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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Also if COVID hadn't been deadly but had just been explosive diarrhea, lines for that vaccine would have been out the door and around the block in every city everywhere

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"Sir, there appears to be a dread outbreak of explosive diarrhea! We don't know where it came from!" "I see, oh me oh my, what a dangerous situation this is. I assume you've already checked the explosive diarrhea factory, right?" "..." "RIGHT?" www.npr.org/2026/07/17/n...

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Iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell linked to cyclospora outbreak in 5 states

Federal health officials have identified a single supplier of the produce from Mexico that was served in Taco Bell restaurants in five states.

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My sink was clogged so I bought a plumber's augur. Now my sink is still clogged but I can see Mario's future

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Nothing says you're in touch with the people than running an article about shopping at Aldi as if it's a piece about food insecurity. You're just...shopping at Aldi. Something I was apparently supposed to be embarrassed about before now? But good news, now it's fine www.npr.org/2026/05/11/n...

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It's not shameful, it's savvy: The shoppers redefining how to save money on groceries

Many facing economic pressures and frustrations have begun shopping at budget grocery stores and warehouse clubs in lieu of traditional supermarkets, with priorities shifting in pursuit of good deals.

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

among this account's best work, and that's saying something

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Once again, just like "cashierless" stores and "self-driving" cars, "automation" basically just means "Exploiting those to whom we should instead be paying reparations"

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Look, Sam can frame this any way he wants, but if he's saying that ChatGPT is going to be used to kill people, the college students who make up his core user base aren't going to follow him there. Students who are desperate or insecure enough to cheat still possess basic decency and compassion.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I don't know guys, the PS5 port of Starfield just looks kind of weird to me for some reason, not sure I can place it

A screenshot from Bethesda's game Starfield with a spaceman in the foreground and a planet with vertical rings in the back. There's also an image of the orange cartoon cat Garfield superimposed on it. It's Starfield Garfield. That's the whole joke, unfortunately.

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

lol good work duck duck go

A screenshot of a duck duck go search for "flag with no meaning" in which the search engine's top result is the yellow snake "don't tread on me" bullshit gadsden flag

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

ICE agents in 2012 vs. ICE agents in 2025. ICE gives us nothing to be nostalgic for but putting these Cobra Commander cosplay goons back into tshirts and frumpy cargo pants would be a start

ICE agents in blue uniforms wearing tshirts and cargo pants.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Look, I don't know what to tell you. I don't particularly have a lot of time on my hands. I just kind of can't stop myself when an idea like this strikes me, and Sufjan Stevens' Christmas albums always get me through this dark and horrible time of year clownschooldropout.bandcamp.com/album/youre-...

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You're the Christmas Unicorn, Too, by Hermeticist

2 track album

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"I always liked Aslan a little better than Jesus...While the image that Jesus conjured up in my head was a blurry amalgamation of Jim Morrison and Allen Ginsberg (without the glasses), Aslan was always crystal clear: the golden hair; the strong, soft paws; the sexy, sonorous tone of his voice."

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I think I've definitely shared this before, but if you are thinking about the 75th birthday of Narnia, as I am, you might enjoy this piece I wrote about re-reading The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe after leaving the church as an adult. the-rambling.com/2023/04/06/i...

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Edmund - The Rambling

Nathan Schmidt rereads The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first book in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, and comes to terms with the ways in which he grew up to become Edmund Pevensie, the ...

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I'm always down for dancing about architecture and this absolutely hits the spot: warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/interi... #musicsky

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Interim Report, March 1979, by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

10 track album

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This is a straight-up #dungeonsynth song, like, I have heard these exact textures on dungeon synth albums. In 1986, Ray Lynch predicted the exact aesthetic that a certain type of indie game soundtrack would be going for, and he did it on an album called Deep Breakfast www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mE...

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Pastorale / Ray Lynch

YouTube video by Ray Lynch - Topic

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

This isn't my campus newspaper anymore but it's still great to know that nobody stops the IDS. Without their persistent coverage of our unionization efforts, we would not have been successful at demanding raises for grad workers. Network journalists could learn a lot from these brave students.

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Claims about the "inevitability" of generative AI prove how accustomed we've become to a magic hat economic model in which one in every thousand hats contains a rabbit, but if we want our money to mean anything, we have to collectively pretend that all of them do. 999 invisible rabbits.

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This is what I've been saying, put more clearly by an actually knowledgeable journalist. If you want to Have A Company, you have to Sell A Product. A lot of companies take a while to turn a profit, but all the ones who do have one thing in common: selling a thing www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/o...

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: If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

"Some AI is being used to make images and videos online" is perhaps the funniest possible way to respond to "What are the benefits of AI?" Yes, these things are primarily sausage grinders that feed the products of human arts and culture back to us as slop... www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...

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Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S.

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I had to break it off with Herbie....he was just so high maintenance

Two guys in driving helmets sticking out of the top of Herbie the living car from the movies, a classic VW bug with a 53 on his hood. One of the guys is spitting out water because of my amazing joke.

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

There should be a name for the specific kind of seasonal affective disorder that comes from the fact that fall doesn't happen anymore and it's going to be eighty degrees in October. I guess the word for this is eco-grief but I want a word that captures specifically how much I miss fall.

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Perfect morning working music; also the CD came in a square wooden box like a cajón 🤩 secretstashcomps.bandcamp.com/album/pe-a

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Peña, by Compilations

15 track album

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

If the Incredible Hulk eats a giant, Hulk-sized sandwich with his big green mouth, does Bruce Banner have to try to pass a Hulk-sized green poo poo later? Does Bruce Banner worry about this? Cuz I guarantee the Hulk is not worried about this for a second

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The FL GOP literally wants a colorless and bland world, painting over simple joys in the name of petty cruelty. And like sure, fascism demands uniformity, but also I just don't understand how these lame and boring people are popular enough to get anyone to vote for them apnews.com/article/flor...

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Florida cities race to save rainbow crosswalks as the state's deadlines for removal loom

Fort Lauderdale city leaders have decided to fight the state of Florida’s order to remove rainbow-colored street art, potentially risking millions of dollars in funding.

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

In the hard quiet corner of my heart where the fear of hell used to be, something admittedly cruel sits, wishing such an afterlife existed in which someone is doing to James Dobson what James Dobson told our parents to do to us

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Also one of the NY'er's better headlines www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

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A Dangerous and Evil Piano Piece

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It's not just about the playing the fan, it's about playing the fan with an almost unbearable level of bonhomie and grace youtu.be/QJavHc48iZU?...

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Electric Fan Harp in the bathhouse │ 銭湯で扇風琴 ♨️

YouTube video by ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Also, to this point, the degree to which classroom academics have adopted the "they're always going to live with this, so we have to teach them how to use it" approach is staggering. There is no case in which it actually makes sense to use a nonsense generator, unless you need a ton of nonsense

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Eddie Palmieri's part of the Derek Bailey "On the Edge" documentary was positively transcendent; when he wanted to, he could go as hard as Cecil Taylor. Watch the way he can't stop himself from singing along with his solo here. Legendary. #musicsky #jazz youtu.be/B6fSMxXDZNY?...

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DEREK BAILEY - ON THE EDGE

YouTube video by Rafael Villegas

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Like, it's money. That I have. Or in a credit card's case, money that I am already allowed to have. Of course there have always been things that are legal and illegal to spend money on, but those things have been determined by...the LAW. Not by a thing that one random guy woke up worried about today

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"I love you...God bless you...You're the fuckin' best." Notice how many times Ozzy stops to send love to the audience? Today was going to come sooner or later, but it's still a day of great loss for me and a bunch of other weird people www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUT7...

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BLACK SABBATH - "Children of the Grave" from The End (Live Video)

YouTube video by Black Sabbath

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Did anybody else already know that Bill Frisell could be terrifying? I only knew him as the good at front porch music but still highly respected for his technical chops guy; this stuff is terrifying #musicsky youtu.be/anS5KrxE0Ig

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RICHTER 858, A Slideshow

YouTube video by Songlines Recordings

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

there is a certain (mostly) 70s-era album art aesthetic that essentially guarantees that I will purchase the vinyl, and it looks like this

An album cover in a vintage sci-fi style showing a red celestial body rising over an abandoned city with a crumbling sun mural in the tiles of the foreground.

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

i went all the way to #asle2025 in Maryland just so i could find the greatest box in history at a gas station in Ohio

A totally fucking badass box with a grim reaper skeleton in a flaming chariot being pulled by a trio of pit bulls baring their teeth in righteous fury

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/07/2025

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

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strawberry garfield @bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

i can’t stop watching this vid of dan deacon doing the anthem before the orioles game yesterday it just gets better and better and all the crowd shots are golden

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

between this and his brief stint as James Bond on Seth Meyers i believe Joe Pera may be well on his way to becoming one of the great action stars of our time www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR1a...

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DOING BUSINESS AT THE END OF THE WORLD with Joe Pera & Carmen Christopher (2025)

YouTube video by Joe Pera

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Okay, what if we didn't let them have their fucking cutesy alligator name. Like just stop calling it that, it fucking sucks, and scare quotes don't change it. It's "Florida's camp for the unlawful detention and removal of innocent people"; we can't let them paper it over www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...

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Trump tours, and touts, Florida's new migrant detention center, 'Alligator Alcatraz'

During their visit, Trump administration officials said the facility should be operational within 24 hours — despite the protests of pro-immigration, Indigenous and environmental groups.

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I've presented at the National Humanities Conference: my very dangerous and un-American work organizing a downtown scavenger hunt about circus history. Other work included community-building programs for veterans and exciting new ideas for neglected historical sites...

"With all of this in mind, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance have mutually agreed to cancel this year's National Humanities Conference in Detroit. We are also not going to hold a fully virtual conference in lieu of an in-person conference in the fall, nor do we plan to convene a smaller group at that time in Detroit."

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I regret to even acknowledge the existence of this "song," but here we go: BOUGIE LIKE NATTY IN THE STYROFOAM SQUEAKY-SQUEAKIN IN THE TRUCK BED ALL THE WAY HOME WITH SOME ALABAMA-JAMMA, SHE MY DIXIELAND DELIGHT THAT'S HOW WE DO How WE Do .............fancy like

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I think this latest by Matt Jencik and Midwife gets as close as I can get to a "summer jam." Maybe not the very first thing you'll hear but it reminds me of my favorite things about The Appleseed Cast's Low Level Owl, which is one of my all-timers #musicsky youtu.be/TIg_-JjqM2s

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MATT JENCIK & MIDWIFE - Rickety Ride (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RelapseRecords

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Sometimes your new favorite album is eight years old, and that's okay. Mainstream music press focuses too much on new music anyway, imo. If @thequietus.com hadn't linked to their archive at the bottom of a different article, I wouldn't have found my album of the year (from 2017) youtu.be/qwROTPYgFDs

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James Holden & The Animal Spirits - Thunder Moon Gathering

YouTube video by U L T I M A T E

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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"Set in the same universe as The Office" - so...a world where you go to work and sit in a chair? Is Frasier in "the same universe" as Cheers? I was trying to think of a snarky way to put this but now I'm just actually curious what the word universe means in realist sitcoms kotaku.com/office-spin-...

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The Office Spin-Off Premieres In September, Giving You A Reason To Stop Rewatching The Show (Again)

The Paper is set in the same universe as The Office and even features at least one returning character

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Black and white photo of two longhaired cats snuggled in a basket lying on its side on a carpet. They are looking brightly up and to the right as if someone is waving a toy or something. Text as the bottom says “besieged”.

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