cabinet, this jusy ruined my whole god dam day smfh fuck this shit
November 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
mfing Whoville lookin’ ass cabinet, this jusy ruined my whole god dam day smfh fuck this shit
turning a big dial taht says "selling out ukraine to the russians" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
what is going on
November 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
turning a big dial taht says "selling out ukraine to the russians" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
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I think Ian thinks of himself as a polymath, which includes thinking he knows more about Linux than he does. Jeff has three different machines in various states of disrepair on his computer bench
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I think Ian thinks of himself as a polymath, which includes thinking he knows more about Linux than he does. Jeff has three different machines in various states of disrepair on his computer bench
path 1: was working for a temp agency in san francisco in 1999, knew how to pronounce "linux"
path 2: annoyed my wife by making mary worth jokes until she made me start a blog for them
path 2: annoyed my wife by making mary worth jokes until she made me start a blog for them
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
path 1: was working for a temp agency in san francisco in 1999, knew how to pronounce "linux"
path 2: annoyed my wife by making mary worth jokes until she made me start a blog for them
path 2: annoyed my wife by making mary worth jokes until she made me start a blog for them
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Not only are generations fake, they’re also something we basically invented a few decades ago. Compare when generations occurred (shaded areas) with when we settled on their names.
From this week’s newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...
From this week’s newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Not only are generations fake, they’re also something we basically invented a few decades ago. Compare when generations occurred (shaded areas) with when we settled on their names.
From this week’s newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...
From this week’s newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...
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No solar panels. Only measles
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
No solar panels. Only measles
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Court politics are inherently incoherent.
So, to recap, Ukraine and Europe understand that America has effectively endorsed a 28-point plan to force Kyiv to capitulate, set a Thursday deadline to accept it, and threatened to cut off all aid.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Court politics are inherently incoherent.
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people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
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Every “this 90s video game soundtrack did NOT have to go this hard” video essay fails to note President Clinton’s pledge that by the end of the decade, America would create a video game soundtrack that “goes extremely hard”
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Every “this 90s video game soundtrack did NOT have to go this hard” video essay fails to note President Clinton’s pledge that by the end of the decade, America would create a video game soundtrack that “goes extremely hard”
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It’s fucked up that billionaires have all that money and just buy websites and newspapers that are mean to them instead of ending homelessness or even making the top three most important bands from
Athens GA (Neutral Milk Hotel, REM, The B-52s) reunite and cover each other’s music
Athens GA (Neutral Milk Hotel, REM, The B-52s) reunite and cover each other’s music
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It’s fucked up that billionaires have all that money and just buy websites and newspapers that are mean to them instead of ending homelessness or even making the top three most important bands from
Athens GA (Neutral Milk Hotel, REM, The B-52s) reunite and cover each other’s music
Athens GA (Neutral Milk Hotel, REM, The B-52s) reunite and cover each other’s music
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$80 for 6 bags of potato chips. What’s this, MAHA or “HAHA”? Like laughing. I’m available to explain further if need be
And yes, the swag bags. Attendees received MAHA-branded tote bags with:
- Packets of creatine
- Beef tallow potato chips ($79 for a 6-pack!!)
- Mouth tape
- RFK Jr's biography
- Beef protein bars
- Packets of creatine
- Beef tallow potato chips ($79 for a 6-pack!!)
- Mouth tape
- RFK Jr's biography
- Beef protein bars
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
$80 for 6 bags of potato chips. What’s this, MAHA or “HAHA”? Like laughing. I’m available to explain further if need be
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Russia rejected their own peace plan?
Russia flat out rejects Trump's 28-point peace plan: "Even in a reduced military and territorial form, Ukraine would remain a significant danger, requiring us to keep our forces on the western borders."
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Russia rejected their own peace plan?
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if you pronounce Shoegaze to rhyme with Fugazi then buddy you are two fifths of the way to a limerick that will get your ass kicked by every kind of sadsack bald person
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
if you pronounce Shoegaze to rhyme with Fugazi then buddy you are two fifths of the way to a limerick that will get your ass kicked by every kind of sadsack bald person
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Why won’t Dagwood monetise his passion for giant sandwiches? He can’t, it’s part of the settlement for not being persecuted for fraud for his role in running the restaurant chain themed after him
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Why won’t Dagwood monetise his passion for giant sandwiches? He can’t, it’s part of the settlement for not being persecuted for fraud for his role in running the restaurant chain themed after him
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Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The continuing bamboo metaphor is like…a child’s fingerpaint version of a braided essay. Bamboo was invented by Steven Bamboo
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The continuing bamboo metaphor is like…a child’s fingerpaint version of a braided essay. Bamboo was invented by Steven Bamboo
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it sucks that we're getting a presidency that's as bad as the RFK presidency and the Trump presidency happening at the same time
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
it sucks that we're getting a presidency that's as bad as the RFK presidency and the Trump presidency happening at the same time
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Republicans are like "oh, you want to reduce easily preventable death? That pales in comparison to my strategy: Submitting to Christ" and then don't submit to Christ.
Call me old fashioned, but aren’t both parts of this relationship currently, uh, married to other people?
So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...
September 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Republicans are like "oh, you want to reduce easily preventable death? That pales in comparison to my strategy: Submitting to Christ" and then don't submit to Christ.