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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I remember basically nothing about mine, and I’d have it no other way.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“I use AI to automate the boring parts of my life! Like interacting with my newborn child.”

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh man. We ran this thing into the ground. As far as I’m aware, it’s still in my dad’s attic.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This year is our first! Super excited.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh my goodness. Truly part of the soul of this club. You’ll be missed, Mikey.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The only “old ones” are Daggerfall and Arena. But yeah, if we get UB TES, I want deep cuts. Give me Fimmion’s Sweetroll and the Fork of Horripilation.

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If it were made today, “My Dinner with Andre” would totally be a podcast.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Somewhere, that lead singer is excitedly telling somebody “I got to meet Shivam!”

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I knew nothing about applying to colleges and lucked into one with no Greek life. It still had its issues, but having also attended a school that did have Greek life, my recollection is that it wasn’t as bad.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
X.com
I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just started a doctoral degree program, so I am allowed to laugh at this joke.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Feeling sympathy today for one of my oldest friends, a delightful guy and wonderful artist who happens to share a name with one of these guys.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How you know Bluesky has the juice: people in this thread are debating a safe at home call from 71 years ago, complete with alternate angles and video.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think he's safe, but man, that's a tough angle for the home plate umpire.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Aww, man! I put on pants and messed everything up.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

See, now I want to get you started, because we're partway through I Shall Wear Midnight and you have me feeling like I've missed something huge. But y'know, only if you have time and interest.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We went through a blessedly short time with Paw Patrol - thankfully, he found Bluey around the same time. Now that he’s reading a lot, he’s found a hidden gem in Detective Beans, all of which are among his favorite books, and we’re listening to the Tiffany Aching Discworld novels.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Next interview I participate in, I’m bringing a coffee siphon.

Japanese-style coffee siphon, looks like some kind of Rube Goldberg contraption of Victorian-era glass bulbs and brass stands, under which is an open flame

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That was my 18th birthday, but in perhaps the most hamfisted metaphor of all time, instead of new house, we were packing up and moving out of my childhood home.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This feels like the most basic of basic answers, but on electric bass I have to go with Jamerson. Upright bass is much closer, but maybe Scott LaFaro?

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wait. Are they slapping each other with the fish, or squaring up to the fish themselves?

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just listened to it for the first time. That song is working real hard to channel forty-ish years ago.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is somehow the first time I’ve heard this joke. Chef kiss.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Have you read Everything is Tuberculosis? If you haven’t, you’d probably enjoy it.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They’re all good, but bottom center is transcendent.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That hidden creative wall is neither hidden nor creative. It is, I assume, a wall.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two visions of America going forward: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts vs. Sniper Enclave Triumphal Arch.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also, and much more importantly, it’s my wife’s birthday!

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day the right way.

Blue box with a hand-drawn pirate with cutlass and parrot on shoulder. It’s the box for Pirate Fluxx, the ever-changing pirate card game.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So if you have this and Locus of Mana out, does the unspent mana still stay green?

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Desert Bus for Hope 🚌 #DB2026 OCTOBER 23rd @desertbus.org · 16/09/2026

Many people ask, "What is Desert Bus for Hope?" Others ask, "When are you going to update that video?" Great news:

youtu.be

What is Desert Bus for Hope? 2026 Edition

YouTube video by DesertBusForHope

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is legitimately useful information. Thanks!

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The NFL with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, but I take your point.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’d take Harvard over Rutgers right now. Maybe, like, Merrimack? Stonehill?

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was working a minimum wage data entry job across the street from the submarine base in CT. For the next several weeks, I had to stop and have my car searched by MPs every time I drove to work.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Laserblast has both Roddy McDowall AND Eddie Deezen! It’s basically 1970s Citizen Kane.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mental health is health. Not just today, but every day.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It just arrived and is waiting for when my son gets home from school. Thank you!

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

‘Round these parts, that’s a holiday.

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John O’Briant @johnobriant.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day from a proud 20+ year member of my local branch of the Massachusetts Teachers Association.

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