Reposted by Dan Burtonjosh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Texas chain saw massacre is full of plot holes... what happens to the victims when they die? is there an afterlife? 191209203
Reposted by Dan BurtonThe Onion @theonion.com · 14hAuthorities Investigate Collision Between Trains From Chicago Traveling 80 MPH, D.C. Traveling 75 MPH 371951290
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 12hI kind of feel like generative AI is stealing my job but also when I watch an instagram video of a Japanese rockabilly guy playing Stray Cat Strut it suggests I search for more videos about “orange electric guitars” 100
Reposted by Dan BurtonBK? @whitesox.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I wolde smyte my lord out on thre piches. Slider withoute. He feleth as he were drenchid. Curveball in the erthe, of cours he chaseth it. Ladybird y-souk, sle thy-self. And bang 97 withinne corner. Thou art out. Thou were alweyes out. Thou hast be out sith the day that thou were born. 7623228
Reposted by Dan BurtonEdgar Cairo, Illinois @nickbpss.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The Dodgers are too good, they have ruined the sport 021
Reposted by Dan BurtonJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Thoughtful, and I'm going to say, prescient stuff from @ibogost.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...theatlantic.comThe Tragedy of AI CodingAI-assisted software development could have liberated programmers. Instead, it has become the latest way for Big Tech to confine us. 13511
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026We really like our daycare but it tickles me that they claim they’re a Montessori and every time I see a picture the kids are all doing a coordinated task led by a teacher 010
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026After a weekend with a sick baby I’m like “wow, finally, I get to go to work!” 000
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This instagram account has precisely targeted me and every day shows me “the 5 best slacker rock albums” “7 college rock albums you may have missed” “lazy stoner 80s jangle for your Monday” “70s power pop that picked up where the Beatles left off” “Adventures of Pete and Pete energy” 110
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I’ve heard it said that when you eat a legume, you make a leg out of you and me. But that doesn’t make much sense, does it? 000
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I have followed this woman in my hometown on instagram who I did not initially realize was a real estate agent, and this is how i discover all the slightly trendy yuppies have moved to the neighborhoods where I used to see house/warehouse shows 100
Reposted by Dan BurtonStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 21/09/2026 1971206
Reposted by Dan BurtonKirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is an all-timer for “Private equity is anything I don’t like” type glonzoism. 2052645
Reposted by Dan BurtonGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The mobility of children is simply not taken seriously or viewed as important. Something illustrative is how people will often say that kids "don't count" when you remind them that children and young teens are nondrivers who deserve the right to get around without cars. 335087
Reposted by Dan BurtonJohn Thorn @johnthorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026On this date in 1845: first baseball game to be recorded in scorebook of Knickerbocker Ball Club, played at Elysian Fields of Hoboken. Alex Cartwright plays, William R. Wheaton umps. 34313
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I am reading a book about bird cognition and had the thought you could probably get an LLM to say some really silly things about the mental state of other beings. Like that has to be an area where the machine can’t statistic its way into getting it 110
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My daughter has been in daycare for 1 month and in this time we’ve all had 3 colds 000
Reposted by Dan BurtonJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 30/09/2026man goes to doctor. says he missed a fly ball last inning. says life seems harsh and cruel. doctor says. treatment is simple. replace all your blood 181318
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Took a risk and i think it paid off: Cheerwine (sickeningly sweet cherry soda of my youth) with a little fernet 000
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026An underdeveloped part of my brain because of not watching sports growing up is that when someone hates the Mets or roots for the Phillies or whatever I’m like “whaaaaaaat?” 200
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is right when I started listening to the alternative rock radio station, and I had a piece of torn out notebook paper where I had written “system of a down” “incubus” “rocking the suburbs” etc so I could look up the bands 000
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I really thought the deli on my corner that serves fried frozen Sysco mozzarella sticks cared about food, community, and human creativity… until I noticed they used an AI generated menu 000
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026parental leave didn’t feel like a special treat or a terrible slog, it just felt like “this is how life should be.” I feel the same way about Southern California weather. “I deserve this” 010
Reposted by Dan BurtonTim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it's a midterm election so let's see what the Brooklyn Democratic Party is up to! 3134
Reposted by Dan BurtonJake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Also: you cannot run a city of 8.8 million people on the principle of "one senior citizen being inconvenienced is a veto" 0336
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Feeling fucked up because all the dads at daycare have cool jobs. They’re all like “i wrote a book about a medieval poet” “I am an architect who only does art museums” and I am like haha I’m a computer programmer, no I don‘t do the website, I tell them how many people saw each advertisement 000
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Some real weird gothic (?) shit that Charles Bonaparte married his cousin to “preserve the dynasty” and then ended up living outside Philly and studying birds after the Bourbon restoration. They lived in his uncle/father-in-law the former King of Spain‘s lake house 010
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I love the Sheryl Crow song “all I wanna do” very much and I have thought a lot about whether you could do a worthwhile cover of it. All I can come up with is “Damaged” era Henry Rollins rant version 100
Reposted by Dan Burtonwhet moser @whetmoser.com · 18/09/2026dudes rock www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...nytimes.comCan Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished? (Gift Article)The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go. 5732108
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Something weird in the air yesterday: - school bus hit a building in my neighborhood - I saw a car crash (everyone was fine) - turned on the Met game right as two guys collided and one got a concussion - immediately afterwards I slammed our front gate into my foot and drew blood 200
Reposted by Dan BurtonTim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It tells you all you need to know about the role of policing in general that the people who are constantly shrieking about low-level crime and homelessness and bike lanes (lol) as intolerable intrusions on our quality of life have no problem with this 631562
Reposted by Dan BurtonAnil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter. 333587707
Reposted by Dan BurtonIzzy.PumpkiNG | comms closed @izzydotpng.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Listening to @nimbf.bsky.social and realizing Martin Mertens (Adventure Time) HAS to be a Corsair (x-men) reference. It would be one thing if they were both just mustachioed space pirate absentee fathers, but mustachioed space pirate absentee fathers WITH BIG RED COLLARS? 0134
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I’m always waiting for the day at 5 month old swimming class where they get to go in the sauna 020
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026All the menswear guys are posting their “starting to feel like fall weather” fits and let me just say they clearly saw the street fashion video where I got interviewed by Preppy Pete in 2023 111
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This creeped me out— someone on our block has scattered a 9-12-2001 New York Times all over the sidewalk 000
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I do not really follow Nathan Fielder and the first time I watched that trailer I wasn't sure it was Elizabeth Holmes so I was like. wow and their baby is there. a movie about how having a baby makes you become crazy, that seems cool 010
Reposted by Dan BurtonRoy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial." 1271950661
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Today my baby saw Zohran pass by on a float, got praised as very cute by Kathy Hochul, and ate beans for the first time. Gotta be a top tier day of her life 111
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I went to the lake in Chicago and looked at some birds and there were like 5 or 6 none of us could identify with our various books / apps. Theres a site that shows all the birds people have spotted in a location recently and that didn’t help either. The wonder of nature! 110
Reposted by Dan Burtonpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I can’t believe Paul Schrader turned out to be a weird crank whose increasingly extreme views are isolating him from society 371828215
Dan Burton @dbstandsfor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This bus driver in Chicago is stopping at each stop and asking the people waiting where they’re trying to go, because the bus isn’t following the usual route. amazed 000