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Feral BOO!macker 🦇
@waybackgen.bsky.social
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Certified Genealogist, children's television writer, and owner of We Go Way Back®. Love the Cubs, native plants/gardening, and books.
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Clouds
A layer of puffy clouds textured a bit like bubble wrap behind a tree with no leaves.
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Very excited to read the book version of one of my favorite, incredibly niche memes.
Iraq and the US Department of Justice ask "um... whatcha got there?" A guy with the words Hobby Lobby is holding an extra large cup with a straw next to an ostrich. Over the ostrich it says "hundreds of ancient cuneiform tablets stolen from Iraq between 2009 and 2017 and illegally smuggled into America for display in an evangelical Bible museum run by Hobby Lobby's owners." The guy responds, "a smoothie."
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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The hole just kept on growing
A plumber on a ladder widening a hole in the wall of my old bathroom near the ceiling. The hole is about the size of a basketball. All of the drywall in the bathroom has been demolished, exposing the lathe interior of the wall and half the ceiling.
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Meme from Apocalypse Now "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" changed to "I love the smell of onions and mustard in the morning."
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I am begging one of the many journalists on here to do an in-depth investigative report on how this Star Trek-themed government pamphlet starring Patty Duke and @georgetakei.bsky.social came to exist.
A genuine pamphlet from my local Social Security Administration office circa 2015 reads: "BOLDLY GO to www.socialsecurity.gov". Underneath, Patty Duke and George Takei are dressed in Star Trek costumes in front of a starry sky, with the moon and the seal of the SSA underneath.
October 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
The Muppets peering in from the roof as they break into the Mallory Gallery in The Great Muppet Caper.
October 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Or My Little Pony! Saved this amazing story from Twitter ages ago:
Screenshot from Twitter. Aidan O'Brien wrote: I spent a year working on a "my little pony" animated feature, it had the most insane OPSEC/cybersecurity protocols of any feature film I have ever worked on, and when I inquired as to why, the head of IT responded, "Fucking Bronies." [Continued in next tweet] We did a cyber security training season which emphasized the "No camera phones in work" rule. Apparently some accountant in Atlanta once insta'd her lunch at her desk, there was a post it note on her desktop with her password and that's how 2 series of "friendship is magic" was leaked online.
October 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Me right now #Cubs
Meme of Rachel from The Amazing Race crying and saying "The Amazing Race is supposed to be fun and good!" but the quote is changed to "Baseball is supposed to be fun and good!"
October 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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They were on a bus? Was this the person?
Katie Marovich dressed as an elf for the Dropout parody video "Dimension 20: On a Bus."
October 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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I am loving these adorable diagrams showing scale on the Wikipedia pages for whales
A line drawing of a whale with dramatically downturned mouth, so much that it looks almost comically grumpy, with a silhouette of a diver floating next to its tail. A line drawing of a narwhal with a wee smile, trailed by a silhouette of a diver.
September 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Oh yes, this will definitely work.
Photo of Paul Rudd from 6 months or 30 years ago.
September 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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"Bedroom and bathroom count is approximate" is a new one 😳
Screenshot of real estate listing. Under "About This Home," it reads: "Fantastic opportunity in sought after [redacted] neighborhood! SOLD AS IS, SIGHT UNSEEN. DO NOT DISTURB OCCUPANTS. BEDROOM AND BATHROOM COUNT IS APPROXIMATE. BUYER WILL HAVE NO ACCESS. ALL OFFERS ARE TO BE MADE THROUGH SERVICELINK AUCTION AND SUBJECT TO AUCTION TERMS. OCCUPANTS SHOULD NOT BE CONTACTED. ROOM COUNT AND SIZES UNKNOWN. SELLER AND LISTING BROKER HAVE NOT BEEN INSIDE THE HOME."
September 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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My green light really is the perfect backdrop for an imaginary horror book cover.
An upside-down hand with an open palm bathed in eerie green light. In the style of a book cover, blue text reads "The Spore: A Novel by Colin Craven."
September 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Hanif Abdurraqib loves his Large Basket Son!!!
Screenshot from Old Twitter. Naqiy Mcmullen tweeted four pictures of oversized roadside attractions (the basket building, a huge rocking chair, a huge milk bottle, a teapot-shaped building) and wrote, "Every city should have a comically oversized ordinary object as a tourist attraction." Hanif Abdurraqib quote-tweeted it and wrote, "I love my Large Basket Son. I once took someone to see the Large Basket, it was a brief detour during a date, and she called the basket 'grotesque' and 'terrifying' and I had to stop myself from being like HEY don't talk about the basket like that and if you must, please don't do it in front of me."
September 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Ok but technically you can already do that, AND without buying a house where the garage is slowly being folded in half.
A white detached garage where it looks like someone has lightly done the HGTV throw pillow karate chop to the roof.
August 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Calling all multitaskers! Have you ever found yourself wishing you could do your laundry and sh
A photo from a real estate listing of an unfinished basement laundry setup, except there's a whole ass toilet sitting one foot to the right of the dryer.
August 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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From now on, just call me
MS NOW
August 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I started making little collages of book covers that I see and think are pretty. Has anyone else done this? #booksky 💙📚
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger, featuring a painting of a blue and green landscape with a tiny sailboat and a large bonfire off to the side; 33 Place Brugman by Alice Austen, featuring a four-story apartment building plus an attic, something between a 3D animated picture and a child's drawing in its simplicity; You Are Here by David Nicholls, a very simple line drawing of two people walking in what looks like an English or Scottish country landscape, where only the land is colored in green; and If We're Being Honest by Cat Shook, an illustration of a suburban residential intersection with colorful front gardens.
July 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Tree law? Tree law!
A comic drawn by u/reachling. Pane 1: A guy stands over a tree stump in a clearing, looking distraught. "Oh no! The rare cherry tree grandma brought with her from the old country! It's been chopped down! And only a week after my neighbor complained about it blocking his view, too." Pane 2: A voice floats above a nearby hedge. "Tree law?" It says. Pane 3: A bald man with a beard wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase pops out from behind a fence and says, "Tree law?" Pane 4: A man in sunglasses pops out of a bush. "Tree law?!" Pane 5: a woman fully crawls out of the ground from underneath the stump. "Tree law!!!" Pane 6: a crowd of people, clearly lawyers, carry the original guy (Looking bemused) out on their shoulders. They are armed with torches and pitchforks, money raining down from the sky, chanting, "TREE LAW! TREE! LAW! TREE! LAW!!"
July 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Truly cannot decide if this is the best name or the worst name in the MLB draft.
Cannon Peebles. Yeah, you read that right.
July 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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A novel about the Prohibition-era Jewish mafia is so up my alley, even before adding in the genealogy angle or the Chicago setting, that I broke my "always get it from the library first" rule and pre-ordered the audiobook!

Kaplan's Plot by @jasondiamond.bsky.social comes out in September 💙📚
Screenshot of the Libro.fm app page for "Kaplan's Plot: A Novel" by Jason Diamond, with a notice at the bottom that says "Audiobook pre-ordered."
July 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Nothing like some competitive corn hole to pass the time before the All Star Game announcements.
Photo of the television showing two people decked out in Busch's Baked Beans-sponsored attire holding bean bags and looking concernedly at a wooden corn hole some feet away.
July 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Ope, looks like nobody told this guy.
Screenshot of trade publication notice: "Associate publisher [name redacted] will leave publishing on August 22 and 'embrace a new life as a gentleman farmer.'"
July 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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SHHHHH BABY BUNNY IN THE BUSHES
An itty bitty bunny the literal size of your palm nestled in a patch of clover that comes up to its ears. The bunny, unbothered and in dappled shade, eats the clover, a long piece sticking out of its mouth.
June 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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The peony CSA was a good idea 🌱
A bouquet of white, hot pink, and wine red peonies that are each as big as a grapefruit.
June 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM