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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There’s a new type of car that has a bunch of Funko pop lookin guys on the dash and like ten bumper stickers of screaming possums that say stuff like “keep honkin’ I’m fucking crying in here” and if you see one it is already too late
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Tonight I learned that my wife’s favorite rapper is, unironically MC Hammer
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Andrew Willmore @studiobueno.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Inktober (starring Lil' Ghost) day 4. Word prompt: CACTUS! . #inktober #inktober2026 #lilghost
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Country Universe @countryuniverse.net · 03/10/2026
Wynonna, The Hard Truth (*****): She's spent her entire career to date-- which is to say, the majority of her life-- surrounded by people who were more interested in what her formidable skills could do for them than in how they could help her live as and express her authentic self. As she...
Wynonna's "The Hard Truth" album cover.
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People love to say “ACTUALLY, Puff the Magic Dragon is about weed” Did it ever occur to you that people smoking a bunch of weed would very happily also write a song about a literal dragon.
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wynonna is spitting bars. Shit.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
John Coltrane. Born 100 years ago today. Acrylic, ink and pencil.
A painting of John Coltrane
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 23/09/2026
John Coltrane was born 100 years ago today. Hear Jeff Parker's new cover of "Miles' Mode" and an unreleased track from the fabled 'Tiberi Tapes,' which will finally see official release this fall:
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John Coltrane Was Born 100 Years Ago Today: Hear A New Jeff Parker Cover And An Unreleased 'Tiberi Tapes' Track
Today marks 100 years since the birth of John Coltrane, the saxophone genius whose playing changed the face of jazz. Naturally, there are festivities afoot, including the release of some long-mytholog...
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OpenAI recently claimed to solve one of math’s biggest questions: the Navier-Stokes problem. But now three mathematicians have showed OpenAI’s work dodges the question rather than solving it.
scientificamerican.com
Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?
OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Do you want to not understand what's happening locally at all? Would you like context-less, ahistorical, and uninformed coverage of local events and meetings based solely on an AI summary of transcripts? Then you'll love "Walter," the AI that can supposedly replace experienced journalists like me!
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Twin tech founders who left Seattle for Alaska bet on an AI agent named ‘Walter’ to cover local news
Several years after leaving Seattle’s startup scene to build a “tech outpost” in the Alaskan wilderness, serial entrepreneurs and twin brothers Lee and Lucas Brown, founders of Tune, have set their si...
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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 15/09/2026
Finally, @milesklee.bsky.social gives this sideshow the respect it deserves. I laughed out loud when it referred to itself as “too British to delete itself” and now find myself wondering if it too thinks there’s something wrong with that island
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Antisocial” is doing a lot here. Just what the hell.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The return to physical media is a radical act. A book in your hand or a record on the turntable belong to a world beyond subscriptions, licenses, and corporate permission, and they can be lent, inherited, annotated, repaired, and loved. They remain when the platform fails and the servers die.
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
‘90s Fox Mulder is probably the best anyone’s ever looked in a tank top. Fucking aspirational.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/08/2026
Queer youth deserve bright futures.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
no we aren't. no it isn't. that isn't true
HEADLINE: Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'

PIC: Sam Altman
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Starting ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
You can tell the economy’s doing great when you start to get texts from every company you owe money too — not bc you’re late but bc your payment’s due in like 12 days. God nothing gets on my nerves more. “Hey we’re your phone company. Your regular due date is coming up, don’t stiff us, k? ☺️☺️☺️☺️”
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
CONFESSIONS II, as so many have stated, is a solid listening experience. I would argue that she and Stuart could have been just as successful in taking it in a deeper club direction, maybe there will be a follow-up or a deluxe with further material.
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Stones Amy Winehouse cover is god tier holy crap
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I’m not wild about the production — it’s too washy — but this is flipping art
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Little Miss Twain (feat. Tanya Tucker) by Shania Twain on Apple Music
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
After spending several weeks listening pretty much exclusively to John Coltrane’s (and the ‘Quartet’s) Impulse! albums, I am now bumping Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’ non-stop. What can I say, I contain multitudes
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Can you get a ticket for having sweaty armpits
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Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Oh the wonderful things you can find at the flea market -- like the cassingle for Dokken's Dream Warriors! For the latest Purple Stuff Podcast bonus show, we headed to a NJ flea market on a quest for dusty treasures. If you're on our Patreon, the episode is live now: patreon.com/purplestuff
Dokken's Dream Warriors: THE CASSINGLE!
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Leaving my shirt and shoes on a big rock right next to where I killed my phone a couple of weeks ago is probably the smartest thing I have ever done and yet I persist
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What's that, Hawaiian noises? @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I can't imagine what it would be like to grow up now, without the context that allows you to sense if things are false and do further research.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
What goes unsaid in these heinous stories about denying essential aid is that a 28-year-old DOGE lackey with zero experience named Jeremy Lewin was named Acting Director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance in April 2025 and still hasn’t had a confirmation hearing.
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Bluesky is just like the old Twitter! (Specifically the version of Twitter when every notification you got turned out to be from a porn spam bot. Cool!)
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
My iPhone died today doing what it loved. Floating down the creek listening to the John Coltrane Quartet
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13/06/2026
It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Thinking of X as the comments section on Elon Musk's personal blog is a reasonably accurate model.
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Shamelessly, I am dying for a comment on this situation from Zelma Davis or Martha Wash @stereogum.com
stereogum.com
C+C Music Factory Co-Founder Threatens To Sue Frontman For Using Group Name
C+C Music Factory, the ’90s music group responsible for classic hip-house tracks like “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” and “Things That Make You Go Hmmm…,” have been back in the news latel...
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We regretfully inform that the Taylor Swift ‘Toy Story’ song is a fucking banger 😔
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Amazing. Amazon shuts down leaderboard designed to incentivize employees to use AI because employees used AI to cheat in the contest www.404media.co/amazon-shuts...
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Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated
Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 01/06/2026
a neural network is not an 'actress,' it is not the type of entity that 'feels' or 'wants'. this fetishisation of ai products, a cause of several deaths and harms – partly due to anthropomorphic design – is not only doing corporate pr, it is also dangerous
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Rainy weekend mornings are great for underground ‘80s music. The chintzier the aesthetic the better. Something you would likely hear soundtracking a horror or cheap-ass beach movie.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 23/05/2026
I think the best reason not to argue with or participate in discourses about bad takes and inane opinion articles is that they all start from some right wing billionaire funded outrage media pipeline that exists to get you to react exactly like that. Guard your time and attention from these vampires
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Here is Elon Mush bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts.
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Scott Lapatine @scott.stereogum.com · 17/05/2026
I made this while waiting for Caroline to go on at Kilby. 😀 Happy 60th Janet Jackson and ‘Pet Sounds.’
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A lot of folks in my mentions are really convinced that this is a majority-fascist country. It's not. It's a center-left country with a deeply flawed constitution and a very serious billionaire problem.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Um okay so Well, see, the thing is So what we have here is Oh fuck where to start
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Startups are installing tiny data centers in people’s homes to reduce strain on the beleaguered electrical grid | Fortune
Span, in partnership with Nvidia and PulteGroup, uses homes’ underutilized electrical capacity in computer processing.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
in case you were wondering what stage of capitalism we're at, google search is now treating the word "crumble" as a misspelling of the cookie brand crumbl
These are results for crumbl
Search instead for crumble
Crumbl Cookies
https://crumblcookies.com
:
Crumbl Cookies
Crumbl offers 6 classic cookies plus 4 new rotating flavors weekly. Fresh-baked cookies for delivery, pickup, or carryout. Dirty sodas at select locations.
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Just remembered you absolutely can unfollow people that turn out to be morons. They’re strangers!
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
There’s so much praise for Kacey overall — but one thing that goes unnoticed is that on top of her talent, she’s savvy af. This left turn toward steel guitars and Texas iconography reads on one level as a dare: as in, tell me the reason (radio) don’t play me is the perceived level of “country” now.
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Eric @eternalstatic.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
AI could never come up with ‘Giant Steps’
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