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Blitzkrieg Bob
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Computer programs are literally machines made of math
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The Mitsubishi Galant VR/4 was a hell of a sedan...a shame they gave it Volvo styling. If they’d made it like a 5-door 3000GT that would have been [chef's kiss]!
Mitsubish Galant sedan in gunmetal gray
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Can I get a mecha mocha?
iZac the robot bartender from the animated series 'Futurama' - caption: ``YOU GOT IT!''
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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It’s been said that the mothership from Close Encounters was inspired by a photo of Los Angeles at night.

Okay, it was said by me just a couple of minutes ago.
from the movie 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,' a crew of extraterrestrial experts waits for the visitors to emerge from the open door of the mothership beneath Devil's Tower, Wyoming
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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www.azquotes.com/quote/461118
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." – Isaac Asimov
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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🤔
From the comic strip 'Bloom County' - front page of the 'Bloom Beacon' newspaper, Senator Bedfellow is holding a fistful of money while Milo Bloom (in Arab disguise) does 'rabbit ears' behind the Senator's head. Headline reads: ``BEDFELLOWSCAM! Caught! Pictures! We got pictures''
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band
From 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' by Douglas Adams: DISASTER AREA - BANNED Being meets girl being beneath a silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason. Many worlds have now banned their act altogether
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Did this one back in 2008...
an album cover for 'Emerson, Lake & Palmer' showing Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ricki Lake, and Arnold Palmer
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Okay, maybe two.
Cover of "The Punisher" comic book
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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😱
from the movie 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (1977), Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) looks up out of the window of his truck at a UFO's light
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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an illustration showing two figs, labeled 'fig 1' and 'fig 2'
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Next thing you know, they'll be putting the jelly straight into the peanut butter...
jar of Smucker's 'Goober Grape' peanut butter and jelly mix
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Our last local Schlotzsky's closed during COVID.
The closest one is now a 4-hour drive away. 😩
a photo of Schlotzsky's original deli sandwich on sourdough bread
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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I collected these rocks at the base of a cliff in... oh, wait, no. These are crushed Butterfingers.
Butterfingers candy crushed into small bits of toffee and chocolate
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Also:
Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in the film 'Blade Runner' (1982) Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in the film 'Blade Runner' (1982)
November 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Featuring the ever-versatile @xanderberkeley.bsky.social
Xander Berkeley as Dr. Lamar in 'Gattaca' (1997) Xander Berkeley as Marshal Van Cleef in 'Shanghai Noon' (2000)
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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from the movie 'My Cousin Vinny' (1993) - Vinny (Joe Pesci) questions a witness, ``ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT MUSTARD??''
November 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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“I could smell the onions and the mustard”
George C. Scott in the movie 'Patton'
November 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Mini vMac is a real piece of work, quite an accomplishment. But it takes a certain mad genius to write and maintain code like this. I think there's a reason developers who work on emulators tend to go off the deep end and quit, vanish, or have an aneurysm (no idea what happened to Paul C. Pratt)!
static pascal OSErr GetVRefNum( short fileRefNum, short * vRefNum) { OSErr err; UInt16 offset = (UInt16)fileRefNum; SInt16 L = LMGetFSFCBLen(); if (L < 0) { L = 30; } if (2 == (offset % (UInt16)L)) { Ptr p = LMGetFCBSPtr(); if (offset < (*(UInt16 *)p)) { p = *(Ptr *)(p + offset + 20); /* volume control block */ *vRefNum = *(short *)(p + 0x004E); /* vcbVRefNum : Volume reference number */ err = 0; goto label_done; } }
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Narrator: “But Stormtrooper KE-829 never did get to see the new BT-16.”
from the movie 'Star Wars' (1977) - two stormtroopers on the Death Star make small talk while Obi-Wan Kenobi sneaks past them
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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🛣️👀
road sign reading ``Adopt a Highway - Big Swedish Underarm Crystal''
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy." - Gustave Mark Gilbert, American Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Post something random and you'll have an awful November
from the movie 'The Lawnmower Man' (1992) - Jobe Smith (Jeff Fahey) screams inside his virtual reality avatar
November 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Drop something PINK 💄 🎀 🖤 🌸 👙
from 'Star Trek: The Animated Series,' Captain Kirk stands next to a giant pink tribble in his captain's chair
November 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Damn your earworm! Now I have to listen to “Thriller” to rinse it out...
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Why does Jake look like Guy Smiley to me?
puppeteer Jim Henson performs the Muppet Guy Smiley
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM