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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 01/10/2026

how we know “let me see that beautiful smile baby” isn’t concern for our wellbeing is that when we don’t you kill us

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 18/09/2026

I just had to reboot my laptop and it recovered this document that got tanked mid sentence and honestly, fair

A recovered Word document that says only "I have been trying"

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 15/09/2026

Good lord that Thomson Reuters AI commercial is bleak.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 15/09/2026

Mariska Hargitay is killing this and it's very fun

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 10/09/2026

welp I switched to Glassdoor instead and turns out they're about to merge with Indeed and require you to agree to their joint TOS and I fucking hate all of this. Glassdoor was useful when it first appeared, as was Indeed. I hate so so much that everything seems ruined. Not news, I know. Still.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 10/09/2026

Has anyone logged into Indeed lately? I just went in for quick check on something and they now use AI and you cannot sign out without agreeing to their new terms of service, apparently -- or at least, I couldn't find a way to reject their TOS and exit. (So now of course I am enraged.)

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 07/09/2026

So having griped about the vets and the bag, in fact the cremation service did a lovely job — the urn is cedar and smells wonderful, and the paw print made me a little teary in the best way. Bon voyage, my little bear. You were the best.

On the left is a black leather pet memorial box opened to show a paw print and a brass name plate that says "Lola." On the right is a square cedar urn.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 07/09/2026

Welp, the emergency vet I took Lola to last week were pretty awful about the whole thing but at least the cremation service put her ashes in a fancy shopping bag I guess

A black shopping bag with a slight sheen, a woven satiny cord handle and an embossed paw print in the lower right corner.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 31/08/2026

These people refuse to admit that Biden won in 2020, but they apparently believe he won in 2024.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 26/08/2026

As a tribute to Dolly, why not donate a book? Leave one is a free library. Give one to a friend or neighbor or child. Buy one for a teacher’s wishlist. If you have book donation ideas, add them to this thread. Dolly would love to see people getting books!

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/08/2026

I drove thousands of miles across the country this summer and the number of data center cooling systems I saw being trucked across interstates was astounding. A few years ago, you’d see windmill blades pretty regularly. But this was orders of magnitude more. Every state. Everywhere.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 24/08/2026

I just taught improv to a group of 6 - 11 year olds and when one of the two boys kept making his imaginary bubble vehicle stronger than everyone else’s and knocking them over one of the girls made it so strong that he got trapped inside it forever

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 01/08/2026

Saw this walking back from my little mountain post office this morning.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 15/07/2026

So it turns out instagram reels will override iPhone’s silent mode? I used to double mute all the time but got out of the habit and whoops

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 13/07/2026

JFC Facebook is randomly now asking me for a 2fa code which I didn't set up and offering no alternative or way to *get* a QR code to set up 2fa (which I don't want to do for FB in the first place) and... I think they're going to make me do some kind of multi-day ID verification process?

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Tomorrow, Monday, July 13, 11:59p is the deadline for comments.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 12/07/2026

I can’t stop watching this

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 12/07/2026

It's so weird to be checking the news to see if McConnell is still around only to find that Lindsey Graham isn't

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 07/07/2026

FFS the USMNT loss had nothing to do with Trump and it's not some kind of poetic justice or victory for morality. (As if a victory for morality could ever come anywhere near FIFA or Gianni Infantino.) This team could absolutely have at least hung with and very possibly beaten Belgium if they played

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 06/07/2026

We cannot know what the Black woman on the train was thinking or feeling at this moment. But we recognize the image as an indictment. It should make all of us pause to consider what it is that we are celebrating as America turns 250. The latest from @errinhaines.bsky.social:

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The Black woman on the train did not look away. How much longer will we?

A viral photo from July 4 captured an unidentified Black woman’s composure amid a sea of masked white men — and became a mirror for our democracy at 250.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 06/07/2026

Would love to know the percentage of people declaring that Balogun shouldn't play who even knew his name three weeks ago.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 06/07/2026

For all you new soccer fans - genuinely, welcome! Also, meet FIFA, which is like if you put the Keystone Cops in charge of the most corrupt organization in sports.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 06/07/2026

Memo in tears just totally got me

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 06/07/2026

omg harry kane has been singing and screaming so much that he's lost his voice and n his postgame interview he sounds like a muppet

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 06/07/2026

Holy shite what a match

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 06/07/2026

This game is BONKERS in the best way

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 06/07/2026

OMG he took it down. Good. I hope it's because he figured this part out and not that he's just being a coward.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 06/07/2026

Only if you're being a moralistic prig who thinks that your own moral purity is worth the sacrifice you're asking other people to make for it. The Balogun red was an egregiously wrong call. There is precedent for overturning reds and associated suspensions, including for world cup matches.

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elliepnw.bsky.social @elliepnw.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

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dr peppermint patty @jessespector.com · 14/06/2026

bus ridership is up in mamdani’s new york

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 11/06/2026

HOLY MOTHER OF BASKETBALL

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 10/05/2026

Just commemorating how much I love New York City theater, in light of some impending news. (I’m a small account! This is not big news unless you’re me and/or maybe a dozen other people! It’s just taking me a little adjusting, is all.)

A stage in preset blue light. The set is small sofa center stage with a pyramid of high end shopping bags on either side and and big blank flat upstage.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 10/05/2026

I missed this 5 days ago when they released it. Thank you @danifroom.bsky.social for continuing to bang the drum.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 10/05/2026

It's taken me years to fully recognize how hard Mother's Day is for me. Sending up so much appreciation, love, and support for those of you who are speaking up about that today, whether you're in the same boat or just helping normalize that.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Senator London Lamar on @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn and TN Republicans stealing representation from majority-Black Memphis:

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 03/05/2026

In the midst of all the depressingness I thought I'd share a window into the uplifting, moving work of being a theatrical intimacy director, epitomized by this exchange I had with the fight director on my recent project about the work I did on a very specific, nearly 30-second long sound cue.

Image of the following Messages exchange:

Fight Director: Oh my God you worked on the fart?! The audience LOVED it!

Me: YAYYYYYYYY!!!!
Yeah. I just wanted to create something that looked like a stadium wave going around, except with people getting hit with the fart -- hear, then smell, then flee
I mean that was a LOONNNNGGG cue, it needed something
Maybe I'll put "Fart Direction" under special skills on my resume

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 03/05/2026

I genuinely thought Barney Frank died like a decade ago.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 26/04/2026

Update: in lieu of a romance novel (that will come later) I am doing weirdly pleasant Sunday morning chores while enjoying 22 hot dudes running around a big field, which is to say I'm watching the FA Cup semifinal

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 26/04/2026

My political cause is not having a white house press corps that dines with and cheers the fascist president they're supposed to be covering

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/04/2026

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 26/04/2026

so people are just... not leaving? fuck off. get out. people are literally having to walk around you in narrow spaces carrying giant trays of glassware so they can go home, get the fuck out like you were told.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 26/04/2026

oh god tomorrow we are all going to drown in a giant vortex of turgid self-important firsthand accounts from every single one of these people and then they're all going to interview each other ten bucks someone makes an "I survived the WHCD" t shirt

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 26/04/2026

omfg they are CHEERING. THE. PRESIDENT.

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Julie Polk @juliepolk.com · 26/04/2026

I do not feel like a conspiracy theorist but if you told me this was fake I would legit entertain the idea

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