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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction: - forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe - incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents - immediately starts dating her manager - quits after two days to move back home
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
BC billionaires hoard more wealth every year — and it’s making life worse for…literally everyone else. 2 minutes on how we got here and our game plan to fund the future⚡️Share & join us: bcgreens.ca/join/
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Pluribus is incredible. I need to talk to someone about it
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I need to remember this
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
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The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Things I never thought I’d enjoy: an exhalation so deep that it created a little crack in my spine where it meets the ribs
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I think I’m long overdue for a cry-wake-up
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I’m begging some of you to get therapy. Please. I can’t take it sometimes
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Some people don’t actually practice Socratic dialogue, what they do is SoCRAPtic dialogue. These kinds of dialogues give the illusion of good-faith truth-seeking debates. But in actuality it’s an exercise of strong arm wrestle that seeks to put the opponent into submission or humiliation
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John Cutler @johncutle.fish · 20/08/2025
The area between oversimplification and inaction Day 4/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
a bunny holding a spiked morning star by lily seika jones
text: we must remain whimsical to survive the horrors of this world
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Thinking about how the tech ecosystem prioritizes all else above longevity
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
But my HTML websites from back then still work beautifully today, whereas my pals’ masterpieces can only be experienced on old computers running obsolete OSes, browsers, and plug-ins. So, there’s that. Better to have bread for 100 years than cake for 5 minutes. 2/2
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2025
Counting things is, actually, political. It’s laden with choices about what to count, who gets to count and who gets counted, how to display numbers in ways that shape the possible frames for interpretation or which are more or less accessible, etc
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Increasing feeling like this guy these days
Tommy Lee Jones in the last scene of No Country for Old Man
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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This is a great post, and it uses simple, compelling visuals to get its point across wonderfully: elroy.bot/blog/2025/07... What it highlights for me is how professional, high quality graphics are often LESS valuable than amateur-ish, but viscerally obvious ones.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/07/2025
i think we face two separate problems here: 1. people are desperate for connection, living in increasingly isolated conditions thanks to less-walkable cities and communal spaces 2. people want friends that will basically operate as unpaid general contractors for emotional labor
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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
And it’s not just ChatGPT. This is the logic of every platform that values retention over reality, clicks over care, and profit over people. We’ve spent the last decade getting hooked — not held. Stimulated — not supported. These tools were never meant to understand us.
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Just finished watching Let Her Cook. Love this show so much
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a woman stands in a kitchen looking out a window with a cakes box in the background
Alt: Brie Larson’s character in Lessons in Chemistry stands in a TV kitchen set, turning towards the audience saying “Shall we begin?”
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It’s ironic that every time I open BlueSky, despite its name, I would feel “This is the Bad Place!” I really need less depressing accounts to follow
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The breakfast of champions:
Fruit Loops box edited to say Feedback Loops.
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
there is a widespread problem of governments taking at face value whatever their tech vendors tell them - often because of lack of capacity to verify, but sometimes because of what I could charitably call wishful innovation
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Perversion is the name of the game
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Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Watch and learn. 👀 🧠 I’ve written often about how infants learn language not just with their ears, but with their eyes. But I’ve rarely run across a better video example than this lovely moment shared to IG by seanandcaitlin. (Thread 🧵)
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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 21/05/2025
"What if your Magic Eight ball could schedule (the wrong) flights for you? Wouldn't that be fun?" - Life in 2025
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
That feeling when your product backlog starts to feel like Schindler’s List
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I miss late night scrolling on Tumblr. Where do you find an endless supply of vibrant visual art and fashion these days?
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Watching the Pitt and damn all of this happened in 12 hours???
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Amatka and The Dispossessed are also great examples of something I've been looking for: novels with a form of government as their driving force. Not just autocracy or despotism, but ideologically motivated and deliberate systems; not just worldbuilding but a primary driver of the plot. Examples 👇
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The real value-add process looks something like this: - Find out what people are doing. - Understand why they are doing it. - If there's a better thing to be doing, figure out why they are not doing that instead. - Make the desirable behavior possible, visible, preferable, and understadable.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is the Anna Karenina principle at work: every dysfunctional company is dysfunctional *in its own way.* The average Powerpoint ronin has no insight whatsoever into the nuances of your particular swamp. Someone in your org has 100% tried to adopt Agile. What was the breakdown?
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I’m just like so bummed out White Lotus season 3 finale is overshadowed by the economic collapse
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I was right 🥲
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/04/2025
Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now
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Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now
HUNTSVILLE, AL—In an effort to comfort the child by telling her the funds had gone to a far better place, local parents Blake and Allison McKee gently explained to their daughter Friday that their mon...
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
There is no way to explain this in a way normal people will understand but I'll try Imagine punching yourself in the dick with the understanding that when the pain comes 2 years later you'll have already changed jobs But every day you're feeling the pain of someone else's dick punches from 2023
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Did you know in Canada, digital news subscriptions can be deducted for tax credit?
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Rocketgirl 🚀 @rocketgrrl.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I almost forgot to post this, and it's the perfect day for it.
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The thing about AI-generated art is most audience has no taste or discernment of what makes art good
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It's really easy to shit on ignorant people. It's hard to push back on all the extrinsic and intrinsic barriers to effective communication. But if we don't put more responsibility on experts to empathize with and communicate to non-expert audiences, we're gonna stay stuck in the bad place.
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I lowkey loved the White Lotus episode meeting with the Buddhist monk scene
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It’s kinda disappointing that Solo Levelling is turning into One Punch Man
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I just read underfed as un-derf-ed. I think I’m too tired
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I think many people around the globe don’t understand Canadians’ reaction to the 51st state narrative, because they don’t understand how much of Canada’s identity is “we are not USA”
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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 13/03/2025
Not sure how we got into a Knowledge Economy where politicians and business people don’t really really believe knowledge or creativity are real jobs
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 10/03/2025
When This [Medical School] Professor Got Cancer, He Didn’t Quit. He Taught a Class About It. “He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.” [nytimes.com]
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When This Professor Got Cancer, He Didn’t Quit. He Taught a Class About It.
Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It does kinda warm my heart to start my day seeing a few services I subscribed to offered a Canadian discount in response to the tariffs
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I think this might be my favourite Gaga album ever
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Eric @hedonisticeric.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
As someone who has always been an in-house designer, and now in public sector, this is my observation too
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is basically my entire book in chart form
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