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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · Sep 13

Reading like 90% of the news

He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · Aug 30

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 30

I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.

-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

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John Burgess @therirah.bsky.social · Aug 3

Shout out to @octopimp.bsky.social making a cameo on the Evo mainstage.

A screenshot showing GG:Strive player "Jack" and his matches to get to top 8 at Evo2025. Highlighted is a 3-0 win over a player named "Waymo Road Head" aka @octopimp

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Googly Eyes On Magic Cards @magicgooglyeyes.bsky.social · Jul 20

What you got there? A KNIFE? NOO!

#Tonberry #mtg #MagicTheGathering #MTGxFINALFANTASY

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SmallBu Animation @smallbu.bsky.social · Jul 14

After years of behind the scenes effort we have LICENSED Baman Piderman lmao. It'll be coming home to our channel in august. This is literally the best I could do and took me about 7 years!! I HOPE THIS WILL MEAN SOMETHING TO SOMEONE!!

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John Burgess @therirah.bsky.social · Jun 4

Here's 2 animal experts trying to answer that exact question: youtu.be/k814npNLtdY?...

World’s Wildest: Pride Month In The Animal Kingdom

YouTube video by Worlds Wildest Podcast

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · Jun 3

Skunt Pibmow is my favorite Star Wars character

DisgustingFilm @disgustingfilm.bsky.social · Jun 1

Streaming service Philo has acquired the rights to the content libraries of 14 other services, including Streamo, Flunki, Pibmow, Neepee and Skunt

(Source: tinyurl.com/2n9v9hxn)

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Alanah Pearce @charalanahzard.bsky.social · May 13

we made art here today folks

A screenshot of a series of Bluesky posts. The first is from Tim Onion and said: “People on here have discovered what I pay for rent through the newspaper and are trying to determine if it is problematic.
It is definitely problematic. Please tell my landlord my rent is problematic.”
The first reply is from Marisa Kabas and says: “how can i trust the joke newspaper when i know the guy who runs it pays rent???”
The second reply is from Andreas and says: “What do you mean joke newspaper?”
The third is from Elwood Pines and says: “What do YOU mean joke newspaper?”
The fourth is from Guy Who's Trying and says “What do you MEAN joke newspaper?”
The fifth is from Puchmouse and says: “what do you mean JOKE newspaper?”

This is a continuation of the previous thread! Another reply from Qaein Fas says “What do you mean joke NEWSPAPER?”
Another reply from chronic sudo abuser says “What DO you mean joke newspaper?”
And a final response from Alanah Pearce says “WHAT do you mean joke newspaper?”

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John Burgess @therirah.bsky.social · May 4

would love to see @raynarvaezjr.sucks and/or @tinanarvaezjr.com on the show!

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John Burgess @therirah.bsky.social · Apr 30

messin around and gettin this stream thing going. Twitch.tv/thetherirah

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John Burgess @therirah.bsky.social · Apr 24

Avs are so cooked. Out coached by Pete Deboer again. Stars in 5.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · Mar 31

going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

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John Burgess @therirah.bsky.social · Mar 24

Love this. Not my specific fight but would love to see this kind of makeover for Dems nationwide.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Mar 24

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

John Burgess @therirah.bsky.social · Mar 14

@bennet.senate.gov As a proud resident and voter of Colorado, I urge you to vote no on the republican spending bill. Legalizing and finding the vast damage Elon has been illegally doing to the federal government would devastated Colorado and the entire country.

John Burgess @therirah.bsky.social · Mar 8

Wii Shop Theme for sure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyjU...

Wii Shop Channel Main Theme (HQ)

YouTube video by Rhythm Root

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Feb 20

A cool historical fact I learned today is that globally, but especially in the Western Christian tradition, regicide is historically pretty common - between the years 600 and 1980, approximately ~14% of Western monarchs was killed, or deposed and then executed, by their subjects.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · Feb 18

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Feb 17

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

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John Burgess @therirah.bsky.social · Feb 13

Insane that Logan Thompson didn't make Team Canada. He 100% deserved it.

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John Burgess @therirah.bsky.social · Feb 13

Crazy almost comeback from the Swedes. And we're getting NHLers at the Olympics next year!

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onion person @junlper.beer · Feb 11

MAJOR EFFICIENCY WIN: the CFPB that’s returned over $21,000,000,000.00 to scammed americans now being dissolved to save every american $2.00 annually

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · Feb 11

I don't see a way to report the name on Maps using my phone, so instead I left a review: "Calling it the Gulf of America is the worst thing that's happened to it since the Chicxulub asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs".

Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · Feb 10

I always check with stuff like this, and yup. It's listed this way on Maps.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · Feb 10

F-ing Google.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · Feb 3

I remember, as a teenager, the hand wringing over the passing of the generation with living memory of the Second World War, and how much would be lost or at risk once those stories became no more than words on a page. I remember, naively, being confused about where that fear came from.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · Feb 2

The execution of Maximilien Robespierre; the person who had just been executed in this drawing is Georges Couthon. Robespierre is the figure marked "10" in the tumbrel, holding a handkerchief to his shattered jaw.

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