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Seth Rubin

@setherubin.bsky.social

editorial lead at jackbox games. words in the new yorker, the onion, mcsweeney’s, reductress, etc. assigned transsexual at birth

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garlic knots are a great way for beginners to ease into eating pizza

26.05.2025 19:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

but “warm bear, amanda lehr” sounds like a delightful children’s book

05.05.2025 01:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

let the children slide!!!

22.04.2025 22:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A logo of Trivia Murder Party 3, where "Murder" is written in a red, running liquid, and the "3" is a lit marshmallow on a stick.

A logo of Trivia Murder Party 3, where "Murder" is written in a red, running liquid, and the "3" is a lit marshmallow on a stick.

Pack your bags because an all-new Trivia Murder Party is on its way!

Get ready for our next killer standalone title featuring online matchmaking, as well as classic local play! 🏕️

Learn more about it in the Jackbox Direct!
🔗 jbgm.es/4ji2oih

(Logo not final.)

07.04.2025 23:41 — 👍 79    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 7

(post-apocalypse dystopia where people who still know how to read are called wordwakers)

Warlord: What does this one say, wordwaker?

Me: Campbell’s chunky beef & vegetable

16.02.2025 15:40 — 👍 1906    🔁 271    💬 32    📌 4

it’s so thin and gray and deeply unnatural!!!

03.04.2025 12:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A Newsletter of Humorous Writing #384 For March 12-18, 2025 Hello and welcome to A Newsletter of Humorous Writing, a roundup of the week's finest short humor pieces and funny articles, and a...

In this week’s newsletter, @lukevburns.bsky.social and I shared some funny writing by Mark Cowling,
Seth Rubin, Maitreyi Anantharaman & @seanmcgowan.bsky.social in @pointsincase.com @mcsweeneys.net & @defector.bsky.social!

Read and subscribe here!

21.03.2025 19:28 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

my mark wahlberg piece got posted while i was recovering from having my titties scooped out of my chest and thrown in the trash. i have never felt more Masculine

18.03.2025 16:16 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Various Ways How I, a Gay Man, Use the Word “Mama” “We’re OK, Mama” When I’ve had great banter with the server the whole night, and she comes up to us to ask if there’s anything else we need before ...

Lady Gaga is back with a banger and I am back on @mcsweeneys.net mama!!! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/var...

06.02.2025 23:05 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 0
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The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

04.02.2025 22:43 — 👍 44094    🔁 11268    💬 905    📌 929
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An Oral History of the Kidz Bop Cover of John Cage’s 4′33″ Part One: The Kidz Dana Wilkinson, Kidz Bop Producer: People don’t remember this, but there was a draft in the early 2000s. We’d show up at some th...

"Cage wanted you to listen to the sounds you usually ignore. Like people breathing and birds chirping. I wasn’t all that excited about it, but they told us if we didn’t do what they said, they’d sell us to Randy Quaid, and he’d hunt us for sport."

31.01.2025 16:19 — 👍 135    🔁 38    💬 0    📌 10

an instant classic

31.01.2025 16:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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An Oral History of the Kidz Bop Cover of John Cage’s 4’33” Part One: The Kidz Dana Wilkinson, Kidz Bop Producer: People don’t remember this, but there was a draft in the early 2000s. We’d show up at some th...

got a new piece in mcsweeney’s today. john cage’s ghost told me he liked it more than he was expecting to

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

31.01.2025 16:02 — 👍 31    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2

you can pass whatever legislation you want, i will remain a perverted little gender freak until the day i die and i will spend the rest of my life telling kids how cool it is to be trans because it rules. thank you

20.01.2025 15:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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my 10 favorite movies of 2024 Please note that this is called “My 10 Favorite Movies of 2024” and not “The 10 Best Movies of 2024.” Why is that, celebrated pedant Seth Rubin?

i wrote about my ten favorite movies of the year and you can read it if you want!

sethrubin.substack.com/p/my-10-favo...

12.01.2025 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

with your swagger
and your bearing
and the just right clothes you’re wearing
and your thieves, oh ohh
your den of thieves

11.01.2025 23:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Newsletter of Humorous Writing by Luke Burns & James Folta A weekly newsletter dedicated to humorous writing and humorous writers. We round up the best short humor pieces and funny articles every week, and have some fun extras ever...

In this week's newsletter, @jamesfolta.com and I collect great writing by Talib Babb, Grace Fetterman, @setherubin.bsky.social, and @ginnyhogan.bsky.social & @lpevs.bsky.social.

Plus, @markpaglia.bsky.social's latest solo RPG & my upcoming workshops.

Check it out & subscribe here ⬇️

10.01.2025 16:58 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2

if the rapture happened on a southwest flight nothing would happen. every soul would make it to miami

08.01.2025 01:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

back in mcsweeney’s today. i am deeply sorry to all french people

06.01.2025 16:49 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m a Hairy and Disaffected Accountant Competing on the Popular Mid-2000s TV Game Show Wipeout My name: Burnt Pepperidge. My profession: winning. I stand at the starting line and survey the obstacle course like a snake surveys a nest of bird ...

Here, standing at the top of the course with manliness and anticipation, I feel reverent and erect.

I am full of pain and light. I am full of adrenaline and testosterone, chlorine and spit.

Buzz. The Buzzer sounds.

It is time.

04.01.2025 15:00 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

i can’t wait for juror #2 2

29.12.2024 00:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

and, unfortunately, sour cream

24.12.2024 21:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i am going to serve cunt on hanukkah

24.12.2024 21:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

how long does it take you guys to shuck your gelt

21.12.2024 23:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

SAM SPADE (holding a gun on Peter Lorre): Giddyup, Jingle Horse. Kick up those feet.

16.12.2024 18:58 — 👍 230    🔁 38    💬 4    📌 3

During the Great Depression, FDR calmed a shaken nation's nerves with his Far Side chats where he would use the radio to describe the most recent Far Side comic.

15.12.2024 01:21 — 👍 991    🔁 147    💬 28    📌 9

why is survivor trying to recruit players with the feverish intensity of a post-9/11 u.s. military???

06.12.2024 03:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

microwaved a plate of thanksgiving leftovers and it is truly a groundbreaking exploration of all the different temperatures food can be

30.11.2024 23:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

top surgery consult included multiple specific warnings about not playing roller derby after surgery. gotta say they know their audience

25.11.2024 14:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

sure, sex is great. but has anyone seen my car keys?

24.11.2024 23:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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