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December 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Sounds like he must have gotten himself a 4-Playo 3000

(comic by the great @mkupperman.bsky.social )
A parody advertisement from the comic "Tales Designed to Thrizzle" by Michael Kupperman. Title: "Are you being worn out by unnecessary foreplay?" Panel 1: a man in a suit is bent over a desk while another man in a suit with glasses says "Sleeping at your desk again Wilkins? You're fired!" Panel 2: Wilkins is shouting to the heavens "All because of foreplay!". Another man in a suit says to him, "Bob, you should do what I did—get yourself a 4-Playo 3000!" Panel 3: Caption "Six to eight weeks later —" Wilkins is unboxing a small, toy robot. "What a beauty! And these scientifically designed controls will ensure that my wife gets enough of her favorite kinds of foreplay!" Panel 4: A blonde woman with her hair in a short 1950s style turns her head and says, "Bob! I was just—" A kneeling Wilkins releases the robot in the room, saying "Get 'er, 4-Playo!" Panel 5: Spoken from off-panel: "What the—" and cartoon sound effect symbols. Wilkins is smiling and holding a pipe. "Heh, heh! A loud, shrill alarms from 4-Playo will let me know when my wife is ready for actual intercourse! Meanwhile, I'm free to work on my biography of Lyndon Johnson!" Panel 6 is a full picture of 4-Playo, a robot with cubic head and body, and round gripper claws Panel 7: A spiky balloon with text in a typewriter font: "Send $19.95 to Robomation, Ltd. Box 512, Foxham, MA. 02138" Panel 8: A dotted box to cut out and mail in, with two checkbox options. The first: "Yes! Please rush me 4-Playo, the amazing foreplay robot. I understand that in the event of my wife divorcing me and marrying 4-Playo, all my assets will become the property of 4-Playo" The second: "No! Don't rush me 4-Playo. There's something not quite right about all this, although nothing I can put my finger on right now." Underneath is a public service announcement: "Let's all go to the bathroom! A message from the Bathroom Council"
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Who needs more strings when you can have more frets?
Bluish-white double cutaway electric guitar with cream pickguard, P-90 pickup in neck position and a humbucker in bridge position, and a maple neck with way too many frets (19 tones to the octave) Black Strat-style double cutaway electric guitar with mother of pearl pickguard, and a maple fingerboard with a ridiculous number of unevenly spaced frets
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Screenshot of the video game Pit Fighter
October 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Close up of a somewhat worn handwritten white sticker on a signpost reading “Your [scratched off] neighbors want peace and safe access to life saving medical care. Your [illegible] neighbor wants to know what’s under your kid’s skirt. Who’s the creep?”
October 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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The season is upon us
On the lawn in front of a brown shingle house covered with Halloween cobwebs, a skeleton in jeans and a black t-shirt stands with its arms raised below a second skeleton in a white dress and wig suspended horizontally from a tree branch, posed like Patrick Swayze lifting up Jennifer Grey at the climax of Dirty Dancing. Nearby are two cardboard gravestones reading “Nobody puts Baby in the ground” and “Had the time of my life”
October 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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The Headcheese Special #1, still my finest sandwich creation

Cambozola cheese, pickled walnut, Bavarian headcheese, watercress dressed with olive oil & herbes de Provence, and a little butter on soft crusty bread
A sandwich on Italian crusty bread on a white plate with a brown rim. The visible contents of the sandwich include from bottom to top: soft blue cheese, sliced headcheese (meat in aspic), and glossy watercress. Behind the sandwich on the table is a small pumpkin
October 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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October 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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September 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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September 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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two photos of Melania Trump in an ominous black outfit with large dark purple hat that hides her face, captioned: "President Donald Trump (right) and First Lady Melania Trump pose with young members of the choir at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England on Sept. 17, 2025. Aaron Chown, POOL/AFP Via Getty Images" and "Queen Camila and First Lady Melania Trump during the State visit by the President of the United States of America at Windsor Castle on Sept. 17, 2025 in Windsor, England. Anna Moneymaker, Getty Images" panel from Junji Ito's "The Woman Next Door" from Mimi's Ghost Stories, with a girl sticking her head out of a second story window to see a woman wearing a black dress and large black hat, and face completely obscured by sunglasses and scarf standing right outside the window on freakishly long spindly metal legs, with splayed, clawlike gloved hands at the ends of similarly overlong metal arms
September 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Gleek, the pointy-eared blue space monkey from Super Friends in his usual yellow super suit with purple cape and triangular purple stylized G chest logo, frowning and with eyes glowing yellow
September 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Cider apple & caramelized onion pork fricassee over papardelle, garnished with pink pickled onions and fennel leaves, and a simple salad of romaine lettuce chiffonade and thinly shaved fennel bulb dressed with a walnut oil and light cider vinegar vinaigrette
A plate filled with wide egg noodles topped with a light brown stew, bright pink pickled onions and a dusting of chopped fennel leaves. To the back left, a smaller plate with a small light green and white salad. To the back right, an emerald green water glass. Some silverware is just barely in frame. Across the table, another place is similarly set and served.
September 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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If you see this, post a DC comics cover you love
July 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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This was on heavy rotation on mine
July 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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BTW by “Italian garlic mustard” I mean this stuff. It’s made in Petaluma and it’s great

It sort of a dijon but with…a lot going on
A jar of Angelo’s Italian Garlic Mustard with Horseradish & Honey. The label is black with a tricolor Italian flag design in the middle; on the white part is a black & white photo of a smiling guy, presumably Angelo, wearing a striped bowtie, leaning his head against his closed hand
July 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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A fridge cleaner sandwich for dinner tonight. Cambozola cheese, Angelo’s Italian garlic mustard, cucumber, blood & tongue sausage (that’s the dark brown cold cut with pale spots sticking out the side), Iberico cheese, rotisserie chicken breast, red romaine lettuce, a bit of buttermilk dressing
A somewhat overstuffed sandwich on baguette, with rolled up cold cuts and ruffly red lettuce hanging out, on a tin plate
July 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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A crudely (two frame) animated photo of a cat headbanging, with the words "PARTY HARD!" flashing alternating red and black
July 16, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you…the CRONCHLER

This Anglo-Viet-Japanese fusion monstrosity contains tonkatsu, banh mi pickle slaw, fish sticks, Branston pickle, and fried onions, plus sweet mustard and miso mayo

It kinda works! Just not…structurally
A plate with an absurdly large sandwich on crusty bread, and one yellow cherry tomato
July 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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July 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Can check
Hand holding a can of Coffin Dodge Amber Ale. The design on the can is a photo on an off-white background of a brown beer bottle with a rounded brown label that reads from top to bottom “Oakland”, then the Ghost Town Brewing logo, “Coffin Dodger”, “amber ale” between two stylized ears of wheat, “473176 ML” and “5.5% ALC/VOL” flanking an Oakland Made logo with the Oakland CA oak tree symbol, and “premium amber beer”
July 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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The Baja Fish Sandwich: avocado, salsa, shredded cabbage, fried fish fillets, “tartar crema” (mayo, sour cream, dill pickle relish, minced cilantro, New Mexico green chile powder)
Photo of a plated sandwich of (top to bottom) avocado, salsa, shredded cabbage, fried fish fillets, and tartar sauce on dutch crunch bread. To the side is a passionfruit soda
July 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Still my magnum opus: the Perfect Headcheese Sandwich

Cambozola cheese, pickled walnuts, Bavarian headcheese (sülze), watercress tossed with herbes de provence olive oil, butter on soft crusty bread (dutch crunch here)
June 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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June 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM