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[–] [email protected] 163 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

The Washington Post: "Democracy Dies in Darkness"

Bozos:

Turn the Light off, turn the light off.

I had to settle for the Jurassic Park GIF because I couldn't find the one of Homer Simpson using his gun to turn off the lights. If anyone has that GIF, please hook me up.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know this isn’t intentional, but the broken image makes the comment 10x funnier.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

LOL. Task failed successfully!

I just re-linked the GIF to go through my image proxy (originally linked directly from yarn.io which usually works fine. Usually.). Did that help?

It's also weird that it's not showing the alt text. Figured that'd have at least come through.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fixed!

Although I preferred when it looked like Bezos yeeted the file.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No shooting, but does this work? Homer gets a light bulb to the head

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Democracy Dies in Darkness

We just didn't realize this was a mission statement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

never ask rexy where she was on january 6

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I did find the "watch me turn off the TV" GIF but not not the lights :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not the one you're looking for for but

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks!

Yeah, I found that one but it wasn't quite what I wanted so passed on it and fell back to Jurassic Park.

The painful part is that I have that episode on DVD, so I have access to the scene. I just don't know how to go from DVD to GIF. lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I searched everywhere and couldn't find it, so I made it. Has to be my best contribution to the internet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks!

You are the best. Saving this! Will probably also upload it as a custom emoji on my instance.