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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 29/06/2026

short lil something on the way, workshopping thumbnails with @pillarofgarbage.bsky.social

screenshot of discord dms
Pillar of Garbage said, “I recognize the ai speech pattern of course but I can’t make heads or tails of Mrowr”
I reply, “okay would it be more or less comprehensible were replaced by me holding a bat’leth screaming “I’ll f*kin kill u” at the cat
what is my life pillar that I must ask such questions
I once was a normal man”

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 17/06/2026

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

The cover image for Sports Night, a hella good show nobody remembers.

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 18/05/2026

So, last week I posted my bananas Air Bud video, which featured a) a clip from Last Week Tonight and b) a lot of vikings showing up in strange places, including the question "Why is there a viking here." Today, LWT posted this video, and truly, the coincidence boggles the mind.

A screenshot of a YouTube video from LastWeekTonight. The video is titled "Structured Settlements & Factoring Companies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)." In the screenshot, a man in a vest and tie is sitting at a desk in a cubicle, facing a computer on an L-shaped desk. Next to him, laying on the desk, is an actor dressed as a viking. Behind the halfwall, three vocalists are singing. The caption reads, "Why is there a viking here?"

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 08/05/2026

trying to make sure i have better captions this time.

A closed caption reading [friendly dog-jumping-off-a-roof music]

A closed caption reading:
[if i were here you'd be running]
THIS DOG IS SOME DOG OFF THE STREET!

A closed caption reading: [stampeding viking feet]

A closed caption reading: HAS A DOG EVER PLAYED IN THE NBA?

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 07/05/2026

Waiting on a couple of last pieces before I can do the final export and upload, but it's time: AI and the Murder of Truth. (Also Air Bud.) Premiering Saturday at 10:00 AM PST/1:00 PM EST. You're not gonna believe this one. Trailer: youtu.be/IjA2rp4seX0

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 01/04/2026

Literally anyone who follows anyone who follows me needs to watch this video if only to see the payoff to this message Sam sent me a couple of weeks ago

A discord DM from Sam saying “I do not know what the f**k to do for visuals in this one.”

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 16/02/2026

… Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question ...

A tag on a fitted sheet. The tag says “TOP OR BOTTOM”

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 03/01/2026

CRISIS ALERT! The United States has bombed Caracas and abducted the sitting President of Venezuela!

Garrett from the TV show Community from the Season 3 episode about the Model UN

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 12/11/2025

I tapped on the pic and discovered that my phone thinks it can read your signature and that your name is “well, “

A zoomed in version of the photo of a signed screenshot from the above post. Jacob Geller’s autograph does not resemble any human language known to me. Nevertheless, it is highlighted as if it were text and there is a popout menu with the options “Copy,” “Select All,” “Look Up,” and “Translate.”

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 04/11/2025

Somebody posted a picture of a wet crow that they described as having "infinite water" and my brain immediately interpreted that as a story @tkingfisher.com would tell about her tabletop campaign.

The bird of infinite water.

Once attuned, this seemingly normal crow can always be found within your movement distance. If the crow can be caught, it will immediately vomit one cubic meter of fluid on the person who catches it. If the person is the attuned, the fluid is pure, clean water. If the person is not the attuned, the fluid is vomit.

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 22/10/2025

Meanwhile--and as far as I can tell, the administration isn't even denying this--the president has knocked down a big chunk of the White House. How is that not the lede of this article. "The President has demolished the facade of the East Wing of the White House." 8/

$A piece of construction equipment is in the middle of absolutely wrecking the White House's shit, dear god. The facade of the East Wing is in tatters. There's a dude with a hose hosing down the area where the machinery is working. It is impossible to describe how awful this image feels. Arguably the proudest and most well-known image of American ideals is getting knocked down by a Volvo crane. They couldn't even use a Bobcat? Why does it feel worse that the White House is being knocked down by a piece of Swedish construction equipment? I don't know, but it does. This is not the sort of neutral stance that alt text deserves but if you are reading this description and not able to look at the image it is important to me that you understand the spiraling, fractal, chaotic way in which this image just feels fucking awful.$

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 08/10/2025

Deleting this paragraph about whether a rutabaga can be an airline pilot (with citations to three different government resources and the Code of Federal Regulations) because i have begrudgingly decided that it is not needed in this video about the role of AI in education. o7

A paragraph from a word processing file: "Surely, you might be thinking, there are rules against a rutabaga being an airline pilot. But I’m 100% sure that Federal Aviation Administration does not have a “rutabaga policy.” What they do have is requirements that prospective pilots earn a series of certificates, which requires a bare minimum of 250 hours of flight time, as well as a bunch of other stuff, all of which is enumerated in Part 61 of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations which does not include the word “rutabaga” anywhere."

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 02/10/2025

I know that this essay will be good. I know that when it all comes together my argument will be compelling and interesting and engaging and maybe even persuasive. But also I look at my script and see things like this and like, man. Fighting an uphill battle with what i'm like.

A heading in a word processing file: "Dog Sports Are Real But Dog Sports Can't Hurt You"

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 30/08/2025

@innuendostudios.bsky.social As a new member, Patreon sent me an email showing me some of the cool past posts I now have access to, resulting in one of the funniest emails I’ve ever gotten

An email from Patreon headed “A whole world to explore.” It reads, “As a member of Ian Danskin’s Patreon, you now have a whole world of exclusive posts and community at your fingertips. Check out all the amazing work you’ve just unlocked.”

It presents a sample of the posts I might now have access to on Danskin’s Patreon. The example it chose is a picture of Danskin’s face captioned with the words “indefinite hiatus - sorry”

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 23/05/2025

This is truly one of the strangest coincidences I’ve ever shared with an internet acquaintance (though @megmbg.bsky.social is the pioneer woman, not me)

The same damn socks that Phil posted with the same kind of patch in the same spot, though with a different color yarn

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 06/05/2025

Works Cited page for the Goofy Movie map video is up. This isn't technically correct MLA, but I couldn't resist. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Steve, Cool. “The Life & Times Of: Before and After.” FanFiction.net, 7 Apr. 2005, https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2340523/6/.

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 29/03/2025

Look I promise you you want to hear me talk for 40 odd minutes about the map from a goofy movie. I will make somebody cry. Just pretend it’s not the dumbest idea you’ve ever heard. It is. But it’s gonna be good anyway.

A discord conversation.

Sam (Afterthoughts): this is the problem when your passion is convincing someone that your thoughts are interesting.

josh (blarhrhgbrharbgra): my thoughts are interesting, but literally nobody would believe that based on what they are

And then two people have reacted to my comment with the crying laughing emoji because I’m a very funny person according to at least two insightful readers

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 26/03/2025

i am a serious writer doing serious work

a model sheet labeled "the goofy movie - max." the character max is drawn in eleven different poses representing different emotional states. a caption reads "tag urself i'm 'so grouchy i could poop'" with an arrow pointing to one of the drawings, which let's be real looks like max is just so grouchy he could poop

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 24/12/2024

Sometimes I wonder if the entirety of The Magicians was written to make a place for this joke to go.

A quotation from “The Magicians”: “Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.”

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