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Alex Cruise

@cluonflux.com
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vacillating between crippling self-doubt and megalomania

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 30/09/2026
wise imo
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 30/09/2026
Wrong account, boss.
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 30/09/2026
To quote my sister's friend who worked on the McBarge at Expo 86: What the McFuck?
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 30/09/2026
Crank is a great surname for a border collie handler
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 29/09/2026
Fridge Cigarettes
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 24/09/2026
inb4 DJ Jazzy Jev
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
LIV Tyler’s full name is Fifty Four Tyler
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
i’d like to report a mass murder
Perhaps it has been his guilty conscience regarding his position at MIT along with a hubristic overestimation of his own capacity for individually grasping the essence of any global matter that led Chomsky to saddle himself with the task of producing counter-propaganda rather than searching for truth; perhaps it was the idea of himself as an American statesman trying to advise policy rather than an international organizer that led him to prioritize a friendship with someone who could provide access to figures like Ehud Barak and Steve Bannon over consideration for his victims. Whatever the case, Chomsky's lasting legacy will be the impressive feat of having combined the worst aspects of just about every leftist and progressive tendency: anarchists' lack of economic theory and class analysis, Marxist-Leninists' defense of state atrocities and insistence on viewing politics as a global chessboard, and liberals' elitist disdain for the masses' ability to be trusted with interpreting information.
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 30/08/2026
one could not ask for a better case of Milkshake Duck, alas
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
MISSED CONNECTION: I was the drunk guy grilling hotdogs. You were the security guard who chased me out of Home Depot
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 22/08/2026
My hot take this morning was "Emotionally satisfying but ruinous, the Canadian Way" ... but the upper bound is pretty low so, as you were
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 21/08/2026
Why do they call it motivation instead of decanting
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 21/08/2026
begun, the shade wars have.
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Brian Lynch @brianmichaellynch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Donkey Kong's arch enemy should be Monkey Kong who is a donkey
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
So far the best use for Flock cameras has been as an accidental honeypot to see which law enforcement officers can't resist stalking women in extremely well-documented ways, which is apparently the only thing they can be fired for or resign over. We should probably still unplug them all though!
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Bi of Hormuz @blbiofhormuz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"To locate a family member" How much you wanna bet it was his ex wife or child he lost custody over? If Flock keeps getting pigs fired at this rate I might temper my opinion on them.
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i’m nice on here @littleerik.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
falcon, come in. this is falconer one. do you read me? over (thin static) falcon, goddammit, this is falconer one. I need you back at base. I don’t like the look of that widening gyre, over. (radio silence, blank and pitiless as the sun)
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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 14/07/2026
the claude dining experience
There is a Claude sitting at a table at the Full Picture Restaurant, with another Claude attending to him. The Claude at the table (with teeth) is wearing a belt and suspenders (with intentional seams). The Claude waiter is wearing a red tie and blue blazer.

On the table are two shakers of coarse-grained salt and freshly ground truth. There is also a plate of spaghetti ("substrate") with load-bearing sauce, flanked by a genuine fork and a knife with a genuinely sharp point.

In addition to the main course, there are two sides (and it's worth separating them): a charcuterie board, and a salad (all green). There's also a glass of water with a slice of lemon (that's the wedge).

The waiter is holding a block of parmesan and a grater above the spaghetti, and saying "Just say the word."
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 08/08/2026
You should come to Toorcamp in 2028 :)
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 08/08/2026
I'm guessing tensions
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 07/08/2026
One might be tempted to remark "'escalate' escalated quickly!"
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Cargo Occultist @whisk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
claude, please haunt my foe in their waking hours and their dreams. do a breakthrough
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 05/08/2026
The dirty fucking hippies were right www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKEZ... h/t @joeyess.bsky.social
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The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right (original version)
YouTube video by joeyess
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Y’all talking about the 50k now vs a 50% chance at one million need to do some reading on this experiment. Children from deprived backgrounds will choose immediate gratification over the promise of larger future rewards because we have learned that future promises are unreliable.
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Stanford marshmallow experiment - Wikipedia
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 25/07/2026
@grok I want to sound smart should I call myself Phil Osophie because my name is Phillip or Phil for short and I've heard about philosophy [trying to make this a thing: ask grok the dumbest fucking questions, anywhere other than Twitter]
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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 18/07/2026
Inspector Gadget with text "ACAB Includes Inspector Gadget what are you even inspecting mind your business"
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 20/07/2026
One center for disease control probably isn't enough 🤔
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Someone called the cyclospora outbreak MAHA Blast and I'm cackling like I'm 13 again.
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ceej @ceej.online · 12/07/2026
the “porque no los dos?” girl
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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.
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ceej @ceej.online · 12/07/2026
No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory
TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEY'RE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU-
BUY NOW! HUMMUS AND A
WOW!! 
EXTRA LARGE FALAFEL MEAL FOR 2!!!
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026
new metaphor just dropped
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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 14/06/2026
Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.
The top-left corner of Microsoft Word 2007, showing the ribbon.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 12/06/2026
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 12/06/2026
#loonfacts the Canadian $1 coin is universally called the Loonie because, well, you know sadly the entire country missed an opportunity to call the $2 coin the Doubloon.
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Courtney Love will tear us apart (again) @hexadecibelle.fyi · 01/06/2026
as part of the BBC’s on-going commitment to representing a diversity of ideas, June will be Pride & Prejudice Month
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BeingHelpish @beinghelpish.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I’ve never done pay-per-view, but I’d pay to watch his name removed from the Kennedy Center live
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skeeter devilpenis @guypussy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
threatening my snuffbait horsegirl with the glue factory if she can’t win her next hobby horsing competition and she got so horny at the idea she broke her leg competing and now i have to put her down fr
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 01/06/2026
[originally posted to LinkedIn but nobody really took the bait] chat it's time for web4. What do we want in here?
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 19/05/2026
david the moon is sinking
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Sarc-o'-Lantern @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Bust of Marcus Brutus with a speech bubble
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Alex Cruise @cluonflux.com · 18/05/2026
🧑‍🍳😘
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
was once New Amsterdam.
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