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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 27/09/2026

Spent 45 minutes today watching a hermit crab trying to decide whether to change shells. Don’t tell me I don’t know how to have a good time

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 03/09/2026

poodle puppies are so cool, man.

Beige poodle puppy looks like a luck dragon

Black and white poodle puppy looks like she’s doing a model walk

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 31/08/2026

Please. My son. He is so fluffy.

Very fluffy beige poodle puppy in full sphinx mode on wood floor

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 27/08/2026

Orange you glad it’s Thursday

A MacBook on a stand, with a bright orange keyboard and weird little trackball guy in front of it on a well-worn wooden table

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 08/08/2026

sir you can’t sleep here

Very tired gold poodle puppy on dark wood floor. He’s basically faceplanted. One ear is flapped out

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 03/07/2026

absolutely incredible aside here

“(Disclosure: I was briefly engaged to the famous neoreactionary writer Curtis Yarvin in 2022. Notwithstanding the Leverage neoreactionary contingent, Curtis was not part of Leverage, and he is not part of this story.)“

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 13/06/2026

Men will literally go to Utrecht rather than going to Houston

Mountain goats tour poster. I’m not gonna transcribe all the dates but they’re here: https://www.mountain-goats.com/tour. The important thing is they’re going to Utrecht but not Houston, where I live

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 02/06/2026

[narrator voice] In a world gone dark ONE SITE has the courage to turn on the lights THIS SUMMER It's Dark Mode at the Verge. And also Light Mode on the frontpage, which was in Dark Mode. But also you can change it.

The Verge front page, which has been dark mode only for three and a half years, is suddenly in light mode. You can toggle it to light, dark, or system settings. It's in the hamburger menu at the top right.

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 16/05/2026

nous cherchons tous qui a fait ça

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 27/04/2026

Somebody subscribed to the Verge just to correct my French. Incroyable

Screenshot of a Verge comment from
verge_user_m5e72m10 - new user badge, subscriber badge

"c’est parce que j'ai l'ajouté" Close enough ;)
-> C'est parce que je l'ai ajouté
(I'm a native French speaker.)

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 12/04/2026

Osage Nation “I Voted” stickers didn’t have to go this hard

Two “I voted” stickers in both Osage and English language. The top one is a red oval with a zigzag patterned white band across it, and the bottom is white with a gold and blue pattern. There’s an image of a feather on each of them along with traditional Osage patterns

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 25/03/2026

Don’t wear a suit to the beach you buffoon

Un, deux, trois ! J'adore faire du sport dans l'eau !
•) Eddy fait des jumping jacks dans l'eau.
Ça éclabousse partout.
•) Non ! Mon costume ! Il y a de l'eau et du sable partout sur moi!
•) Désolé, Oscar ! Mais maintenant tu peux venir nager, non ?
•›) Jamais ! C'est un costume très cher ! L'élégance, c'est important pour moi !

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 25/03/2026

you don’t deserve Eddy and someday you’ll realize that

EDDY: C'est génial ! J'adore la plage ! Viens nager avec moi, Oscar !
OSCAR: Non merci. Je suis ici pour apprécier la beauté de la mer, pas pour me baigner.
EDDY: Mais c'est super ! L'eau est
parfaite aujourd'hui !
OSCAR: Eddy, je suis un artiste.
J'observe les couleurs, la lumière sur l'eau. C'est mon inspiration.

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 25/03/2026

Oscar is gonna be a dick to Eddy again I just know it

Duolingo screenshot of the first part of a story about Eddy (jock) and his unrequited best friend Oscar (art teacher). It’s in French.

La pluie sur la plage.
Eddy et Oscar sont sur une plage. Eddy porte un maillot de bain et Oscar porte un costume blanc

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 24/03/2026

area man outdoes self re: bullshit

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 24/03/2026

You know I keep that mf thang on me

It’s an old-ass Pikachu card from Pokemon TCG

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 18/02/2026

I haven't played The Roottrees are Dead but every time I hear anything about it I'm just weirded out that it takes place in Butler County, PA in 1998. Like I know games have to have settings and whatnot but I already did Butler County in 1998

Screenshot from "The Roottrees are Dead" featuring a fake newspaper frontpage for the Butler County Times, with the headline "The Roottrees are Dead."

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 06/02/2026

Just not sure about the new CrunchLab anti-personnel mine

Literally an anti personnel mine: a little plywood model kit with a tripwire and a face angled up toward the victim. It looks like a Nerf claymore. When you trip the wire it launches four foam balls at you

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 31/01/2026

If your Wikipedia article looks like this, you done fucked up

Screenshot of John Brockman’s Wikipedia page headers
## Early life

## Career

## Association with Jeffrey Epstein

## Quotes

## Bibliography

## References

## Further reading

## External links

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 10/01/2026

i'm going to become the joker

Verge Comment from CuriousToaster:
"It’s not nudging me to try some bullshit AI feature."

"I’ll definitely boot back into Windows — or pull out a Chromebook — to play Minecraft with my kids, if I can’t get it running on Linux."

Who "nudged" you to use AI to rewrite this article? LOL. The immaturity — and hypocrisy — around AI usage knows no bounds.

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 08/01/2026

Hey not to distract from the everything, but did you know it's very easy to make KDE Plasma look like Windows XP

Screenshot of a desktop interface that looks like Windows XP, except the Bliss wallpaper -- you know, the one with the green rolling hill and blue sky -- is an illustration, the operating system is CachyOS, and the desktop interface is KDE Plasma. There are two open windows: a Verge article with a digg-like interface, and the Konsole shell

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 20/12/2025

Look how they massacred my boy

A coloring page titled "Yoshi in a magical forest Coloring page - Free & Printable." The Yoshi is some horrorshow cross between Yoshi and a Muppet Baby, wearing a Mario hat. Much has gone wrong

A coloring page titled "Yoshi storytelling by the campfire Coloring Page - Free & Printable. The Yoshi here is even more upsetting. It looks like a nervous cross between a small Jon Arbuckle, Mario, and a third-string Muppet. The hands are wrong, one of the feet is mangled, and across the campfire is some sort of Creature.

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 11/12/2025

ah so that’s what frogger’s like

Eleven reporters from eleven different publications called me with some version of this allegation. I felt like I was in a game of Frogger, dodging through heavy traffic as I desperately sought the safety of the opposite sidewalk.

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 02/12/2025

Every Who down in Whoville skipped leg day a lot. But the Grinch, who had quads like a horse, did not

Possibly AI generated pair of pants that (intentionally?) look like the bottom half of a Grinch bodybuilder. Caption says “Men’s Christmas Clothings are on sale”

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 11/11/2025

you know I keep that mf thang on me

A photo of a macropod, if you can call it that, with one enormous mechanical key switch with an orange keycap, plus two rotary encoders. It has a case made of LEGO and you know it has RBG backlighting and underglow

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 07/10/2025

Area man on some brand new bullshit

Top down view of a compact keyboard with spherical white-on-black Ursa keycaps

3/4 close view of a compact keyboard with spherical white-on-black Ursa keycaps

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 14/08/2025

www.etsy.com/listing/8521...

"Come and take it" flag as a morale patch, but instead of a cannon it's a baby bottle.

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 07/08/2025

Shoutout to that mountain though, for real.

Photo of low mountains marching into the distance, with meadows and forests adorning the slopes. There's a diary farm down there, and higher mountains in the back. The sky is blue, the clouds are fluffy. Frick I wish I was there and not at my computer

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 07/08/2025

Strava’s “Athlete Intelligence” feature interpreted this hike from last year — in which I descended nearly 3,000 feet down a mountain over 2.8 miles — as a gentle *ascent* because it doesn’t know what to do with downhill. Thank u strava

Screenshot of strava elevation graph showing approx 3,000 foot descent over 2.8 miles, with an AI summary that reads “Athlete Intelligence
A modest 184 ft elevation gain in Les Clefs, France - a gentle terrain with some light climbing.”

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