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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 11h
#ManholeCoverMonday
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Guys...
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People, c'mon.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My gift to all children currently growing up: Your parents are full of shit about screen time. We watched cartoons like three hours straight after school and played Sonic until our eyes bled.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Okay, last one.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Goddamn it. I knew this sounded familiar.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is Ryan North still writing Fantastic Four? This was a joke, but I think he could pull this off for real.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My Dinner With Annihilus
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My sister gets my kids Halloween presents. Really nice ghost/bat spoooooky clothes, stuffed animals and toys. Thanksgiving and Easter presents too. Nicer than what we get them for their birthdays. I hate that she buys them, I hate that they're available for purchase.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Excellence Muah
ALT: Excellence Muah
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I interviewed him about a month ago for a story about a play he wrote in the '90s. He was just so nice, kind and funny. My condolences to his friends and family. This is awful.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eh, everyone gets a lot of grace when trying to communicate complicated ideas with pretty much a 100-word limit.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sorry to kibbitz, but I read his point as being more about the working artist. Like when he says "If AI eats the "mid" work, we are all out of a job." You don't get the good Wodehouse and Shakespeare without the stuff that paid the bills or where they tried new ideas they later perfected.
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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hee!
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm still trying to convert my old blog into something that will survive the Digital Dark Age and I will be damned if I know what to do with the interactive posts. Please enjoy while I ponder.
1001chicago.com
#644: Can You Master the Chicago L? A Text-Based Role-Playing Game
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I see that and I hear a wah-wah-wah-wah sad trumpet sound. Thank you for this.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are always a couple "well-intentioned bad guys" (Anarky, Ra's al Ghul, Poison Ivy) who make the hero question themselves for like two panels, but the hero always finds a status quo path to victory. Corporate comic books, corporate solutions.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks! Also, wowwwwww. That's quite a mental holodeck they have going on over there.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I almost want to be on Twitter again today just to see how the MAGAs are trying to spin the Eric Schmitt Hawks/Hawkeyes thing.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the awkward meeting at stark tower where spider-man tries to explain to an increasingly bitter iron man why he and the other gen z superheroes like zohran mamdani
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He and Lois have big "NPR tote bag energy" is all I'm saying.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I always thought Clark Kent would be obnoxiously liberal. It's not that he grew up on a farm but that he left it, specifically to work in mainstream media in a big city. Every Thanksgiving ends up with a shouting match about politics with Pa, always bringing up his rural bona fides to win arguments.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Days of Wine and Moses
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Vintage Tribune: 'Dry' state senator won election during Prohibition despite charges in sacramental wine scam
Wine dealers and crooked Prohibition Bureau agents created fictional Orthodox Jewish congregations to exploit the law’s religious exemption.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You thought I was joking, huh? Unfortunately, I was not able to get the sentence "Silly rabbi tricks are for kids" past the editor, but it's still a hell of a story about "phantom rabbis" in Prohibition.
chicagotribune.com
Vintage Tribune: 'Dry' state senator won election during Prohibition despite charges in sacramental wine scam
Wine dealers and crooked Prohibition Bureau agents created fictional Orthodox Jewish congregations to exploit the law’s religious exemption.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The full run of SCTV is on Netflix. See you in 2027.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Siri, show me the unfuckable.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The bad people continually advertise themselves, so we gotta remind ourselves of the heroes.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This was alright too.
1001chicago.com
#100: The Hundredth Story
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm going through my old blog where I wrote a literal 1,001 stories about Chicago. The Digital Dark Age is coming for this 14-year-old WordPress site, killing links and making plugin upgrades not compatable, so I'm trying to decide what's next. As I go through, I'll post a few good ones I find.
1001chicago.com
#76: Nuns in a Cash Register Store
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Outstanding.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@xkcd.com
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I keep thinking that, on some level, the AI debate is influenced by Star Trek TNG teaching a nation of children that questioning a robot's humanity is kinda racist.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The real evil is not the frozen animals OR usurping Aslan, but that she's making everyone go through the whole job interview process for an unpaid internship.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Especially if he brings it in a Yeti.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It wasn't fun. It was just Twitter minus Nazis.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Chisquatch.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That makes his commitment to the mask even more impressive.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I abso-fucking-lutely would.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Either way, kudos to them for wearing the mask instead of putting it on right before they get to their destination. That's commitment is what that is.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That's gotta be Bigfoot.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Depends on the job. I used to work for an environmental nonprofit. If someone showed up with a waste-reducing reusable mug, that would be seen as a positive, like they practice what they preach. How you show up to an interview is more of a "read the room" situation, not an instant disqualification.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Or Bing Bong dissolving into nothingness? That one still gives me a shiver.
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We're, uh, explorers, in the further regions of, y'know, experience. Demons to some and, ummmm, y'know, angels to others."
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A Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I know finding that better way is sort of the point of your article. I just want to tweak that to say we won't get far unless we look at what social media does offer rather than claim no one's getting anything out of it anymore. Just a nuance, not a yell. Please don't block me.
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