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@benasterisk

Dad, autism advocate, artist, musician, standup comedian, software developer, writer, animal lover, bemused pop culture tourist. To wildly varying degrees of competence and enthusiasm at any given moment.

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But just how brightly lit?
Firebeetle glands?

06.03.2026 22:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not surprising there's a whole little cottage industry around talking and thinking about it

06.03.2026 18:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Daddy Was A Preacher But Mama Was A Go-Go Girl
Daddy Was A Preacher But Mama Was A Go-Go Girl YouTube video by Southern Culture on the Skids - Topic

youtu.be/st3wepE9MJ0?...

06.03.2026 15:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@aaronmeyers.bsky.social

05.03.2026 22:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

First pockets, now a 24 hour day. Is there no end to your demands?

05.03.2026 22:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 23 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Harry Borgman - Dracula (1970)

Harry Borgman - Dracula (1970)

Would they make fewer vampire movies if the received lore was "can only be destroyed by wapping them in the face with a shovel"?

05.03.2026 19:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One of the first two comics I bought with my own money (to while away a long ferry trip).

The other was New Mutants #1

05.03.2026 06:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"Hey"

05.03.2026 05:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Are you sure that's Alpha Flight and not Miga, Quatchi, and Mukmuk?

05.03.2026 05:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Among all the other things happening out loud!"

04.03.2026 19:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"At the very least, I should buy some pants"

04.03.2026 18:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"Sometimes I wish I could quit you, giant Ishiro Honda"

04.03.2026 02:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why am I able to smell this through my phone?

Amazing, nice job

04.03.2026 01:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You can't ravish a universe for love when you're on a diet.

04.03.2026 01:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The first Monster with NO calories!

03.03.2026 23:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The worst kind of autocorrect, where it replaced the word you typed with a reasonably adequate alternative.

But not the one you typed!

(In this case "was" replaced "what")

03.03.2026 23:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ugh autocorrect. Oh well

03.03.2026 22:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

All this time Big Ice Cream was in the pocket of Big Pants!

Was a mess.

03.03.2026 22:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When I pull out the boxcutter on clamshell packaging.

03.03.2026 19:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Popeye said it more succinctly

03.03.2026 19:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Tell me "Bing" isn't clearly a muppet's name

03.03.2026 14:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I liked it as a kid too, when it was perpetually on pay cable.

Fortunately i remember it well enough that I'm not tempted to rewatch

02.03.2026 21:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I've been in a lot of stairwells that people have used as toilets, but never seen signage advertising it officially.

02.03.2026 18:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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02.03.2026 17:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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02.03.2026 16:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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But I still bet you're right

02.03.2026 16:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Unfortunately for Hal, and his partners, several STDs are immune to his power ring by virtue of being yellow

02.03.2026 16:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bod of Bunder

02.03.2026 06:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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They don't advertise it, but every faucet in Australia works like this.

02.03.2026 05:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Didn't have to hang onto that image for long before an opportunity came up.

02.03.2026 05:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0