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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 16h

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I think about this a lot, yep. Doesn’t make sense for them to retract high enough FOR wrist movement. So, fireplug of a dude, but needs a wide radius at the dinner table: flying elbows; bad fork angles.

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Bill @caractacus.bsky.social · 23h

I want to get a Dr Pepper and watch whatever 80s horror movie these are the opening credits to.

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I don't! Interesting, I'm looking at a Serious Eats article about them ... so they're not thick and heavy like my meat cleaver. What do you like about them vs a chef's knife?

Man, they don't smush your tomatoes?

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

The Willy Wonka show with the AI-generated Gene Wilder is bad enough, but the leading story of the local paper's website right now is that the casino has added a Willy Wonka-branded slot machine.

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It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Literally I would ask my parents' friends and co-workers, "do you know any foods that are spicy?" so that I knew what kinds of restaurants to look for when we were out of town. (I got sweet and sour at the Chinese place though: it came with green and red maraschino cherries.)

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More and more Nepali restaurants are opening here. I know this is just my age, but I didn't even go to a Chinese restaurant until I was like 14 (and in Philly). There were only three spicy things when I was a kid: Tabasco, pickled jalapenos, and shakers of crushed red peppers. Anyway this is great!

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1) Boo Berry, because I wasn't allowed to have it as a kid. 20) Count Chocula because it actually tastes good. x) others.

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Have you listened to the audiobook version read by William Hootkins? It’s SO good.

Hm I have none of this. I have some Trader Joe's pumpernickel and some ground beef, I could make a dark patty melt. A goth patty melt.

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Saute some thinly sliced onions in butter, in the pan you'll use for the grilled cheese, while you assemble the sandwiches. One layer of Cooper Sharp, then the onions and three or four slices of pickled Fresno chile, then a layer of sharp cheddar or Cotswold. Medium-low heat until brown and gold.

Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Right after the Cornell Jane Doe story broke, a site called JaneDoeMerch.com started selling I Am Jane Doe hats and T-shirts, claiming the proceeds would go to Jane Doe's legal fund. Her lawyer knows nothing about it. Read my story on Jane Doe merch at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/meet-t...

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Iggy's Francese bread is the best bread I've ever used for grilled cheese.

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"Maintains vehicle regularly" = I change the wiper fluid to the de-icing stuff in the winter. Because this is New Hampshire. I don't need snow tires but I do need to see the road.

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At Blaze today—which is my mother's favorite pizza, despite being *from New Haven*—they were telling me that all summer, teenagers have been ordering strawberries on their pizza. I have to know that, so now so do you.

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Meeting of Two Intensities by Yaacov Agam, 1960 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Gift, Andrew Powie Fuller and Geraldine Spreckels Fuller Collection, 1999

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Bill @caractacus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How is our most corrupt president also the stupidest? That's shitty worldbuilding.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026

Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Farewell to Eva Marie Saint, the sharpest and sexiest of the Hitchcock blondes who got to wear one of the best dresses in cinema history

Full shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dress

Side mid shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dress, sharing a drink with Cary Grant

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I think I must've first seen her in Moonlighting (also what I've seen her in most recently - great casting choice for Maddie's mom). I love her in Loving, too.

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R.E.M. on this Day @remonthisday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I keep thinking that the only upside to all this is that it knocks down some hurdles for the realization of my (unrealistic but pleasant!) dream of a "Criterion Collection or Criterion Channel, but for animation." I mean, that animation library is amazing.

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On this day in 1983, America met R.E.M. for the first time when they made their national television debut on Late Night with David Letterman. The other guests were Julia Child, Sophia Loren and John David George. R.E.M. performed ‘Radio Free Europe’ and the then-untitled ‘So. Central Rain’.

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R.E.M. Performs "Radio Free Europe" & "So. Central Rain" | Letterman

YouTube video by Letterman

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base

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@nic_carter
X.com
this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al column

Andrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

nic carter
@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

nic carter *
@nic_carter
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social obligation
8:41 PM • 10/5/26 • 880 Views

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But that's also true of the impacts of food waste, which is why these efforts are predicated on a simple, apolitical, and not very meaningful statement: it is bad to waste food. It's not that it's a grift (not always, at least), it's just not very ... attentive.

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It's not that it's a lot. It's virtually impossible to know what the environmental consequences of that stuff is, which is why there's so much back and forth about the water use of AI. Talking about avg consumption and impacts is hard enough; figuring out real-world numbers on a small scale, harder.

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But what they never get into is how much water is used to clean and scrub those potato peels clean, or how much energy is used to dehydrate other vegetable scraps into a powder or to simmer steak scraps into 3-day stock. Etc etc.

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Obviously the problem is the environmental costs of that waste reduction. Composting is a simple solution with few of those costs, but you don't get a profile written about your restaurant with the hook "hey guys, this place composts." You get it from like, turning potato peels into a gratin.

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"Reducing food waste" is good. If you do a thing that reduces food waste, you've done good. That's the premise of most of these efforts, but it treats "food waste" as a bad thing with unquantifiable consequences. It's bad. Reducing it is good.

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There's a new restaurant making pizza dough from the scraps of leftover restaurant bread, and it reminds me of some of the elaborate sustainability efforts we talked about in one of my ethics classes. (I don't think this place is an example of what I'm going to talk about; it just reminded me.)

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As a weird bit of trivia, i believe the actual SMG show I went to was where I wrote The Cheshire, the short story that is the basis for the filk song “The Girl That’s Never Been.”

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I think I saw Official Sonic Discord open for Sister Machine Gun at the Trocadero.

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(Maybe more to the point, I think weird later seasons often escape our memory entirely. We remember Dan Fielding, Self-Serving Sex Pest and Misogynist, not Dan Fielding, Nice Guy and Good Friend with Lots of Kinks.)

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Lost. I was thinking about this recently and I'd bet that most of the responses are shows that are, if not actually serialized, at least invested in a series-long narrative. No one hates Mad About You or Night Court because of their weird later seasons, but people froth about How I Met Your Mother.

Sometimes instead of correcting somebody I just unfollow. It has the same effect with less typing: I no longer have to see them being wrong.

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Lead schmead, the X in Generation X stands for waX.

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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Man why did we eat so much wax.

A photo of an orange wax harmonica. The caption asks, who remembers these wax harmonica candies at Halloween from the sixties and seventies?

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When witches are cackling and telling you “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” take a step back. Breathe. Those are normal things for fire and cauldrons to do. They’re trying to mess with you.

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I swear to God there's a middle ground between "telling me not to snitch tag is censorship" and "don't say anything even glancingly negative about a public figure in a space accessible to them," and it's enormous and well-lit and easy to fucking find.

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Absolutely police bigotry and sexism and transphobia, but you do not need to log on and defend movie stars from having their feelings hurt in posts that it is slightly possible their assistants might see on the sixth most popular social media platform.

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