Today in Why-Can't-They-Both-Lose news:
"Judge tosses Laura Loomer’s lawsuit, says Bill Maher joke wasn’t defamation"
https://lite.cnn.com/2026/04/22/media/laura-loomer-bill-maher-hbo-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed
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#Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly.
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Nashville 5, Charlotte 1
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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I'm liking Jeff Hem, the Nashville broadcaster. He mentioned all the kids in the stands, and the P.A. playing "Baby Shark."
"You want to hear it? Okay. (PAUSES TO PLAY BABY SHARK). All right, I think that's the quota..."
"You want to hear it? Okay. (PAUSES TO PLAY BABY SHARK). All right, I think that's the quota..."
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Knight's stream has no ads between innings, though I don't care for the play-by-play. I'm switching back and forth to avoid the ads on WBUZ's superior p-b-p by Jeff Hem.
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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The #MinorLeague #baseball game I will be scoring today:
Nashville Sounds
https://cromwell-ice.streamguys1.com/WBUZH3
(I know the station plays, but I haven't heard a baseball broadcast on it)
Against the home team:
Charlotte Knights
https://milb.streamguys1.com/charlotte
(MiLB's stream, tested and I've heard a game broadcast on it.)
Playing at Truist Field
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truist_Field
Nashville Sounds
https://cromwell-ice.streamguys1.com/WBUZH3
(I know the station plays, but I haven't heard a baseball broadcast on it)
Against the home team:
Charlotte Knights
https://milb.streamguys1.com/charlotte
(MiLB's stream, tested and I've heard a game broadcast on it.)
Playing at Truist Field
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truist_Field
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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This is some seriously brilliant sports merch from the Pirates' affiliate Bradenton Mauraders.
#MinorLeague #baseball
https://marauders.milbstore.com/collections/novelties/products/marauders-foam-hook-hand
#MinorLeague #baseball
https://marauders.milbstore.com/collections/novelties/products/marauders-foam-hook-hand
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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@Natasha_Jay @pluralistic I worked for Flexcar back in the day, and when they went out of business, I converted my work jacket with these patches...
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Apr 10, 2026
@scalzi And get outta town with that "Episode IV" stuff! Feh!
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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@thelinuxcast I got this at Harbor Freight for about $14. They usually sell for $18.
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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@HarrySKeeler This reminded me of your comic art:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30328/pg30328-images.html
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30328/pg30328-images.html
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Jan 14, 2026
@_slotek_ NAILED IT!
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Jan 14, 2026
@noodlemaz Sorry, I didn't mean to give him a pass on that, but there was so much awfulness in that guy, it's tough to capture it all in a single Mastodon thread...
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Jan 14, 2026
BTW: I wrote this months ago, and it's a total coincidence that the last word of #ScottAdams's last public statement was also "useful."
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Jan 13, 2026
(OOPS: I wrote this on LibreOffice, and missed a paragraph when cutting/pasting to Mastodon... here it is...)
If anyone had ever pinned up a Mutts strip or Zippy the Pinhead or Nancy, I would have wanted to hang out with them in the lunchroom. Even Tumbleweeds might have been a welcome change. Sadly, it was almost always fuckin’ #Dilbert, all the way down.
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If anyone had ever pinned up a Mutts strip or Zippy the Pinhead or Nancy, I would have wanted to hang out with them in the lunchroom. Even Tumbleweeds might have been a welcome change. Sadly, it was almost always fuckin’ #Dilbert, all the way down.
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Jan 13, 2026
Further reading: “The trouble with #Dilbert : how corporate culture gets the last laugh”
by Norman Solomon
https://archive.org/details/troublewithdilbe00solo_0/mode/2up
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by Norman Solomon
https://archive.org/details/troublewithdilbe00solo_0/mode/2up
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Jan 13, 2026
...but for all that, if I were forced – I donno, at gunpoint, maybe -- to utter one nice word about #ScottAdams, I guess I’d say that for a few years, he was...
USEFUL.
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USEFUL.
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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So I guess the moral here is: #ScottAdams was a thin-skinned, egotistical monster who wrote and badly drew a hateful comic strip called #Dilbert, and all his “humor” punched down, and he used sock puppet accounts to brag about his own genius, and was a racist, and he thought Donald Trump was great...
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💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Ride Theory
@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Jan 13, 2026
So #Dilbert was my canary in the coal mine. I can’t think of another comic strip that functioned like this. Cathy was drawn almost exactly as badly as Dilbert, but the only thing I learned from seeing that strip in an office was the person pinning it up had body image issues. Peanuts meant the person had self-esteem problems. (Or, contrarywise, they identified with Snoopy.)
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@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Ride Theory
@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Jan 13, 2026
The #Dilbert gauge never failed me. The more Dilbert comic strips I saw, the nastier the place was.
I worked at a one place where Dilbert was banned. Specifically, just Dilbert. Sounds extreme, but the bosses knew exactly what #ScottAdams was peddling, and they didn’t want any.
That office ran smoothly and was among the nicest.
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I worked at a one place where Dilbert was banned. Specifically, just Dilbert. Sounds extreme, but the bosses knew exactly what #ScottAdams was peddling, and they didn’t want any.
That office ran smoothly and was among the nicest.
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Ride Theory
@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Ride Theory
@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Jan 13, 2026
If there was even one #Dilbert comic pinned up to a communal bulletin board, watch out! The hatred went from workers up AND management down.
God forbid someone had used the photocopier to enlarge it; that meant they wanted everyone to see how much they hated everyone.
In this last situation, I would usually call my agency at the end of the day and ask if they had any other assignments.
If I saw Dilbert plush toys, I’d just tell my agency I couldn’t continue the assignment.
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God forbid someone had used the photocopier to enlarge it; that meant they wanted everyone to see how much they hated everyone.
In this last situation, I would usually call my agency at the end of the day and ask if they had any other assignments.
If I saw Dilbert plush toys, I’d just tell my agency I couldn’t continue the assignment.
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Ride Theory
@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Ride Theory
@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Jan 13, 2026
Whenever I saw a disproportionate number of #Dilbert comics in one cubicle, I knew to avoid that person. They were clearly the asshole in the office, and they were usually on a hair trigger. I once saw a cubicle that was practically wallpapered with Dilbert comics, including several where he had labeled the characters with co-workers’ names, and then pinned them on the OUTSIDE of his cube. Yikes! Steer clear of that dude!
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Ride Theory
@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Ride Theory
@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Jan 13, 2026
If virtually every cubicle had more than one #Dilbert comic pinned up, I knew everyone working there disliked each other. The atmosphere probably wasn’t going to be too terrible for me as a temp, but I wouldn’t want to work there permanently.
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Ride Theory
@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Ride Theory
@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Jan 13, 2026
My #ScottAdams Story
In the 1990s, I worked as an office temp. I logged a lot of hours in a lot of different offices, and I had an instant and accurate way to sense how dysfunctional and toxic a workplace was as soon as I walked in.
I took note of how many #Dilbert comics were pinned up, and where.
If I saw one or two #Dilbert comics scattered around, I knew people had their gripes and complaints about their co-workers, but it was nothing too serious.
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In the 1990s, I worked as an office temp. I logged a lot of hours in a lot of different offices, and I had an instant and accurate way to sense how dysfunctional and toxic a workplace was as soon as I walked in.
I took note of how many #Dilbert comics were pinned up, and where.
If I saw one or two #Dilbert comics scattered around, I knew people had their gripes and complaints about their co-workers, but it was nothing too serious.
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@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Ride Theory
@ridetheory@mastodon.social
💉x 10 + 😷 indoors = Novid (🤞) #ThemeParks, #Trains, #Stereoscopic #photography, #Ebike, #NonFiction, #Science, #Postcards #MailArt #SluggoIsLit "Hello! We're glad you made it! Welcome to... THE FUTURE!" -- The Firesign Theatre #Baseball played on artificial turf is better than no baseball at all. Slightly. Proud owner of a McDonald's cocaine spoon. (Banner and avatar: an antique lithograph of a chimpanzee in a brown plaid suit and tweed flat cap riding a bicycle.)
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Dec 07, 2025
@paka ...aaaand, of course, the masks in the photo are baggy blues. Better than nothing, but just barely.
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