Fat, Bald Dabus

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A parent in practice, a word nerd by inclination, a tech worker by necessity, neurodivergent by association. Ancient nepo-geek. pfp by hodagrpg.bsky.social

My score for today’s Smush. 287 points
Tom Reagan in the woods in a charcoal suit and fedora
Movie poster for Changeling, a movie that I forgot even existed
Delmar being baptized in O Brother Where Art Thou?
A Smush results board
A Wooly Willy toy: a face with iron filings that you can drag around in order to give him hair. This one has a thick mustache and a narrow wedge shaped patch on the top of his head
Three panel comic: Panel 1: (a guy at a desk on the phone) An Axis of Evil versus A Nation Challenged! We've got eleven fucking wars to wage all of a sudden! Hold on, someone's at the door.. Panel 2: (same guy, with a visitor) Holy fucking shit, man, you'll never guess who just walked in-- VOLTRON!!! Woah! What the hell??? Panel 3: (the guy on the other end of the line) Voltron's Office of Homeland Security is in the Heeeeouse!
Batman and Robin in Batman Forever (1995) exhibiting the first signs of looksmaxxing
A can of Trader Joe’s Sparkling Orange Flavored Espresso Tonic.
Avocado toast with chili flakes with one bite taken out of it
The OG MCP from TRON
Goose chases a man yelling WHAT VALUES ARE THOSE, GRAHAM? WHAT VALUES?
Is The Weather Weird? The weather in Phoenix is typical right now It's 106°F warmer than 78% of Jul 3 at 1 PM temperatures on record.
® Is The Weather Weird? The weather in Phoenix is weird right now It's 100°F + colder than 91% of Jul 2 at 3 PM temperatures on record.
My score sheet for today’s 4x3 where I got Ourple first
A skeleton in a suit being tossed down the stairs while a cover of Golden Slumbers plays in the background. The caption says “Mitch McConnell”
A picture of a t-shirt with an illustration of Godzilla saying “King Kong said that? Well I guess it’s true.”
DRD 1812 from Farscape
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Alan guesses BLUE WHALE and the QI elves are not happy.
Leslie Nielsen swimming in raw sewage in Naked Gun 2 1/2
Cover for some unknown format of Went to Coney Island on a Mission From God… Be Back By Five
An American woodcock chick lifted from Todd Henson Photography https://toddhensonphotography.com/blog/american-woodcock-chicks
A Dutch Bros sticker that says Dutch Dad and looks like a golf cart.
A small horse and an average sized man lean on the open engine of a car. The caption reads “Yep, I see your problem. There’s a dude passed out in your engine. Also, your mechanic is a pony
The cards painting the roses red in Alice in Wonderland
A green witch in a pointy hat stirs a cauldron and says “YES… HA HA HA… YES!” (I added the ! to the drawing after I wrote the caption and realized it wasn’t there, so the alt text is now the more accurate representation of the drawing.)
Ed Emberley devil saying YES… HA HA HA… *YES!*
An Ed Emberley Kaiju breathing fire at a row of buildings and saying YES… HA HA HA *YES!*
An Ed Emberley version of Frankenstein’s monster, made to look like the Sickos meme. He is not quite the same yellow-orange as he is in the book, causing him to look like a square-headed, reanimated Bert from Sesame Street.
Later, during the development of DALL-E 3, when the data imperative had grown even larger, the research team decided that sexual images were no longer just a "nice to have" but a "need to have." The share of pornographic images on the internet was so large that removing them shrank the training dataset enough to notably degrade the model's per-formance. In particular, it made the model worse at generating faces of women and people of color due to the same discovery that Deborah Raji made as a Clarifai intern: A significant share of the online content depicting both groups is sexually explicit. For the same reasons, the researchers left in some other kinds of disturbing images.
Ed Emberley Mr Hyde doing the Sickos meme. He is an extremely narrow, ghoulishly green man with a wicked, toothy grin and stringy hair. He wears a tall, round hat with an orange band, and a long black coat over a white shirt with little black tie, orange waistcoat and yellow pants. He holds a cane with a yellow skull at the top
Ed Emberley vampire doing the sickos thing. Same picture as last time.
An Ed Emberley vampire doing his best impression of the Sickos meme
A sample of the adorable image that it gives you when you complete the new Hank Green puzzle
The Klaus Nomi album cover with the weird clown-like getup and pointy shoulders
The barkeep from Bob’s Country Bunker explaining that they play both kinds of music: country and western
404 - "Honestly, iterating on that and maximizing the throughput was the most fun l've had at work," this employee said. "I also do not think I was the only one gaming the system to make the number go up. My manager's tone in that meeting made me think there were some internal discussions about the program driving waste."
Chips and salsa, with retreating duck
Magical Coffee Servings Serves 2-4 Coffee Base: 2/3 cup coarsely ground coffee 3 cups water 1 teaspoon cinnamon 3 tablespoons dark brown sugar The Finished Drink: milk, half and half, or cream ice
A naked Professor Farnsworth with the caption MERRY XMAS, EVERYONE
91.5 KJZZ PHOENIX Favorite Minerals Matlock told KJZZ his favorite mineral is urbanite. It is essentially broken up concrete that can be repurposed. "It's a nice way to recycle materials that have been lost," Matlock said, acknowledging that he's not a "rock hound." Presmyk is a self-described mineral enthusiast and previously told KJZZ that his favorite mineral is wulfenite.
William Pierce’s page on Ballotpedia for the 2018 Mine Inspector election. He is a rustic looking man with a beard in a black suit and wide brimmed hat. He may or may not have a bolo tie but he is definitely wearing a leather vest with his suit jacket
The yeongno which looks a little like a yellow armadillo person in a green robe. Around the creature are the words “eat the rich, go to heaven”
Danny Pudi looks incredulously at Larry King and says “Larry, I’m on Ducktales.”
Maybe we all missed one vital point about the original trilogy: it had the unfair advantage of actually ending. Lucas's fantasy triptych told a simple, mythic story. Farm boy discovers destiny. Princess leads rebellion. Scoundrel finds a cause. Father is redeemed. Empire falls. It worked because it felt complete, yet every attempt to continue it since has reopened the wound. The Empire did not really fall. The Jedi did not really return. Luke did not rebuild the order. Palpatine did not stay dead. The victory at Endor was not the end of tyranny, but a temporary administrative reshuffle. Once you accept all that, the whole thing curdles. If every happy ending must be undone so that something else can emerge, the myth becomes less moving each time. Star Wars begins to feel like a galaxy where no one is ever allowed to retire, heal, learn or complete an emotional arc.
Gabriel Byrne as Tom Reagan in Miller’s Crossing. He’s dressed in a fedora with coat and tie, although the top of the shirt is unbuttoned and the tie loose.
Chuck Tingle straight up reposting a Moby Dick skeet that says simply “I jerked him now”. Is that too many double entendres in a single alt text?
The Captain of the Golgafrinch Ark B trying to take a relaxing bath
Riff Raff and Magenta ready to go home in the rocket. Frank will remain on Earth… in spirit at least
The Martian from My Favorite Martian
A still from a French adaptation of Pirandello’s Six Characters In Search of an Author
Danny Pudi looking slightly disheveled in an interview with Larry King scoffs at the idea of luxuries. “Larry, I’m on Ducktales.”
Gary Farmer as Nobody saying “Stupid fucking white man”
Two novelty t-shirts about being old. Left: a dragon captioned “Vintage 1976” Right: An illustration of yoda with the text “Turn 50 You Must”
Albert looks in dismay at a police report and says “Welcome to amateur hour.”
A travel mug with the words “Weird being the same age as old people” on one side.
A decent attempt at a banh mi
The Tick holding a spoon and yelling SPOON!
Patrick Stewart as Sejanus in I, Claudius. He is a romantic soldier dressed in armor with a nest of curly hair