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I post my photography to Instagram where is gets very little engagement. At the same time it automatically posts to Threads, which I barely use. I check Threads and find that the photo posts get a lot more engagement. Threads is a photo sharing app, I guess?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 12h

Amazing stuff here

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Is it accurate to say that the Big Beautiful Bill on average made the poorest people in America even poorer and the richest people in America even richer, when looking at total household resources? One word answer only, please.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 29/09/2026

I'd like to get a bunch of old 35mm slides. Tourist pics, family, landscapes, whatever. They sell lots on eBay, but I'm wondering about quality for price. Anyone have experience with this?

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 29/09/2026

Current* conditions near L'Anse, MI:

NW view overlooking L'Anse Harbor as it meets L'Anse Bay on Lake Superior. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-28 23:18:13 EDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@villageoflanse1750 // Current Temp in L'Anse: 53 F | 11 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: S at 7 mph | 12 kph // Humidity: 88%

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 29/09/2026

If you missed my CreativeMornings GR talk it's on YouTube now. Unfortunately this video doesn't show my slides (which I drew by hand!). youtu.be/qLx3CqodYw4?...

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Kevin Buist: Tangents!

YouTube video by CreativeMornings HQ

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 28/09/2026

This is true. It reminds of how the original promise of social media was that anyone could post, anyone could have a voice. But for most people the experience of social media is more like channel surfing, passive consumption rather than active creation.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 28/09/2026

Current* conditions near South Haven, MI:

View looking WNW over South Beach with the South Haven Lighthouse and channel entrance jutting into Lake Michigan. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-27 22:36:13 EDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@cityofsouthhaven // Current Temp in South Haven: 54 F | 12 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: N at 1 mph | 2 kph // Humidity: 87%

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Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I never signed a release

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 28/09/2026

I just bought a weird camera at an estate sale auction.

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jug-hooting yokel @limusrex.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

the rest of my life is gonna be every month or 2 getting a text or pm like "hey i saw your old tweet on ____ and it had a bunch of updoots and imbeciles arguing in the comments"

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 25/09/2026

Next month I’m giving a talk on art and AI. It’s being promoted on Instagram and there are a bunch of people in the comments who want assurance that the talk will be TOTALLY ANTI-AI, or they’re going to be BIG MAD.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 25/09/2026

Joseph Beuys in the swamp - Gianfranco Gorgoni - 1971

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 25/09/2026

Rabid supporter of the Third Amendment.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah I grew up listening to jazz

A felt flower toy. It has a face wearing sunglasses and it's holding a saxophone. I am pretty sure it dances and wiggles while it plays music.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 24/09/2026

I’m at Little Caesar’s Area in Detroit and I’m 99% sure they’re running Labatt Blue Light through the Goose Island 312 tap. ☹️

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I want to say some things but good lord I shouldn’t.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 23/09/2026

I had such a fun time speaking at CreativeMornings GR last week. I talked about lasagna, overhead projectors, pennies, and river surfing. You had to be there. Thanks Brianna Kilgore for these wonderful photos.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 23/09/2026

I don't know what "hyrox" is. I only know that lady shit herself doing it.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 22/09/2026

I think the AI doomers (and promoters??) need to stop saying AI could destroy humanity. I think what they mean is that AI could destroy the internet, which is not the same thing.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m all over the map this morning so here’s a map: “A Combined View of the Principal Mountains & Rivers of the World” drawn by J. W. Colton and published by J. H. Colton in 1852. My copy is a scarce, poster-sized stand alone issue. Hand watercolored.

A map with mountains depicted in three dimensions in pastel colors. Rivers are flowing down from the top edge, the longest to shorted left to right.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 21/09/2026

The stadium where the minor league Grand Rapids team plays (the Whitecaps) used to be called 5/3 Ballpark. Now it's named after a different bank. It would be very funny if they called Tiger Stadium "5/3 Ballpark 2.0."

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 20/09/2026

Having fun arguing on Reddit with people who insist that AI art should be banned from ArtPrize but are unable to imagine how you would enforce such a ban.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/09/2026

Harry Potter And The Methods Of Charlie Brown's Harem

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 17/09/2026

I bought camera lens on an estate sale auction website. I was the only bidder and I got it for two dollars. Sounds like it's take a few weeks to be delivered, so I'll have to wait to see how good it is.

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Danny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026

God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom

Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019

Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 17/09/2026

Respectfully, no one has done more to expose others to the contents of his own mind than this guy.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 13/09/2026

Around 2011 I saw Mark Dion give a lecture and he used an old school slide projector, carousel and everything, even though this was well into the era of ubiquitous Powerpoint. I loved it. This is something I'd like to do.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me, dying after six days of agony because I survived a battle but slipped in someone’s guts and grazed myself on their rusty spur, “thanke god, I did not live to see Magic Thee Gathering becomme a troublesome thinge”

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 13/09/2026

Speed and Dumb and Dumber both came out in 1994. In both movies Jeff Daniels plays a character named Harry. Have we considered the possibility that’s it’s the same character?

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 12/09/2026

Current* conditions near Marquette, MI:

Rotating view from One Marquette Place of the lower harbor and ore dock on the shoreline of Lake Superior. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-12 15:48:03 EDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: wzmq19.com // Current Temp in Marquette: 75 F | 24 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: N at 2 mph | 3 kph // Humidity: 48%

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 12/09/2026

George W Bush did an Elizabeth Peyton painting of George W Bush learning about 9/11! Yes, the image from the meme!! Yes, I know I'm yelling!!!

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 11/09/2026

This reminds me of that joke that’s like, “You know the black box that records things and always survives the plane crash? Why not make the whole plane out of the same stuff!?”

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/09/2024

Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)

ON TV TONIGHT (columns for 8:00, 9:00, 10:00)

ABC: Attack On America
America Attacked
America In Crisis
America Still In Crisis

NBC:
A Nation Looks Around For Someone To Hit
America On The Verge Of Flying Off The Handle
America's Time Of Trial: Who Fucking Wants Some? You? Do You? How 'Bout You?

CBS
Dan Rather's 83rd Straight Hour On The Air
Dan Rather Seriously Loses His Shit
Medicating Dan Rather

BET
Wartime At The Apollo
Tavis Smiley Presents: Terrorists Strike America-The
White Man Finds Somebody Else To Fear And Demonize For A Change

MTV
The 100 Greatest, But, In Light Of Recent Events, Not As Important As Being Good To Our Loved Ones, Videos Of All Time
Yo! MTV Extends Its Condolences
Talking To Blink 182 About The Tragedy
Carson Daly In Way Over His Head

Lifetime
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls

History
Last Tuesday In History
Two Weeks Ago, As Told By Those Who Lived It
Last Tuesday In History (rerun)

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/09/2026

ok sorry but the "rent me $19" sign

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 11/09/2026

Wow. It's a good thing there aren't any Christians in the Republican party. They would be very offended by this blasphemy.

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domi @domi.zip · 09/09/2026

imagine you are killed while your brain is scanned by beings you cannot comprehend to comprehend and you wake up in a virtual purgatory waving swords around

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 10/09/2026

It would be pretty funny if Trump fired Vance in a big boardroom on live TV, for old time's sake.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 10/09/2026

Following this logic, how long until we see a former OpenAI or Anthropic staffer become a terrorist and literally destroy AI infrastructure? They keep talking like that's a reasonable position to take.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dividing up AI users in 3 categories: Wizard: approaches AI academically & with appropriate guards & wards. Treats it like a tool. Warlock: Makes a pact for power with an alien entity without considering the costs. Is corrupted by the whispers. Cleric: worships their new machine god. Is insane.

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