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Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

FFS, you're telling me this isn't even his final form?!

Photo of RFK Jr. wearing a suit and sitting at a table with a microphone, possibly testifying before Congress - that kind of vibe. His face is contorted into a kind of angry half-yell, showing every weird leathery wrinkle, fold, and crevice. Veins are popping out in his forehead. It's giving goblin.

December 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

The "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Meme" where Frank (played by Danny DeVito) is sitting in the driver's seat of a car, turning to look at the person in the back seat over his right shoulder while holding up an egg. The text on screen changes the word "egg" from the original quote with a bad photoshop so it reads, "Can I offer you a nice Dustin The Turkey in this trying time?"

December 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

Fan making? Yo siempre estoy ready.

Spain's 2022 Eurovision representative, Chanel, performing her song Slo Mo in the grand final. She stands center-stage, fanning herself with a large red folding fan, with her five dancers behind her. The stage lights behind her make a fan shape radiating outward as they glow gold.

December 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

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Continuation of the quote on screen: "The higher the level of the executive, the less they understood about what the customer did once purchasing the products the company carried. The board prioritized executives with Wall Street experience over crafting industry know-how or even curiosity about what the customers do with the company's merchandise."

December 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

You'd be shocked. The higher a person's level in the company, the less they actually know about their products and consumers. From "The Unravelling of Joann Fabrics":

Text on screen overlaid over a person flipping through fabric patterns in a fabric store. The text reads: "Those hopes were dashed within the first 10 seconds of our meeting when the department leader made it clear they had never even seen a sewing pattern out of the package and had no idea how one worked. I spent 30 minutes teaching the leader of the sewing category how the Joann customer uses the sewing products found in their stores... the very products this individual was in charge of buying to put on the shelves."

December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

The Bernie Sanders "I am once again asking for" meme, but Bernie is wearing a dark green mask and asking for Butlerian Jihad.

December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

Made a Miss Universe edit of one of @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social's Robespierre shorts and oh my god I can't breathe 🤣 🇫🇷 🥯

November 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

¿Porque no los dos?

A sepia-toned photo of a gorilla dressed as a journalist. He is wearing a hat that says press, is dressed in a white button-down shirt, and is sitting at a desk with a typewriter, telephone, old-timey camera, and lamp.

November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

It's giving Peacemaker but in super bad faith

Scene from season 2 episode 7 of Peacemaker. Peacemaker and Harcourt are facing each other, standing in front of a giant mural of Hitler. Peacemaker looks at it over his shoulder and says "Fuck, how'd I miss that?"

October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

The Dems lost the last election because they *wouldn't* take a principled stance on Gaza, immigration, and LGBT rights, glorified militarism, and spent Kamala's entire campaign trotting out Liz Cheney to champion reach-across-the-aisle politics.

Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney at a 2024 Presidential Campaign event. They are onstage, smiling and holding hands, with signs behind them that say "Country Over Party".

October 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

Spongebob Squarepants meme where a sparkling, magical rainbow appears between his hands and arcs over his head. He has wide eyes and a big open-mouthed smile. On top of the rainbow, written in bold, white, capitalised letters is the word "MILD".

October 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

Worst part is that it's still going on. Covid is still killing, disabling, and causing long-term damage in people and instead of instituting clean air measures or masking in hospitals to help stop the spread, everyone is just miserably sick all the time and dying earlier than they should.

Painting of Cassandra of Troy standing in front of the burning city with her clothing dirty and torn, pulling her own hair in her madness.

October 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

WITH RIBBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL! #NoKings #NoTyrants London
@indivisible.org @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social

October 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

Literally the only right-on-red I know of in New York City is the right turn onto 21st St next to Silvercup Studios in LIC when you take the Northern Blvd exit off the upper level of the Queensborough Bridge.

Picture of the intersection of the Queensboro Bridge exit at 21st Street in Long Island City. There is a sign on the intersection saying "After stop, right turn is permitted on RED."

October 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

I like to think of us as Cassandras in a coal mine. Constantly told we're overreacting to the actual harm being done to us and then demonised for being right when the effects of the things we've been warning about start to affect the population at large.

A comic in four panels - in the first panel, two people are standing ankle-deep in a light-brown substance that seems to be falling from the sky in chunks. The first person says, "What's this? Why didn't somebody warn us about this?" and the second person replies "We were warned." In the second panel, the brown stuff is up to their waists. The first person says "They saw this coming? Why didn't they tell us?" and the second person replies "they told us." In the third panel, the brown stuff is now up to their necks. The first person says "They should have said it in a way we'd believe." and the second person replies, "Some of us did believe. Some of us didn't." In the final panel, the people are completely covered, with the brown stuff filling up the entire frame. The first person's speech bubble says "I blame them for letting us not believe them." and the second person's speech bubble says, "They saw that coming too."

September 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

Because history, of course, has shown that appeasement is the optimal strategy. Surely if we give them just a little more ground they'll finally be satisfied and go back to respecting political norms.

The cover of the children's book "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" but the title is partially erased and re-written in as "If You Give A Fascist Anything".

September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

Comic in 7 frames. In the first, a man wearing a polo shirt, khakis, a red hat, and Ray Ban sunglasses shakes the hand of a queer-presenting man wearing a t-shirt that says “LGB without the T” and holding a sign with a rainbow on it that says “Gays against drag queens.”
The man in the red hat says “We did it! We finally outlawed all the trans people and drag queens! Thanks for your help!”
The queer man smiles and says “Happy to be of service.”
In the second panel, the queer man, still smiling, says “So who are we going after next?” In the third panel, the man in the hat stares directly at the queer man with a smile on his face.
In the fourth panel, the queer man, still smiling, repeats his question. “I said, who’s next?” Red hat man continues staring and smiling in the fifth panel.
In the sixth panel, the queer man, now looking worried, says “Who…” as the red hat man continues smiling and staring at him from the final panel.

September 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

This genuinely must be what being cursed by Apollo feels like. I have this meme ready to go at all times.

A close up on Emilia Clarke in costume as Daenerys Targaryen. She is looking straight into the camera, with a big, almost manic smile while holding a cigarette in her hand as if she's about to raise it to her mouth and take a drag. In the background, about 20 meters behind her, everything is on fire. Absolutely everything. In between her and everything that's on fire, there are about 10 people, randomly dispersed, some staring at the flames, some running around, and others in various states of action. The caption of the image says "I fucking told you so".

September 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

Because people fucking *hate it* when you're right too early. Nobody gets more shit than people who are right too early. Just ask The Chicks.

The Chicks (formerly The Dixie Chicks) on the cover of Entertainment Weekly in May 2003. They are nude, covered in black writing on their skin that has the insults hurled at them by critics when they spoke out agains the Iraq War. Some examples include, "Saddam's Angels," "Traitors," "Opinionated," "Shut up!," "Big Mouth," "BOYCOTT," and "Dixie Sluts".

September 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

As a Britmerican dual-citizen, what bewilders me most is that he watched the Dems literally lose to a fascist last November by running the exact same trot-out-Liz-Cheney-let's-have-the-most-lethal-military-in-the-world-immigrants-do-not-come-genocide-is-fine-actually-trans-people-be-silent play.

Tobias and Lindsay Funke from Arrested Development in a three-picture meme. In the first image, Lindsay asks "Did it ever work for these people?". In the second image, Tobias, looking dejected, answers "No. It never does. I mean these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but..." And in the third image, a glimmer of delusional hope flashes across Tobias' face as he looks at Lindsay and says, "...But it might work for us."

September 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM

Angel

@acap42.bsky.social

Especially considering the name of one of the subs he's posting in. I spent the first 30 years of my life in the United States and even I'm sick of this "everywhere is America" bullshit.