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The Lexaprofessional @chicargocult.bsky.social · 1h

Treasures

A pog with the slogan "wow! Pog and potatoes... My favorite!"

The Lexaprofessional @chicargocult.bsky.social · 8h

The beatings will continue until morale improves

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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The Lexaprofessional @chicargocult.bsky.social · 1d

This would be funny if it weren't so dumb: my neighbors caught their house on fire by leaving sausages on the grill unattended (?) and they also insist on parking in front of the fire hydrant. Literally just his rust heap with an exhaust leak idling next to the hydrant for over an hour today so far

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

what is this picture

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The Lexaprofessional @chicargocult.bsky.social · 1d

This is a massively pretty game and I've been impressed with how the upscaling and lighting effects turned out

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The Lexaprofessional @chicargocult.bsky.social · 2d

Okay so the "no poison" option isn't polling well, let's try the "little a poison" message

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 4d

Kristi Noem about to somehow violate the 3rd Amendment in the year of our lord 2025

PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 4d

The way these people think they're entitled to whatever they want. This is what happens when you raise children who are never told no. 1/

www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

www.rawstory.com

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The Lexaprofessional @chicargocult.bsky.social · 7d

Miller added later "you frickin fricks, when will you learn!?"

The Lexaprofessional @chicargocult.bsky.social · 8d

The dog was in an especially good mood this morning and demanded belly rubs

A large black and white dog with its mouth open

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The Lexaprofessional @chicargocult.bsky.social · 8d

What a loser

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 9d

Hakeem Jeffries praises Mayor Eric Adams: "I respect his contributions to the city of New York ... most importantly as someone who wore the uniform to protect and serve."

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 8d

Udon Nou, who has noodles for brains, is a mascot from Kagawa Prefecture. He was handing out certificates to winners at this year’s Yuruverse mascot popularity contest (having won in 2023).

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The Lexaprofessional @chicargocult.bsky.social · 8d

The 46 comments on that section are ominous, sounds like fierce debates about the philosophical nature of a document and whether we can actually know anything or whether any of this is real

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Toulon Somberjade (Commssions Open!) @toulonsomberjade.bsky.social · 8d

So that's where the MSG comes from

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Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 9d

A friend just sent me this picture of his mastiff, Peanut.

Let it wash over you.

OK, I’m usually pretty good with alt text, but this one may defeat me. Imagine the biggest, wrinkliest black dog.

Now imagine a large, violently green ball.

Now imagine that Peanut the mastiff has put a ball exactly the size of his enormous maw into his enormous maw, completely filling it like a cork, or a big green baby binky.

That is this.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 9d

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

QUANTICO, VA—Racking his brain for answers as he gazed out at the high-ranking officers gathered before him, a visibly hungover Pete Hegseth reportedly struggled Tuesday to remember exactly how he end...

theonion.com

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12d

one sign of progress is that he at least seems too ashamed to tell the interviewer he is a two-time trump voter

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12d

the brain of the median voter needs to be studied for science

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back to saying I’m Jesse @killgoldfish.bsky.social · Jun 2

ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import

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The Lexaprofessional @chicargocult.bsky.social · 14d

Vitally important

scary tall bart @tallbart.com · 14d

Full video since YouTube removed it

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 20d

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15d

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globe moment @pacifismenjoyer.bsky.social · 16d

"Okay so imagine girls are currency and—wait, come back! I didn't even get to the *really* dehumanizing part, yet!"

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 17d

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

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the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia
statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding
all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to
interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified
aim of excluding males who identify as female in par-
ticular.
Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are
back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the
land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept
gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move-
ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche-
mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of
turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people
are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though
many others are not. This difference in attitudes
starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an
alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good
using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by
well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche-
mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind
lingering doubts about the possibility of converting
iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac-
cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose
unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept
only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi-
cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only
gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 17d

Charles II: Did you finish that statue of the Archangel Michael defeating the devil?

Luisa Roldán: Si y yo hice la Diablo real fucking sexy, just like you asked

This appears to be an elaborate Baroque-style sculptural representation of an archangel, likely Saint Michael, defeating a demonic figure. The sculpture is mounted on an ornate gilded base and is displayed in a museum setting with white walls and other historical paintings visible in the background.

The archangel is depicted with dramatic movement - wearing blue and red clothing with a winged form, wielding a sword, and standing triumphantly over a defeated demonic or serpentine figure. The sculpture shows incredible detail in the flowing drapery, musculature, and dynamic pose, characteristic of Baroque artistic style which emphasized dramatic movement and emotional intensity.

The sculpture is placed on a white museum pedestal, with track lighting illuminating it from above, and other similarly styled paintings can be seen in the background, suggesting this is part of a larger exhibition of historical religious art.

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 17d

This is from 1692 and I have so many questions, like, why is Michael spanking the devil, who appears to be a pouty bottom, and how did they meet?

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The Lexaprofessional @chicargocult.bsky.social · 16d

🤚📏

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