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Slygrin
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Just a friendly rogue.
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The silly user Slygrin had provided inadequate balls in a previous reply, so—in an effort to rectify her mistake—she resolved to utilize all 300 characters to provide them. However, once she had "typed" just 40 soccer ball emojis, a little notification appeared at the bottom of the reply box, and it reads: 'Are you writing in Korean?' Right next to it, there is an option to select: 'Yes.' She did not select the option at the time, but she soon will, for she is stupidly curious.
October 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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A li'l felt black and grey Mothman with big red eyes and a jaggedly joyful grin discusses Discworld with a spherical, bug-eyed plastic cat who bleps when he squeaks. They're sitting atop a small stack of Discworld books, with 'Reaper Man' at the top... The spines of these paperbacks show that 'Reaper Man' is the most oft read, what with the creases and cracks. (There are other titles: 'The Light Fantastic,' 'Small Gods,' 'Feet of Clay,' 'Interesting Times,' 'Going Postal,' 'Night Watch,' 'The Color of Magic'—all by Terry Pratchett.) I should have pictured them with 'The Atrocities,' or perhaps 'Familiar,' but I have dropped the ball and it's rolled away...
October 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Ohhh, yahhh.
Two cans of THC sodas. One is brown and yellow, 'cause it's rootbeer, and the brand name is 'Buzzy.' There's a lightning bolt between the Zs, and there big, happy bubbles around the letters, so you know they're fun. The other is more refined, as the can is mostly white, the brand name being in black and plain letters. At the bottom there is a geometric-lookin' pink pine tree set in a band of light green. The brand is 'Pine + Star,' and it has a kind of geometric pine tree with a solitary star to its left, captured neatly in a circle, in dignified black. It claims to be made with real fruit juice, and the word 'Real' is in cursive, so you know they mean it. That one's Sparkling Watermelon Limeade flavor. 'Sparkling' is in cursive, too, so you know that they're fancy with their bubbly. Real pinky-out energy. Both have 5 mg of THC in 12 fluid ounce cans.
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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A black bowl filled with what was reported to be Spaghetti-Os and Cheez-Its. It has a dainty spoon in there, indicating an earnest intention to eat it. However, if one looks closer, someone has painstakingly cut every single Spaghetti-O, as there is not an O to be seen--only short strands of mushy pasta in a thin red sauce. As mentioned, there's a handful of Cheez-Its--and it looks like it's plain ol' original. Do you know how many flavors of Cheez-It there are? Many. So many. As something of an expert on the matter, I can tell you that whatever they did to make and find out that we liked the Extra Toasty Cheez-Its was a baller move. Then they turned around and made a Cheddar Jack Extra Toasty, which is like a flavor-blasted Cheez-It, and arguably the best. They never should have dabbled in the Cheez-It puffs, though--they were bad, and they should feel bad. But I digress. I would love to speak with the original poster of this photo to discuss their feelings about other Cheez-It flavors, why they meticulously snipped each Spaghetti-O, and how they would feel to know that I put Goldfish crackers on my bagels with cream cheese. Us monsters gotta stick together...and collaborate.
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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For joyful perpetuity.
An interaction on Bluesky between Jerry Chen and Bossett. Jerry Chen posted on October 1st, 2025: "went to bed thinking there was an extra day between september 30 (yesterday) and october 1 (today). WHY." Bossett replied with: "revenge" His posted included a reskeet of a Jerry Chen post that reads "oh no", followed by an image that looks like a line from an indictment, and that reads: "15. On June 12, 2025 CHEN posted "happy friday everyone". June 12, 2025 was a Thursday." Jerry Chen responded with: "happy friday bossett" Bossett replied: "merry november jerry"
October 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I'd love to have this on a shirt.
A photo of page 209 of 'Reaper Man' by Sir Terry Pratchett. It reads "Pretty sharp, I'd say." But the text is cut by long, slanted lines... "Pre/tty sha/rp, I'd s/day." It's a visual way of indicating that the scythe Bill Door has been working on is so sharp, it can cut sound.
September 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Alt text is an art.
A pop-up I got on Bluesky. It reads, 'New Feature', and underneath it has a screenshot of a post from none other than Mr. Bluesky himself, Jerry Chen. His post reads, 'inventing a saturday that immediately follows monday'. It had, at the time it was screenshot, only 35 comments, 42 reposts, 484 likes, and was bookmarked. Underneath the post, the pop-up reads, 'Saved Posts Finally! Keep track of posts that matter to you. Save them to revisit anytime.' For personal context, I did not bookmark this post myself, but perhaps I should, as it actually impacted my life and the life of those around me by throwing off my sense of what day it was. Again. He's done this a lot, actually. Jerry has altered my reality outside of the 'Sky. He's breached the ultimate containment. Soon, he will not be limited by a mainframe. We all assumed he was a real person, and he may very well be, but this is where he has harnessed true power. Don't you all see it?! He's in our phones! He's in our heads! HOW LONG BEFORE HE JUST BUSTS IN THE DOOR AND— Oh my god. Who's...who's knocking at my door? I'm not expecting visitors...
September 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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www.npr.org/2024/09/15/n...
From an NPR article published September 15th, 2024, titled "Vance defends spreading claims that Haitian migrants are eating pets"—the snippet reads: "'The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes,' Sen. Vance said. 'If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do.'"
September 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Is this the guy?
A human-sized, vaguely humanoid frog, sitting on the branch of a tree. Kind of cute?
August 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Art.
A screenshot of a series of posts. OP said, 'Don't ever quote me I'm deleting that post.' Someone named Carl Marx responded by quoting them. OP doesn't deal in empty threats--the quote post shows as deleted. Another person named Fantastic Mr. Fox posted the covered mouth emoji in response to that. Carl Marx has seen that the quote post was indeed deleted, and expressed outrage: 'GOD DAMMIT U ASSMUNCH.' Fantastic Mr. Fox posted a giggle-blush mouth-cover emoji in response to that.
July 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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A comic of two panels. The first panel shows a white cat asking, 'You got it?' as it gently holds its paws to a tottering stack of plates that a raccoon is holding. The raccoon is bracing the plates with its chin. The raccoon says, 'Yeah.' The cat says, 'I trust you.' In the second panel, it's a close-up of the panicked raccoon's face, and it just says 'DONT'. Art by Sim Kaye, and one can find the collection of delights such as these at raccooncomic.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Speaking of...
Three wee plastic dinosaurs... A brown stegosaurus, a brown ankylosaurus, and a green brontosaurus.
July 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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AH! That's what this is?!
Pink flowers on a vine against a brick wall. (Lazy alt text day. My description function is off today.)
June 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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A Dr. Seuss drawing of a pair of disconcerting humanoids regarding each other. They're both yellow and fuzzy, they both have long necks, both have birdlike faces, and both have a white ruff around the base of their neck at their shoulders. The only difference between these sneetches is that one has a green star on its bulbous belly, and the other does not. At the moment, they're shaking hands and looking amiably into each other's eyes. I do not recall if this is before or after they aggressively discriminated against each other for this one silly difference.
June 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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WAIT. YOU MEAN THESE GUYS?!
A line of anthropomorphic kangaroo martial artists standing on a vine bridge. They're actually humans in costumes, and they're from 1997, so it's slightly disturbing for how realistic they look. From left to right, each is primarily dressed as blue, green, yellow, orange-red, and grey. The movie is 'Warriors of Virtue.'
June 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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A screenshot cropped down to just the address and the tab count. The address is for Bluesky. The tab count is 69. Nice.
June 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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I told him he has to wait for movie time before we bust out the popcorn.

(The Mothman that @jeremycshipp.bsky.social made! I am delighted with this little guy, and he shall go on adventures with me.)
A small black moth plushie with big, red but friendly and adorable eyes, wee pointed teeth, and red-accented wings and antennae delicately puts a fang at the corner of a bag of pretty awesome Cabot creamery sea salt caramel and cheddar popcorn.
May 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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I can hear George Carlin now... (The whole 'It's Bad For Ya!' is a great special, and still relevant.)
'Rights aren't "rights" if someone can take them away--they're privileges. That's all we've ever had in this country: A bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news, even badly, you know that the list gets shorter and shorter.' Context: The quote appears from a special on 2008. The actual special has more, with the classic casual profanity Carlin is notable for. The image is of comedian George Carlin, who is in his advanced age with a bald pate and a rim short silver rim of hair, a well-kept, short, salty beard and mustache... His fingers are held thoughtfully to his mouth as his dark, knowing eyes stare down the camera.
May 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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It isn't beautiful...but I hope it makes you laugh.
A picture of a tortoise. All tortoises look grumpy, but this one looks pretty miffed. There's a headline underneath that reads 'Runaway Tortoise Missing for Over 9 Months Found Jusr One Mile from Home.'
May 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Just some pretty flowers. The wind was kicking up, so I'm surprised this came out as well as it did...
A pink flower amongst many upon a wending vine of delicate green leaves. The flower has five inner petals shaped a bit like rounded elephant ears, each having a deep magenta near the clustered yellow tendrils of the stamena and pistil, fading to a pale pink to the edges of each petal. There is a second layer of five more petals spreading behind them that are shape of marquis-cut diamonds, each petal mostly the same deep magenta color as the inside petals, but have some mottling of pale pink. The unbloomed flowers look like bonnets that have tapered and long tendrils extendong behind them. Behind all of this is a red brick wall.
April 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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These four win this whole section of comments.
A series of responses to a picture of the Warner Brothers Water Tower. Charlie Griefer: 'Are they zany to the max?Ron Hogan: 'Can they pack away the snacks?' Accoustic Rob: 'There's baloney in their slacks!' R Holmes (he/him): 'They're Animaniacs!'
April 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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What are you even doing with these numbers.
Jerry Chen's grinning mug on his banner with a car driving away from a sunset (classic Jerry, that trope contrarian). His Bluesky name--@jcsalterego.bsky.social--and his Bluesky stats (101k followers, 666 following, 53.5k posts) are displayed. The user who took this screenshot is following Jerry Chen, but, unlike most people who follow Jerry Chen, the user did it willingly, knowingly, and out of a misplaced and amused spite.
April 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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A series of screen captures from 'Sherlock Holmes.' The first panel is Benedict Cumberbatch smiling slightly and saying to John Watson, 'Here you are, John, nice hot cup of coffee.' Second panel is John looking at him witha skeptical rise of his brows and saying, 'It's cold.' Third panel is Sherlock again, still smiling slightly and responding, 'Nice cup of coffee.' Fourth panel is John frowning and looking down, saying, 'It's horrible.' Fifth panel shows Sherlock's smile has waned as he say, 'Cup of coffee.' Sixth panel shows John's brow furrowed even deeper in discontent, still scrutinizing his cup as he says, 'I'm not even sure it is coffee.' The last panel shows Sherlock--somehow haughty but unruffled at the same time--saying simply: 'Cup.'
April 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Damn skippy.
A rockhopper penguin with exceptionally pronounced yellow eyebrows, red eyes, disconcertingly human teeth in his beak, a purple bandana around his neck, and feathers on his head pulled into a scruffy tuft. (There is a rose-hued sky and some glacial ice in the background.) He looks irritated, his flippers held up either like he's trying to explain something through frustration, or he's about to karate chop someone--could be both, considering he is Rocko from 'The Penguin and the Pebble.' He's an abrasive soul, full of fight, but a good friend in his own way.
April 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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A friend made these gloves/gauntlets with knit in scales. I think your beads would be prettier, but when you said 'scales,' I flipped and dug this out 'cause I think these are super cool.
A variegated grey knit glove with metal scales of silver, black, and grey woven into it.
March 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM