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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 27m

Jesus, I must’ve nuked that from my memory.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 2h

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

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Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 37m

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Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · May 30

More from Barria. It says something about the monstrous absurdity of the era that some of the finest editorial cartooning was by a Reuters photographer.

Reuters photo of Trump’s head amidst a bunch of pumpkins.

Famous Reuters photo by Carlos Barria of Trump in the cab of a truck, screaming.

Even more famous photo by Carlos Barria. Trump shouting at a kid mowing the white house lawn.

Trump looks utterly unmanned as Melania makes goo goo eyes at Trudeau.

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Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1h

Carlos Barria took just about every great photo of the first Trump administration. He’s in Portland right now documenting what’s actually going on.

Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 1d

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands infront of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 37m

The SUV skin?

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 48m

oh shit I just realized that means we’re probably getting a Mystery Machine skin, which is great since Fortnite is dying for good SUV skins

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 52m

That said, interesting to see the new Fortnitemares season (the start of which got delayed to make room for KDH week) offering up Scooby Doo skins that seem slightly influenced by that much-loathed recent Mindy Kaling Scooby ‘toon (also, Scooby is just going to be a guy with a Scooby head + paws?)

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 55m

I’m gonna miss this week where Fortnite turned itself into a KPop Demon Hunters game - it’s rare to see such a huge game bend over backwards to serve an even bigger fad, and it was fun seeing a million people (a lot of them presumably playing Fortnite for the first time) dressed like the KDH crew.

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 1h

Hey so if someone could make a Don't Tread on Me flag but with the Portland frog, I'd appreciate it

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 2h

Still one the show’s all-time funniest physical gags (right down to the sound Homer makes when bouncing back in, to the timing of the smoke wafting up right after, to Flanders’ resigned sigh and his Olympic-caliber dive to the mattress)

On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 2h

33 years ago today, Flanders saved Homer from a house fire. "Homer the Heretic," first aired October 8, 1992.

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 2h

A shower curtain that is a screenshot of Ocarina of Time where the text “Water Temple” is on the screen, hung up over a shower.

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, I’ve never heard of a game cancellation being worded so weirdly as Bioshock 4 being canceled because of some executive’s issues with the story.

Not that the story was bad or that the gameplay was running into problems, just that some suit took umbrage with what the game was *about*.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 4h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 4h

"Some House Democrats have a new worry as concerns about lawmakers’ safety continue: That they won’t be able to rely on local law enforcement for help if they need it." -- welcome to the world everyone else lives in

Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 4h

You've probably got at least one studio exec that a President Trump stand-in could be a hero secretly working with the X-Men and that maybe Wolverine should be helping ICE root out mutants flooding the country from Mexico.

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 4h

I'm FASCINATED to know what the talks are like right now at Disney about trying to create ANY big-screen version of the X-Men that challenges authority, xenophobia and racism in any meaningful way.

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 5h

Fucking cowards.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 5h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 5h

[theoden voice] where is the wife and the girlfriend
and the twink that was blowing
where is the poly tgirl
and the lube that was flowing
they have passed like rain on the mountain
like a wind in the meadow
the boners went down in the west
behind the hills into shadow

meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 5h

ongoing feud between two recurring lord of the rings themed swinger events in the same town

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 5h

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Mike Sterling, Comics Guy @mikester.bsky.social · 5h

At the old shop, decades back, former coworker Rob and I got some Pop Rocks from the convenience store down the road and washed them down with Coke as an experiment. AND YET WE LIVED (if you can call this living)

Lamont Price @lpizzle.bsky.social · 1d

Social media has destroyed the urban legend. If social media was around in the 80s Mikey from The Life Cereal commercials would've hopped on here like "Fuck y'all talkin' bout? I'm right here!" and then got endorsement deals from Coke AND Pop Rocks

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 6h

(I’ll never get over my parents discovering a musket made in Wheeling, Virginia in my great-grandmother’s closet.)

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 6h

At least as someone from Pittsburgh, this seems about right to me. You’ve got that empty Ohio weirdness as soon as you start traveling west, stank-ass West Virginny weirdness as soon as you start traveling south, and Appalachian farmland, low rolling mountains and vast forests as you go east.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 6h

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 7h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Drew "I never drink..." Weing @drewweing.bsky.social · 6h

We're in the midst of the biggest push for total oligarch takeover in living memory. They're just going for it on every level.

Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 11h

There are no national newspapers or broadcast networks doing straight journalism anymore

The Washington Post & CBS News are now pure billionaire propaganda, and everyone else is sliding down that path

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 6h

This right here is Trump's ultimate goal: staying in power

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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