Mark Benton, alias Ronald Van Horton
@markpaglia.bsky.social
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I'm just here for the occasional bon mot.
https://linktr.ee/markpaglia
Back in my day, we used dial-up that connected us to a Cronenbergian horror of a CEO. Made an awful noise, the modem did.
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about 2 hours ago
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Didn't realize Pepys lived in a high-fantasy world, as indicated by the name "Greatorex"âclearly a half-orc or troll.
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about 3 hours ago
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William B. Fuckley
about 11 hours ago
fucking calling bullshit on this âeldritch city of unknowable incomprehensible entities beyond timeâ dude. I see stairs. no way are they that incomprehensible if thereâs stairs.
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mel!
about 3 hours ago
i hate that voltaireheads are making me defend the HRE in totality because my actual opinion is more nuanced (definitely an empire, mostly holy, absolutely not fucking roman)
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jason grinblat
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Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-Ă -vis The workâ attributed to me? Or only he?
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Annie Harper
6 months ago
Sorry everyone, but male fashion peaked here.
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Dr Pop Culture USA
about 13 hours ago
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Man, I wish that cancel culture were real, and that this were how one practiced it.
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about 17 hours ago
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil
1 day ago
I'm not even trying to be a snob, I just genuinely don't know what any of us think "normal" looks like anymore. The Biden years were an attempt at a low-key restoration of normal, they failed in no small part because we didn't need "normal," what we needed was an extraordinary response to Jan 6.
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Howard Mittelmark
1 day ago
If your novel is set in the recent, pre-cellphone past and your plot depends on a dilemma that would now be resolved with a simple phone call, make sure the reader understands that by having a character say, "Too bad cellphones don't exist yet."
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I love him.
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1 day ago
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Dr Pop Culture USA
1 day ago
Worldâs Finest #189 (1969) A panel depicting Superman's surgically excised organs was intended to appear in "The Man With Superman's Heart!," but the Comics Code Authority censored it.
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jamelle
1 day ago
this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen
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August J. Pollak
1 day ago
AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.
3 days ago
So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support.
www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...
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Donate to GoFundMe If You Like Me: I Got Sued for Tweeting, organized by Detective Pikajew
Two years ago, I made a Twitter thread about a lawsuit Iâd come acr⊠Detective Pikajew needs your support for GoFundMe If You Like Me: I Got Sued for Tweeting
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if-you-like-me-legal-bills-for-tweeting
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Silent Cal demonstrating true New England apathy towards the dictates of fashion in the face of weather.
gazettenet.com/2025/09/19/a...
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Jeremy C. Shipp
3 days ago
Here are some horror movies they have on Kanopy: The Vourdalak, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Train to Busan, Exhuma, Oddity, Let the Right One In, The Wicker Man, Birth/Rebirth, Titane, Crimes of the Future, Starve Acre, Ganja & Hess. Their library is awesome.
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james folta
3 days ago
This regime is turning into tyranny by cosplayers and content creators
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I honestly expected better of you,
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3 days ago
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Of course we're left with Jimmy Fallon, the Spirit Halloween of late-night shows.
3 days ago
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Dan McQuade
3 days ago
Make sure to wish a librarian a happy Gerald Ford Trapped in The Penn Library Elevator Day.
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Gif of the last movie you watched.
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3 days ago
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Disney+ may doubt my resolve, but little do they know that I've stockpiled DVDs of the good seasons of The Simpsons.
3 days ago
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Colin Spacetwinks
3 days ago
i think a lot about how after obama won, they put time kaine in charge of the DNC - kicking out howard dean and killing the 50 state strategy *even though it helped them win a ton* - and then they scrapped OFA for parts. and then the dems get smoked in 2010. and every leader keeps their position.
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I, for one, look forward to a new Quasi-War with France, now that we have an updated XYZ Affair.
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Macrons to offer 'scientific' court evidence to prove Brigitte is a woman, lawyer says
They have filed a lawsuit against US right-wing influencer Candace Owens who claims the French first lady was born male.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg3llj5nxdo?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
3 days ago
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Holding a bitcoin, that famously physical object. Almost like crypto losers know that their beloved coin is laughable compared to the grimiest, puddle-soaked penny.
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4 days ago
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Glad to see a whole bunch of folks lined up with me for Covid and flu shots at the pharmacy. Remember, every vaccination you get makes RFK, Jr. cry his toxic, listeria-filled tears.
4 days ago
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Logan: I'm the best at what I do, but what I'm the best at isn't very nice. Kitty: It's okay, we know that you're a weeb.
4 days ago
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Osita Nwanevu
4 days ago
If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.
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Jesse Hawken
5 days ago
Fallon being the last man standing is such an indictment of Fallon
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No matter how many late-night hosts they suppress, nobody's actually going to watch Gutfeld.
5 days ago
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pixelatedboat aka âmr blueskyâ
5 days ago
Donât care about the guy who isnât aging. Give me an article about a guy who unlocked the ability to double jump
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The GOP believes that if you're old enough to get married, you're old enough to go to prison. And their definition of "old enough to get married" is utterly revolting.
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5 days ago
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Now that's a goddamn cover.
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5 days ago
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Sam (ABeardedPanda)
5 days ago
To be frank, the fetishization of protest tactics and personal/information security theater (theater is a load bearing word) is the leftist version of the Cult of the Operator
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Dr Pop Culture USA
6 days ago
"Superman Day" occurred on July 3, 1940 at the New York World's Fair. Superman was featured at the World of Tomorrow exhibit as the "Man of Tomorrow", where Ray Middleton donned the costume and served as the first actor to portray Superman in public.
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John Hodson
6 days ago
The tagline has a particular bittersweet quality now doesn't it? It also has a ring of truth for movie superstars... "Some say he's dead...some say he never will be..."
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NY Times Pitchbot
6 days ago
If someoneâs not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner thatâs consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.
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Hemry, Local Bartender
6 days ago
Like now we will see how many of them find that it was more fun being bigots and complaining about brandon while being showered with handouts from the IIJA & IRA than getting to see their beloved president deals on TV all the time but being financially ruined
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Existential Comics
7 days ago
Philosophy Vampires
existentialcomics.com/comic/620
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Philosophy Vampires
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/620
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Maybe I'm off-base here, but I feel like The Candidate is underappreciated, and it rules.
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6 days ago
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R.I.P. to one of the best faces on screen.
6 days ago
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Nothings Monstered
18 days ago
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A.R. Moxon
6 days ago
Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
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Sardonicus
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Celebrate the Pythagorean theorem today, or wait a century for this perfect square dare.
www.npr.org/2025/09/16/n...
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On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty
Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/16/nx-s1-5535545/pythagorean-triple-square-day-9-16-25
6 days ago
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Best game animation ever.
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7 days ago
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Reviving the villains who conspired to make Nightcrawler the pope and kill people with exploding communion wafers, but this time they have a schism with a Protestant faction trying to make Chamber the archbishop of Canterbury.
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7 days ago
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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS
7 days ago
happy birthday, monty
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