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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me: OOO Also me: to the Pokémon museum

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29/09/2026

I wrote about the end of the MAGA makeover, the aesthetic normalization of bigotry, and the mall store selling fascist sweatshirts to teenage girls. New for @theflytrapmedia.com!!

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The 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) Terrifying

Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just joined the Bramily to get early access to buy tickets for the Burn the Setlist tour. Is this what it feels like to be a BTS stan?

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is it weaponized incompetence or is my husband truly gifted at making espresso, pour over, drip coffee, rice, taking out the trash, setting up utilities, driving?

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my we-are-parents-who-also-work-in-tech-but-mostly-like-to-send-each-other-funny-millennial-reels-on-ig group chat is talking about AI psychosis and taxes. we are the oldest people in existence I think?

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The number of reminders that we have gotten that there is no school tomorrow is A LOT. Like geez I get it you don't want to see my kids if you don't have to.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The toddler desperately wants to bring a lunch box to school (we don't have one bc she gets free lunch s/o Chicago public schools) so she found an old Bose headphone case and is real excited to put it in The Bin That Is For Lunchboxes

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My persistent intrusive thought is "what if I used coffee instead of water in my oatmeal?"

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The husband pulled a real dad move with the laundry bc he gave the toddler one of the teen's shirts (that she still wears) bc he decided that it was too small. Meanwhile it looks like the toddler will grow into it in a year.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

the toddler's school is having a fundraiser to help send each grade on 4 field trips. This is disincentivizing to me bc I feel like taking a large group of 4 year olds out into the wild FOUR separate times is bad for teacher retention.

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 10/09/2026

Wrote a new talk about how we should all give up on writing prompts by hand

evaluation.club

Prompts aren’t Real

Dispatches from Agentic Product

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The teen is telling the toddler about AI slop and described it as "bad content that will melt your brain" to which the toddler exclaimed, "ewww yut!"

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Okay but what if it's just one day later??? #cartondating

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rich in life because I have multiple people I can text to talk me out of getting bangs.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

All of my friends about cilantro:

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Toddler: dada can we go to the grocery store? Husband: <deep sigh> Toddler: DADA SAYS YES!

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

the toddler is super mad at the husband and is calling him "Dad" (instead of dada) to try to hurt his feelings.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Downgrade a movie The Princess Xangas

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have to write a paper for work, but I can only really write in the middle of the night. I just made myself a 1AM coffee and it's giving me flashbacks to when @astrochris.bsky.social and I wrote a paper over gchat and then my thesis advisor got mad at me for publishing in PASP and having a baby.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Note to self: I just opened this carton. Don't use after Sept 2

Hand holding a carton of Kirkland signature organic chicken sipping bone broth on a gray countertop against a background of seasonings and oils.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I had to look up this post to carton date the bone broth.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The husband will often open my car door but not in a chivalry is not dead way. More like a no you cannot hide from our children in the garage way.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If I didn't have a flexible job and my husband wasn't a SAHD, I'm not sure how we'd get the kids to school tomorrow. One needs to be driven (doesn't qualify for the bus) and the other is supposed to take the bus but the company got her schedule wrong and logistics have not yet been fixed.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Back to school with one kid is exciting and bittersweet. Back to school with 2 kids who go to different schools a mile from home in opposite directions with the same start time and one starts today and the other starts tomorrow is a cry for help.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I just realized that panzanella is really just summer stuffing.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Toddler: can I be a fairy for Halloween? Me: no we got you the bluey costume that you asked us for Toddler: I'll take that as a yes

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Toddler: amember when eonni didn't listen to you at the red yight? Me: yeah? That was awhile ago Toddler: yell at her again!

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

When are we okay to eat lettuce? The toddler is throwing an absolute banger of a tantrum bc she wants a salad.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

More dudes should paint their nails bc their nail beds are so big. The husband's pinky nail is larger than all my nails but my thumb. So much space for nail art

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you marry cheese, you can do this all in one go.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I am not prepared for it to be this cold in August.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The toddler somehow pulled a reverse Samson in that her haircut has made her more powerful and oh my glob the school year cannot start soon enough.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One day I will have vision insurance again and will not need to play migraine chicken when wearing glasses.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14/08/2026

Andrew Wakefield should spend the rest of his life in prison for the fraud he committed and the deaths he caused

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 13/08/2026

every single anti-abortion leader and organization ultimately supports criminalizing people who have abortions by prosecuting them for homicide. few say it out loud, but they all know it's the end game and none of them have a problem with it.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

About to publish an investigation into stolen art that is the greatest possible demonstration of this core research principle:

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I don't know how to report this, but a real issue is that communities in the US experiencing multiple extreme weather events in the last six months now also have to deal with concerns about the safety of food donations and food procurement due to stuff like diarrhea lettuce and unsafe jalapenoes

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“The vast majority die from dehydration and exposure, but some also perish from hypothermia, drowning, blunt force trauma, or unknown causes. These deaths represent the tip of the iceberg, as many others go missing and are never found.” Full release:

humaneborders.org

Humane Borders Reports 19 New Migrant Deaths in Arizona

New Humane Borders and Pima County data record 19 migrant deaths in July 2026, the deadliest month in two years, and 4,505 in southern Arizona since 2000.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Since no one actually sees anything I post on bluesky I can say controversial things that would get me canceled / lose all my friends like: I dislike cats, it's not a personal moral failing of mine to dislike the texture of tofu, ketchup 🤝 hotdogs.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I had to fill out a 60 page PDF for back to school shit and it kept telling me that i had one incomplete field. it turns out that it's bc I was trying to check multiple races for a demographics question. 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

bean noodle boxed mac and cheese (for the fiber!) made w Costco bone broth (for the protein and a reduction in lactose!) is the most 40yro lunch I can microwave

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just heard the first tornado siren that wasn't a test since moving to Chicago.

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Mama, can I have my scissors now?" The toddler has plans.

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Chicago history buffs, my neighbor is downsizing and she is looking for a home for these—I guess they were used to print the @chicagotribune.com

Closeup of printing plates with ribbons and jewelry

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”

We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/08/2026

Highly recommend reading my colleague Kieran Mailman on the rise of anti-abortion activists with shady, violent histories weaponizing FEC regulations to run sham election campaigns so they can get graphic, racist anti-abortion propaganda on-air

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Randall Terry’s Illegal Dual Campaigns and the Rise of Empty Anti-Abortion Campaigns

Tennessee-based anti-abortion advocate Randall Terry launched legislative campaigns in New Jersey and Hawaii. As Terry quickly learned, running two simultaneous congressional campaigns is illegal

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julie @jkru.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

me: hey so for dinner we have potatoes and cabbage husband: you know what that means? me: we get to cosplay as European peasants? husband: hot dog colcannon!

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