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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 18/09/2026

great first line for a novel in this article if anyone wants it

"Though the marriage didn’t last, Bonilla’s relationship with Costco did."

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 03/09/2026

from Publishers Lunch:

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 08/07/2026

I am... possibly the wrongest person in the world to send this to

"Try Slackbot free — your personal AI agent for work. Skip the manual work. Slackbot finds answers, preps your meetings, and gets things done right inside Slack."

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 27/05/2026

found my new favorite chum ad

low-res chum box ad reading "10+ scary phone numbers to call" and an image of an iPhone dialing what I presume to be a terrifying phone number

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 23/05/2026

truly no one doing it like Dave was

Willem Dafoe as "Gas" and Don McKellar as "Yevgeny Nourish" in David Croenenberg's 1999 film "eXistenZ"

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 02/05/2026

someone has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

LinkedIn hiring notification: Director, Editorial and Social Video, The Free Press

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 25/01/2026

once they arrive & I wrestle them on him. He also has a little coat. He loves his little coat

a medium-sized brown dog in a red winter coat. he cuts a handsome figure

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 01/01/2026

only surprising because it seems like the kind of thing LaGuardia might’ve done to consolidate his voter bloc

Screenshot of an NYT headline: “Mamdani Is First NY Mayor to Use the Quran at His Swearing-In”

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 12/12/2025

LinkedIn here assuming the role of "slop vizier"

A LinkedIn notification reading "Your network is having a Zip party, and you're not there. Tap to fix that." The button beneath has a call to action: "Solve now (it's free!)"

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 08/11/2025

he plays for the Mets AA team, right?

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 23/10/2025

"Rose called the New Yorker "school," studying hard, reading back issues, and writing notes to her boyfriends, a trio of married writers she nicknamed Europe, Mr. Normalcy and Personality Plus" the obits in publishing newsletters are usually a bummer but sometimes you get to learn about a legend

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 11/08/2025

the FCC recorded 170 instances of pirate radio station operation from 2020-23. Sometimes they record the station and DJ name in their filings, which is a real treat

screenshot excerpt of an FCC filing notice regarding a pirate radio station broadcast, which reads: "...operating an unauthorized radio station on 90.7 MHz (Station) in Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio, by which Baran (using the alias “Jumpin’ Jammin’ Jimmy”), ..."

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 19/06/2025

does anyone know why google maps thinks I work on the equator somewhere in the Gulf of Guinea

a google map screenshot with the “work” pin placed on the equatorial line in the middle of the ocean, for some reason. Crucially, this is not my place of work.

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 16/05/2025

it's not HIGH on the list of why I'm ranking him #1, but it's definitely a consideration. hellgatenyc.com/2025-nyc-may...

A paragraph from the linked Hell Gate article. "One thing the city has lost that they'd like to bring back? Mamdani said he misses the science fiction-themed restaurant Mars 2112. Lander said he misses the Kentile Floors sign by the Gowanus Canal. And Stringer? "Big events.""

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 07/04/2025

I realize this is probably a Strava competitor but it reads like a threat

ETERNAL: SO YOU NEVER HAVE TO STOP RUNNING

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 23/03/2025

some unlabeled screenshots from my desktop

Google AI search result: "Beagles are known for being vocal dogs, and some have been known to sing and play the piano"

Craigslist screenshot of a post title: "Hit the splopeps (Queens)"

Letterboxd screengrab of a collection titled "movies where if you fall off the Brooklyn Bridge, you'll time travel from the gilded age to the modern day" with two films in the collection, Kate & Leopold and Winter's Tale

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 21/03/2025

I don't especially care if my book is pirated by human beings, and obviously I'm incensed that Meta is stealing my book to train their bullshit machine. That said: guys. You REALLY don't wanna feed this one into your LLM, I promise. It, uh. It won't help.

A LibGen lookup where "Several People Are Typing" by Calvin Kasulke has been found to be in the directory.

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 18/12/2024

counterpoint: no, it isn't

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post declaring "the Baby Boomer population is growing"

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 15/12/2024

it’s so important to have role models

Shot of a framed newspaper headline reading “SUCCESS WITH A GLAMOROUS DONUT SHOP”

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 02/12/2024

I knew about the Redbox going out of business thing; I was unprepared to learn who owned Redbox

"The bankruptcy of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Redbox’s parent company, has left retailers around the country struggling to figure out what to do with the more than 24,000 abandoned machines."

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 26/11/2024

not sure what's worse, the despotic demands I make of @daltondeschain.com or that they actually keep track of them

A screenshot of two texts from me:
I just googled “math rock cover of hallelujah” and came up empty
And I am gonna need you to fix this for me

And Dalton's reply:
I owe you a ska Paradise By The Dashboard Light first

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 25/11/2024

in the course of prepping my part of the Gender Ordeal show next week I found the exact correct image for someone's next Partiful event

ADULT CONNECTION HOTLINE: SINGLES-TRANSSEXUALS-PARTY PEOPLE

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 19/11/2024

if you are in or around Philly, come see @tuck.bsky.social, @lubchansky.bsky.social, and I as we re-enact this poster in real life! also: comedy! johnnybrendas.com/event/gender...

A poster for the Dec. 3rd event, Gender Reveal Podcast presents Gender Ordeal: Gender On Wheels. The event is at Johnny Brenda's at 7pm and tickets are $15, but tbh I haven't used my comps so if we know each other even vaguely and you want to come let me know. Anyway the image depicts Tuck, a trans guy in a black tanktop with a cool lil' mustache, driving a red convertible off a cliff Thelma and Louise-style. In the back of the car is Mattie, a tattooed trans femme also in black, throwing her arms to the sky like she's on a cool and fun roller coaster. In the passenger seat is a depiction of me, a bearded trans guy having an absolute panic attack w/r/t the whole car-hurtling-over-a-cliff thing. Mattie drew the poster and it's very good, imo.

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 31/10/2024

I am a chimp and I will vote early for a special sticker with a little guy on it

“Halloween Voter” sticker featuring an illustration of a pigeon in a witch hat holding a jack-o-lantern bucket. The pigeon is my best friend

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 28/10/2024

heyy, so glad to hear your man's going back to school!

screenshot that says "NYC Trash Academy"

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 07/10/2024

hey, sorry, I just heard the news. really awful. how's your man holding up?

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 29/09/2024

my man is the worst playoff shooter in history if you don’t count guys who landed on Omaha fucking Beach

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 28/08/2024

very cool that the weather channel website is 95% chum ads and blog posts designed to stress out your dumbest great-uncle and, begrudgingly and with enormous reluctance, 5% information about the local weather

two ads linking to weather channel blog posts; "Oops! Did NASA Trigger the First Human-Caused..." with an image of a meteor headed to earth presumably to snuff out all life and finish the job the one that killed the dinosaurs couldn't, and "Months on the ISS Can Affect Mental Health, NASA says," with an image of earth from space.

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 25/08/2024

I didn’t go to clown college. I went to

side of a box of pretty solid Korean fried chicken advertising “CHICKEN UNIVERSITY: PEOPLE, PERFORMANCE, PROFIT.” I cannot emphasize enough that the restaurant was not called Chicken University nor did the food or theme relate to Chicken University in any way. It remains unclear how Chicken University relates to the product at all. However the chicken was quite good and they gave me a 10 piece instead of an 8 piece and didn’t charge me for it, which was cool

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 11/07/2024

inconclusive results. possibly nine, or six

A text message exchange: “What is the funniest single digit number”
“Jesus Christ. This is the hardest question anyone has ever asked me.”

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 01/07/2024

google adds AI to search and... Reddit's use as a search engine spikes. at least on Reddit users can find a human being wrong instead of a computer being wrong

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Hed: Reddit's rise as a search engine
Dek: People searching on Reddit rather than Google have contributed to 39% annual growth in the site's visits, Similarweb reports. Ann-Marie Alcántara of The Wall Street Journal says that users are just looking for that extra personality, something that feels real versus just another website that tells them what to do,"

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 30/06/2024

someone horribly misunderstanding the girlfriend meme:

sign on a minifridge reading “please ask a partner for worms :)”

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 26/06/2024

look I’m not monogamous but some of this poly terminology is getting out of hand

Hostess snack product labeled “meltamors”

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 23/05/2024

optimization culture must be stopped

Lara Milward, a neuroleadership coach — which involves harnessing neuroscientific findings to improve how managers operate

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 17/05/2024

set phasers to 'patronize'

two suggested responses from gmail: a button that says "Haha!" and another that says "Great!"

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 25/04/2024

as a salve to my vagueposting earlier this year, here is a preview of the DC Pride anthology that will feature my third-ever writing credit on a comic. it's called Phantom Rodeo and it features goats in little costumes, among other things. www.dc.com/blog/2024/04...

the superhero Circuit Breaker on horseback chasing down three goats in Flash costumes. Beside him is his friend Mica dressed as the Pied Piper and rollerskating after the goats.

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 18/04/2024

amazing technology, so lifelike

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 10/04/2024

two years ago I adopted this dog in large part because his name was Jeff. This was a good decision.

a medium-sized brown dog is looking up at the camera and smiling. he looks like the planet’s happiest doofus.

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 13/02/2024

thank you linkedin, I think I'm good

screenshot from LinkedIn reading "Learn more about Slack and discover other Pages you might be interested in following."

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 30/01/2024

most annoying thing about shaving my head before the mohawk got Too Sad is I'll need new author photos before this one really gets to see the light of day

a black and white photo of me, a white guy with a mohawk, back when I had (some) hair

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 30/12/2023

got quoted in a Fast Company article about Slack, took the chance to say that workers should be paid the same as the CEO www.fastcompany.com/91002162/in-...

Lastly, I asked Kasulke what is the next thing we should quit for a week.

“The funny answer is ‘email,’ the sincere answer is ‘uneven pay’ and to see what happens if everyone took home the exact same wages,” he said. “Both have the potential to create chaos, but the former might go over better if you tried the latter first.”

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 26/12/2023

clocking into my shift at the

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 08/11/2023

can you even fucking imagine what that mp3 has to contain for me to report back that they weren’t exaggerating

Screenshot of a truly alarming text from Dalton reading “okay with no hyperbole, this is the worst thing I’ve ever done in my life” followed by an mp3 file that’s really more of a threat than a song

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