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Rory Blank

@roryblank.bsky.social
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Bone Jail I draw comics i think that’s a nice way to spend my time instagram.com/roryblank patreon.com/roryblank for my monthly print zine roryblank.bigcartel.com for cool shirts rawpaw.ink/collections/rory-blank (reprints of a few shirts)

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 2h
I like my IWW hat because I can wear it to places like the Texas state fair without getting glared at. I get compliments and friendly conversation on it from people who know what it means, and the sort of people who would get mad at it if they understood it don’t recognize the symbol.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2h
What if Freddie wasn't a dream-traveling pedophile nightmare monster with knives for fingers, but a nice man who takes his daughter to the movies
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 4h
This is possibly too specifically about defunct Austin music festivals and probably most people looking at this don’t know what it means, and that’s not my problem
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 4h
James Talarico I will vote for you if you pledge to use your powers as a senator to bring back fun fun fun fest and chaos in tejas or oblivion access
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 4h
Yeah actually nothing about this is surprising or disappointing.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 4h
This is a joke, I don’t actually care, I mean look at that dude, he is an aggressively normal guy
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 4h
Actually i think slightly less of James Talarico for going to ACL, really dude, are you excited about seeing Kings of Leon? Are you super amped for Twenty One Pilots? Were you super amped to see The Chainsmokers?
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16h
I never play video games in “fidelity mode” this is a performance mode only household
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16h
But I am also always happy to hear Roky Erickson
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16h
Also my only real complaint about the director’s cut of four is I thought some of the times it cut back to Two Headed Dog felt weird
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16h
Visit beautiful Texas. Some parts of it are fine.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16h
I know people who were there when this happened
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16h
Explaining that Big Tex is real has been a blight on my existence
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16h
I have made multiple references to Big Tex in my work and had people very vehemently insist that I’m “referencing“ or “ripping off” King of The Hill. Big Tex is real.
Big Tex, the giant cowboy who watches over the Texas State Fair
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16h
There are a lot of things about King of The Hill that I talk to northerners that they think are jokes and exaggerations the series made up, that are in fact real fundamental qualities of the state, and real places. The same is also true of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16h
2 is my favorite because I think it captures a fundamental and ineffable truth about what living in Texas is like.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22h
The narrative that vibecoding is going to usher in a new flood of emulation is less accurate than just admitting that all of the barriers between platforms have been fake since basically the PS4.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 23h
there are ghosts everywhere
a doodle of some really rough silhouettes of some people staring at the reader accompanied by the text "there are ghosts everywhere and nobody really notices them because they look and sound like normal living people. They aren't pale, they don't glow, they aren't translucent.
Chances are, they don't even really know that they're dead. How would they? They look the same.
There might be a ghost next to you right now."
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 23h
Also we did the pamphleting thing again a few weeks later to a frat party, and having learned from feedback from doing it to SXSW people, who would ask me if I had actually cut my dick off, I made myself a prosthetic stump. The frat boys did not like seeing my stump.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 23h
On another night during SXSW that year I made her a cape out out of all of the show posters and tape that we found on the ground and paraded her around as the queen of garbage
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 23h
Whatever dudes are saying in seminars that they sell to young men, consider that the result of me not listening to any of that advice and instead doing this is that I have been in this relationship for 11 years now.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 23h
This worked.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 23h
I met my girlfriend through backyard wrestling and then decided that the best way to impress her was to make a bunch of inscrutable occult pamphlets that encouraged people to cut their dicks off and only eat at 7 Eleven and invited her to go downtown with me to hand them out to SXSW attendees.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 23h
I am not trying to be deep this was a hypothetical i was thinking about on the bus a few months ago
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 23h
there are ghosts everywhere
a doodle of some really rough silhouettes of some people staring at the reader accompanied by the text "there are ghosts everywhere and nobody really notices them because they look and sound like normal living people. They aren't pale, they don't glow, they aren't translucent.
Chances are, they don't even really know that they're dead. How would they? They look the same.
There might be a ghost next to you right now."
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My job for about three and a half years was to as a content moderator for facebook. I would routinely have to watch things like ISIS prisoner execution videos and there was a week where I kept having to look at the Christchurch shooter's livestream.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There's a difference between a video of a bomb going off, filmed from the perspective of a drone, and a video of someone being shot repeatedly up close or at a medium distance.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Imagining the number of people who are going to tune in excited to see their bloodthirsty desire for vengeance sated and then find out it's a lot less "fun" to actually watch than they were imagining.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I really want to know if Pete Hegseth has ever actually seen a person die up close before, particularly from being shot. It's a nasty way to go.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s a big country
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What I hazily remember was it was something like I posted the words “yo what’s up brazil” and thousands of brazilian people told me this was annoying pandering
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
woke up biting my tongue from a dream that I had made the entire country of Brazil mad at me for reasons that escape me
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
shit you're right
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
guy has the normal amount of teeth but somehow looks like he has too many teeth
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
His mentor Jack Welch is smiling up at him from Hell
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/10/2026
why
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nobody ever mentions Blood Simple
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have now seen Chat Pile 8 times, and tonight was the least I have heard about movies, which is fair, people always just yell about Spy Kids.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I mean I assume it’s because of the wretched state of the Austin real estate there aren’t many better places to have a venue of that capacity that might be closer to the city
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Radio/East is a good venue, they have a good sound system, the staff has been very nice to me every time I’ve been there but man what a weird place to put a venue.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the clowns in congress The clown sin congress
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think part of the reason there aren’t a lot of good movies about contemporary American political life is you sound like an idiot if you talk about any of the things happening in American politics outloud. If I heard the word Groyper in a movie I would try to cut my own head off.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yep. originally it was being developed for Roman Polanski and then he dropped off because of the Manson family murders.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Man I still gotta watch that one, I have it ready to go
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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
checked in on the GTA 6 leaks i've learned that you have to put gas in your car lucia has an insane ass and jason is uncut
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I cannot condone using dolphin for crime
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh no. Fuck.
The poster for the movie Day of The Dolphin, the tagline for which is Unwittingly He Trained A Dolphin to Kill The President of The United States
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Man imagine what it would be like if unwittingly someone trained a dolphin to kill the president of the united states i hope nobody ever finds themselves in a situation like that, that would be really messed
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s particularly interesting to think about the dearth of recent comedy movies specifically in light of the mass proliferation of AI, and people insisting that it’s going to take over movies. It can more convincingly do a facsimile of blockbuster fx than natural nuanced human speech.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Computer program that describes my dreams to people
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