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In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For the record, Lucas isn’t streaming ANYWHERE.

Corey Haim and Kerry Green in the 1986 movie Lucas.

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m just a man Walking down the sidewalk Carrying a Bluetooth speaker Far enough so that it’s Out of range of my wife’s phone So I can sync with it

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No offense to any single person in this process (unless one of the embedded are making evil points) but I’m pretty sure our brains aren’t meant to process this.

A post of someone reacting to an embedded video, which is someone reacting to the embedded video behind him, behind her, that my friend shared.

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I found an old check out slip in a library book and now I feel like Morgan Freeman in Seven.

Paper receipt from a library of all the books someone got from a single trip to the library.

Title Hello goodbye hello a circle of 101 remarkable meetings / Craig Brown.

Title: John Adams / John Patrick Diggins

Title: Life worth living: a guide to what matters most / Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnal

Title: Socrates caf ® : a fresh taste of philosophy / Christopher Phillips

Title: Spy handler: memoir of a KGB officer: the true story of the man who recruited

Title: The only woman in the room: Golda Meir and her path to power / Prina Lahav

Title The Socrates express: in search of life lessons from dead philosophers / Eric

Title: This life: secular faith and spintual treedom / Martin Higglund

Title To think like God: Pythagoras and
Parmenides, the origins of philosophy/ Arnold Hermann.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Shiro Sirius @shirosiri.us · 29/07/2026

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

"A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information," it continues.
"Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an Al model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated.
The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one."

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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 21/07/2026

Hey, that's a nice [THING YOU DO FOR PERSONAL PLEASURE], be a real shame if somebody were to [CONVINCE YOU TO MONETIZE IT, TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP INTO AN OBLIGATION AND ROBBING YOU OF JOY]

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I enjoyed The Odyssey (2026) but I have one historical nitpick. The phrase “Jiminy Christmas” is a minced oath for “Jesus Christ”. As the story is set around 1200 B.C. it is unlikely that Odysseus would have said the phrase even once, let alone the dozens of times he says it in the film

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

One of the most inspirational stories for creative artists from recent times is that relatively unknown comic Hannibal Buress exposed Bill Cosby to be a monster and somehow it totally caught on and stuck.

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

As much as I hope for movie theaters to thrive, I’d find it funny if zero people go to see The Odyssey.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Right-wingers yelping about being told (as in past heatwaves!) to set their AC to 78—so a grid that serves >8.5 million people doesn't shut down—really illustrating what AFAIK is a pretty US-specific pathology: being militantly proud of your extreme sensitivity to mild discomfort

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Visiting family. I brought two books and bought two more at an antique store along the way. Now I want to always travel with a comfort stack of books.

Four books of mine stacked on the dresser of the guest room at my in-laws’ house. The house is nice and quaint and, also, I’ve brought some of my own quaintness just for me.

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you went by crossword answer popularity, you’d think we all dealt with imps all the time.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

He also promises to drop twenty million dollars cash on the crowd.

Joker from Batman (1989) at that parade at the end.

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The Equalizers Podcast @eqpod.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Archon has withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration

Lead singer of Archon, the fictional band from the season three Equalizer episode Inner View

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 29/05/2026

This should be punishable as a serious felony. I mean, you can't steal much more from someone than their work and identity and reputation.

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

You’re subscribed to everything but still have to pay $5 if you want to watch some dumb movie like Seven.

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We don’t deserve Widow’s Bay.

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

HBO Max knows I binged the first two seasons of Euphoria, and it knows that I have no interest in even the preview for the third. I feel a complete and guiltless power over a legal entity.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

he's been rushed to johns hopkins landscaping

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Saw this outside last night, a perfect line of lights moving across the sky. Surreal. Then looked it up, FFS it’s SpaceX over our house. Not to mention it’s the first time I’ve seen google search results defaulting to this AI convo view. I want to opt out of all this.

I googled “string of lights in the sky”. It came back with an AI conversation view with some pictures and the following text:

The string of lights frequently spotted moving in a straight line across the night sky is a "Starlink satellite train" launched by SpaceX. These, often 60 at a time, are satellites being deployed to provide global internet, appearing as a "string of pearls" due to reflected sunlight. They are most visible 1-3 days after launch, shortly after sunset or before sunrise. • YouTube +5
Key Details About Starlink Sightings:
• What They Are: A constellation of satellites from SpaceX designed to provide low-cost internet to remote areas.

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This young woman’s death first used as justification for ICE, then inexplicably tied to a military operation. Unreal.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

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Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️ @bolt451.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Getting chipotle before my dermatology appointment.

Marty McFly saying “ten minutes oughta do it”

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This Anna Kendrick LPL Financial ad is like a parody of American excess. youtu.be/IuxS4RYpTaI?...

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Splashy: Anna Kendrick’s Coffee Cup Overflows for LPL Financial

YouTube video by BBS

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The modern masculinity industry doesn’t want you to remember that Dan Cortez got phased out of MTV.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 24/03/2026

Been saying it for years but being and staying alive, and being kind, maybe making a little art if you can, is the most punk rock thing imaginable in 2026. You're doing an awful lot just by surviving and don't forget that.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Oscar-nominated, “The Voice of Hind Rajab" is up for best international feature film. Trump barred Wesam Hamada, Hind’s mom and Motaz Malhees, an actor starring in the film, from entering the country due to their Palestinian citizenship.

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Cast behind Oscar-nominated Palestinian drama demand permanent ceasefire

The cast of The Voice of Hind Rajab, which is nominated for Best International Film at the Academy Awards, shared their thoughts on a major political issue on the red carpet

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Bowen Yang left #SNL 100% voluntarily (afaik, and maybe that’s rare?) and now he’s in T-Mobile ads that play during SNL. The perception when watching every new SNL: he was able to leave only by crossing the border between entertainment / advertisement, and those ads serve as like a reminder.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out. It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness. Let's take stock of where we are.

Paperback edition of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This is how we're all going to die, and if I'm being honest, I don't like it

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Note from my notebook (2016). Nothing has changed.

I know I buy far too many books but I like to think that lining the walls of my house with them wards off evil in some deeply important way.

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The Equalizers Podcast @eqpod.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Tom Noonan. A great character actor, a nuanced and tortured performance in the season 4 gun control episode, Making a Martyr, 1989. RIP

Tom Noonan and Edward Woodward as The Equalizer

Tom Noonan in a wheelchair being hugged and comforted by Barbara Williams

Tom Noonan smirking and seemingly showing off his flexed muscle

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

So if I have this right.. the spark of human innovation is truly magical, happens once or twice in a lifetime… but really that magic is just made by maxing out a few key qualities (marketing?), and AI has all those qualities, 10/10 A+, so bring it on.

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James Graham @handle.invalid · 18/02/2026

I don’t happen to believe in this possible future, but even if LLMs did pump out high quality material that inspired and excited to human standard, that would be the end of culture. We wouldn’t be at all ready for instant gratification all of the time. That would break our collective brains.

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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 18/02/2026

Writers, if you could shred all of your dignity by putting your life's work in the hands of a slot machine that always spits out crap, would you do it? huh? would you? I bet you would. Say yes so that you can absolve me of my guilt. C'mon faceless stranger, do it

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A reboot of Office Space where instead of setting the building on fire, Milton destroys the entire engine of capitalism.

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

look I grew up not being understood and making jumps nobody else followed and being way out of other people's contextual and background knowledges and I learned that people mostly won't understand unless I provide ten sentences of extra context for every sentence of communication

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 15/02/2026

I often say that if you often find you're the smartest person in the room, it's because nobody actually clever wants to be in the same room as you.

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The intro on memory brings to mind a music memory: seeing The Zombies (or at least Blunstone and Argent) in concert. There was definitely a superfan there with a “Rose For Emily” sign. My brain really wants to fill in some gaps and give him a homemade towel/blanket cape à la Ignatius J. Reilly.

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Chuck @chuckkreuser.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Something social media should fix is if I’m watching something and accidentally do something that causes the feed to refresh, the thing that i was watching disappears forever.

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