Bill Bernstein

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Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· 14d

no cheating post your lock screen

Smartphone lock screen, showing a cropped panel from a very old Superman comic book. Superman lunges upward through the air towards an oncoming propeller airplane. He’s shouting, “COME AND GET IT!”

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Jun 24

Sad? Oh no (credit for this sentiment to @alexnorris.bsky.social)

Cartoon drawing of the pink blob-person from “Webcomic_name” lying on the floor beside a book, staring upward and saying “oh no” to themselves

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Jun 8

@pitairport.bsky.social Love the prompt, speedy shuttle buses. A retention bar on the floor here would be helpful

Photo of the luggage corral in an airport shuttle bus, with an additional metal bar sketched on the floor to prevent suitcases from rolling out

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· May 22

Wednesday in Pittsburgh my wife & i enjoyed a relaxed, relatable and FUNNY comedy set by originally-regional treasure @riverbutcher.bsky.social. Thanks dude for coming back here to @bottlerocketpgh.bsky.social and offering to snap a nice photo with us

Photo taken in a bar of standup comic River Butcher with two audience members on either side of him, smiling

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Mar 9

Haven’t heard of anyone else’s smoke alarm being set off by it, though.

Screenshot from the Smell PGH mobile app. Overlaid on a map of Pittsburgh, many triangle symbols represent individuals’ complaints about air quality — basically all mentioning sulfur and irritation from it. One is highlighted, with its details pop-up reading:

Date: 3/9/2026, 8:06:59 AM
Smell Rating: 5 (About as bad as it gets!)
Symptoms: insomnia, irritability, sore throat, watery eyes, generally miserable Smell Description: hydrogen-sulfide, industrial rotten eggs

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Jan 12

Screenshot of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation saying, “I question your sincerity, Lore”

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Dec 28

Nudge things farther. Buy one of these bad boys and drive it everywhere

Close-up photo of forklift controls: swivel-crank thing in operator’s left hand, joystick thing with thumb-actuated knob in the right hand, small screen near four mechanical switches and other buttons on the console

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Dec 19

Uh-oh

Image from the movie Groundhog Day, with Bill Murray’s character Phil standing on a small-town sidewalk beside Stephen Tobolowski’s character Ned. Ned is speaking to Phil. Phil is looking away from him, annoyed

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Nov 20

This one could be improved with a pair of Clippy eyes

A photo from the article linked by the original poster. A tubular, curved, orange-ish public fixture has a loopy shape intended to be fun or friendly. It has a surveillance camera embedded at its top end. It is installed in the flowerbed next to outdoor plaza steps near a very modern glass-facade building.

A screenshot of just the cartoon eyes and floating eyebrows of Microsoft’s old “Clippy” assistive agent character.

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Oct 7

If the wrapper were edible, I’d probably grasp a pack of these and eat it like Bugs Bunny eats a carrot. 😞 (After first eating just 1, of course, which reawakens The Hunger.) My wife once gift-wrapped a carton like in the photo as a gag gift for me when we were dating

Photo of a pack of Choward’s old-fashioned Violets candy/breath mints, with a few loose mints off to the side, and a huge carton of 24 packs in the background

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Oct 6

My cat owns the same loungin’ rug

Ruthie the medium-haired tuxedo cat lounges on the corner of the living room rug, her belly and feet in the air

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Sep 30

Perhaps this. 🙁

Animated clip from the movie FULL METAL JACKET, slowly zooming in on the face of the troubled military recruit played by actor Vincent D’Onofrio.

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Sep 25

Conclave. Time to choose new battle pope

Illustration of the silly comic book character Battle Pope

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Aug 8

Two medium-haired tuxedo cats stand atop a pony-wall in a house, one slightly in front of the other. They’re looking down at the camera from above. Their white paws jut off the edge of the wall a bit. In the background, a potted plant hangs from the sloped attic ceiling.

On a welcome mat inside a house’s doorway, a medium-haired tuxedo cat lounges on a pair of gray Vans sneakers. She looks at the camera and one front paw lays between the two sneakers.

A photo taken from above, looking straight down onto a light beige carpet. Two medium-haired tuxedo cats lie side-by-side, looking up at the camera. One lies on his side, the other lies on her back with white belly facing up.

On a wooden sideboard topped with a brown blanket and colorful placemats for padding, two medium-haired tuxedo cats are chillin’ at a pair of windows. Windows are open so they can look out the screen. Both cats look back over their shoulders at the camera.

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Jul 11

Can you get away with just ‘speculating’ that it was Geo Wan King, of course a reference to this pale and exhausted king who’s important to many millennials

Still image from Lord of the Rings movie. King Théoden sits slumped on his throne gazing downward, looking pale and worn because he’s under a curse

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Jul 8

Somewhere at my parents’ house there’s the same photo but of me, in the same pants, yet bigger and pleat-ier, not looking nearly as good, in front of this NY deli before walking up the street to high school

Outdoor photo of a stereotypical New York City corner deli, screen shot from Google Street View.

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Jun 10

It’s trendy, clearly

Screenshot of the title block below a YouTube video from the generative AI product Fellow.app. The company’s YouTube account name is truncated on a small phone screen so it appears to read, “Fellow - AI Meeting Ass…”

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Jun 6

Ten minutes into your horticulture sesh…

A cropped comic book page, showing Superman standing in the Fortress of Solitude. He is in a wide-eyed trance, with an extraterrestrial plant attached to his chest and ensnaring his torso & shoulders

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· May 14

15 years ago, Buffalo, NY:

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Apr 7

Re: this clip, I hope this story series also starts to address 1. the studies suggesting that “good speech” alone doesn’t effectively counter bad in our online landscape, and 2. how the countering/good speech *itself* is considered to *be* censorship.

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Mar 7

Dunkin’ Donuts to me, after I walked the length of two airport terminals

Two-frame image of Thanos from AVENGERS: ENDGAME, saying, “You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.”

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Jan 30

His 2024 project (I plan to pick up soon) also has the very stable central triangle composition, but made up of more components and uses the negative space surrounding. But regarding the repeated triangle thing, now I’m wondering if all the covers collectively cast some kind of spell in the world 🤨

Cover for Mike Mignola & Dave Stewart’s BOWLING WITH CORPSES comic. Montage of folk tale artwork, creating a pronounced impression of an upward-pointing triangle at the center

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Jan 23

Winter prince on his heated throne

A black medium-haired cat lies flat, fast asleep, on a cushy mat atop a piece of wooden furniture. Behind the furniture are stained-glass windows with snow visible on the ground outside. Below the furniture, a radiator is visible that’s warming the cat above.

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Jan 10

I did a triple-take figuring out that your post was not quote-posting this one below it in my feed

Prisonculture’s post “it’s just… my goodness.”
Directly above Reuven Blau’s post of an article about cats that live on Riker’s Island, with a quotation from a retired guard, “I hate to say it, but I'm probably more sympathetic to animals than I am to some of the people here”

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Jan 8

4 years behind

Promotional illustration for Cartoon Network / Adult Swim’s SEALAB 2021 animated comedy TV series, with the cartoon crew members looking dynamic in their jumpsuits as they stand in their underwater control room below the show’s title test

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Dec 28

@jordanjessego.bsky.social Behold the destiny of that one landmark occasionally mentioned on the program

Part of a page from an early-‘80s Legion of Super-Heroes comic book, showing that “The Magic Castle” has evolved into “The Museum of the Mystic Arts” 1000 years on.

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Dec 22

Upping his game now

On the wooden floor of a house, some of the rear end of a black fluffy cat can be seen sticking out from under a white sheer curtain that hangs from the window above. The curtain is trapping warmth from the radiator beneath it.

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Dec 13

They have him direct it at cosmic entities nowadays. Got to agree, more stories that return to the original adversaries would be great

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Dec 13

Party popper. Happy Friday

On the carpeted floor of a house, below a table with green & red tablecloth, sits a striped, colorful, nylon play-tunnel for pets to run through. Out the nearer opening of the tunnel juts the back end of a fluffy black cat, his tail trailing straight out like the string you’d pull to fire a party popper.

Bill Bernstein@billbbillb· Dec 12

A genius at work