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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Delighted to chat w the fabulous @emmaruthless.bsky.social as she takes on bad municipal web design and its psychic implications!

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

(That’s just an illustration btw — my face doesn’t look like that and things aren’t dripping around me)

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Wired asked me to learn vibe coding. I, a cretin, DID! Come for the tale, stay for the actually cool app I built to fight the power! Or at least daylight a sliver of the power! Then use the app please! Is fun and easy. Link in story. www.wired.com/story/normie...

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I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?

Apparently anyone can vibe code anything these days. So Claude and I tried to make a database for tracking the petty grievances of the masses.

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thanks @shiraovide.bsky.social. If anyone out there could use a nudge starting an Admin Night — or wants to tell me about their existing one—get in touch!

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

If you have a tween or used to be a tween or just saw one once, please drop everything. @annawiener.bsky.social’s latest is beautiful. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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The Life and Times of an American Tween

In some ways, the world is cooked. But being a twelve-year-old still kind of eats.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 07/04/2026

Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office. Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable.

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Addictive design and sludge are complementary forces! Easy in/hard out!

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Am write book! Hit me with your awful/funny/memorable tales from the trenches of sludge/life admin, or your thoughts on the toll this stuff is taking, or dispatches from your own Admin Night-like group!

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I wrote about an art form that fits in the period at the end of this sentence. For one diatom arranger, the work proved transformative.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Slash is like Dread Pirate Roberts. “November Rain” was actually eight Slashes ago.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

CNN headline writer clearly getting paid by the word

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Democrats are simultaneously beginning to refer to ICE and CBP agents as "poorly trained." This message comes from leadership. They're trying to use it as a substitute for dismantling ICE and CBP and imprisoning their current employees. Don't fall for it; don't take any Dem seriously who uses it.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Denmark renames Greenland Epstein Island so that Trump will never talk about it again.

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Thank you Hugh! Ten (10) full admin points awarded for this! (Must use log-in portal to redeem.)

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Thankful for the heroic work being done by Stanford’s Three Strikes Project, getting people out of prison who shouldn’t be there. If you need some good feels this week, click on this. (Don’t miss the short vid at the end!) momentum.stanford.edu/stories/undo...

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Undoing injustice

A new Stanford center is uniting astronomers and data scientists to decipher the cosmos—and reinvent the future of discovery.

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

It me! If you need tips on starting your own A.N., drop me a line. (But you don’t! Simple as it sounds!)

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Thank you Don! Also, for those who are starting their own Admin Nights: Report back please! I'd love to hear how it goes.

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I invented a thing called Admin Night and I've come to recruit for it. Get hip to the tiny obligations grinding us down, isolating us and stealing our time! Wake up to the structural reasons why! Get shit done! Admin Night is fun and funny and helpful! Start your own! www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

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Essay | How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life into a Party

We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The Post editorial page may be falling apart, but their coverage of administrative problems in Social Security has been excellent.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The brazenness with which they lie is something that is hard to metabolize, even now

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Hear @romanmars.bsky.social and me discuss sludge, sabotage and the state of Fuck It. Bonus life-improving idea at the end!

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Longreads @longreads.com · 22/10/2025

"Moonlight poured through a hole in the roof, bathing the floor in a pale blue and illuminating a column of dust. In normal life, I struggle to summon visuals in my head; here I was Rembrandt." @chriscolin3000.bsky.social for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/m...

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‘You’re Going to Lose Your Mind’: My Three-Day Retreat in Total Darkness

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Who turned out the lights? (Me.) Thanks to the nature of existence and Seth Meyers slicing blue cheese for the cameos. In this Sunday’s NYT Magazine. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/m...

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‘You’re Going to Lose Your Mind’: My Three-Day Retreat in Total Darkness

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I confronted Benioff in 2019 about Salesforce not paying taxes, and lobbying for the Trump tax cuts. Maybe he was chipping in for the Nat'l Guard on the side? www.wired.com/story/gospel...

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Thinking today of this old Tobias Wolff story, and a bitter man seeing for a split second all the ways his life veered off-course. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

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Bullet in the Brain

A 1995 short story about what “passes before” a literary critic’s eyes—“a phrase he would have abhorred”—when he is shot at the bank.

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Zillion $ idea: A special edition of the @nytimes.com featuring only boring and unworrisome news, available 1-4am.

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Am certified serious grownup, need proper headshot. Otherwise unreserved about sharing this interview I did with the swell @jimrutt.bsky.social, who among other things let me curse on his show.

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Just passed a distressed-seeming person walking east out onto the Bay Bridge, on the skinny shoulder. Watched three cops pass. Tried to flag one down, he drove right past. (Then tried flashing lights behind him, nothing.) Got thru to highway patrol and they took down the info. I have questions!

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Really good, and really important.

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Probably the hottest convo about administrative friction and average handle times you'll hear all day.

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Sometimes sludge is an explicit policy, sometimes it’s just a handy confluence of decisions and agenda. When FEMA fires call center workers, people lose faith in the federal government, which is always Trump’s play. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Call in! You’ll get through — no sludge!

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I'm still gathering sludge stories! Wanna talk about your time working at a call center? Or a memorable battle you waged with some sludgy entity? Perhaps there’s a sludge-like phenomenon adjacent to sludge, which I should know about?? Get in touch!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2025

"The bill includes the most aggressive assault on climate action of any legislation in history. In fact, it represents a profound shift in policy. Trump and Republicans are not just ignoring climate change — they’re actually trying to make it worse." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

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The Republican budget is a climate horror

Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.

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Chris Colin @chriscolin3000.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Also, special shout-out to the excellent @pamherd.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social, who kindly let me interview them *while driving* and *while on spring break.*

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 11/04/2025

Remember all the gun humpers who vociferously attacked any hint of a gun registry? Awfully quiet about a registry with *all* your data.

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