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James Cobo
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The winner of the ham battle. Capybaras, etc.
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TIL University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s bid solicitation site is called “Hogbid”
A screenshot of Hogbid, UAF’s bid solicitation site
November 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Cuomo is just a palette swap of
Jack Nicholson’s Joker wearing a jaunty beret during the museum scene
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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“All the old people started running away as well”
A Reddit screenshot exchange. Top post extols the virtues of bringing the Doom Eternal soundtrack to a hifi demo room, includes the line “All the old people started running away as well”. Reply praises this approach to demo disc selection, recounts an incident when they played Wesley Willis in a demo room only for the salespeople to react blankly and then resume hard-selling.
November 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Well this is awkward
A screenshot of a Trump Truth Social post reading “Chris Wright; ‘A former Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Scientist won the Nobel Prize in physics for work in quantum physics. Quantum computing, along with AI and Fusion, are the three signature Trump science efforts. Trump 47 racks up his first Nobel Prize!”
October 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Dying at “sometimes there’s some white residue on it.” Must be powdered drywall
A Reddit post from /r/djs with the headline “Decksaver damage, how to prevent?” Post reads: “Long story short i bought speakers and a controller and I've been hosting afters at my appartment. My friends have so much fun and I get to DJ for hours! We also meet a lot of great strangers. I leave my decksavers in the bedroom table while I'm playing in the living room. It's in a safe and flat location so I can't understand why every time I'm cleaning up i find new horizontal scratches on it. Sometimes there is even some white residue on it? Can someone help? Decksavers are expensive i don't want them to get busted up like that”
October 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I will never tire of this glorious moment captured on film
A yawning viscacha
October 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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A futuristic utopia
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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A panel of a very old comic; a young man is running alongside a train with a bindle over his shoulder, saying “I’m through with school - it’s only for sissies anyway! I’ll run away and make money with my FEET!”
October 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Whenever this discourse comes up I think about the “appliance, please” issue of Mark Russell’s Flintstones series, which was so discomforting that it made me rethink my (previously high) opinion of the whole series. Don’t make jokes like these!
A photo of a page of Mark Russell’s Flintstones in which the family’s animal appliances talk to each other using phrases like “What up, appliance?” and “Appliance, please!”
October 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Also
A screenshot of the Simpsons episode The Lemon of Troy; the junkyard owner is urging his son to come outside where “There’s a-doin’s a-transpirin’”
October 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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A screenshot of a four-star Letterboxd review of One Battle After Another which reads “One of three VistaVision prints for this in the entire world and 50 minutes in it decides to have a seizure and melt away because of the heat. No wonder movies are barely made in this format anymore.”
September 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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STEVE HAULT
A screenshot of Arrested Development depicting STEVE HOLT! doing the STEVE HOLT! pose
September 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I shared this link in a discord and cannot possibly beat this reply
A Discord screenshot with the name cropped out reading “Imagine trying to do this with Steve Ditko”
September 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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The Worst Person You Know guy
September 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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A Discord screenshot; the caption reads “I am reasonably sure that whoever lives at this residential address was attempting to use Google but accidentally set up a business” above a Google Maps screengrab showing a map, a house, and a business listing for a beverage distributor (with a 4.8 star rating) called “What Is In Energy Drinks”
September 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Science has finally invented a jerky that I dare not try, and I say this as someone who got the Dr Pepper jerky
A photo of Jack Links chili cheese Fritos beef jerky
September 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Whenever I see the Barenaked Ladies invoked in any context (including here) I think of one of my all-time favorite ILX threads: the one where people tried to determine which of the BNL guys was the most punchable on this cover

it went for literal thousands of posts and never reached consensus
The Canadian cover to the Barenaked Ladies album Gordon, featuring five guys on various levels of needing a punch in the face
September 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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An edited screenshot of The Simpsons; Bill Cosby is interviewing a child, with the caption reading “Rotterdam, with the Rotte and the dam and the…”
August 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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A screenshot of 30 Rock of Emily Mortimer’s character looking into the camera saying “careful, my bones.” The screenshot looks like pixilated garbage because I had to grab it from Reddit.
August 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Within each of us there are two customers
A screenshot of the “Customers say” ai-generated blurb on an Amazon listing for beef jerky. It reads “Customers find this beef jerky to be of good quality. However, the taste receives mixed reactions, with some finding it good while others describe it as disgusting. Similarly, opinions on value are divided, with some considering it a good purchase while others say it’s not worth the money.”
August 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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I’m already getting mailers on this, the chuds are SHOOK
A photo of a mailer I received urging me to vote against California countering Texas’ bullshit redistricting, lmao
August 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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It’s hard to argue against P&P but I am compelled to post this
Preston Sturges’ godlike 1941-44 five-movie run of The Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, and Hail The Conquering Hero
August 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Pray for Cho-Cho
A photo of a horrifying looking clown, captioned with “Cho-Cho is coming, children!”
August 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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www.tampabay.com/life-culture...
A screenshot of a section of an article about Cho-Cho, a health-forward clown from the 1930s; it reads “Set against the backdrop of the shadows of two girls at play, a white-faced clown with a painted-on giant smile looks to be laughing maniacally. Above him, like a threat, it reads, “Cho-Cho is coming, children.” “It’s absolutely terrifying,” said Rex Gordon, Cho-Cho the Health Clown’s unofficial Tampa historian, while trying to catch his breath between laughs. Poor Cho-Cho. He just wanted to sell milk and discuss the importance of regular bowel movements.”
August 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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A Twitter screenshot captioned “went to get a covid test and a giant broccoli man walked by the door”; the image is a photo taken inside a doctor’s office with a guy in a giant broccoli costume shooting two thumbs up at them through the window
August 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM