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S.A. Small
@slysmall.bsky.social
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Mixed-up sociologist in a world he has only a minor role in reconstituting. Retired Jeopardy champ w/ a PhD and anxiety; does not suffer fools gladly. Mostly proud USC alum and embittered C*l alum. The Bay over everywhere. [he/him] ✌🏽
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A stoic mugshot of 51-year-old Mel Gibson after an arrest for misdemeanor battery in 2011. Per People magazine: "Gibson pleaded no contest on March 11 to allegedly hitting his ex girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva and was sentenced to three years probation and counseling."
February 11, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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An iteration of the Trade Offer meme (wherein the smug-looking, suit-wearing white man with dark, shoulder-length hair and closely-cropped facial hair steeples his hands beneath a banner reading "TRADE OFFER" and text in two columns): 1. I receive -- "it doesn't matter, just take the couchf**king son of a b**ch off my hands" 2. You receive -- JD Vance, five 1st round picks, a family member to be named later
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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And I, for one, welcome our new chitinous overlords!
Screenshot of an quote-repost-disabled skeet by @psychicozma.bsky.social yesterday: "I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town." And sure enough, there is a photo looking out onto a sunny from the dashboard, with a positioned so that it seemingly looms over passing cars. A still frame from Simpsons episode "Deep Space Homer" of news anchor Kent Brockman having a moment. Next to him (in-broadcast) is an image of a giant anthropomorphized ant flogging a helpless human. "Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- conquered, if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive Earthmen or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords! I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."
February 10, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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𝘐𝘯 𝘳𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘷. 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴—
February 9, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Still frame from the Simpsons episode "Brother from the Same Planet": a woman in business attire holds a notepad with a form labeled "Reasons" in one hand -- with spite, malice, revenge, boredom, and profit as the options -- and a pen in the other, having just checked the box next to revenge. (Partially obscured by the pad is the figure of Homer Simpson and the reversed logo of the Bigger Brothers Agency in a window.) Still frame from the Simpsons episode "Brother from the Same Planet": the same woman in the other image is reaching across her desk and shaking the hand of Homer Simpson; they both smile warmly.
February 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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An evil animated version of Jack Frost, the personification of winter, peeks out from behind an ice-covered tree. Also, he's wearing a Patriots AFC Champions hat. (From "Frosty's Winter Wonderland"; just imagine an elf from a department store Christmas display, but whose clothes are all in various shades of blue.)
January 26, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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Congrats to Winter on winning the AFC Championship.
An evil animated version of Jack Frost, the personification of winter, peeks out from behind an ice-covered tree. (From "Frosty's Winter Wonderland"; just imagine an elf from a department store Christmas display, but whose clothes are all in various shades of blue.)
January 26, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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(Dr. Walsh has made spectacular contributions to that discourse on The Other Site, in fact.)
Screenshot of Twitter post from David Austin Walsh (@DavidAustinWalsh) on May 25, 2024: "But I'm 35 years old, I'm 4+ years post-PhD, and -- quite frankly -- I'm also a white dude. Combine those factors together and I'm for all intents and purposes unemployable as a 20th-century American historian." Screenshot of *another* Twitter post from David Austin Walsh (@DavidAustinWalsh) on May 25, 2024: "See when I'm finally ready to pull the plug on my academic career once and for all I'll do a thread about every job I've ever applied for and discuss in detail why I would have been a better choice than the person they ended up hiring." Screenshot of three successive Twitter posts from David Austin Walsh (@DavidAustinWalsh) on May 27, 2024, which combined read as follows: "I want to apologize for... that thread, which was a bad idea and came form a place of pain, anger, and frustration. It was fundamentally a breach of solidarity on my part. We all know that history in particular -- and the humanities in general -- are dying. We all know that the university itself is a profoundly unequal and unfair institution -- and we had an object reminder of that with the brutal suppression of the campus protests over the past month. We all know that the academy is random, cruel, and chaotic and we all know the reasons why: austerity, corporatization, RW assaults on higher education."
January 14, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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As per usual, Wanda Sykes is a national treasure.
January 12, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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You can keep talking if you want, buddy. It's just that
January 10, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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Per @espn.com, Mark Davis has a "youthful haircut." In fairness to them, 'youthful' is indeed an adjective, but that phrasing is so charitable it might be tax deductible.
Screenshot of a recent ESPN.com article, including a photo of Tom Brady walking along a sideline with his arm around Raiders owner Mark Davis. The text of the article visible in the screenshot: "IN OCTOBER 2024, Davis held court in the lobby of The Whitley in Atlanta long after his fellow NFL owners fled the scene of the fall owners meeting. While his peers power walked with heads down to avoid eye contact with reporters on their way to their idling black SUVs with tinted windows, Davis welcomed reporters to gather around the couch where he sat. Davis, 70, usually looks boyish because of his youthful haircut, but on this night, he also sported childlike glee, and despite the Raiders' 2-4 record at that point in the season, he eagerly detailed his franchise's latest acquisition." A cropped close-up of the photo from the prior screenshot, where the viewer can more clearly see Mark Davis and his haircut. Imagine a bowl cut (with bangs!) where the unlucky barber/hairdresser kept shearing until Davis's hair looked like a reddish-blonde skullcap or durag.
January 7, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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Me, once my brain fully comprehended Desus's tweet:
January 6, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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My skull after an earnest attempt to make friends with AI:
January 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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December 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Edited version of the "Sickos" meme (from an Onion comic strip drawn by Stan Kelly), wherein a vaguely unkempt man with menacing eyebrows peers into a room (off-panel) from the outside with his hands pressed against the glass. On his shirt is the text label "ADAM SILVER" and above him is a speech bubble with the following: "Yes...Ha Ha Ha...YES!"
December 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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A picture of a crudely edited Bible verse, reading "Every weapon formed against CP3 shall prosper...Isiah 54:17" The words "every," "CP3," and "Isiah" (a cheeky reference by me to the unique spelling of a certain Hall of Fame Piston's given name) are in their own font (vaguely resembling chalk writing) to clearly indicate where my creative liberties (desecrations of Scripture) are.
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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A version of the Epic Handshake meme, where two individuals' overmuscled arms are joined in a handhold raised just above the shoulder level. The (Black?) bicep on the left is labeled "Jesus" and the other (probably Caucasian?) bicep is labeled "Watchmen" (in italicized font, naturally); the two joined hands are labeled as "having the worst and most functionally illiterate fans" Because too many people will loudly proclaim their affinity for reading the Gospel or Watchmen while simultaneously revealing how little they understood what they read.
October 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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A repurposed panel from the final issue of Marvel's "House of M." A wide panel, the left third is occupied by a closeup of l the Scarlet Witch's face in profile; the rest is negative space, save a single small speech bubble. Scarlet Witch's eyes are off-panel, but we see a tear streaking downward and pooling on her upper lip. The speech bubble, which originally said "No more mutants" now reads "No more podcasts."
April 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM