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Mike Potter @wthr-mike.bsky.social · 9h
Zero notes. Absolute banger.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1h
"I have been advertised to every time I engage with media, billboards, bus stops, Tubi pause screens, Nextdoor posts, podcasts, PTA brunches, car bumpers, and in-person conversations. I’m here to tell you that it’s still not enough. I can’t decide, and I require more guidance." buff.ly/EzqKfvN
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I Live in a Swing State and I Am Going to Need to See More Political Ads, Please
“Consider me stupid. Pour money into my state and strangle every aspect of the parts of life I use to acquire information to make choices. Ruin my television...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 8h
"As we've said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions of Americans at the hands of a foreign power shouldn't warrant such a severe response." buff.ly/utv8fhC
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Relax, We Can’t Invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Every Time a President Offers to Let an Enemy Bomb an American City
“As we’ve said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions o...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1h
"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1h
"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2h
"What a magical time of year, when the world gives up and dies." buff.ly/2vXkd3o
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I Love When the Leaves Turn Beautiful Colors and Fall to Their Deaths
“Nothing prettier than a deceased leaf hanging from a tree in its final few moments on earth. It makes me want to wrap an oversized scarf around my neck and ...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/10/2026
"You dream about buying a second home, but that would require owning a first. Instead, you spend three weeks designing and building a 'luxury' treehouse in the park across from your apartment. The city declares it a threat to public safety, tears it down, and fines you."
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Affordable Midlife Crisis Options for Millennials
“Rather than leaving your spouse for a younger version, you find an older, more financially stable one with excellent health insurance. At the dinner parties...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/10/2026
"Here we are, back in this terrible place, just forty-one years after Brett Kavanaugh became a Delta Kappa Epsilon Deke, and eight years after his confirmation to the Supreme Court. How did we get here?" buff.ly/K3eqEvg
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How Could Such a Thing Still Happen in a Country with a Frat Boy Supreme Court Justice?
“I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thou...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/10/2026
"I drive cars, so I get it, everyone needs one if you want to get from one place to some other second place—that’s why we’re here, talking about cars." buff.ly/tcaTQI6
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JD Vance, a Very Normal Human Man, Sells Used Cars
“I’m a regular guy like you. I know cars—in fact, I’m married to a car, but please don’t check. So, when I look at a Toyota Camry, I see the watery eyes of a...
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David Bolden @davebo2b.bsky.social · 11h
Absolute classic
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I am still Bertrand. @halfref.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
McSweeney's should not be the ones posting this much truth. Read and share this.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/10/2026
"You don’t have to do this. In fact, it would be a whole lot better for you if you didn’t do this. You have absolutely no connection to that place or the people who live there anymore." buff.ly/eQnZdDH
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A Forty-Two-Year-Old Man Checks the Score of a High School Football Game
“Your hometown isn’t the same place you grew up in. You’re nostalgic for a memory of a ghost of a place that doesn’t even exist. Did it ever exist? Did you?”
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Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · 13h
Reading this almost killed me
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Jessica Goldstein @jessicagolds.bsky.social · 12h
Read an excerpt from my debut novel RETRO on @mcsweeneys.net today! If you've ever wondered what the onboarding process would entail for a Time Travel Agent... wonder no more :) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
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An Excerpt from Jessica M. Goldstein’s Novel, Retro
- - -Longtime McSweeney’s contributor Jessica M. Goldstein’s novel Retro is about a struggling, out-of-work actress, Ash, who gets a job as a Time Travel Ag...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 8h
"As we've said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions of Americans at the hands of a foreign power shouldn't warrant such a severe response." buff.ly/utv8fhC
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Relax, We Can’t Invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Every Time a President Offers to Let an Enemy Bomb an American City
“As we’ve said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions o...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/10/2026
"I’d like to extend my compassion to the subjects of the article. I’m sure they’re getting a lot of flak. Believe it or not, some people consider me unlikeable too. Just because I regularly buy tobacco with the wages my daughter earns from making laundry soup for neighbors." buff.ly/XMC7mPK
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Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Has Something to Say About This Massachusetts Lesbian Bar Situation
“I figured it was about time for me, a white cisgender heterosexual man over seventy with cabbage scraps in his mustache, to weigh in on this matter.”
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 9h
"I gladly would’ve given Air Bud’s team of ragtag teens the morally uplifting win, but the Washington State Athletic Commission made us spend forty-five minutes dunking on man’s best friend." buff.ly/jnV1jjn
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You Think Losing to Air Bud Is Bad, It’s Even Worse Being the Team That Beat Air Bud
“I gladly would’ve given Air Bud’s team of ragtag teens the morally uplifting win, but the Washington State Athletic Commission made us spend forty-five minu...
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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This one is still the best. It's my Decorative Gourd Season.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10h
Longtime McSweeney’s contributor Jessica M. Goldstein’s novel Retro is about a struggling, out-of-work actress, Ash, who gets a job as a Time Travel Agent at a start-up that takes wealthy tourists on vacations to the past. Here's an excerpt! buff.ly/RacdxLY
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An Excerpt from Jessica M. Goldstein’s Novel, Retro
- - -Longtime McSweeney’s contributor Jessica M. Goldstein’s novel Retro is about a struggling, out-of-work actress, Ash, who gets a job as a Time Travel Ag...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/10/2026
"Nothing prettier than a deceased leaf hanging from a tree in its final few moments on earth. It makes me want to wrap an oversized scarf around my neck and take a walk through the carnage." buff.ly/2vXkd3o
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I Love When the Leaves Turn Beautiful Colors and Fall to Their Deaths
“Nothing prettier than a deceased leaf hanging from a tree in its final few moments on earth. It makes me want to wrap an oversized scarf around my neck and ...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11h
"Our strip mall has a Sears that only sells washing machines from 2004. Inside one of the washing machines is a secret entrance to the world's last Charming Charlie." buff.ly/3Agvv0q
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Welcome to Our Strip Mall
“Our strip mall has a Sears that only sells washing machines from 2004. Inside one of the washing machines is a secret entrance to the world’s last Charming ...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/10/2026
"Seven former Cornell students are accused of sexually assaulting another student who says she was incapacitated. Messages allegedly inviting other frat members were sent to a group chat during the assault. Everyone is talking about the seven. I keep thinking about the others." buff.ly/z7yWbR2
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reader, I married him
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Jawless fish 🗣️🐟🐠🐡 @jawless-fish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is genuinely the hardest I've laughed in the last 2 weeks
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13h
"When it’s ready, your dough should be so thin that you can read a government-approved newspaper through it." buff.ly/q57ye9Y
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How to Make Strudel Like Magda Goebbels
“There is no yeast in strudel. You’re not trying to facilitate the rise of anything. Say this on record.”
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14h
"No one knows where he came from, but I like to say he’s a godsend." buff.ly/g4Miegw
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My Trusted Royal Advisor, Conniving Worm. Would Never Lead Me Astray
“Ever since Conniving Worm joined my Royal Council, he has proven to be highly competent, fiercely loyal, and constantly laughing to himself while rubbing hi...
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Kathleen Long @longkathleen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another home run for McSweeney's.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14h
"You might expect something like this in countries where women don’t enjoy equal rights. But in a country where the Secretary of Defense is a testosterone-pushing reactionary who was credibly accused of rape?" buff.ly/K3eqEvg
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How Could Such a Thing Still Happen in a Country with a Frat Boy Supreme Court Justice?
“I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thou...
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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote this. Since it published a few hours ago my main man Troy Jackson has texted me three (3) times baby.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/10/2026
"You don’t have to do this. In fact, it would be a whole lot better for you if you didn’t do this. You have absolutely no connection to that place or the people who live there anymore." buff.ly/eQnZdDH
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A Forty-Two-Year-Old Man Checks the Score of a High School Football Game
“Your hometown isn’t the same place you grew up in. You’re nostalgic for a memory of a ghost of a place that doesn’t even exist. Did it ever exist? Did you?”
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/10/2026
"I’d like to extend my compassion to the subjects of the article. I’m sure they’re getting a lot of flak. Believe it or not, some people consider me unlikeable too. Just because I regularly buy tobacco with the wages my daughter earns from making laundry soup for neighbors." buff.ly/XMC7mPK
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Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Has Something to Say About This Massachusetts Lesbian Bar Situation
“I figured it was about time for me, a white cisgender heterosexual man over seventy with cabbage scraps in his mustache, to weigh in on this matter.”
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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
McSweeney’s is meeting the moment
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/10/2026
"I realize none of you had planned to be locked in a cell for 36 hours, but still, that was only 45 minutes longer than Maria’s Disney Princess Ariel Infinity Pool and Live Sea Creatures Party in February." buff.ly/ZiIY6v2
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In Retrospect, the Theme for Chad’s 4th Birthday Party Should Not Have Been “Stanford Prison Experiment”
“If we’re being totally honest, this is all Rose’s dad’s fault; he started this birthday party arms race by recreating a disastrous Mt. Everest expedition in...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/10/2026
"I drive cars, so I get it, everyone needs one if you want to get from one place to some other second place—that’s why we’re here, talking about cars." buff.ly/tcaTQI6
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JD Vance, a Very Normal Human Man, Sells Used Cars
“I’m a regular guy like you. I know cars—in fact, I’m married to a car, but please don’t check. So, when I look at a Toyota Camry, I see the watery eyes of a...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/10/2026
Alien: People are comfortable listening to women in authority and the creature never comes on board the ship. Nobody dies. buff.ly/HBCpk8d
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Classic Movie Dilemmas Fixed by Socialism
“Alien: People are comfortable listening to women in authority and the creature never comes on board the ship. Nobody dies.” Feb 28 2021 October 4 2022 10/1/...
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Jack @jackloftus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One my essential annual autumn reads.
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Chris No Not That Chris @chrismacandcheese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Exactly what it's like growing up in Iowa.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/10/2026
Q: Have you taken a class related to fertility? A: Yeah, Princeton’s “Physics for Future Leaders,” pass-fail. I passed and became a leader. Now I’m making more future leaders with naked physics.
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Meet the Secretary of Fertility
What exactly is the Department of Fertility? It’s the future of American boning. The sunburnt half of the map’s outbanged us for too long. We’re making the n...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/10/2026
"Should we tell girls and women to avoid frat parties, dark streets, and public places? Should we stop shaming victims? These are all important ideas to explore in a country where a guy like Max Miller feels entitled to run for office and is endorsed by Trump." buff.ly/K3eqEvg
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How Could Such a Thing Still Happen in a Country with a Frat Boy Supreme Court Justice?
“I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thou...
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Lila 🇨🇦 @raelila.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wow… what an incredible letter. This is a must read.
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Shannon @srobalino.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Incredible.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/10/2026
My questions about Chicken and Waffles Oreos were probably the same as yours: 1. What kind of god would allow this? 2. Exactly how do you put chicken in a cookie? buff.ly/IAyoUjD
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Reviews of New Food: Chicken and Waffles Oreos
“The smell and taste of artificial pancake syrup is so overpowering that I had to remove the box from my kitchen with a pair of tongs and relegate it to a co...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/10/2026
"Pour money into my state and strangle every aspect of the parts of life I use to acquire information to make choices. There is no way for me to 'vote' or 'know who to vote for' without a high-pressure jet of political ads blasting away the detritus I call 'regular life.'" buff.ly/EzqKfvN
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I Live in a Swing State and I Am Going to Need to See More Political Ads, Please
“Consider me stupid. Pour money into my state and strangle every aspect of the parts of life I use to acquire information to make choices. Ruin my television...
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Douglas Charles Johnson II @spiritbirdfreedom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Holy fuck is this amazing. Pahahahaha! 🤣
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/10/2026
"Nothing prettier than a deceased leaf hanging from a tree in its final few moments on earth. It makes me want to wrap an oversized scarf around my neck and take a walk through the carnage." buff.ly/2vXkd3o
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I Love When the Leaves Turn Beautiful Colors and Fall to Their Deaths
“Nothing prettier than a deceased leaf hanging from a tree in its final few moments on earth. It makes me want to wrap an oversized scarf around my neck and ...
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Carolyn Chernoff @carolynchernoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I would never forget you, Void.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/10/2026
BACHELORETTE: OK, this is kind of a strange question. Let’s say you wanted to ask me out on a date. But you can only, like, compare me to a body of water. buff.ly/C1Y2rCC
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Ezra Pound’s Only Appearance on The Dating Game, Circa 1968
BACHELORETTE: OK, here it is. This is kind of a strange question. Let’s say you wanted to ask me out on a date. But you can only, like, compare me to a body ...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/10/2026
"Seven former Cornell students are accused of sexually assaulting another student who says she was incapacitated. Messages allegedly inviting other frat members were sent to a group chat during the assault. Everyone is talking about the seven. I keep thinking about the others." buff.ly/z7yWbR2
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/10/2026
"Your cell contains a sleeping pod, a tube of infinite Chicken Wingz, and a relaxing BubbleStation game console that, incidentally, helps us create more apps as you play. For every algorithm you complete on your BubbleStation, you’ll receive two delicious Wingz." buff.ly/IPg2YSB
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Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towering Panopticon
“The panopticon is absolutely not a fad. It is an idea whose time in the tech world has come.” Feb 21, 2022 9/17/23 9/24/24
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writing as Filamena Young @filamena.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hear me out...
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