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Alan Rapp
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Rooftop scene from Blade Runner 2049 when K and Joi's kiss is interrupted by a call.
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Rooftop scene from Blade Runner 2049 when K and Joi's kiss is interrupted by a call.
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Rooftop scene from Blade Runner 2049 when K and Joi's kiss is interrupted by a call.
November 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Imelda Marcos lording it over everyone
September 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Scott Glenn as Glaeken menacingly grabbing the shoulders of Alberta Watson’s character Eva, saying “I have come to destroy him.” From Michael Mann’s The Keep (1983).
August 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Have fun!
Duccio's The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain
July 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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A photograph of Mohammed Saeed "Baghdad Bob" al-Sahhaf next to a portrait of Saddam Hussein.
April 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Martin Short’s sweaty chainsmoking lawyer character, Nathan Thurm.
March 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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I'm going to try a Béarnaise tonight but if it breaks we all know who to blame.
Marco Rubio's stony expression at the SOTU.
March 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I know everything looks bleak, and yet
January 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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January 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Roland Barthes in a white shirt and wool cardigan with a cig dangling out of his mouth and insouciantly looking away from the camera.
January 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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January 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Pained flat smile on a young white gentleman wearing tie and vest against a white shirt, thin eyeglass frames and a (defiant?) hair swoop.
December 13, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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Sacha Baron Cohen's character Bruno having relations with his departed lover under the watchful eye of the medium who summoned him.
December 10, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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this is very funny tho
A 12-hour old post by Sen. Marsha Blackburn saying "Thank you all for the support" that has zero (∅) comments, reposts, or likes.
November 10, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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Visiting my dad, who *today learned that his early ballot had a problem. No team available to come help cure it. Sourced requisite IDs (not easy for retiree w/ expired license) and used curbside voting. He knows this election is too important to ignore. Very proud of this gent.
An elderly gentleman sitting in the passenger seat of a car with numerous palm trees visible through the window (Maricopa County). He is wearing an I VOTED sticker.
November 5, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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Fletch's (Jon Hamm) driver's license with terrible portrait.
October 15, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Challenge for the willing:

A selfie right now
Mid-age man looking up and away from the camera. Pronounced under-eye pockets which run in the family compounded by the late hour. Anthony Burrill's all type/all caps/sans serif I LIKE IT WHAT IS IT? poster illuminated by a bar-shaped desk lamp behind him.
September 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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I was on the dole for the codez. Arrived to a city about the size of Houston.
September 17, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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An still from David Lynch's Blue Velvet, with a pancake made-up Dean Stockwell as Ben.
August 13, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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The cover of Mondo 2000 issue #5, 1991. With the headline Dr. Fiorella Terenzi spread across a photograph of the astrophysicist in a low-cut black dress and another gentleman in a hat against a yellow background, with the subheds Nine Inch Nails, Glenn Sharp & Elliot Branca (sic), and the Residents.
August 9, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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But also,
August 6, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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don't underestimate Penna in this.
A shot from Jonathan Demme's film Something Wild (1986), showing a car at night crashed into a small marquee that says Whoa! You just passed the best scrapple in Penna. Back 500 yds.
August 4, 2024 at 10:25 PM