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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah but now it's bad at it. Innovation!

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I don't like how the democrats care about people other than me sometimes"

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Air popper for life. I don't want oil on my popcorn, I want butter. Air popper, melt butter in the microwave, pour over, toss with salt.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is a perfect thing to impose on people at a work potluck (that is how I justified buying the sour patch kids oreos)

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wolverine cried at the Bell ad where the kid calls his grandpa from Dieppe

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is a minority opinion but I like the Flavortown Waterloos

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Trying to figure out if "an Utah" is a typo, a linguistic exception I don't know, or the pilot pronounced it "Oo-tah"

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

What about the impact on California's historic parking lots?!

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This is not to denigrate any of my fellow middle aged women with pixie cuts, who look great by being cooler than me.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I had a pixie for most of my 30s and it was great. Super fast to style, lots of compliments from other women. As soon as I had a kid I went from feeling fun and flirty to like Jamie Lee Curtis selling yogurt so if it's something she's considering, I recommend doing it young.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Some say that leafy greens are good for you. But these researchers found that when you dry the leafy greens of the tobacco plant and smoke them, they cause cancer.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

On one hand, they could have cut several thousand words from that article and made it better, but if they had done that they might have cut the environmental nonprofit director complaining about losing a parking space and i would have lost NIMBY bingo

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Monticello tour rules, they try to convince you he was a great guy who really wanted to free his slaves but couldn't afford to because he spent all his money on failed vineyards

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I mean that statement is true if you mean it in the negative way

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I stopped supporting the Sierra Club because this is so common. I think the national organization understands climate change but is unwilling to rein in the local chapters, which are dominated by nature enjoyers instead of environmentalists.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Consider: The Music Man, but Harold Hill is played by a Hey Mamas lesbian

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The one place he's right is that I don't want to live around people who don't share my values. That tends to describe Republicans more than immigrants, though.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Two sides to the same coin. Every time someone I work with uses it to generate a starter SOP or form I mourn how you used to just be able to search for "[thing] template" and find something, now you have to use AI or start from scratch because even the templates are AI generated

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I mean, less so now that search engines are all broken. Your options are either AI slop websites or reddit

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I was in a business school class (that was my first mistake) where people were talking about using AI as a thought partner and bouncing ideas off it and like... do you people not have humans you can do that with? Bring back having friends!

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"Best brothy rice recipes ICE has only existed since 2003" "Cute maximalist bedroom ideas to reject the SAVE Act voting rights boho cottagecore"

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

A funny show about trying to run a farm and discovering why the whole of modern history is trying not to be a farmer would be both entertaining and socially beneficial

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

These tech weirdos won't see this but your friends who look like their heads were grown in molds like Japanese novelty watermelons will :(

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Yeah but there *was* probably an MBA there telling everyone to use AI.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Why is everyone at B-school using AI as a thought partner. Get some friends. Bring back salons.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

1. That's just what it costs to build in California. You'd be hard-pressed to find cheaper units 2. There has been a massive demographic shift toward single-person households. Young adults not living with family, people marrying and having kids later. We do actually need this kind of unit.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Feels like being NB is the exact opposite of Gender AF tho

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/01/2026

Block block block.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The possibility that this will end in TACO is rapidly disappearing. I cannot overstate how devastating this will be. The entire decade I've worked in this field HUD has emphasized how we need to house the most vulnerable people and now 2/3 of them will lose their supports.

Headline: Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants

In a major shift, HUD’s plan would direct most of the $3.5 billion in homelessness funds away from Housing First to programs that prioritize work and drug treatment.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

There is a very specific genre of Trump voters who just hate the system, maaan. Give them a political outsider and they'll vote for whoever

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

These are all super easy to understand if you take 30 seconds to think about it instead of trying to dunk on people

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

"But Japanese people think Gwen Stefani/Katy Perry's thing is cool and flattering!" Yes, the experience of diasporic Asians is different than people still in Asia

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Side note, every European who makes fun of Americans for this *immediately* understands it when confronted with a third+ generation Asian or African immigrant descendant

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

"Haha Americans who claim they're Irish/Italian/etc are so embarrassing!" They do that because of diaspora.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

"You can't get *real* Mexican/Chinese/Indian food in America/Canada/Britain!" It is different because of diaspora.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

90% of conversations about cultural authenticity boil down to "This person doesn't understand the concept of diaspora."

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

May I suggest: - if the parade has a classic cars section, it cannot include cars less than 50 years old. No one cares about your Range Rover, Bethany!

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Someone at DC Adult Protective Services has the opportunity to do something very funny

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Looking for clues that actors are secretly computer simulations, call it Tronsvestigating

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Personal update, I have been taking propanolol for about 6 weeks now and it's basically cured my migraines, science is amazing, medicine is amazing

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

If I, a person with a Bluey-obsessed 5-year-old, can do it, you can do it.

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Carrie Ellen Sager @carriesager.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Even if you accept the government's framing of the case, Charlie Kirk was killed by a white Mormon man who met a trans person, realized how hateful & cruel the right is, and, because of his conservative upbringing, only had the tools to respond to someone he saw as a bad man with violence

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