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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some personal news. And professional news. Personally professional, and professionally personal.

Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is some Clever Little Tailor shit Next thing to do is challenge them to squeeze a rock until water comes out but swap out a piece of cheese

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You can tell it's been a day when I'm watching Marco Pierre White to see how he gives a Johns Hopkins *clinic* on a bolognaise and he stares like resurrected Lazarus through your heart and tells you the three things that make a good cook and you're sobbing on the floor. youtu.be/vcqXRAi9vrs?...

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Flavourful step-by-step bolognaise with Marco Pierre White | Meet Your Maestro | BBC Maestro

YouTube video by BBC Maestro

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I can take my kid's rediscovery of Imagine Dragons, I can bear the hours in the car. But the way the singer says "it's a revolution, I suppose!" makes me groan out loud and my eyes roll so hard I swerve into the other lane and my lane corrector beeps and the music cuts out

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I know airlines are nowhere NEAR the top when it comes to bloat and corruption and caring only for shareholders, but god it is so *on display* when you're on a plane. And you're stuck there. Thinking about it.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I, like so many of us, want to tell the story about the man on this day. I had just moved to NYC, watched the towers fall, and got into a hilarious and maybe just a little unhealthy relationship. I was VERY much in over my head, she's truly lovely, but good god were we a disaster.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My poor friends who will receive a screen cap of this for months to come

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I rewatched Desk Set this week, and what got through this time is that every single scene is designed to make you appreciate the imperfect, inefficient, rebellious, loud, clumsy, unpredictable creatures we all are that wham on stolen pianos and get things wrong and say I love you too often.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

[At the Wayfair HQ] "Look, I know he unclicked the 'send me offers and deals' button, but does that mean we *can't* send him anything?" "Is this a question of ethics, boss?" "Yeah, would it be unETHical to send him, like, say, a few dozen emails with really GOOD deals? Like, the next day?"

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's a partisan event

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A long time ago I started to learn how to cook Sichuan food. And I always yearned to make a forever pickle crock but I never got my act together. But I just decided to try, and lo and behold I ate some beans and mustard greens out of this and hoo boy. I understand something that was scary to me.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

What's your record time before pausing a movie to talk about what just happened for three hours

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In 2002 I used to work in an office in a hospital, and I would kill time by editing Lockhorns cartoons. Later I would sleep in the office by wedging a pencil with a fat eraser into the keyboard, resting my head on the rubber.

Leroy, the no good husband in Reiner's neverending syndicate "The Lockhorns," a comic strip about a couple that hates each other with ever fiber of their being, is walking out smugly with a beer. Loretta, his exhausted, disillusioned wife is talking to a woman in fuschia pants and a black top. Loretta seems sad. But she always seems sad. The woman listens with a bored expression.

Here, Loretta is explaining her lack of interest in life. She is exhausted, uncertain why she must continue this humdrum existence. Leroy, blissfully, bops to the next room, about to open his third beer of the day.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Happy Birthday, Orson Welles. When did we stop being a country where a late-night show was thrilled to see a person putting on old-school stage makeup to do a Falstaff monologue www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ6v...

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Orson Welles Falstaff Dean Martin Show

YouTube video by TimPBears

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

@crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.com am I the seventeenth person to share this with you? Jesus why can't everybody be like the folks who make Barkeeper's Friend

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Glumly realizing every single thing I shouted at a screen during my Rocky Horror teen years was just the blatant subtext.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Why is it that the tightest, funkiest hook ever written, with a two note horn break that whips off the tablecloth before setting the next course, a song that never leaves my brain, why is it about making hoecake bread and announcing it to various family members www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACRw...

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Breakin' Bread (Single Version)

YouTube video by The J.B.'s - Topic

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I spend so much time sitting and wondering why one of the greatest Motown numbers ever made is a song about a "short fat man" who gets on stage with a rubber band and moves it up and down his body and makes twanging sounds with it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygks...

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The Rubberband Man

YouTube video by The Spinners - Topic

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I'm in my 40s, and maybe my greatest achievement was when I saw an AC/DC album with a parental advisory sticker, I said, "you see?" "See what?" "You see deez seedy AC/DC CDs?"

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

@jamellebouie.net watched The Towering Inferno tonight, and he's right it's truly TRULY brutal. You really have to be in a mood for Mr Man vs Nature, for the master of realism, MISTER IRWIN ALLEN youtu.be/-xy-kUckbTw?...

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Man Vs Nature

YouTube video by ctytler

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This episode was an utter joy to make and please....any of you. If you care about motion smoothing/soap opera effect, let a boy know. Make a fuss. Just don't tell any major hotels on the west coast that I maybe destroyed a very expensive television trying to hack the settings.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I've been watching "Alone" for the first time with my kid, and without exception each American contestant is doing it because they need to pay medical bills. The Canadians want to retire happily or be closer to their ancestry.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

If a room had nothing but shredded wheat and boxes of Good n' Plenty they'd find a desiccated, purple-mouthed corpse

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The theme of the Bacchus floats this year was American History, and this one was titled "Give me your tired, your poor." I screamed "I lift my lamp beside the golden door" so hard my tonsils throbbed

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I really like the 28 boundary! 1776 Swimming to Cambodia The Sting Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas Jesus Christ Superstar 12 Angry Men Lion in Winter A Midwinter's Tale Time Bandits Amadeus Singin in the Rain

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It is very tough to learn that Carmine has left.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I am sick, pounding my leg on the floor of the bathroom at 6am, wracked with choked sobs. I am apparently the simplest man who ever lived put me in a woolen hat on a wagon of hay

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Never you mind the jobs you've had, tell me five classes you took in college - The Artist and the Making of Meaning - The First Amendment - Science and Society - Scene Painting - Jazz Dance (the only class I was asked to leave with a promise of a B) (and 'acting', no fun title, 6 hours a day)

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

@jenmercieca.bsky.social was...I mean.... This isn't what you're talking about is it? Have I been figurative all this time??

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Haven't watched Spiderman in about 20 odd years, but showing it to the kid tonight and I got a New York history nerd SUPRISE. Hooooooo boy June 15, 1904. Who made this little joke???

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My son, excited to play Hades II, shouts up the stairs at 7am, "can I close this snip? Do I have to save it??" "mmghngrn just delete it!" The snip in question. No more effing around on google maps at 3am and texting fears to my gf

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I'm gonna post this every time, @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social because I get the excuse to watch it, and if I don't watch it once a year the world gets a little bit darker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xy-...

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Man Vs Nature

YouTube video by ctytler

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Ahh yes, the Concord NH to NYC bus. Go south? Nashville Wish and Ironman 2, go north it's Gravity and We Bought a Zoo. Every time, for years and years.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Listening to conservative talk radio is like three hours of this guy and then two with this other guy and Jack Warden hops in for the local headlines

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I never tire of watching this, and last night I paid attention to the real villain in A Christmas Carol. It's not Scrooge, it's not money, it's not even the machines that will eventually replace all of us, it's MR JORKIN. "The machines are inevitable. You want to make money, don't you?"

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Well, it remains Christmas, so time to watch the best Christmas movie ever made. When the production of Hamlet is falling to pieces, Joe shouts "what makes this FUCKING life worth living." Vernon says Rachmaninoff, Terry says thinking of his son happy. Molly says, "you. You're my brother."

A scene from the first Hamlet readthrough in A Midwinter's Tale. Henry Wakefield as the grouchy Claudius, Carnforth Greville as twenty roles, Tom Newman as Laertes, Molly as Molly, Joe as Hamlet, Terry DuBois as Gertrude, Nina as Ophelia, Vernon as Polonius, Fadge in the back with hardening nipples.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I kind of like it as an AFTER Christmas gift, ya know? Ok everyone, fun's over. Time to learn the damn rules if we're gonna make it this year!

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I haven't gotten any better but the Christmas tradition continues

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I'm sorry, @wyattswickedgoods.com gets me saying really cruel things about Crumbl, and I know I am not being fair. I've actually enjoyed having some Crumbl cookies around the house because they stay on the top of the fridge and the mice eat them and they die

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

"The danger is subtle but profound: every time a student chooses an AI output over their own thought process, a skill dies a little." I can't not write about losing a Lyle Lovett tonight, in a 🧵 that nobody will read but means the world to me. lasoft.org/blog/renting...

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Renting Out the Mind: AI Is Accelerating the Decline of Academic Skills

Something is breaking inside the education system—and it’s happening faster than universities can react. In lecture halls from Boston to Berlin, professors face a new kind of student: one who turns in...

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Was isolating from my partner during COVID. We wanted to play this by zoom, so I sent the bomb defusal manual to be printed at her local Staples. Guess who almost got arrested.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Is it fair to equate company emails about how you can use AI to streamline your work to a commercial about how delicious and satisfying a cigarette can be after a hard day? I'm genuinely wondering if that comparison is fair.

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Stuck at DCA for a few hours, resulting in my yearly rabbithole falling, into the world of the "Foundation for a Better Life." These posters are everywhere. And they're from one guy, a multi-billionaire who personally wrote George W. to get Neil Gorsuch on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Dolly Parton, who is wonderful, saying "Find the good in everybody." Which is a great sentiment! Below, it says 'Kindness, pass it on.' Who is this for?

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Nick Capodice @capodice.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I hate it. I wish violence upon it, thoughts toward it bloody or nothing worth. No hammer can smash it hard enough, no flame can evaporate it fast enough. I want every vapid, soulless peddler of it to sit in a stiff-backed chair in the marketplace, hearing rebuke until they realize their mistakes.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

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I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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