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chbarts.bsky.social
Dumbshits posting on a site
Making shit up out of spite
Annoy us, make us cuss
There's one fact we must discuss:
Frankie hated Trump
Darin Cotton (@nibiruman) posted: Your Dad would have loved Trump. Nancy Sinatra (@NancySinatra) quote-posted: Do some homework before you make a fool of yourself. My dad LOATHED trump.
December 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Churchy!
A cartoon mud turtle, Churchill "Churchy" LaFemme, lies on his back in a lake while smoking a cigar and carrying a small turtle on his stomach. He is propelling himself using an egg beater with his hind legs.
December 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I refuse to apologize, and I *will* use technology to make you suffer:
Top, a video of Governor Ratcliffe from Disney's "Pocahontas" with "SuperWhoLock" text obscuring his face plants a Union Jack into some land and looks smug. Below, perchu from Tumblr posts "there it is" Replies: thewalkinghomos: The worst most despair inducing gif in the history of mankind tunefulcandour: #literally the worst thing I've ever seen in my life classyrainbowaristocrat: Image of a Homestuck troll as Pocahontas Text below: You think you own whatever post you land on That Tumblr's just a dead thing you can claim atomicninja8: But I know every show and book and comic, has a fandom, has a fanbase, has a name You think the only bloggers who are bloggers, are the bloggers that blog the same stuff as you. But if you join the fandom, of a stranger, you'll blog the things that aren't Sherlock or Dr. Who... Have you ever heard the squealing of an OTP Or think of Padfoot when you see a black dog? Can you sing with all the voices of these randoms? Can't you paint with all the colors of these blogs?
November 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
chbarts.bsky.social
I will not apologize:
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
chbarts.bsky.social
An old woodcut made into a comic from MarriedToTheSea.com In the foreground, a young man and a young woman cuddle in a thickly grown forest. The man is apparently saying "Baby, there's nothing to worry about. There's no Murk Girl out there. No one's getting murked in the woods today." In the background, a deranged young woman looks at them and says "THE TIME TO MURK IS NIGH"
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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A cartoon boy in a red shirt and a blue overshirt shakes the hand of a girl in a pink blouse and jeans. The boy says "I'm the chick lover magnetron" in a speech balloon. In an act of rank cowardice, this text is crossed out with a big circle with a slash. In the foreground, another boy in a red shirt sits at a desk and writes on paper.
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Two pictures of a black cat, tail raised, with some round blue gem obscuring the view of their anus. It is apparently from twinkletush.com malformalady on Tumblr wrote: Twinkle Tush is an accessory that hangs from a cat's tail to cover their butt hole fashionably. Purchase here for $5.99USD identitypoltergeist replied: for just 5.99USD you can start explaining to concerned strangers that no your cat most certainly is not wearing a butt plug it's just a fashionable asshole medallion
November 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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A tube of Jimmy Dean sausage, with Michael Jackson's picture on it and the text under "Jimmy Dean" replaced with "Is Not My Lover"
November 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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A little kid in a teddy bear sweater looking confused. He has blonde hair and a big black beard. Top text: Goats are like mushrooms Bottom text: If you shoot a duck, I'm scared of toasters.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Text on top: Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you Picture, looking like a poorly-made ad for Middle Eastern food: BUY NOW!! Hummus and a WOW!! Extra large falafel meal for 2!!!
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Post something random and have a good December:
A Fletcher Hanks panel: A picture of a human head speeding down and to the right in front of a solid red background. The head is an old White man's head with blond hair, angry eyebrows, and a big frown, and is saying "Have mercy!" Above, the text reads "The head drifts toward the bottom... "
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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The duality of timeline:
Top, a post from The Fig Economy (@figgityfigs.bsky.social) with the four-panel comic about the crow stand-up comic, where the first panel is the crow on a bench behind a microphone saying "Pretty full after Thanksgiving", second panel is a heckler saying 'Booo! Get better material!', the third panel is the crow looking shocked and saying "...", and the last panel is the crow looking through a bunch of index cards with "Lots of food/Too much food/Thanksgiving food/Belly full/Feeling very full" on them. Second post is Specter177 (@specter177.bsky.social) posting a meme with two pictures: Top picture is a normal cargo prop plane in red and white livery, with the text "BEFORE THANKSGIVING". Bottom picture is a much larger prop cargo plane with a huge cargo area that looks like a swollen version of the top plane, with the text "AFTER THANKSGIVING"
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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There's a pigeon on your head. You have head pigeons. Go to the nurse before they spread to the other children.
Invader Zim, a green alien with big eyes, black hair, and a pigeon on his head, looks off-camera with his chin on his hand.
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Raises questions about the nature of the cat:
The original image the above was edited into, where the on-screen text says Marilyn Pickard Saw Big Cat An old woman on a lawn in front of a house looks at the camera with her hands out in front of her, describing a large object. There's a hand holding a microphone just barely on camera behind the on-screen text, which identifies this as channel 4.
November 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Alt text, split between two images:
Helen Stickler I'm seeing some misinformation and confusion about the expiring ACA credits. These are not the premium tax credits (PTC) that were put in place when the ACA was passed back in 2010 and enacted in 2014. These were *enhanced* premium tax credits, that were a gift from Joe Biden under the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021, later extended through the Inflation Reduction Act until the end of 2025. These credits temporarily expanded eligibility and increased the amount of financial assistance for health insurance premiums. Now those are going away, just as they had been scheduled to. In 2017, the GOP passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which benefitted high-income earners by giving them lower tax rates and increased deductions. These were set to expire in late 2025, but since the GOP got a trifecta in the last election, they gleefully extended them in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025. To nobody's surprise, the issue of also extending Joe Biden's ACA expansion was never even discussed by the ruling party. When the Democrats decided to participate in the shutdown, they needed a wedge issue to justify all the pain that would be inflicted on Government workers, etc. They very wisely went back to Joe Biden's ACA *enhanced* premium tax credits, and put them on the table again. They did this from a position of no power and no leverage. Now the game of chicken is coming to an end. Rumor has it, some Democrats in the Senate are going to vote to end the shutdown. I am seeing a LOT of people pouting and shouting "they caved! they always cave!" This is frankly ridiculous. The idea that the GOP would extend Joe Biden's ACA expansion was never going to happen and everyone knew it. I knew it, they knew it. If you are squealing and pouting now, I guess you are the only one who didn't know it. The point was to make the GOP go on RECORD and be very VISIBLY responsible for the pain in people's pocketbook when the credits will indeed expire on December 31, 2025. To that end, their plan worked quite masterfully. People's healthcare will get more expensive in fewer than 2 months, and they will know exactly who to blame. The Dems were also supposedly able to negotiate a floor vote on the ACA expansion extension - which will put the GOP on record as voting against healthcare for many of their constituents. So, I am going to need you Debbie Downers to put your big girl panties on and take a look at the facts. The Dems did not cave. They did exactly what they set out to do, given the limited options they had. Stop expecting your party to perform miracles, and then acting like a whiny little baby when they can't. Elections have consequences.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
chbarts.bsky.social
Don't forget bisexual:
wongbal posted on Tumblr: Hello and welcome to Deep Space Nine. We are a space station, not a starship, so you'll be spending a lot of time with all these delightful side characters like: bisexual fashion lizard. hologram of Frank Sinatra. goblins. goblin comes in 3 varieties: bartender, nephew, and idiot. our doctor is a twink, our commander is antifa and the captain talks to the gods sometimes. our policeman is sometimes a liquid and the science lady is part worm. we have many fine storylines, such as: Goblin Does A Crime, Watch The Irishman Suffer, or The Horrors Of War. As you stroll along our promenade enjoying a raktajino or delicious jumja stick, watch out for our nefarious villains: Pope Karen. clones of Jeffrey Combs. and a horny bastard reptile man who seems convinced this is actually his show. we suspect he may be possessed by demons. Have fun! Deep Space Nine: now with Worf™!
October 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Sometimes the Following Feed just gives me a gem:
Ethan Kocak (@ethankocak.com) posted: > Hi with a picture of a foot-long green Smallwood Anole lizard resting on the back of his flat left hand, looking out at the world like one ready to scamper away. Right beneath that, Silent Beauties (@slientbeauties.bsky.social) posted: > Why climbing the Everest when you can climb a monster? > #GHWP
October 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Headline writers love their dada:
A screenshot of an old C-NET news page, showing the headline: Galaxy Nexus: Android Ice Cream Sandwich guinea pig
October 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Post like this and I unfollow and mute. This is erasing centuries of European pogroms and other violence prior to WWII by making America the sin-eater for the entire Western world. I won't have it and I won't let it slide:
Cærsten (@cara.city) posted: "we didn't cause Nazism" dude Hitler based the Nuremberg Laws on the Jim Crow south and Lebensraum was partially inspired by the native genocide of the 19th century idk what to tell you ‪ By quote-posting: Will Stancil‬ (@whstancil.bsky.social‬): we didn’t cause Nazism. whatever caused incumbents to tank in 2024, it wasn’t unique to us. we aren’t uniquely corrupt, or violent, or authoritarian. there are good things and bad things about our country like any other, and Americans work a lot like people anywhere
October 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Just in case:
Sexy Sager Costume (@mikesager.net) said: I don’t know who needs to hear this but you can’t be racist against an algorithm or a large language model. AIs aren’t alive. You can call them a “clanker.” It’s ok. You’re literally not going to hurt anything. AIs aren’t people. They’re not alive.
October 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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A hot croissant:
A picture of a croissant, with a badly-drawn booty at one end and a sketchy cat-smile anime face with blushing cheeks at the other.
October 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Here it is:
I posted: > Leftists do foreign policy by trying to figure out what will make their dads the angriest, which invariably leads to them siding with any dictator who says bad things about America. The more intelligent among them couch this in Theory-speak, which makes them sound even stupider. In reply, Tactical Onions Vendor (@inkana.bsky.social) posted: > Hey can I suggest something real quick for you? therapy. Or a dog to talk to or something.
October 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Have mercy!
A Fletcher Hanks panel: A picture of a human head speeding down and to the right in front of a solid red background. The head is an old White man's head with blond hair, angry eyebrows, and a big frown, and is saying "Have mercy!" Above, the text reads "The head drifts toward the bottom... "
October 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Here you go:
Will Menaker (@willmenaker) posted on X.com A whole lot of responses are like "why don't they ever protest Trump??" when he's considering pursuing charges against Code Pink for interrupting his dinner at a DC restaurant.
September 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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This goes back to The Dark Knight Returns with his tank and his "rubber bullets" in 1986:
Three panels from Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns" showing a tank-mounted machine gun firing, shadowy figures, and Batman's grim face with a circular HUD over his right eye like a monocle. The text boxes in the second panel, colored Batman-gray, say "Rubber bullets. Honest." Below, a constant BUDDABUDDABUDDDA is the sound effect of the machine gun.
September 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM