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Erik Tanouye
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Historically a writer/performer at UCB. Constantly trying to quit social media. And yet here I am writing another bio for a new account. Also into beans and bags.
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A real jump scare from IMDB when we tried to find out who played someone in this episode of Law & Order
A pop up ad asking an IMDB user to rate an episode of Law and Order features a jarring picture of Sam Waterston with his mouth open.
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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sometimes you get in trouble so deep, you can’t speech your way out of it
Nicolae Ceaușescu gives a speech on December 22, 1989. It does not seem like the audience is enjoying it.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Flea: “We come to this place for magik… blood sugar sex magik.”
Flea wears a suit similar to Nicole Kidman’s iconic AMC theaters suit at a Rock N Roll Hall of Fame event.
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Went outside today.
Some grasses, a bare tree, and the blue sky in autumn.
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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At last, a President with the dignity not to join his rowdy friends helping their pal try to suck his own dick.
Trump stands inertly near his desk while colleagues surround a man, whose legs are in the air, his body obscured.
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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I can‘t wait to see the cast of Slow Horses perform Chess on Broadway.
An Instagram post featuring the Broadway cast of Chess, which looks like the cast of Slow Horses.
October 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Coleman Dolman ComDomingo
Photos and captions of actors Cole Doman and Colman Domingo
September 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Reader, I cackled at this one.
Text saying “ Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides.”
September 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Somehow, Palpatine returned.
Jay Leno smiling like a schemer
September 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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ah, there’s the rub
Jimmy Fallon rubs Donald Trump’s head in The Tonight Show
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Will these movies make sense if I haven’t seen Hamaet through Hamket?
Movie posters for Hamlet, Hammet, and Hamnet.
September 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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oh shit my son also has a box like this in his bedroom, should I call the police?
A picture of a shooting suspect in what looks like a college dorm room with an Amazon delivery box under his bed
September 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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arthur please tell me you didn’t
A photo of the person of interest in Utah shooting making a fist like animated cartoon character Arthur Read.
September 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The WSJ just released Mamaw’s birthday book
A drawing of a couch with an enigmatic dialogue between JD Vance and IKEA written on it. Also, JD’s signature looks like jizz on the couch.
September 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Dana Carvey portrays Tom Brokaw prerecording news broadcasts with a recent photo of Donald Trump over his shoulder.
September 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Chris Hemsworth’s wife is
A highway sign in Ohio designates the exit for Etna Pataskala
August 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Read
My

5

Oxford
English
Dictionaries
A license plate saying RM 50ED
July 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Jurassic Park made a whole meal out of how large the big dinosaurs were and how terrifying it was to *feel* them coming.

In Jurassic World: Rebirth, the biggest dinosaurs on earth sneak up on people MULTIPLE times.

They stomp around in tall grass and simply no one notices them.
The cup of water shaking on the dashboard as a T-Rex approaches in Jurassic Park
July 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Text reads: One wonders whether our own situation is much different, and, even more gloomily, whether there will be anyone to say, as Conquest did not but might as well have, “I told you so, you fucking fools.”
July 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I can’t believe Jon Snow just stood there and let this happen.
A person who looks like the fictional character Jon Snow is seen in the background of Brad Lander being detained by men assailants claiming to be ICE officers.
June 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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MCU is cooked. This looks even worse than that last Captain America movie.
A person in half a Spider-Man costume jokes up a wet piece of cardboard on the street during the No Kings protest march.
June 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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So, I have some questions about the last part of this Vulture interview with Benmont Tench. (Presumably, Benmont knows the movie he’s quoting, so I’m guessing the reporter hasn’t seen Dr. Strangelove and assumed it was an obscure French movie?) www.vulture.com/article/benm...
An interview misquotes the end of Dr. Strangelove, replacing “Mein Fuhrer” with “Monsieur”
June 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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By the way, Dr. Scrodanus specializes in eyes, you perverts.
A sign that says “Dr Christine M Scrodanus” Optometrist
June 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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What body part do you think Dr. Scrodanus treats?
A sign with an arrow pointing to the office of “Dr. Scrodanus”
June 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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A colleague brought some Russian candies as an end-of-school-year treat. I have tree nut allergies, so I used Google Lens to tell me if the candy was safe to eat.

READER, I DID NOT EAT THE CANDY.
A piece of candy with Cyrillic writing on the label. A screenshot of Google Lens, which has translated the candy’s label as saying “cancer in the cervix”
May 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM