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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 3d

There are still good things in this world. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMhnVPMd/

Thanks to @Anna Lapwood | Organist for this amazing video. Anna: Continuing my mission to add organ to as many iconic musical moments as I can ✨✨ Now in a car to Manchester ahead of an 8am rehearsal ...

TikTok video by Sigur Rós

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 5d

Should have written “enormous load of Travis Kelce penis submissions” but what’s done is done. #alwaysediting

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 5d

This is solid (nice touch with the big cross necklace), but it still comes off a bit too on the nose, even for this fascist administration. So thanks for the look, but we’re going to pass. Maybe try submitting to McSweeney’s Pyongyang Tendency?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 5d

[Braces self for a load of Travis Kelce penis submissions.]

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 5d

By simply and innocently pressing play on Taylor Swift’s “Wood,” I was forced to choke down a lumber truck’s worth of information about Travis Kelce’s ‘Wood.’

Here’s what I now know against my will.

I Didn’t Need to Know All of That About Travis Kelce

By simply and innocently pressing play on Taylor Swift’s “Wood,” I was forced to choke down a lumber truck’s worth of information about Travis Kelce’s ‘Wood.’ Here’s what I now know against my will.

www.vulture.com

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 5d

Bari’s CBS off to an unsurprising start.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true--

ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 10d

Trump is trying to turn pop culture, but whatever, good luck with that. I mean, the right is like, “We love Springsteen’s music, but don’t care for his politics.” Has anyone ever heard anyone on left say, “Kid Rock is awesome, but don’t care for his politics”?

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10d

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Rand Paul: "Chicago is a nightmare. It is literally a war zone."

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 10d

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 11d

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 13d

Oh great, like we need even more IKEA-themed submissions.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13d

OUR BATHROOM MIRRORS ARE VITAL TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 13d

The past keeps providing blasts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA3n...

Museum of Science Vintage Commercial

YouTube video by wrongindustries

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 13d

The Museum of Science here in Boston used to have this state of the art exhibit (ca. 1981) where you spoke into a phone and then it played back your voice so you could hear what you sounded like on a phone. IT BLEW OUR MINDS. Anyway, that was way much better than this shit.

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 13d

NEW: Neon, an app that pays you to record your calls so your audio can be used to train AI, and already rose to the top #5 free apps on Apple's App Store, has gone offline after a security lapse.

We found the app exposed users' phone numbers, call recordings, and text transcripts of those calls.

Exclusive: Neon takes down app after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts

Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled offline after a security bug allowed any logged-in user to access the call recordings and transcripts of any other user.

techcrunch.com

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 15d

When you’re a parody of a parody of a parody of yourself, the transcript more than suffices.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15d

"It looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of eighty different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in... So, ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

They Pump So Much Stuff Into Those Beautiful Little Babies

So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think...

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 15d

It really is amazing how each day he says something unfathomably dumb, yet the next day he manages to top it by saying an even more unfathomably dumb thing. So like the dumbest thing he said last Thursday somehow now doesn’t seem as dumb compared to the dumbest thing he said today.

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 16d

NESN has aired the ad during Sox games too.

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 18d

Lots of way worse things going on, but whenever I see that Chevy Equinox commercial with New Order’s “Age of Consent” in the background, a part of me dies.

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 18d

Boomers’ hilariously bad intuition when it comes to technology and social media will save us in the end.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18d

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 19d

It’s all just middle school. If your group shows doubt in you, you find a new group, and you feel safe again. Until the new group dumps you.

Another dumb tweet from Nate Silver, blaming Bluesky for the left being out of touch.

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 19d

What if the press just didn’t show up to these ridiculous displays of nonsense? I mean, OANN and Fox and whatever damaged person with a blog who has access would, but if the mainstream news orgs just ignored these things, he’d just be preaching to the bonkers choir. That would castrate him, no?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

TRUMP: That's why I sued the New York Times two days ago for a lot of money

KARL: A judge just threw that out

TRUMP: I'm winning. I'm winning the cases.

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 19d

Well, that was quite the week. Thanks to all who submitted their work to us, and to all who read and shared our pieces. Glad so many folks still turn to satire to help get through these bonkers and appalling times.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 19d

Trump in January: I will stop all government censorship, protect free speech, and never use the power of the state to persecute my opponents.

Trump in September: Anyone who disagrees with me should be taken off the air.

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 20d

As if this day wasn’t already brutal enough, I now get to watch my horrible Dolphins get annihilated on national television.

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Devorah Blachor @devorahblachor.bsky.social · 20d

There might be some confusion over what "Free Speech" means at the moment, so here are some helpful FCC guidelines for Late Night hosts. My latest on @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/upd...

Updated Trump Administration FCC Guidelines for Late-Night TV Hosts

“ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel off air for Charlie Kirk comments after FCC pressure.” — New York Times - - -The FCC has long held that “the public interes...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 20d

More of this, please.

Matt Belloni @mattbelloni.bsky.social · 20d

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 20d

Hey, @redsox.com, can you do something about the ICE recruiting ad on NESN? Or should we expect ICE trucks outside Fenway sometime soon?

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