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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Um, you should invest in good public transit because you’re a city, not because the Olympics are coming and you’re gonna be sooooo embarrassed when all the other countries see how shit the service is here.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m happy to bring you an iced coffee also if that’s your problem. Just tell me your order in advance.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

AI ruining every punctuation mark and big word for professional writers.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Check out this story I wrote for the Times to find out how you can get a replica sphinx. They’re very cool and you can read real books made of paper while you’re there.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I sat next to a grown man who sobbed during Spider-Man: Brand New Day and it was honestly refreshing. Good for you, man. Release those feelings. Here for you.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

“Bear is the villain” is “Victor is the real monster” but for the internet.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

People bragging they’re safe because they only eat meat, bread, and cheese could probably use a good bout of diarrhea lettuce, frankly.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A man stopped me at the Metro station to tell me I was dressed like “pure elegance.” I am dressed like Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the way to meet my friend at a Buffy event.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Saw a scythe in the sky on the 4th of July. Good omen.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I want a weird guy to tell me what to rent on a Friday night. I want to have to return it in person so he can tell me what to watch next Friday. Maybe one day he tells me he likes board games so I invite him over for a board game night. He brings some hummus. I don’t have to watch a cologuard ad.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

But in THIS economy, in THIS world, most people do not do work that interests them. They do whatever they can to get by and everything suffers for it. We have outsourced delight and craft to machines and it’s just so goddamn joyless! I don’t want an algorithm to tell me what to watch.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

… that he’s really into coffee, but he had a whole other business before the wildfire. Any time I go there and he’s not there, the coffee sucks. No one else seems to care about their job and why should they? I think about this constantly. How someone’s passion and interest makes such a difference.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

There’s a server at an Italian cafe near me who makes the best cappuccino I have ever had. He became a lifeline for me during the darkest month of my life. I’d show up in the same sweats on a couple hours of sleep and there he’d be. He doesn’t know this. One day, we got to talking and he told me…

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I took Box 2 with me on a dog sitting trip where I was in the house 90 percent of the time, otherwise I would not have finished it. But man, Box One is an all-timer for me. So good.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Box One is great, but only for a single player. Though I do think you could do it with more. I did not care for Box Two. We’ve enjoyed the Indiana Jones game, and I am looking forward to starting Morrison Game Factory, of which I’ve heard great reviews.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I had more fun last night than I’d had in years watching CATS in a packed independent theater connected to a video store than I have had doing anything else in years.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Right? It took me years to find a job that would give me health insurance and not label me a contractor and guess what they replaced me with? I would love to just work in a library and come home to a one-bed bungalow and two cats.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I held on! I had people over every Game of Thrones episode and made themed food! I tried with The Last of Us and if anyone wants to do it again, I am so down. I love a themed cake.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’d be retired and listening to murder podcasts in my own house, getting ready to die in it. What a dream!

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I used to be jealous of people younger than me because they’d see more of the future. Space travel. Aliens. Star Trek shit. Now, I’m jealous of people who got to be adults in the 70s/80s. This future sucks, and I just want to be someone who got to have a career and watch appointment TV.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I don’t want to go to any JAWS parties this 4th of July. Invite me to your CAPE FEAR party.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It’s not that technology is bad, I just truly don’t understand how this is going to work out for us. Except that eventually tokens will be so expensive you’ll have to hire your humans back?

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I’ve seen robot bartenders and baristas. In the Star Trek utopia, you can replicate any dish you want, but Guinan’s work as a bartender is meaningful because she’s a human who can give other humans (and a robot) advice and empathy. Money doesn’t exist and everyone is cared for.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We are staring down a future where no one works and everything is slop. A Lyft driver who picked me up two days after I was laid off (I can’t drive due to a disability) was talking about AI replacing white collar work as if Waymos aren’t blocking roads across the US.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Do people want 100x the output? No. No one wants to read 20 brand emails or a million slop newsletters or listen to two robots banter all day about a prompt or watch a million regurgitated dramas. They want to read, watch, or listen to something good. But good things take time and cost money.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I honestly don’t know where to find the will to live on this planet anymore. This is what it has become.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

AI isn’t even good at slop. I was at karaoke the other day and someone sang Rebecca Black’s “Friday.” Perfectly infectious slop, made by humans. “Fun, fun, think about fun, you know what it is.” Exquisite. Also, her new song is, as is the parlance of our time, a bop.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

And no, an auto responder does not help. They STILL follow up and then you get more emails from their auto responders. I have repeated emails about fantasy novels and comedy shows. I am a tech and business journalist. This new practice is hurting y’all, not helping.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The only reason things get “buried” in my inbox is because the same PR people hoping things don’t get “buried” will not stop following up within 24 hours of the first pitch that wasn’t a fit. It’s honestly gotten maddening to a point where I assume it’s now just automated. I have 500 unread emails!

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I just want the person who monitors my work computer to know that I listen to hours of people softly crinkling paper to ambient music because they leafblow the city parking lot behind my apartment four times a day.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Stop having DJs at networking events. I can’t hear what people do for work over “Mambo No. 5,” the actual song blasting at the networking event I left.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I miss Twitter. Every day, I could have numerous conversations with strangers about both important topics and the movie Lifeforce. Here? Idk. Dead. Billionaires ruined talking about Lifeforce… and everything else.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

They played Bad Bunny during my barre class tonight and I was like wow, this is so unamerican, why aren’t we wearing jeans in the cold plunge and slamming raw milk in the hot tub, also in jeans?

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

You might think I pulled my shoulder at the many workout classes or weight lifting sets I did last week, but it was spooning my cat for eight hours the other night.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I also enjoy many things about them. One is that that they released a song in 1992 with the chorus, “fuck your rebel flag,” while Kid Rock, who did once do a song with them, has become… whatever this is.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

But I love “for crying out loud”

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Karaoke isn’t typically fun alone!

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from immigration custody — condemning their removal from Minneapolis as unconstitutional. Judge Fred Biery condemned "the perfidious lust for unbridled power" and "the imposition of cruelty."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout: @peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE people.com/ice-detains-...

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I need to meet another person who loves SAW VI as much as I do. It’s the perfect movie about America.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I got a good Dutch oven and now it’s always stew time.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Who shall eat the Bus Pie? Who shall learn if the boons are worth the banes?

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

So did no one read Frankenstein? It feels like no one’s read Frankenstein.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

How are they going to make “Monster Mash” a movie? It’s obviously a mystery/thriller about whatever happened to the Transylvania Twist.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Oh, boy. Black Mirror isn’t even fun anymore because we live in Black Mirror.

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Juliet Bennett Rylah @jbrylah.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Someone recently asked me when I got into reading/watching cannibal and vampire stuff and while I'm not entirely sure, I did spend my whole childhood doing a ritual every Sunday where we ate a dude and drank his blood so that was probably it.

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