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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 01/10/2026

ty everyone for crazy amt of support and subs for this subathon. 10 hours down i am stopping for tonight but there’s still 6.5 hrs on the clock lol so i’ll be back tomorrow at 2e www.twitch.tv/pig_dog

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 28/09/2026

wednesday at www.twitch.tv/pig_dog :)) playing elden ring but subs mean i have to immediately equip a random loadout

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 20/05/2026

they're calling me "the best hitman player of all time." invisible. inevitable.

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 15/05/2026

i have also been cast in this movie. i will be playing the role of the killer

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 22/04/2026

a mysterious rōnin has arrived to collect the bounty on my head

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 09/04/2026

this week wrote about UK panel shows and why I wish we had them here, but we never will www.humbleoffering.com/the-right-ki...

article screenshot: I’m on record with a mixture of deep appreciation and jealousy for the amount of televised creative outlets afforded to comics in the UK. I’m sure this is an incredibly sugar-coated view, and I’m sure that there’s an incredibly buffet of shit to be eaten in the comedy business no matter where you are. What I think the United States comedy scene is sorely lacking is the panel shows that not only provide screentime to comedians, but do so while asking nothing of them than to be funny in the way that they naturally are.

What I think is so centrally appealing and pays such dividends across the cornucopia of these sorts of shows is that they are, by nature, only the loosest of constraints. What Britain seems to have when it comes to their comedians that America could bear to develop is any sort of confidence in their ability to be funny. Whether it’s QI or Would I Lie To You or any number of so-and-so countdowns, it’s all nothing more than a springboard for the talent to, well, actually display their talent.

In the U.S., it feels like the entertainment industry has no idea what to do with somebody who’s funny. Unless they’re already a cardboard cutout easily propped in the back of a mediocre sitcom and fed a catchphrase to parrot, they’re inscrutable as to their usage. Watching the U.S. try to capitalize on homegrown comedic talent is like peering into a kitchen that refuses to make anything but Chicken Parmesan, regardless of whether the groceries available to them include chicken or parmesan cheese.

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 14/03/2026

can’t recommend enough keeping a bag of these bad boys in the fridge and gnawing away

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 14/03/2026

move over, baby shoes never worn, here’s a sad story in FOUR words

an Amazon notification saying Shipped: “Wahl Clipper Self-Haircut”

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 04/03/2026

turns out it was something bad. in the zombie hospital. crazy. twitch.tv/pig_dog

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 03/03/2026

she’s not allowed to do that. she’s cheating.

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 28/02/2026

“Massive layoffs announced by a guy with a nose ring” really feels like a nice encapsulation of the levels of bullshit we’re all choking down daily

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 24/02/2026

this week in the newsletter i beg for us to finally bury the "hate-read" www.humbleoffering.com/why-you-shou...

It doesn’t matter how damning a rebuke of the subject the article ends up being, those are details beside the fact that they’ve provided the exact vector some social virus is looking for. I don’t care how careful your prose is, let’s, for the love of god, avoid the “I Let Myself Be Bitten By The Infected, Foam-Mouthed Monkey. Here’s What I Found Out” explainer piece.

You might notice that I’ve been careful up to this point never to describe any of this attention-seeking behavior as “controversial.” As an adjective, I think “controversial” has fueled a hundred conversations that never needed to be had, while also legitimizing beliefs that aren’t anything more than antiquated and boring. “Controversial” labels its subject interesting, worthy of discussion. The muck it’s slapped on rarely deserves any thought at all.

A million racist, sexist, and widely bigoted screeds have benefited from being labeled as controversial, which has only served to create a conversation around them that’s long been settled. A Nazi, whether neo or not, is not a “controversial figure.” It’s someone who’s clinging to an antiquated, bigoted belief that’s been thoroughly disproven by both science and experience. “Controversial,” whether it’s your intent or not, implies validation that some of the things being discussed are up for, and worthy of, debate. One which you’re promptly drawn into.

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 21/02/2026

no joke here just really wish media wouldn’t respond to people who shouldn’t be famous with tons of coverage over whether they should be famous or not. it’s you. you’re doing it. eric andre who did this meme

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 18/02/2026

ew. why would you pick that place. my pick would be like a dave and busters

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 18/02/2026

i think this would be a cool one. image attached

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 16/02/2026

todays newsletter is about a guy proudly ate a plane www.humbleoffering.com/mr-eats-all/

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 10/02/2026

and in newsletters that aren’t mine, obviously @joshgondelman.bsky.social ‘s rocks

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 10/02/2026

i promise i'll write something fun next week :) www.humbleoffering.com/no-that-webs...

Again, I want to emphasize that advertising is built on negative emotional manipulation. It’s incredibly hard to sell something, especially something largely unnecessary, to a person feeling any level of inner peace. Products solve problems, so every shortcoming you can be convinced exists opens a new space they can convince you needs filling.

Unfortunately, thanks to the personal dossier collected on you, happily provided by any number of data merchants, they’ve already got a great idea of what bits to poke. Your weak points are outlined on page one, under a picture taken of you through your bathroom window, staring unhappily at your blackheads. They’re already in possession of the kompromat they need for advertising so effective it approaches blackmail.

Insecure about your weight? Simply buy this activity tracker. Fitness buff? You could surely increase your efficiency with an activity tracker. Do you have a family history of neurodegenerative disease that you’ve been worriedly researching? We applaud your proactive take on your health, and think our activity tracker could provide you with some much needed peace.

Advertising’s grip is so deeply ensnared in our short-and-curlies that it’s even ready for the inevitable mental fatigue caused by its constant adjustment of your mood. Start looking up “monastery living” and “how to destroy every computer in the world” and the algorithm easily pivots to selling you dumbphones and analog clocks, because if you’re really going to disconnect, it wants a piece on the way out.

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 03/02/2026

*looking at this hat for 25 minutes* it seems inspired by tokyo

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 28/01/2026

streaming in ~10 minutes at www.twitch.tv/pig_dog the only stream where you both get gripping gameplay and extended discussion of John McCrae from CAKE’s goatee

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 28/01/2026

had this soda tonight and that’s exactly what i’d give it brother

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 26/01/2026

new newsletter at humbleoffering.com

I’m a big fan of telling Jeff Bezos to eat shit at any opportunity. Seeing someone with fame, whether achieved or seemingly on the horizon, say it? An immediate, lame thumbs-up from my stupid 35-year-old thumb. It still feels counter-cultural, but at the same time, it makes me wonder, who the fuck in the year 2026 is a fan of Jeff Bezos?

They must exist, because they pop up endlessly online like limp-dicked Pikmin to defend Business Geniuses. I’d like to think they’re all astroturfed or burner accounts, but they seem to be tied to real socials, with real posts about their recent divorce.

For pretty much the past decade, everyone has been having a pretty bad time, man. It’s been a period of struggle where we’ve needed to rely on other humans. Yet, in that stretch, an inexplicable number of people have decided their allegiances lie, ‘til death, under the banner of big business.

Try as I might, as someone who’s generally pretty good at putting himself into someone else’s shoes, I simply cannot cram my tootsies into this mindset. I don’t know what builds a brain this way. Maybe it’s a genetically weak will. Perhaps these are the descendants of the serfs who sealed their tithes with a kiss. An unbroken line of suck-ups whose necks have evolutionarily developed a backwards curve to more easily blow kisses at the tower where the king resides. As if eunuchs somehow figured out how to further their bloodline despite their definitional lack of a downstairs.

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 23/01/2026

5 years from now when someone shows up to a job interview with Oakley Gascans and a gap in their resume around 2025-2026

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 19/01/2026

they should have given him a hat

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 15/01/2026

“trained operatives” my ass. don’t be fooled by the plate carriers. most of these Call of Duty cosplayers prob think flashbangs can’t hurt or kill anybody. either they have no idea how their equipment works, or they’re throwing it into a car knowing it will likely maim the people inside

Dukes had been hit by a flashbang, a $50 device used by the police to disorient suspects, often during drug raids. First designed nearly 40 years ago to help military special forces rescue hostages, flashbangs create a stunningly bright burst of light and an ear-splitting boom that temporarily blind and deafen anyone standing within a few feet of them. Last week, French special forces used flashbangs as part of a dramatic operation to free hostages held at a kosher supermarket in Paris. But when these modified hand grenades explode on the human body, they can cause severe injury or death. The flash powder burns hotter than lava. Dukes suffered second-degree burns across her body. When later asked to describe the pain she felt that morning on a scale of one to 10, with 10 being the absolute greatest, Dukes said 100.

But, as flashbangs became ubiquitous, Nixon worried that departments weren't training officers to use them properly. Reports of accidents started to trickle in. A prison guard in Nevada lost her hand when a flashbang exploded during a training exercise. And then, in 2002, an officer closer to Nixon's home in Arkansas was injured. An Omni Blast exploded in the hand of Brandt Carmical, a North Little Rock police officer, as he conducted a flashbang demonstration for a local Boy Scout troop. It pulverized his right hand, blew out his right eardrum and perforated his left eardrum. "I saw all this flesh," Carmical recalled. "I couldn't hear anything." At the hospital, Carmical's hand was amputated at the wrist. Later, he had to go back for further surgery because black powder from the flashbang was causing his skin to rot.

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 12/01/2026

new newsletter about how i’m staying sane sort of www.humbleoffering.com/something-to...

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 10/01/2026

says something about instagram that I really expected her to start eating the dog food

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 05/01/2026

i have a newsletter now at humbleoffering.com here’s some of the first post

Sidebar, I'm fascinated by this excerpt from the rain-turkey Snopes article:
The notion that a "dumb" animal would be fascinated by something as mundane as rain is another anthropomorphization.
The concept of "fascination" requires a level of intelligence that even the smartest turkeys do not possess. Animals of this order react to a phenomenon such as rain in one of two very simple ways: If they don't mind it, they ignore it (as ducks do); if they don't like it, they seek shelter from it.
Christ, man. I thought you were on the turkeys' side. "The concept of fascination requires a level of intelligence that even the smartest turkeys do not possess" is something I could imagine Gary Oldman screaming at a group of goons that failed an attempted underworld coup.

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 04/01/2026

leave me alone subway surfers

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 02/01/2026

2049 is locked in my mind as “the future” because of the mediocre N64 racing game San Francisco Rush 2049

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 01/01/2026

worried i’ll get banned for replying “pieces of shit like you!!”

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 27/12/2025

won’t be trying any of these. it’s working just fine as is. no need to risk it

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 23/12/2025

caught a law and order svu episode last night with an absolute murderer’s row of featured players. in the space of one hour you get Alfred Molina, Bradley Cooper as his lawyer, and the most iconic piece of wardrobe to ever come out of that show, the sex crimes softball team shirt

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 23/12/2025

lol at both-sidesing a dude calling your wife a literal, by-the-book racist slur absolute acorn dick behavior she should have changed the locks on the naval observatory before he got home

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 17/12/2025

i’m sure Gary Cole is a nice enough guy but never trust anyone he could play in a movie

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 17/12/2025

oh weird. Gavin Newsom, who looks like every character actor who’s made a living off of “guys who double-cross the protagonist” is turning out to be untrustworthy

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 07/12/2025

my dog lookin like the Child of Prophecy over here

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 28/11/2025

happy thanksgiving. i made some potatoes

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 27/11/2025

“hey man have you been going to the gym? the one that does really illegal surgeries in the back room?”

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 21/11/2025

submitting cartoons to the new yorker again so i’ll probably post some of the rejects here

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 17/11/2025

in 10 minutes I will be streaming a game I never beat as a kid. it in retrospect was one of the stranger games I've ever played and I'm doing this as much to prove to myself it existed as anything. Dynamite Headdy at www.twitch.tv/pig_dog

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 13/11/2025

damn i didn’t even know he was sick

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 12/11/2025

one-shot the oregon trail on teacher (hardest difficulty). only half my kids died. podium finish. light work for a true adventurer like yours truly. buffalo one-tapped off spawn. don't even talk to me about dysentery. drink better water and get good.

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 11/11/2025

the people demanded it. brayed for it like donkeys. scratched at my door until their fingers bled. eliyudin.bigcartel.com

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