Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026Some friends are teaching their baby ASL as an early bridge to speech and they made the mistake of teaching her “want” as a concept. Now she wanders around the house signing “want” all the time as an expression of unfocused desire. They fucked up and made the baby invent the opposite of Buddhism. 3470491069 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026GEFILTE PHISHING 10568951208 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialJosephine Riesman @josie.zone · 18/09/2026Find yourself someone who looks at you the way Carrie Fisher looked at future ROBOCOP star Peter Weller during a 1980 Giorgio Armani afterparty 451725301 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialYgrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Postmaster General should be the title given to the best poster on a social media site and definitely not the supreme leader of mail 1029764 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialStuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026"Fresh Butternut Pumpkin Whole". 19539179 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 02/10/2026in other unfortunate metaphor news, the Carousel of Progress is closed 829823 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialeli yudin @eliyudin.com · 03/11/2025can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house. 4165501259 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026VIVIAN MAIER was a Nanny for 40yrs who unbeknownst to anyone spent her free time taking over 150,000 photos of whatever interested her. 2yrs before she died her photos were found in a lock up she’d failed to keep up payments on and her decades of incredible work suddenly exploded upon the world. 613381679 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialWavy Jones @postambition.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hopefully we can still get these 1243 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialNatalie Litofsky @positivelynatalie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They joys of late 90s/early 2000s Chinese grocery stores may never be replicated. bsky.app/profile/posi... 0346 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026sadly the huge leaps forward in machine translation are likely to deprive us of such reliable gems as "dry" and "fuck" in Chinese using the same simplified character or my all-time favorite "Racist Park" (which was also an accurate description of the park, as it happened) 26694127 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialg0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone 137149613447 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2074292327 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialMatt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Whoever ends up writing it definitely needs to use this anecdote: abcnews.com/video/357882...abcnews.comVideo Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealership When His Used Truck Found Driven by ISISThe plumber's name and phone number are embossed on a pickup truck he traded in and is now being driven by terrorists. 1122 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialChristina Larson @christina-larson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’m thrilled to share my first feature story for American Archaeology magazine. The article traces the history of North America’s original caffeinated brew — Yaupon holly tea, sometimes called Black Drink — a ceremonial beverage prepared by many Indigenous nations before Europeans contact. 15912 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/... 72544499 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 13/08/2026 2819276 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026How to visit an art museum with someone who isn't used to visiting art museums: 172836926 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialGoodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts. 895443542 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I love re-upping this: for decades the main library at UCLA had the generic name University Research Library because the person most responsible for getting it built was an English professor named Hugh G. Dick and the university refused to name it after him. 703004833 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialJim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I recently watched a surprisingly interesting YouTube video of a woman who spent months knitting a sweater literally from scratch, staring with shearing a sheep and spinning the wool. Valuing her labour at minimum wage, she put the cost of the sweater at more than $2,000. youtu.be/L7QMgbMlaek?...youtu.beI made a sweater from scratch (it made me insane)YouTube video by Macy Gilliam 721151 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialProfessor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 07/09/2025This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife? 753398991 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialWildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive. 414228632 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialGT @granitetide.bsky.social · 22/08/2025we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light 269269577832 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialAmi - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 03/09/2026hello I am modern aaa game designer. the shareholders told me to make the game longer. I do not wish to make the game longer. they told me to make the game longer or I lose job. I make the player collect 6 potatoes for 5% damage resistance. The shareholders are happy. I've been laid off. 2776492587 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026They do NOT make prayer books like they used to 13904252 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialこっし~ @cossy55.bsky.social · 07/08/2026日光浴してたら生まれた猫バス 4635137 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialDjango Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real 15959581675 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Cornell University has banned the processing of wild game in residential kitchens on campus after two students carved up a bear carcass to make “black-bear pastrami”nytimes.comStudents Skinned a Bear in a Dorm. Cornell Realized It Should Ban That.After two Cornell University students skinned a black bear in a communal kitchen last year to make a meal, the school changed the rules. 110755143 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.social28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody 278122201845 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialMaytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder. 3540121130 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialSKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Logging on to read your posts 19942204 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 25/07/2026 113534 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 25/07/2026 229449 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 25/07/2026 5855331 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialGwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I stared at this headline a full minute trying to imagine a reasonable explanation. And then it turned out to be literally actually the picture that had first popped into my head 10382106 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialSophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 27/07/2026"TikTok is just AI slop, teenagers dancing, and political misinformation" SKILL ISSUE. MY TikTok feed is 100% the guy structuring an elephant puppet around a toddler carrier and using it to invade Italy via Hannibal Barca's 218BC route through the Alps. vm.tiktok.com/ZN8JcuTJd/ 938983 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/07/2026this comparison leaves out a key point: the Edsel sold roughly twice the Cybertruck's volume at a time when the overall car market was just 6m units/year instead of the current 16m units/year that makes the Cybertruck the much, much bigger flop, hands down 8742731130 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.social#puppysauce @pampsicles.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The most unfortunate part is that there is a pure hearted clarity of mind you get between 6 and 8am that genuinely convinces you its going to work and then its 2PM and you’re seeing the hat man 015711 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialcuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 21/07/2026When I was a student we called this “tanking it” and at least one of my friend group was doing it every day. Sometimes two or more people synched up and tried to tank it together and that was when you could witness true lunacy 141382258 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialEssonnianDragon @essonniandragon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026OH MY FUCK THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT 5346321382 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/07/2026It’s New Foods Day for the Minnesota State Fair and this, to me, is the promise of America www.mnstatefair.org/new/food 504897853 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Last Week Tonight covered this guy and he is insane 414954 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec... 42469831625 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialKathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Y’all I know a lot of things are real bad right now, but here’s one of them 2493628816 0
josephmcguffin.bsky.social @josephmcguffin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/8179722...prokopetz.tumblr.comDavid J ProkopetzI'm not saying I find any of this in any way credible, but "tabletop roleplaying games became a wider cultural phenomenon at the time and in the place that they did because the global... 000 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialKIMBLY NOT HERE TRY VENMO @k1m.bsky.social · 26/10/2025the show must goon 12854259 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialBill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.social · 01/06/2026John Carpenter has the correct attitude towards sequels and remakes of his movies. 0830219 0
Reposted by @josephmcguffin.bsky.socialARBco @j-k.games · 07/06/2026As somebody who has to tell editors "there's no word for this, so I made one up..." Here's the original article in question, for credit:languagelog.ldc.upenn.eduLanguage Log » Tiramisu 052 0