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Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

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Alan @alanhussey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@espnbillc.bsky.social have you ever analyzed team seasons by accumulated luck? The naive approach would be wins - expected wins, but I bet you could do something more interesting than that (maybe only looking at wins in expected losses, or calculating the win probability needed to explain the MOV)

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 15/09/2026

an exhaustive list of shows i want to see pat mcafee in (THREAD)

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Tired of being a bird?” (September 14, 2026, Argyle Street, Chicago)

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Alex Gude @alexgude.com · 10/08/2026

Without further ado, @veldrina.com and I present: The Mount Rushmore of Tweets, as voted by BlueSky: 1. Miette / Jail for Mother — 83 mentions (14.4%) 2. Moon's Haunted — 78 (13.5%) 3. Milkshake Duck — 68 (11.8%) 4. Leopards Eating Faces — 63 (10.9%) 🥳

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Will Code For Pizza @markshatraw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

From when Paul the Trombonist accidentally texted his wife with voice transcription on while practicing:

A transliteration of Paul the Trombonist's trombone practice as captured by his iPhone

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Ben S. Pumpkins @benzajdel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

9:30pm going back for more hot dog

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

love to watch everyone that lives in seattle or visits it for any amount of time gush over the city while folks who live in north bend and aberdeen and other far flung cities call it a hellhole they’re afraid to visit. everyone should laugh at how weak and scared they are

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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

the world cup is just so cool because you get exposed to so many cool people from different countries and players and fans. It's rad and makes the worst people mad or indifferent

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Luna @moonbase.lgbt · 13/05/2026

MAN: Hello, police? It's a terrible thing, you see, my wife was killed last night, I was hoping you could send someone to investigate OFFICER: Certainly sir, the great detective Columbo is in town. Go and see him, he will solve the case MAN: Ah, I see, very good. Oh, officer, just one more thing,

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Alan @alanhussey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

[whispering while watching the World Cup at the World Cup] That’s the World Cup

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 11/06/2026

World Cup's here. I wrote down some thoughts.

For my part, I've always believed that the good of the World Cup is enough to justify watching, as hard as FIFA works to convince me I'm mistaken.
Maybe it's more accurate to say I've always wanted to believe that we soccer fans can have our own World Cup, one that has nothing to do with FIFA and that only superficially overlaps with the tournament FIFA is selling. That is, FIFA may be shoving bland, cynical spectacles of sportswashing down our throats; FIFA may see the World Cup as a service industry whose service is overlaying Trump's decaying head atop the globe's ultimate circus. But the moments of joy that soccer generates can still, and mostly do, come from an entirely different place, and the astonishing feeling of connection that comes from sharing the same peak experience with so many people at once is a force neither the authoritarians nor their lackeys can control.

A billion people are watching the same terrified 22-year-old step up to take a penalty kick. A billion people are going to lose their minds at the same time regardless of what happens. Being part of that experience changes your consciousness. It can't happen otherwise. As corny as this sounds, it really does bring people together. It gives us something shared, something that feels magical and that simply doesn't care very much about borders or tariffs or empires or sources of xenophobic distrust. It reminds us of precisely the thing the authoritarians want us to forget, I tell myself. It's working against their agendas the whole time they're trying to harness it.

I still feel this way, but God, it's harder than it used to be. The human cost is so high, and getting higher all the time. If I don't believe the World Cup should ever have been awarded to Russia, Qatar, or Trump's United States-and I don't!-then when I justify my decision to watch it anyway, am I doing anything but taking complicity's scenic route? I hope so. I think so. But I can't be sure.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The Ambassadors, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533, 📸 by @jp_lavs

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Sami @samitron.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

NO FUCKING WAY

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I feel like “it’s absolute horses” should refer equally to something good or something bad with its meaning imparted solely through a persons delivery of the line

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

it’s so tight that in 1996 I could turn on a basketball game on tv and it would appear in real time with concurrent sound and it never froze or buffered and in 2026 none of that is the case

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Ebeggin @ebeggin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Smash Brothers Announcer: MILES Davis! My Wii Remote: *bitcrushed opening sax riff from Freddie Freeloader*

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 30/03/2026

So many apps and websites out there get this wrong (given their focus on such verbs) that I finally sitdowned, rollupped my sleeves, and speakupped in visual form. A sign for me to tap in the future!

Setup, backup, and login are nouns.

Begin Setup
Your login attempt
See Latest Backup

They can also be adjectives:

Setup Assistant
Login Window
Backup Procedure

They are NOT verbs:

I setup my account
First, login here
How can I backup?

Set up, back up, and log in are verbs.

Let’s set up your account
Click here to log in
Back Up Now

An easy way to test for this:
put it in the past tense. If setup was a single-word verb, you would (goofily) say:

I setupped my account.
Next, I loginned.
When I backupped,

These are just three such verbs that include a preposition; there are many more. You know the difference between nouns and verbs. You can do this.

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Jake Mailhot @jakemailhot.com · 30/03/2026

Reheating this because my unemployment benefits expire next week. It’s been 6 months since I was laid off, I’ve sent out hundreds of applications, and I’m no closer to finding my next job. If anyone has any leads on open marketing, content, or ecommerce roles, I’d be so grateful for a connection.

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 13/10/2023

MLB’s Korean marketing slogan used to be “It’s big ball chunky time”, and I will never stop thinking about it

Korean MLB advertising with slogan “it’s big ball chunky time”

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Alan @alanhussey.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

proposal to call Onion-style niche-specific sites "alliums"

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is still the greatest movie related moment of 2025 for me

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digital rabbit @crashlapine.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

god finding this is like stumbling across a buried USB drive in the woods. bizarre

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

happy 13th anniversary to all who observe

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flo veltman 🔜 Paris Games Week (maybe?) 🔜 AdventureX (maybe?) @vltmn.itch.io · 21/02/2026

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

this is journalism to me

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 09/02/2026

Using Mr. Rogers in a Super Bowl commercial for mortgages should result in prison time

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Alan @alanhussey.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

stay safe y’all, someone’s out here eating just the peel

a partial banana (sans peel) abandoned on the concrete sidewalk

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Alan @alanhussey.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

@mtamblyn.bsky.social hi! love my Kobo, and I was so happy to see how quickly y’all moved to add Instapaper support. Any timeline on when we’ll get “email” support in Instapaper? I got my Kobo specifically to read email newsletters synced via Pocket, and I’d love to have that ability again.

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Zach Gage @stfj.net · 22/01/2026

Legally, it should be a requirement that any beeping appliance instead of beeping, simply says its own name, like a Pokémon

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

There are a lot of reasons to like sports, but the thing that draws me in is the opportunity to watch Things Not Go The Way They Are Supposed To. It’s the thing that ties together underdog stories and impossible endings and dominant runs by superhuman athletes, this destruction of sensibility.

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georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"i saw a bad post on x" ok well i saw a turd in the toilet but i'm not making you look at a screenshot of it

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She Blinded Me With Violence @philkensaban.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"Yesterday you were 4 Teams and now it's 12 Teams," Janet cried. "Where does it stop?" 16 Teams frowned. "24 Teams doesn't have time for

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