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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You can take the boy out of the Bronx...

Screenshot of results from quiz. Text reads:
Your dialect map
Redder areas talk more like you; bluer areas least.
You talk most like someone from New York - about 61% of your answers match a typical resident.
MYDIALECT - STANDARD

Below that is a colored map of the U.S. and a bar explaining that blue means Least like you and red means Most like you. The southwest and southeast coastal area show oranges and yellows, indicating a moderate match. The Northeast is redder indicating a close match. The rest of the map is mostly blue.

Below that is a bar with the text Save map as PNG
Additional text below that reads Cities most & least like you. Interpolated from the nearest survey responses. Most Similar 1. New York, NY (57%) 2. Philadelphia, PA (57%) Least Similar 1. Omaha, NE (47%) 2. Salt Lake City, UT (47%).

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Cease! Cease! Verily, he hath shuffled off this mortal coil.

Image from the Simpsons of several horrified children, one of them pointing.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A lot of great roles being mentioned today, but I also think he's underrated as the perfect evil scientist Dr. Anton Sevarius in Gargoyles. A memorable villain on a show filled with memorable villains.

Dr. Anton Sevarius from Gargoyles. A white man with brown hair in a white sort-of lab coat with what appears to be a button by the left shoulder. Looking straight ahead with an evil scientist smile on his face.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ready for your Avengers Doomsday homework? Marvel has released a watchlist of 15 movies and TV shows you should watch before December 18 rolls around:

1. A Blaffair to Rememblack
2. Le Cousins Dangereux
3. The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost
4. Kickpuncher
5. Everybody Loves Hypnotoad
6. The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
7. Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs
8. It's Patsy
9. Pawnee Today
10. Adventures of a Very Randy Vampire
11. Love That Baby
12. The Adventures of Nuktuk: Hero of the South
13. The Truth Wears Side-Burns
14. Fjord of Blood
15. Who's Making Dinner?

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"We're all trying to find the person who ordered this."

Image of Tim Robinson in hot dog costume in front of onlookers from the I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Car sketch.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Starting the year off on the right foot:

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"Describe a favorite movie in the most misleading way possible." A group of rare-antique enthusiasts hang out and get to know each other better.

Still from The Maltese Falcon. Sam Spade, Joel Cairo, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and Kasper Gutman crowd around the titular object.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The average American has one friend.

Image of Vincent Adultman from Bojack Horseman. He is standing with his back to a bar and bar stools, wearing a hat and long trench coat, with only his face visible. One hand appears to be a broom and another, hidden behind a stool, a mannequin hand. He is definitely an adult man, and definitely not three children stacked on top of each other.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

And now that it’s officially public domain, you can even put the mind in The Cocoanuts

Poster for early Marx Brothers movie The Cocoanuts. Text at the top reads Paramount’s All Talking-Singing Musical Comedy Hit!

In the center is a diamond-shaped cutout with Marx Brothers Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo (Gummo having left before their jump to movies), with a woman dancing on either side.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Don’t mind me, I’ll just be over here being “aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment”

A screenshot, as directed in the quoted post, of the word “avant-garde”

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Pictured: Vikings preparing for battle

Image from the original animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas showing the Grinch tying an antler to his dog Max’s head.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Bluesky support, any idea what I can do about this error message?

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

"Hey. We saw you from across the room and thought you might want to join Bluesky.”

Movie still from Double Indemnity, in Black & White. Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson and Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff. They are in a grocery store, at a slight angle from the camera and partially hidden by rows of boxed items on the shelf in front of them. Behind them are shelves against a wall, with lots of cans that look ready to topple over noisily at any moment.

Only Phyllis's head is visible, staring straight ahead and looking stoic, her eyes hidden behind sunglasses. She wears an infamously bad blonde wig that director Billy Wilder regretted halfway through filming but was stuck with, and which he would later no-prize by explaining that it's meant to represent the character's phoniness.

Walter is dressed in suit and tie, with what I want to say is a fedora, but being shamefully and inexcusably deficient on the intricacies of similar-looking 40's headgear, and in fear of being rightfully called out, I will simply label a dark hat. His head is turned slightly toward her so they can talk surreptitiously as they pretend to be strangers. The look on his face suggests that he has just realized he is at the center of a classic film noir, which are of course famous for their uncomplicated love stories and happily ever afters.

The pair clearly think they are being clever, but their charade would fool absolutely no one, if anyone really cared about these two randos trying to be smooth while everyone else just wants to finish their shopping for the day so they can get home and make dinner.

They will maintain this charade for approximately five seconds before descending into an animated and highly incriminating argument in the middle of this modestly crowded grocery store, in what might generously be termed stage whispers.

And, oh yes, they would love to welcome you to Bluesky.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Tired: Scorpion and the frog. Wired: Wasp and the frog.

Screenshot of a tweet of mine from Dec 19, 2022. Bottom half is a link to an apple news article. Headline reads: Male wasps use their genital spines to sting frogs (and people). Subheader: Until recently, female wasps got all the blame for those painful pricks.

Above the link is the following text:

"Why did you sting me?" said the frog. "Now we'll both drown."

"It's my nature," replied the wasp. "Plus, I can fly, dumbass."

"Oh, yeah," said the frog. "Shit. I forgot."

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Thankfully the Addams family taught us all proper moon bathing/gazing technique.

Uncle Fester, Gomez, and Morticia Addams in a still from the 1960’s Addams Family TV show, sitting on their lawn (Fester and Morticia in chairs, Gomez on the ground). Fester gazes up at the moon, wearing protective sunglasses and holding a panel to reflect moonlight at himself. Gomez, in striped bathing suit, looks up with a telescope. Morticia, with sunglasses and a fan, stares straight ahead.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Blackthorne: I have concepts of a plan. If we come up with something I would only change it if we come up with something that’s better and less expensive. And there are concepts and options we have to do that and you’ll be hearing about it in the not too distant future Mariko: The Anjin has no plan

Image from the Hulu series Shogun featuring the characters John Blackthorne and Toda Mariko, both looking forward. Mariko has long black hair and is wearing white. Blackthorne is behind and to the right of her. He is in blue, with short brown hair and a beard. Two other people stand in front of a building to their left.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

"You‘ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?” Considering their track record, my chances of being rescued are high. Unfortunately, my chances of being brutally tortured before I’m rescued are also high.

Images of Farscape characters in three rows of five. Top row, L to R: Aeryn Sun, Lt. Braca, Chiana, Crais, Ka D’Argo. Middle row: L to R: Scorpius as Harvey, John Crichton, Jool, Utu-Noranti, Pilot. Bottom row: Dominar Rygel, Scorpius, Sikozu, Stark, Pa’u Zotoh Zhaan

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.

Black and White still from His Girl Friday. Stage right, Cary Grant’s Walter Burns on an old-fashioned candlestick telephone with the receiver to his ear. Stage left, Rosalind Russell’s Hildy Johnson stands over a typewriter. They are looking at each other. He’s smiling at her. She looks like she’s had enough of his bullshit.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

The murder-for-hire racket isn’t what it used to be. Can’t blame a guy for trying to make a living.

Marvel’s Hit-Monkey, in a still from his eponymous animated series. He’s a Japanese macaque, looking dapper in a white shirt, black suit and sunglasses. He stands on a red rug in a room with wooden floor and walls, in between a mirror and a Japanese room divider screen.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

I'm not going to be able to make it to the Met tonight, but can one of you fashionable celebrities do me a favor and bring me back 1lb of chicken breasts and a 2-liter of ginger ale?

Front page of an ad circular for the Met supermarket. Top is a yellow background with "Met" in blue and "FOODMARKETS" in white on a black bar. To the right it reads: "WEEKLY AD" in red. Below are images of food items with names of the foods (blurry) and prices listed.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

Blackthorne: Creativity involves a complicated dance with the muses, to ensure the outflow of inspiration. It can't be constrained by dogmatic adherence to restrictive measures of success. Mariko: The Anjin sat down to write six hours ago and has added one paragraph to his WIP.

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