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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That thing where a cat sees your hand coming in for pets and raises their head to meet it

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Western Massachusetts is none of our business" was Lovecraft's only insight that aged well

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Find some fucking hustle.” No. One day you will be dead and you will not get the high score for doing the most. Do enough and let yourself off the hook for the rest.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Caught up on “Slow Horses” and made what I believe is a complete list of River Cartwright’s skills: 1. Running

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Your neighbor is outside in the dark doing a lot of stuff with an electric saw and duct tape. Do you: A. Ignore it. It’s probably not a body, let’s not get the cops involved. B. Ignore it. It’s probably a body and you don’t need to get yourself on a murderer’s shit list.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trying to book a table as a cascade of Reese’s Pieces falls out of the open box (movie, half gone) in the front of my purse, just thinking

Tweet from @brendlewhat: “Hello sir, I— *briefcase full of jellybeans falls open*

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you want lettuce at the farmers market today, you better be ready to fistfight someone with Birkenstocks and an NPR tote bag

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Real questions I have asked my cats this week: “OK, who started it?” “Could we compromise on still attacking my foot at 3 a.m. but reducing the claw involvement?” “Are you huffing paint?” And the classic: “Why are you sticky?”

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fact: Castle of the TV show “Castle” is revealed to have a previous law enforcement hottie muse who he quickly slept with and then threw over. Fact: Beckett keeps him on a string for years before they hook up. Therefore: Kate Beckett is Anne Boleyn. In this essay, I will …

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don’t always close my curtains at night because, you know, who’s looking in my second-floor windows? But today I got the answer to that question: a power company employee on a cherry picker.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’ve got expensive tastes (hardcovers)

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m gonna drive my Yaris until the transmission falls out

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This game is great, and I enjoyed it even more when I realized there is an option (in the settings under “gameplay”) to turn off the cat’s death animation, so when you die the screen just fades to black.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In Boston, U-Haul roofs are like teeth: not covered by your regular insurance.

A sticker on a dashboard says, “Be aware of garage clearance! 7ft-2in clearance required. Customer will be charged for all roof damage. Roof damage is not covered by collision damage waiver.”

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Invite me to your group DMs on “The End of Oak Street” because that ending turned me into Chidi Anagonye

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is hard... (IG: josh.harmon and jonbatiste)

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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just found an Easter egg on Wikipedia! On the page for double dactyls (a type of poem), there's a sentence that's formatted as a normal line of text, but it's actually a stanza of double dactyl poetry! And... THE PLOT THICKENS! 1/2

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for “Double dactyl.”The text reads:
The double dactyl is a verse form invented by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal in 1951.

An example by John Hollander:
Higgledy piggledy,Benjamin Harrison,Twenty-third presidentWas, and, as such,Served between Clevelands andSave for this trivialIdiosyncrasy,Didn't do much.

Metapoetically, Roger L. Robison crafted this poem describing itself:
Long-short-short, long-short-shortDactyls in dimeter,Verse form with choriambs(Masculine rhyme):One sentence (two stanzas)HexasyllabicallyChallenges poets whoDon't have the time.

There’s then an annotation noting that the text “Metapoetically, Roger L. Robison crafted this poem describing itself:” works as the first stanza of a double dactyl poem.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Even scammers can fall into the dreaded find-and-replace trap! Presumably last month they were sending fake recall notices about a “May 2026 purchase,” so when they updated to June, they hit “replace all” and wound up regretting “any inconvenience this June cause.”

A series of texts from a scammer pretending to be a recall notice. It starts with “This notice concerns an item in your June 2026 purchase history.” After some stuff about safety and a redacted link to their scam site, it says, “We recognize any inconvenience this June cause.”

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Forced to interact with Facebook to try to get rid of some old furniture, and, sure, every interaction infuriating, but at least no one actually shows up to take the furniture.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The use of “Storm on the Sea of Galilee” is for sure pandering to me specifically. (Though I wish they’d trusted the Mes of the world to recognize it without being told.)

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This goes hard

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Jethro @jgulner.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Nacho Nacho Fries My wife wants to eat Some Nacho Fries

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Man the 1999 “Thomas Crown Affair” still slaps

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Listen, I know you’ve been told that posts with images get more engagement, but I block or mute accounts I see posting AI slop, so maybe just try text or stock images? Please?

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ambigram Caps lock Desktop publishing Geeked Platform game

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 31/07/2026

🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

A graphic poster reads "We have a deal! The ProPublica Guild has reached a deal with ProPublica's management on our first contract and has voted to ratify it. Swipe for the highlights [pointing emoji].

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There’s a bug on the lampshade and we’re definitely making good decisions about it.

A big orange cat is balanced precariously on the narrow wooden arm of a chair and looking straight up into a lamp. His whiskers are highlighted by the light and he has a little nubbin of a tail.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Why aren’t they making 12 more Jon Hamm Fletch movies, I ask for the millionth time.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Strongly endorse getting a little weird-tail guy into your house.

An orange cat stands in the deep basin of a kitchen sink. He has a little nub of a tail, only a few inches long, sort of like a bunny’s tail.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Style tip for your cyclosporiasis stories: Jeffrey got explosive diarrhea. Geoffrey got explosive diarrhoea.

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ceej @ceej.online · 20/07/2026

(stumbling home late after I promised my wife I was only going out for “a couple” beers) there was uhhhh a cyclops

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Sometimes I wonder if I take enough advantage of living in a city, and then one day I decide I simply must have an unusual type of flour and pretty quickly realize that I can get it at the place that sells fresh pasta just on the other side of the hill.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🎵An Oxford comma can’t fix this, doo-dah, doo-dah You should google appositives, oh doo-dah-day🎶

Headline: “Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction.”

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I am once again amazed at what some string lights and curtains can do for a space.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

All my knowledge of and feeling for soccer could fit in a pretty small thimble, but my desire to see England eat shit in any and all things runs deep. Go Norway, apparently.

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Genevieve Clovis @cloviseditorial.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Why hang out on any of the apartment’s cat beds, humans or furniture when you can instead open a cabinet, pull all the clean towels inside onto the floor, and then nap in the spot where they used to be?

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I *still* have a couple books of maps in the trunk of my car because I’ve had my car longer than I’ve had a smartphone.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Remember when I said the Brattle is a treasure and must be protected? Their AC broke during the heat wave over July 4th weekend, so they lost a bunch of revenue and have a repair bill to pay. Give if you can!

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I would kill or die for Larry

A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A car stopped in front of me to stare at a turkey on the sidewalk and I immediately started the “c’mon” gesture like “yeah, yeah, we’ve all seen the time knife.”

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I have somehow become the generation that’s always complaining that in MY day, Harvard Square was grittier, artier, cooler, more fun, but there’s one thing every generation can agree on: The Brattle is a treasure and must be protected.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Went to a Mel Brooks 100th celebration at @brattletheatre.bsky.social and just thought how nice it is to celebrate someone this way while they’re still alive.

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Colleen Barry @copycurmudgeon.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Fell asleep on the couch watching “M*A*S*H.”

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