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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Prince of Darkness is super frustrating, because they started with an interesting seed and then just made a devil-in-a-can movie with some light zombie action. It doesn't seem to actually matter at all that they're scientists.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

How did we get this unholy cultural fusion where the people that think we'll be able to transfer our consciousness into robots are allied with people who care above all else about testosterone levels? Will the robots need to have dongs?

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Little did I know that the end of Ithaca in Ulysses is an ad for Tonchin

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's a little odd that the X-Men have to deal with oppression but don't have to pay rent. Like, their problems are somewhat more abstract because they're also fabulously wealthy. Maybe that's part of the appeal, though?

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm not saying Forgotten Island is a great film, but goddamn if it isn't a JRPG version of The Hangover with a manananggal and talking starfish nipple pasties.

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People who don't wash in public bathrooms are missing the point: you may not have peed on your hands but you don't otherwise wash your hands when you're out in the city. Just do it as a basic rule.

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Started WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD. Is this training for reading any text generated by an LLM?

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reading To the Lighthouse and cursing high school for lumping the great modern novels with tedious 800-page love stories. So much time lost not reading this stuff.

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Uh was that Le Tigre's Deceptacon in a... Starbucks ad?

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

TIL that the Wilhelm scream was probably provided by the guy who recorded Purple People Eater en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheb_Wo...

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Sheb Wooley - Wikipedia

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Holy shit it's amazing how quickly every restaurant has a fancy AI sign that instantly looks trashy.

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Look man, I know actual policy is complicated, but I really love the vibe of this era.

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Writers' room. TIM ROBINSON: And then the guy yells FUUUUUCK and it's automatically funny. WRITER #7: I don't think that's automatically funny. TIM ROBINSON: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

backrooms x lion witch wardrobe, go

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you are my particular vintage of old, there is one text-and-pictures comedy site still kicking: 1900hotdog.com. It's good stuff!

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Home - 1-900-HOTDOG

1900HOTDOG is produced from your support through Patreon. Articles with a 🌭 in the title are free to everyone.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

My favorite deranged story is Lewandowski repeatedly retaliating against top DHS lawyers who won’t let him have a badge and govt issued gun like a big boy.

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

AI enthusiasm in my coworkers makes my skin crawl. I'm sure I'm just unusually pessimistic, but it just seems like an act of frenzied collective suicide.

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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Hours after Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman 5 times, his boss, Cmdr. Greg Bovino, emailed him about extending his mandatory retirement. "In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...

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Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino praised agent after shooting Marimar Martinez in Chicago, evidence shows

A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camer…

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Yes, that's the goal. It's frustrating that the media act like this is just a series of weird surprises

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

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The New Fabio Is Claude

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

Left: Aug 20 2025 Wapo editorial
The Texas gerrymander freakout
What’s happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy.

Right: Feb. 7 2026 Wapo editorial
Brass-knuckled hypocrisy in Virginia
Voters will get a chance to reject anti-democratic gamesmanship in an April referendum.

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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Gerda Wegener, Girl and Pug in An Automobile (sketch for Front Page illustration in 'Vore Damer')

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

TIL that an extremely skeevy early 20th century cult also fielded an extremely popular baseball team.

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House of David (commune) - Wikipedia

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

AI democratizes the arts the way a forest fire democratizes the forest. Like yeah, I guess it is all reduced to the same ruins afterward; take that trees.

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I refuse to believe this isn't Wangechi Mutu

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"""[for MAGA,] Art does not serve anything like empathy, awe, catharsis, or transcendence. Rather, it’s a crude thing, a means of communicating cheap platitudes and reflexive ideology"""

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Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I talked to a woman who quit an AUSA job recently. She was asked by main DOJ to dismiss a Medicare fraud prosecution because the defendant was the daughter of a girlfriend of a MAGA figure.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Is there a complement Turing test, for someone so boring that I suspect they're a bot?

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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

1. Iron journalist rule: some people are authentic and some people aren’t. Farmers? Authentic. College profs? Not. There are around 1.9 million farms in America, and 1.5 million college teachers. Farmers aren’t authentic because there’s more of them. It's because journalists love cliches.

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Technically the statement in the post is correct: empathy does not require agreement. However, I am not happy for them. I've wriggled out of your extremely leaky trap.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 26/01/2026

The NYT can't be bothered to mention to readers that the new TikTok owners have a long history of not just repeated privacy violations, but overt support for anti-democratic right wing extremism. Just isn't of interest to the authors.

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TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Bounced hard off of Ruskin's Stones of Venice. The guy is just such an insufferable prick that it feels like I can get better, less obnoxious insights elsewhere. Am I missing something?

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

If Nancy Mace was assaulted by a Biden supporter, it would be a week-long news cycle and every Democrat in Congress would be asked if they approve or disapprove

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Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost Is Assaulted at Sundance Film Festival

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

We should always challenge ourselves: am I actually always right? I probably doom too much, but the vast majority of people weren't dooming enough, so I think... yes, the mean should move towards me? I don't think it's a "bubble" thing, either; the Trump admin will happily tell you that I was right.

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Not accepted fffffffff, come on man

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The reason I know Opus 4.5 is good is that I love programming and AI makes my skin crawl -- and I know that if I don't use this, I'm fucked.

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The trailer for MERCY looks like a movie they'd have on 30 Rock.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The prevailing consensus over the last year was that anyone calling for a general strike was ridiculous and ignorant and it would never work here, and maybe that’s true nationally, I dunno, but I bet those people wouldn’t have seen tomorrow in MN coming either

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

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bbqbaron.bsky.social @bbqbaron.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm not into musicals, but TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE chose "folk-horror movie" as their vibe, so I'm into it. Some really great sequences. Seyfried is great, although sometimes I think she just looks like a Byzantine icon.

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

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