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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 8h

. @albertburneko.bsky.social has written the funniest fucking takedown I've read since Ed Burmila used to regularly fisk right-wing media.

Milk was spraying out of my nose when I read this, and I wasn't even drinking milk at the time:

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Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived | Defector

Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications, these aren’t even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they’re many hundre...

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 16h

Sad news but I'm shutting down my amateur pornography site eyelessmilfhunter․com. It's been very hard to find eyeless MILFs to agree to model for us, and comments online are increasingly pointing out that our current models just squeeze their eyelids shut or hold a hand over their eyes during scenes

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 9h

Just one?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 11h

Eeeegggggg
soldiers
cheese on toast, cheese on toast
eeeggg
soldiers
cheese on toast, cheese on toast
ohh breakfast time's the meal i love the most
eeeggg
soldiers
cheese on toast, cheese on toast

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 11h

Unsolicited Schick pic

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 19h

"I'm proud to be an American/Where at least I know I'm free" was always the most incredibly sad, low-bar lyric about "celebrating" the USA, but it should ring even more hollowly in 2025.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12h

chat is it a good idea to raise tariffs on the toy maker before Christmas

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12h

oh no

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 13h

Believe it or not, I actually just saw an image from a popular cartoon on television that would make for a perfect social media reply. It's from a show I believe is simply called, "The Simpsons". But before I show you you'll have to... "set your phasers to LOL"

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 14h

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

NGL, I wish I danced as well as Elaine Benes.

a woman in a black dress is dancing in a crowded room

ALT: a woman in a black dress is dancing in a crowded room

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 16h

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

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‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 15h

It depends on who it is. Loriot? Sure. Goethe? Maybe.

But there have been some pretty questionable old Germans. I say that as one who is half myself old and German.

Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 15h

Berry Weiss? Yuck, no thanks, can I just have an IC Light?

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leemanish.bsky.social @leemanish.bsky.social · 15h

finally a banking app with security features i can feel good about

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 18h

TO WAR! TO WAR! FREEDONIA'S GOING TO WAR!
EACH NATIVE SON WILL GRAB A GUN!
AND RUN AWAY TO WAR!
AT LAST WE'RE GOING TO WAR!
OUR FEET WILL BEAT ALONG THE STREET TO WAR!

SIGNED, DONALD J. FIREFLY, PRESIDENT

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 18h

a man in a captain america uniform is sitting in a room and saying `` i understand that reference . ''

ALT: a man in a captain america uniform is sitting in a room and saying `` i understand that reference . ''

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 19h

It would still be a gentlemen's B-minus at Liberty University

Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 19h

Bari Weiss sitting down with the foreign correspondents like

two men sitting at a table with the words " what would you say " written on the screen

ALT: two men sitting at a table with the words " what would you say " written on the screen

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 19h

Lesley Stahl and John Dickerson now having to track their time in Asana in 15-minute increments and assign each minute to specific project areas.

Bari Weiss messaging Gayle King in Teams: "I notice your status has been on 'Away' all day, is everything OK?"

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h

Here's the full memo.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 19h

Come for the criticism of Trump, stay for the brutal takedown of Cuomo.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mamdani: "Trump ran on 3 promises - punishment of his political enemies, easing cost of living crisis, & mass deportation. It's that second promise that brought so many to his campaign. And yet he's unable & unwilling to deliver bc he's beholden to the very billionaires that are profiting off of it"

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 19h

PASSION OF THE CHRIST 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

a man in a black singlet is dancing in front of a crowd

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 19h

can't even have old Jesus any more because of woke. smdh

Page Six @pagesix.com · 2d

Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ sequel to star new Jesus, cast

Gibson's long-gestating sequel will start shooting in Rome, but with a completely new cast, an insider told Page Six.

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 19h

'the most miserable person on Earth' who 'must save the world from happiness'

So you've met my mom?

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

First trailer for 'Breaking Bad' creator Vince Gilligan’s upcoming sci-fi series ‘Pluribus'

It follows 'the most miserable person on Earth' who 'must save the world from happiness'

Releasing November 7 on Apple TV+

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 19h

Coffee time now.

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