Gary Trudeau’s art for Saranac LakeWinter Carnival featuring 8 masked Doonesbury style cartoons.
Ocean’s 8. Or Lake’s 8? Whatever.
24.02.2026 23:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@takes2makeugohmm.bsky.social
Things I learn after losing pub trivia.
Gary Trudeau’s art for Saranac LakeWinter Carnival featuring 8 masked Doonesbury style cartoons.
Ocean’s 8. Or Lake’s 8? Whatever.
24.02.2026 23:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A pop up museum of the Doonesbury cartoonist’s art is shown each year in his hometown during Saranac Lake Winter Carnival for which he provides original art. It’s next to an ice castle and firework display which exponentially increases the opportunities for hijinks.
saranaclakewintercarnival.com
Homer: “You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!”
It’s not the joke that best stands on its own but it sums up my favorite moment in the series: A brilliant mockery of advertising using over 20 gags in under 2 minutes.
Ideally I’d watch the SOTU with JB’s commentary but the actual speech is edited like a Tim and Eric sketch with bizarre non sequiturs cross faded over tuneless vapor wave.
24.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don’t understand the impulse of some people to gaze into the abyss and then think “people won‘t think the real abyss is enough. Time to grab my abyss-colored crayon.”
23.02.2026 16:27 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I do think a big reason tech CEOs also cooked their own minds on the AI chatbots they foist upon us is that having personalized automated yes-men to chop it up with doesn't diverge much from the environments they've cultivated where everyone they speak to's livelihoods depend on uncritical agreement
23.02.2026 16:07 — 👍 613 🔁 93 💬 9 📌 5That shoe got roughed up in an interrogation room by Batman.
21.02.2026 11:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What if the hosts are just quietly replaced with comedians who do a mean impression.
21.02.2026 11:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Or any person at all.
21.02.2026 02:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Armageddon in Armageddon was right. And they vilified him!
19.02.2026 23:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The UK needs every British character actor who has played a hard boiled detective to grill Andrew til he spills the beans on everyone else.
19.02.2026 12:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Getting reports that a gloved hand has risen from Queen Liz’s grave to do one of those weird little waves.
19.02.2026 12:45 — 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0Days after I saw the 1st Suicide Squad I was still thinking about how stupid this moment was.
19.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And the whole reason we watch movies is to see what new story a group of people created. If we didn’t care about the human handprints, we wouldn’t have awards, fans, celebs, criticism, etc.
19.02.2026 12:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0IDK how I remember this but they face swapped the stunt guy and Daniel Craig in Spectre’s motorcycle scene almost 15 years ago.
19.02.2026 12:23 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hey kid, stopping hitting yourself! With difficult books!
*Slaps Wind in the Willows out of the hands of a small child*
“People need a Tim in their life,” declares Tim Timmyson, CEO of Tims.”
18.02.2026 20:20 — 👍 132 🔁 8 💬 7 📌 1Wasn’t gonna get those glasses but damn Mark looks incredibly cool.
18.02.2026 13:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bullying should be reserved for billionaires. Unrelated, why does Mark look like a Goldeneye 64 character?
18.02.2026 13:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mi-cha-el Jor-dan? No!
16.02.2026 16:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Boreanaz kinda looks like they built a Chris Pratt in MineCraft (complimentary)
12.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lady Gaga starred in a Joker movie and then sang a song about it at the Super Bowl. If that’s not white culture…
11.02.2026 11:44 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The existence of Freedom Dollars implies that other forms of dollars undermine freedom. This is a psy op against capitalism. To quote Run the Jewels, “look at all these slave masters posing on your dollar.”
11.02.2026 11:32 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stories like these are why I was so appalled during the Biden administration to see “moderates” shrug off genocide like it’s some unwieldy highway project. People who claw at ”centrism” on genocide and fascism are the real extremists. They must be replaced.
10.02.2026 22:44 — 👍 70 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0My only neighbor who has a trump flag quietly swapped it out for a don’t tread on me flag. And I’ll take that as a win but… I’m not going to tread on you, bub cuz I try not to step in dogsh!t.
10.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The Minnesota protests reveal a large community willing to think outside of themselves. It would be helpful if the political consultant class could remember that a lot of people don’t want anyone of any identity to be treated inhumanely.
10.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0I hate that the fight against oppression even has to be sold as “this could even happen to you” instead of simply “this is already happening to someone somewhere.”
10.02.2026 13:47 — 👍 145 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 0In 2020, JLo performed a pole dance in direct reference to her sex work movie Hustlers. If we weren’t living in an era of overt xenophobia and racism, 2020‘s “normalize sex work” might be an even bolder take than 2026’s message of “I love my community.”
10.02.2026 12:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Playing doormat is not extremely reasonable.
10.02.2026 04:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0