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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Who remembers those comic ads for gross snacks?

A comic page which is a parody of comic ads for Hostess Fruit Pies (and other Hostess snacks):
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Val in SWEETENING THE DEAL

VAL (circa the Val Cannon mysteries, mid-to-late 90s) is walking on a sidewalk. A guy (Apparently JACK) is sitting on the steps of a house.
JACK: Hey Val!
VAL: Hey Jack

JACK: say... you wanna messa round?
VAL: Not if you still fuck like you did last week.

VAL (walking away): CAll me when you lear to eat pussy.
JACK: How about if I sweeten the deal...

JACK: ...with some Duchess® Cream Pies?

JACK: They've got flaky, tender crust and delicious filling!
VAL: Hmm

VAL is on a mattress with no sheet, with no pants on, looking a bit irritated. Her pants are there. We see JACK's butt as he is apparently passed out on his stomach. VAL is reaching for a Duchess® Cream Pie.
VAL: Well, he still doesn't know what he's doing...

VAL, about to bite into the pie: ...but let's try one of these things.

VAL, chewing a bite of the snack: ...it tastes like chemicals!

AD COPY at the bottom of the panel in a banner along with three Duchess® Cream Pie packages (cherry, banana, and berry): They taste like chemicals

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Me: "I like to dump the dry ice from shipments into the sink and add a bunch of water so it looks like I'm a mad scientist tinkering with forces beyond my understanding, spitting in the face of the gods with my intellectual hubris." Priest: "Okay, again; kind of weird, but not technically a sin"

Don't do this to your plumbing, because it can really mess it up, and this isn't my lab, but it's a sink filled with dry ice that is boiling over with CO2. A black lab bench with carboy of water next to the sink, and a centrifuge on the bench in fashionable "science beige".

Taken from:
https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/xuo2kt/lpt_dump_excess_dry_ice_from_shipments_into_the/

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A longish post which goes beyond the description of the heroic pause. This message is my takeaway

Screen shot from the post linked below. Text reads:
So here's how I would urge you all to celebrate Stanislav Petrov Day this year. Remember the example of the man who disobeyed orders to ignore what the cutting-edge computer system was telling him to do, and saved untold millions of lives in the process. Whatever an Al is telling you, whether it's a warning of a national security threat or a business efficiency" recommendation or healthcare "cost-saving" or personal "communication tips," do not trust it unreservedly. Do not let yourself become a meat-puppet for unthinking software because it's easier in the short run. Do not take irreversible actions, especially actions putting life at risk, due to AI guidance.

Disobey, always, rather than do something barbarous.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Brooklyn at dusk

A series of city buildings/ street and a golden sunset with clouds

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

all these people sound like this:

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

hokay, rescue mission time: who would like A HOUND PUPPY of their very own??

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 21/09/2026

If you're mad as hell about this and have some $ to spare, immigrant support activists on the ground here in Austin told me that the Immigrant Support Fund is the best donation destination; Wilber's family (and others) are helped via this stream: givebutter.com/ZkFxFu

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if you ever lose your pet millennial just scream out FATHER!!!!!! in your best serj tankian and you’ll immediately find about forty of em

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

are you in the mood for snake?

A drawing of a woman holding a telephone to her ear. A snake is coming out of the phone, and the woman is saying "I live for snake."

Big text at the top says "ARE YOU IN THE MOOD FOR SNAKE?"

Text underneath says "CALL 1-888-SNAKE TODAY, THE ONLY PHONE NUMBER THAT WILL SEND REAL, LIVE SNAKES THROUGH YOUR PHONELINE TODAY.

SNAKES ARE STANDING BY TO TAKE YOUR CALLS.
EXPERIENCE SNAKE - 1-888-SNAKE"

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

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Helen de Tricoteuse @helenofwhat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yessss, my result was just as I thought! (Not that it really matters.)

Image of character Pix, wearing a skeptical expression, with long purple hair, brown skin and a memento mori shirt

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

(steepling fingers, gazing deep into my scrying disco ball) yesssss, white boy, yesss. play that funky music. play it ... until you DIE

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sunshine day.

Sunlight streaming through the panes of a door and sidelights onto the vintage tile floor of an apartment entrance vestibule.

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🎃 jane-saw massacre 🎃 @janenx01.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th!

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sharing this for the great context from chalkbeat

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Get his ass, hilda

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy Tuesday-that-feels-like-a-Monday! 🪶

Two burrowing owls peeking out of the ground.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims

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New York Metro Weather @nymetrowx.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Monday's Weather Rating: 10/10 🎉 WE HAVE DONE IT!!! High temperatures reach the lower 80s with sunny skies, low dew points and a gorgeous breeze. That's it, that's the krabby patty secret formula. The vibes are immaculate out there today!!!

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 06/09/2026

It’s so true

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 04/09/2026

*Slams dictionary shut til Tuesday*

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Reims Cathedral! 🌞

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Since cheap EVs are a topic of conversation: by the end of this year you will be able to walk into a major legacy manufacturer's showroom in the United States and buy an EV for less than $20k. You can already buy them for $15k, but these versions aren't street-legal. We'll see how well they sell.

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Fiat's Little Mouse Eats Electrons, Not Cheese

The Fiat Topolino is coming to the U.S., but with only eight horsepower and a top speed of 25 mph, the little cosa carina is best used for side-street drives to the yacht club.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I feel like when people are being chased by a mummy not enough of them just try to kick the mummies ass. I wouldn’t try that shit on a Frankenstein but I feel like a mummy isn’t ready for that.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Her boredom rose so strong in her sometimes that it felt like terror: it took her by the throat. Not long ago she had been driven to speak of it. She had to talk, she thought, or she would go mad.

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Services I provide for my cats

Chicago streets and sanitation truck with the first s missing so it says treets and sanitation

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sorting through files and found one of my favourite gifs - 1970s Oliver Reed Catches Your Eye

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Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Is there any job where the job is just sleeping?

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 27/08/2026

HOLY SHIT.

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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

She was the best of all us 🖤

Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Says Skeletor who is the saddest he’s been in a long time. RIP Dolly

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Shadowbooooo👻 @shadowborgg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

tried to trap a stray cat at my work today but the trap didn’t go off so the cat just thinks we gave it a free home

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

i’m dying. i’m dead

zohran holding a the power broker book up in front of his face. caption reads “but robert moses is another video entirely)

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gene Kelly. Left-leaning Democrat, anti-McCarthyite, anti-Falangist, rigorous opponent of cant with a bias to the poor, born on this day in 1912. Apparently also a noteworthy song and dance man… #BOTD

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Singin' in the Rain | Gene Kelly Sings Singin' in the Rain | Warner Bros. Entertainment

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Entertainment

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Joe For America @makeitunclear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I guess my biggest take on race is that in "going the distance" the singer seems to describe simultaneously a horse race, a car race, and a foot race without really understanding how any of those things operate

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl kid and Mom peeking out from behind a wall. Kid's head is tilted.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

every time i get an email written with chatgpt that doesn't make any sense, doesn't answer my question, or uses the same words over and over again ...in my head i am imagining it was written by Derek from the Good Place

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Jason Mendoza and Derek's Intimidation Stare-Off

ALT: Jason Mendoza and Derek's Intimidation Stare-Off

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/08/2026

one of the most important things you have to learn as a parent is that your children are their own people and some parents actively refuse this lesson their children are more than entitled to leave those parents behind

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

this afternoon, we went to our local indie bookstore of 47 years. the shopkeeper provided excellent service as always

a black cat peeks out from a gap in the bookshelf bottom with big yellow green eyes looking up curiously at the new customers

the small black cat sitting on a runner in front of some shelves with various genres of picks

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