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Luke Griffin
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post your favorite star trek character. wrong answers only.
Mork and Mindy. Robin Williams dressed n a red jumpsuit with a large silver metallic triangle on the chest point down with silver gloves and silver chain adornments o the cuff wearing an oversized fighter style helmet as the character Mork. He stands next to a brunette woman wearing a red peasant blouse and faded blue jeans.
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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I believe in you!
A sign in the style of Zohran for New York that reads productivity for Preeti. I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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In the style of the Zorhan for New York a poster that says BLOOD for THE BLOOD GOD
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Visited once, early eighties. The yellow safety/caution sticker they had at that time has lodged in my memory
A yellow rectangular safety sign with a silhouette of a falling man with a few loose rocks with text “USE CAUTION NEAR THE EDGE” “footing can be dangerous”
November 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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It is this that causes an internal struggle for me (bc I want to be better than yesterday etc) but fundamentally fuck this loser forever.

*I’ve appended a v brief thought in the alt text
Elon musk seated in front of maroon velvet drapes on joe rogan show. yellow text reads "The fundamental weakness of western culture is empathy." He is the negative embodiment of the sunyata idea of emptiness which I have only a surface knowledge of from brief readings of Buddhist thought.
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Middle age white man in light blue buttoned short sleeve shirt and blue jeans sits alone on a metal two seat porch swing with yellow cushions looking forlorn. This image merely scratches the surface of how this article impacts you
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Leonardo DiCaprio in a frame from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood seated leaning forward pointing with left hand and holding a lit cigarette and can of bear in his right hand. He’s wearing luxurious yellow sweater and a gold pendant is centered over his heart, fairly scuffed cowboy boot soles are foregrounded.
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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His affect and presentation are so… off putting is the nicest way I can say it
The Critic, a cartoon character seated in a directors chair wearing an argyle striped pattern sweater vest (think Charlie Brown) over a 70s avocado green button down and maroon slacks raised right hand with finger pointing up. Dialogue bubble states “it stinks!”
October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Derek Zoolander stands next to an architectural model looking incredulous. He is wearing a silver suit jacket. The meme format has text blocks the top reads “what is this”the bottom block reads “A podcast for ants?”
October 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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With alt text that was available with a hi res image from the Getty (Getty.edu)
Seen from behind, a man's arm curves possessively around the waist of his female companion. A refined woman dressed in fashionable seventeenth-century Dutch clothing walks down the aisle of the church with her greyhound in tow. In this interior scene, Anthonie de Lorme depicted the pulpit section of the middle nave of the Laurenskerk (Church of Saint Lawrence) in Rotterdam. Warm sunlight floods the church and illuminates the soaring beauty of the Gothic architecture. The clear, precise lines of the composition and the relative austerity of the setting were typical of Dutch Protestant church interiors after the Council of Trent. In effect from 1545 to 1563, the Council aimed to reform the excesses of art in the Roman Catholic Church.
September 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It fucking SMOKES the Phoenix tho, as is pretty common in everything between the two
A maroon background with a white phoenix in the center
August 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Portland’s is pretty dogshit
(Responding to prompt of show your trash city flag down thread) adopted by statute in 2004, from a 1969 design by a noted local graphic designer. Could be a lot better. Up there with Seattle’s. Should be weirder
Nordic-style Brigid's cross design with Blue stripes/arms double-fimbriated by gold on white esquarres, in the center a white astroid hypocycloid, on a green background.
August 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I’m not doing this to hurt you, but I just immediately thought of this. You’re neat.
Amy Poehler in mean girls with bleach blonde hair and a pink juicy couture fit and a gaudy necklace. text reads “I’m not a regular mom. I’m a cool mom.”
August 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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plenty of boats come with these so..
A highly polished brass bell with raised text that reads US FRIGATE CONSTITUTION. There is further text that is too small to make out. There is a pretty big dong (or as the Brits have it a ‘bell-end’) hanging down. My dad was a ship’s captain and we had a number of ships bells in our house an a number of them when rung definitely had huge dongs
August 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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They shoulda closed Twitter after this one
tweet brent @murrman5 "no rapping tonight" why? "you rap about patrick swayze everytime, it's embarrassing" ok [after one beer] uh oh y'all it's gettin kinda hazy 10:38 AM 14 January 15
August 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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This was amusing to me as the feed synced up. Please let this be the trope 🤞🏼
A screenshot of the timeline feed with an amusing coincidental answer to the question posed that reads top to bottom as follows: Kate Elliott‬ ‪@kateelliottsff.bsky.social‬ · 22m Tropes you kind of dislike or even are genuinely annoyed by, and yet you find yourself using it in your current or a recent book/story because suddenly it fits the narrative. ‪Liz Bourke‬ ‪@hawkwinglb.bsky.social‬ · 19m Is it too much spoiler to name the trope? ‪Annie‬ ‪@badgrgrl21.bsky.social‬ · 14m Friendship between an ocelot and an opossum … www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/ A B&W trail cam photo of an ocelot and opossum.
July 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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An elderly woman in a pink sweater leaning on a walker is assisted by a young nurses aid with long tightly curled hair the old woman is saying “REAGAN TOLD ME I WAS A BABE” The aid replies “TIME FOR PUDDING AND THEN A NAP, OK?”
July 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Simpsons framegrab of school kids with the text “Stop! He’s already dead.”
June 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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This parenthetical is today’s
Vending machine with darkened array of candy bars that has a sign taped to it that says “The light inside has broken but I still work”
June 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Derek Zoolander swaggers through a mine with a pristine white tank top and “blue steel” face with a couple smudges of coal on face and arms
April 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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No reason
Guided By Voices Do The Collapse Album cover, a cube of crushed metal, apparently was a vehicle, that is mostly blue with yellow on the mid left border and in the center. All centered in a white background with name and title below the image. Not their best work (n.b. that is the live version of “A Salty Salute”) but a representative sample produced by Ric Ocasek whose production credits are stellar and whose work as the frontman for The Cars created some all time greats. His creative work gives Boston a lot of wiggle room for some of the more egregious slights it has been responsible for and that’s all I have to say about that.
April 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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SOL right now
The Simpson’s character Ralph Wiggum seated on a red school bus seat with a caption. The caption reads “(chuckles) I’m in danger”
January 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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This is the most succinct elaboration of the pathology of billionaires I’ve come across and it thunders in the background whenever I think on the subject
Here's how I recall the wonderful story that sets the theme for my remarks today: At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, the late Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, the author Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch 22 over its whole history. Heller responds, "Yes, but I have something he will never have ... Enough."
October 29, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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Anchorman Ron Burgundy saying “I don’t believe you” and turning to light a cigarette. Will Ferrell in a seventies navy blue suit and tie against a baby blue backdrop with news 4 repeated diagonally. He has a sweet moustache.
October 10, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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This chart where highlighted shows everything you need to understand about what the mainstream media desires. It is kindergarten math. Anyone attempting to complicate it beyond this likes the sound of their own voice🤷🏻‍♂️
Chart displaying change in web traffic volume comparing January 2020 to January 2024 Notable MSM CNN - Down 20% NYTimes - Down 22% Wash. Post - Down 46%
June 27, 2024 at 5:46 AM