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asking claude "who will rid me of this meddlesome pope?"

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stars - your ex-lover is dead (final fantasy remix)

when there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire. i've always loved the final fantasy (owen pallett) remix; v. mournful & melancholy.

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the phrase "millennial death drive" has been rattling around in my head since, on a call that had already gone way too long with my 23-year-old class project partner, i realized that at least 3 times, i'd mentioned the world potentially ceasing to exist within 5-10 years.

player development's just nerd shit, the real turnaround'll come when they bring back the maroon/powder blue uniforms.

Katie Shook @katieshook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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I know I’m not saying anything new, BUT what’s so infuriating about this Cornell case and so many situations like it is that there is so often no upside for the woman in reporting the event. It usually ruins her life in one way or another.

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jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 01/10/2026

soundin' like the young fellas peeping earlier

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the mütter museum was that for me when i had a few hours to myself in philly. great city for that sort of thing!

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/09/2026

Gendered violence is a systemic cultural and societal problem. And when one of these cases boils to the top, you can see that in how many survivors come forward to explain how similar their experiences are, in ways both big and small.

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jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 01/10/2026

genuinely teared up at this a little

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jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 30/09/2026

i went to high school with matt. this is insane.

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jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 29/09/2026

ariel pink? i guess the bottom of the barrel wasn't gonna scrape itself.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.

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jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 25/09/2026

*calling houston from my spacesuit voice* heeeeeeelp!

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jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 23/09/2026

this is very rad - i was impressed by how few/minor the hiccups were, especially since it was your first time organizing a hackathon. excellent work!

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jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 21/09/2026

when i was at georgia we had some kind of hand scanner thing that relied on the relative uniqueness of the lengths of people's fingers, which is as far as tech like this ever needed to go.

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jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 20/09/2026

whoa, much to consider...

jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 19/09/2026

kirk herb & spice streit

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jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 19/09/2026

sitting my ass down and listening

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jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 17/09/2026

brought our own snacks to the airport, so instead of buying snacks at the airport, i just didn't eat any snacks at all. sad state of affairs.

jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 17/09/2026

hot damn, time to give YHF a long overdue re-listen.

jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 15/09/2026

the news over here using facetune, mitch has never looked smoother

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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David Chen @davechen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There’s been a lot of incredible writing about what happened 25 years ago but this is the piece that stays with me these days www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind

Bobby McIlvaine was 26 when he died in the attacks. Two decades later, his loved ones are still grappling with the loss.

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jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 12/09/2026

this is incredible, thank you very much for sharing it.

fun facts i did not know about rockwell (who did the rappy parts, but not chorus, of "somebody's watching me"): - his dad is berry gordy, meaning that he's also redfoo's half-brother - jimmy carter, the president, is his second cousin once-removed

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when you die they make you finally read/watch everything on the internet that you saved/bookmarked. time enough at last.

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Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University and is also a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work...

cal newport is a very clear-headed computer science professor who dedicates his thursday podcasts to what he calls an "AI reality check". it's been a truly helpful corrective for me, a person working in tech who has slowly been draining the life out of his therapist through sheer nihilism.

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Cal Newport

jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 05/09/2026

final scene of season 1, a hand enters a featureless lump of felt that's a familiar shade of green...

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men will make passes at co-que d'asses

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fifth spam call of the day offering me a business loan. they're gonna turn me into a potent combo of the joker, michael douglas in "falling down", killdozer, the beekeeper, and the guy in that "falling down"-type movie starring the murray brother who played freddy rumsen on mad men.

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i have some friends running a decades-long bit about their consulting firm, liaison to common sense, llc. companies hire them to come in and be like "oh, c'mon, really?" before some monumentally stupid idea breaks containment. not sure how this one got past them.

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i remember getting REAL frustrated with a roommate who'd been my ride to a party at some day trader guy's house. party got super shitty super fast, roommate wanted to stay. i ended up walking from like, old fourth ward to lindbergh. the kids don't know.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

bad day to decide "maybe i'll give codex a spin"

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Everything you want is downstream of changing the balance of power between capital and labor.

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jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 28/08/2026

congratulations dawn, this was really good! i'm so sorry about joe. i'm glad you're still around generally, and glad you've gotten to where you are now specifically.

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one of the genuinely compelling components of "one billion americans" was intentionally increasing legal immigration, but the actual good that would do is incidental to the ultimate ends yglesias was aiming for.

jeff elrod @jeffelrod.dev · 27/08/2026

come to the endzone! and know me better, man!