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Frankendarling
@futurehasbeen.bsky.social
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Sometimes journalist, sometimes jokester, full time Angeleño. He/him
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Frankendarling @futurehasbeen.bsky.social · Oct 14
My new found footage project Sitcoms That Primetime Forgot, a forgotten sitcom intro mixtape is now on YouTube:

youtu.be/UhNBaxBOtcU?...
Sitcoms That Primetime Forgot
YouTube video by Michael Darling
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keithpille.bsky.social
Paulie Walnuts
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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papahrf.bsky.social
Yo yo, how's it hanging, everybody?

@ditzkoff.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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eastwes.bsky.social
The Wonder Mike verse of Rapper's Delight where he just suddenly starts going off about how much the food at his friend's house just completely fucking sucks is a Thanksgiving song.
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
futurehasbeen.bsky.social
A little bit of Bobby giving hope
A little bit of Stevie making jobs
A little bit of Johnny spending cash
Five years ago we had these mans.
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
futurehasbeen.bsky.social
Ho! Ho! Ho! Hitler shouldn’t have put a chimney in his bunker!
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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barleybap.bsky.social
Dracula and Richter in the intro of Symphony of the Night. Dracula's dialogue reads "Grok, do an epic vulgar roast of this miserable little pile of secrets".
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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museum-of-twitter.bsky.social
@fuckedupfoods 10 hours ago Is this a sandwich? Please discuss
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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br3l00m.bsky.social
I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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alexjaffe.bsky.social
79. Boba Fett was always a chump. The first time we see him, Vader yells at him for being bad at his job, and the last time we see him (in the original trilogy), he’s knocked into a man-eating sandpit by a fully Mr. Magooed Han Solo. The funny thing about him is he’s a guy in cool armor who sucks.
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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jondauthor.work
dean from community (jim rash) looking at a theatrical programme, saying "oh i'm in this?"
May 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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roryblank.bsky.social
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
a cheese grater that, if viewed from the correct angle, appears to have a friendly, stupid face, an example of Pareidolia
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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futurehasbeen.bsky.social
Those of us being driven insane by living in the first decades of the 21st century cannot compete with a man being driven insane by living in the first decades of the 20th century.
His works anticipated such later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high-risk and action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of clothes advertising (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).
December 1, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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futurehasbeen.bsky.social
The thing about any dark & edgy revisionist update of Oz is that it can’t beat the genuine weirdness of Baum’s original books which includes:

•Scarecrow snapping crows’ necks
•A coup by an all girl army
•A trans icon who Dorothy regularly kisses on the mouth
•The Tin Man’s insane origin & love life
He relates how the Wicked Witch of the East enchanted his axe and caused him to chop his body parts off limb by limb, because he was in love with her ward, Nimmie Amee. Each chopped limb was replaced by the tinsmith Ku-Klip with a counterpart made of tin. Without a heart, the Tin Woodman felt he could no longer love Nimmie Amee and he left her. Woot suggests that his new heart may have made him kind, but it did not make him loving, or he would have returned to Nimmie Amee. This shames the Tin Woodman and inspires him to journey to the Munchkin Country and find her. In The Tin Woodman of Oz, Nick Chopper finally sets out to find his lost love, Nimmie Amee, but discovers that she has already married Chopfyt, a man constructed partly out of his own dismembered and discarded limbs. For the Tin Woodman, this encounter with his former fiancée is almost as jarring as his experiences being transformed into a tin owl, meeting another tin man named Captain Fyter, and conversing with his ill-tempered original head.
December 1, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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datesinmovies.bsky.social
Nov 25th 3978 - The crew of the Liberty 1 awake from hyper sleep as it crashes onto, a planet inhabited by talking apes.

📽️📅 Planet of the Apes (1968)
3 Screenshots from the movie "Planet of the Apes" (1968): First, an angled spaceship is sinking into a large body of water with one astronaut climbing on top while surrounded by rugged desert-like rock formations in the background. Second, a close-up of a futuristic time display reading "EARTH TIME" with the date 11-25-3978 illuminated. Third, astronauts in white spacesuits are seen on a barren rocky shore conducting an examination or unpacking equipment under a clear blue sky with expansive desert formations in the distance.
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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antlervel.vet
*Aqualung riff*
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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cheriepriest.com
Spiritualism skyrocketed in the US after its brutal Civil War killed roughly 750,000 people - and now in the wake of Covid’s million+ death toll, modern Americans are using ChatGPT to speak with the spirits. In this paper I will
stevanzetti.bsky.social steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 1d
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that. "You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now." Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner. She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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criminalsimpsons.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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karenho.bsky.social
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
Isaac Chotiner: "You would have to be brain-dead to read this piece and not immediately wonder who is funding Semafor Gulf." Quote post of Ben Smith saying: "Fascinating @msergie piece on covering a monarchy" about a Semafor article on Saudi Arabia's crown prince Smith responds to Chotiner: "That's a hell of an allegation/implication, Isaac. To figure out the literal answer to your question, you'd either have to look and see who the sponsors are in the email (I haven't checked today!) or read our publicly disclosed list of investors. I believe you're trying to imply that it's the Saudi government? Have you read more of our coverage, or just this tweet? My impression — correct me if I'm wrong — is that you're working on zero information and smearing us in general, and an experienced journalist @msergie whose work I suspect you're totally unfamiliar with in particular." Chotiner responds:"I’m not making any allegation. I’m making a simple point about how an average reader—myself included—might respond after reading this ridiculous piece" Ben Smith: "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge." Noah Kulwin: "The point is not about who funds your reporting/if your colleague is a “stooge”. Isaac’s comment is that the reporting is so bad so as to make a reader wonder who is funding it" Smith: A reader, sure. A journalist who can do very basic homework, kind of lame. Chotiner: "You are right, I’ll do some homework now by perusing Jay Solomon Semafor pieces, and reading Jason Greenblatt Semafor columns. In the meantime, I will formally say that I am making no accusation and was just astonished at how inane the piece was" Chotiner quote-posts with "I see Semafor loves running column after column by this guy (https://semafor.com/author/faisal-j-abbas), who also publishes pro-Saudi conspiracies about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi https://arabnews.com/node/1386291" Ben Smith's post says "I hope I'm not overreacting, but it makes me crazy when people I think of as reporters do this "just asking questions" stuff. Feel free to report it out by googling/asking me/reading our various scoops and reports about the region — these two just now" and links to two Semafor articles Chotiner quote posts Ben Smith: "You might have heard that the UAE is helping destroy Sudan, but at the next Semafor event, all is well." Screenshot says "Held at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, Semafor will spotlight insights from the Global Findex 2025 report and the Global Digital Connectivity Tracker, translating global research into actionable, locally relevant conversations. As the third stop on The Next 3 Billion Tour, this edition explores how the Gulf's growing investments in Africa can accelerate digital connectivity and financial inclusion. With Abu Dhabi's focus on sustainable finance, digital transformation, and cross-border collaboration, it offers a strong platform to examine how technology and capital can work together to expand access and opportunity." Ben Smith's post says "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge."
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
futurehasbeen.bsky.social
Dudes rock.
aklingus.bsky.social A K @aklingus.bsky.social · 1d
tfw you’re fucking the lasagna man for lasagna
•*• Funny-Presence4228 LPT: How to win as a guest and make new friends at a raging, alcohol fuelled party Food & Drink I'm getting older now, and some of my friends' kids have recently started college. I've been reliably told that alcohol-fuelled parties are still happening, and I shared this advice about how to make new friends and be a hero. One of them took my advice, and now has a new girlfriend because of this. The key to the following advice is an element of secrecy because the surprise makes it even better. Arrive late and sneak Lasagna into the party. I mean, taking a large, catering-sized tray of lasagna, along with a stack of paper plates and forks, to a raging house party. I used to do this back in college. I'd make one, sometimes two, in the afternoon in big foil trays before goin to a party. Show up around 10.30pm, and slip them into the oven without asking permission telling anyone. Medium heat for 30 minutes to warm it up. Get my paper plates out, and shout: "Lasagna is ready" to a packed house of drunk people, and hand them all a fork. It's cheaper than bringing beer, no clean-up, and I got laid pretty often. Important note: Make sure the person who owns the oven is the first in the line, and don't make a mess. Maybe make one meat and one vegan or something... This last point was less of a concern back in my day, but we must move with the times.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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pasquinel.bsky.social
A fabulous pre-code gag from "Wonder Bar" (1934)
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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riibrego.bsky.social
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
futurehasbeen.bsky.social
Demons to some, angels to others; Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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daisyowl.com
maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Nemik from Andor
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
futurehasbeen.bsky.social
“I was taught by society that I was never gonna be able to have a lover if I didn’t get a bed.”

Girl, you’re so close to getting it.
tittyjenkins.bsky.social Thee Titty Jenkins @tittyjenkins.bsky.social · 1d
Bitch what the fuck?!
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM