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Brooke Preston

@brookepreston.bsky.social
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Comedy writer, author, host. Irrevocably Midwestern.

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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s been really challenging (for me) to write satire in a world where everything has been heightened beyond satire, but I wrote a piece! (Shout out to my girl @brookepreston.bsky.social for giving me helpful feedback on an early draft.) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-f...
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A Field Guide to Legacy Media Pundits in the United States
The Family Values Pundit (Divorcio moralisticus) HABITAT: New York Times bestseller list and a weekly column. DISTINCTIVE CALL: “As a man with a deeply unhap...
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
“Thank you to my therapist, and gay people, I love you.” —Ariana Grande, just now, iconically
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 31/03/2025
Get me to God’s country
Photo of a large crowd in front of the entrance to the Minnesota State Fair.Photo of a bucket of cookies from Sweet Martha’s cookies at the Minnesota State Fair.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Coldplay’s been trying to fix us all for decades and they finally did it. Great work, fellas.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Look, I know things are dire out here, but we must join together as one America to agree that we absolutely under no circumstances can just give up and start calling cantaloupes “lopes”.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
If your 10 Best movies of the 21st century includes *no* comedies, you’re a sad person who hates joy. Fight. Me.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I’m officially “we needed this rain” years old.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
My 12-year old has a little cold, so I told her to make me a little grocery list of comfort items since I am headed to the store. 10 minutes later she sends me this ”list”—this generation is built different. 😂🫶🏼
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Good afternoon to everyone except the neighbor who gave their young child a megaphone in the middle of this workday to repeatedly scream: “WHO LET THE DOGS OUT, ABBY, HEY AAAAAABBY WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?”
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
My 12 year-old: “Are you going to be a cool grandma, like ‘come buy my coffin with me!’” ☠️
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My beloved neighbor friend gifted me a lovely potted spider plant start from her own plant, supported in the gift bag by three lil canned spicy mango margaritas — l have finally achieved peak suburb.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New pope who dis
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Imagine Charlie & the Chocolate Factory from Charlie’s Mom’s POV: after emptying his and 3 other geriatrics’ bedpans for years and her being the sole earner, Grampa Joe is coaxed out of bed by a free factory tour, up dancing within *seconds*. Charlie then chooses him, not her, as his +1. Ice cold.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The hardest part of starting over on a new platform is losing the 10k followers and all the engagement and relationships I worked so hard to build for 15 years. So if you like #comedy #comedywriting #humor #humorwriters #taylorswift #politics #midwest life #broadway etc, hiiiiiiiii 👋🏼
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The hardest part of starting over on a new platform is losing the 10k followers and all the engagement and relationships I worked so hard to build for 15 years. So if you like #comedy #comedywriting #humor #humorwriters #taylorswift #politics #midwest life #broadway etc, hiiiiiiiii 👋🏼
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
a pair of baby shoes with a ton of wear and tear on em tells a pretty sad story too. what could this baby have been running from
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 30/08/2023
Powerful front page of tomorrow's edition of The Daily Tar Heel, UNC's student newspaper. From text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday.
At the top of the page, the logo of The Daily Tar Heel. The rest of the page is a stream of block letters, getting smaller as it goes down the page, that reads:

ARE YOU SAFE?WHERE ARE YOU? ARE YOU ALONE? GUYS I'M SO FUCKING SCARED.
HEY- COME ON SWEETHEART- I NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU. CAN YOU HEAR ANY GUNSHOTS? PLEASE STAY SAFE.
BARRICADE THE DOOR OR IF YOU THINK YOU CAN RUN AND GET TO A PLACE THAT CAN LOCK DO SO. MY TEACHER IS ACTING LIKE NOTHING IS HAPPENING AND I'M LOWKEY FREAKING OUT. I WISH THESE NEVER HAPPENED. STAY CALM AND SAFE -WE LOVEYOU. IAM SO SORRY THIS IS HAPPENING.
1 LOVE YOU. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING? MULTIPLE VOICES AND LOUD BANGING. I'M IN CLASS EVERYONE IS LOSING IT PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY SHAKING. STILL GOING ON AND COMING CLOSER, HOPING IT'S COPS. I'M GONNA FUCKING THROW UP. KINDA WISH I HAD SOMEONE ELSE HERE THOUGH. PLEASE PRAY FOR US. PLEASE STAY WHERE YOU ARE AND KEEP YOUR DOORS LOCKED OR FORTIFIED. LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH. ARE YOU HOME? SOMEONE IS ALREADY SHOT.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 26/07/2023
Hot take: Say what you will about Ohio but Midwesterners are functional as heyellll. Back from California which, while fun and beautiful, is full of people who cannot organize a tidy line, manage a pop-up event’s reservations or design a user-friendly airport to save their gorgeous, sun-kissed lives
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
Taking my daughter and her bff to Barbie, but our flight didn’t get in until 3am last night after multiple delays, so mentally my Kenergy is here
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 12/07/2023
Congratulations to all of the Emmy nominees who created the things we are celebrating and to none of the studio execs who are reaping the benefits of their work without sharing the wealth.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 08/07/2023
Many visitors to the Midwest are surprised to learn that our ATMs exclusively dispense Kohl’s Cash.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 07/07/2023
Everytime you rescue a good and funny person from Twitter with an invite code, an angel gets its wings.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
Social media platforms have suddenly entered their Winston Bishop prank era…they’re all either wayyy too big or wayyy too small. And we’re all getting Rhonda’d.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
You know what would be cool as hell? If any/all the actors/writers from wga/sag who WOULD have been at #sdcc comic-con doing panels and signings came anyway but to picket outside. Fans (like my 10 year old) would still get to see them as they’d dreamed, they don’t scab, bring huge press to the cause
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
Inside you there are two Twitters…
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Dee @figgled.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
[waving hand dismissively] yes yes the horrors are ceaseless and all-consuming
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
The devil works hard but the Barbie movie marketing team works harder.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
Bluesky is powered by spite, the most potent energy source known to man
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 04/07/2023
It's hot dogs biggest night and the stars are out to razzle dazzle
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
26 followers—almost back to the 9k+ I had on Twitter! Nature is healing!
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
I support the writer’s strike 💯. And SAG if they strike. That said, the mom in me is now *dreading* breaking the news to my 10-year old Marvel/movie obsessed daughter that the #SDCC she gets to go to for the 1st time & has been looking forward to all year—has been gutted.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
So far, Bluesky feels like all the survivors from Titanic just huddled together in collective shock on the deck of the rescue ship, looking at each other like “don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad to be here, but like…did that actually happen?”
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