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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 27/07/2026

If you are in Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois or Indiana, you'd do well to tune into Ryan Hall's weather channel now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kh0...

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 11/06/2026

I mean, it's not like anyone who was paying attention could possibly be surprised.

An image of the Microsoft Office Assistant Clippit, known as "Clippy", saying "Hi! I am Clippy! Did you conveniently forget how hated I was 30 years ago, so you can act surprised at how much AI is hated now?"

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 19/02/2026

It's hard to have justice when all you have is just ICE.

This is a two-panel political cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Left Panel:
The heading of "IN UK" is above a British police officer who is escorting a downcast man in a suit who has his hands cuffed behind his back. The man has the words "PRINCE ANDREW" written across his chest. Below that is the caption of "JUSTICE"

Right Panel:
The heading of "IN U.S." is above a large, intimidating officer wearing a black face mask and a green tactical vest labeled "ICE" (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), who is marching away a small, young child. The child's hands are cuffed behind her back, and she is hunched over, looking at the ground. Below that is the caption of "JUST ICE"

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 11/02/2026

Sometimes it be like that.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 28/01/2026

No one could have foreseen this exact thing we've been telling you all this time, eh?

Here is the literal transcription of the image content:

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pizzacakecomic posted:

2016: "You're overreacting!"
2017: "You're overreacting!"
2018: "You're overreacting!"
2019: "You're overreacting!"
2020: "You're overreacting!"
2021: "You're overreacting!"
2024: "You're overreacting!"
2025: "You're overreacting!"
2026: "Well there was no way of knowing it would get this bad..."

tudors_reimagined responded:
Amazingly all of us who did predict this used our magical powers of reading history books and using basic human pattern recognition 😒

pizzacakecomic replied:
Also they really gave it away when they threw out those nazi salutes..

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 27/01/2026

Look, it's the complete spectrum of colors she finds acceptable. #KristiNoem #ICEOut

A sliced section of perfectly white onion, cut to resemble the shape of a rainbow, captioned "Kristi Noem's Pride Rainbow"

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 05/11/2025

Oh look, conservative tears. Now we need to PROTECT this man. Trump is going to go after him with everything he's got.

The cover of the New York Post, late edition for Tuesday, November 4th, 2025, featuring a caricature of Zohran Mamdani in a red jumpsuit, white shirt and black tie, smiling warmly while holding aloft a 3D red hammer-and-sickle symbol from the Soviet Communist era, three red five pointed stars shooting through the night sky above him over a background of Manhattan, New York City, with the text "On your Marx, get set, Zo! Socialist Mamdani wind race for mayor" above the headline "THE RED APPLE" with the R in Red reversed, cyrlillic-style.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 28/10/2025

People who are racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. Say that it is dangerous to learn about other races, genders, and sexual orientations. They call it recruitment, because they don't want to give it the legitimacy of their own race, gender, or orientation.

A brick wall painted with the stripes of the trans pride flag, light blue at the top and bottom, light pink above the bottom and below the top, framing a center white stripe. Superimposed upon this image are the words "When kids learn about left-handed people, they don't all suddenly become left-handed. Learning is not becoming."

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 26/10/2025

From 30th in 2024 to 48th in 2025. I wonder what could have happened?

A list of 60 nations with the best reputations in 2024 and 2025, with virtually no country losing or gaining more than five positions between the two years, except the USA: 30th best reputation in 2024 to 48th best reputation in 2025.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 23/10/2025

Now I get to watch everyone go and see if this is actually happening.

A screenshot of a news story, with a red "LIVE" box in the upper-left corner, and a lower-third set of announcements as headlines that read: "BREAKING NEWS" "TRUMP SUES 'LEFT' TWIX FACTORY" and "PAM BONDI ANNOUNCES DOJ LAWSUIT ALLEGING 'ANTIFA' TIES TO LEFT TWIX PRODU" with the last statement trailing off-screen. The timestamp in the lower left reads 7:39.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 20/10/2025

Our breakfast this morning, prepared by my beloved @staymustard.bsky.social

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 19/10/2025

First stop of @staymustard.bsky.social and I's 10th anniversary celebration was Hubbard Park Lodge's Lumberjack Brunch Buffet in Shorewood, Wisconsin.

Cobblestone fireplace in rustic style lodge

View of the wraparound balcony in a rustic style lodge

Omelette order slips for Sarah and Aldous showing table 12, with ingredients for each omelette circled

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 19/09/2025

Spotted on UW Madison campus near the WSUM radio studio by my friend:

This is a photo taken 9/18/2025 in downtown Madison, WI on the UW-Madison Campus. It shows a construction site with a raised scaffolding platform extending outward from the side of a brick building. On the very edge of the platform, high above the ground, there is a bright red portable toilet precariously placed. The setup looks unusual and somewhat unsafe, as the portapotty is perched far out over open air.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 11/09/2025

Crochety Gen X post incoming: On a completely different topic than is going around right now: in 1980, a pack of these weighed 1.8 oz. and were $0.25. Now they're 1.5 oz for $2.19. following general inflation, it should be $0.98 today for a 1.8 oz package.

A picture of a retail shelf of candy displaying how a pack of two Reese's peanut butter cups in 2025 weighs 1.5 oz and is being sold for $2.19

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 24/08/2025

I mean we could do things the rational way and have a better world. What do you say?

holly
@girlziplocked

Giving poor people some money makes crime go down better than giving cops more money.

Says science. We did the science. We keep doing that science. Nobody in a suit ever cares tho.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 17/08/2025

First they make money be needed for everything. Then they make credit card companies needed to use your money. Then those companies get to dictate what you can spend it on, and the artists starve (even more than usual).

A meme titled "The Myth of Artistic Freedom". It shows a pink haired artist drawing on a tablet labeled 'NSFW' saying "I want to draw it!", a gray generic happy customer holding cash saying "I want to see it!", and the logos of MasterCard and Visa shouting "I DON'T". Below that the meme says "Isn't there some random payment processor you forgot to ask?"

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 16/07/2025

"One star: needed salt."

This is a screen capture of a post from Twitter, dated July 20th, 2022, time of 10:42 p.m. 10:42 p.m. It was posted by username AnonymousUser
(@DylanWa68690046) and it reads:

The year is 2045. The first astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave with a human skeleton. And 4 words are written on the wall.
What are the four words

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 13/07/2025

...and it would appear that Thomas is at least an ally. :-) #LGBTQ+ #andThomas

A transcription of a post by BladePactWarlock

Look, I don't know you and I won't pretend to be able to read the future, but I will mention one thing.

I had a group chat in college with my roommate and two friends, also in comp sci. Just guys being dudes for a few years. Boom, one of us is non-binary. Boom, second one is a trans woman. Boom, I'm a trans woman. Now my best friend is the only one of us who is still cis.

One might think it's only a matter of time before he breaks, but I've come to a different conclusion. As the years go by more and more people in his orbit end up queer. His gf is bi, his only sibling is gender fluid, more and more of his friends come out as trans, and I think I know what's happening.

He's slowly consuming the heterosexuality and cisgenderism of everyone around him. Soon there will only be two kinds of people on this earth. Queer people, and Thomas.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 12/07/2025

Day two at G-Fest XXX (30), panel with the co-authors of "Godzilla: The First 70 Years". #G-FestXXX

Panel with the authors of the "Godzilla: The First 70 Years" at G-Fest 30, July 12, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, Rosemont, Illinois, USA.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 10/07/2025

The local Mitsuwa is ready for #GFest30

Burning Godzilla figure kicks Space Godzilla figure in bookstore window display

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 08/07/2025

A lovely reinterpretation of this scene, courtesy of @cybertronicspree.bsky.social

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 05/07/2025

Republicans selling all their stock in companies that rely on Medicaid before voting for Trump's budget should be a much bigger scandal.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 05/07/2025

This seems to be the feeling I'm getting from a lot of folks on this particular July 4th. Not sure I can blame them. #EscapeFromTheUSA

A clip from the movie Escape from New York (1981) dir. John Carpenter, where Snake Plissken declares, "I don't give a fuck about your war... Or your president."

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 30/06/2025

Look at those beggars! Who do they think they are, people who deserve food, shelter and clean air?

This is a single-panel cartoon from the series "Sidewalk Bubblegum" by Clay Butler from 1996.

The scene shows a park or public space with trees. On the left side, there are three figures: a businessman in a suit asking "Hey buddy, could you lend me some public land for grazing and logging? I swear I'll pay you back," while in front of him another businessman holds a sign reading "Bombs not Food!" while asking "Billions for weapons, Sir?"
Next to them is a third businessman pleading "Brother, can you spare some subsidies for a poor agribusiness?"

On the right side of the panel, two people (appearing to be a man and woman in casual clothes) are walking by. One of them tell the other one "Don't give them anything... it just creates a cycle of dependency."

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 22/06/2025

This is a DISGUSTING propaganda piece cheering on the lawless regime headed by the criminal Donald J. Trump. SHAME on CNN.

A screen capture of an article at CNN World, posted the night of Saturday, June 20, 2025:

Analysis: US strikes mark a stunning demonstration of military might and presidential power

Analysis from CNN's Stephen Collinson

President Donald Trump's attack on Iran's nuclear sites is both a stunning demonstration of US military might and unilateral presidential power.

Other presidents chose not to take this step, in the belief that such action could ignite a full-on war with Iran. But the Middle East has changed - Israel has dismantled many of the Iranian proxies that it would have used to fight back.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 20/06/2025

Thank you, @moxiest.art . I have turned this into a shareable image and made sure to include alt text for maximum accessibility. Your insights need to be shared as widely as possible.

A screen capture of a post from -mox (@moxiest.art) that reads:

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 15/06/2025

To all the fathers out there who do their best for their young ones, Happy Father's Day. Yes, this includes trans men who are parents - you are Fathers, in my cis (bi) man book.

An image of the FTM (female to male) Trans Pride Flag, consisting of seven horizontal stripes: the top and bottom stripe each being a medium (baby) pink, the second from the top and bottom stripes being white, the stripes above and below the center stripe being a pastel blue, and the center stripe being a baby blue.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 14/06/2025

So, the terror these poor kids face at school have prepared them now for the terror that their own government may visit upon them.

A screenshot of a post from Tumblr, posted by tytonidyke "Yesterday", which was Thursday, June 12, 2025, that reads:

"We got training at work today on how to deal with potential ICE raids during summer camp. We’re supposed to shelter the children in place, in management’s words, 'just like an active shooter drill'. That this is how we explain it to children - that learning how to hide from armed intruders is their normal, and they’ve never known a world without the threat of random gun violence - at camp where all they are supposed to be doing is learning and making friends - it makes me sick. Fuck this sick fucking country."

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 13/06/2025

Now at the Jesus Was Woke shirt site (www.teepublic.com/user/jesus-w...) :

A t-shirt with a design on it featuring the progressive Pride flag and the words:

Let's
Get down to
Business
To defeat the Huns

With the LGBT that starts each line emphasized.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 12/06/2025

Yeah, we can tell it's half off.

A grocery store bakery package of half a cake, labeled "REDUCED 50% OFF"

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 11/06/2025

Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any good way to stop bad faith actors like this numbskull from putting people on inappropriate block lists. Just be careful when you use block lists, because there's probably a number of people on them that shouldn't be.

A screen capture of a notification from Blue sky that says @chillmun.bsky.social has added you to the "Crypto/AI" moderation list

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 11/06/2025

This is Los Angeles in 1937. Don't back down, we can win, even when the forces we are fighting against seem immeasurably large.

A Black and white photograph, taken in downtown Los Angeles in 1937 at the intersection of 3rd & Spring, showing a woman walking in protest with a sign that says "Stop illegal raids by Immigration Dept."

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 11/06/2025

Seems to me Scotland's attempt to erase trans identity has gone tits up.

A screen capture of a post taken from a Tumblr blog belonging to elierlick, posted May 20th, 2025.

The main part of the post is a large color photograph of a group of over a dozen trans women standing in black pants with no clothes on above the waist, with their mouths taped over. In front of one of them is a sign that reads:

"THIS IS AN ACT OF GRIEF RESISTANCE AND SOLIDARITY. WE URGE THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT TO APPEAL TO THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS."

The image is captioned: "Trans women protesting outside Scottish Parliament."

elierlick than commented:
"I love it when trans women protest topless. If they're arrested, the state must admit they're women. If they aren't, it shows the glaring contradictions of labeling trans women as legally male. It helps their cause either way."

The post was tagged #Igbta #trans #transgender

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 07/06/2025

Rosie Dore/Briarhide Illustration, made this amazing image. If you want your own, with €10 of each purchase going to an Irish transgender support organisation, get it from: briarhideillust.etsy.com/listing/4316...

An image by Rosie Dore/Briarhide Illustration of a fox painting a rainbow stripe to cover an atmosphere full of negative words about LGBTQ people, allowing a flowering field with butterflies to thrive, with the words "Persist Anyway." in the cleared air.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 07/06/2025

It's Aromantic Visibility Day. I just can't love it, tho. 😉

An image of The Aromantic Flag, consisting of five horizontal bars of color, ordered top to bottom: bright grass green, pale lime green, white, medium gray, black.

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 04/06/2025

This fits neatly with something I've said now for some time: freedom is a gift we give each other.

A close up black and white image of a sheet of paper in an old fashioned typewriter, the type on the sheet reading: "The function of freedom is to free someone else." The quote is attributed to Toni Morrison

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 03/06/2025

Don't comply in advance... and even after they pass their laws, rebel. Stonewall was a riot. #PrideMonth2025

A screen capture of an article from "ERIN IN THE MORNING". The headline reads: "Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Colors" the subheader says "LGBT Floridians demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility." The article was written by "S. BAUM" and posted "TODAY AT 7:53 PM", which was Monday, June 2, 2025 for reference. Below that is an evening picture of a bridge in Jacksonville, Florida lit up with a rainbow pattern of colored stripes of light. Below the picture is "Photo credit to Amanda Smith"

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 01/06/2025

This. This right here. It isn't health COVERAGE. It's health DENIAL for the sake of PROFIT.

A screen capture of a post by Upstream (@UpstreamPodcast) that says: "the fact that your doctor can yell that you need a specific treatment and some guy at an insurance company can just be like 'no' should alone be enough make us burn this system to the ground"

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 30/05/2025

Pride was brought to us by the letters L, G, B, T, Q and the number 86 - when we stood up and 86ed the fascists out of our spaces and took care of each other.

A screen capture of a post by Tony Choi (@tonykchoi) from May 29, 2020 that reads:

"Pride month starts in 3 days.

"Pride isn't brought to you by T-Mobile and Absolut Vodka.

"It was brought to you by drag queens, trans women throwing bricks. By lesbians and queer women taking care of gay men dying of AIDS in the face of an intentional government neglect."

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 23/05/2025

Oh they will tell you that it is to protect the creators, the artists, but do you see how little that is valued when it gets in the way of making money?

A screen capture of a post by "Komm, süsser Tod Howard" (@lonestartallboi.bsky.social) that says:

"20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.

"The law only ever serves capital."

It was made in response to this post by "The Guardian (World)" (@guardian-world-r) that said:
"‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says"

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Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · 22/05/2025

...and I'll bet if he DID have one to spare, he still wouldn't.

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