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When some of those cheap looking ads look interesting but you know they’re just click bait or a scam

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Has there ever been a police procedural where the computer expert wasn't "colorful"?

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How I arrived at Bluesky?

Drivers and emergency workers gather around a Figure 8 car with Bad Blue written over the rear window. An ambulance is parked behind and to the left of the car

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Eva Marie Saint out on auditions (1949) Photographer: Nina Leen

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21F degrees above the average high for the day in October. Shame about this massive global cooling down

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Do people actually say "absolute cinema" or is that a manufactured expression?

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I've never played a lot of Star Wars video games, but might take a go at Galactic Racer. Loved the old pod racer game

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 06/10/2026

Three more days until the Nobel Peace Prize is announced. Looking forward to that for two separate reasons

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‘Ciao’ comes from a shortening of a northern Italian word meaning, literally, "slave." It was used as a polite greeting meaning something along the lines of “I am your servant.”

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Peter Kuper @pkuper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Stages of Spy development. I'll be at New York Comic Con Oct 8-11th in artists alley (A 11) with lots of original Spy art, political cartoons, books and much more. @comixace.bsky.social @madmagazinelover.bsky.social #MadMagazine #insectopolis #SpyvsSpy #ComicArt #OriginalArt #NYCC2026

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While visiting the US Mint website to check on the availability of Trump coins, I found the front page has comic art coins and medals with various DC heroes. Pricey, but probably more rewarding in the long run

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People have been commenting that they had thought Jim Bakker had died years ago, but no, he has just been grifting on a smaller scale. I thought they might have been thinking of Jimmy Swaggart, but when I checked, he had just died last year at 90. Maybe Jerry Falwell who died in 2007

The post a movie that was made before you were born that you’ve seen multiple times is too easy. Maybe a movie that was a hit before your mother was born* would be better * Though she was born a long, long time ago

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Kidrobot usually makes vinyl figures for collectors or at least they used to. So it’s weird it’s at Walmart. Target at least has a section for collectibles aimed at adults, but maybe Walmart shelves them with kids toys.

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

As we join the great theoretical scientist, he is deep in thought. So still, quiet and focused that he might almost be asleep. But inside that brilliant mind, what new idea is forming? What certainty is being meticulously interrogated? What ingenious theory is ready to change our world forever? (the scientist snores lightly) Ah, it seems he actually is asleep. And that's fine. Science is hard and not every day can be a success. We will come back another time.

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There’s a group of Trump supporters who used to post Glamour Shots of Melania and talk about her as the best FLOTUS. How are they doing with the rise of Natalie?

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Does the rule of three apply to Bakker and Hastert? Which figure in a scandal is next?

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Horror movie where all but one actor is replaced by Muppets? Eco-horror movie Frogs (1972) with today's Sam Elliott returning to his original role

I still don't know how you look at something strongly. Why does he always say that when he doesn't have a real answer?

When I encounter rough text now, I can't tell if it's a non-English speaker with a bad translation or a patch of AI generated text that no one has bothered to proofread

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Come to think of it, a lot of bad experiences with amorphous things in movies and on TV. Like The Blob coming out of a vent or the white blood cell absorbing Donald Pleasence in Fantastic Voyage

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I was trying to remember an Outer Limits episode that scared me as a child for this meme that's been going around, but I'm not having much luck. Probably The Probe which was the final episode of the original series. The giant microbe spooked me a lot

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(It's a cliche, but the easiest way to get teenagers to read is to tell them not to read certain titles.)

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I would think it's harder to ban books now with books being easy to mail order or download pirated copy from dark places on the Interwebs. In my day, people just passed around worn out paperbacks of the stuff they weren't supposed to be reading

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I keep responding to posts that are deleted before I finish my response.

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I see the Jets finally got an interception after 21 games. It reminds me of the Baltimore Oriole who lost their first 21 games in 1988. Teams hated to play them because no one wanted to be the first team they beat. Looks like Tyson Bagent gets the honor of being intercepted by the Jets

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I used to like a site that does online quizzes. Still go back once in a while, but they've had to go heavily towards ads. (They had a subscription you could do, but maybe not enough people did that.) The problem is that they have ads that sometimes take over the screen as you're taking a quiz!

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Johnny Carson had a stock character called Floyd R. Turbo who would turn up to given an “equal time” response to a news program’s editorial and he was a straight up MAGA prototype. Social media just gives people who were local institutions a bigger platform

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Last team to win a game this year?

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tampa’s Tropicana Field has four catwalks around the dome and a confusing set of ground rules of what happens if a ball hits one. We can only pray for more postseason chaos

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My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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Jack Lint @jacklint.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We get a lot of “explain it to me as if I were 5” but we should also have “explain it to me as if I were 65 and grew up in a time when this sort of thing wasn’t real”

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Jack Lint @jacklint.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

October 2 is the day we entered The Twilight Zone. Some would argue we never left

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Jack Lint @jacklint.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With due respect to college football fans, I think the WNBA playoff between the Wings and the Valkyries has the most potential tonight

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/10/2026

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Sorry we missed your call. Halloween takes precedence. Surely you understand. Cartoon by Michael Maslin.

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You don’t know me but I’m your father

OK, "lawyered up" makes sense on a TV police procedural when an ordinary suspect gets legal representation. It does not make sense when discussing large/significant entities like corporations, organizations, and universities. So Cornell cannot "lawyer up" because they're always heavily "lawyered"

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Also the obvious joke: "Skydance? Skynet would have been more appropriate!"

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The problem with Skydance is that Sundance and Moondance are already established and so it sounds like a bad copy. Also Sky Dancers were a line of flying toys from the mid-90s. (And those were recalled by the manufacturer because they were dangerous toys causing 100 reported injuries)

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Anyone who has ever said “what difference could a couple degrees make” when talking about climate change has never woken up in October to a house that was three degrees colder than they expected

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