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A fun dynamic on this site is that as a post gets more and more favs the replies increasingly give the impression that there is a gas leak in peoples homes

⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 2d

met my wife on twitter and got a job on bluesky

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 1d

every blumhouse movie might as well be AI generated anyway. theyve been doing the ‘uncanny mishmash of shit youve seen before but somehow cheaper and shittier’ thing for years, I’m glad theyre finally just automating it so we can all stop pretending these are real movies

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 1d

Blumhouse’s model has always been maximizing profits off minimal production budgets and he’s never once let trivialities like ‘artistry’ or ‘watchability’ get in his way so this is maybe the least surprising AI booster reveal ever

"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 1d

Blum too. At least find a new way to say "it's here to stay" jfc

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 1d

c tier pan dulce its sad. gimme marranitos or orejas any day over a choncha

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 2d

a man with a mustache is standing in front of a wall and says `` high five '' .

Alt: borat high five :)

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 2d

they call me mr social media

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 2d

met my wife on twitter and got a job on bluesky

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 2d

wilkins coffee ad era muppet Wilkins seeing communist “Party Line Coffee” and soy facing

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 3d

show me a single (1) national level democrat thats vocally willing to go as hard in the paint against these fascist freaks running around our cities with guns as Bill Clinton was against the spectre of urban crime in the 90s and I’ll vote for them

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

Whichever way history turns, I have a feeling that this will be a historic photo

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 3d

no los angeles 🥲

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 5d

💉🤠

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 6d

they should text me like that instead

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 6d

There it is‼️

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 7d

about that time #TGIF

A spotify playlist entitled WEEKEND PLAYLIST. it is 47 hours and 59 minutes long. it contains one (1) entry of Return of The Mack - C&J Extended Mix by Mark Morrison and eight hundred seventy two (872) entries of Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison.

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 9d

tbh had no idea what this meant until a minute ago lol my god what a mess

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 9d

Don’t get mad at the muppets for playing the Riyadh Comedy Festival, it’s the only way they can save the theater

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 9d

nah I think skald and a few other homies just have this one saved for this kind of occasion and it snowballs

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 9d

*seeing a bunch of people repost this out of the blue* oh is a modsball happening?

⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · Dec 20

there was like 8 months here where people thought the mods were their friends bc theyd show up in the replies to your selfies being like “arf arf im a horny pupper and i neeeeeeed to hump your leg 🐶🥺”

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 9d

that said I really adore the movie, this is just a single quibble about it. Overall I think it’s excellent.

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