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Kathryn VanArendonk
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don't mind if i do
with noma dumezweni and glenn fleshler
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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i'm sorry, last week's SVU featured toby huss wearing a fedora????
toby huss wearing a fedora and making an expression of a deep lack of surprise
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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oh you know, just catching up on south park this morning
bluey in a courtroom, on the stand: they made me do things i would never normally do Why don't you go fuck yourself, Bluey?
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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you say unsolved, but like Matthew Rhys in The Beast In Me, we all know
it’s muffin
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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earlier today @genevievekoski.bsky.social was like "i have a pluribus theory"
slack thread: 203 replies
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Bottle episode for saving money, in the zohran sign colors and fonts
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani Unlike all the crap fall tv I'm currently watching, #JaneTheVirgin keeps things 💯💯 3:15 AM · Oct 28, 2014
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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SHE LIVES
muffin o lantern coconuts have water in them
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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hmmm possible my pumpkin is too ambitious this year
muffin-o-lantern
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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thank you google AI summary
While personal taste varies, several comedy specials from 2025 have been consistently highlighted for their quality. Critics and fans have praised work from both established stars and rising comedians on platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube. Highly rated comedy specials of 2025 Andrew Schulz: Life (Netflix): Known for his sharp and unfiltered observational humor, Schulz delivers a thoughtful, narrative-driven special about his new role as a father.
October 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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I need to stop going to the library book sale because I WILL come home with whatever this is
ancient library binding of a book by ME Kerr called Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
October 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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bluesky i stg
‪Kathryn VanArendonk‬ ‪@kvanaren.bsky.social‬ · 23h have i become overly fixated on the louvre heist? maybe. but there have MULTIPLE french museum heists in the last several weeks?? 600k worth of gold from the natural history museum! 10mil in ceramics from limoges! www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar... www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a... Thieves steal €600,000 worth of gold from Paris's Natural History Museum The break-in on Tuesday morning, targeting gold samples of 'immeasurable heritage value,' comes amid a wave of robberies at French cultural institutions. www.lemonde.fr 14 75 Edna’s Antifascist (Antifa) Brat ‪@lsto4.bsky.social‬ Follow Organized distraction alert. Meanwhile the push and pull of fascism vs. democracy is pushed into the background.
October 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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look I found the jewel thieves
tom Wilkinson and his many baguettes
October 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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this is also ... such a weird thing to say!
He also reflected on being at the Emmys alongside so many celebrities, saying he felt slightly removed from the awards. “It was crazy, I just wasn’t a part of it,” he said. “Even though I was hosting it. I just wasn’t mixed in.”
September 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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this explanation for bargatze's emmys bit is ... my mind honestly boggled

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Bargatze said the bit originated after CBS asked him to come up with a way to keep the acceptance speeches short. He said CBS was “very happy” with the idea, as was “everyone at home.” He acknowledged that many of the critics didn’t feel the same way. He also didn’t assume that he would be the one on the hook to donate the money. “I wasn’t trying to overshadow any of their speeches,” Bargatze said. “I thought it was gonna be, I don’t know, Netflix donating, or Apple. The shows that won! It’s not like I expected that kid [Owen Cooper] to give money, which I covered for that kid. But I kind of thought that’s what would happen. In my head I pictured it as they could then go long, but then be a hero. So it was like a win-win. And then the night becomes about love and you’re giving to these kids that are there and all this kind of stuff. I don’t know if I just didn’t explain it enough in the room.”
September 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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my god
But your wife is one of the great human-rights experts in the world. I asked you about him being anti-liberal, and your response was that he was very nice to you about your book. About Star Wars. It is certainly a touching story. But that’s not totally an answer to the question.
September 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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help please - I have an iPhone 13 and my mom is super controlling and she has limits on everything. Is there any way to get past these / best I can say is try jailbreaking it / I don’t know what that is if you want to erase your iPhone to remove parental controls - when you try to erase your iPhone normally it will ask for a screen time passcode. But if you do this, you won't have to put it in. All you need is the apple id password. First, log on to icloud on the website, then go to find my, select your device, then tap on erase. Go through all the steps. Then, after that, your device will erase. Then, start setting it up. You will need to do activation lock, and this is the key reason why I said you need to apple id password. Then, continue setting it up, and make sure that you sign in with a different apple id, not the one that has the parental controls. Then, boom! You have successfully taken the parental controls off of your phone. Enjoy!
September 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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too! many! tomatoes!!
September 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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good morning
a child dressed as a monster, constructed out of paper bags
September 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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about 45 minutes before this I left the door of this vacation house open for a few minutes and when I came back in I found this dog inside the house so it’s possible I truly have transported back in time?
incredibly beautiful red setter
August 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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the goat that tried to playfully horn me to death has gotten trapped in his fence and I have had to call for his rescue; concerned I have entered a pre-1940s coming of age novel?
two men trying to cut a goat free
August 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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vacation update: had to call my husband and say “hello I have accidentally wandered into the goat pen and I need you to come let me out without releasing all these goats and also this one is trying to horn me”
a goat
August 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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put our kids on a red eye to Scotland and dragged them straight to a premiere league game and it’s 2-3 in the 78th minute and
a child asleep amid soccer hooligans
August 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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me writing about Bluey
archival photo of a researcher from children’s television workshop staring intently at kids watching an early Sesame Street test cartoon
August 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM