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Let Molly Ivins walk you through some of the oddest news from our beautiful home ... in Strangest State.

Browse more from the May/June 2025 issue of our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/may-june-2025/

#news #comics #weird #Texas #culture #animals #drugs #science #ElonMusk #SpaceX

In Strangest State, Molly Ivins appears to narrate weird or odd events that took place in our state, such as: Game wardens in Milam county found a man with a collection of methamphetamine and poisonous snakes, including a monocled cobra, a green bush viper and 25 rattlers in hjis apartment (the snakes are shown wearing sunglasses, partying and doing drugs).A man hunting deer on a West Texas ranch found something completely different: an extinct mammoth. Concerned 911 callers in Hutto were told not to worry about a guy dangling from a helicopter near electrical lines: he works for the power company. A passenger captured video from her airline flight of a SpaceX rocket exploding into a fireball after its launch from the Gulf Coast near Brownsville. Elon Musk called it a "minor setback." (Musk gives a thumbs up while debris lands near a crowd behind him). Molly Ivins: Well Folks, that's some strange news isn't it? If you see something happening around town, give us a shout: strangest@texasobserver.org

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invisibile grief
you think you hide it so well
know that I see you

#dailyhaikuprompt - grief

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/i-see-blue-abstract-art-sharon-cummings.html

#grief #grieving #bereavement #death #dying #loss #eye #eyes #blue #abstract #art #artwork #iris #irises #SharonCummingsArt #fediart #mastoart #odd #weird #different #poetry #poet #poem #smallpoems #shortpoem #modern #modernhome #modernart #human #humanart #humanartist #poets #poems #smallpeom #shortpoems #circle #buyintoart

Blue irises from eyes collaged into an abstract piece of art by artist Sharon Cummings. Haiku in post.

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Reality is a simulation of the truth.

#scifi #sciencefiction #cyberpunk #surreal #weird

@scifi

@cyberpunk

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#Introduction! I'm Sam, I write #weird #SpeculativeFiction by night & work at saving the world by day. BSc #Oceanography #SouthamptonUni, MSc #Cranfield. I enjoy chasing #Garmin badges, mostly by #bicycle, #outdoor #adventures & #gaming. I'm #neuroatypical & opinionated, but mostly use social media for random thought dumping, #cycling chat & #husky photos. More about my #writing at https://www.ravenbait.com & more random nonsense at https://www.ravenfamily.org/sam. Opinions entirely my own.

A white-faced lucky licks the author's chin. Author is wearing sunglasses, orange buff, red jacket, green hello kitty cycling cap. Backdrop of scrubby cliffs under a cloudy blue sky.

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Someone says ‘Tell me about yourself.’ I say ‘Awkward and weird. Can I go, now?’

#Awkward #Weird #AwkwardAndWeird

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#BlackMetalMonday

But for the love of Satan, no clear singing please 😬

#Meme #Memes #MetalMemes #BlackMetal #SymphonicMetal #Metal #Humor #Humour #Fun #weird #ArtWolf

meme based on a strange, medieval depiction of one person playing violin and the other person moving in a grotesque, unrealistic way (bending backwards by 180 degrees so that the forehead is touching the Achilles' heels). The face of the violin player is having so called corpse paint on it, mostly white with eyes and other, small areas black, intended to look creepy. Corpse paint is typical for the music genre Black Metal, at the top of the image it reads "dancing to symphonic black metal"

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#ArtWolf

#AngelaAnaconda #AngelaAnacondaMeme #Meme #Memes #Cartoon #Humor #Satire #90s #2000s #weird

Meme with Angela Anaconda, main character of the animated cartoon series of the same name (the show is known to use faces of real people for its characters while the rest of their bodies are in the style of a classical cartoon)
Upper part: Angela with a critical, rejecting face, next to her the line: "Watching kids tv as an adult"
Bottom part: Angela with a strange, disconcerting smile on her face, next to her the line: "Watching weird and creepy kids tv as an adult"

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Oh, whoops, we're supposed to do an #introduction?!
Um, ok. Belated intro 🙃
I love #books, #movies, #art, #podcasts & #music w a proclivity for #horror & the #weird / #eerie. I write #reviews & make #spooky & not-so-spooky art. I'm #autistic & wildly verbose about things that enthuse me but simultaneously #introverted generally. I am fascinated by the #odd, love #cosmichorror, #folkhorror & #hauntedhouses. I play #piano. I share things that I think are awesome. Is this enough?

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Everything I’ve ever learned about cereal foods in America has been against my will.

Cornflakes were invented by Kellogg’s to prevent masturbation. And now I’ve just learned Chex was created by white supremacists to try to give white people mind control powers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralstonism

#Food #Weird

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Does anyone else find it #weird that #Trump is signing Executive Orders that are being explained to him while he’s signing it?

He’s not running the country, #Project2025 and #elonmusk are running the show.

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An Empty Chair Haunts Your Mind

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/an-empty-chair-haunts-your-mind-justin-farrimond.html

Wherever you are, wherever this is, something isn't right.
The chair draws you in and try as you might you cannot unsee it.
Everything feels wrong.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Art #Photography #Dreamscape #Monochrome #PhotographyIsArt #Weird

Black and white portrait photograph showing an empty wooden armchair beneath a stained glass lancet window.

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What’s your secret?

https://mikesmale.bandcamp.com/album/secret-fetish

#Music #Musician #SynthRock #Weird

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256d

In a polarized society, it takes rare talent to find common ground across the political spectrum

#uspol #KristiNoem #MAGA #GOP #Dems #anarchism #vegan #anarchist #VennDiagram #climate #capitalism #fascism #genocide #StudentProtests #MaskBans #refugees #immigration #LGBTQ #weird #socialism #degrowth #surveillance #corruption #DEI #LGBTQIA #BookBans #democracy #elections2024

A venn diagram with 3 circles titled "Things Which Are Not O.K."

The blue circle is "According To Dems", the red circle is "According To G.O.P/MAGA", and the black circle is "According To Green Vegan Anarchists". Where the 3 circles overlap it says "Shooting Puppies"

In the red circle you can see things like "Woke", "Masks", and "Pronouns". In the blue circle you can see things like "Felons", "Weird People", and "Overthrowing The Government". In the black circle you can see things like "Capitalism", "Genocide", and "Cops"

Where the red and blue circles overlap you can see things like "Refugees", "Student Protests", and "B.D.S."

Where the blue and black circles overlap you can see things like "Dictatorships", "Rape", and "Buying Judges"

Where the red and black circles overlap you can see "Woke-Washing"

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Out today from me, at @TexasObserver: The creators of "Young Greg Abbott: A FuQusical" hope to take their show on the road, inspiring anger, laughter, and political change while undermining the governor's career through satire. "We want to be in his ear, as this very annoying little pesky punk show following him around."
https://www.texasobserver.org/young-greg-abbott-musical/

#culture #GregAbbott #politics #USpol #Texas #weird #Austin #theatre

A giant puppet made to look like former Texas Governor Ann Richards, with a huge white hairdo above her face, which has comically large muppet-y eyes and bright red lips.

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Just released this October 18th from The Liquid Clear...'None (alt)' is an alternate version of the recent 'None' LP with an earlier, somewhat softer mix. It was recently discovered in a forgotten online archive and is now here for listening.

https://theliquidclear.bandcamp.com/album/none-alt

only $1 for a limited time..

#indiemusic #synth #experimental #weird #music

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Het Radio Klotestad Zine!
nummer 1 is in de maak, en je kunt deze al voorbestellen.

Het wordt een bijzonder boekje, met niet op de website vertoond materiaal, en unieke kunst.

De oplage is vooralsnog 20 exemplaren, dus wil je verzekerd zijn van 1 fantastisch originales Klotestad zine: bestel (via hier of email) voor € 10- incl porto binnen NL.

https://www.radioklotestad.nl/tekst/zine.html

(de voorkant wordt anders dan dit btw, maar *hoe* anders verklap ik niet!)

#zine #kunst #art #verhalen #fotografie #weird

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RFK jr: just celebrated the birthday of my cat

Interviewer: oh that's nice, how'd you celebrate it?

RFK jr: I made fish tacos

Interviewer: ah, and you ate them with your cat?

RFK jr: no, he's been dead for two years

Interviewer: ok so-

RFK jr: I snuck into a taco bell and put them in someone else's bag

Interviewer: what

RFK jr: yeah, I like to share the celebration with others

Interviewer: did- did you tell them?

RFK jr: nah, that would ruin the surprise!

#Weird #USPolitics

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🧵 (1/ ) #Weird #WeirdGOP
I was disappointed by the lack of examples of #GOP weirdness when I clicked the hashtag, so this thread is meant to rectify that.

I have about 100 examples that I hope to post over the next few days. Let's start with a video:

Please #follow & #boost. #HarrisWalz2024