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Ian Karmel

@iankarmel.bsky.social

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Standup. Writer. Trail Blazers fan. https://linktr.ee/iankarmel

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · Jul 31

A year since T-Shirt Swim Club came out and I keep getting messages about how it helped folks feel less alone as a fat person and let them laugh at some of the ~horrors~

Check out the book Roxane Gay called:
“As charming and funny as it is poignant and thoughtful."

bookshop.org/p/books/t-sh...

T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People

Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 13h

They closed The Roxy, folks. It died like a dog. People come to me, so many people, they say "Where do I get disco fries at 3am?" And I say, no more. It's gone. Pancakes. Some people say pancakes, some say flapjacks, but they're gone. Cocaine in the bathroom, but not here, and it's gone.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 13h

He's so good. Just finished Stormy Weather. Taking a break with some Elmore Leonard and Sam Lipsyte so I don't just tear through his entire body of work in a few months!

Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 13h

INCORRECT

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 1d

MIGHTY OREGON

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · May 4

Putting a cape on a penguin won’t make it fly. We know that now.

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 6d

I love Oregon... but brother... I hate running.

Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you!

Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 10d

I don't worry about Trump's inflatable army infesting Portland the same way I don't worry about an ant crawling over a tree trunk. We've been here, we'll be here.

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Bill Trinen @trintran.bsky.social · 11d

Incredible pic
#GoDucks

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 11d

No thoughts. Just vibes.

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sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come @meatballhoagie.bsky.social · 11d

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Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 11d

Incredible ending.

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 11d

FUCK YES OREGON

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 11d

QUACK!!!!!!!!!

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 11d

LETS FUCKING GO DUCKS

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 11d

Ron Snodgrass?!

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 11d

The first five minutes of my last special is a correspondence from the war zone that is Portland, Oregon. Please send help.

youtu.be/1L9lgLJrNJk?...

Ian Karmel | Comfort Beyond God's Foresight (Full Comedy Special)

YouTube video by 800 Pound Gorilla Media

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 11d

This is the Kaleb Horton piece that deserved to make him the defining voice of today. He was an poet, a comic, and a cultural anthropologist who understood America on a soul-deep level.

It's his 2016 road trip to the Constitution Party's election convention in Utah.

web.archive.org/web/20160918...

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Michael Fearnow @bogeymanweather.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Kaleb Horton.
Among other things, he wrote hands down one of the best pieces of true crime reporting.
www.vox.com/the-highligh...

The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping

In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town. Forty-five years later, we revisit the story.

www.vox.com

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Kaleb Horton. Goddamn.

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Kaleb Horton, one of the most dazzling, funny, kind, & truly original writers to ever grace this endangered medium.

I was lucky enough to edit him for the most popular piece we ever did theLAnd. A strange poultry odyssey of true brilliance. thelandmag.com/pioneer-frie...

The Rise and Fall of Pioneer Chicken, the Last Great L.A. Chicken Shack

There are two Pioneer Chickens left in Los Angeles: One in Boyle Heights and one in Bell Gardens. I made it my mission to see both.

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 12d

Good luck building a jail that can hold me.

Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 15d

(to the tune of "A Love Supreme")
I love this meme. I love this meme. I love this meme.