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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wow, congrats, they made Ed Sheeran.
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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'Weird Al' Yankovic: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Brandon @elbrandino.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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I Wrote A Famous Musician A Fan Letter. Decades Later, I Got A Response That Rocked My World.
“Maybe he didn’t have a stamp and then forgot about it. At any rate, it was there, waiting to be found.”
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Of all the legendary insults that pop up in my head from time to time I don’t think there’s anything better than whoever described Steve Bannon as looking like “the coroner of Margaritaville”
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
For the better part of a year, I've been looking into the night LaGuardia Airport was bombed. I'd appreciate it if you'd give it a read. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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It’s One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Cold Cases. But What Happened Next Is Almost a Worse Crime.
When I began contacting the survivors, they thought I was a prank caller.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The beauty of sports is you can just decide at any point “I give a shit about this now. Against all reason.” Ten minutes later you hate one of the teams more than life and it’s all downhill from there.
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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I feel like we are technologically advanced enough that drawstrings should never disappear into sweatpants. I don’t feel like this is a big ask. I’d rather have this than LLMs
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
this is just crushing a beautiful tribute www.theplayerstribune.com/yan-diomande...
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Dear Roxane | By Yan Diomande
I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on.
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Emma Baccellieri @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Wrote about listening to the games on the radio 🤠
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When the Hurricanes’ Stanley Cup Run Got Stressful, Tripp Tracy’s Radio Call Made It All Worthwhile
After 20 years of heartbreak, no one knew how best to meet the moment of Carolina’s championship run than the local crew who had been through it all.
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
So, a quick story. I have been at @comicpalooza.bsky.social, been swamped with long lines almost the entire weekend so far, and there was this very nice gentleman named Jin (not sure of the spelling). He came the first day and said he was bringing books the next day to get signed. 1/
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.
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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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JacketDan’s Stunt Spooktacular @jacketdan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“Look at the size of it”
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🌿 @kxdyn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
you will never guess what this is in reply to
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
[writing in funeral book] He owed me $50. No rush.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 17/04/2026
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“Woman yelling at a cat” is an Internet meme. It juxtaposes two images: on the left, a screen capture of "Malibu Beach Party from Hell", an episode from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, depicting cast member Taylor Armstrong crying and pointing (held back by Kyle Richards); and on the right, a picture uploaded to Tumblr in June 2018, depicting a white cat from Ottawa, Ontario, Smudge, sitting at a dinner table behind a salad with a seemingly bemused expression. This version has been edited to superimpose trumps angry screaming face over Taylor’s and the cat has been given a white pope mitre with a gold cross design.
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Sarah Sweet @sarahsweet.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.
Tabby stands on hind legs with one paw outstretched toward a TV displaying a capsule above water.
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Brandon @elbrandino.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"A single sandwich is placed into a pocket on each astronaut's flight suit just ahead of launch, so they can nibble on something even before they unstrap." Astronaut is truly an aspirational job.
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Brandon @elbrandino.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
hell yeah
A screenshot of a message from the Listification account telling me I have been added to a moderation list called “AI Haters”
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I do think it’s very funny to convert to Catholicism as an ordinary if mildly famous person at the time only to have the Pope eventually become one of your biggest haters
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Here’s the thing, man: it isn’t hard to give up Harry Potter. It’s no great sacrifice, however much you loved it at a pivotal age. The world is full to bursting with good and luminous things, I promise you don’t have to cling for dear life to this.
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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Pretty funny to work for an entity that can be abbreviated as BOFA and badly fall for a blatantly obvious trick
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
What if it turns out evil terrorists are plotting a hockey-themed attack, as depicted in the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie Sudden Death AND the Michael Scott movie Threat Level: Midnight, and Kash Patel is on a secret FBI mission to crack the case. I bet you’ll feel real dumb about your little posts
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yes we absolutely can
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — we regret to inform you that Punxsutawney Phil is mentioned 35 times in the Epstein Files, including in the flight logs
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Ben Lamb @bennyfactor.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
replace rfk jr with this guy
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The last few days did not move the main story forward AT ALL. It's just a guy eating little treats and doing nothing. And so many plot holes. He says, "no more little treats," and then he's eating another little treat in literally the next scene.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 25/12/2025
Watching the Netflix fireplace to try to see exactly when it loops
Obama watching bin Laden raid
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
My sixth sense is always knowing someone doesn't want to be in an exit only lane before they do
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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is my favorite song about how people will only love you if you're useful.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This made me cry at my desk
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
can bad prose be sexually transmitted
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
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Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants - FM RF VHS Decode, 4k
YouTube video by Good LD Rips
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NPR @npr.org · 08/11/2025
Octogenarian Sisters Rita, Regina and Bernadette went back to their old convent with local support, and an Instagram following. "People are calling us the rebellious sisters!" Rita says.
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Meet the Austrian nuns who fled a care home to break into their old convent
Octogenarian Sisters Rita, Regina and Bernadette went back to their old convent with local support, and an Instagram following. "People are calling us the rebellious sisters!" Rita says.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
What we're watching: A new take on
"Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/11/2025
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I’ve thought about this scene ever day since it aired
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Hoping the AI bubble collapses soon so we can get a bunch of new Spirit Halloweens in these data centers
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“Nobody loved the library more than Dan.” A meticulous list kept by Dan Pelzer from 1962-2025, cataloging all the books he borrowed and read from the Columbus Metropolitan Library, shared by his daughter. I could not could not love this more. Dan's book list (all 109 pages) at what-dan-read.com
book cover photograph of Dan Pelzer in front of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, "What Dan Read 1962-2025"Dan Pelzer's handwritten book list, first page: 1962Final page of Dan Pelzer's book list from 2025. Photo of Dan (man in glasses, polo shirt, and holding a bottle of "Danhattan"
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
David Attenborough [whispering]: “As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”
a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
therapist: pick your battles me: okay gettysburg
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Things are bleak so here's a nice story. One time I had to stay overnight for work in Kelowna. The hotel guy said, "It's probably going to freeze tonight. Do you want me to wake you to pick the ice wine grapes?" I thought he was stoned but said, "Of course" very seriously. So at about 1am I get
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