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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 6h

Good day to listen to "Absolute Lithops Effect" by @themountaingoats.bsky.social

The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 6h

My '01 Corolla had its oil plug fall out after a bad Jiffy Lube tech didn't put it in right, so it ran dry for a couple highway miles before I realized... it was never quite the same, and then the pistons seized around 200k. So mad because it absolutely held together like it was gonna be immortal.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 3d

Taurus: Give yourself a little credit. Not everyone could screw up so badly in such a variety of ways.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 8h

A roadside advertisement for a moving company has lost a few panels and now reads "UH"

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 8h

LEFT LANE
MUST
LEFT LANE

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 9h

The advisor from SimCity hollers at the player, "YOU CAN'T LET A FROG DANCE EROTICALLY AT YOUR SWAT TEAM! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" The typeface is Chicago but the city is Portland.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 15h

Latest pet theory is "Reverse Truman Show". Nobody wants to tell Trump 'no', so they stage PR events or LARP on these weird one-off fascist spectacles (fast-roping to an apartment?!) so he can see them on TV. DOJ don't have to convict Comey, but they *definitely* were ordered to perp-walk him on TV.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 21h

Sending mail to "Lahoma, OK" and staring at the address label for a solid 20 minutes muttering "la homa... oak, lahoma... oak."

New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social · 1d

Lahoma, Oklahoma
Pop: 617

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahoma,_Oklahoma

Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90617727
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=140542713
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36640601

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

What the hell is this nonsense
He's going to play the Ravens three times this year
(If he can survive that long behind Cincy's O-line)

Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 1d

The Bengals are trading for Joe Flacco, per me and
@tompelissero.bsky.social

Just a wild turn of events. Cincy has been calling around for 48 hours. Now turn to Joe Flacco to keep their playoff hopes alive. A stunner.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

Aaron Rodgers' ankle has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

To have Josh Allen stuck in a conference with Lamar AND Mahomes, in their primes, and suddenly *both* have a down year...?! Unbelievable and y'all are playing your best football in a hot minute. Could well capitalize.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHMYGOD
Trevor Lawrence is something else

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

Drunken Master bullshit, winding up to swing a wild haymaker at the guy in front of you and landing a jab through the jaw of the guy coming behind you with the chair leg. Trevor Lawrence still doesn't know how many guys he beat tonight, besides "all of 'em".

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

"Just like we drew it up--!"

Anthony (game script enthusiast) @proant.bsky.social · 2d

Great play design on that Trevor Lawrence TD. The stumble + fall down lured the Chiefs into a fall sense of security, which created a crease on the left side. Everything went as planned

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

Hey so point of order, if Offense #80 there -- running obviously in the paint -- were to catch him from behind, what's the ruling? Gotta be tackle out of bounds, but the ball carrier *is* stopped. And no way do the refs break the glass on Palpably Unfair.

The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

Grabbing my old copy of Joint Pub 3-13 ("Information Operations") and working up a Target Audience Analysis Worksheet on 'moderate boomer who remembers the Sears catalog and buys Christmas presents'... get these things drafted up as mailers, since the boomers check postal mail...

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

Ohhh, do it like the Sears catalog, for Christmas shopping - theme it around "this Christmas is going to be a lot more expensive".

(You'll need an IKEA-quality diagram that shows that yes, actually, YOU pay the tariffs, or the business goes under and you can't buy the product at all.)

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

a woman says we 'll workshop it in front of a computer monitor

ALT: a woman says we 'll workshop it in front of a computer monitor

media.tenor.com

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

What a great get. You did a fantastic job keeping it centered in frame. (I'm sure you can over-stabilize in post later, but even so--!)

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

He's not going to ever say it this way, but the answer to "why a book" is that blog posts and books have different audiences, and books get you book tours and Reviews and (most importantly) revenues. Then you can go on panels as "the author of a book on the topic".

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 3d

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · Apr 28

A time-aged photo of a bowling team posing behind a display of bowling balls and pins. From left to right, we've got a long-haired white guy making a 'hell yeah!' face and probably hearing REO Speedwagon in his head. Then there's a pretty girl with straight long hair in a pink shirt very consciously doing a posing for a photo face. Then a black guy in a blue polo to prove everyone here is cool, next to the oldest dude on the team with longer hair and a 'stache in a peach-colored bowling shirt. Then a girl with a cute bob and sunglasses in a floral shirt, and finally there's Ed who there isn't a lot to say about. Below the ball display is a wooden sign with tracks for placing movable plastic letters. In the top left it reads 'REDONDO BCH.' and top right is '1975' and between those is the mysterious phrase 'MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN TODAY'.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 3d

Teams with an advantage should play low-variance ball and count on their opponents to fail

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woketoberpus @woketopus.bsky.social · 12d

giant mech with "student driver" stickers on it

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