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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 1d

Oh you just figured out Johnny Cash was cool? The guy who famously performed for a prison and dressed in all black? Well CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL oh wait I guess that does make sense

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween always a reminder that I have good takes on Freddy vs. Jason

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 2d

George isn’t gonna get to make the last Mad Max movie so he’s trying to make the Wasteland happen for real

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 4d

Ma’am you actually just say dumb things and people yell at you

Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 4d

Actual lol at this quote from Riyadh Comedy Festival participant Whitney Cummings
(source: archive.is/202311151840...)

Whitney Cummings likes to think of herself as a comedy “martyr,” one of many modern comedians who are willing to “sacrifice themselves just to make sure the First Amendment is still intact.”

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 5d

Ok I’m all for banning S*ngal but if the “clanker” discourse is real this whole place needs a wedgie

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 5d

What’s going on with this place now. Went back to Twitter for cigarettes

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 6d

All right enough about the blood money comedians. Let’s talk GOOD comedians. I saw @davidjroth.bsky.social link to this special once and it had me dying. youtu.be/g9NT46SGqFY?...

Humble Offering | Stand Up Comedy | Eli Yudin Full Special

YouTube video by Cracked Comedy Club

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 11d

Tech companies are revolutionizing the world of elder abuse

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 13d

First look at the AI Stan Lee Hologram at LA Comic Con 🚮

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 12d

What will you see? One of the sweetest, funniest dudes on the planet

Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 12d

I feel like this description does it a disservice. It’s still a smart-dumb show with fun sci-fi, it just focuses more on being a family sitcom. Anyway, good show

Polygon @polygon.com · 12d

Solar Opposites can be best described as Rick and Morty without the heady influence of Dan Harmon.

This criminally overlooked sci-fi sitcom is finally streaming on Netflix

Solar Opposites can be best described as Rick and Morty without the heady influence of Dan Harmon.

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 13d

Ahh I see now, they were busy planning trips to Riyadh

Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 23d

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 18d

It's bleak out there. But we're gonna do some good this week.

How I'd Fix Atlanta has partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help a bunch of ATLiens this week, and we need your help.

Give what you can. Tell everyone you know.

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How I’d Fix Atlanta started as a free newsletter sent on a Thursday of most months in 2022. We’ve published 37 essays (and counting) since, put out a couple print zines, done some readings around the ...

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 15d

This is a national psychosis

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 15d

I am gonna have a brain hemorrhage

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 15d

Well of course he’s looking out for Argentina, he’s gonna have to hide out there someday

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 19d

Mfer eating people wearing Sambas

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 19d

Just gonna give conservatives a heads up that if they actually make statues like this on campuses they are gonna exist solely for college students to do bits