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Rikaku @beastmasterrika.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.
An image showing the colorful transparent plastic of various pieces of technology of the 90's and early 2000s, that were easily the popular choice of the millennial age bracket. Some of the tech is an iMac, Nintendo 64, Sega DreMcast, a PlayStation 2, a Gameboy color and Advance, and CD player.
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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
No fuck off we're not calling this "Millennial grey" this shit was dictated completely by boomer retiree house flippers we absolutely had NO say in this
Millennial grey

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A kitchen with beige grey floors, drab walls, brushed steel appliances, and grey granite countertops.
Grey floors and furnishings are said to appeal to Millennial tastes.
Millennial grey refers to a desaturated colour scheme that is said to appeal to the interior design sensibilities of the Millennial Generation in the early 21st century.[1] Cultural historian Kassia St. Clair attributed its widespread adoption to a desire among Millennials for "a flexible, sensible choice that will last years, hide any stains, and can be adapted to different schemes."[1] Some have diagnosed Millennial grey as a reaction to the warm hues of the late 20th century.[2]

Millennial grey is polarising, particularly when used with imitation-wood-texture sheet vinyl flooring, which many describe as depressing, soulless, or corporate.[3][4] Although attributed to Millennials, the grey colour scheme is often chosen by house flippers, vacation rental owners, or other people who do not actually live in the greyed properties.[3] Thus, the occupant of the property—Millennial or not—has little say in its colour scheme, particularly when deployed for fixtures such as flooring.[4] The greying may have been driven, in part, by a desire to prepare properties for sale in a manner thought to be least offensive to the average buyer.[5] Given the housing crises gripping many countries in the early to mid-21st century, buyers and renters may feel they have no choice but to accept a property decked in Millennial grey.[4]

To the extent that Millennial grey is said to be enjoyed by Millennials, it is also said to be loathed by Generation Z.[1][2]
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Proloe 🌙🧚‍♀️ Very Fairy Vtuber @proloe.gay · 28/02/2026
I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
we had the dotcom collapse, the great recession and covid. somehow people are very surprised that the 80s/90s church of "trust the market" is losing followers, especially among the people who went through those things in their teens and twenties.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/06/2026
🤔 "War?" "Hijack?" "Takeover?" Y'all use the weirdest vocab to describe voters calmly walking into a voting booth and filling in the bubble next to the name of the candidate that says things like "Childcare can be cheaper!" and "Let's fix that bike lane!" and "Elon should pay more tax than you do!"
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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 22/06/2026
The are no barriers to entry into the arts. Cavemen made art. Toddlers make art. What's being argued for is a basic human entitlement to being respected as someone who can make art that is pretty or meaningful and good, which AI might fulfill. This entitlement does not exist.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 09/06/2026
Not sure why the tech bros don't get that an assistant whose work you have to check constantly is an assistant you fire
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Myka @puzzledpolygon.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Some jackass is like "I don't get why people hate data centers!" Do you live on the same planet? Water consumption, air pollution, 24/7 noise, high af electricity prices, destruction of natural land, immense environmental impact, used for Al (elimination of jobs), benefits the 1%. Gee, I wonder why.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 02/06/2026
WHO CARES
NY Times Instagram post “They Voted For Trump. Here’s How They Feel About High Gas Prices.” and then it’s a carousel of quotes from varying degrees of dunce
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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Google AI overview stating the phrase "too evolved" has two rs, then misspelling it evorverd.
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Pellechs @pellechs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This hit me so hard this week.
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI.  Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your are…
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Doorman and building staff may go on strike against building owners in NYC for the first time in 30 years+ next week, and I can say that among apartment building residents, there is a 50/50 divide between "Give them anything they want" and "Give them anything they want, you assholes."
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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We all have days like this
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Pack the court with so many people that you won't even know their names. That it won't even be news when one of them dies. That they have to meet in an NFL stadium. That their relatives won't realize they're related to a Supreme Court justice. That they quit because they don't feel important.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 11/02/2026
I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A Far Side cartoon that is set in a circus from the point of view of two trained bears watching a third trained bear perform tricks. One of the bears watching has removed their muzzle and is telling the second waiting bear, who is still muzzled, “hey…these things just snap right off”
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/01/2026
I believe this may be the moment where the sleeping giant that is Normal America finally decides to stop being held hostage by a small minority of absolutely miserable whiny assholes.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 17/12/2025
"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked-"
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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
My hero of 2025
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/12/2025
again, it is just arrogance. “there is one true meaning of the constitution and it can only be derived by a special caste of lawyers with a special interpretative lens and once discovered it is binding.”
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
i really thought the "emperor's new clothes" was more metaphorical than this.
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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Bill Ackman and Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon watching this WH presser
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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 03/10/2025
why are we paying federal taxes again
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
There’s a lot of Psychology happening with early 2000s nostalgia slop but especially among zoomers it does seem like there’s just a real hankering for less phone, and therefore the time before phone is the glorious past to which we must return
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
this exists it is called thinking
Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The best quote I’ve ever seen about this is that every Democratic leader of the 21st century is ideally suited by temperament and mindset to be in congress in 1995 debating the v-chip.
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
they’re so close
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
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Politics may have spurred August purge of 5 veteran FBI agents
Details are emerging about the possible motivation behind the firing of five senior FBI agents.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/08/2025
"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardice—to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...
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Why Republicans Are Terrified of Nonexistent Crime
They need an excuse to violently subjugate liberal cities.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
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Exclusive | Rep. Hakeem Jeffries pays just $200 in property taxes thanks to sweetheart subsidy law
Public records show that Jeffries and his family reside in a condo unit in Prospect Heights, paying just $213 a year in property taxes.
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14/08/2025
i am so sick of hearing about people who are uncomfortable about trans people in public bathrooms as if you have some right to total peace of mind in the place you can hear strangers having diarrhea
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
people have a profound yearning right now to be “saved” by a technological quantum leap forward, coupled with a profound fear of missing out that comes from having failed to get rich / being born too late to get rich in the Silicon Valley digital revolution
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tante @tante.cc · 07/08/2025
One thing that the current exorbitant investments in "AI" show is that the investor class and big tech corporations do not pay enough taxes: If you have billions to set on fire for spicy autocomplete we should take some or all of those to do something useful with.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/08/2025
I’ve yet to encounter an ai booster whose response to its critics isn’t at least partially “you don’t know enough about it and how it’s useful.” That’s not it, bro.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Centrists: *see Trump beat Harris to win a second term with a weak-ass campaign and then see Mamdani win the NYC mayoral primary against a legacy candidate with name recognition who the entire establishment was pushing* Also centrists: "The left can't stop losing"
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
THEY LITERALLY DID THE ONION HEADLINE
NYTimes headline reading "NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say"Onion headline: 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens'
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.
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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Prince wisdom drops
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Shitting on their most popular energizing young talent while trying to win Republican votes is going great
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