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sometimes facebook ads show me amazing things
A screenshot of a Facebook ad for Ebay, with a selection of real listings shown. The one visible in the screenshot is a vivid magenta hitch cover for trucks with a panel in the shape of a claymore mine's "Front Toward Enemy" plate
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Just one of many, many awful stories about how AI slop has been used as a truncheon to obliterate livelihoods
Excerpt from the linked piece. The highlighted section: "I did nothing to these people, but every day I have to see them gleefully cheer online about the anticipated death of my chosen profession. I had no idea we artists were so hated—I still don't know why. What did my silly little cat drawings do to earn so much contempt? That part is probably one of the hardest consequences of AI to come to terms with. It didn't just try to take my job (or succeed in making my job worse) it exposed a whole lot of people who hate me and everything I am for reasons I can't fathom. They want to exploit me and see me eradicated at the same time."
September 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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the duality of posts
a screenshot of my previous two posts. the earlier one is sincere and about my engagement. the second one just reads "a heartbreaking work of staggering beavis"
August 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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An excerpt from the article in the original post. It reads, "She jokes that she's had to start introducing him as her father in business meetings after people assumed they were married."
July 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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A screenshot from this guy's Wikipedia page. It reads "During a tour of England in October 2017, Scantlin apologized to the audience in Doncaster for his previous behaviour and admitted to struggling with addiction. He then announced his sobriety and began playing the song "Uh Oh", which he had written to address his problems."
July 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I love this thread! I don't have a photo of it on hand, but I own essentially this same Las Vegas 51s (now Las Vegas Aviators) hat somewhere:
A photo taken from a resale site of a baseball cap for the Las Vegas 51s, a minor league baseball team who now play as the Las Vegas Aviators. It is a blue ball cap featuring a silvery-grey depiction of a traditional bulbous-headed 'grey' alien's head, with stitches like a baseball on top, but in grey instead of red.
July 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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A picture of a golf club.
July 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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A meme from the Simpsons. In the first panel, Bart Simpson's whole class and teacher are looking at him. The caption reads, "Say the line, Umberto Eco". In the second panel, Bart sighs dejectedly as he gives in. In the third panel, the whole room cheers. The caption, Umberto Eco's quote, reads "By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."
June 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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speaking of albums that came out in 2003 and Look Like That
The cover art for David Bowie's 2003 album "Reality". It looks extremely like the work of a contemporary high schooler with a DeviantArt account getting drafted into making a flyer for their aunt's small business with the instructions "yeah you can make it arty, whatever"
June 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A meme template from The Simpsons, derived from the "say the line, Bart" scene. In the first panel, everyone in Bart's classroom is looking at him. The caption is "Say the line, Umberto Eco". In the second panel, Bart (Umberto Eco) sighs. In the third panel, everyone cheers as he says "By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."
February 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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A meme template from The Simpsons, derived from the "say the line, Bart" scene. In the first panel, everyone in Bart's classroom is looking at him. The caption is "Say the line, Umberto Eco". In the second panel, Bart (Umberto Eco) sighs. In the third panel, everyone cheers as he says "By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."
January 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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that being said: the entire time i was reading the next book in the series, "the flood circle", i had this picture in mind every time a certain character appeared
A photograph of Mark Zuckerberg wake boarding somewhere, with his face notoriously covered in sunscreen. I include this image because this is what I pictured in my head every time a specific character appeared in Harry Connolly's novel "The Flood Circle".
December 2, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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I saw this for sale ages ago and would have bought it if I didn't literally own too many mugs
A photo of a shelf of mugs for sale in a store. The mug that is the focus of the picture is a big yellow mug that reads, in black all-caps block text, "I am a ray of fucking sunshine"
November 14, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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what in the sam hill
A screenshot from a mobile browser of the web page blue.mackuba.eu/scanner , which contains a function that identifies which labels are associated with a given account. The text box is labeled on the left "Handle or URL:" and contains this user's handle. Next to that on the right is a button labeled "Search". Below is a tag icon and the words "2 labels found:". After that are two tags: "bluesky-elder" from the labeler Anti-Alf Aktion, and "jilted-sister-wife" from the labeler The Cave of Trophonius. This account neither identifies as nor joined early enough to be a so-called "Bluesky elder". The latter is a labeler that generates a random and sometimes ludicrous cause of death for all Bluesky users.
November 7, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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my little guy is almost 13 and hates brooms bc one leaning against the wall fell over at random when he was a puppy. pic for tax
A photo of my dog, an elderly but spry and vivacious black pug. In this shot, he is sitting on a sidewalk while wearing a blue and white harness and leash. I am holding a small piece of egg from a sandwich in the shot to get his attention
November 3, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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you have my attention
A screenshot from the New York Times article in the quoted skeet below, which is about the family that controls Boar's Head, the deli meat company currently embroiled in a massive food safety scandal involving neglect and misconduct. The screenshot shows a subheader from the article reading "The Jay Gatsby of the Meat Industry", followed by a photo of the Waldorf Astoria hotel's interior in Manhattan. The caption reads "The Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan, where the company celebrated its 100th anniversary." photo credit after the caption is given to Karsten Moran, working for the New York Times.
October 15, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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berry time
A screenshot from Spotify of the album Witchazel by Matt Berry. The first song on the album, "An Awakening", is currently playing.
October 12, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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same vibe
A photo of a cat that I'm pretty sure is @bo_mang_co on Instagram. They are being petted and making an extremely amusing smooshed, glowering face of displeasure
September 6, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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someone posting about voodoo ranger reminded me of this classic:
A screenshot of a tweet from user @nick_calico, screen name in the screenshot "Nick Gosling". The tweet reads: "me: (drunkenly throwing my arm around yodas neck) yknow you--your fuckin cool in my book, ya, ya lil green bastard yoda: (spilling voodoo ranger all over himself) good to drive i am,"
August 23, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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A screenshot of a tweet by the Twitter user @jakebrodes that reads "Hey man wanna grab lunch. We're going to this taco place called Floofys. All the tacos are like $9 and they suck dick. Theres a bunch of signs that say Be A Messy Bitch and Me Gusta Tequila. a racist gay couple from Vermont owns it. It used to be a womens shelter"
July 30, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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A photo of a moose making a particularly devious expression
July 21, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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A screenshot from a video of Elon Musk wearing a wide-brimmed hat the wrong way around on his drug-swollen gourd head, wearing reflective sunglasses (aviators I think) and making an expression (lips retracted, teeth slightly apart) that really helps animate what a tacky dipshit he is
July 18, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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what in god's name have zack and cody gotten themselves into this time
A screenshot from a Business Insider article. The headline is "I Stayed at a North Korean summer camp. We polished statues and played a game where we destroyed the White House." The article attribution says "As told to Joshua Zitser". It was published on July 3rd, 2024. It features a photo of a young white Russian man or boy in a white collared shirt with a red ascot or handkerchief tied around the collar with the knot in front. He is clearly neither Cole nor Dylan Sprouse, but looks just enough like them for me to make this very silly joke
July 5, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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i'm reminded of this classic:
A screenshot of a tweet. It is by the user Bakoon, dated Oct. 14, 2013. It reads: "ordered from same chinese delivery place for years. when i would call i would hear the lady whisper "its hot boy" because i liked it spicy"
June 16, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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meme point
A T shirt. The t-shirt is black, with a graphic in the style of the Black Flag logo, but instead the text reads "DEATH GRIPS", and instead of four white bars at different heights to one another, it is a photograph of the core cast of Seinfeld cropped to the same four-rectangle appearance
May 25, 2024 at 3:14 PM