Randy Braun

@randbot.bsky.social

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Weird dad, Philly adjacent, trying to doomscroll less and mostly not succeeding

A sign on the door of a Petsmart that says "Due to national supply issues, cricket quantities are temporarily limited to 51 per customer."
the scene in RRR where Bheem releases a truck full of wild animals at the British Governor's party. It is basically the coolest shit in the world in a movie that is 100% constructed out of the coolest shit in the world.
"BREAKING: Trump just finished his national address. He announced China and Venezuela STOLE the 2020 election and he will use this as basis to REMOVE two US Senators - Warnock & Ossoff. It could've easily been written off as another ambling and convoluted Trump speech — but sadly this could be his most consequential. What he said will change US history. Using the justification he presented the GOP can now ban mail in ballots, control voting machines, and legitimize Bannon's plan to deploy the 82nd and 101st Airborne regiments and ICE to polling locations. His claim of China and Venezuela stealing a presidential election will now pave the way for a fascist coup that will deliver him the 2026 midterms and cement MAGA control of all levers of US government for the rest of his term and beyond...
Illustrations and merch for Wawa's Hoagiefest, the most blessed time of the year
The Transformer Soundwave, a robot who turns into a boombox, and his little robot friends who turn into cassette tapes: Laserbeak, Ravage, Buzzsaw and Ratbat. If you were a kid in the 80s you thought these toys ruled.
UCLA's Franz Hall and the "inverted fountain" in its courtyard, which has spawned decades of urban legends about how it was designed to look like a toilet.
Describes an AI cheating tool called TypeFlo
Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters
The "Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me" meme
Lumo, the misbegotten mascot for 2026 Eurovision. It is a cartoon heart with arms, legs, a huge bushy hairdo and horrible giant eyes
Kate Moseley and Doug Dorsey from "The Cutting Edge"
the dog from Air Bud. nothing in the rules says a dog can't be a reactionary.
Picture of a Fitbit Sleep Profile: "The Dolphin. Because dolphins need to stay on the move, only one half of their brain gets to sleep at a time."
DC Comics Superman villain Solaris, the Tyrant Sun
A picture of the "John Pork is Calling" meme, which looks like an iphone receiving an incoming call from a contact named John Pork whose profile pic is a selfie of a photorealistic pig-man standing near a coastline
A pot I own that a skeet just taught me can be held in a specific way for the handle to look like a bear face
The "Personal Details" section of the IMDb listing for William Shakespeare.
DVD cover for "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death," an (improbably) actual movie that exists, starring Bill Maher, Shannon Tweed, and Adrienne Barbeau.
A linked in post from Yolanda Cabrera: I remember asking my mom why we were so poor when we were growing up. "Your papa was convinced it was too 'cringey' to engage with people on LinkedIn and ignored it completely as an essential sales and market tool" Lessons are to be learned. There is an ai cartoon image of a Hispanic mom making dinner for her daughters in a modest kitchen while saying “A comer mis amores!”
A Richard Scarry drawing of a green bug driving a yellow car. He is named "Maniacbug" and is Goldbug's evil opposite.
Miss Ecuador (Samantha Quenedit), competing in the Miss Grand International 2025 pageant, wearing a National Costume "inspired" by Galapagos iguanas that is ... just a big crazy iguana costume. it rules.
movie poster for "20th Century Women"
screenshot of a skeet: "sometimes i think i wouldn't mind having a boyfriend or girlfriend again, I'm not great at that, you gotta really like being around a person a lot. But man, i really can't imagine having a wife or husband. Absolutely nothing sexy about a wife or husband. Might as well be dead."
A pizza box with the classic Gill Fox illustration of a winking chef making an OK sign
A screenshot of the text-only game "HIGHNOON" from the very early days of the home computing era
the "The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point" Onion article guy
Disparaging today’s teenagers for their failure to binge-drink would be absurd. Still, I’d guess the decline of booze in the lives of young Americans is both a cause of reduced socializing and a driver of it. Young Americans go out less, so they drink less, so they have less interest in creating excuses to drink, so they throw fewer parties, so they go out less, so they drink less. These attitudes carry over into young adulthood. The share of 18- to 34-year-olds who say "drinking in moderation" is "bad for your health" has doubled in the last 20 years to 65 percent—far more than any other age group. It would be easier for everyone—young people, parents, and commentators—if every social trend was either terrific or terrible. But like the rise of the dual-earner household, the turn against alcohol among the same young people whose socialization has plunged is a complicated phenomenon that defies easy good-bad categorization. I cannot deny that abstinence is good for young people’s livers; but I worry that it’s part of a larger set of behaviors that’s bad for their hearts.
A picture of Christopher McQuarrie where it does not seem implausible that he is, in fact, Tom Cruise in disguise
Google reviews page for Caillou (1997) showing an overal 2.6 rating and the featured review starts with "Caillou is one of the WORST KIDS SHOWS OF ALL TIME!!"
The most important producers of allergenic pollen in NYC are Quercus, Platanus, Morus, and Betula; they comprise 71% of airborne pollen measured and 93% of estimated pollen production (107 quadrillion pollen grains; however, pollen production was not estimated for all taxa). Previous municipal planting decisions have resulted in the high abundance of Platanus × acerifolia; it accounts for 34% of total street tree basal area and has an estimated annual pollen production of 27.7 ± 6.4 quadrillion grains. In contrast, Morus and Betula are generally unplanted, indicating that tree planting decisions will have smaller effects on their future pollen production rates in NYC. Quercus trees produced an estimated 68.2 ± 12.3 quadrillion pollen grains and accounted for almost 25% of airborne pollen collected, but were very abundant in parks and were mostly unplanted, suggesting that planting has not and will not have a major effect on city-wide pollen production. Overall, this study demonstrates that tree planting decisions can have important and long-lasting consequences for city-wide pollen production but only for species that are both primarily planted and large producers of allergenic pollen.
The cover of Marvel Comics' "ROM the Spaceknight," a way-better-than-it-had-to-be toy-licensing comic property from the late 1970s
Skeletor making a good point: "Joke's on you; I'm INTO THAT SHIT"
Screenshot from the Jeffery Goldberg Atlantic article "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans": There was another potential problem: Waltz set some of the messages in the Signal group to disappear after one week, and some after four. That raises questions about whether the officials may have violated federal records law: Text messages about official acts are considered records that should be preserved. “Under the records laws applicable to the White House and federal agencies, all government employees are prohibited from using electronic-messaging applications such as Signal for official business, unless those messages are promptly forwarded or copied to an official government account,” Jason R. Baron, a professor at the University of Maryland and the former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration, told Harris. “Intentional violations of these requirements are a basis for disciplinary action. Additionally, agencies such as the Department of Defense restrict electronic messaging containing classified information to classified government networks and/or networks with government-approved encrypted features,” Baron said.
He will drink his supersauce and throw the bad guys for a loss and he will bring them in alive and kickin' (bawk bawk bawk bawk) there is one thing you should learn; when there is no one else to turn to ca-aall on Super Chicken (bawk bawk bawk bawk) ca-aall on SUPER CHICKEN! (buh-KAWK!)
Graphic from the White House Instagram feed proclaiming the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil because he “led activities aligned to Hamas”
A screenshot of Google Translate showing that "tetas" is Spanish for "tits" (or boobs, or jugs, or bohonkaderos, or what have you)
Front page from 1975 Daily News where the headline reads “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD”
An Italian espresso maker with the brand name “SMEG”
A carousel designed by Keith Haring for the 1987 art carnival Luna Luna, lost for decades and only recently discovered and restored
Album cover for 1988's "Peter & The Wolf / Carnival of the Animals- Part II" by "Weird" Al Yankovic and Wendy Carlos
a teen dressed up as Jareth from Labyrinth for Halloween
demonstrating the Simpsons Meme Generator at frinkiac.com by having random characters cheer "Hooray! Spindlypete is on Bluesky!"