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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Shiv learning about mincemeat:

"Nebuchadnezzar" by William Blake.

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's shocking how real this is:

"View of the World from 9th Avenue" by Saul Steinberg, satirically portraying the rest of the nation as insignificant through forced perspective.

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Bugs Bunny: "i wish all Trump's fascist goons a very pleasant heatstroke"

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Uh-oh! Worst person you know learned therapy words"

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A sculpture of a spider with a black VW Beetle for the body, perched atop the Morrill Ave. Fire Station in Reno, NV (has since been relocated).

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

You do need to include a company headed by someone else named Elon, just to cover your bases.

No Homers Club Head: "We're allowed to have one."

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is literally a Penny Arcade strip:

Penny Arcade, "Advertising in the Future"
Gabe: "Form up on me. I'm directly underneath the Martha Stewart Living billboard. It's advertising her new Harvest Collection. Some of this stuff is actually really tasteful."
Tycho: "Why do you see Martha Stewart Living ads?"
Gabe: "Kara was using my Goddamn computer. Why, what do you see?"
[Billboard for badboysbigbirds.com]
Tycho: "Oh, you know... Subway. Eat fresh!"

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's insane how true this was back in the day:

A Fox programming chart as portrayed on The Simpsons, featuring them, The X Files, and Melrose Place, with all the other slots marked with question marks.

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The "most people rejected His message" Chick tract panel: "They hated Jesus because He told them the truth."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

And you haven't even seen it engraved on the lower receiver of an AR-15 yet:

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

"In Spring, Man built a pillar.
In Summer, another.
Throughout Autumn they held.
But in Winter, one fell."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I'm reminded of a line from @contrapoints.bsky.social's "Conspiracy" video:

"So this is the critical moment when you make the logical leap into hyperspace. You've broken the audience down, and now you get to build them back up; you get the be the Morpheus telling them how deep the rabbit hole goes. And you may as well go ham, because at this point they'll just believe anything you say."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

A portrait of Werner Herzog

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

To be fair, he could be a bit of an asshole:

Brotherhood of Steel Paladin Rhombus from Fallout 1.

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A screenshot of Silent Hill, where Harry Mason examines a Bible with the caption "Bible."

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Donald Trump quoting Judge Holden: "War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Homer: "My God, you're greasy."

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A still shot of Hyacinth Bucket from the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, who habitually insisted on her surname being pronounced "Bouquet."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Penny Arcade, "As Regards Spoilification"

TYCHO: You just wrapped up Kong?
GABE: Yeah, the ending was kind of a low point. Everybody knows Kong dies, but…
TYCHO: Kong dies? Thanks a lot, jackass. I was going to see that.
GABE: Kong? You don't want me to spoil Kong, a seventy year old movie? There's a statute of limitations on this shit, man. Everyone knows he climbs to the top of the Empire State Building. What did you think happened next?
TYCHO: I thought that, you know… Maybe he climbed back down…
GABE: No! We shoot him with machine guns until he falls. That's the whole point of the Goddamn movie! Man is the real monster.
TYCHO: It's still bullshit that you wrecked it for me.
GABE: Have you seen The Passion yet? Here's a spoiler for you: Jesus dies.

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Like, have people never seen the "are we the baddies" meme? It's in that shot! Twice, even!

A still shot from the "are we the baddies?" sketch, with the Totenkopf symbols on the hat and collar highlighted.

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Reminds me of an old Penny Arcade strip:

Penny Arcade, "A Wider Perspective On Flavor"
TYCHO: It's not a big deal. People forget their passwords all the time. That's why they make you set up a secret question.
Gabe: Oh, I set up a secret question alright. I set up some zen shit. "What is delicious."
TYCHO: What IS delicious? It;s a valid avenue of inquiry. What does it mean to be delicious? Can something untasteable possess some flavor that is metatastual? Could then, an idea be delicious? Maybe I've been reading it wrong the whole time. What if it's not a question at all? What if it were a statement. Perhaps "what" is, itself, delicious. Inquiry. Which is to say…
GABE: Oh, I remember. It's candy. Candy is delicious.

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Obligatory:

Royce McCutcheon: "And while you're there, would you pick up some of that nice green moon money for me, Royce McCutcheon?"

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The "My Dinner with André" arcade game from The Simpsons

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A chained Mickey Mouse looking at a canister labeled "copium" stating "Good gosh! Copium!"

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Same energy:

"Last night I [picture of James Bond] [picture of hamburger] your sister"

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Nickleback's Chad Kroeger holding up a picture of the weird cloud

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

From Hunter S. Thompson's obituary of Nixon:

Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful.

Nixon's meteoric rise from the unemployment line to the vice presidency in six quick years would never have happened if TV had come along 10 years earlier. He got away with his sleazy "my dog Checkers" speech in 1952 because most voters heard it on the radio or read about it in the headlines of their local, Republican newspapers. When Nixon finally had to face the TV cameras for real in the 1960 presidential campaign debates, he got whipped like a red-headed mule. Even die-hard Republican voters were shocked by his cruel and incompetent persona. Interestingly, most people who heard those debates on the radio thought Nixon had won. But the mushrooming TV audience saw him as a truthless used-car salesman, and they voted accordingly. It was the first time in 14 years that Nixon lost an election.

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Issue: Should officers be terrorists?

Jean-luc Picard: "I do not allow my officers to be terrorists."
Benjamin Sisko: "My officers can be terrorists one in a while, as a treat."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Jimbo Jones: "Videotaping this crime spree is the best idea we ever had."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This joke from The Simpsons? Yeah, that's for real:

Sideshow Bob dejectedly holding a scrap piece from a nuclear bomb reading "Best before November 1959."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Blueskyism in a single image:

Homer in the bathtub, labeled "a completely unaggressive statement," about to be hit by Bart with a chair, labeled, "people who spend all their time in insular internet communities where 'constantly being unnecessarily hostile and combative towards strangers' is considered a personality."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I'm not surprised; it can't be healthy to be this particular shade of red:

Jordan Peterson in an interview with Piers Morgan, sporting the complexion of a candy apple.

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Even if they did make good on their threat, it's like:

Jay Sherman to is son, as a theater showing Cats burns in the background: "And nothing of value was lost."

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Homer: "Want to change your name to Homer Jr.? The kids can call you HoJu."

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The Ramones' performance at Mr. Burns' birthday:

CJ Ramone: "Go to hell, you old bastard."
[Mr. Burns shakes with rage]
Marky Ramone: "Hey, I think they liked us."

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The demonstration of the "Three Stooges" model of disease from The Simpsons.

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Bart Simpson holding up a failed test with the note "very poor, even for you."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It's a good idea, but the execution's a bit dodgy; this in particular is a red flag:

"The influencers offered the funding were given just days to sign the contract, which was essentially presented on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. At least one cohort was specifically told they could not have their lawyers redline it."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Counterpoint, meat made out of stone:

"Meat-Shaped Stone," a Chinese stone sculpture that looks like a piece of Dongpo pork.

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Mr. Burns: "Judging by his outlandish attire, he's some sort of free-thinking anarchist."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Jimbo: "Videotaping this crime spree is the best idea we ever had."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The monkey knife fight scene from The Simpsons, with the monkeys labeled "Twitter Tradwives" and the cheering crowd labeled "Everyone Else."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I'd really like to see Plitvice at least once in my life:

An aerial shot of part of Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia.

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

What is this, fucking imperial China?

A screenshot from the Wikipedia article "Imperial examination:"

"Interruptions and outside communication were forbidden for the duration of the exam. If a candidate died, officials wrapped his body in a straw mat and tossed it over the high walls that ringed the compound."

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I couldn't find the original version of this, so I just redid it:

Lionel Hutz ad: "VOTE BLUE[?] NO[,] MATTER[S] WHO[!]

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I remember seeing the strip that was originally from and doing the "Rick Dalton pointing" bit:

Calvin and Hobbes strip for June 5, 1988; the "Calvin pissing" picture is adapted from panel 4.

Rick Dalton pointing.

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Homer: "It's still good! It's still good!"
Bart: "It's gone."

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Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Marlo Stanfield: "That's some Spider-Man shit there."

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Lionel Hutz ad: "END ADVENTURISM[?] NO[,] MORE FOREVER WARS[!]

Turcano @turcano.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Mr. Burns: " What good is money if you can't inspire terror in your fellow man?"