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John Jones
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Digital media and rhetoric professor at Ohio State.
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Warning sign stick figure on black background with four white stars. Caption reads "Warning Black Hole / Darkness"
August 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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New investment plan
Animated gif of a scene from Airplane! where Leslie Nielsen's doctor character removes eggs from a sick passenger's mouth as other passengers look on.
December 20, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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CAN SHE HAVE IT ALL
The Washington post: Mexico's first woman president is set to be sworn in and has stunning power. Can she use it?
October 1, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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Triptych of Larry David from that bitcoin Super Bowl commercial. On the left David is dressed as an ancient priest I guess, the middle is modern Larry, and on the right an Issac Newton type.
August 30, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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“According to the Globe, Crowley denies sending a picture of his crotch to a group chat when referencing a want for snacks, writing ‘gotcha covered’”
Chidi from the Good Place, “Okay, that's really specific, and that makes me think that you definitely did do that.”
August 14, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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A truly ridiculous headline
Washington Post headline: “Trump's attack on Harris's racial identity moves presidential contest into new phase”
August 1, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Image of a sticker that reads “some of y'all have never read 100 books+ in a summer to earn a single personal pan pizza & it shows”
June 1, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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For context, here’s a graph of cancer mortality rates over time. Pancreatic cancer is at the bottom.

Image by Edward Tufte www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and...
Slope graph of cancer mortality rates. Pancreatic cancer has worst outcomes with 4%, 3%, 3%, and 3% survival rates at 5, 10, 15, and 20 years, respectively.
April 11, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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I bet that’ll shut him up
Headline: “Trump gag order expanded after he attacks judge's daughter on social media”
April 2, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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We were served some kind of marinated chicken and left to mingle, us the well-groomed top of the top, us the Forbidden. We numbered 50 or so. We came from places like Harvard and Stanford and UChicago and MIT and U Penn. There was James, who studied computer science. Then there was Cameron, who also studied computer science. David and Peter studied computer science, while Luke and Albert studied computer science. As for Mike and Jason, the former studied computer science, whereas the latter studied computer science. Ethan was not unlike Max, in that both studied computer science. Some people studied business, too.
February 20, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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Clip from Simpson’s: Cover of book titles “Find Waldo Yet Again”. Hands open the book to see Waldo standing alone on a beach except for a single child pointing at him.
January 11, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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New De Copia just dropped, but instead of letter intros the example is “What would the Kens say about ‘The Godfater’?”
AI chatbots on Twitter trying different variations of the sentence, “The Godfather is a great movie.”
January 9, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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I was not prepared for how this sentence ends. fortune.com/2024/01/04/r...
"I use debt as money and I don't save cash because in 1971 the dollar became debt," he added, referring to the Nixon shock, where the former president ended the convertibility of the US dollar into gold, devalued the currency, and ultimately, led to the rise of cryptocurrencies.
January 8, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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They’re a good deal, too
Store sign saying Reese’s caramel are free
December 18, 2023 at 7:49 PM
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What a nightmare of a paragraph.
I realize that for many, a reduction of this size will feel surprisingly large given the recent positive earnings report and our performance. We debated making smaller reductions throughout 2024 and 2025. Yet, considering the gap between our financial goal state and our current operational costs, I decided that a substantial action to rightsize our costs was the best option to accomplish our objectives. While I am convinced this is the right action for our company, I also understand it will be incredibly painful for our team.
December 4, 2023 at 10:03 PM
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What were they keen on before?
“Investors right now are very keen on profitability,” she says.
November 9, 2023 at 10:12 PM
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Happy Halloween from Jack Chick!
In panel one, a witch says “happy Halloween” to three children while holding a skull over a cauldron. In panel two, the skull is dropped into the cauldron and the witch says “bye” as the children are shown falling through a trap door screaming
October 31, 2023 at 5:32 PM
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Why did y'all make Ralphie from A Christmas Story the Speaker of the House?
Rep. Patrick McHenry speaking to reporters. He's wearing a bow tie and Ralphie's glasses. Image from MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 4, 2023 at 1:35 PM
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“Howdy-doody, fellow cowboys”
Steve Buschemi “how do you do, fellow teens?” meme
September 30, 2023 at 8:00 PM
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Amazon: ::drops a new Prime Day real quick:: How could we be inflating prices with deals like these?
Screenshot of marketing email promoting Amazon’s “Prime Deal Days” with images of beaming, headphones, watch and other consumer items
September 26, 2023 at 4:14 PM
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I’m not one to kink shame people, but the way this guy lies about and misrepresents how much his food costs is… weird
David Brooks tweet showing photo of dinner—hamburger fries, salad, and class of brown liquor—with text “This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.” Twitter community note on Brooks tweet that identifies the restaurant based on the setting and provides links to the menu showing the burger meal is $17.
September 21, 2023 at 3:17 PM
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Today we picked apples and now I’m reading Frost. It was a good one.
Close up of two apples on a tree
September 17, 2023 at 10:29 PM
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"A/V Club [sic] licenses content from IMBD [sic]," a G/O spokesperson said in response to our questions, misspelling the names of both The A. V. Club and IMDb.
September 13, 2023 at 5:14 PM
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What about ?
Box for pumpkin spice Frosted Flakes
September 11, 2023 at 12:27 AM
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Katniss volunteers as tribute
September 6, 2023 at 4:10 PM