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nobody you know, probably we should be whispering all the time

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 23/03/2026
Pulse (2001) - dir Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 14h
the Thinner remake is looking really promising
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 15h
Shut every fraternity down.
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 15h
imagine the reverse: it's only been a year or two of widespread daily use of LLMs, and now there are people who literally cannot make it through their workday without it like, what happened to you, man? how did you get this job to begin with? were you ever good at anything, without a cheat sheet?
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Guido Eekhaut @eekhaut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't ignore a cat's warning...
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.
The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 28/09/2026
it's true
a medieval drawing of a hedgehog. four little blue feet and a little blue face under a big bean-shaped mess of quills. he is looking inquisively at two round things that might be grapes with bits of stem but might also be large spermatazoa, which are floating in front of a tree that looks like a skinny stalk of steamed broccoli. 

text above the image says: Pause to reveal your medieval creature

text below the image says:

hedgehog (in ornate medieval-ish script)
You love to
steal grapes
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 27/09/2026
Hmmmmmmmmm “controversial truths” you say 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Casting director: ok this is a role for a character who's hard of hearing and very rude Actor: what the fuck did you just say to me? Casting director: perfect
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 25/09/2026
We have finally engineered a techbro with zero life survival skills. If you were to abduct Jensen Huang, take away his wallet and his phone, and drop him on a random street corner somewhere in the Midwest, he would die of exposure or starve to death under a bridge somewhere.
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 24/09/2026
Sharpening the minds and skulls of Bay Area kids since 2026.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 24/09/2026
So to be clear: it's not just that Republican senators are uninterested in stopping a hugely unpopular war. It's also that they have the power to do so and are explicitly choosing not to exercise it. Just a total abdication of their role in the Senate and their responsibility to their states.
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 24/09/2026
Get in loser, we're speedrunning Golgafrincham
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 24/09/2026
This is crazy! I mean, imagine what the United States would do if we found out agents of another country were hacking and disrupting *our* critical infrastructure if I had to guess, I'd say we'd probably fawn over them at every opportunity and back their play for Ukraine
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The whole debate about whether the AI execs even grasp what they're doing has been at least partially settled by the released documents in the NYT v. OpenAI suit, which pretty conclusively establishes that 1) Everyone from executives to individual engineers understood they were engaged in mass theft
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Someone asked me my thoughts on Boston Globe lesbian bar drama: My thoughts are that if you only temporarily struggled with isolation in 2020/2021, we should have more empathy for COVID-cautious people who have limited IRL community due to health concerns.
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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jesus Christ, Bayfield! Run!
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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 23/09/2026
e!
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 23/09/2026
For those sadly denied by Jessie: I *am* giving high fives for your bare minimum. Did you do anything at all? Do you feel good about it? Do you at least feel better than you would have if you did nothing? Awesome! Up top! 🙋 🙏 deluxe 2-emoji dap also available: 🤜🤛 Good job! Keep at it! ✨🎉
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 23/09/2026
I haven't been this shocked since they had those crooks say "You goddamn moth!" just to get a PG rating in Mothra (1961).
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 23/09/2026
Kalsharna? Klarshi? I thought we were pretty well cooked when Klarna started showing up at grocery checkouts and Uber Eats, but this makes the folks who pay for their Lunchables in four easy installment payments look like fucking financial wizards. We had a good run, y'all. (Some did at least.)
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 23/09/2026
Art is a way of processing life. Art is life, time and experience and imagination, distilled. Every person who has ever lived has been capable of making art, and nothing that's not a person, nothing that has not experienced life, will ever be capable of making art.
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Molly "Mollylele" Lewis @mollylewis.wtf · 23/09/2026
when I say “I’ll ask Claude” you can assume that I am praying to the spirit of this albino alligator
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's Joan Jett's birthday, and the question is how many pictures of JJ I can post without getting too obnoxious. Joan Jett — Brad Elterman, 1977
Young Joan in a black Runaways t-shirt in a batting cage with a bat over her shoulder.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 22/09/2026
Whoever stole this data: please call me. I have Excel and I know Pivot Tables.
A screencap from Excel 2015 showing the header of a table. Column A's header says "FBI Agent Name" and column B's header says "Species of Animal Fucked". The first entry in column A is "Kash Patel" and the first entry in column B is artfully pixelated. The headers have small inverted triangles on the right side indicating collapsed drop-down menus for ease of sorting.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got
Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 22/09/2026
one thing I'll say: a whoooole lot of people are showing their whoooole ass when it comes naive credulity about genAI and when their claims collapse under the harsh light of, y'know, demonstrable reality, anyone else would feel a bit abashed, but folks like WS will be too busy chasing the next scam
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 22/09/2026
There was a chance to actually stand up to the billionaires, to stop them from accreting yet more power to themselves. There was a chance here, a real chance, to stop the billionaires from consolidating yet more propaganda capacity. Spin it however you want, the AGs are cowards.
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 22/09/2026
@sasquatchers.wtf exciting!
Sound Mind by Chuck Jordan, finally coming out in Playdate Season 3!
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 22/09/2026
oh, so when he was breaking bones in his face he was just trying to beat the crowd i guess. you wanna be an influencer, you gotta get on those trends early he's a masochist hipster, he was beating up clavicular before it was cool
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 21/09/2026
forgot the alt again - Elvis Presley in concert swivels his hips and spins a cornhole bag around his head before launching it perfectly at the target, all while singing "I'm just a hunk, a hunk of burning beanbag"
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 20/09/2026
If we go with "computer games": the first image. From the minute I realized stories could be interactive, I was hooked. If we define "video games" as requiring graphics: the second image. Dramatic music, cinematic cutscenes... I fell in love. @jmechner.bsky.social you have much to answer for 😂
The opening "scene" from Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, released on many systems but this is the C64 version. 

Image is mostly white text on a gray background. At the top there is a static header in black that shows the location and score: "West of House  [...] Score:  0/0". Beneath that, text reads:
"ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire
Copyright (c) 1981, 1982, 1983 Infocom,
Inc. All rights reserved.
ZORK is a registered trademark of
Infocom, Inc.
Revision 88 / Serial number 840726

West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here."
Below this, there is a prompt ">" and a blinking black cursor awaiting input.Karateka, by Jordan Mechner, originally released by Broderbund Software for the Apple II in 1984 and ported to the C64 (among many other platforms) in 1985. More than half the screen is taken up by a pale grayish-blue sky and a Fuji-like peak in the distance. In the foreground, in front of a black wall, two figures clad in white gi with black belts face each other. The figure on the left (the player character) is kicking toward the other at torso height, while the right figure stands back in a guard position. At the bottom of the screen, a series of red triangles on the left and blue triangles on the right represent the health / life bar of each combatant.
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✨Directed by John Carpenter✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Read my five minute short DARK MATTER - an astrophysics student’s life unravels after a strange dream. www.patreon.com/ElizabethWal...
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 20/09/2026
how can i miss you if you wont go away
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 20/09/2026
Bruce needs glasses
A scene from Avengers (2012). Three panels stacked vertically.

In the first panel, Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) is walking away down a ruined street in New York City, turning to speak over his shoulder. Caption says, "That's my secret, Cap..."

In the second panel, a reaction shot, we see Captain America (Chris Evans) looking back at Bruce Banner. Cap is inexplicably blurry.

In the third panel, back on Bruce, a close-up. Caption says, "I'm always nearsighted."
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
today's sandwich is the xis gaúcho, a brazilian hunk o beef on bread so naturally i went absolutely apeshit learning all about gauchos, the whip-wielding, maté-drinking, knife-fighting outlaw horsemen of the pampas!!! CLICK FOR KNOWLEDGE buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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Notable Sandwiches #150: Xis Gaúcho
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...
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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 19/09/2026
So what I think happened is, basically everybody in Washington told Kash Patel that he should be fired because he and his FBI have thoroughly screwed the pooch, and Kash made what at the time seemed like the only logical decision to save his job.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm not telling anybody how to do their job but muppets. save. Kennedy Center. is begging to be written
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Till men of old for blood and gold had rescued Skara Brae." 🎶
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