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Michael
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these irradiated land-squit are not in the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA
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Georgie sitting on my lap this morning. 😻
A fluffy black cat is looking up, eyes glinting with reflected light. He has lopsided whiskers and two vampire-like fangs. He is sitting on the lap of a homie who is wearing an olive-green Chicago Bulls hoodie.
November 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Ring Mountain Reserve and Mt Tamalpais in Marin County, California.

Photo: E bailey
Photo of a vast desert landscape of low brown hills. Stones, cracked and discolored by age, dot the dirt-brown earth. Dry grass lingers like thin whispers of hair against some ancient skull. In the distance, against a chromium-tinted horizon of bronze to grey-blue, is a mountain.
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Tonight I'm watching "Taxi Driver" (1976).
Movie poster for Taxi Driver. A dark NYC street. A yellow cab. A man in a jacket, jeans and collared shirt is standing pensively. The words TAXI DRIVER appear in red stencilled font against a yellow background.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Tonight I'm Watching "The Man from Earth" (2007).
Movie poster. Silhouette of a figure standing on the rim of a planet. They are lit from behind by brilliant light bursting out from a star-studded sky.
November 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Tonight I am watching "Tower of Screaming Virgins" (1968), via @cultpix.bsky.social 😱👀
Movie poster. A busty red-haired woman in blue period dress is sitting. Over her left shoulder, a nearly-naked blonde woman covers herself in green cloth. Behind them: a table laid out as though for a feast and two men dueling in the distance--one shirtless, the other armed with a thin sword.
November 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Shout out to the scientists warning us that someday the universe will end.
News headline: The Universe "will end in a big crunch," physicist warns. Beneath a picture of asteroids in space exploding outwards from a point of bright light.
October 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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"Pray she, who you fear and desire, does not appear before you."

I watched Tragic Jungle the other night and really liked it.
Cover image for "Tragic Jungle". Three faces against a backdrop of leafy green jungle plants. At the top a woman is looking thoughtfully. Below her a man has an expression of fear or uncertainty. Finally a man in a broad-rimmed white hat. His eyebrows are turned downwards in an expression of menace.
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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U.S. Naval Update Map: Oct. 9, 2025

(via Stratfor)
World map centered on North America that shows the locations of U.S. Navy ships. Many of these dots are located off the North American coasts on both side of the country.
October 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Gorns against Facism
Classic Star Trek character Gorn, a green lizard man wearing gauntlets and and a tunic. he is standing in the desert. He is ready to fight for his right to party.
October 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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From a catalog called "Gifts of Treasure", 1924.
Bakelite Color Chart, showing "Bakelite Pearl Colors" (pink, yellow, pale pink, green, white and purple) and "New Bakelite Jewel Quality Colors" (various yellows, ambers, red, greens, orange, mottled).
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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South Australian culinary icon, "Barnacle Bill".
SImple cartoon drawn in yellow and blue. A moustached ship captain, wearing a stripy shirt and captain's hat, is holding the wheel of a ship with one hand and a smiling fish with the other. It is the logo of "Barnacle Bill", an iconic South Australian restaurant chain.
October 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Today marks the anniversary of the Sudden Departure. But we're still here. ❤️
White poster. Crisp serif font reads: WE ARE LIVING REMINDERS. Beneath that: Guilty Remnant
October 14, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Palm trees? You want PALM TREES? Oh, we got palm trees.

This is the Al-Ahsa Oasis in Saudi Arabia.

Photograph by Ali Lajami.
Photograph of a dense grove of palm trees. The palm trees sport lush green foliage, spiked leaves arching out to touch the tips of the trees adjacent. The sky above is vast and blue.
October 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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"Amplituhedron"
a strange pointed geometry with each facet a different color - clockwise, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink
October 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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"Wicked!" is my favourite Jilly Cooper book. 🙆
Cover of a Jilly Cooper novel. Beneath her name is an illustration of an apple in front of a chalkboard. A pair of horns have been drawn on the board so that it looks like the apple has demon horns. Kylie <3 Rupert is also written. Beneath, the title: "Wicked!" and subtitle: a tale of two schools.
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Cover for a pornographic film entitled "Who's Nailin' Paylin?". It is (was) AVAILABLE NOV 4TH. A woman wearing glasses and a blue top stands behind a row of microphones as though about to give a press conference. The cover is an crowded offense on the eyes, in the manner of an early internet era pop-up ad. THIS IS A PARODY.
September 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Please tell me these are related. 🙏
Screenshot of a news headline. There is an image of a fluffy bat hanging upside down from a tree branch. Beneath it is a headline that reads: "Drunk bats and garlic-flavoured breast milk honored at Ig Nobels"
September 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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The truck, though large, becomes so small.

Aurora over TREKOLs. Egvekinot. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Russia

Photograph: Ted.ns 🙏
Photograph. It appears to be night. A vast plain of flat, tightly packed ice and snow extends to to the horizon. A green aurora stripes across the sky in three distinct bands. Beyond the aurora the sky is full of stars. A truck, large and yet viewed from such a distance looks small and soinsignificant. The lights of the truck are ablaze with thick spotlights shining out onto the ice, creating a small pool of light around it.
September 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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"In the Guatemalan city of Chichicastenango, churches are also used by the Maya people to celebrate their own rituals, including giving sacrifices to their gods."

Photo: Ralf Steinberger
Photograph inside a small stone shrine. Against the far wall is a statue of the crucified Jesus. Flowers are scattered around the altar. Nearby a stone surface is covered in lit candles and colourful, scattered flowers.
September 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Text: I'm more alive than ever!
September 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Tag yourself
Promotional picture of Melrose Place Season 4 cast. From right to left. Jo Reynolds (Daphne Zuniga), Matt Fielding (Doug Savant), Jane Mancini (Josie Bissett), Brooke Armstrong (Kristen Davis), Kyle McBride (Rob Estes), Billy Campbell (Andrew Shue), Alison Parker (Courtney Thorne-Smith), Michael Mancini (Thomas Calabro), Sydney Andrews (Laura Leighton), Jake Hanson (Grant Snow), Amanda Woodward (Heather Locklear), Peter Burns (Jack Wagner), Kimberly Shaw (Marcia Cross).
August 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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sometimes the comedic genius vanish from me and i am merely a sad small man sat on a blue couch
August 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Swinside (Sunkenkirk) Circle in Cumbria. _At least_ 2,000 years old.

Photo: Michal Gregor
Photograph showing an ancient stone circle sunken into green grass. Low, rolling hills rise in the distance. Sheep and horses stand a distance away.
August 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Cool, I'll definitely be alive to see it then.
Artists impression of a black hole surrounded by the swirling galaxy it is consuming.
August 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Screenshot of of Charlie from Lost, underwater, holding his palm to a porthole. There is hastily scrawled writing on his hand, but instead of "NOT PENNY’S BOAT" it says "NOT THESEUS’ BOAT".
August 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM