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Tony Lizza
@tonylizza.bsky.social
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Equal parts math, data science, & machine learning for good; history/politics; and writing | Husband & Father | Poster boy for ADHD

I like to elevate small talk to medium talk.
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I’ve made reference to this before but I can never resist.
Joel Murray as Freddie Rumsen in Mad Men. He is sitting on a couch and saying “Oh, I love Irene Dunne.”
July 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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My son is apparently directing a Wes Anderson movie.
A collection of objects carved out of wood in the shape of a police car, a school bus, a ship, and a sailboat, respectively. They are sitting on top of a floating entertainment center.
June 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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DOGE nonsense aside, these trucks look like they should be driven by an anthropomorphic worm wearing a straw hat.
This is like the reverse of a cybertruck. charming and brings a smile to my face. The "Big Beautiful Bill" is set to scrap all 7,200 of these and buy diesels for the cost of $450 million, by the way.
June 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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I’ve posted this image before, I’m afraid, but I couldn’t resist.
Bob Newhart talking on the phone with a chyron that says “Bob Newhart”. Dean Martin talking into a phone with a very large glass of what appears to be whiskey in front of him.
June 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Forgot about alt-text in the original image.
A despondent looking Donald Trump, sits in the audience watching his sad fascist parade.
June 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Just casually slipping it in there. Oh, okay.
Notification from Apple News Spotlight. It reads, “Baby boomers are leaving their kids with a huge headache. Plus: Most sunscreens don't work, new research shows. These do.”
May 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Screenshot of Homer wearing a hat on a talk show. The screenshot reads, “OH, KENT, I'D BE LYING IF I SAID MY MEN WEREN'T COMMITTING CRIMES.”
May 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I know this is serious, but I couldn’t resist.
Seinfeld screenshot with Frank and Estelle Costanza standing next to one another in their kitchen. George is standing facing them with his back toward the camera, partially offscreen. The caption reads, “We’re cutting you loose.”
April 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Simpsons screenshot of workers standing in front of a conveyor belt with a pile of goo on it. There is an applicator behind the goo with some goo on it. The applicator says, “Fake Vomit, Inc.” The workers are cheering.
April 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Egads…
Painting of Vigo the Carpathian, the Scourge of Carpathia, the sorrow of Moldavia, Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, Vigo the Unholy. Probably not as bad as JD Vance.
April 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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So it’s the opposite of Homer Simpson?
Screenshot of Homer Simpson sitting at the Simpsons’ dining room table. The caption reads, “Hey! Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.”
April 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Screenshot of Moe from The Simpsons holding money with his mouth open. The caption reads, “AH, HOMER, YOUKNOW YOUR MONEY'S NO GOOD HERE HEY, WAIT A MINUTE, THIS IS REAL MONEY.”
April 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Imagine of Bruce Willis as John McClane in Die Hard, lighting a cigarette. The caption says, “Way ahead of you, partner.”
April 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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This made me think of something else too, and now I remember what.
Kirk and Luann Van Houten are standing in front of the Springfield police station next to Chief Wiggum, who has his hands on his hips. The caption reads, “But…will they just find Milhouse or will they find him and kill him?”
March 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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I used this image someplace else recently, but what the hell.

“We can’t just ignore the president’s desires.”
Picture of Jon Hamm as Don Draper in a 1960s apartment. He is wearing a grey suit and holding a hat, standing in front of the apartment’s front door, as though he is about to leave. The caption says, “You can’t.”
March 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Just picked up a copy of @aubreyclayton.bsky.social’s Bernoulli’s Fallacy for an upcoming project from City Lights Books. My first non-Amazon online book purchase in possibly ever, and it feels good.
A book cover for the book “Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science” by Aubrey Clayton.
March 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Jon Hamm as Don Draper standing in 1960s-era apartment wearing a grey suit in front of the apartment’s front door. He is holding a hat and appears ready to leave. The caption says, “You can’t.”
March 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Me in the National security group chat:
Dean Martin holding a white telephone up to his ear, sitting at a table in front of a ludicrously sized snifter full of a liquid that appears to be brandy or whiskey.
March 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Me, thinking I look good in my shirt jacket.

How I actually look:
A picture of Jame Eagan from Severance, wearing a shirt jacket.
March 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Reposting with alt-text. This one kept me busy for awhile.
Whew, where to begin here. A two pane image of a Simpsons meme. Top pane shows the interior of a supermarket and a pair of deep red hands. In the left hand is the likeness of Mr. Burns and a caption beneath it says Burns. In the right hand, there is an almost identical likeness of Mr. Burns, only he is wearing a black handlebar mustache and the caption says “Snrub”. This is a reference to the Simpsons episode “Marge vs. the Monorail” where Burns a barely–disguised Burns impersonates a man named “Snrub” and attends a Springfield town meeting in a transparent attempt at self-advocacy. The bottom pane shows that the deep red hands from the top pane belong to an enormous anthropomorphic glass bottle of ketchup. Burns and Snrub are still in the bottle’s hands. The caption says, “Huh, I’m in way over my head.” Both panels are a reference to another Simpsons joke from the episode “The Old Man and the Lisa”, where Burns loses his fortune and has to live like a regular person. He goes grocery shopping for presumably the first time ever and is confounded by the existence of two products: ketchup and catsup, presumably unable to determine the difference. He holds a bottle of each in his hands and keeps repeating the names to himself.
March 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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How can you tell a Canadian mathematician?
Inglourious Basterds Three Fingers Meme with Michael Fassenbender holding up 3 fingers in the British/American way with index, middle, and ring finger raised, giving himself away to the Nazi officer sitting in front of him.
March 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Adding alt text. Famines that take place under capitalism are so often attributed to external phenomena, like the Potato Blight, or unseen forces like the “market”, rather than the result of deliberate policy.
三 THE NEW YORKER 1CO Give a gift BOOKS WHAT MADE THE IRISH FAMINE SO DEADLY The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs. By Fintan O'Toole March 10, 2025 Above all, "Rot" reminds us that the Great Hunger was a very modern event, and one shaped by a mind-set that is now again in the ascendant. The poor are the authors of their own misery. The warning signs of impending environmental disaster can be ignored. Gross inequalities are natural, and God-given. The market must be obeyed at all costs. There is only one thing about the Irish famine that now seems truly anachronistic-millions of refugees were saved because other countries took them in. That, at least, would not happen now.
March 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Past Homer and Marge are talking about baby names for Bart. Homer looks like he is thinking. The caption says, “What about Bart? Let’s see…Bart, Cart, Dart, Eeyart…nope, can’t see any problem with that.”
March 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Milhouse from the Simpsons standing inside of a pipe at the edge of a cliff with a person aiming a gun at him, parodying the iconic scene from The Fugitive. The caption says, “I’m telling you, I didn’t do anything.”
March 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I always come back to the classic Mark Twain quote below.
"When I finished Carlyle's French Revolution in 1871, I was a Girondin [a moderate]; every time I have read it since, I have read it differently - being influenced and changed, little by little, by life and environment ... and now l lay the book down once more, and recognize that I am a Sansculotte! And not a pale, characterless Sansculotte, but a Marat."
March 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM