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Avram Grumer

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Brooklynite, early blogger, general-purpose nerd, ttRPG noodle-arounder, once and future cartoonist, typeface addict, doggerelist, one-time Hugo finalist, occasional crank. He/him.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hwæt! Aid for the free-trader, from all in hearing,
foemen besiege us, our fusion-oars failing,
gun-spool gone feeble, ship-breath escaping…

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 12h

Color comic-book panels showing Todd (a guy with bleached hair) being confronted by the Vegan Police (two guys pointing their fingers as if they were guns) as Envy Adams (a woman with red hair) watches.

VP1: We have it on record that at 12:27 this afternoon you did knowingly consume a restricted food item.

VP2: Gelato, bitch.

Todd: What? It… it wasn't me!!

Envy: Hang on… are you saying gelato isn't vegan?

VP2: It contains milk & eggs, ma'am.

Narration: (it sounds delicious)

Envy: …Is chicken parmesan vegan?

VP1: Is it?

VP2: I'm not sure. Isn't a "parmesan" like a rodent or something?

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 15h

Who knows what dangers we’ll find?

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 16h

It’s possible that we, as a nation, went too hard into caring about stupid bullshit.

the ONION
America's Finest News Source

Entertainment

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again

[image of a bunch of celebrity stuff: a shark, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears with a snake, etc.]

Published: October 3, 2001

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 16h

Wasn’t this one of the evil boyfriends in Scott Pilgrim?

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 17h

According to this study, inhalers in the US produced 25 million metric tons of emissions over a decade, or 2.5 million/year. Total emissions in the US are 5.5 *billion* metric tons/year. So inhalers produce about half of one tenth of a percent of US emissions.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 18h

Some interesting background on Bari Weiss's time at the Times:

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CandyCoatedChaos @candycoatedchaos.bsky.social · 1d

Not Stephen Miller accidentally outting the regime in an interview. Let that "plenary authority" claim slip right out and then had to act like the audio cut out.

Sir! We heard you.. and the President does NOT have plenary authority.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 20h

From what I’ve heard, usually the undercover feds are the only ones who consistently pay their dues.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 20h

If you look at Wikipedia’s list of contenders for first interracial kiss on television, Shatner shows up in three of ’em! In the earliest two, he’s kissing women of mixed European/Asian ancestry.

First interracial kiss on television - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 20h

Is there an earlier example of a kiss on the lips between a man and a woman, one Black and the other white, on American TV?

I know that “interracial kiss” technically covers more territory than that, but this is only a matter of interest because of specific American racial bigotries.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

Americans voting

🦇Zombatman🦇 @budbuddyguy.bsky.social · 21d

The reverb 🤌

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

“There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. They may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis.…”

Battlestar Galactica - Original Show Intro | NBC Classics

YouTube video by NBC Classics

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

S.M. Sterling had a two-book series where the US & USSR colonize Venus and explore Mars in the 1980s, and discover that both worlds are inhabited, old-school sci-fi style. I think it turns out to eventually be due to ancient astronauts, but I never finished it.

The Sky People - Wikipedia

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Crumb's famous "Stoned Agin" comic: Six black-and-white panels of someone sitting at a table or desk, elbows on the surface, head in hands, and their head melting over the course of the panels. At the top, the words "STONED AGIN!" in big letters.

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

I considered trying to write fanfic about an insurance claims adjuster who has to investigate claims relating to the destruction of Alderaan.

I never really got farther than figuring out that the protagonist would have an accounting droid named C-3PA.

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 1d

Chotiner: So you challenge suspects with inconsistencies in their stories?

Lt. Columbo: Yes sir, that's what I try to do.

Chotiner: And that is why you reveal the evidence against them and the likely theory of prosecution before they've been mirandized?

Lt. Columbo: Hold on a minute, Sir,

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

What do people think about Congress passing a law to take back tariff authority from the President?

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 3d

What do people think about giving working class Americans a $2000 tariff relief check for the unfair tax that has driven their grocery and housing prices up?

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, is proposing $2,000 payments to Americans making under $100,000

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 1d

A Moby Dick from this day in 2021 🐳

A marker drawing of Moby Dick flipping people off with both fins. To the right are two Copic markers.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

“We don’t think the way fraudsters think,” says a guy who’s been linked to weight-loss scams and pyramid schemes, and who promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment while owning stock in companies that make it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dr Oz: "We have an advantage with AI. You know why? We don't think the way fraudsters think. That's just not what our minds do. The bank managers don't think about bank fraud. They want to do loans and help businesses. Fraudsters think about fraud. So the AI can think the way a fraudster thinks."

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 2d

A codex is just the modern form of a book: a stack of sheets bound along one edge.

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Jeremiah Avery @jlavery522.bsky.social · 2d

Upcoming scene in “Avengers: Doomsday”.

Doctor Doom playing the piano with the text reading “Baby you got what I neeeeed. But you say he’s just a friend, but you say he’s just a friend. Oh baby you! You got what I neeeeeed! But you say he’s just a friend…”

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 2d

“I am not left-handed!”

CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 2d

amazing fantasy 15 cover with spider-man carrying a guy

amazing fantasy 15 cover where spider-man drops the guy he's carrying

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 2d

Deliberately, or just with weird beliefs about nutrition?

Or maybe arsenic wallpaper. Hey, has anyone given a really close looking-over to those weird suits Peterson got as a gift?