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Eli Balin

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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 7h
Yep. Also cut myself in a way that would still show up on a zoom meeting two hours later.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Disturbing mask
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm at Starbucks I'm at Chipotle I'm at the combination Starbucks and Chipotle
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"IT'S-A SPAGHETTI BAMBINO!"
A chef with a jaunty mustache gazing through the window of the kitchen door with unbridled glee
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Likely repurchases specific consumable products" Wow. Stunningly specific. They've absolutely nailed me as a human who runs out of things and needs to get more of them, a remarkable and unique experience, to be sure.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I enjoy having galleries to myself and discovering more obscure (and often more personally interesting) pieces.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Now I want to see a version of the armor that's nothing but all of the bad design choices.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am trying to ignore the tuba but it is so very loud.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love the moment in these where, for lack of a better phrase, the bass drops.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You're the perfect audience for the 35 hour Logistics movie.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
that's what she said
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's "Do you lift, bro?" for people who very likely do not lift.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Truth: "OK" Lie: "Hmm. That doesn't seem right. Want to try again?" Doubt: "YOU FILTHY LIAR! I WILL LOCK YOU UP! I WILL LOCK YOUR WHOLE FAMILY UP! NONE OF YOUR FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY FOR 1000 YEARS!"
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Ziggy! That scamp!"
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
metmuseum.org
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As a palette cleanser, here is an actual medieval Spanish carving of St. Jerome's cat not letting him get any work done.
Saint Jerome at His Study
North Spanish
ca. 1500
Wood, traces of paint

St. Jerome, wearing a jaunty hat, sits in a fancy armchair. His cat paws at his knee, demanding to be fed.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's the tagline from their TV ads.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FOISGROS: GEESE OF PATE
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is basically the second half of Neuromancer.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I will find the man who put the bomp in the bomp-sh'bomp-sh'bomp, and he will pay for what he's done."
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Dennis Iasip
Alt: Dennis from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" explaining his eponymous plan where he's really fucking creepy
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I want to know whether she noped out after Episode 1 or if she got to the part where he has spider legs.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On Golden Pond
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh Bluesky. Never change.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sure, they transgressed, but was it really necessary to throw putti grenades at them?
An angel tossing three putti grenades
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every time I make bread it looks like a tumor and has the density of a wrestling mat.
The ugliest damn loaf of bread you've ever seen
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Guy who only uses his television to watch "Kojak":
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Pickle slice for scale" is the new "Banana for scale".
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
youtube.com
The Simpsons Anti-Tiger Rock
YouTube video by megamasterdrive
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
something something Congressional age limits...
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Horatio Csi
Alt: David Caruso, having just said something pithy, walks away from an exploding car while putting his sunglasses on. A subtitle scrolls across the bottom of the screen, exclaiming "YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!"
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎵Nobody loves them, everybody hates them...🎵
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Livvy rizzed Baby Gronk.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's a half-scale portrait of Starro the Conqueror across the whole dome.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Elven Court can go to YouTube like the rest of us. I'm busy helping a hedge wizard count the rocks in front of his house.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
youtu.be
8 Hours of Whale Sounds Deep Underwater for Sleep and Relaxation
YouTube video by Jason Lewis - Mind Amend
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's a dialect spoken exclusively by beer wenches and pickle salesmen at renaissance fairs.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I, too, am optimistic about my chances against a corpse.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking forward to MORBIUS 3: EVEN MORBIUS
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So Gail, you're walking alone in a desert. It's high noon, and there isn't a cloud in the sky. You see a tortoise by the side of the road. It's on its back, legs kicking in the air. It can't turn itself over. But you're not helping it. Why aren't you helping it, Gail?
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That's Kaiser Cory to you.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I can see it a bit for a few seconds, at the parts where the middle of the ties are buried.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also invented golf mere seconds later.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
EVERYTHING'S TRICORDER!
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The Heathyorker @theheathyorker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
9/21/26
Heathcliff Panel:
Heathcliff drives his ham car past the meat store. He has put new monster truck wheels on the ham car. Two butchers stand outside, one says to the other "My new, bafflingly complex backpack ate my homework."New Yorker Panel:
A child stands at the teacher's desk. A backpack covered in small pockets sits on the ground next to them. The child looks up at the teacher and says "monster ham."
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Anakin was one self-serving outburst away from being dubbed "Darth Sipid".
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE. It is judging you. Caption reads "no."
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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The original Mr. Peanut! 🥜 At first glance, this Moche ceramic stirrup-spout bottle looks like a figure wearing a hooded cloak. Amazing details and color. THEN you look at the back … he’s a peanut! Peanuts are native to South America and have been used in their cuisine for millennia. 🏺 1/ 📸 me
This bottle depicts a figure wrapped within a peanut shell reclining on its side. The vessel has a stirrup-spout handle, a common spout form used in the second half of the Moche period (ca. 500 – 850 CE). The body of the vessel, possibly produced using a mold, was decorated with pigmented slip applied before firing. The figure’s torso is exposed, revealing a sleeved tunic featuring a repeated motif and additional sleeve detailing. Only the person’s legs, hands, and face remain uncovered. The hand gesture of the thumb touching the index finger became more common in Moche pottery after 600 CE (Donnan and McClelland 1979, 63). A headstrap, worn just above the eyebrows, adorns the forehead, peeking out from beneath the tip of the peanut shell (for another example of this type of headstrap see MMA 67.167.21). The small bulge on the figure’s left cheek suggests the individual is chewing coca.

Met MuseumRear view of this stirrup-spout vessel (so named because the spout resembles a stirrup, with the rounded portion intersected with an upright spout) revealing that this is a peanut. Whether it’s supposed to be an anthropomorphic peanut or a man wearing a peanut shaped cloak is unknown. 

500-800 CE, Peru. Met Museum.
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Eli Balin @elibalin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hey kids! Cartoons! About toys!
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