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Sar

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how the turn tables

still from la voyage dans le lune when the ship hits the moon like a big pizza, boom!

November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM

Sar

@sarr.bsky.social

made a typo looking for jobs that require WAF experience and I think I found my true calling

screenshot:
"Showing results for waif jobs
Did you mean: waf"

November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM

Sar

@sarr.bsky.social

i think the Manx and Sicilian flag-legs should fight like beyblades

Manx flag: three-legged triskelion on a red background. the legs are each clad in knight's armor with spurs

Sicilian flag: three-legged triskelion on a red & yellow background. the legs are naked and there is a face in the middle where the three of them meet

November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM

Sar

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why did brutalismbot block me over this?? :< adding source pic for posterity

brutalist house with two half-moon windows on its upper floor that look like eyes and a window on its lower floor that looks like a big grin

November 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM

Sar

@sarr.bsky.social

duchamp's readymade sculpture "fountain": a urinal turned on its side with the signature "R. Mutt 1917" scrawled on in black paint

October 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM

Sar

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October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM

Sar

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i think when you’re traveling in another country, it’s always worth it to check out a smaller less-touristy town. can’t overstate what a nice time we had in Clonmel.

an ancient stone cross sits in the middle of a pool of water surrounded by trees at St. Patrick’s Well

a loosely built stone cairn overlooks a sprawling town with hills in the distance

a view of a town street on a sunny (by irish standards) late afternoon. a green hill with pastures and forest is in the middle distance, rising above the town

October 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM

Sar

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i’m in ireland

October 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM

Sar

@sarr.bsky.social

if you can't run with the big dogs then DON'T PLAY COZY ISOMETRIC COTTAGECORE GAMES

big dogs shirt with a graphic looks like a flower shop from a cozy isometric cottagecore game. there are sunflowers and bees everywhere and both pictured big dogs look to be at peace

September 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Sar

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trying to understand the 2025 median Big Dogs shirt wearer and not having an easy time

big dogs sonic parody shirt that reads "zoomie the fetchdog."

big dogs "Friends" parody shirt where the show is called "Furries."

t-shirt that shows a tired big dog with coffee with the caption "awake ...not woke"

t-shirt with big dog with hand on chin with the caption "who decides what's misinformation"

September 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM

Sar

@sarr.bsky.social

(dark souls font) WEDDING WED

me and jon silhouetted in front of a big lake at sunset

September 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM

Sar

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September 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM

Sar

@sarr.bsky.social

the 3 biggest celebrities in Pittsburgh, according to Wplace: Paul Skenes, Mac Miller, and the juggalo troll from Homestuck

screenshot of the northeastern part of Pittsburgh as depicted on the Wplace map. the 3 biggest artworks in the screenshot are indeed Skenes, Miller, and Makara

August 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM

Sar

@sarr.bsky.social

having fun reading year-old reddit posts about life in Orban's Hungary. good thing none of this has anything to do with me or where I live!

BarnacleWhich7194:

It’s more what doesn’t happen - while other countries progress, the nepotism and cronyism holds Hungary back - money increasingly goes into vanity projects and not the essential services people actually use. A complete lack of imagination in a government stuck in the past means the country becomes a hub for low paid labour. A small core group of people have become fantastically rich, while economic mismanagement send the huf down the toilet and cost of living/inflation way higher. Constant noise and childish nonsense from the government, Orban spending more time creating conflict with allies and neighbours for his own ego and relevance.

VindictiveRaspberry:

And there is no consequence for anything. There is no scandal they do not survive, even if it involves sexual abuse of minors (multiple times already!). Significant portion of the voters are continuously brainwashed on every possible channel and they just overwhelm the public with something else to suppress any scandal.

trbrd:

As mentioned above, many people are brainwashed. I would say one of the most important and refined tools used by Orban and Fidesz is their exploitation of the media. Their propaganda is expertly crafted to appeal to a certain demographic who are easily swayed by repetitive appeal to emotion.

Year by year, their propaganda becomes more extreme, but it still works.

August 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM

Sar

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what a king. 7 years later he released all his music to the public domain. thank you for the laughs tom

wikipedia screenshot reading "In 2012, rapper 2 Chainz sampled Lehrer's song "The Old Dope Peddler", on his 2012 debut album, Based on a T.R.U. Story. In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his song sampled "literally sixty years after I recorded it". Lehrer went on to describe his official response to the request to use his song: "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?""

July 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM

Sar

@sarr.bsky.social

loved the Backyard Baseball tribute at the pirates game tonight

backyard baseball-style player info card for Oneil Cruz shown on the PNC Park jumbotron

July 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM

Sar

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i think it's up to us to shout it from the rooftops because they need money

IMO worth it for these 2 shows alone

streaming show thumbnails for Nature and Nova

July 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM

Sar

@sarr.bsky.social

shameless and disgusting

CMU's iconic fence, now painted entirely black with the message from the OP removed

July 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM

Sar

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everyone's saying superman is a great return to form and is the definitive interpretation of the characters, but not ONCE in the movie did lex luthor steal four tens' worth of cakes

picture book page reading "When no one was looking, Lex Luthor took forty cakes. He took 40 cakes. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible."

July 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM

Sar

@sarr.bsky.social

today we are serving cloaca

secretary bird who is absolutely serving cloaca

July 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Sar

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seems like a cool guy

sketchy reinterpretation of brutalist building in original post as a blocky guy with finger guns

July 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM

Sar

@sarr.bsky.social

found a beautiful mayfly molt on my porch. molting is an energy-intensive effort on animals from insects to birds, so I'm glad little guy was able to find a safe spot here.