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IGN Creators Guild @ignunion.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

IGN Entertainment is refusing to pay its workers the wages we deserve, even as we make #IGNLive the event that it is this weekend. So we left a message that can’t be ignored. And you should too. Let our upper management know that you support us by sending them an email here: bit.ly/4e2uUCP

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

You know what rules? Conventions! Come hear Brian and Max chat about those giant, nerdy gatherings we all love to attend: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7Add... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... #Podcast #Conventions #ComicCon

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 📽️ Love old-timey horror movies? Then you might want to pack a trip this summer to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania to attend "Blobfest" - a yearly festival/convention centered entirely around the 1958 cult horror movie "The Blob"!

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🍖 Do you ever find yourself craving spam (the meat variety, that is)? Then you might want to grab a ticket for the SPAM JAM, a festival/convention dedicated entirely to the luncheon mainstay that’s held yearly in Honolulu. (Suspicious phone calls and emails need not apply!)

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🚽 Toilets: a great tool for getting rid of stools, a most excellent throne for scrolling on your phone…and the focus of an entire convention: the World Toilet Summit! Founded in 2001, this annual con is dedicated to tackling “the world's most urgent sanitation challenges.”

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We hope you enjoy our just-released episode about conventions! Alas, sweetness always comes with a little medicine: because we’re about to head into *busy* season, we’ve decided to put the show on temporary hiatus, and pause billing on the Patreon. We very much appreciate all the support (1/2)

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Kozibear @kozibear.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Not quite Bloody Mary-flavored, but close enough

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

#ThrowbackThursday 🦕 Did the Stegosaurus have long, shaggy hair like a golden retriever? Scientists are divided:

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🍻 The oldest still-functional brewery in the world is Bavaria’s Weihenstephan brewery, which has been making beer (per most sources) since 1040. Its original beer-brewers were Benedictine Monks, which had established a monastery at its location 300 years prior:

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This Thing Rules is BACK with three new topics on the docket! Come hear Brian and Max talk about why Fridge Magnets, Short Stories and Breweries rule! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1tcH... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... #Podcast #FridgeMagnets #Breweries

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 📖 The first short story ever published by Stephen King was "The Glass Floor," which debuted in the autumn 1967 issue of Startling Mystery Stories magazine. King (who was a 19-year-old sophomore at the time) earned $35 for its publication - $338 in today's money!

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🧲 The Guinness World Record for the world’s largest collection of fridge magnets is held by Louise. J. Greenfarb - also known as “The Magnet Lady” - from Henderson, Nevada, who was recorded in 2013 as owning over 35,000 non-duplicated fridge magnets!

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Whoops, seems like there was a malfunction at the This Thing Rules factory this week - hopefully we’ll be back soon with another new episode 🙏

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The carrot cake empire is evolving 🥕

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

#ThrowbackThursday 🔎 Are magnifying glasses secretly OP?! Max is on the case:

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

You know what rules? Capsule toy machines! Come hear Brian and Max talk about the best way to win random baubles and trinkets: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6zUS... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... YT: youtu.be/uh5v_0ee_-E?... #Podcast #CapsuleMachines #Toys

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🪀 The single largest gachapon machine on record was constructed at Singapore’s Marina Square shopping mall for a pop-up event in late 2022. It measured nearly 5 meters tall(!) and was only available to costumers that spent at least $180 at the mall.

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🪀 Why are gachapon machines called "gachapon," anyway? It's actually an onomatopoeia: the "gacha" part is meant to evoke the sound made by the machine when spinning its crank, and the "pon" is the sound of an item plopping out of it.

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🪀 The first Gachapon machine was invented in 1965 by entrepreneur Ryuzo Shigeta. Shigeta wanted to improve upon the haphazard way American vending machines dispensed their contents, and so he set up a machine in his Tokyo-based shop that dispensed items inside plastic balls.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

By some miracle, for the second time in ten months I got to sit down with Shigeru Miyamoto, this time at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto. As always, he was an absolute delight: www.ign.com/articles/ill...

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

#ThrowbackThursday 🤖 The question of a generation: can the Liquid Terminator turn into a dog?

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

FYI: Max Scoville will be taking part in "Answer For It" - the LIVE all-star trivia showdown from James Willems - on Saturday, March 21st at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco! Learn more (and grab your tickets) here: cafedunord.com/tm-event/ans...

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

#ThrowbackThursday 💈 Are longer haircuts better? Critics are divided:

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Hey folks - a heads up that there will be no new episode this week; time slipped through our fingers again and dropped into the drain, so we’re taking time to recharge our (metaphorical) batteries so we can fish it back out 🎣 We’ll return in due course with more Things That Rule!

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

#ThrowbackThursday 🏊‍♂️ You never know what those water animals will do to you when you go for a sweeeeem

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

You know what rules? Sneakers! And Cookies! And also...yard work?! Come hear Brian and Max talk about all three! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0BvQ... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y... #Podcast #Cookies #Sneakers

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🍪 The world record for the single biggest cookie of all time was achieved in May of 2003 by North Carolina's Immaculate Baking Company, which baked a monster-sized, 101 foot-diameter chocolate chip cookie that weighed in at over 40,000 pounds (18 tonnes)!

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 👟 New Balance was originally founded by William J. Riley in 1906 as the "New balance Arch Support Company." Its first product featured an insole with three support points, a then-innovative concept that Riley came up with after studying chickens' three-pronged feet.

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Kozibear @kozibear.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

On the most recent episode of This Thing Rules, @brianaltano.bsky.social recommended adding white miso paste to my cookie dough for a little extra “oomph” and so I made both peanut butter and choco chip cookies with the stuff to test it out; the former was so-so, but the latter was pretty tasty!

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🌾 The lawnmower was invented in 1830 by Edwin Beard Budding, a mechanic from Stroud, England. 19 inches wide and encased in a wrought iron frame, it originally required two people to operate - one to push it from its back, and another to pull it from its front:

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

You know what rules? Road Trips! Come hear Brian and Max talk about the joys of hitting the open road in a motor vehicle: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2jbY... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... #Podcast #RoadTrip #Trips

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🚙 A 2023 study by OpenPoll found the most popular road trip snack among adults to be chips, with 47% of those polled expressing they'd pack a bag of that crisp, salty goodness. Cookies came in second place with 44%, while candy came in third with 42%.

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🚙 The current record for driving through every contiguous US state as fast as possible is 86 hours - a blazing-fast feat that was accomplished in 2021 by a trio of tech executives in a Mercedes-Benz, who used their computer science know-how to plan the shortest-possible route.

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🚙 The first-ever long-distance road trip in a combustion engine vehicle was undertaken in 1888 by Bertha Benz (wife of automobile pioneer Karl Benz), who traveled 106 kilometers in Germany using one of Karl's early "Motorwagens" as a publicity stunt to promote said vehicle.

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

#ThrowbackThursday 🐊 There's nothing cooler than hanging out with alligators - so long as they're not hungry!

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🥕 During World War II, the British Ministry of Food used "Doctor Carrot" and "Potato Pete" to promote eating their respective vegetables; the former even headlined a carrot cake recipe, called "Dr. Carrot's Healthy Cake," that was published by the government.

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🥕 Let's learn about some international carrot cake variations! Since the 1960s, folks over in Brazil have been chowing down on Bolo de Cenoura, a fluffy-and-moist carrot cake variant with a bright, yellow interior and a chocolate ganache topping:

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

You know what rules? Carrot Cake! Come join Brian, Max and SPECIAL GUEST @kozibear.bsky.social for a wild discussion about why this earthy treat can't be beat: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5Hq2... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... #Podcast #Cake #CarrotCake

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🥕 The Guinness record for the world’s largest carrot cake was achieved in November of 2016 by a team of bakers from Surrey, British Columbia. The cake had a total area of 36 square meters (118 sq feet), and contained nearly 500 kilograms (1102 lbs) of shredded carrots:

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Kozibear @kozibear.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Hear ye, hear ye Comedy Button fans! With permission from Brian and Max, I've gone and uploaded the video version of The Comedy Button's Butt-Pardy episode to my own YouTube channel for posterity (as the original version of it is no longer viewable online). Enjoy!

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Kozibear @kozibear.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

FYI - if you've never seen it before, you can check out this overview video I did of the Snake Quake Carrot Cake I discussed on @thisthingrules.bsky.social:

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Kozibear @kozibear.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It was an INCREDIBLE pleasure to be able to sit down with Brian and Max to talk wildly about one of my favorite desserts. Seriously - there are twists and turns in this episode that you won't see coming, it's absolutely must-listen:

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I’m in Atlanta and I’m about to play three of my best friends my brand new album for the first time. I hope to share it with the rest of you soon ❤️

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