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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

I read the novel, but I still don't get what happened when Atlas Shrugged?

Image of Eisenhower's globe which was broken when Hegseth moved it.

Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

@futurebird Well, at least we can still rely on the Washington Post to hold up a high standard of graphic design. (This was yesterday, I believe.)

A plot in which it's not clear what the x-axis even is, or why data points are connected by a smooth curve.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

The flags are flying doubly half-staff today.

A government building with a flagpole with two flags, both at half staff.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Bezos's #WaPo: we must push seniors off a cliff so we can hand more trillions to defense contractors and billionaires.

Washington Post Opinion: To get the national debt under control, start with the retirement state.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

"My kids are sobbing." (Was just enjoying a bottle of this mineral water and looked up reviews of their bottling plant in Butte Falls, Oregon, as one does.)

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Cybertrucks, in an attempt to distract from the fascist reputation, now come with an upright piano.

A cybertruck, or maybe a rusty dumpster, is parked on an urban alley with a small upright piano in its trunk.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

CAN HISTORY PLEASE STOP IMITATING ART THANKS

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

The is what happens when you run your military on sOcIaLisM! </sarcasm>

Post from Aaron Parnas about the horrendous working and living conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

If Troy Jackson is going to be the senator from Maine, can Troy McGreggor be the senator from Canada? #MST3K

Troy McGreggor in a still from The Final Sacrifice (1990). He is staring at the camera with an idiotic grin on his face.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

I'd like to spend more time in the country, but I'm afraid of needle sticks.

A small Douglas fir branch with needles on a gingham table cloth.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

@futurebird "NASA was on the line; they said it was all just a trick of the light. But I knew better. Photos of rock formations don't lie."

Image taken by the Viking 1 Mars orbiter that appears to be a face looking upwards from the surface of the planet.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

You could have told me this was a disco from "Tron" (1982). Even the security programs need a place to boogie.

Movie poster for "Tron" (1982), with a similar pink and blue color scheme and angular shapes as in the previous image.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

This guy may look like a gopher, but I gotta agree with "publicly accessible places for kids to play rather than funneling all development through clubs and organized teams" […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Cropped photo of a man with what looks like two huge front teeth (but are really his fingers).

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

""" At a budget hearing Thursday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said the new proposed leadership team "is really going to be able to revolutionize CDC and get it back on track." """ www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-578795… #PublicHealth

The goose chase meme, with the goose demanding to know why the CDC was off track.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

The dead dude that Trump is blessing (?) is Jeffrey Epstein, amiright?

Closeup of the bizarro AI slop that Trump posted, showing a reclining, perhaps dead, older white man who looks like Epstein.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Hungary could do far worse than electing Macklemore,

Photo of opposition leader Magyar speaking today in Hungary. He looks like Macklemore.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

Pirate crooner: Arr, who still likes ye, baby?

New York Times opinion headline: "Who, Exactly, Still Likes Ye?

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

Contrast: " I’ll gladly take this over the jetpacks for everyone that my childhood promised me the future would have. ✋🔺🤚 " with:

Transcript that says:

[music]

Heat. Heat.

Heat.

Hey. Hey. Hey. [music] Go go go back [music] goat.

[music]

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

[Marc Andreessen] Cone-head dude has never read Charles Darwin's letters. www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwins-bad…

Marc Andreessen post claiming that "great" men and women never discuss their feelings.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

For free: kid's trampoline, orbit achieved.

A "little tikes" trampoline with a handle (or hand bar) several feet above the surface. There is a "free" sign taped to the bar.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

State of the Onion: about to be latke (along with potatoes and celeriac)

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

They did a great job of casting the actor to portray the couch-molesting guy in this movie. What a resemblance.

Chubby-cheeked bearded guy sitting at a desk labelled USSR. A caption says "May I ask what motive our Russian friends would have". The Netflix overlay indicates that the movie is "You Only Live Twice" (1967).

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

Watching "Dr. No", it's pretty clear where Elon ripped off the idea of the cyber truck from.

An armored vehicle with sharp angles and flat surfaces.

The same vehicle, with "dragon" markings visible, seen behind Connery and Andress.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

Scene: Architect's office Architect 1: The deadline for the new building drawings is tomorrow and we have nothing! We've been coming into to the office for weeks. We just sat around eating pizza, and now all we've got to show for it is a sloppy stack of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A new office building of about 20 stories, each of which is slightly misaligned compared to the ones above and below.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

Take me down to the Mushroom City Where the grass is green and the trees are pretty #FungiFriday

A green lawn with several clusters of brown mushrooms and some trees in the background.

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