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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Mustache - yes or no. USE THE EVIDENCE TO DECIDE

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Obviously this is horrible, immoral, totally heinous stuff that's impeachable in and of itself. But what we should NEVER lose sight of are the ghouls smiling along as he quips – each of whom wholeheartedly believes they're a good person who will go to Heaven. bsky.app/profile/just...

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Donald Trump has a SHOCKING amount in common with elementary school kids, who will talk a lot of talk in front of their friends but fold like tissue paper if you actually look them in the eyes one-on-one and ask them to explain themselves. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Trump’s obsession with getting to Heaven and getting a Nobel Peace Prize could actually be useful if he were like, “Hey, universal healthcare would save millions of lives, and if *I* say it’s a good idea the GOP will agree! And the world will actually get better!” But. Nah. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 03/09/2025

It sure sounds like Epic Universe would benefit from a very intentional, steady expansion of its reliability and capacity, pulsing an army of well-themed flat rides into the park… 👀 parklore.com/main/buildout-ueu

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Expanding Epic Universe – An Armchair-Imagineered Build-Out

An armchair Imagineering plan to expand Universal Epic Universe theme park with new attractions, rides, and worlds...!

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Unfortunately, Trump being underwater in approval doesn’t matter if even the conservatives who don’t approve of him would not vote for a democrat at best, and would still vote for him for a third unconstitutional term at worst.

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Actually a hilariously good analysis of public response to Trump himself – see major, foundational, structural issues that could literally bring the building down, but fill the crack and paint it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A good reminder that LLMs are not literally “thinking.” They are not “intelligent.” They are Smarter Child from AIM, but with the ability to scrape Facebook to determine sentence structure.

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Woke data! Fake news! The economy is BOOMING! 😎 bsky.app/profile/clau...

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

My Taco Bell accidentally hooked up the new Mountain Dew Baja Midnight early, ama #tacobell #bajablast #bajamidnight

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I work with children and this is literally what children do, including that they leave thinking, "I really got 'em. I won, and there's no doubt about it!" bsky.app/profile/kenk...

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Too bad it’s de facto illegal to teach intersectionality or good old fashioned empathy or maybe we could understand why someone would dare take actions that don’t immediately or obviously demonstrate blind allegiance to their “own people” 🤮

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

What matters is that Cuomo and all the people who endorsed him are still going to claim they're the rightful heirs to the Democratic Party, how dare young people challenge them, all of that. The difference is they're now just unaffiliated lunatics, banging on the windows. They're not the party.

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Amazing that a statistically significant number of Republicans went, "Hey, y'know what, I know gay people! And they got married, and it's okay! It's weird I was against that." ... "Oh wait, no it's not. I'm against it."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

We’re in such a uniquely Trumpian situation. Only Trump would flagrantly decide that only he had the answer and all financial experts who said it wouldn’t work were just dumber than him. Only Trump, upon seeing the results experts predicted, would say “well, don’t believe your eyes. It’ll work.”

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Trump47 saw Trump45 unanimously ranked as the worst president by academics, historians, and those who study and revere the institution of the presidency and said “I can do worse.” And by god, he’s done it. THAT’S determination.

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I rarely go to the doctor because I’m a pretty well person, but I did a casual check up and blood work last June, which already cost me a $50 co-pay. Then TODAY, 10 months later, I got a push notification that Kaiser decided I owe $55. I can afford it, but seriously, what are we doing here?

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What’s really too bad is that if you say to a Trump supporter, “is this really what you wanted? Legal residents of the US with no criminal record being deported without due process to El Salvador in direct opposition to the Constitution and Supreme Court?” They say, “Yep.” bsky.app/profile/nyti...

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Donald Trump is so clearly NOT 224 pounds with a resting heart rate of 62, 20/20 vision, and perfect blood pressure that the GOP MUST be in on the joke. But his temperate being 98.6 degrees is quite literally North Korean style absurdity. He get a 36 on the ACT, too? bsky.app/profile/jiml...

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Remember the videos of interviewers on the steeet talking to MAGA? “Imagine you sell t-shirts. You buy them from China for $10 and sell them for $20. Make sense? Okay, now a tariff makes you pay $15 for each. Do you still sell them for $20? Or do you raise your prices?” 🤪 We’re living it!

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

What’s crazy is that if we lived in a parliamentary society they’d hold a no confidence vote and we’d elect a new government. Even in a regular old American system, experts would be able to help redirect the course. But in this system, King Trump decides and we hang on for 3.75 more years.

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Every time I see Jon Ossoff.

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Unfortunately for Trump, I think this portrait makes him look MUCH more refined and presidential than he does in real life. Sort of an opposite of the Vance memes, Trump should hope he's remembered this way and not as an orange-tinted bag of loose skin and white raccoon eyes.

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Yes there's absolutely-anticipated irony in Trump's cronies very plainly and inevitably doing exactly what they said Hillary might do, and yes there's immense depression and sadness in the notion that it won't change one single MAGA mind.

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

It seems increasingly likely that the next Democratic administration won't actually be able to rebuild the federal government in any meaningful way without continuous battles about "wasteful spending" that can keep MAGAs whipped into a frenzy, so I really worry that this is it.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 19/03/2025

I also wanted to envision the Chronos' concluding message for exiting guests – its equivalent to "The Adventure Lives On..." The photo here is from the one and only @bioreconstruct.bsky.social, with my draft of an exit message meant to linger beautifully. See alt text! #EpicUniverse

As portals fade and dreamers rest
There yet remains one final test:
This moment on, where'er you go
Find the EPIC in the world you know.
Farewell.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 19/03/2025

I wanted to play a bit with the copy inscribed over the entrance to the Chronos at Universal Epic Universe. I envisioned this being a digital display that could cycle through verses, alternating between #ChronosLore and park thesis stuff. See alt text! #EpicUniverse

The Chronos draws celestial bonds / to forge its paths to worlds beyond...
'Twixt Helios flame and Luna pale / 'wait worlds from story, song, and tale...
A loom of aether, Chronos weaves / a bridge for those whose hearts believe...
'Neath swirling cosmos, stars align / and light the path through space and time...
Through the Chronos, disappear / to worlds of magic, joy, and fear...
Let those who pass this portal find / Their reason to leave home behind...

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

And rightly so. We have to break the embarrassing Gen X / Boomer thing of being like “our votes cancel each other out, isn’t that cute?” I remember a coworker being like “I put out a Hillary sign next to his Trump sign, so funny, huh?” I would die. bsky.app/profile/npr....

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Holding up a little sign that says “please stop” as the notorious serial killer, Illiterate Bob, stabs me to death

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 03/03/2025

The website that made me the writer I am – Theme Park Tourist – has officially shut down. I wanted to write this thank you to the family who ran it and gave me my start. It's a little self-indulgent origin story, but I hope you'll check it out. 🧵 (1/12) below; 📚 here: buff.ly/7yb5zW9

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In Memoriam: An Ode to Theme Park Tourist and a Recommitment to Park Lore's Origin in Optimism - Park Lore

Theme Park Tourist is gone. Here's my ode to the site that made me the writer I am and the story of how TPT made Park Lore happen.

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Obviously “Musk fired the people working on nuclear and, separately, bird flu, and now they’re trying to get them back” is kakistocracy 101. But the point is that lots and lots of people working on EQUALLY ESSENTIAL things that haven’t become crises YET are also being fired! We just don’t know it!

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I'm at that age where I have to acknowledge that the best pictures of me are in the past. I totally understand why people use decade-old pics on their dating profiles (how was this SEVEN YEARS AGO 😭)

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Furiously googling where the nearest Firehouse Subs is.

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I love me some Britney Spears but it is OBJECTIVELY funny to come to the grown-up realization that her iconic pronunciations – from “ooh babay babay” to “when we up in the club awl eyes on uhs” are because she’s imitating the Swedish and British singers on the demos. 😇

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

When we get groceries before 5 PM on a Sunday, I'm just like, "Wow, look at us. High achievers out here shopping with other high achievers, none of us waiting till the last minute." ⭐

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 21/12/2024

My best friend gave me this for Christmas and I was like omg I love it and she revealed that IT’S HER HUSBAND’S DESIGN AND HE HAS AN ETSY. 🥹 I had no idea and literally bought the mug version as soon as I found out. Buy one for yourself! www.etsy.com/shop/BeerLea...

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Rarely does the universe so perfectly encapsulate the legacy of a person like Nancy Pelosi as breaking a hip falling down a marble staircase at the Grand Ducal Palace in Luxembourg. 🥹

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Karma is my boyfriend Karma is a god Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend Karma’s a relaxing thought Aren’t you envious that for you, it’s not? Sweet like honey, karma is a cat Purring in my lap ‘cause it loves me Flexing like a goddamn acrobat Me and karma vibe like that

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I feel like $50,000 is a little skimpy given that Brian Thompson made (this is true) $5,000 an hour. Good news tho: United saves $200,000 in payroll every week his position remains open. They love optimization and efficiency! ☺️ bsky.app/profile/cnn....

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 06/12/2024

It's cool how there's a whole type of job where the object is to take people's money by promising they'll be paid for if they get sick or hurt, and then finding ways to never do that part

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Every day is like waking up from a coma and having to be like, “yes, all of this is for reality star and literal caricature of a dumb-as-a-rock criminal Donald Trump.” He is the one they anointed as a god king who can simply replace our form our government. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I’m gonna tell you something, there is no less useful feature in modern tech than “Find My AirPods.” You can hold your phone in one hand and your AirPods in the other and they will not connect. Unreal.

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Brian @bkroz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I know Taylor is just her own thing entirely and in a very different layer of the stratosphere, but the Eras Tour setlist compared to the setlist for Avril Lavigne's Greatest Hits Tour is so stark... 🫠 I know no one is doing it like Taylor, but the scale of Eras has just changed the high water mark.

Taylor Swift's setlist – comprised of 10 separate sub-sections, totaling 45 songs.

Avril Lavigne's setlist, with 13 songs plus 2 additional in an encore.

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