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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's cool that we're accelerating the destruction of the planet, damaging the physical health of communities near data centers, and impairing the cognitive development of generations of young people, all for tech that nobody wants or needs, which mainly exists to make the super-rich super-richer.

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think we all just need an extremely goofy and boundaryless Kramer-like neighbor to burst through our doors unannounced and urge us to taste a delicious Mackinaw peach

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My toddler's favorite toys at the moment, out of alllll the toys she owns, are an empty Pellegrino bottle, and an empty La Croix can with the top taped over. We've started calling them Bottilda and Cannothan.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

COOL NEWS: You can now buy your own copy of our card game WHO'S A GOOD BOY: The Game Where Dogs Can Sin Up until now, it's only been available to Kickstarter backers but now folks who missed the campaign can finally commit various crimes and good deeds

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Who's A Good Boy: The Game Where Dogs Can Sin

WHO'S A GOOD BOY: THE GAME WHERE DOGS CAN SIN is a new card game for 3-4 players available from Little Tiny Babies, Inc! In Who's A Good Boy, players select a dog character card and use sins and good ...

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Being the parent of a baby or toddler means getting songs stuck in your head that only exist inside your home, like "Christmas Mouse," the song about the tiny knit possum (whom I mistook for a mouse) in a tiny knit Christmas sweater that keeps our daughter entertained during diaper changes.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Have not laughed this hard at a shot/chaser in a while, there's a particular loss of sanity happening here so specific to parenting a young child lmao

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If you ever find yourself paying for some "premium" service and thinking "dang wasn't this just a basic service a decade ago?" the full piece might resonate with you

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Welcome To The Lounge

We all live in the airport now.

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If my wee, apple-cheeked, button-nosed, bright-eyed, mop-topped, chubby-legged, happily-babbling baby blesses you with her thousand-watt smile on the street and you DON'T smile back??? I think you perhaps deserve jail.

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Can’t not think of the 30 Rock “a dog shot me in the face” bit

“A Dog Took My Face And Gave Me A Better Face To Change The World: The Celeste Cunningham Story”

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Where would one go to buy a big, comfy, well-made and attractive sectional sofa? Nothing uber fancy but not Ikea either. We got a good sofa from Article in the past but would like to be able to try something out in person. I hear mixed things about Joybird but get one million sofa ads from them.

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Can't believe Survivor missed the opportunity to bring back the bit where Jeff collects the final votes in the jungle, says "See ya at the finale," and then takes the votes onto a boat, where he's picked up by a helicopter, then let off onto a motorcycle, and takes a whole lil journey to a set in LA

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Welp, time to find a new search engine that lets you actually access information directly and assess its accuracy using your own human critical thinking skills.

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I was browsing a restaurant's menu on doordash, and there was a "generated by AI" label on the item descriptions. A quick look at the options for each item revealed that the descriptions were all fully inaccurate. Sweet. Love that we're destroying jobs, communities, and the planet at large for this.

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Huge news!!! There is truly no better person to write about this subject matter than Dan, and I can't wait to see how he channels his deep passion, personal experiences, and perspective on the world into this new book!!! What a treat for us readers!!

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Online recipes love to say "You'll never believe how delicious this simple, four-ingredient recipe is!!!" and then one of the ingredients is butter and one of them is cream....Like, OBVIOUSLY if half the ingredients are butter and cream, it'll taste good!! That's neither impressive nor surprising!!

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Any Chicago residents know where one can get a good zhengyalov hatz??? One of the few things I miss from Glendale specifically is being walking distance from a fresh, delicious zhengyalov hatz! (If you live vaguely near the Glendale Galleria and are not taking advantage of this, you're missing out!)

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Science is on the verge of creating a travel stroller so compact, it can fit inside the average pants pocket. Unfolds in just 5 minutes of vigorous, frantic flapping. Folds up in just one hour of impossibly grueling origami.

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The constantly-pleasant temperatures of LA are nice, but the euphoria of getting a 55 degree day after months of freezing temps is truly something special

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Wrote about internet addiction, how it hijacks impulses towards anxiety or compulsion, and of course, Neopets.

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Adobe discontinuing Animate out of the blue is nuts. Many television productions, games, and all sorts of animated media still rely Animate/Flash pipelines. They're all supposed to just...pivot to entirely new software and pipelines?!

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/01/2026

Ultimately you're not supposed to believe it. It not mattering is the point. The bolder the lie, the greater the impunity. The ultimate victory for evil is not convincing you, it's the truth being irrelevant.

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Empty words. The president is obviously not going to do anything about this; he does not care that people are being murdered. Asking him to change is meaningless. Our politicians need to take ACTION. Action beyond saying "hey this is really bad and we don't like it."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/01/2026

peeschools! fucking preschools! I hate these people down to my bones

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

ICE is terrorizing the public. In the country in which they live. Terrorizing...domestically...I wonder if there's a term for that. An organization that domestically terrorizes... It's not complicated. Any politician/govt official who says ICE shouldn't be abolished needs to open their fucking eyes

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 12/01/2026

Minneapolis Is in Mourning. It’s Also Very, Very Pissed Off In the hours after an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, the city came together — and found a difficult balance of grief and rage.

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Minneapolis Is in Mourning. It's Also Very, Very Pissed Off

In the hours after an ICE officer shot and killed Rennee Nicole Good, the city came together — and found a difficult balance of grief and rage.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Last week, I drove to Minneapolis to spend a few days reporting on the aftermath of Renee Nicole Good's murder for Rolling Stone. What I saw was a city forced to grieve a horrible loss while simultaneously strategizing to protect itself from the ICE reinforcements to come. Full Story Here:

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Minneapolis Is in Mourning. It's Also Very, Very Pissed Off

In the hours after an ICE officer shot and killed Rennee Nicole Good, the city came together — and found a difficult balance of grief and rage.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I’ll be on the ground in Minneapolis for the next few days for Rolling Stone. If you or anyone you know is helping to organize your community to protect itself from ICE (or just helping them cope with the tragedy of Renee Good’s death), I’d love to speak with you

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

As the Difficult Year project begins, I'm thinking about how our phones serve as an escape hatch from even minor moments of discomfort and how having instant access to that escape harms our ability to live in the real world

Phones are the great pacifying device of our time. No single human invention has ever been so capable of transmuting raw emotion into useless things. Great ideas become middling posts. Friendships become group chats. Political fervor becomes shareable infographics. Their greatest trick of all is turning time into less time.

They are the crucial ingredient that allowed for the Smooth World’s formation, an anesthetic that can be poured on every wound. Our phones and the endless scrolls of social media they provide are perfectly designed to maintain a baseline level of addicted malaise, a promise that if you just scroll a little more, you’ll find whatever it is you’re looking for.

The problem with phones isn’t just that they’re bad for us2 , it’s that they make us feel too good. Looking at your phone feels better than nearly any activity you’d otherwise be doing. There is no small, quiet, moment of our lives we won’t joyously skip over given the chance. It’s like we learned nothing from Adam Sandler’s Click.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My little project for the year is making my life harder on purpose. I talk about it a little bit here, but the long and short of it is that I think excessive convenience has eroded the quality of everyday life at great cost to our sense of self. I've been referring to it as The Smooth World

I’ve felt for a long time that our lives were beginning to take place not in the real, physical world we embody but in a parallel space that exists partially digitally, and partially in the perception of each individual. This other world is not a literal place so much as a sort of bubble that convenience places around us, protecting us from the exertions of other people upon our reality while also giving us the illusion of control over our own. Disruption of this world is often met with confusion, frustration, and even anger as those within it are forced to occasionally reckon with the fact that it’s a delusion they’ve placed themselves in. I call it the Smooth World.

The Smooth World, as it is currently and continually designed, is meant to avoid friction at all cost. In it, food can be delivered to your doorstep by unseen butlers, cars turn every excursion out of the house into an isolating door-to-door commute, and in whatever small ways you’re forced to interact with others, you now all have the option of doing so while simultaneously anesthetizing yourself with an unending stream of short form video content.

But hey, those things are chores! Surely optimizing them out of our lives has left more room for leisure! But the optimization hasn’t stopped at chores. Where once games, entertainment, and hobbies were a way of blowing off steam, now many opt instead to remain submerged in that unending stream of content. Our attention is no longer ours to give, having become a new frontier for those who wish to sell targeted advertising. So often, we look up from our phones during our two hours of free time each day only to realize that one of them is gone, that we’d made a second screen out of our lives.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Each month, I'll be abandoning some modern amenity in hopes of figuring out if a line exists between excessive convenience and drudgery. Social media, screens, car travel, delivery, none of it is off the table. I'm dumping modernity upside down until I can figure out which part went rotten

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Let's have a difficult year

This year I'm making my life harder on purpose because I'm a genius

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Don't mind me weeping big ol' sentimental tears over here. I had no idea Dan was writing this. It's perfect.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Who's A Good Boy has its final packaging! Look how slick this is!

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Can't believe it's already that time again: TOILET WRAPPED 2025!!

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Pick it up at any of the sites listed here! It's extremely funny, was way more timely than it got credit for, and has been very close to being a television show twice now so that has to count for something.

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I Am Not a Wolf - Andrews McMeel Publishing

One of the Best Humor Books of 2021! (Vulture)You are a HUMAN MAN navigating every day life, dating, bus etiquette, and other important human concerns. You are definitely NOT A WOLF. Life is good. Yo...

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

If you're shopping for the fervent anti-capitalist or exhausted office worker in your life (maybe they're the same person?) consider I AM NOT A WOLF It was part of the Vulture's Best of 2021 coverage and its about how office jobs are an act of violence upon the world itself. It's also very funny.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

We're running a sale through Monday!!

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Here's a direct link to the pledge manager where you can pick up a late copy! www.kickstarter.com/projects/its...

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

WHO'S A GOOD BOY? will be in production until early next year but it can still be a great gift! Anyone who purchases a copy from our Kickstarter this weekend will receive a holiday card letting the recipient know they've been gifted the game! Give someone you love the gift of sin!

A holiday card featuring two christmas theme dogs explaining the promotion: anyone who goes to www.dogscansin.com and purchases a copy of the game this weekend will be sent a holiday card that tells their intended recipient that they've been gifted the game

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Did you know that an infant can poop so loudly that the sound rouses you from slumber

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Julia Glassman @juliaglassman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I haven’t been online much since having a baby, and the few times I‘ve checked bluesky it’s all been posts about AI, pedos, media capitulation to free speech repression, and the baffling defense of what sounds like a very horrible man…so I might just continue not inundating my brain with all that!

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I wrote about "Obeying In Advance" and phone addiction and how at some point we have to look at the number of mass shooters that view violence as an extension of shitposting and ask "Are we, as a species, incapable of surviving extended exposure to the internet?"

In a twist that shouldn’t surprise me by now, I was told be a fleet of phone addicts that I was “obeying in advance”. Their logic was that by telling them not to put evidence in the evidence machine, by warning them that digital vigilantes and the FBI alike were calling for generalized retribution against the Left, I was encouraging preemptive capitulation to fascism.

This grandiose tone has become increasingly common on social media from a set of people who refuse to accept that their own addiction to looking at their phone is more a byproduct of corporate manipulation than it is any sign of their own altruism. They see themselves as put upon activists and view posting as the only way to really have your voice heard. That they are algorithmically doomed to not exist to anyone whose mind they might change is incidental. These people operate under the idea that social media is a force for good as opposed to, say, a digital Gymboree for adults designed to create the illusion of satisfaction in angry people so that they won’t do a Bastille Day.

Let’s put it simply. I think that we are psychologically incapable of surviving long term exposure to the internet. I think the amount of information we absorb daily was already a problem and the fact that tech companies are now able to perfectly tune it to our most base desires is a five alarm fire. I don’t think we’ve even scratched the surface of what society-wide internet addiction is doing to us or will do to us in the future. Decreased attention spans, widespread texting and driving, and hunched necks are going to be just the tip of the iceberg. We invented a machine that makes kids want to kill people and we’re all paying ours off with Klarna.

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Logan Dean @logandean.games · 24/08/2025

You cannot support democracy without supporting trans rights.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

THIS IS IT! In just a few days, the campaign for Who's A Good Boy? comes to a close! If we hit our flex goal of $15,000 in time, we’ll be adding a ten card bonus pack to every copy of the game! CAMPAIGN HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/its...

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Are you or somebody you know the owner of an LGS or board game cafe? Did you know we have a special retailer tier? Retailers can back the campaign to get their copies at 50% off of MSRP! After the campaign is over, they'll be able to purchase more cartons through our pledge manager!

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Who's A Good Boy: The Game Where Dogs Can Sin

A new card game for 3-5 players. Do sins and good deeds, earn traits, and race your friends to answer the question: "Who's A Good Boy?"

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Just a few days left to get your copy of WHO'S A GOOD BOY at a discount! We're over halfway to our stretch goal, which would add a bonus pack of UNFORGIVABLE SINS and HORRID FLAWS to each copy! Get in there!

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Who's A Good Boy: The Game Where Dogs Can Sin

A new card game for 3-5 players. Do sins and good deeds, earn traits, and race your friends to answer the question: "Who's A Good Boy?"

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