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Ryan Lange
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Media researcher interested in automated behaviors. I lift heavy things and put them down again. Sometimes I help someone learn something.
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A guy who is super cool and definitely not cringe wearing the smart glasses described in this Wired article, which one assumes cost somebody quite a bit of money to have placed there. The man has a not at all yee-yee ass haircut, big black Birth Control Glasses like they give out in the service, and a fascist black t-shirt that Bluesky parodied to raise money once.
August 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Garfield regards a sign with the placid inner peace of someone with no self-awareness. The sign features Garfield within a "no buster" sign, which is a red circle with a red line through it. The caption reads "Huh. I wonder who that's for." Mr. Cillizza, please go away. You aren't helping.
July 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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An advertisement for Kahn's all meat weiners. "The wiener the world awaited" is the headline, with the subheading "The most digestible wiener in the world.' It features an illustration of a pack of hot dog wieners and a lot of other text. What I'm saying is that reply guy is a wiener but at great length.
December 24, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Caption taken directly from Wikipedia. "Diagram in which red dots stand for places where surviving planes were shot. This only tells you where planes can get shot and still come back to base. Survivorship bias: your only information is what has survived." From the relevant section, Wiki markup deleted: "During World War II, the statistician Abraham Wald took survivorship bias into his calculations when considering how to minimize bomber losses to enemy fire. The Statistical Research Group (SRG) at Columbia University, which Wald was a part of, examined the damage done to aircraft that had returned from missions and recommended adding armor to the areas that showed the least damage. The bullet holes in the returning aircraft represented areas where a bomber could take damage and still fly well enough to return safely to base. Therefore, Wald proposed that the Navy reinforce areas where the returning aircraft were unscathed, inferring that planes hit in those areas were the ones most likely to be lost. His work is considered seminal in the then nascent discipline of operational research."
November 12, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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An image of "Donald Grump," the Sesame Street parody of Donald Trump. Grump has bright orange hair but looks like a purple Oscar. He is coming out of a trash can with "Grump" spraypainted across it like block graffiti in yellow and green. He has his hand out like he's asking the audience to imagine something. I think he is probably more coherent than what he is parodying.
August 2, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Daily Mail comment section. Post from meercat, Leeds, United Kingdom. Text: IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS No further context is provided.
April 29, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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The classic "brain is bad; instead of brain there is a dark orb" meme. It shows a diagram of what may be a human head that contains a large black area, generally circular. However, this is clearly not the human form and may be an early description of void people.
December 13, 2023 at 4:57 PM
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Screenshot of the next dumb-ass post this account made an hour after this one. "The economy and society are more commodified, or more concentrated, or both, than they were fifty years ago," it reads. "Robert Kuttner discusses the numerous sectors commodification has impacted." In my version of reality, it goes on to say "However, despite the increasing consolidation of the economy, social media posts documenting food banks being at crisis levels, rent increasing 30 to 40 percent, and stories about people having to buy ramen on credit is the actual problem."
November 22, 2023 at 4:07 AM
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"Glenn Beck Is Sorry About All That"
July 13, 2023 at 1:32 PM
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Vergil from Devil May Cry 5, propped up on his side after taking a powerful hit. He asks his opponent, "What form of power is this?"
July 11, 2023 at 12:50 PM
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July 8, 2023 at 2:06 PM
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This situation feels familiar and now I know why.
I made a low-effort Photoshop comparing the death of Twitter to the 1993 DC comics arc, The Death and Rebirth of Superman. This is a composited image of four comic book characters. From left to right: Steel (with the Mastodon logo), Cyborg Superman (with a scratchy Twitter logo), Superboy (with the Bluesky logo), and the Eradicator (with the Threads logo).
July 6, 2023 at 4:48 AM
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So much for the tolerant left am I right
"Glenn Beck Is Sorry About All That [Reactionary Stuff That Hurts Minorities And Marginalized People And Entrenches White Supremacy]"
July 2, 2023 at 12:48 PM
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Navigate and play a jaunty beat at the same time. AND officially licensed.
June 20, 2023 at 1:14 PM