So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?
05.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 4330 🔁 1722 💬 35 📌 13@unlox.bsky.social
“From the number of imaginable cities we must exclude those whose elements are assembled without a connecting thread, an inner rule, a perspective, a discourse.” -Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (transl. William Weaver) header by MV, quoting Waikiki Wanda
So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?
05.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 4330 🔁 1722 💬 35 📌 13one thing’s for sure: Joe Biden never made himself available to the press like this. we really should’ve covered that more
05.08.2025 16:13 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Washington AG Nick Brown, had a decent run in the second season
05.08.2025 15:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 075° and overcast, I’d be on the roof too if I had roof access
05.08.2025 15:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0watching an Arthur Smith offense on third down
05.08.2025 15:12 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0student loans (severely derogatory)
05.08.2025 15:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0he’s just playing songs from Evita in his head
05.08.2025 15:01 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0senators two days before Trump announces the members of his sports council:
05.08.2025 04:52 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0this is the “dog heaven” skit from Nathan For You
05.08.2025 04:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0might’ve won that congressional election, impossible to say
05.08.2025 03:42 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0looking back on some old posts, being shocked to see that this was what passed for us being incomprehensible not even a year ago
05.08.2025 03:24 — 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0thought the Jalen and AJ were Hurts/Brown and we’d found the Eagles WOM
05.08.2025 03:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0sprawled-out jones
it continues to monday
17.06.2025 00:32 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0the news stories about people going “I’m doing worse off but it seems like everything around me is going pretty well” will probably kill me
05.08.2025 02:56 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“They can't afford to open a new wing of their business like so. So I think that there is just sort of a fundamental cost of living, middle class issue out there” how much money does it take to get Sen. Slotkin to listen to you, good grief
05.08.2025 01:22 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0small town is when the largest sporting venue within town limits has 1500 seats or fewer
05.08.2025 00:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0unfathomable to me to be doing this kind of crybully discourse nonsense in defense of *homestar runner* of all things. screaming in a stranger’s replies that you’re doing unacceptable harm by not laughing at “hewwo stwong bad”
05.08.2025 00:18 — 👍 30 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0this all sounds like stuff Calvin’s dad says about Hobbes to explain why they can’t get a dog
05.08.2025 00:00 — 👍 73 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0yeah any time you have a consumer spending line go way down it means you’re in for a good time
04.08.2025 23:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Flirting vs. Harassment” meme where they’re both saying “Throw trans people under the bus” but the “awww, you’re sweet” one is Sherrod Brown and the “hello, Human Resources?” one is Colin Allred
seeing some reactions to senate candidate news
04.08.2025 23:06 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0this premise but from Verso and I’d probably buy it tbh
04.08.2025 21:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’ve seen this movie, the “aliens” are mutated humans
04.08.2025 21:08 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0this, too, is gender
04.08.2025 20:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0DONALD TRUMP: And you know what asylum means, right? Hannibal Lecter! The late great Hannibal Lecter. He wants to have you for dinner, oh yes
HANNIBAL LECTER [per 50% of respondents]: so true bestie
1 in 13 think Liz Lemon is a Trump voter, and they’re all on bluesky
04.08.2025 20:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Biff Tannen is literally Donald Trump and you still have 18% of respondents clocking him as a Harris voter. Are people just clicking buttons on these little surveys
04.08.2025 20:04 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0who’s the classic private eye / that 3 in 10 think Trump’s his guy / (Shaft!) / you’re somehow right
04.08.2025 19:55 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 0“Here's a ticking clock of the Sydney Sweeney jeans panic” here’s a torch, Hannibal, Rome ain’t gonna burn itself
04.08.2025 18:33 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yeah I’m making fun of booktok discourse, I do not sincerely believe this
04.08.2025 18:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0