Aldous Tyler

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Host of TMI with Aldous Tyler, broadcasting every Friday at 5pm Central on WSUM 91.7FM Madison, episodes repeating every Monday at noon. Simul-stream the show live at wsum.org or catch podcast recordings via tmitmitmi.com. He/him. Born at 328 ppm (1972).

An image of the Microsoft Office Assistant Clippit, known as "Clippy", saying "Hi! I am Clippy! Did you conveniently forget how hated I was 30 years ago, so you can act surprised at how much AI is hated now?"
This is a two-panel political cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Left Panel: The heading of "IN UK" is above a British police officer who is escorting a downcast man in a suit who has his hands cuffed behind his back. The man has the words "PRINCE ANDREW" written across his chest. Below that is the caption of "JUSTICE" Right Panel: The heading of "IN U.S." is above a large, intimidating officer wearing a black face mask and a green tactical vest labeled "ICE" (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), who is marching away a small, young child. The child's hands are cuffed behind her back, and she is hunched over, looking at the ground. Below that is the caption of "JUST ICE"
An alteration of the ultimatum given to the Men in Black in the 1997 movie by the Arquillean Battlecruiser: "MIB DELIVER THE ID INFO OR DISCORD WILL BE DESTROYED. SORRY" with a 60 minute countdown beginning.
Here is the literal transcription of the image content: --- pizzacakecomic posted: 2016: "You're overreacting!" 2017: "You're overreacting!" 2018: "You're overreacting!" 2019: "You're overreacting!" 2020: "You're overreacting!" 2021: "You're overreacting!" 2024: "You're overreacting!" 2025: "You're overreacting!" 2026: "Well there was no way of knowing it would get this bad..." tudors_reimagined responded: Amazingly all of us who did predict this used our magical powers of reading history books and using basic human pattern recognition 😒 pizzacakecomic replied: Also they really gave it away when they threw out those nazi salutes..
A sliced section of perfectly white onion, cut to resemble the shape of a rainbow, captioned "Kristi Noem's Pride Rainbow"
This is a screen scapture of a post by Broadwaybabyto, made 7:00pm EST on 1/5/2026. It says: Jake Tapper asked Stephen Miller if he’s ruled out taking Greenland by military force. The reply? “Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO.” This is a terrifying escalation. They’ve already shown willingness to violate international law and commit murder, kidnapping and war crimes. They’re not going to stop. They think they can have any country they want. They think they’re above the law. May Stephen Miller remember that “just following orders” didn’t work during WWII and it won’t work now. He belongs behind bars.
The cover of the New York Post, late edition for Tuesday, November 4th, 2025, featuring a caricature of Zohran Mamdani in a red jumpsuit, white shirt and black tie, smiling warmly while holding aloft a 3D red hammer-and-sickle symbol from the Soviet Communist era, three red five pointed stars shooting through the night sky above him over a background of Manhattan, New York City, with the text "On your Marx, get set, Zo! Socialist Mamdani wind race for mayor" above the headline "THE RED APPLE" with the R in Red reversed, cyrlillic-style.
A brick wall painted with the stripes of the trans pride flag, light blue at the top and bottom, light pink above the bottom and below the top, framing a center white stripe. Superimposed upon this image are the words "When kids learn about left-handed people, they don't all suddenly become left-handed. Learning is not becoming."
A list of 60 nations with the best reputations in 2024 and 2025, with virtually no country losing or gaining more than five positions between the two years, except the USA: 30th best reputation in 2024 to 48th best reputation in 2025.
A screenshot of a news story, with a red "LIVE" box in the upper-left corner, and a lower-third set of announcements as headlines that read: "BREAKING NEWS" "TRUMP SUES 'LEFT' TWIX FACTORY" and "PAM BONDI ANNOUNCES DOJ LAWSUIT ALLEGING 'ANTIFA' TIES TO LEFT TWIX PRODU" with the last statement trailing off-screen. The timestamp in the lower left reads 7:39.
Charcuterie breakfast
Cobblestone fireplace in rustic style lodge
This is a photo taken 9/18/2025 in downtown Madison, WI on the UW-Madison Campus. It shows a construction site with a raised scaffolding platform extending outward from the side of a brick building. On the very edge of the platform, high above the ground, there is a bright red portable toilet precariously placed. The setup looks unusual and somewhat unsafe, as the portapotty is perched far out over open air.
A picture of a retail shelf of candy displaying how a pack of two Reese's peanut butter cups in 2025 weighs 1.5 oz and is being sold for $2.19
holly @girlziplocked Giving poor people some money makes crime go down better than giving cops more money. Says science. We did the science. We keep doing that science. Nobody in a suit ever cares tho.
A meme titled "The Myth of Artistic Freedom". It shows a pink haired artist drawing on a tablet labeled 'NSFW' saying "I want to draw it!", a gray generic happy customer holding cash saying "I want to see it!", and the logos of MasterCard and Visa shouting "I DON'T". Below that the meme says "Isn't there some random payment processor you forgot to ask?"
This is a screen capture of a post from Twitter, dated July 20th, 2022, time of 10:42 p.m. 10:42 p.m. It was posted by username AnonymousUser (@DylanWa68690046) and it reads: The year is 2045. The first astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave with a human skeleton. And 4 words are written on the wall. What are the four words
A transcription of a post by BladePactWarlock Look, I don't know you and I won't pretend to be able to read the future, but I will mention one thing. I had a group chat in college with my roommate and two friends, also in comp sci. Just guys being dudes for a few years. Boom, one of us is non-binary. Boom, second one is a trans woman. Boom, I'm a trans woman. Now my best friend is the only one of us who is still cis. One might think it's only a matter of time before he breaks, but I've come to a different conclusion. As the years go by more and more people in his orbit end up queer. His gf is bi, his only sibling is gender fluid, more and more of his friends come out as trans, and I think I know what's happening. He's slowly consuming the heterosexuality and cisgenderism of everyone around him. Soon there will only be two kinds of people on this earth. Queer people, and Thomas.
Panel with the authors of the "Godzilla: The First 70 Years" at G-Fest 30, July 12, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, Rosemont, Illinois, USA.
G-FEST 2025 JULY 11-13 ------ HYATT REGENCY O'HARE [Image shows a silhouette of a Godzilla-like monster against a red background with radiating white lines] Welcome back G-FEST! As a gesture of appreciation and our continued commitment to excellent service, we're pleased to offer you our breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets at a special discounted rate of $18.95 + tax per meal period. We're delighted to have you with us again - your comfort and satisfaction are our top priorities. Breakfast: 6:00am-11:00am Lunch: 12:00pm-3:00pm Dinner: 4:00pm-9:00pm
Burning Godzilla figure kicks Space Godzilla figure in bookstore window display
A robot wearing a crown explodes, the crown tumbles down the stairs and gets crushed under the foot of another robot.
Republicans selling all their stock in companies that rely on Medicaid before voting for Trumps budget should be a much bigger scandal
A clip from the movie Escape from New York (1981) dir. John Carpenter, where Snake Plissken declares, "I don't give a fuck about your war... Or your president."
A clip from the movie Escape from New York (1981) dir. John Carpenter, where Snake Plissken declares, "I don't give a fuck about your war... Or your president."
This is a single-panel cartoon from the series "Sidewalk Bubblegum" by Clay Butler from 1996. The scene shows a park or public space with trees. On the left side, there are three figures: a businessman in a suit asking "Hey buddy, could you lend me some public land for grazing and logging? I swear I'll pay you back," while in front of him another businessman holds a sign reading "Bombs not Food!" while asking "Billions for weapons, Sir?" Next to them is a third businessman pleading "Brother, can you spare some subsidies for a poor agribusiness?" On the right side of the panel, two people (appearing to be a man and woman in casual clothes) are walking by. One of them tell the other one "Don't give them anything... it just creates a cycle of dependency."
A screen capture of an article at CNN World, posted the night of Saturday, June 20, 2025: Analysis: US strikes mark a stunning demonstration of military might and presidential power Analysis from CNN's Stephen Collinson President Donald Trump's attack on Iran's nuclear sites is both a stunning demonstration of US military might and unilateral presidential power. Other presidents chose not to take this step, in the belief that such action could ignite a full-on war with Iran. But the Middle East has changed - Israel has dismantled many of the Iranian proxies that it would have used to fight back.
A screen capture of a post from -mox (@moxiest.art) that reads: leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control
An image of the FTM (female to male) Trans Pride Flag, consisting of seven horizontal stripes: the top and bottom stripe each being a medium (baby) pink, the second from the top and bottom stripes being white, the stripes above and below the center stripe being a pastel blue, and the center stripe being a baby blue.
A screenshot of a post from Tumblr, posted by tytonidyke "Yesterday", which was Thursday, June 12, 2025, that reads: "We got training at work today on how to deal with potential ICE raids during summer camp. We’re supposed to shelter the children in place, in management’s words, 'just like an active shooter drill'. That this is how we explain it to children - that learning how to hide from armed intruders is their normal, and they’ve never known a world without the threat of random gun violence - at camp where all they are supposed to be doing is learning and making friends - it makes me sick. Fuck this sick fucking country."
A t-shirt with a design on it featuring the progressive Pride flag and the words: Let's Get down to Business To defeat the Huns With the LGBT that starts each line emphasized.
A grocery store bakery package of half a cake, labeled "REDUCED 50% OFF"
A screen capture of a notification from Blue sky that says @chillmun.bsky.social has added you to the "Crypto/AI" moderation list
A Black and white photograph, taken in downtown Los Angeles in 1937 at the intersection of 3rd & Spring, showing a woman walking in protest with a sign that says "Stop illegal raids by Immigration Dept."
A screen capture of a post taken from a Tumblr blog belonging to elierlick, posted May 20th, 2025. The main part of the post is a large color photograph of a group of over a dozen trans women standing in black pants with no clothes on above the waist, with their mouths taped over. In front of one of them is a sign that reads: "THIS IS AN ACT OF GRIEF RESISTANCE AND SOLIDARITY. WE URGE THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT TO APPEAL TO THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS." The image is captioned: "Trans women protesting outside Scottish Parliament." elierlick than commented: "I love it when trans women protest topless. If they're arrested, the state must admit they're women. If they aren't, it shows the glaring contradictions of labeling trans women as legally male. It helps their cause either way." The post was tagged #Igbta #trans #transgender
An image by Rosie Dore/Briarhide Illustration of a fox painting a rainbow stripe to cover an atmosphere full of negative words about LGBTQ people, allowing a flowering field with butterflies to thrive, with the words "Persist Anyway." in the cleared air.
An image of The Aromantic Flag, consisting of five horizontal bars of color, ordered top to bottom: bright grass green, pale lime green, white, medium gray, black.
things you DO NOT need to be a man 1. a dick 2. he/him pronouns 3. XY chromosomes things you DO need to be a man 1. the swiftness of a coursing river 2. the force of a great typhoon 3. the strength of a raging fire 4. the mysteriousness of the dark side of the moon ^this post was brought to you by LGBT^ L (Let's) G (Get down to) B (Business) T (To defeat the huns)
A photograph of a man in his early 50's, with a clean shaved bald head, wearing glasses and a blue/purple/white plaid shirt which is open to reveal a dark blue t-shirt with a rainbow-colored Autobot symbol on it.
A close up black and white image of a sheet of paper in an old fashioned typewriter, the type on the sheet reading: "The function of freedom is to free someone else." The quote is attributed to Toni Morrison
Trump's rambling word salad speeches should now be referred to as a Taco Salad.
A screen capture of an article from "ERIN IN THE MORNING". The headline reads: "Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Colors" the subheader says "LGBT Floridians demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility." The article was written by "S. BAUM" and posted "TODAY AT 7:53 PM", which was Monday, June 2, 2025 for reference. Below that is an evening picture of a bridge in Jacksonville, Florida lit up with a rainbow pattern of colored stripes of light. Below the picture is "Photo credit to Amanda Smith"
A screen capture of a post by Upstream (@UpstreamPodcast) that says: "the fact that your doctor can yell that you need a specific treatment and some guy at an insurance company can just be like 'no' should alone be enough make us burn this system to the ground"
An image created by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) showing a Bald Eagle in displayed position, the plumage of each wing and tailfeathers sequentially colored like the light blue, white, pink, black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, deep blue and purple stripes of the Progress Pride flag, the talons colored a hot pink, wearing a thin hunting bird harness with the HRC equal sign logo at the center of the chest. This is above the eleven colors of the Progress Pride flag (listed above) emanating down under the eagle from a vanishing point behind the tail to a horizontal end line that provides a top frame for white, bold all-capital letters that say "THESE COLORS DON'T RUN". The Human Rights Campaign logo fits at the end of the declaration, all above eleven small five pointed stars, each corresponding to the stripe of Progress Pride Flag color that ended above it, above the lettering.
A screen capture of a post by Tony Choi (@tonykchoi) from May 29, 2020 that reads: "Pride month starts in 3 days. "Pride isn't brought to you by T-Mobile and Absolut Vodka. "It was brought to you by drag queens, trans women throwing bricks. By lesbians and queer women taking care of gay men dying of AIDS in the face of an intentional government neglect."
A screen capture of a post by gerardwaist, dated December 30, 2023 that says: "people b saying things so definitively, like man I think it depends"
A screen capture of a post by "Komm, süsser Tod Howard" (@lonestartallboi.bsky.social) that says: "20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. "The law only ever serves capital." It was made in response to this post by "The Guardian (World)" (@guardian-world-r) that said: "‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says"
A picture of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sitting and looking at the camera, with the white capital N in a red square logo of Newsweek superimposed on it above the white letters, "South Africa's president ribs Trump: 'I don't have a plane to give you'"
"Hello, Molly. I see you there. I think it's time to go to sleep, don't you? Good night."
A screen capture of a post by Vivian (@suchnerve) that says: "Iove how basically every study says that students do better in school with less homework & later start times and workers do better with more vacation days & shorter shifts, but we do the exact opposite in this godforsaken country because Puritanical feelings apparently beat facts"
A graphic in the style of All Elite Wrestling (AEW)'s "All Elite" announcements, when the wrestling promotion wanted to announce a new talent under contact, saying "Mount Everest is #AllElite" featuring a picture of the tallest mountain on Earth. This was due to AEW Professional Wrestler Darby Allin having achieved his goal of reaching the top of the mountain and unfurling an AEW flag atop it.
My two black cats, Minnie (left) and Laanna (right), spying on me.
One of my two black cats, Minnie.
The American Federation of Musicians of the United States & Canada will not remain silent as two of our members—Bruce Springsteen, member of Local 47 (Los Angeles, CA) and Local 399 (Asbury Park, NJ), and Taylor Swift, member of Local 257 (Nashville, TN)—are singled out and personally attacked by the President of the United States. Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift are not just brilliant musicians, they are role models and inspirations to millions of people across the world. Whether it's Born in the USA or the Eras Tour, their music is timeless, impactful, and has deep cultural meaning. Musicians have the right to freedom of expression, and we stand in solidarity with all our members.
A post by dictator Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) made Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM that reads: "Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, "EAT THE TARIFFS," and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I'll be watching, and so will your customers!!!"
A copy of a meme going around featuring Donald Trump posing with and shaking hands with Ahmed al-Sharaa, with the following quote superimposed by a red "no" symbol, showing that the quote is wrong and that the meme should not be shared unedited: "Regardless of the politics of it, I find it objectively hilarious that the United States has a $10,000,000 bounty on Ahmed al-Sharaa's head for being a member of Al Qaeda. And the President of the United States is doing photo ops with THE SAME EXACT DUDE!" SPENCER HAKIMIAN, Founder, Tolou Capital Management
Screen capture of a post by Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) that says: In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
Screen capture of a post by Kyle (@KylePlantEmoji) that says: "Why is Gorgeous the only thing you can be Drop-Dead. I wanna be drop-dead silly. Let my enemies crumble before me, overcome by the depths of my whimsy"
Three pieces of quarter size hail held in the palm of a hand.
A picture of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr., superimposed with a quote from him, "I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me."