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Author and occasional poster of funny things. www.tristanolsonbooks.com

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usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

10.08.2025 03:36 — 👍 10114    🔁 1990    💬 181    📌 87

today at the park we saw wild turkeys and some dude behind us was like “bro look at those owls” so what I’m saying is don’t ever let anyone make you feel stupid. you can visually identify a turkey

09.08.2025 23:09 — 👍 4701    🔁 517    💬 18    📌 57
 You’ve had success having a point of view on your show, as Colbert has, at least in the ratings. Late night used to be broad, unifying entertainment. I know Jay Leno recently spoke on this topic, about making a show for everyone …

I’m going to take a hard pass on taking comedic advice from Jay Leno.

You’ve had success having a point of view on your show, as Colbert has, at least in the ratings. Late night used to be broad, unifying entertainment. I know Jay Leno recently spoke on this topic, about making a show for everyone … I’m going to take a hard pass on taking comedic advice from Jay Leno.

John Oliver just says the thing. I'm happy for him.

08.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 6734    🔁 847    💬 2    📌 50

appropriate that the calvinists are now moving toward a vision of god as tyrannical leader of a cult of personality

09.08.2025 17:44 — 👍 4749    🔁 674    💬 219    📌 47

much of MAGA America has adopted a form of comically exaggerated gender performance that's basically cis drag for women and the straight equivalent of Tom of Finland with less leather for men

09.08.2025 16:21 — 👍 86    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 1
Trump Is Building a Maximalist Government
In a series of actions this week, the president sought to expand the government’s reach.

Trump Is Building a Maximalist Government In a series of actions this week, the president sought to expand the government’s reach.

The New York Times uses the word “maximalist” because it’s afraid to use the word “dictatorship.”

09.08.2025 03:25 — 👍 4480    🔁 1358    💬 180    📌 129

We have gotten too precious about both masculinity and femininity and it’s a disaster for everyone

09.08.2025 14:51 — 👍 1033    🔁 141    💬 9    📌 7

The one thing Dems absolutely cannot do is their stupid "go high" virtue signaling garbage. If the GOP wants to gin up anti-trans panic, go on TV and ask why they're protecting pedophiles. Keep asking why they covered up a child sex trafficking ring and don't stop asking

09.08.2025 13:02 — 👍 916    🔁 222    💬 3    📌 15
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"Trans people existing does literally nothing negative to your lives you crybaby wimps.
Your life is getting harder and costlier because of the oligarchs, not trans people"

Sticker spotted in Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA

09.08.2025 12:47 — 👍 9115    🔁 3568    💬 33    📌 41

there are so many open layups and somehow dems can’t make them. republicans are literally pulling cancer treatment from children and they can’t message on that??? like what the fuck are we doing here

09.08.2025 06:36 — 👍 5606    🔁 1294    💬 181    📌 80
Street sign for Horneytown Rd. Under is a second sign that says "This sign has RFID and GPS tracking"

Street sign for Horneytown Rd. Under is a second sign that says "This sign has RFID and GPS tracking"

Environmental storytelling.

08.08.2025 19:27 — 👍 7344    🔁 2067    💬 84    📌 129

If the federal government can simply seize privately held patents then that is the end of the U.S. patent system, the legal basis for American innovation.

08.08.2025 23:57 — 👍 2198    🔁 831    💬 65    📌 30

The mafia state

08.08.2025 23:21 — 👍 799    🔁 281    💬 25    📌 9

disqualifying all by itself

08.08.2025 23:35 — 👍 914    🔁 58    💬 34    📌 0

at the core of all the trans people in public spaces "debate" is this:

I don't care if you don't personally like seeing someone in public

shut up, keep it to yourself, and let them live their fucking lives

08.08.2025 18:39 — 👍 2479    🔁 516    💬 31    📌 15
A crude drawing by reddit user MetalGearTom of Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables breaking a chalk slate over the head of Frieza from Dragonball Z

A crude drawing by reddit user MetalGearTom of Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables breaking a chalk slate over the head of Frieza from Dragonball Z

Wonderful things are happening in the Anne of Green Gables subreddit

08.08.2025 03:06 — 👍 7178    🔁 2051    💬 71    📌 70

You send these characters back to 1776 and Tony is going to have another heart attack. Peter is going to see his first ever slave auction and be no good for the rest of the excursion. Hulk is running off with the Iroquois. And Cyclops will have started roughly 15 revolts within the first week.

08.08.2025 17:31 — 👍 160    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 0

Bud, you can't send Cyclops back to 1776! Do you know how many slaveowners he would kill?! Rachel would have to go back and get him because Storm vanished from the space-time continuum.

08.08.2025 16:52 — 👍 345    🔁 90    💬 14    📌 6

working on a theory that there are a shockingly high number of this type of guy bc trump appeals to ppl who think that rules don’t apply to them bc they know how to work the system

08.08.2025 16:58 — 👍 401    🔁 66    💬 11    📌 5

"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories.

EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS.

Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.

07.08.2025 17:46 — 👍 2444    🔁 805    💬 9    📌 39
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Sometimes the things you see in this channel lineup perfectly with what's on the radio when you happen to see them. And you get this.

07.08.2025 22:04 — 👍 363    🔁 85    💬 7    📌 4

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

08.08.2025 03:04 — 👍 18702    🔁 3900    💬 299    📌 234

I am so fucking sick of this vile argument that fighting anti-trans hate is making perfect the enemy of good.

Forcing trans people out of society isn’t “good”!! It’s fucking evil!

“Once that is done” means “let a bunch of people that I deem less important die in the meantime”. No! Fuck you!

08.08.2025 02:14 — 👍 2985    🔁 602    💬 42    📌 80

The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men

08.08.2025 04:00 — 👍 9287    🔁 2203    💬 167    📌 87
Fallout Power Armor shooting a laser rifle that is going over Elon Musk with the words "People like Elon Musk are bad" while Elon says "Wow!! Cool power armor!"

Fallout Power Armor shooting a laser rifle that is going over Elon Musk with the words "People like Elon Musk are bad" while Elon says "Wow!! Cool power armor!"

It's like how Elon loves Fallout and Blade Runner and doesn't understand how they are textually critical of people like him.

08.08.2025 02:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

one of the greatest humiliations of rule by these fascists is that, despite having total and complete control over the entire system of american government, the only thing they know how to do is ask for the manager because they're too stupid to understand that they *are the manager*

07.08.2025 23:24 — 👍 1366    🔁 274    💬 24    📌 5

in "The Moisture Farm", we'll finally get to see what Luke Skywalker's family was doing in the years between when Anakin left and Luke arrived. thrill at the daily grind to meet Hutt taxes and maintain functional agricultural infrastructure!

07.08.2025 23:25 — 👍 1802    🔁 199    💬 71    📌 11

They don't want a thousand Mozarts. They want a trillion cattle.

07.08.2025 21:37 — 👍 784    🔁 191    💬 4    📌 3
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07.08.2025 17:45 — 👍 385    🔁 131    💬 1    📌 0

We can’t let weird stuff like the actual, rock bottom crime rates affect our number one industry, which is the imaginary crime industrial
complex

07.08.2025 16:27 — 👍 1966    🔁 664    💬 29    📌 10

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