and Alan Braden as Professor Upsidasium
@upsidasium.bsky.social
Steampunk enthusiast, Rogue Tea-Dueler, Frequent gamer, Sometimes interviewer, Occasional reviewer, Part-time LGBTQIA+ activist. I am the gay uncle that your gay aunt warned you about.
Contains Adult Material
Contents Under Pressure.
Contains Adult Material
Contents Under Pressure.
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they deported him
José's crew spent a week in August battling the Bear Gulch fire, then a 9,000-acre blaze + largest in 70+ years in WA’s Olympic Peninsula.
Border Patrol showed up to his remote forest location, surrounded the crew + ultimately arrested José + another immigrant firefighter.
"It’s backstabbing.”
Border Patrol showed up to his remote forest location, surrounded the crew + ultimately arrested José + another immigrant firefighter.
"It’s backstabbing.”
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
they deported him
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When you're a sociopath and get angry that someone else's medical emergency, just four feet away, drew focus from your gloating and you forget which lie you were on.
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
When you're a sociopath and get angry that someone else's medical emergency, just four feet away, drew focus from your gloating and you forget which lie you were on.
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The thing I least expected was for the Senate to decide their egos can tolerate not being in charge of things.
The Senate voted down a measure requiring congressional approval for any military action by Trump against Venezuela.
Senate rejects bipartisan resolution that would block Trump military action against Venezuela
The vote comes after at least 16 military strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, Eastern Pacific or the coastline of Latin America.
nbcnews.to
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The thing I least expected was for the Senate to decide their egos can tolerate not being in charge of things.
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Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
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"HOW WILL ZOHRAN PAY FOR FREE BUSES" screamed the Staten Islanders who have a free ferry
November 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"HOW WILL ZOHRAN PAY FOR FREE BUSES" screamed the Staten Islanders who have a free ferry
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why we do not have a 24/7 media drumbeat, "the president is mentally incompetent," I will never understand
November 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
why we do not have a 24/7 media drumbeat, "the president is mentally incompetent," I will never understand
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Cartoon: I don't know if this is anything more than an idea that amuses me :) Hope folks enjoy it but I can live with being the only one :)
November 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Cartoon: I don't know if this is anything more than an idea that amuses me :) Hope folks enjoy it but I can live with being the only one :)
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Just sayin.
Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Just sayin.
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Melissa has intensified into a category 4 hurricane and could develop further to become a category 5 as it approaches Jamaica.
Category 4 Hurricane Melissa threatens catastrophic flooding in Jamaica and Haiti
Melissa has intensified into a category 4 hurricane and could develop further to become a category 5 as it approaches Jamaica.
n.pr
October 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Melissa has intensified into a category 4 hurricane and could develop further to become a category 5 as it approaches Jamaica.
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This is an utterly nonsensical way to report the really relieving news that Plaid Cymru, a party which espouses all sorts of liberal values including trans rights, etc. (and which isn't even mentioned in this headline!!!) won the election by a 47% landslide, well ahead of Reform as well as Labour.
October 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This is an utterly nonsensical way to report the really relieving news that Plaid Cymru, a party which espouses all sorts of liberal values including trans rights, etc. (and which isn't even mentioned in this headline!!!) won the election by a 47% landslide, well ahead of Reform as well as Labour.
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![[Scene is a high school classroom. A teacher is writing on the whiteboard 'ACT 2 SCENE 3'.]
TEACHER:
OK class - open up Macbeth to Act 2 Scene 3...
TEACHER:
So - does anybody have any ideas on Shakespeares meaning behind the character of 'the Porter' in this scene?
[A voice comes from off-scene, behind the teacher's back[.
VOICE:
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
TEACHER [turning round]:
Sorry….. who are you?
[We see a wider scene that shows it is the GHOST OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, hovering over the heads of the startled students]
SHAKESPEARE:
I'm the Ghost of Shakespeare and I've come back to say: this scene means *absolutely nothing*.
The Porter is a funny drunk bloke I lobbed in to cover a costume change!
I mean like, not everything I did was genius OK? Stop giving me the ick.
TEACHER:
So um...what do you suggest we study?
SHAKESPEARE:
The most important text in British culture!
TEACHER:
Which is...?
SHAKESPEARE:
'Bollocks People Say on the Internet.'
TEACHER:
You think we should study... bollocks people say on the internet?
SHAKESPEARE:
Yes.
TEACHER:
But Mr Shakespeare... your Porter scene was a question in a past GCSE paper...
We need to analyse it so the kids don't end up failing their exams...
SHAKESPEARE:
Yes, and I'm just suggesting you should analyse Bollocks People Say on the Internet instead, so they don't end up painting flags on roundabouts.
[Silent pause]
TEACHER:
OK class - open up your phones to X...
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You don’t need permission to draw weird. You already have the license. 🧾🌀
October 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
You don’t need permission to draw weird. You already have the license. 🧾🌀
Somewhere between 1-3
October 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Somewhere between 1-3
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I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.
October 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.
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Yakhdan [YAK-don]
(n.)
- A container for transporting ice, pulled by a pack animal.
Use:
“Inglenook radioed ahead as they neared New York Harbor, requesting a sufficiently capacious yakhdan suitable for the transport of a large perishable specimen to the American Museum of Natural History.”
(n.)
- A container for transporting ice, pulled by a pack animal.
Use:
“Inglenook radioed ahead as they neared New York Harbor, requesting a sufficiently capacious yakhdan suitable for the transport of a large perishable specimen to the American Museum of Natural History.”
October 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Yakhdan [YAK-don]
(n.)
- A container for transporting ice, pulled by a pack animal.
Use:
“Inglenook radioed ahead as they neared New York Harbor, requesting a sufficiently capacious yakhdan suitable for the transport of a large perishable specimen to the American Museum of Natural History.”
(n.)
- A container for transporting ice, pulled by a pack animal.
Use:
“Inglenook radioed ahead as they neared New York Harbor, requesting a sufficiently capacious yakhdan suitable for the transport of a large perishable specimen to the American Museum of Natural History.”
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COMIC: IT'S EASY TO EAT HEALTHY!
October 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
COMIC: IT'S EASY TO EAT HEALTHY!
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A cartoon about autumn....
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A cartoon about autumn....
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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
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JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I’m down for this.
October 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I’m down for this.
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So, “No you can’t do that, but Yes, you did do that already, so we’re just gonna be okay with that” is now a court ruling option? Okay then, may we apply this broadly and just be done with this “rule of law” bullshit I keep hearing about? Or has that always been the plan?
A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.
A judge ruled their firings were illegal. The government got to do it anyway
A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.
n.pr
September 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
So, “No you can’t do that, but Yes, you did do that already, so we’re just gonna be okay with that” is now a court ruling option? Okay then, may we apply this broadly and just be done with this “rule of law” bullshit I keep hearing about? Or has that always been the plan?
Sketch artist had apparently been watching the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind as model reference for the defendant
September 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Sketch artist had apparently been watching the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind as model reference for the defendant