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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I got carded to buy creatine at Whole Foods???

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just found an old note where handwriting recognition saw my "Week of May 24" and turned it to "Weep o'slay 24" Now I have to write a horror franchise, right?

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wonder how many of the 25+ nail salons in my town of 30K people are fronts for money laundering

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really want to know how many cliffs there are in China such that "falling off a cliff" is such a common trope

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brian j. @talkwordy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i am slowly being required to use ai more for work, so i added a core instruction that it is not allowed to refer to itself as if it was human, can't use "I" as a pronoun, and has to call itself "the robot. it doesn't fix anything but it is slightly less creepy

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✨trash✨ @dollarpbr.gay · 23/09/2026

there’s nothing i want more than to witness Random Scalper Attempts To RICO The Pokémon Company International we’ve all earned this

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This post right here is gonna be a banger for the ages, I feel it in my bones

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why do tarot decks have such embarrassing names

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New post going up soon, this one on why Google sucks now. Maybe you subscribe? buttondown.com/secretworks

buttondown.com

secret.works

Author and game designer Andrea Phillips writes about culture, technology, and art.

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just remembered that in the OG Dracula, Halloween goes by and nothing at all happens, and I'm mad about it all over again

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What are your favorite news sites now, and why?

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today I did something very close to an old-timey email amnesty, but alas it didn't make me feel BETTER about email

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have just been informed that rosemary is not in fact spicy in the same way that lavender is not in fact spicy

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 17/09/2026

Robert E Lee was the most overrated general in history. Woof. towardsdatascience.com/napoleon-was...

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally I understand what gothic is all about!

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dungeon Masters: what are some weird (and preferably funny things players have asked at table? Mine: WHAT DO CLOUD GIANT FEET SMELL LIKE?

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Roses are red Violets are blue The singular "they" predates the singular "you"

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...

In a dashboard available to the workers, human reviewers are able to select which “task” they want to take on. Once they click that, they are presented with the real ChatGPT user’s prompt. 404 Media has seen multiple real prompts but is not quoting any of them for source protection reasons. Some of the prompts indicate the ChatGPT user does not expect that a human may end up reading their conversation, because they ask ChatGPT to keep the content to themselves.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 13/09/2026

Please do this, please let the chatbot run wild with your credit card ordering parts for imaginary gear that will probably burn your house down when you try to turn it on

Screenshot of an OpenAI post on Instagram, showing a screenshot of a Twitter post:

nim @eminimnim

Vibe hardware is here.
I gave Astra my credit card and asked for a Teenage Engineering-style mini DJ controller.
It generated a concept image, sourced parts, read Chinese datasheets, built a CAD model, ordered everything, then made a Blender animation showing how to assemble it.
62 / BAR
A motor with a brain.
032 mm
3-phase
I'm building my first DJ machine.

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Two great tastes that taste great together

Photo of the side of a Happy Meal box reading Hello Kitty and Friends / Godzilla. Two Happy Meal boxes are illustrated here: a red one with a smile and side bow and a black one with scary teeth

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Work from some colleagues: “Using simple hypothesis-testing methods, we demonstrate that a statistical model of bullshit can reliably relate the Frankfurtian artificial bullshit of ChatGPT to the political and workplace functions of bullshit as observed in natural human language.”

link.springer.com

The BS meter: detecting politics and labour through ChatGPT’s language - AI & SOCIETY

What can we learn about language from studying how it is used by ChatGPT and other large language model (LLM)-based chatbots? In this paper, we analyse the distinctive character of language generated ...

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh no I have two events on October 19, both called “Appt”

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The problem with a chatbot as tech support is it doesn't understand "the problem occurs at step 3 of the troubleshooting instructions you gave me and I can't go any further"

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 10/09/2026

I'm holding out for the lifelong monthly $1,500 counteroffer.

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My recipe card said it would take me 15-OCT MIN to make dinner tonight so I've got that going for me

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They are gambling with our lives, but in the boring accelerating-climate-change-and-empowering-nazis way, not the cool inventing-cylons way they want to pretend they are.

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When you open an app you haven't used in a while and there's another goddamn AI chat feature stuck in there

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I... I went to look for a template to print on some photo paper I have and the Avery website says they discontinued that product 15 years ago???

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 02/09/2026

If a robot tries to fight you, report it to CPSC on SaferProducts.gov.

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My teen has informed me that tucking your shirt is out again, please make a note of it

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I just got my first publishing scam email! I feel included! 🥰

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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I made a little template for use by cool small businesses! Enjoy!

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

American trucker learns about Chinese culture

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We can go to the moon, split the atom, decode the secrets of DNA, but somehow we can't stop the same video ad from playing five times in a row

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It could happen. It could be happening. It could already have happened.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

THIS IS NOT HARD. IT HAPPENS LITERALLY EVERY YEAR. THERE IS AN INTERNET. Thread here below from @whysharksmatter.bsky.social with the dates, or you can look here:

hebcal.com

Jewish Holidays 5787 (2026-2027) - Hebcal

Dates of major and minor Jewish holidays for 2026-2027, observances and customs, holiday Torah readings.

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So if they rename it "Lake America" the new mnemonic is SHAME, yeah?

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

THIS IS IT WHY DID THIS RUN AS AN AD ON VIKI

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The other day Viki played an absolutely unhinged music video as an ad and I can find nothing about it online: called Afterlife, the artist was guy kinda like David Byrne with black eyeshadow, lots of red filters, women with pyramid hats and sequined evil eye halter tops?

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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton recorded a song in 2015 to be played on January 19, 2046, which would have been her 100th birthday. "The recording is stored on a CD, and Parton even included a CD player inside the box to make sure people would still have a way to listen to it..."

abcnews.com

Dolly Parton left one final song for fans to hear in 2046

Dolly Parton planned the music for her final farewell, left a secret song for 2046 and asked that her Broadway musical move forward after her death.

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Am I correct in assuming normal people don’t get cuts and scrapes every time they do any housework or gardening?

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh no someone send another team out to protect Michael Caine, too

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is feeling too much like Prince/Rickman/Bowie, pls somebody send out teams to protect Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry was not the 80-year-old Home Alone 2 cast member we were asking for.

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That NYT article about ‘lettuce isn’t even that good for you and it’s not sustainable’ is carrying water for the administration to try to spin ‘actually cyclospora is a blessing in disguise,’ yeah?

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just reminding people that death is not the only bad outcome for these diseases. There’s also post-viral syndrome, infertility, progressive neurological disease, and immune amnesia, just to start with

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I knew I’d been seeing a lot more food recalls lately, but jfc

A collage of recalled food products with captions reading:

CURRENT MAJOR FOOD RECALLS IN THE UNITED STATES

Cage Free LARGE BRLZ%
Brookshir6 COUNTRY CAGE FREE MORNING LARGE CAGE FREE GRADE A EGGS LARGE • GRACIE A EGGS
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grade A INFANT LARGE POWDERED MILK EGGS FORMULA NARA ORGANICS INFANT POWDERED MILK FORMULA: Risk of Clostridium Botulinurn Contamination (Botulism). 3 reported cases.
TAYLOR FARMS ICEBURG LETTUCE & PREMADE SALAD KITS: Risk of Cyclospora Parasite, over 10,930 reported cases
Blueberries
PU61 I Mixed Berries
FROZEN BLUEBERRIES & MIXED BERRIES (especially distributed by Publix): Class 1, the highest risk level possible. Risk of E. Coli, 4 Hospitalizations
LACNOLA
LACTATION GRANOLA
LACNOLA LACTATION GRANOLA (for breastfeeding mothers): Risk of Salmonella
JALAPEROS, PREPARED SALSAS, GUACAMOLE & PICO DE GALLO (especially Taylor Farms): Risk of Salmonella Javiana, 431 reported illnesses, 57 Hospitalizations

KROGER, SIMPLE TRUTH, BROOKSHIRE, COUNTRY MORNING & SUNUPS EGGS: Class 1, the highest Ask level possible: Risk of Salmonella, 98 reported Illnesses and 26 Hospitalizations
RAW FARM RAW CHEDDAR
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DREYER'S OUTSHINE SMOKED HERRING: Severe RAW FARM CHEDDAR CHEESE: CALIFORNIA DAIRIES INC. POWDERED FRUIT BARS: Potential Risk A Clostridium Botulinum Risk of E. Coli, MILK & BUTTERMILK: Risk of Salmonella Glass Contamination. Contamination (Botulism) 3 Hospitalizations

ALFALFA SPROUTS (esveral brands): Risk of Salmonella & E. Coli, 55 Reported Illnesses, 4 Hospitalizations
CHRISTOPHER RANCH & GARLAND FRESH PEELED GARLIC: Risk of MARKETSIDE TOMATO Clostridium Botulinum Contamination BISQUE SOUP KITS' (Botulism). Risk of Listeria

FROMM FAMILY FOODS & OM'S PRIDE WET DOG FOOD: Fromm — Risk of Foreign Metal Objects, Oma's Pride — Risk of Salmonella
GREEN POWDER SUPPLEMENTS: Risk of Salmonella
PORK KING 11.11 GOOD PORK KING PORK RINDS GOOD • SEASONING 1=31 tut PURPOSE! PORK KING GOOD PORK RINDS & SEASONINGS: Rak of Salmonella
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