Bafflegabs
@bafflegabs.bsky.social
Senior Producer at Smartless Media, formerly Earwolf. Staying Alive/ClueLess/Bad Dates/Just Jack & Will/HDTGM/Get Played/Comedy Bang Bang/Video Archives/Unspooled.
Character-wise, I’m kind of borderline shy/wild. I like to surf & turf, in that order.
Character-wise, I’m kind of borderline shy/wild. I like to surf & turf, in that order.
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Bafflegabs
@bafflegabs.bsky.social
· Nov 21
My new album Blame It On My Zodiac is available now exclusively on my Bandcamp!! You can stream it or buy it there, but go check it out, won’t you? I gave it every micron of energy I had and I’m very proud of it. Out everywhere else next Friday!
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yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too
the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them
the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them
ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week.
Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.
Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.
February 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too
the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them
the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them
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Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
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He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
Homan: "Operation Metro Surge is ending. In the next week, we're going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or to other areas of the country where they're needed."
February 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
Here’s a great ad for the @getplayedpod.bsky.social Patreon, you can hear all those early three or four years where I sound designed their opening sketch and dropped a completely bespoke theme song in the style of the week’s game, every damn ep. Some of my finest & silliest work!
@bafflegabs.bsky.social subbed to the Get Played patreon recently and been listening to old How Did This Get Played episodes. Forgot how absolutely FIRE your openings were. Great job my good sir.
February 12, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Here’s a great ad for the @getplayedpod.bsky.social Patreon, you can hear all those early three or four years where I sound designed their opening sketch and dropped a completely bespoke theme song in the style of the week’s game, every damn ep. Some of my finest & silliest work!
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As a separate matter, the scope of this coverup—which we know from major-media reporting was orchestrated by Trump (who oversaw the DOJ and FBI handling of the Files)—is beyond anything U.S. politics has ever seen, and should lead to Trump's immediate removal from the presidency.
February 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
As a separate matter, the scope of this coverup—which we know from major-media reporting was orchestrated by Trump (who oversaw the DOJ and FBI handling of the Files)—is beyond anything U.S. politics has ever seen, and should lead to Trump's immediate removal from the presidency.
More than a million times, that’s like a lot, right? Feels like a lot, feels like an immediately disqualifying amount.
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump Personal Lawyers Bondi, Blanche, and Patel Hid From American Voters a *Minimum* of *95%* of All References to Donald Trump in the Epstein Files (950,000 of 1M+), Establishing the Largest Political Coverup in American History
Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin alleges
One document recounts that Trump said he "never" asked Epstein to leave Mar-a-Lago.
www.axios.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:08 PM
More than a million times, that’s like a lot, right? Feels like a lot, feels like an immediately disqualifying amount.
Someone’s like “hey, there’s been a murder in this once-proud mansion falling into disrepair on a foggy heath, could you come take a look” and Sherlock Holmes is all “bet.”
February 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Someone’s like “hey, there’s been a murder in this once-proud mansion falling into disrepair on a foggy heath, could you come take a look” and Sherlock Holmes is all “bet.”
Ahhh, this kind of wordplay just makes me too happy, I applauded in my apartment haha
February 10, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Ahhh, this kind of wordplay just makes me too happy, I applauded in my apartment haha
All I want is to watch Inland Empire WITH Laura Dern, this honestly doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Watch some of the lovely Laura Dern's Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨
TANNER '88
FANNY AND ALEXANDER
PERSONA
DIABOLIQUE
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG
BELLE DE JOUR
DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE
INLAND EMPIRE
SMOOTH TALK
ESSENTIAL FELLINI
SCORSESE SHORTS
TANNER '88
FANNY AND ALEXANDER
PERSONA
DIABOLIQUE
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG
BELLE DE JOUR
DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE
INLAND EMPIRE
SMOOTH TALK
ESSENTIAL FELLINI
SCORSESE SHORTS
Laura Dern’s Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
youtu.be
February 9, 2026 at 8:50 PM
All I want is to watch Inland Empire WITH Laura Dern, this honestly doesn’t seem unreasonable.
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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
I am spending Super Bowl Sunday looking through my closet for a single piece of paper lol.
February 9, 2026 at 12:56 AM
I am spending Super Bowl Sunday looking through my closet for a single piece of paper lol.
The point of a personal mini pizza is somewhat diminished if you just eat two of them at once, I suppose. The name for what I just ate is “one whole pizza.”
February 8, 2026 at 11:06 PM
The point of a personal mini pizza is somewhat diminished if you just eat two of them at once, I suppose. The name for what I just ate is “one whole pizza.”
Yeah, well maybe you wouldn’t look like busted car upholstery if you threw a little bit of fuckin’ broccoli in the mix, chief.
RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."
February 8, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Yeah, well maybe you wouldn’t look like busted car upholstery if you threw a little bit of fuckin’ broccoli in the mix, chief.
I’m working on rehabilitating my earliest Painkiller records, which have never really existed apart from on burned CDs for friends, I just found an old notebook with a few inspiring lines and managed to finish a 23 year old instrumental!! I have 7 unreleased albums lol, gotta fix this.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 AM
I’m working on rehabilitating my earliest Painkiller records, which have never really existed apart from on burned CDs for friends, I just found an old notebook with a few inspiring lines and managed to finish a 23 year old instrumental!! I have 7 unreleased albums lol, gotta fix this.
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My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
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Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
Benicio, in character as Sensei.
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Benicio, in character as Sensei.
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Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
It’s Bandcamp Friday, I have a brand new EP out for you! It’s the last piece of the puzzle for my album Blame It On My Zodiac, why not buy that on CD? The Haunted House EP has Beach Boys, Cheap Trick, Tom Lehrer covers & 2 bonus tracks! Get into it!
painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com/album/haunte...
painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com/album/haunte...
Haunted House EP, by Painkiller The Pigeon
8 track album
painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
It’s Bandcamp Friday, I have a brand new EP out for you! It’s the last piece of the puzzle for my album Blame It On My Zodiac, why not buy that on CD? The Haunted House EP has Beach Boys, Cheap Trick, Tom Lehrer covers & 2 bonus tracks! Get into it!
painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com/album/haunte...
painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com/album/haunte...
Fasciotone For The Painfully Alone.
Was this very mid-2000s emo person press-ganged into ICE servitude?
February 6, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Fasciotone For The Painfully Alone.
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check out bright ice over here
Was this very mid-2000s emo person press-ganged into ICE servitude?
February 6, 2026 at 4:38 AM
check out bright ice over here
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
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“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:45 PM
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A lady last night on the UK version of The Floor couldn’t remember Mark Zuckerberg’s name from his photo, and guessed “Zack Handleberg,” which is a little better than reality.
February 3, 2026 at 9:54 PM
A lady last night on the UK version of The Floor couldn’t remember Mark Zuckerberg’s name from his photo, and guessed “Zack Handleberg,” which is a little better than reality.