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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 19h

This made me laugh so hard I had to turn off my camera in a Zoom meeting

A tweet by Thomas White reading

Republicans: We need another civil war right now.
Democrats: Girl you gotta VOTE for it then
Nelly if he was a bullfrog: If you wanna come and eat a fly with me, swim around in the pond when we're frisky, oh why do I love this lake (Hey!
Bugs in my tummy!)

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Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 19h

Somebody show Herzog the Island Deathmatch, I think he'd be into it.

Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 20h

Werner Herzog should do professional wrestling color commentary

Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 1d

We always are

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Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 1d

What if the Tyson Chandler to OKC trade doesn't get voided?

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Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 1d

This but with the display of Sheetz caffeinated breath strips that we sold zero packs of at the bookstore. I had two and thought I was going to die.

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

One time when I was really broke and worked at Gawker someone left a bunch of caffeinated drink tablets they got in a promo thing on the table and I took like half a dozen tubes home and was strung out for a week.

Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 1d

Get a job, loser

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Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 3d

Things from Live From New York that I think about constantly, ranked:
1) Bill Murray calling Chevy Chase a 'medium talent'
2) William Holden Drinking Helmet
3) Al Franken pranking his family by pretending to kill his baby

Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 3d

This is the second best work of art inspired by William Holden's death. The first is the "William Holden Drinking Helmet" sketch Tim Kazurinsky continually pitched that Lorne Michaels refused to air.

Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 3d

two things about Tom's Diner:

1) the original (with just Susanne Vega) is CRYING OUT for the beat DNA added - it just stops in silence for a few seconds without it and you feel its absence deeply.

2) you can use the lyrics and a newspaper deep dive to determine the exact day it was written :0

"Tom's Diner Day": The date of the composition
An article on Suzanne Vega's official website[7][8] uses clues in the song to determine the exact date that Vega wrote it.

Vega said that she wrote the song in 1982; Brian Rose has said that it was written sometime between mid-1981 and mid-1982. The lyrics refer to a rainy morning, when she was at the diner on the corner, reading in her newspaper of "a story of an actor / who had died while he was drinking", and afterwards "turning to the horoscope / and looking for the funnies". Only two newspapers in New York City carried comic strips, or "funnies", in 1981 and 1982, and only one, the New York Post, featured a front-page story of the death of Oscar-winning actor William Holden, whose body was discovered on Monday, November 16, 1981. In a 2008 essay for The New York Times, Vega confirmed that Holden was the actor whose death she had read about and inspired the line in the song.[5]

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Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 3d

They're trying to make Rush look even cooler in comparison

Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 3d

El Mariachi drawn out of retirement to get vengeance on a figure from his past basically writes itself

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · May 16

An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows:

Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A!
I ate a hamburger and said hooray!
Maybe it will happen today!

The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background.

You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.

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Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 5d

Absurd creature

A grey tabby cat lying on a red blanket. He has his paw wrapped around a person’s hand

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Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 5d

The Dirk Variations

John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 5d

Speed-the-Yao

Damon Agnos @damonagnos.bsky.social · 6d

Glengarry Glen Rice

Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 6d

Yes! Yes!

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Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 7d

Nick Comoroto

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Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 7d

Slater/Regal is, unsurprisingly, a really fun tag team they should have put on TV. 🤼

Lord Steven Regal & Dick Slater vs Sting & "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith

YouTube video by Double Cross Ranch

www.youtube.com

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Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 8d

New York's fourth-highest-rated Kid Rock impersonator is taking a stand

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 8d

Crypto billionaire Brock Pierce, speaking at Fraunces Tavern in downtown Manhattan alongside Rev. Al Cockfield, says he's launching the "draft Eric back campaign" to try to get Eric Adams back in the mayoral race.

More about it here: www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/30/b...

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Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 8d

Ronny Jackson hooking all of his friends up with perc scrips

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Ben Puntch @puntchy.bsky.social · 8d

That's some quality clubbering

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respectful huff @alexqarbuckle.bsky.social · 9d

I'm so old, the last time I was in Riyadh fucking Dahham ibn Dawwas was my chieftain!