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Sarah Shay
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I am 5'7", and maintain a very consistent panda bear shape.
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I have been waiting three months to get matching Game Changer totes for me and a friend for the friend's birthday, and they finally came back in stock just before the blessed day....but the totes are limited to one per customer "due to availability." JUST ORDER MORE BAGS SAM.
Screenshot of the Dropout.tv store, showing one Game Changer Tote Bag in the shopping card, and a dialogue box over the page reading "Only 1 item was added to your cart due to availability."
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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FUCK YEAH WE DID!!!
Headline: "Seattle just elected a socialist barista as mayor." Source: Townhall, 17 hours ago. Sample text: Seattle's new mayo, Katie Wilson, is a socialist mayor challenging the status quo."
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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You might be spending too much time rewatching @dropout.tv shows if: you start recognizing the stock photo models.
Screenshot from the Game Changer episode "Ratfish (Part 1)." On the left, a stock photo of a middle-aged man with dark hair and greying temples, in a navy blazer and white dress shirt. To the right, the name "Jack Stryker" (with a Y, to be clear), followed by his pronouns, age (55), profession (talent agent), location and bio. A screenshot from the Smartypants episode "Standardization, Dogs, Procrastination," specifically from Jeremy Culhan's presentation on procrastination. A PowerPoint template with a white background and blue geometric shapes that look, I dunno, businessy I guess? To the left, the words Step 1: Get the assignment. To the right, a photo of the same model (greying temples, blue blazer) holding a tablet and looking faraway and visionary in an office setting.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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My first thought was the Infocom game Cutthroats, which someone had loaded onto one of the Mac Classics at my middle school, but that game was released in 1984 so it would have been misleading.
On a black screen, white serif text reads "Your Room, on the bed. You're in your room in the Red Boar Inn. It's sparsely furnished, but comfortable enough, To the north is the door, and there's a closet without a door to the west. On the floor is a note that must have been slipped under the door while you slept. In a corner of the room is a lopsided wooden dresser." Below this is break, then a right-facing pointed bracket, followed by the command "eat the dresser." Below that, the game has responded "You should get out of bed first." The next command is "get out of bed," which resulted in the response "You get out of bed." The next command is "eat the dresser." The game responded "I don't think that the dresser would agree with you."
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Age yourself with gaming.
Cover art for the 1992 home PC game "Mario™ Teaches Typing." A slightly odd-looking Mario, wearing a yellow cape for some reason, is leaping in the air over a picture of a classic beige 90s computer keyboard. Below that is a red logo that reads "Interplay."
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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My goodness... @stevenbrust.bsky.social, what have you been up to?
Screen shot of a Tumblr search window. The search bar contains the phrase "Steven Brust," and below it is a warning that reads "Hold your horses! These search results are likely to contain content which does not comply with Tumblr's User Guidelines. To help keep everyone safe we're not displaying any content here." Below that is a blue button labeled "Learn more."
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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There were a couple caption errors in the latest episode of @gastronauts.bsky.social, but because it was a drag episode I thought this one was supposed to be a joke for a whole second 😂
Two drag performers, Landon Cider and Meatball, are sitting at a desk with microphones in front of them. The caption reads "As long as that water's boing." The play bar at the bottom shows 22 minutes and 9 seconds (in case someone from Dropout sees this and actually decides to ping the captioning department).
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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People have been asking me to put this design on merch ever since I posted it to Tumblr last year.

Questions:
1. Are there any good print-on-demand sites?
2. What's a good Leverage-adjacent charity to donate to?
3. Would I get a C&D?
4. More importantly, would @johnrogers.bsky.social be mad at me?
A logo that looks like it's for a small brewery. On a black field, large white text reads "Thief Juice," below that in smaller yellow "Established 2012," below that in smaller white "it's a mouth crime." The text is flanked by two simplified stems of yellow wheat, curving around the words.
October 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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For every time my broke ass felt stabbed in the back by a beloved podcast introducing a pay tier and immediately starting to talk shit about free listeners while putting the good stuff behind a paywall... @dropout.tv has healed me.
A section of the Dropout FAQ about their new "superfan" tier: Will there be exclusive video content on Superfan? No! All video content will remain part of the core Dropout experience. Exclusive Superfan content will be behind-the-scenes images, art, interviews, written commentary, and more. Does this change my standard Dropout subscription? No - definitely not! The core of Dropout will always be the same for everyone, whether you’re a Superfan or a regular subscriber, or someone just using a friend’s login. We’ll also continue to be ad-free for all subscriptions.
October 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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He does sometimes!
Brennan Lee Mulligan, a white man in his 30s with red hair and beard, poses in front of a black and blue, backlit backrop, wearing a plaid button-down shirt and posing with his hands propped coyly under his chin.
October 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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The whole episode I kept feeling like Ben was trying to define Käärijä exclusively, so when Mike said "It seems like what you're saying is that Käärijä is the only true Weird Little Dude" I immediately turned into this meme 😂
Leonardo Dicaprio in the 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; he is sitting in an easy chair, holding a can of beer and a cigarette in one hand, and pointing very emphatically in front of him.
October 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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BEHOLD! We have not settled on a name yet, but the strongest candidates so far are Mr. Boddy and Brom Bones. I will accept suggestions.
A full-size plastic skeleton stands on a balcony, leaning over a metal railing. It is wearing some cool motorcycle goggles on top of its head, and has a spooky piece of green burial shroud wrapped around its arms and shoulders. It is waving with both hands because it's friendly!
October 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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I regret to report that 90% of my costume box is in bad shape and would not hold up to outdoor conditions. But I will persevere!
A life-size plastic skeleton from the shoulders up, wearing the classic black plastic disguise glasses with eyebrows, a fake nose, and a mustache attached.
October 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Great news, I thought of another scene from Samencrantz and Brennanstern Are Dead:

BRENNAN: You knew I would lose no matter what.
SAM (embarrassed): Yes.
BRENNAN: There was no way I could win?
SAM: No.
BRENNAN: What's the point of that?
SAM (pathetic): I wanted to make you monologue.
GUIL: You had money in both hands. ROS (embarrassed): Yes. GUIL: Every time? ROS: Yes. GUIL: What's the point of that? ROS (pathetic): I wanted to make you happy.
October 4, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Me five minutes ago: Why the FUCK is my self-care app giving out fucking Santa hats in fucking OCTOBER, can't I escape the oppressive omnipresence of Christianity for a single goddamn MINUTE???
Me one minute ago: Oh. It's a Mean Girls reference.
Screenshot of the Finch self-care app. Three cartoon birds are wearing santa hats and there is confetti all over the screen. Text reads "It's October 3rd" and "A gift for you, because we're not like regular birdb parents. We're cool birb parents." A button at the bottom of the screen says "Make fetch happen." It's covered in Mean Girls references, basically.
October 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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I tried to make this a fairly unhinged mix, which I think I accomplished.
A list of films, with a thumbnail of the poster next to each one. Six-String Samurai (1998), Amelie (2001), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), Apocalypse, California (2011), Hackers (1995), Spaceballs (1987), Hairspray (1988), Aimée & Jaguar (1999), Young Mr. Jazz (1919).
October 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Happy birthday to the Golden Boy, my friend, bandmate, brother-in-arms and literal brother: Aaron J. Shay. I don't know what I'd do without you, boychik💜
My brother, a man of 30-odd years with pale skin and short brown hair, wearing a tweed flatcap, a KN95, and a black tshirt that reads "PROUD UNION MEMBER" in bold white letters. He stands with his hands on his hips, looking cool af.
September 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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This is why you need copy editors.
Screenshot of a video notification from CNN, with the text "The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say." This has been twitted by the Merriam-Webster account, with a simple comment: "Crab-walked," with a hyphen so you understand that the convict used a particular style of walking to escape but was not himself a killer crab.
September 28, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Happy National Punctuation Day! I just found out that exists five minutes ago, but I'm going to claim it as my own. Anyone who has more than two punctuation tattoos can fight me for ownership, but I'm going to need photographic proof.
Close-up photo of two pale-skinned wrists against a white wall; the right wrist has a black semicolon tattoo and the left wrist has a black ampersand tattoo. Both wrists are wearing different leather cuffs with metal buckles.
September 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo, replaced with the words "Happy Birthday Michael Westfall."
September 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Absolutely saving this for the next time anyone calls me out for a grammar or spelling mistake on the internet.
In a room full of books, a short woman with light skin and dark hair wearing a short-sleeved white button-down and a polka-dotted tie stands next to a large screen, pointing at it. The screen reads, in all caps, "I am brave enough to be dumb."
September 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Still from an animated clip from the TV show "Game Changer," with Raphael Chestang seated in a wingback chair and wearing a smoking jacket, holding a copy of The Great Gatsby. The caption reads "Raphael: Actually...he was just a pretty good Gatsby."
September 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Nothing gold can stay. Cheers to a tiny Michigan pizza joint that fearlessly fought against a shitty national chain stealing their name, while also shamelessly having a logo that ripped off the Pringles guy.
The words "The best pizza buys in town" in red lettering circle a little green face wearing a chef's hat, with a big mustache that looks, shall we say, remarkably familiar.
September 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Sean Astin and Matthew Lillard, best known as the two leads of the seminal 2000 surfer movie "Dish Dogs."
Sean Astin, with bleached hair, and Matthew Lillard, wearing a pooka shell necklace, in the seminal 2000 surfer movie Dish Dogs.
September 2, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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God, has it been 10 years of Juptember already?
Screenshot of a Tumblr post by TheSarahShay dated September 3, 2015. A photograph of a wall calendar on September 2015, where the previous months were not torn off completely, leaving the corner of June overlaying September perfectly so that it reads "Juptember." Below it, the caption reads "God, is it Juptember already?"
September 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM