Count Bobula
@countbobula.bsky.social
Ex-lawyer, ex-teacher, ex-Texan, current accountant. Mostly here to lurk. He/him
Why is Naomi Klein’s personal jet called “The Simple Machine?” Because it’s an N. Klein plane!
“The Economy is worthless without a villain with a weirdly empathetic backstory.”
sam !@sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 4w agoHad trouble falling asleep last night so I i updated the discourse generator on my website! Refresh the page to generate one of 6.2 million potential phrases you can argue over in the game I made! Quote this with any completely out of pocket ones you get.
A thing that made the old Internet good was all the world’s weirdos came together to offer their deep expertise on niche subjects. Now it’s so much harder to find that online, and we’ve destroyed the weirdos’ natural habitats. Netflix homepage could NEVER recommend a film like a video store weirdo.
Chad Ecto One@horrormoviebbq.bsky.social · 4w agoWait til they all find out about video stores
Name a TV show no one remembers but you.
Matthew Jackson@awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 2mo agoName a TV show no one remembers but you.
Me: “Okay, the system’s processing it.” Boss: “Yeah, it takes awhile.” Me: “The circle’s still spinning. It’s thinking about its life choices, thinking about its sins.” Boss: … Boss: “I just tell myself it’s going ‘I think I can.’” Me: “It’s been a long morning for me.”
10 actresses to get to know me: Mary Jo Pehl Kathy Bates Lucille Ball Wanda Sykes Julie Louis Dreyfus Anne Ramsey Paula Poundstone Maya Rudoloph Margaret Cho Emily Axford
optiMSTie@optimstie.bsky.social · 2mo ago10 actresses to get to know me: Ingrid Bergman Dame Judi Dench Isabelle Huppert Madeline Kahn Myrna Loy Monique Parent Octavia Spencer Barbara Stanwyck Sigourney Weaver Michelle Yeoh #Filmsky
Me: “doot-doot-doot, me work job” My brain: “Pesto!” Me: “huh?” My brain: “That was the name of the big baby penguin! You were trying to remember that, remember?” Me: … My brain: “From 2024!”
Take the wrong lesson from a movie. Star Wars: listen to what the voices in your head tell you to do
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4mo agotake the wrong lesson from a movie Trainspotting: be the first in your friend group to try heroin because the last guy to get hooked dies first
Read about Nicole Kidman’s death doula turn, thought about what celebrity I’d want for my death doula, and now I’m stuck picturing Alex Horne as a Cenobite telling me all the information is in the task.
Kid is going through a sustained Smurfs phase, so now we have this cool poster
“Hello, America, you had probably forgotten about me and how I look and sound like a cartoon vampire, but I just wanted to quickly associate myself with Jeffery Epstein your minds when I don’t think anyone had seriously connected me to him before.”
When Doctor Doom is stuck reading upsetting news on his Doomphone, does he call it “Doomscrolling” or ”RICHARDS!scrolling”?
Yeah because I tried Mastodon in good faith and it was the social media experience of eating bran flakes while being glowered at by an angry German
Gandalf the Grey is the midway point between Gargamel and Gandalf the White. I will be taking no further questions at this time.
TEND to mah fires and LIVE in the mires and GRAB the little creature of BOGGY CREEK
I saw this and wondered if anyone at @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social has let Will Campos know there’s a darker and edgier reboot to Teensects? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCaQ...
MANSECT! | A Super 8 Special Effects Fantasy
YouTube video by Xenofauna
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Rejected Smurf Names (work in progres): • Baltimore Smurf • Chicago Style Smurf • MLA Smurf • Catboy Smurf • Horsegirl Smurf • Facehugger Smurf • Nonprofit CEO Smurf • Munchausen By Proxy Smurf • Maegashira 14 West Smurf • Tom Hardy Smurf • Oviraptor Smurf
There’s a parallel universe where Tropic Thunder is the 2008 action-comedy that launched a franchise and made RDJ a household name again.
It’s Pie Day, time to repost this. I still don’t know why Tim Heidecker was wearing a fat suit and trying to improv a bunch of pie recipes in a hotel breakfast buffet that day, but the world is a richer place for him having done it. youtu.be/MnnTUePr0T8?...
Tim Heidecker - A Year In Pies
YouTube video by Jimmy Greenspan
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