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Avram Grumer

@avramg.bsky.social

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Brooklynite, early blogger, general-purpose nerd, ttRPG noodle-arounder, once and future cartoonist, typeface addict, doggerelist, one-time Hugo finalist, occasional crank. He/him.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hwæt! Aid for the free-trader, from all in hearing,
foemen besiege us, our fusion-oars failing,
gun-spool gone feeble, ship-breath escaping…

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 56m

“‘…peaceably to assemble, and to petition the vendor for a serving of pierogi.’ It’s all right there in the First Amendment, Your Honor.”

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1h

I find Know Your Meme is pretty good for this kind of thing.

Aura Farming | Know Your Meme

Aura Farming refers to an act of constantly trying to look "cool" or "badass" to build "aura moments." The expression is derived from the "aura" internet s

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 8h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 2h

Just learned a new bit of recent slang: aura farming. It means “trying to look cool.” It’s related to a slightly earlier bit of slang, the use of “aura” to mean “charisma.”

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 8h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 23h

Remember 2016 when Trump’s medical release said that he “showed only positive results,” because Trump wrote the letter himself and was too stupid to know that meant he had every disease?

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 1d

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

media.tenor.com

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

“…and I get these clowns coming up to me — big, beautiful clowns, right out of central casting, tears in their eyes, and they say to me ‘Doctor…’”

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a kid, my family went to an Italian place near us which, once we were there, they started to speculate in hushed tones was maybe a Mafia joint. I piped up in piercing kid-voice, audible several tables away, “What's the Mafia?”

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

“The streets are extended ponds and the ponds are full of lily pads…”

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s not [Marc] Andreessen, by the way. I think Andreessen is not the antichrist. Because you know, the antichrist is popular.”

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

So about same as always, sounds like.

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Kragar @kragar.bsky.social · 1d

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

This is the shit that happens when a guy runs for mayor who doesn't live here.

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 And this is law I will maintain
As long as he’s surpliced, Sir.
That we shall be of conscience free,
Despite the Vicar of Christ, Sir! 🎶

Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 1d

This presumes that the essence of Catholicism is the worship and/or veneration of clergy, particularly the Pope, and that’s never been a settled thing within Catholicism.

I mean, yes, these guys are ridiculous, but not because they argue with the pope. Catholics argue with the pope. It’s a thing.

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

“Verdaderamente el mundo de mi infancia era una tierra de contrastes.”

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Patrick N Hayden—
A guy always up for a
Poetic game.

(Now I must finish most
Apologetic’ly—
Scansion required that I
Truncate his name.)

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

Does “amendment” here mean this is now part of a larger piece of legislation that probably hasn't passed yet?

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 2d

Senate adopted by voice vote: Kaine amendment #3337 to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 2d

Sulu was a bit too much into Zorro that week.

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 2d

At least you get to inhale BBQ pork scent for the rest of the day

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 2d

No alt text, so: this is an announcement for Swamp Thing 1989 #1-4 by Rick Veitch, Michael Zulli, Vince Locke, Tom Mandrake, & Trish Mulvihill, under DC's Black Label imprint

They're finally printing the canceled story arc in which Swamp Thing goes back in time and meets Jesus

Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 2d

@mikester.bsky.social Just in case you didn't see this

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 2d

I think that Democrats winning more elections would be extremely beneficial on net, even if what it took to get there was standing firm on liberal values, demonstrating some spine, and refusing to throw trans people under the bus.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 2d

I think that Democrats winning more elections would be extremely beneficial on net for all the relevant groups, even if what it took to get there was some moderation on specific positions.

Justin T. Brown-Ramsey @brown-ramsey.bsky.social · 2d

You’ve been on every major platform imaginable saying in one way or another that the democrats can function by cleaving random marginal groups because doing so would be electorally advantageous. This is the right’s fault, but it is also YOUR fault for trying to get in on their game, too, *******!

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