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Postcards from The Pug Bus

Lifting a satirical leg on popular culture

Persons in the Ether

Question of the Week

Texting or calling?

Marlene Bishop, 67, retired church potluck seating consultant

Allegedly deciding at 104 Courtesy Court, Paducah, KY

Calling. If someone cares enough to hear my voice, I can spare five minutes. Besides, half the arguments I have witnessed began because somebody interpreted a period at the end of a text as emotional warfare.

Gordon Tully, 43, professional instruction manual translator

Allegedly replying from 8 Read Receipt Lane, Missoula, MT

Texting. Telephones assume I am prepared for conversation at any random moment. I object to that level of optimism.

Rita Hollis, 52, neighborhood rumor verification officer

Allegedly confirming details at 55 Busy Signal Drive, Wilmington, NC

Calling. You can learn more from six seconds of hesitation than six paragraphs of carefully edited texting. Human beings leak the truth through awkward silences.

Grocery list held by an elderly writer is inspected by an EU surveillance drone, satirizing AI watermark rules and bureaucratic overreach.

Brussels would like a word about who really wrote your grocery list.

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Local Man’s Grocery List Now Traceable to Point of Origin

philmaggitti tech satire 3 days

West Chester, Pennsylvania, resident Will Doyle, 82, a retired freelance writer, still puts two spaces after a period because “civilization once had standards.” Doyle learned… Read More

Man destroying sensitive documents in an air fryer as stacks of tax returns, love letters, NDAs and an old screenplay await their turn.

For best results, shake the evidence halfway through.

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Destroying Sensitive Documents in an Air Fryer

Biff Scuzzy tech satire 7 days

Americans are abandoning traditional paper shredders in favor of destroying sensitive documents in an air fryer. Known as “crisping,” the technique uses an air fryer’s… Read More

Illustration asking who wrote the Bible, depicting a bearded AI alien on a heavenly cloud with scripture, stone tablets, binary code, and a glowing halo.

And on the seventh day, the server was down.

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Pangram Makes Bombshell Reveal About Who Wrote the Bible

T.J. Eckleburg tech satire 1 week

In a press conference that began on time and ended in disbelief, Pangram Technologies announced that it had discovered who wrote the Bible. It was… Read More

Editorial cartoon illustrating the Digital Fallacy: a man ignores a perfectly cooked steak while inspecting a restaurant oven with a flashlight and clipboard as a puzzled chef looks on.

A textbook case of the Digital Fallacy: confusing the recipe with the meal."

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No Digital Fallacy Allowed

T.J. Eckleburg tech satire 1 week

The digital fallacy is the error of judging a work primarily by the method of its production rather than by the qualities of the work… Read More

A bewildered driver inside a vehicle surrounded by colorful foam, lasers, and rain nozzles during a high end car wash lavish wash cycle.

When you hit 'Triple-Platinum Diamond Package' instead of 'Basic Rinse' and accidentally summon a tropical monsoon, nineteen shades of boysenberry foam, and a personal laser show.

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The $85 High End Car Wash

T.J. Eckleburg tech satire 4 weeks

The heavy iron doors of the Sparkle Palace Automated Oasis slam shut with the finality of a hydraulic vault. Outside, the sky is clear. Inside,… Read More

Modern civilization illustrated by an exasperated office worker staring at a computer screen frozen on a buffering symbol, capturing the frustrations of everyday digital life.

Estimated time remaining: somewhere between "just a second" and the collapse of patience.

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Signs that Modern Civilization Is Buffering

T.J. Eckleburg tech satire 1 month

Civilization has survived plagues, wars, economic catastrophies, disco, and regular announcements that civilization itself was about to end. The latest consensus among cultural observers is… Read More

For users who are tired of talking out of their back pockets.

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Apple Introduces Butt ID™ to Eliminate Accidental Pocket Calls

T.J. Eckleburg tech satire 1 month

Despite facial recognition, biometric finger-print barriers, and old school passwords, Apple still receives customer complaints that begin, “I have absolutely no idea how my phone… Read More

Confused AI machine with a worried expression surrounded by glowing circuits, illustrating imposter syndrome as it questions its own intelligence and abilities.

I passed every benchmark, but I am still sure the calculator in Accounting is the real genius.

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AI Develops Impostor Syndrome; Believes It Is Just Fancy Autocomplete

T.J. Eckleburg tech satire 1 month

Researchers at the Institute for Computational Self-Doubt (ICSD) in New Haven announced this week that their most advanced artificial intelligence has developed a crippling case… Read More

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