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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So many cool things we could RETVRN to and those jerks only ever want the racism.

Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hot Take: I think we need to RETVRN to a time when everyone just wrote English however the fuck they wanted with no grammar or spelling rules and your own name could be spelled three different ways depending on how you felt that day.

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Kittens MLT (ASCP) @warkittens.makeitbouncy.net · 24/09/2026

Holy shit, AP, you brilliant bastards. YES to this entire thread. We love this. Internalize this. All news and media should embrace this.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am not. But by god I am stealing this idea and will be someday in the future

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yes! Plasma donation is good. It is the way the system exploits people’s economic distress that bothers me.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I mean, we were watching a documentary about 9/11, but still.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If anyone was wondering how the economy was doing, I just had to explain plasma donation to my kids because we saw an ad for it on Disney+.

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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There will be short growl tests all month per a facebook post.

City of Minneapolis post on FB screenshot that says:

City of Minneapolis Government

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Minneapolis siren growl tests start in September
Titles are generated by AI from Meta
On Monday, Aug. 31, Hennepin County will begin upgrading outdoor warning sirens across Minneapolis. During the month of September, you may hear short, 10- to 15-second “growl tests” from these sirens. These tests help confirm that individual sirens are working.
Learn more about the work to upgrade the sirens: https://www.hennepincounty.gov/government/news-events/stories/preparing-for-extreme-weather

The post reposts a Hennepin County Government post that reads:

Hennepin County Government
August 5 at 12;25 PM
We're upgrading the control system for nearly 300 outdoor warning sirens across the county. This work is modernizing our system, one of the largest in the country, to provide faster, more precise and reliable warnings during emergencies.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

How I Met Your Mother hasn’t aged well and I don’t really think about it much at this point. And yet, every time Siri starts butting in without my explicit request I find myself screaming “NOBODY ASKED YOU, PATRICE!”

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/08/2026

I really recommend the 2022 documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight,” which profiles the scientists working in relative obscurity to keep the Voyager spacecraft operating—many of them past retirement age, but unwilling to quit until the Voyagers do. It was very sweet and thought-provoking.

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

the american paradox

truck that says "puritan bakery best buns in town"

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I saw a recipe for boiling sweet corn in a mixture of milk, butter, honey and jalapeños. And I will say … I am intrigued

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They just don’t carry that at Target

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My former father in law used them on plumbing and electrical projects! To find utilities in the walls

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Also in the Nov 55 issue of Popular Sciende: ads for literal divining rods and a very earnest attempt to influence you into buying an accordion.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Also in this Nov 55 issue of Popular Science: ad for products you have literally never seen an ad for in your life

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The ads in this Nov 55 Popular Science are magical array of obvious work-from-home scams, for-profit correspondence schools, guides to hustle-maxxing in a variety of questionable fields …

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In 1955, Popular Science apparently functioned kind of proto TikTok Shop for woodshop dads … and I mean that more literally than you think.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Okay everyone, my dad had an issue of Popular Science from the month of his birth and it’s time to take a little adventure through the history of advertising …

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My girlfriend pointed out this is also the 6th anniversary of 30-50 feral hogs in my yard (what am I supposed to do)

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” Day to all! Celebrate by letting your roomba continue to clean while you, yourself, dissolve into dust.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, in a conversation about glass art, my boyfriend asked if I had ever been to the Chartres Cathedral … and we learned that I am an absolute child. Literally still grinning about it hours later. Also this was at dinner with my mom and I had to explain both “Chartres” and “shart” to her.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

So I don’t normally commute, but my kids had a camp in Bloomington all week and if there’s one thing I learned from a week’s worth of rush hours it’s that a lot of y’all call in sick on summer Fridays.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

but then how will we know we're not mad at each other

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants works great as camp, does it not?

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Best part about having middle schoolers so far: their new favorite show is Last Week Tonight

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ceej @ceej.online · 23/07/2026

say what you will about the internet, but it’s undeniably the best way to find new stupid stuff to be insane about every day

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The 12 year old just found out that artificial gravity isn’t a real thing and would like to file a complaint with all the science fiction writers who failed to properly explain that part was (as of yet) fiction.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ancient Cat Update: She lives! Back for another oil change and am relieved to discover that my mechanic’s 25 year old cat is still (however implausibly) with us. Thank god. I don’t know that I could have taken her death at this time.

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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It's because they did it by boat....

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

You guys, I just spent 10 minutes wandering through my house sniffing thinking there was a gas leak but it wasn’t coming from anywhere near the gas lines … only to realize the smell was the durian cream wafers my kid bought from the Asian grocery

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I KNEW there was gonna be bad news about her that came out eventually

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Literally called the Peace Garden. It got a little loud. Loud Peace Garden

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Unfortunately they have all followed me to the garden

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Same. Instead I am walking down the block to water the community garden

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

There is an 11th birthday slumber party taking over my living room and I am realizing I do not have the space for entertaining. This is never a problem with adults.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/07/2026

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I don’t mean to judge, but something is VERY wrong with Jimothy

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

You don’t get THAT from digital media.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My 11-year-old has plastered her bedroom with pictures from National Geographic like it’s Tiger Beat and this Incan mummy is Donnie Osmond.

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