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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦
@tomscud.bsky.social
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Editor and writer for an undisclosed publication. Auguste Piccard and Frank Wilhoit stan. Pope Sixtus VI papal name advocate. He/him.
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This Thanksgiving meme is endorsed by Sarah Josepha Hale (or at least by some guy posting a picture of her)
Sarah Josepha Hale, the nineteenth-century editor and abolitionist who was almost single-handedly responsible for making Thanksgiving a national holiday
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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It’s only for a five-page article but I’m very happy with it.
On April 15, 1928, two men in a single-engine Lockheed Vega took off from a snow-swept runway on the northern coast of Alaska and headed north.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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This but Star Wars
Title page of “what was I scared of?” By Dr. Seuss showing the story’s narrator looking alarmed at a pair of green pants with nobody inside them.
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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picture unrelated
gaius julius caesar
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Okay fine I touched it
Two big piles of brush & a half full lawn bag
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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From Asterix in Belgium: panel 1 "what sort of fry-up would that be?" "No idea. I was just asking that roman, but he seemed to have a chip o n his shoulder and now he's a mere vegetable, rooted to the spot." Next panel (thinking) Chip ... vegetable ... root vegetable. I have an idea! I must suggest it to bonanza (the belgian chief's wife)."
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Yeah it was the pyramids so in civ I you could pretty easily go communist well into BC
Pyramids - requires masonry. Only one turn of anarchy after a revolution and unlocks the use of any type of government regardless of whether the player has discovered it or not.
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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ash from army of darkness: "Good, bad - i'm the guy with the gun"
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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if you see this post egg
my profile photo, a (broken) pysanki egg in the form of a humpty dumpty. A "wide awake" eye has been digitally added into the broken part of the shell.
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Guy in Downfall about to give Hitler the bad news
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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i mean
economist editorial from february 20, 2003: "Why war would be justified". fuck them.
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Greater Illinois khanate
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Julius Nyerere with the Sickos "Yes ... ha ha ha ... YES!" word balloon from the onion cartoon
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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my notifications staring back at me
"likes" from two different people with the "Wide Awakes" eye profile pic.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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ian holm as bilbo baggins ian holm as jack the ripper in From Hell
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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my last contribution to color coded hat discourse
mamdani wearing the blue crown from Blue Prince
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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NYT: Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat, wins the New York City mayoral race.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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as was foretold
map showing staten island in mostly yellow and the rest of new york in mostly blue
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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looking good
mamdani up 51-40-8 with 36 percent of votes in
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Uh that’s pretty close
Virginia result showing Leslie Mehta trailing mark earley by 3 votes out of more than 21,000 cast
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Stop the count
Very early VA returns with spanberger up 65 to 34
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Mayo Clinic scene from Airplane! In the background are several bookshelves fully stocked with jars of mayonnaise
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Sound familiar?
We are faced with utterly shameless men. Cheney and the rest are looking our representatives right in the eye and saying "You don't have the balls to take down a government. You don't have the sheer testicular fortitude to call us lying sonuvabitches when we lie, to stop us from kicking the rule of law and the Constitution in the ass. You just don't. What's beyond that abyss -- what that would do to our government and our identity as a nation -- terrifies you too much. So get the fuck out of our way." And to a great degree, the White House is right. You peel this back, and you reveal that the greatest country in the world has been run, for the last six and a half years, by men who do not give a shit about the Constitution, or fair play, or honesty. No, not just run by corrupt men, or bribe-takers, or adulterers or whatever, we could handle that --no we'd be admitting It Went Wrong. There is a sizeable population in America that just does not, cannot wrap their head around the fact that the President may be a Bad Man who does Bad Things. He's President of America. We're Americans. We're the good guys. Remember, the Nixon mythos in America is that the system worked. "See, in America, even the President is not above the law." These Suited Bastards know the fragile shell of American exceptionalism is all that's keeping a whole lot of people from processing that they're working too many hours for not enough money, and they either believe real reeaaaalll hard that they're living in the Shining City on the Hill or admit their lives are shit and they've been chumped. Who ya gonna believe, me or your lyin' Congress? I cannot help but think that as Nixon walked to the chopper, somewhere in the darkened hallways of the White House Dick Cheney shook his head, spit, and whispered: "Pussy."
November 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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found the alt account
OP followed by another post on my timeline: "Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:"
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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... i'm in danger
slay the spire ii, due out March 2026
November 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM