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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 1d

All Word Police Are Bastards

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 1d

Telling it to fuck off is not nothing.

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 1d

Chickasha

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 1d

“La Jolla” outed me immediately.

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 1d

And before they all burst into song because Broadway.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 1d

the trolley problem failed to prepare me for the numbers of people who would gleefully increase the speed and run over as many people as possible

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s SPECTACULAR.

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve met one of my best pals @elliotblake.bsky.social, made countless friends around the world, and seen a photo of an ostensibly naked @danmcdaid.bsky.social behind Captain America’s shield.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 2d

Supporting my local bookstore and my favorite rockstar/author/real estate agent, @billjanovitz.bsky.social.

Holding the freshly purchased hardcover of the new book about The Cars by Buffalo Tom lead singer Bill Janovitz in front of The Knight’s Nook on Main St., Yukon, OK.

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 3d

As a lover of both Taylor Swift and dick jokes, I am truly in hog heaven this week.

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 3d

It truly sets a high bar.

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 3d

As a lover of both Taylor Swift and dick jokes, I am truly in hog heaven this week.

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 3d

This was the best possible way to discover that “scheme“ has a very different context in Ireland than it does in the US.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my god, PJ. It’s awesome. You owe it to yourself to track ‘em all down. JLGL is JLGL, of course, but it also features some of Bob Lappan’s best ever lettering work.

Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 3d

I hope you’re referring to only one piece of art.

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t necessarily dislike “Spooky Season,“ but it feels like I missed a vote a few years back to decide that everybody was gonna start calling October that.

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Dustin Ragland @youngweather.bsky.social · 4d

Say Anything:

Lloyd Dobler stands outside Diane’s window holding up his phone. He prompts Siri, “Play ‘In Your Eyes’ by Peter Gabriel.” Siri streams “Private Eyes” by Hall and Oates, right after playing a thirty-second Geico ad.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d

"John Keating stands on top of his desk to get their attention. 'Why do I stand up here?' he asks. When one student starts typing 'Why would a teacher stand on a desk in the middle of class?' into ChatGPT, Keating quits his teaching job and moves to a sheep farm in New Zealand."

If 1980s Teen Movies Took Place Today

Goonies Since strangers will call the police if kids in the Goon Docks wander around on their own, the boys don’t get a chance to search for One-Ey...

buff.ly

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 4d

I think what my wife and I have most in common with other couples are our text conversations about Nik Kershaw and Chesney Hawkes.

After seeing Three Dog Night at a charity event, I discovered that the lead singer fronted the band behind the cover of Nik Kershaw‘s “wouldn’t it be good“ on the pretty in pink soundtrack and sent that to my wife and then discovered Nik Kershaw wrote “the one and only“ for Chesney Hawkes for the 1991 film Doc Hollywood; when my wife and I met in 1995, Chesney Hawkes’s full length album was one of the few CDs she owned, and in this exchange, I shared this information with her and she accidentally referred to him as “Cheney“ and I made a joke about Chesney Hawkes also shooting a friend in the face.

Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 5d

DC’s cover/masthead design is exquisite craftsmanship across the board while Marvel’s looks like they hired a middle schooler with the free version of Canva.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 5d

When I was asked to play the Apokolips comedy festival I wasn't sure. But then I found out the only rules were that I couldn't make jokes about Darkseid or the anti-life equation, so I decided to go. And I found out at that the parademons are just like us in many ways.

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely. And the first thing I ever saw her and was DAMAGES, which absolutely did not prepare me for the fearless goofball she’s revealed herself to be.

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 5d

My 17-year-old is the Life Cereal Mikey of watching TV, but I hooked him with a surefire winner tonight: PEEP SHOW s4e5.

a man and a woman are sitting on a bus and the man says hairs it 's just a hairy turkey .

Alt: a man and a woman are sitting on a bus and the man says hairs it's just a hairy turkey .

media.tenor.com

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 5d

U2’s best since ‘Achtung Baby.’

Gray rectangles in a white square that make up the cover for the 2009 U2 album “no line on the horizon.’

Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 5d

Happy 50, fellow Libra! I turned 55 on Thursday.

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Brian Winkeler @brianwinkeler.bsky.social · 6d

Is Rose Byrne the absolute funniest actor on the face of the Earth? Signs point to yes.

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