briween

@briween.bsky.social

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writer, raconteur, occasional roll-top desk. whip-smart and box-of-hammers-stupid. i'm not making it complicated on purpose, that's just how i think. something something simpsons reference

bill murray as phil connors in groundhog day (1993), saying: "you know, people like blood sausage too. people are morons."
cousin greg from succession, saying: "if it is to be said, so it be-- so it is."
poster for the movie Dave (1993) starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. he is looking at her as she is removing his glasses and looking toward the viewer in disbelief.
richard belzer as detective john munch on arrested development
richard belzer as det. john munch in what appears to be a publicity photo for law and order: svu, given how grey his hair is
Google's "People also ask" section, where the first question is "Is Mitch McConnell retiring?"
lloyd bridges as steve mccroskey in airplane! (1980), standing over his desk with a concerned look on his face. he wears a rumpled brown jacket and a brown tie over a white shirt with his collar unbuttoned, and a cigarette dangles from him mouth. on the wall behind him are framed pictures of airplanes, and one framed picture of himself with the same look on his face, wearing the same clothes and smoking a cigarette in the same fashion.
orson welles as charles foster kane in citizen kane. he delivers a fiery campaign speech from behind a podium with a large image of himself and the word "KANE" over it printed on a giant cloth backdrop that hangs behind him.
a moment in a japanese drone show celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the united states on july 4, 2026. drones form the images of prime minister sanae takaichi, triumphantly thrusting her right arm in the air to indicate her choice to align herself with one of history's greatest monsters, and us president donald trump, wearing a baseball cap that says "USA" and leveraging his drone-based left arm to prevent himself from losing his balance on his drone-based swollen ankles and collapsing onto the cityscape below.
screen capture from "commander keen in goodbye, galaxy" where commander keen stuns enemies with his pistol and runs away. commander keen wears a purple shirt, blue pants, red and white sneakers, and a yellow and green football helmet.
kent brockman says: "and i for one welcome our new insect overlords."
adam sandler at the snl weekend update desk as "crazy spoon head" circa 1991
"It is funny when people with shitty political views die."
an incredible wordle run where the guesses are: AUDIO LUNGE TUNER QUEER and "queer" is the correct answer
a screenshot from the "About" page of the IDC, which reads: "We are the tech intelligence layer of the AI economy. Building a world where the most trusted technology intelligence makes everyone better at what they do."
Bart of Darkness after Homer adds chlorine to the pool. Ralph Wiggum pops up and says: "Ow, my face is on fire!"
a gleeful protestors tosses a gallant arc of milkshake at nigel farage, voted britain's most milkshakeable knobhead for every year since the first such competition
an ad for a company resulting from the merger of verizon, exxon and chipotle "verxxotle: proud to be one of america's 8 companies"
the logo of randy johnson photography, the photo studio belonging to hall-of-fame baseball pitcher and accredited bird murderer randy johnson
mark zuckerberg about to slap his own metaverse avatar in the face for causing meta to lose $80 billion
jeremy strong as mark zuckerberg in the social reckoning trailer as kermit the frog
my and the other two people i am in a group chat with, you should talk to them they are very lively!
email from brian that reads: "Hi Team at [REDACTED], This is horrifying. Do not, under any circumstances, email or text me with a request like this again. I do not do interviews with AI. Giving it a name doesn't make it a person. Thank you for doing your part to further entrench the creeping dystopia we all live in now."
dialog box for ultros from f3/ff6, saying: "don't tease the octopus, kids!"
david hyde pierce wearing a grey sweater over a grey and black plaid collared shirt. he speaks in an interview on cbs sunday morning from 2025.
homer and bart simpson ejected from a rocket heading toward the sun in deep space. their bodies expand due to a lack of pressure in outer space and they smile as they accept the sweet release of death.
ben stiller on stage at the 2025 oscars, jumping from a lower portion of the stage to present the nominees for best production design
a young man wearing a grey new york knicks hoodie and a duke university baseball cap doing something quote-unquote cool with his hands and sticking out his tongue while posing for the camera in a residential kitchen
synthwave cityscape with grid pattern streets and scanlined skyscrapers under a starlit sky. it is various shades of red, pink, purple, blue and black that gradient and blend into one another.
"keith richards wearing a 'who the fuck is mick jagger?' t-shirt during the rolling stones' tour of the americas in 1975"
Star Trek TNG title screen with a spaceship on it (probably an Enterprise of some sort) and the chyron: "The Dingbat's Apothecary"
mabel from gravity falls making a squee face
the "movies and shows" tab when you google bill hicks, including: - american: the bill hicks story - bill hicks: revelations - bill hicks: it's just a ride and they also threw in no cure for cancer, a denis leary stand-up album for which many, many, MANY people felt denis leary was, let's say, "inspired" by bill... wink
kermit and bill, gill, and jill working on slogans for ocean breeze soap
The Treachery of Images by Rene Magritte, featuring a pipe and the words (in French): "ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("this is not a pipe")
donald trump and melania trump and melania trump looks unhappy
a logo for duff beer in the font styles of coors light with a mountain and a blue sky background
a 2000 year old icon of a floppy disk
a comic i drew where my parents reveal the truth about my parentage dad: you were adopted mom: it's true me: !
every element of trump: the board game from 1989
john waters shaking hands with david lynch in front of bob's big boy, commemorating something weird and delightful and unholy and wonderful and now we know what it was
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983). ghosts leaving a party where they all died from eating salmon mousse that's gone bad. one of them quips: "hey, i didn't even eat the mousse"
Gob Bluth tells everyone at the holiday party: "everybody dance NOW"
a circle of male simpsons stand in a ring around two male simpsons in the middle, who circle each other wearing pots on their heads. the two in the middle charge at one another and bang their heads together. the ring of simpsons around them pump their fists and cheer. both the two gladiator simpsons in the middle and all the simpsons in the ring of spectating simpsons around them are male. they are all male. this is why they are so easily amused and why they are willing to give themselves brain damage for the amusement of others.
Hey, That's My Bike from Reality Bites
a blue sky with a few clouds in the background, with white text: "bluesky - somehow this turned into a thread of people trying to argue with me"
synopsis of a character from the show Billions, which reads: "Paul Giamatti as Charles "Chuck" Rhoades, Jr.: U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who later attempts a run for governor of New York and is elected Attorney General of New York. Rhoades is ruthless and has a particular distaste for wealthy criminals who try to buy their way out of justice. Despite his significant power as U.S. Attorney, Rhoades struggles not to be overshadowed both by his higher-earning wife, Wendy, and by his well-connected, wealthy father. He went to Yale (as did his father) and has a blind trust of which his father is a trustee. In private, he is a sadomasochist and engages in BDSM role play with Wendy and other women, acting as a "slave." The character is loosely based on the careers of Preet Bharara and Eliot Spitzer."
an ad for ai solutions ironically appearing in the middle of a well-written article about how ai has been pushed into every domain of society and all of life is a teardrop
krusty blinking
a post-it with the words "metro/berlin" and "japan thing" on it along with some scribbles and random binary calculations
image of a tiger tail donut
lisa simpson in class: "oh no, strike?" ralph wiggum: "miss hoover, are you on--" miss hoover drives off while yelling back through the window: "go home, children" a lonely child in the gym hangs from some gymnastic rings and says: "hellooo..."
intro credits from monty python and the holy grail (1975), which read: "We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked."
tracy morgan as tracy jordan from 30 rock. he is on the set of CNN's larry king live (with the world map made out of lights) in the background and has a speech bubble pointing down to the post that was quote posted.
interior view of a bathroom with the door closed. a white dog tail is sticking under the door, indicating a dog very very very closeby.
doctored screencap from animal house (1978) with blutarsky and mande pepperidge driving away in a convertible. it reads: "senator and mrs. lee harvey oswald, washington, dc"
Burger King ad with a brown background, a Burger King logo on the left and a hamburger topped with vegetables in the foreground. It reads: "Yes... ha ha ha... YES"
Krusty the Clown is talking to a preppy business guy. Krusty holds a paper. KRUSTY: How does this affect our giveaway? PREPPY: Let's see. (Preppy produces a calculator and tabulates a figure.) PREPPY: You personally stand to lose 44 million dollars.
Comic Book Guy walking with a wheelbarrow full of 100 tacos, saying: "Yes, this should provide adequate sustenance for the Dr. Who marathon."