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Joel, but the best 🇺🇦
@thebestjoel.bsky.social
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You know, I could write something useful and interesting here. I could use a bunch of single word declarative labels… something like, “Djinn. Jokester. Joel.” Or some such. But instead, I think I’ll just leave this space blank.
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For those disinclined to click through:
An illustration by Chanti (Patreon.com/chantilin) of a blushing, pregnant "Clippy" the infamous paperclip with eyes and eyebrows that would pop up to interrupt users of Microsoft Word and offer unasked-for help. Clippy's "paper" lower body is swollen as though with child.
December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I often think of this one. theonion.com/god-outdoes-...
Headline from The Onion, September 7, 2005: "God Outdoes Terrorists Yet Again" above a photograph of the flooded streets of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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tenor.com/view/gollum-...
Gollum, the pale, emaciated creature who was a slave to the One Ring for centuries in a scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, covering both his ears and saying, "I'm not listening."
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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my top 4 favorite films from Guillermo Del Toro #filmsky

(I have those Pacific Rim posters on my wall)
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Cartoon drawing of a man with bushy eyebrows and a 5 o’clock shadow leering through a window, saying, “yes, ha ha ha, yes!“ On his scrawny frame is a black long sleeve shirt with the word “sickos“ emblazoned on it
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Christopher Guest playing Corky St. Clair, the community theater director, in the classic mockumentary "Waiting for Guffman" (1996) He's a middle-aged white man with a bowl cut and a goatee who's leering suggestively off-camera while seated to judge auditions for his play.
October 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Ryan Reynolds, best known for his role as
Jay De Boom in the Season 3 episode of The X-Files, "Syzygy"
A young Ryan Reynolds (white boy, Canadian actor) in a varsity letter jacket with a large "G" on it, gazing into the darkness off screen.
October 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score
A screenshot of the Rotten Tomatoes webpage for Freddy Got Fingered (2001) Tom Green's incredible, anarchic comedy film, sporting a 12% on the "Tomatometer" (critics) and a 56% on the "Popcornmeter" (users)
September 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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There are many, but off the top of my head...
Favorite villains from four different decades.
Who are your favorites? #Filmsky 📽️🎞️
A man dressed in a black suit and a wide rimmed black hat holds onto the bannister of a porch step. He has the word "LOVE" tattooed on the knuckles of his right hand, and "HATE" tattooed on the knuckles of his left hand. He is the character Harry Powell, played by Robert Mitchum in the 1955 film Night of the Hunter. A close-up shot of two men standing together under a tree at a South American "mission." On the left, wearing a red cap signifying his status in the Catholic Church, is Altamirano, played by Ray McAnally. On the right, wearing a beige coat over his period garb is Señor Hontar, played by Ronald Pickup. Hontar is one of the more eloquent villains in this film, the 1986 religious/historical drama The Mission. A man wearing a colorful, plasticine zipper jacket and a strange plastic headwear that sweeps his straight emo haircut off to one side, is seated at a desk in a futuristic office with a city skyline framed in the window behind his head. He is Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg, played by Gary Oldman in the 1997 sci-fi oddity The Fifth Element. Anime. A corpulent woman dressed in an ostentatious black fur coat and hat, with a prominent double chin, leers off-screen at a character in a hat shop. This is the "Witch of the Waste" voiced in the English-language dub by Lauren Bacall in the 2004 Studio Ghibli film Howl's Moving Castle.
September 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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George @georgetakei.bsky.social is a national jewel
George Takei greeting attendees of his panel at San Diego comic con on Sunday July 27, 2025
July 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Neat stuff at SDCC
The Angel of Death from Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Kind of a stone statue with wings and no eyes and a creepy mouth. Its face is like a cracked dinner plate. A figurine of Ryuk, the shinigami (death god) from Death Note. He’s clad in black leather, has black feathery wings and a permanent joker grin on his face with black lips. He loves apples A full size Lego replica of a bipedal Imperial droid. I think this is from Star Wars Rogue One?
July 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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These, too:
A screen shot from Thesaurus.com of the word: "profanation" Including Synonyms that are considered to be strong matches below: blasphemy crime curse desecration heresy impiety mockery offense profaneness profanity sin violation
July 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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You know if Burt Lancaster called it "the biggest piece of junk ever made" it's a must-watch. www.tcm.com/this-month/a...
Excerpt from the TCM page on the film: "Despite the end result, Airport was not an easy film to shoot. Screenwriter-turned-director George Seaton was unable to get permission to film at either the LAX or O'Hare airports so he resorted to shooting all interiors at the Universal soundstages and some exteriors at the St. Paul Airport in Minneapolis. Seaton also had to contend with Burt Lancaster's forceful personality on the set (Gregory Peck had been the original choice for the role). Lancaster was used to much more creative control on films and would occasionally question the director's decisions. Lancaster also was unsatisfied with the performance of his co-star Jean Seberg and later admitted that he only chose to do the film for commercial reasons. Although it would prove to be the most profitable film of his career, Lancaster would refer to it later as "the biggest piece of junk ever made." Seberg, for her part, hated her role and her gray, mini-skirted uniform that she thought made her look like a clown. It was quite a step-down from her critically acclaimed performances in such films as Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960) or Robert Rossen's Lilith (1964). On a more positive note, however, Airport was a great career move for George Kennedy who got to play the hero of the film - airport maintenance chief Joe Patroni, the man who clears the snowbound runway so the Boeing 707 can safely land. Helen Hayes also profited from the film, winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Ada Quonsett, a mischievous stowaway."
April 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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A surprising number of Teslas drove past honking in solidarity. I’d say a good 50% or cars going by were honking or had signs or raised fists out the window. Lots of old white folks out here and they seemed pretty energized. #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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This was a good one.
A man holding two signs. One says, “DOGE SH!T” and the other has a photograph of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, with the text “NOT A DICTATOR” next to him. Below Zelenskyy is a portrait of Vladimir Putin, with the text “DICTATOR” next to him. Below Putin is a portrait of U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance with the text “DICK” next to him. Below Vance is a portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump with the text “TRAITOR” next to him.
April 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Thread: a couple of dispatches from the #HandsOff protest in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, California today.
A man holding a sign with a quote from the 1998 Coen Bros. film The Big Lebowski: “This aggression will not stand, man”. ~ The Dude
April 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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A three panel strip featuring Dr. Manhattan from the original Watchmen graphic novel. He is a blue man sitting alone on Mars, the red planet, deep in thought. In each panel, he seems to be mentally experiencing events taking place at different times, as though simultaneously. Panel 1: I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible. Panel 2: I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible. Panel 3: I'm 35. Tariffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
April 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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I'm this old
A screen shot from Duke Nukem (1991). A buff blond man made of pixels stands amid roiling pits of lava, holding some kind of gun, also made of pixels.
March 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Mr. Bill will return as “Innocent bystander no. 3” in Avengers Doomsday
Mr Bill. The beloved clay man who wears a red clay sweater with white clay buttons. His trademark phrase is, “oh nooooo” The title treatment for the forthcoming Marvel tentpole Avengers Doomsday
March 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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I asked ChatGPT, “should Mark Cuban come out with a meme coin based on his toenail clippings?” The LLM kicked off its response with, “Now that would be peak meme coin culture! Imagine $TOENAIL-the first crypto backed by billionaire toenail energy. Honestly, in the current meme coin market, ridiculousness sells. If Cuban launched a toenail-themed coin with the right mix of hype, community engagement, and maybe some utility (like burning coins whenever he trims his nails (e), it could actually take off.”
March 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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A four panel comic. In the first frame, a young man strokes his chin thoughtfully. In the second frame, he's hanging up a red blanket against the wall. In the third frame, he's drawing on cardboard cutouts the faces of some scary cartoon demons. In the fourth frame, he's lying on the ground with a look of terror on his face, surrounded by cardboard cutouts of flames and demons. The whole idea is that he's taken great pains to create the illusion of experiencing some kind of persecution.
March 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Four fave films from my birth year. More to choose from that I had anticipated.
Mr Creosote from Monty Python's Meaning of Life. He's a massive gentleman who must weigh 1000 pounds, walking into a fancy restaurant. Emperor Palpatine, a hooded old man with a pallid, dried prune of a face, smiles as two light sabers, one red, one green, cross before him in a battle between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader at the climax of The Return of the Jedi. Jonathan Pryce plays Mr Dark, a bearded man in a top hat with piercing eyes in the 1983 film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. Christopher Walken, hair frizzed as though by static electricity, enters a room wearing an overcoat with a popped collar in The Dead Zone.
March 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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describe yourself in 4 characters (embarrassing edition)
Actor Chris Elliott as Bendix in The Abyss (1989) Actor Chris Elliott as Larry the camera man in Groundhog Day (1993) Actor Chris Elliott as The Gambler in Kingpin (1996) Actor Chris Elliott as Dom in There's Something About Mary (1998)
January 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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“Oh don’t worry, I’m *allowed* to make the dish drying mat my bed.” ~ Gil, presumably. He’s even winking
Brown tabby cat Gil is winking at the camera while laying on the (previously clean) dish drying mat
January 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I'm doing my part!
My hardcover copy of Wild Faith by Talia Lavin
January 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM