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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 23/07/2026

This kind of intel is the best part of appearing on podcasts. I happen to go to Texas fairly often so I will keep an eye out. Thanks for the tip 🫡

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 16/07/2026

Oh god, you're so right about Taylor Sheridan. We have to make this happen asap.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 13/07/2026

"The primary aim of modern warfare… is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living... War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent." - 1984

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 09/07/2026

Ah congratulations!! This sounds amazing, and the title *chef's kiss* Can't wait to read it!

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 03/07/2026

Make sure to leave a hot dog out tonight, or Lincoln won’t leave you any presents

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 03/07/2026

You get raffle tickets for every half hour or so you log. All for gift cards to local businesses. This ridiculous travel day is gonna win me a gift basket.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 03/07/2026

Experienced a series of wicked bad flight delays today, but I am racking up SO many reading minutes for my adult summer reading log at the library.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 03/07/2026

This thread is remarkably similar to my experience, feelings, and the precautions I have taken. Worth reading for some good insight for what even reasonably privileged trans folks are going through.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 02/07/2026

One clarification from Rep. Cassidy: bsky.app/profile/kmcc...

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 02/07/2026

Whoa! Take notes, Massachusetts.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 01/07/2026

Just had to call a customer service line for help logging in somewhere and it turned out the only issue was I had forgotten my username. I officially feel ancient.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 17/06/2026

Full newsletter below. It includes other bangers such as, "Is this the best we can do? Is what we are? If Logan Paul's podcast is the result of 250 years of the American experiment then it was a failed experiment."

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My horrible, no good weekend at the UFC White House fight

Read to the end for a really good World Cup fan

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 17/06/2026

I'm currently reading @kkdumez.bsky.social's 'Jesus and John Wayne' so this paragraph from the latest issue of @garbageday.email hit especially hard:

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

you know the kid lit publishing controversy that actually exists and I'd like you all to get on? The lack of marketing & publicity support for books by marginalized authors that don't sell and then are used as proof to not acquire more books from those authors.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

"Chieng scoffed at using AI for reading and answering emails. 'You know who else can do that? Me,' he said... 'If you can’t do that, how useless are you?'” Lots more bangers where that came from: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Funny but serious, Chieng issues an AI warning to grads — Harvard Gazette

"Daily Show" star and Class Day headliner is fine writing his own emails.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

Anyways, the "modernizing" of kids books, to me, for the most part, is a damn shame. If you haven't heard about this yet, here's one more recent article on it: archive.ph/jBWk6 And if you have any idea who wrote the article I was referencing earlier, please tell me! I failed to bookmark it.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

If we think kids can't relate to or be engaged by a setting so different from their own, we are robbing them of the ability to develop empathy and imagine worlds beyond their own. (And perhaps also forgetting fantasy is a thing? That many kids love?? So how is something set in the 90s too foreign?)

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

Critical thinking, research skills, and media literacy are all atrophying in our society. We are doing a disservice to kids by not trusting they can look up unfamiliar terms. I mean jeeze, looking things up is so much easier now than in the 90s, even with search dying.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

Having already seen how younger generations are losing that thread to the past by watching less older media, it makes me deeply sad when publishers scrape dated references from books and replace them with more current ones.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

And it wasn't just TV & music. I also read books from the 80s, 60s, 30s. I still remember some of the turns of phrases or unfamiliar technology in Beverly Cleary novels that I'd have to ask my mom or teacher about. But that didn't deter me, *it made it more interesting* and taught me about the past.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

I feel ancient around my gen Z friends sometimes when I reference something from the 70s that goes totally over their heads. Like, I'm not THAT old, but I passively absorbed a lot about previous eras by watching and listening to older media as a kid––and many of them seemingly did not.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

Of course that's great in a bunch of ways (I am a content creator who would like people to watch what I make, after all), but this journalist pointed out that younger generations are losing out on that connection to the past.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

But with millions of hours of content posted online everyday, kids are no longer stuck watching whatever the TV networks choose to air to fill time. With the ability to stream any song at any time, they don't have to listen to their parents' music collection. Almost everything they consume is new.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

I also grew up listening to a ton of the Beatles, Hendrix, and Heart because those were the tapes my mom kept in the car.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

I was born in 1990, but I grew up watching reruns of I Love Lucy, Diff'rent Strokes, The Brady Bunch, Three Stooges, The Munsters, etc. and tons of movies from the 80s and before. I learned what technology and culture was like in those eras.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

I wish I could find this article again to cite because it made some great points, including that early cable TV channels needed to fill air time and thus birthed the rerun.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

I read something recently about Gen Z understanding fewer cultural references from before their lifetime than previous generations, and attributing it to the glut of media now compared to the slimmer options of cable TV and home video.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 28/05/2026

If only everyone approached social media in this way.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 27/05/2026

JOKING. I AM JOKING, BLUESKY.

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 22/05/2026

Congrats to CBS on helping deliver the death knell to network TV, a feat it's been working towards for years.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 22/05/2026

It's wild to me that Colbert consistently brought this level of depth and complexity to his interviews on a late night comedy show. It's the kind of media I wish we had more of in the mainstream and, as of last night, we have even less. An enormous and shameful loss.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 19/05/2026

lololol that's my hometown lake. Glad to see she's doing her part to rid the world of these chudmobiles.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 19/05/2026

This gave me such a needed jolt of hope. Not just for trans people, but for basic critical thinking skills and having a friggin' spine.

Screenshot of text, which reads, "This weekend, a Kansas judge issued a scathing 117-page rebuke of the state's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth—and in doing so, methodically dismantled the case against that care. In his ruling, Judge Carl Folsom III worked through the testimony of the state's witnesses one by one, finding that its anti-transgender “experts”—routinely paraded by groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom, SEGM, and Genspect—offered opinions built on "cherry-picked information, conjecture, and research taken out of context," and granting their testimony little to no weight. He then laid out 349 individual findings of fact, drawn from scientific evidence and the testimony of credible medical experts, documenting the safety and efficacy of gender-affirming care. He ultimately found that the ban likely violates the Kansas Constitution—which guarantees broader protections than its federal counterpart. That distinction matters enormously: because the ruling rests on state constitutional grounds, it is largely insulated from the U.S. Supreme Court and its decision in Skrmetti, which closed the federal courthouse door to these challenges but left the state one wide open."

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

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Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 07/04/2026

Now, I will cop that I have lots of notifications that get silently delivered to my notification center. So I see them. I just check them on my terms, when I think about it. I control my attention to them. They don't control me.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 07/04/2026

I fully understand needing to receive calls/texts if you're a caregiver, for certain jobs, etc. But push notifications for individual emails, DMs, group chats, news headlines, and every single app on your phone. That sounds like absolute hell. How does anyone ever get anything done?

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 07/04/2026

Like, I just didn't realize it was a trendy thing or such a big step. I thought most people had some version on these days, with all the schedules/filters available now. But yes, I have annoyed people who try to call me or to whom I reacted aghast when I saw they have push notifications for *email.*

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 07/04/2026

That said, I did relate to this: "...similar to how I imagine it felt to declare yourself a vegan in the 1990s. You come across a little bit rude, or at least holier than thou... People sometimes take it as an attack on their habits, when it's actually a personal decision you’ve made."

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 07/04/2026

Genuinely didn't think having Do Not Disturb on 24/7 was a radical decision. I have filters for family, and other important folks on occasion, to get through, but have otherwise had some version of DnD on for close to a decade.

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My Blissful, Unbothered Life as a ‘Do Not Disturb’ Maximalist

I turned off my phone notifications for an entire week. It made me a less disturbed person, but the people closest to me got annoyed.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 01/04/2026

"I don’t know how it’s possible for trans people in this country to be so visible in the national discourse and yet simultaneously unseen." @charlotteclymer.bsky.social

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I'm Supposed to Feel Schadenfreude Right Now?

Why?

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"all writers are using AI and lying about it" is up there with "all writers are millionaires"

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 27/03/2026

Honestly proud of my filter bubble that it has taken me multiple days to figure out why everyone was talking about HP again. All I saw were people dunking on JKR & making great points, with receipts, about her transphobia. Only now have I learned a trailer dropped for the new show. Love that for me.

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Jackson Bird @jackisnotabird.cool · 26/03/2026

I was just lying in the backyard, staring up at the clouds when a plane passed into view with a fucking Amazon ad painted on the bottom of it. Literally trying to touch grass and still being advertised to.

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