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Kris Straub (كريس) 📍 PAXU
@krisstraub.com
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ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ＴＶ, Candle Cove, All Houses Matter. Cartoonist, presenter, humor scientist. K’thriss on #acqinc. He/him 🇪🇬
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“five for fighting” in the zohran mamdani campaign text treatment
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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jack johnson still at it
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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they couldn’t do “trek or treat?” or does that binary imply that “trek” is not the treat, so they went with this instead
instagram ad screenshot: startrekfleetcommand TRICK OR TREK NEW HALLOWEEN EVENTS IN GAME
October 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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no kings includes
screenshot of “royal kingdom” app, a match-3 game whose ads feature an obnoxiously imperiled king
October 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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my #paxaus schedule (so far)! anyone need anything that’s not on friday
PAX Aus 2025 kris straub (panel).mp4 (binaural). Fri, Oct 10, 2025 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Location: Quokka Theatre Penny Arcade Make-A-Strip Fri, Oct 10, 2025 • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Location: Main Theatre Acquisitions Incorporated: Pirate Borg Fri, Oct 10, 2025 • 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM Location: Main Theatre
October 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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check out my enabler, oh brother
(a screenshot from the horoscope app CO-STAR) YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE You're as great as you think you are. Stop apologizing for taking up space. Your wins weren't accidents. Your talent isn't luck. The voice whispering "who do you think you are?" belongs to someone else's insecurity, not your reality.
September 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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there is a direct throughline from this to local58tv’s USDPAD. i adored the year zero ARG. huge influence
the seal for the fictional “united states department for the preservation of american dignity” from local58tv
September 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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tomorrow: available at my booth at #paxwest, in print for the first time since 1971 #local58tv
vintage paperback book cover. “THE PARASITE TRANSCENDENT” by t. galbraith. from panoptica press.
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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here's what i'm doing this weekend 📍 #paxwest !!
Kris Straub at PAX WEST 2025 I'M IN BANDLAND SUMMIT LEVEL 3 (near Arcade Freeplay) (product images, left to right: NEW PIN FORENSIC SEANCE, CRYPTID STICKER SHEET, LOCAL58 PATCH) Schedule: SATURDAY 12 PM Jackbox Party PAX 1 Blue Dragon Theatre (Summit Level 5) SUNDAY 10 PM KRIS STRAUB: A CELEBRATION OF PANEL ATTENDANCE FIREBIRD Theatre (Summit Level 5) MONDAY 2 PM Jackbox Party PAX 2 Blue Dragon Theatre (Summit Level 5)
August 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Weapons (2025)
tim and eric’s weird arms-down running style from “tim and eric’s billion dollar movie” (2012)
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
cover of late 1960s paperback “21 Great Stories.” text follows: 21 GREAT STORIES THE PEARL BY JOHN STEINBECK WAR by Luigi Pirandello EVE IN DARKNESS by Kaatje Hurlbut THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS by Ray Bradbury TOBERMORY by "Saki" THE TWO BOTTLES OF RELISH by Lord Dunsamy FOOTFALLS by Wilbur Daniel Steele HOOK by Walter Van Tilburg Clark WINE ON THE DESERT by Max Brand THE LADY OR THE TIGER by Frank Stockton AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE by Ambrose Bierce THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO by Edgar Allan Poe THE TELL-TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe SO MUCH UNFAIRNESS OF THINGS by C. D. B. Bryan THE NECKLACE by Guy de Maupassant TO BUILD A FIRE by Jack London LEININGEN VERSUS THE ANTS by Carl Stephenson VELINE by James Joyce THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY by James Thurber WHAT STUMPED THE BLUEJAYS by Mark Twain THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND by Arthur Conan Doyle Edited by Abraham H. Lass and Norma L. Tasman
August 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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i took this picture two thousand and nine (of us with the newspaper and the headline)
L to R: the three members of girlyman, and myself, at a show they did in dallas 2009
August 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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very reassuring
4. At 3pm begin to drink solution (DO NOT START THE MEDICATION ANY EARLIER). One 8 oz. Glass every ten minutes until you drink half the gallon. You will get diarrhea. 5. At 7pm begin to drink solution again (DO NOT START THE MEDICATION ANY EARLIER). One 8 oz. Glass every ten minutes until you drink the remaining half the gallon. You will get diarrhea, possibly nausea and vomiting.
July 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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mission aborted
screenshot of a bluesky account, the bio reads: Tom from Myspace (Parody) Follows you @myspacetom2003.bsky.social This is 100%a PARODY account. Education: University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles On a mission to follow ALL BlueSky members. Send me your starter pack links so I can follow all of you. I am the ultimate lurker. same account, about to be blocked: Block Account? Blocked accounts cannot reply in your threads, mention you, or otherwise interact with you. Block Cancel
July 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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catrina
a screenshot from LOCAL58TV’s “show for children.” cadavre looks thoughtfully up above an open grave, at the apparition of catrina, a skeleton person like himself. she wears a long dress with short sleeves, and has a bone “bow” on her head.
July 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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clown no like aerial yoga
ad for “universal horror unleashed” featuring a woman doing acrobatics and a huge pissed clown face
July 3, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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i have never seen a more off-putting attempt to pique curiosity with a new verb than this. i made a choked sound
a screenshot of an ad on instagram featuring what is apparently called a “sankey diagram.” the large text reads You're Not Bad With Money. You Just Haven't Sankey'd🦋 Yet.
July 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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they always make this kind of statement and whatever they’re talking about just gets shuttered 6 months later. it’s non-language. it’s a belch
a screenshot from the linked aftermath.site article on polygon: In a statement in the press release by Jim Bankoff, CEO of Polygon's former owner Vox, Bankoff says, "This transaction will enable us to focus our energies and investment resources in other priority areas of growth across our portfolio of iconic digital publications and audio/video programming, while enabling Valnet to grow their leadership and authority in the gaming information category."
May 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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a lifetime original
the sexy handwritten “covid-19” from whitehouse.gov
April 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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eraserhead (1977)
black and white image of me in very low light, hair up like the main character in eraserhead
April 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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this was always yours
text replacement shortcut on ios: Phrase i wouldn't be surprised if we never heard from denise richards again Shortcut (denise)
April 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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the coin man from cryptoland, his mouth geometry clipping into itself
March 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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that reminds me of this entry from my dream journal
May 4, 2021 at 8:37 PM audio only: a man screaming bloody murder, followed a beat late by a modest laugh from a studio audience
February 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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chainsawsuit comic. panel 1: first person holds up a newspaper with the headline “NAZIS PAY ME TO BE A NAZI” and asks the second person “why would you let yourself be recorded saying this” second person says “i was joking!! i can't joke about controversy??” panel 2: second person makes nazi salute and continues “‘heil hitler!’ that's a joke too, sheesh. lighten up” panel 3: second person is revealed to be wearing full nazi regalia, near a heroic bust of hitler and a giant swastika flag. they continue: “everything we’re doing is just jokes you don't get”
January 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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trying to remember the name/author of a short horror story i read a long time ago (clive barker, “in the hills, the cities”)

instead of search results, google AI wrote me a story i didn’t want
iOS screenshot of a google search for “horror story town fighting giant” google AI returned the following text before showing any search results: Al Overview: The town of Hollow Creek had always been quiet, nestled in the shadow of the ancient, mist-shrouded mountains. But the quiet was shattered on a blood-red dawn when a colossal figure, a giant with skin like weathered rock and eyes that glowed like embers, emerged from the fog, casting a monstrous shadow over the sleeping village. The first to spot the giant was young Sarah, a farmhand who was out tending to the chickens when she saw a movement in the distance that seemed to defy all sense of scale. As the creature lumbered closer, the townsfolk realized the nightmare was real. The giant, with each thunderous step, crushed houses, uprooted trees, and sent a wave of terror through Hollow Creek.
January 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM