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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Next week's challenge is an existential doozy, and I might as well be using Markdown files as emotional support animals. I'm allowed to bring them inside, but you can't ask about them or touch them! It's the law! www.patreon.com/dobyfriday

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Do By Friday #467: "Super Measles" This week's challenge: "I've been mostly been asleep for two weeks, so either way I peanut buttered." - Me, re: challenge, which we all know isn't really THE challenge…but still! 🥜 Anyway, I missed you. I'm a silly goose in this one.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I spent all night re-re-re-watching The Rehearsal.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At this point it sounds like I’m shouting “Freebird!” but years before I knew Merlin Mann, he posted something that I still re-read every year. web.archive.org/web/20160508151917/…

“Dad would lay in the hospital bed that filled our living room while my Mom slowly cranked. He'd try to make jokes. (Dad had always been the funniest person any of his friends knew.) The hospital bed creaked. Mom cranked. Dad's tired upper half would haltingly rise and bob with reluctant help from the bed's upper half. Mom sweated at the crank. Dad laid there and watched. Dad couldn't help. He watched. He was in the hospital bed. Mom did all the cranking. Dad watched. He watched while his wife turned a shitty little iron crank, trying impotently to make her best friend just a tiny bit more comfortable as his body worked to finally finish eating itself. But, he couldn't help out. I think he wanted to help out. But, he couldn't help out.
She couldn't really help my Dad. My Dad couldn't really help her. But they sure tried.
She cranked and cranked.”

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hello, and a very belated thank you for all the birthday wishes! I caught a case of Covid that came on fast and knocked the stuffing out of me, which meant no shows last week. ☹️ Thank you for the "hey u up?" (NOPE!) messages. Knowing I'm missed by para pals means more than I can say. ♥️♥️

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

MAYBE you're not hyperfixating on the potential of custom ergonomic phone cases because you're not regularly trying to type with a very specific limited range of motion while there's a 15lb cat with separation anxiety wrapped around your head who refuses to move until 7 AM

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When it's too hot, both my cat and my computer crash.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We all know CANNED *Diet* Cherry Coke is the drink of the divine, and I am but a mortal cursed to find barren shelves every week when I pick up my prescription at Walgreens. The flesh is weak. I'm going to try it.

20oz plastic bottle of ZERO SUGAR Cherry Coca-Cola on a table

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I grew up with Aqua and at the peak of Nickelodeon Slime, so I’m cursed to always fall in love with gooey GUIs. 512pixels.net/2025/06/revi...

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hey, anyone lose a giant metal clitoris? It’s on Ashland Ave near the Target.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Do By Friday #465: "Lifestyle Baby Reporter" This week's challenge: watch _Predators_. (I got so fired up about some of the stuff in this movie that I forgot Robert Pattinson's name for at least 30 seconds.)

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I know Tailscale is primarily used for big business boy stuff, but it makes my silly little home network feel magical. It's the kind of software that reminds me why I love computers.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

All these pickleball leagues are popping up and advertised as a great way to meet people. It sounds wholesome. But I want to start playing pickleball and get in with the competitive freaks. I don't want a happy hour. I want a post-game strategic rundown. I don't want to be good. I just want to win.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I would like more people to watch Predators, please (the 2025 documentary not the one about Alien's girlfriend). I know it's only on Paramount+ but it's worth buying or getting off the back of a truck to watch multiple times.

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Predators

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Everyone's suddenly obsessed with Natalie Harp, but I've been following this story since 2024 and STILL don't know what kind of portable battery pack or printer she uses.

Photo of a blonde woman in a light blue sleeveless jumpsuit carrying multiple laptops and phones plus a large red bag while walking beside an aircraft.

Screenshot of an article titled “Meet Trump’s ‘Human Printer’” highlighting a passage describing Natalie Harp traveling with a portable printer, paper, and rechargeable batteries to provide Trump with printed information.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 20/08/2026

a tv should not be a computer. a tv should be a tv. if i choose to hook a computer up to it, that's between me and god

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don't know how to convey how genuinely exciting it is to develop a visual language for spatial video and visionOS, because the process involves doing things that make you look something like this most of the time.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Do By Friday #464: "Seasonal Chicago Honesty" This week's challenge: think about transitions. dobyfriday.com/episodes/464 My Canadian boyfriend, Robert Screendoor, likes the ones where I interrupt Merlin.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’ve spent hours gaming out different scenarios that end with Merlin willingly and enthusiastically playing Werewolf.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I really miss Pastebot on iOS. Universal Clipboard has always been wonky for me. Is there a cross OS clipboard app that people really like? I am lazy and trust my my parapals' tastes.

Screenshot of the Pastebot clipboard manager on an early iPhone displaying several saved clipboard items in a vertical list, including two images, a text clipping describing Pastebot, and a Twitter URL. Each item has a circular arrow button on the right, with editing and settings controls between entries.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’m excited for Conan’s “Summer S’pouses” series, because I think the gummies saga is going to continue (timestamp): youtu.be/OaYF6PyQJxc?...

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Conan & The Chill Chums Return With New Series "Summer S'pouses" | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

YouTube video by Team Coco

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm still grumpy Pixar's _Turning Red_ never got a theatrical release in the US. Highly recommended for kids in your life who are obsessed with K-Pop Demon Hunters. Be prepared to answer questions about the 2000s (and, if applicable, what it was like being a teen girl at the time). boxd.it/ipkq

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think you can hear me trying to prevent a nosebleed after the last one.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I thought "fuck my face" was something I'd just started saying reflexively in 2013, but I definitely imprinted on Mike's and Amy's deliveries of these timestamped face-fuck lines from Veep.

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Veep - Every Fucking Fuck

Here's every fucking fuck in Seasons 1 - 7 of Veep Edited by Kevin T. Porter

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's happened: Coax has a new icon, and it supports Dark Mode on iOS. 🌠🌠🌠 coaxtheapp.com/

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I can't get over the phenomenon of influencers and streamers with shattered phone screens.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is now on Hulu, and you should watch it because you’re a nice person who deserves to be happy.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I take abandoned PCBs I find on the sidewalk (or as my spouse calls them, "trash") and try to figure out what they came from...I think we've got Bluetooth on board, baby!!!

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Do By Friday #462: "Multiple Magician Situation" This week's challenge: find someone you'd like to be compared to. dobyfriday.com/episodes/462 (For the two if you who know him, don't tell my dad I put him on the internet. It'll be your job to explain the difference between Bluesky and Mastodon.)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"no one" is doing anything is never true.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Do By Friday #461: "Childhood Whore" This week's challenge: watch episode one of _The World at War_. dobyfriday.com/episodes/461 There's always more to learn about Hitler's holiday hangouts, and I'm starting my first serious Stalin season.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Do By Friday Wiki is ALMOST at a point where it'd be useful to listeners and not just me and my unhinged Obsidian plugins. (By "useful," I mean the "you can find the timestamp where an egg yolk glops into a Rollie" kind of useful.)

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I go offline for a few days, but now I'm still expected to know what a Jimothee is.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

this is not true. the palace at Pylos had an IMAX dome (technically Omnimax, but operating under the IMAX brand) but we do not know if it was broadly accessible to more than just the wanax.

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Alex Cox 🤖 @alexcoxfm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I have a lot of follow up. dobyfriday.com/episodes/bon...