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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!)

@coletteshade.bsky.social
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Author, Y2K: How the 2000's Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was). The NYT called me “lean, nimble, and profoundly depressing,” but I think I’m pretty fun. I have a black cat named Camus and I live in Ann Arbor.

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 12/10/2026
omfg
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What you deserve
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking good!
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Man oh man. Hoping the next year is full of W’s and you get to close on that 1 br!! Would love to catch up next time I’m in Chicago 🏙️🌭
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yessss 🙏🏻
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piscadoro (poochie truther) @piscadoro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My piece in hellworld today, dig it www.welcometohellworld.com/negotiating-...
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Negotiating our survival
Today we've got another striking and meditative essay by Michael Brown on the similarities between paranoid survivalists he met living out in the Arizona desert and the AI-brained tech ubermensch. Bro...
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wow this was really good, thank you
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here’s me reading from Y2K and giving a talk about it at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social in SF last year! www.youtube.com/live/9KQqFkM...
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Colette Shade with Joanne McNeil: Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything
YouTube video by GreenAppleBooks
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If anyone wants to understand why everything sucks right now it is a very good book for doing that bookshop.org/p/books/y2k-...
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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)
“Nothing I’ve read has cut to the heart of the ’00s like Y2K.” — BustlePerfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration of pop cult...
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh I should probably mention Y2K is coming out in paperback in January, with a sexy new cover that will be revealed soon.
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How is she real?
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In third grade my public school class took a field trip to see the Washington Symphony Orchestra, and this cohort included many students who could not otherwise get to experience live classical music
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Literally the book I wrote!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I hope it does! Though it’s also about why there’s so much nonsense rn
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today’s the day
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Rachel THANK YOU FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nanoparticles are low on the list of things I want going up my nose
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’ve really gotta write this dot com book, huh
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Still goes hard after all these years
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I do not want to know what his poops are like
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Or as I call her, pre-code Sabrina Carpenter
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I hope you’re right 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻☘️☘️☘️🧲🧲🧲🎋🎋🎋
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Wretches only Also hello @neoliberalhell.bsky.social
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 03/08/2026
There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
chart showing 280k pr specialists to 40k 'news analysts, reporters, and journalists'
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Guess he’s the poor dad now
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I need this good news
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/08/2026
We did it! “The Nerd Reich” is a New York Times Instant Bestseller! My book debuts at #3 on the non-fiction list. Thanks to all who pre-ordered /bought the book—or requested it at the public library or promoted it on social. Without you, I’m just an unemployed guy with a laptop. But with you…
Image: Nerd Reich book cover, a New York Times Instant Bestseller
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
On the subject of Dolly’s union/working class solidarity, her 9 to 5 LP included Woody Guthrie’s ´Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)’, a protest song about the racist mistreatment & media coverage of exploited Mexican farm workers who died when the plane deporting them crashed in 1948.
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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yeah, it’s almost like people come to these politics because of their material conditions
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yeah! But also, which is it?
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I became a socialist and joined DSA BECAUSE I had to pay rent. Where do I fit in?
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Life update
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Omg, they’re thinking what I’m thinking (also love the avi/display name)
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The aesthetics of this pro-Trump song feel somehow very similar to this youtu.be/b7HlegQjcP4?...
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A Father's Gift
YouTube video by Hjörvar
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
They’re so talented at tapping into the essence of various aspects of American culture and making them significantly more weird, but not so weird that they’re implausible.
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Exactly
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I saw this Vietnamese-American pro Trump song and it took a second to realize it was genuine and not a T&E inspired comedy video youtu.be/9TGz4pP593w?...
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Hãy Bầu cho Tổng Thống Donald Trump: Hợp Ca Hồn Việt
YouTube video by ABTV Houston 21.12
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Mega 2012!!!
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The setting of their 2012 movie is a post-2008 America (it literally takes place in an abandoned mall). But even before, the show had an apocalyptic feel; an attempt to make sense of American consumer culture in a time of decline.
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Much to be said about how Tim and Eric tapped into America’s subconscious to predict Trumpworld. The aesthetics of Awesome Show are grotesque, involving bad makeup and sordid, 3rd tier advertisements and scams, as well as the prop-like treatment of children.
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I never thought I’d live through a timeline where this Tim and Eric song became literal youtu.be/_Re6pZri8Gw?...
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All The Food is Poison | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Adult Swim
YouTube video by Adult Swim
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"the loneliness epidemic is divided by class. The “loneliness industry” seeks to capitalize on the crisis of social isolation via paid solutions. If loneliness really is a public health crisis, it’s the responsibility of government and institutions." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/o...
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Opinion | Friendship Is the New Luxury Good (Gift Article)
The four-year degree isn’t just an economic signal; it’s become a lifestyle determinant.
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Precisely! I left my burger undocumented because burgers don’t even photograph well
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I finished a recent trip to LA with a single In N Out cheeseburger at the LAX location, and was forced to make my way through dozens of people shooting video content!
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You gave her a beautiful life
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Rax, I am so sorry!!
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