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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

they put "house hang" in quotes! they describe having a couch as "grandpa core"! they find a way to sort of imply that people are doing this because Mamdani hasn't done enough to lower the cost of living! truly it has a little of everything

NYT text: "Budget-conscious New Yorkers say they are cutting back on socializing and are pivoting to cheaper activities, like Ms. Dunlop’s “house hang,” and making calculated decisions about which events are worth the expense."

NYT text: "Back in Inwood, Ms. Dunlop and Mr. Lamberti set up the card game, explaining the rules to Ms. Rodriguez, who was still learning how to play.

Their one-bedroom apartment offered a cozy respite from their typical outdoor haunts. Decorated in what Mr. Lamberti described as “grandpa core,” the living room featured a nubby blue-and-brown plaid couch and matching armchair, model ships and a vintage bread box. A cabinet from Goodwill housed wine and spirits, and on the door, they had posted recipes for cocktails, including the corpse reviver.

“We chose to go out of our way to figure out how to have a welcoming space,” Ms. Dunlop said. A space that “would feel just as fun as going out to the bar.”"

NYT text: "One of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign promises was to make New York more affordable, and some of his recent initiatives have aimed to ease the cost of socializing. He invited parents to drop off their kids for one night in August at a New York recreation center and enjoy four hours to themselves. And in May, he promoted a World Cup $26 drink-and-meal special for city residents."

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

the basil plants and the cherry tomato plants are at least teaming up to make Good Stuff

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

last year I didn’t get enough basil from the garden for pesto and so this year I thought “I’d like to get enough basil from the garden for pesto” and friends I may have overcorrected

Freshly harvested basil leaves on a counter, I cannot harvest basil fast enough

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

@kvanaren.bsky.social this library book isn’t about what I thought it was about

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Having your almost-7yo sweetly and enthusiastically yell “smell ya later!” as you walk up the stairs is kind of a perfect encapsulation of the whole experience. Happy Father’s Day!

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

the series that you are trying to make "time-agnostic" is about a group of teens who gather twice a week around a land-line phone. Most plot points revolve around adults being fully unreachable once they have left the house.

Quote from New York Times piece about updating old books for new editions: "At Scholastic, repackaging efforts for “The Baby-Sitters Club” are guided by one principle: keeping the books “time-agnostic.”

“It’s a phrase we use all the time,” Levithan said. The goal, he added, is “to find language that feels clear to today’s reader without suddenly putting iPhones into 1986.”

In the updated editions, a character “watches a movie” instead of putting a tape into a VCR, or “finds a phone number” instead of looking it up in a phone book, as in this example from “Baby-Sitters’ Winter Vacation”:

1989: “If you need music for your number, just hand her your tape before you go onstage and she’ll put it in the tape deck.”

2023: “If you need music for your number, just tell her your song before you go onstage and she’ll play it.”

For Levithan, this approach is central to how the books continue to resonate with readers.

“A whole new generation picked them up because they didn’t see them as a nostalgia buy, like something that belonged to their parents,” he said. “They saw them as something speaking directly to them.”"

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I keep thinking about how they modernized this book from 2002 by adding a PlayStation, which by 2002 had already existed and been extremely popular for like seven years. If the goal is to hide "the adult behind the book," some of this "how do you do, fellow kids?" shit cuts the opposite way

Quote from New York Times piece about updating old books with modern references.

"Anthony Horowitz, author of the “Alex Rider” spy novels, said he had “absolutely no compunction whatsoever” about updating his books, the way he did here in “Stormbreaker,” the first book in the series:

2002: “Alex killed a couple of hours knocking a few balls around on his uncle’s snooker table — and then felt vaguely guilty when Jack caught him at it.”

2015: “Alex killed a couple of hours in the evening playing his Playstation — and then felt vaguely guilty when Jack caught him at it.”

For each new edition, Horowitz meets with his publisher to remove details he thinks date the books, like compact discs or cellphones with long antennae. He described these as “miniature hand grenades thrown in your path as you’re trying to make your way across the landscape of the story.”"

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

have you considered that he's from a very old and important political family and you should count yourself lucky to have him

New York Times piece about Tom Kean Jr.: "Mr. Kean is more than just a momentarily missing congressman. He is the scion of a political family that once helped to run a major New Jersey utility company and can trace its lineage to three of the country’s founding fathers. His great-grandfather was a U.S. senator and his grandfather served in the House. His father was a popular governor who in the 1980s waged an effort to overhaul New Jersey’s image. Years later, his leadership of the 9/11 commission burnished the family’s reputation as G.O.P. centrists keen on bipartisanship whose name adorns a university in North Jersey.

“He helped define the state in a more positive way,” Ross K. Baker, a Rutgers University political science professor, said of the former governor. “It was known as a down-and-dirty place. He added a certain amount of grace to politics in New Jersey.”"

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

this is what you'd say if you invited your boss to join you in your cellar for a cask of amontillado www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...

NYT article about the absence of NJ Republican congressman Tom Kean Jr: "Members of Mr. Kean’s team were seated conspicuously in the third row, watching as the Democrats took turns weighing in on their boss’s mysterious absence. Afterward, his chief of staff, Dan Scharfenberger, reiterated a now familiar explanation.

“He’s dealing with a personal heath condition, and he’ll be back soon,” Mr. Scharfenberger said in an interview.

When pressed on the nature of the health condition and why Mr. Kean had not been seen in New Jersey or in Washington, Mr. Scharfenberger said, “There’s no cameras where Tom is.”

He declined to elaborate."

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

11GB AI-powered support software is checked by default though, cool 👍👍👍

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

i know it's unchecked by default but this still feels like an obnoxious thing to offer with a graphics card driver

34.2 GB "AI Bundle" offered with AMD's graphics card driver

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

no matter what search engine i use i always get upstaged by this fucking viscount

duckduckgo summary of wikipedia article about Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

to put this headline up without mentioning how many will be *left* does not seem particularly helpful (it’s *2,000*, according to the admin, to the extent we can trust that figure, which we can’t)

NYT news headline announcing trump will pull 700 immigration agents out of Minnesota

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

me if the schools are still closed tomorrow

the "i'm going to become The Joker" meme image from the film Joker, but it says "I'm going to become Nate Silver" instead. This is a joke about how he is always talking about the schools being closed during covid

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

what i see when i am watching the star trek starfleet academy show

title card of star trek picard doctored to say star trek picardo in tribute to the indelible Robert Picardo

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

if they go down i have another Voyager whose missions you might be interested in

title card + ship from Star Trek Voyager

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I don't really fully buy their password-vs-PIN logic here, at least not for passwords protecting a local account. But I think the technical answer is that the PIN is TPM-encrypted/tied into Windows Hello and they want to use Windows Hello for authentication for a bunch of other stuff

Microsoft support page: "Is a Windows Hello PIN safer than a password?
Yes, a Windows Hello PIN is safer than a password. The PIN is bound to the device so hackers cannot steal it and sign in to your account from a remote device. A Windows Hello PIN can be complex and use a combination of letters, numbers, and special characters. A Windows Hello PIN is backed by a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, which is a secure crypto processor that is designed to carry out cryptographic operations. The chip includes multiple physical security mechanisms to make it tamper resistant, and malicious software is unable to tamper with the security functions of the TPM. Windows doesn't link local passwords to the TPM, therefore PINs are considered more secure than local passwords."

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

it’s funny that the techno-optimist types all agree that the tech industry is a glorious meritocracy and also that this is the absolute best they can do www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

“ Using the lofty language that has typified Mr. Musk’s A.I. dreams for more than a decade, he told employees that he wanted to build systems that were “maximally truth-seeking” while previewing plans to build a Microsoft competitor called Macrohard.”

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

ok I’ve found the issue with Democratic Party fundraising texts and it’s that they’ve outsourced the work to Team Rocket

Fundraising texts from “Jesse” and “James”

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

this better not awaken anything in me

Entertainment Weekly headline: "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy exclusive first look welcomes new cadets, Paul Giamatti's alien transformation"

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

not all valued naturals are wet selects but all wet selects are valued naturals

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

if this is true just resign already share.inquirer.com/tAwFqr

Philadelphia inquirer headline: Inside Sen. John Fetterman’s office: canceled meetings, skipped votes and an outburst with Pa. teachers

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Another example: whose anger? Is it justified or not? Ah, who cares

NYT HEADLINE: Trade 'Emergency' Follows Decades of Anger That America Has Been Ripped Off

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

showrunner: we're doing a bottle episode the bottle:

a photo of an enclosed but extremely elaborate and complicated hamster cage

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

movie you've watched more than 6 times, gifs only

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

"run the government like a business"

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

the first season of Star Trek: Discovery in 2017 had this bizarre fascination with Elon - one character put him in a List Of Three Guys with the Wright Brothers and the inventor of faster-than-light travel, another person went to "Musk Junior High" - and those predictions are starting to feel grim

Gabriel Lorca from Star Trek Discovery lists Elon Musk in a list of great inventors with the Wright Brothers and Zefram Cochrane, the fictional creator of warp drive. Yes I KNOW that this character was secretly from the Evil Mirror Universe, but the writers of the show obviously did not intend it as a winking reference!!

a reference to "Musk Junior High" from Star Trek Discovery

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

idk why but the first person I thought of was former Nintendo of America president reggie fils-aime

Reggie Fils-Aime, former president of Nintendo of America

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

there is only one piece of tech that is sexy

Data from Star Trek TNG is fully functional and programmed in multiple techniques

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

the Mario wiki says it’s because they were both loudmouths, which, ok?? Seems like the names were the job of one 80s guy who just got to have fun with it without a lot of oversight, which makes it kind of funny that modern Nintendo has stuck with them

quote from Mario wiki: “ Morton was named after American talk show host, Morton Downey Jr.. This name was chosen because Morton "looked like a loudmouth" much like Downey. [6] While this is his name origin, it does not provide an in-universe explanation for the Jr. part of his name.”

Kotaku quote about naming the Koopalings in Super Mario Bros 3: “ The hairstyle on one of them reminded me of Ludwig von Beethoven for some reason and Ludwig von Koopa was born. Next was the one with the glasses—that has to be Roy Koopa in homage to Roy Orbison, who almost always wore glasses. Then Wendy O. Koopa (Wendy O. Williams) [and] Iggy Koopa (Iggy Pop). One looked like a loudmouth, so he was Morton Koopa Jr. from [the] loud-mouthed talk show host Morton Downey Jr. And then there was Larry. There’s no real-world equivalent—he’s not Larry Mullen Jr. from U2 or Larry King—he just looked like a Larry.

That brings us to Lemmy. In addition to being a great name, it’s perfect for a video game character. This Koopaling struck me as being the kind of character who would do his own thing, no matter what anyone else thought. I think it was those crazy eyes. Lemmy Koopa was in the crew.””

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

last night for a small NYE party I made Very Good Pizza (prosciutto/arugula/shallot/parmesan and a few other things), may its memory be a blessing

Homemade pizza: olive oil mixed with minced garlic as the base, topped with freshly grated mozzarella and a few blobs of ricotta, baked on pizza stone for ~6 mins at 525. Mix arugula with thinly sliced shallot and olive oil (add lemon juice if you want), spread on top of baked pizza. Top with prosciutto and fresh Parmesan. Probably went a hair overboard with the Parmesan here but nobody complained

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

someone needs to tell the creators of Bluey that every game they invent for Bluey becomes a game I need to play in real life, which is why brushing teeth now takes fifteen minutes instead of two

Still from Bluey minisode “Robo Bingo” in which Bingo is a robot that needs extremely specific toothbrushing instructions

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