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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 3h

i don’t like to brag, but the inspiration for the look of the aliens in Arrival came from my minivan’s back window

a rear window of a car all fogged up with trails of condensation that look like odd creatures

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 4h

this is honestly the best advice out there, applicable far beyond minecraft, many could gain a lot from it

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UncleofJamiroquai @jessefarrar.com · 5h

It seems quaint now that we do all our banking and race science there, but, nevertheless, it's true: at one time, people mostly wrote jokes on Twitter. 10 years ago, I wrote one about an old asshole and it kinda changed my life. Not his, though. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...

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The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN

It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 13h

it’s what makes the playoffs so great

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 13h

Brewers are unobjectionable to me, could see this series being solid

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 13h

Someone’s got to stop the Dodgers

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

mob boss: *sneering* take care of him me: sure thing, boss *brings him home, raises him as my own, cries as he leaves for college*

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

CLAIM: “I’m not crazy” EVIDENCE: [citation missing]

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

very relatable, as the kids say

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

lmao she’s trying to get the terms right, like a lawyer; he’s trying to clarify his intent, like a sports fan (“for the love of god don’t publish in the paper that I’m a Hawkeyes fan”)

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

Another exhibit in the Bring Back Shame campaign, and also LMAO

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The magnificence of the mushroom

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I'm studying biotech and every time someone brings up mushrooms our current professeor will look either extremely excited or pained and go, "listen, mushrooms are neither plants nor animals nor something inbetween. We do not know what they are. Some are immortal. Some produce life-saving substances some are so closely related to humans that eating them may cause an allergic reaction against your own body. I cannot teach you about the mushrooms.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

sometimes just baffled, of course. But they love the strangeness of the people talking; youre right in the thick of it. there’s one that always gets a big rise, a woman being interviewed whose parents’ plantation was seized and burned by Union troops.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

this looks incredible, I use the digitzed WPA interviews on the Library of Congress website all the time in my American History class

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

as long as it doesn’t include Puppy Mills

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

But yeah, I agree—the quality of these is incredible and far outstrips most of the uneven work coming from Prince’s vault.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

Hanif Abdurraqib talks about it in his KCRW podcast, and other places. Rumors as of now! www.kcrw.com/shows/lost-n...

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

There’s allegedly dozens more of these in the vault, it’s incredible to think of

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

Chattin’ up the playground girls

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

You know what they say: the bigger the library…the more books it holds.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 29/09/2026

I barely even remember this movie existed

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 29/09/2026

Less of a roast and more of a sous vide

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 29/09/2026

The Stevie Wonder vault songs are incredible, anyone else’s A-sides but prime Stevie’s cutting-room scraps.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 28/09/2026

This one made me actually laugh out loud. The hours of conversation we’ve burned trying to figure out how to set boundaries with grandparents attending kid and family events…only to have some chipper chatbot blithely send alerts without my knowing…. *shakes head in disbelief*

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 28/09/2026

“but it got 90% of the events right!” “You do see how that’s worse, right?”

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026

My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 28/09/2026

The thing i really don’t get about people who use FaceTime or speakerphone in public places is, don’t they care about privacy? I can’t even bear to talk on the phone w members of my immediate family in the same room. I couldn’t imagine.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 28/09/2026

As a Calvino-ist I believe I was predestined to live in Venice

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 28/09/2026

Bring 👏🏻 shame 👏🏻 back 👏🏻

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 28/09/2026

I loved it in high school, so I’m gonna respect my high school self and just not try to see if it holds up for me now

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 27/09/2026

Lamp is gone, so I’m trying out a new lean

A turntable with a record playing; on the speaker is the LP jacket Tutti I Film di Fellini, a compilation of themes by Nino Rita

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

wake up babe, solo acoustic soundboard tape of jim o'rourke performing the entire "halfway to a threeway" EP just dropped

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 27/09/2026

Lovers in Venice fête galante A Londoner finds the ring Beneath the trees. Shadowed pianos. If your ash drifts free, My future is revealed. Oh Musset! Oh George Sand! Oh Venice! Old guitar Full of music and water, A simple earthquake Will jumble your dominoes. Jean Cocteau, 1922

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 27/09/2026

Lmao this is the very definition of Main Character Syndrome, “everyone loves Buffy because they wish they could be her, but I love Buffy because I AM her”

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 27/09/2026

He’s just taking in all the Christian muscles at that sausage fest

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/09/2026

Guy who has only had short, unfulfilling sex, talking of other short, unfulfilling experiences: Getting a lot of sex vibes from this...

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/09/2026

Careful, they might turn against you next

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/09/2026

Adolescent fans of Cultural Capital are called Guillo-teens

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/09/2026

[australian accent] clever girl

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/09/2026

Got to stop using “cum” as a descriptor with these freaks

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