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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 6h

Was in a band called Unstable Isotope, but we broke up pretty quickly

Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 8h

Gonna write up a critical essay about AI-generated Art Content, title is “The Aesthetics of Extrusion”, the opening paragraph will be me just barfing uncontrollably on every dipshit excited about hyperscaling the excision of humans feeling things and being weird from the process of making shit

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mr Beast: [finds out about bread lines] huh. Okay but stay with me: what if only ONE of them gets the bread

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah, yeah, the suddenly profoundly hot Nathan Fielder, we’ve all seen it

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

once again experience one of life's great reifications of irony: having a sore back from putting together the chair I bought because the old chair was giving me a sore back

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

just learned from a random TikTok of the existence of the 1984 film Invitation to Hell, directed by Wes Craven (!!) and starring Robert Urich and Susan Lucci (!!!!!) and god help me I'm gonna have to find and watch this fucking thing

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Too hot to handle Too cold to hold It’s called dry ice and You’ve got serious frostbite

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“You steal those impressionist paintings yet?” Sure thing, boss. Really shitty, just like you asked.

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

[sweating heavily] guys you're embarrassing me in front of Mr. Patterson

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly and Tim doing a big final collab, each grabbing one end of a filthy and tattered soul and red rovering it into the cosmic shitheap

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A few years back I ended up recording two different off the cuff Dolly homage parodies regarding players in a fictional cosmic horror baseball league whose fans were overwhelmingly gen z and gen alpha queer kids on discord and it felt utterly effortless and without need of translation

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

theatrical concept of Chekov's Goon, if a dude is jerking it in the first act he's still gonna be jerking it in the second

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

figuring out how to block exactly one (1) cursed burrito image

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

ah fuck i dropped my donut receipt and it fell between the temporary stairs

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Rowling as a Trumpian dignity wraith but for career actors instead of career US politicians

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Paul Blart Mall Cop III: Blart spends the entire film having a psychotic break, segwaying his way around an abandoned mall and hallucinating a variety of patrons, shoplifters, store owners, security coworkers, etc.

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MetaFilter @metafilter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

MetaFilter is officially hiring for a new *Community Operations Manager* role. See the job description and information on how to apply over on MeFi Jobs: jobs.metafilter.com/2046/MetaFil... Tell your friends! Applications through August 17. #remote #flexible #part-time #anywhere #jobfairy

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

[tune of Eleanor Rigby] Emily Wilson Panning a film that was based on a poem she translated from Greek "Flick's not on fleek"

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

gonna tell my kids that the Tragedy of the Commons is when this slowly accretes nothing but copies of Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Limited Edition Cereals With Threatening Auras

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

i miss the collective frisson of looming lettuce-born turbo-poops

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Believing with all my heart that it’s not just a coincidence and Peter Watts was intentionally putting a button on a conversation about violent sociopathy with an H.M.S. Pinafore joke.

Screenshot of text on a kindle:
“Really?” She looked a challenge at him. “Never?”
He looked back. “Well. Hardly ever.”

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Beauty and the Beast? More like Belle and Sebeastian

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

hey now that's a pretty harsh vibe at a time like this, maybe you should try speaking CHILL of the dead

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No Cartridge Trev @nocartridge.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

TIKTOK DETECTIVE: Well what do we have here? Looks like the poor bastard s-worded himself with a g-n. TIKTOK M.E.: No, look at the marks on the wrists…bruising, plus petechial hemorrhaging. This wasn’t s-word. It was unliving by a predator. TIKTOK DETECTIVE: intimate act me…..

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

RIP Bonnie Tyler, never has someone’s voice more made me want to try chain-smoking

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

your mother left this pdf for me just before she died, it's been 20 years now but I've never had the strength to click "convert to podcast"

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

pretty sure i could score at least one point in tennis against Isaac Chotiner

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

how to celebrate with sulfurous explosions without scaring any dogs

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Bro I heard the pope just went no-contact with some of the boys

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

girl are you terrible at chess because I can’t take my eyes off those questionable bishop moves

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

there was that time that time that Jeffrey Combs was in literally anything

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Everybody loves a blood drive but I suggest a blood elevator and suddenly I’m the asshole

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"books are like movies you make in your head" yeah no shit bro, books are fundamentally anti-union, it's a deliberate ratfuck play by the orthographic industry to avoid paying all those SAG-AFTRA and IATSE folks to make a movie by outsourcing all of that work to you, the scab reader

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Joe Rogan looks like Robert De Niro refused to read the manual before creating a homunculus

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Japan v Netherlands is on at the bar I’m at and it’s only the second half but something already almost happened

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Our cat had her long-useless eyeballs removed Monday and as a result she currently has a shaved horizontal stripe across her brow and hot pink sutures like insane mascara and it is the most cyberpunk thing I have ever seen in person

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

[refusing to acknowledge the possibility that a couple of gothic art museums could be gay] just a couple of galleries palloring around

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I can tell that one f the teams won the game tonight but can’t tell which yet and honestly I love that

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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

yeah we had to put him on a performance improvement plank, if he can remain perfectly rigid and horizontal for the next three months he gets to stay

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