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Brian Kenna

@drbrianish.bsky.social
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Ph.D., WWI/modernist Brit lit and modern fantasy lit. I also really like board games and baseball, so expect to see a lot about them. He/him.

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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 21h
Standing at the prow, leaning out: "I believe I see fair Seattle on the horizon!"
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 21h
Imagining Bronze chartering a three-month sea voyage.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 21h
Does she Does she know how she gets home
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 22h
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hell yeah, but also The D&D team wasn't fucking unionized?
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
if you think the public exists to defend the military, I think you're most of the way to where these creeps want you to be
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It also seems relevant that very few people are troubled to consider what's true, even briefly.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a weird one: Oz is clearly correct. He says "a stick." Most places sell butter at four bucks for a box of four sticks. The misleading portion (nobody sells single sticks) is because it allows him to say the small-sounding "a buck." But it seems relevant that Fox is going after him for it.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not only making your product worse, but also more difficult to use, while also raising prices every six months. It's a wonder they've still got any customers.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Aside from being poor customer value, it just turns the software into an absolute mess. Freezing, stuttering during the handoff, refusing to come back after ads. I just saw the same commercial three times in a row.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It is truly astonishing how much the introduction of ads has broken every streaming service app that used to work just fine.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I mean, yeah man. We're gonna level them. We're gonna Akhenaten your ass.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And people said that gyro-stabilized fondue pot was a waste of money.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
On the one hand, I was a pretty sheltered child. On the other, I remember back to like age two.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That Sesame Street skit where Bert and Ernie are in the tomb with the mummy that keeps moving while Bert's not looking.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Joe D. @shakewell.cryptoanarchy.network · 05/10/2026
Baseball kicks fucking ass, pass it on.
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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also his name isn't "Pope."
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Aside from everything else, the Papal conclave elected him.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Even for people who didn't acquire new disabilities, I'm betting a lot of disabled people realized for the first time how much their lives could improve with accommodations like WFH.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kitten ear-cleaning service: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don't eat that, it's a mimic.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is this why it took me a second to recognize him? Or maybe it's just the expression + low angle? Or all three, maybe.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am running for president and my platform is that I will make it illegal to force people to enter the Place Order screen before letting them see your menu.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@hoorayforada.bsky.social You get this now.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"There were lots of jokes about this—congrats, Uber, you invented the bus—but that was always the point: not so much doing away with public utilities and infrastructure as remaking and replacing them for private gain, creating a sphere of the un-public."
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The same thing happened with us! They're close enough in age that it's more of a big brother thing, but it was shocking how quickly they bonded.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
tracking the Ring
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HE LOVED RIDING ON HIS MOM’s BACK ACROSS THE RIVER 😭
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh the faculty lounge? Where the aloof, lazy profs are planning how to spend their millions on indoctrinating your kid? Is that the same lounge where we've been collecting water in a trash can for months because they haven't fixed the pipe
The drop ceiling has a black
Garbage bag hanging down from it, with a hose leading to a yellow trash can
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spent the last ten minutes looking for that "Horrified stare at computer" image and I can't find it, so I'm gonna need you to just picture it here =>
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it funnier if it was the same Cybertruck three times and you just kept crossing paths?
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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
White Sox and Astros both having a bullpen game for Game 1
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He's just the best.
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AiredOnTVToday @airedontvtoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah see that’s the problem you tried to see the movie without purchasing the Day One Ultimate Edition, you can’t expect it to have all the movie in it
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Five minutes ago: "Oooh it's so powerful it's going to destroy humanity, we're doomed." Now: "Good news, we've stopped it from destroying humanity!" Better report on both of these with total credulity.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know you don't have to do their marketing for them, right?
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Doormash. Get on it, investors.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the average lifespan of outdoor cats is 3 to 5 years. indoor cats regularly live to 10, if not 20 years. imagine personally shaving off 3/4 of your cat's life because you're too stubborn and lazy to take proper care of an animal you're responsible for
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every time someone starts DS9, I make the same prediction: "Nog is going to be one of your favorite characters." No one ever believes me.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wait say more about the 8-minute manicotti please.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel like it would land differently in this situation.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've got mixed feelings about the movie but the visuals in that scene are something else.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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Luso @mrluso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Character idea, a basset hound who hunts vampires
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As always, the most important question is "Who's 'we'?"
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