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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@garygulman.bsky.social @joshgondelman.bsky.social well, hello!
A photo of a signed poster for Gary Gulman’s show on the wall of a comedy club called Comedy Bar. A photo of a signed poster for Josh Gondelman’s show on the wall of a comedy club called Comedy Bar. Josh decided to sign it across his own forehead.
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I wouldn't use an AI to write, but I might consider getting one to do all the procrastination and self-loathing
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The new academic year is imminent...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 26/08/2026
Happy National Dog Day to all the cynophilists out there.
cynophilist
sə̇-ˈnä-fə-lə̇st
noun 
{cyn + phile + ist] 
 someone that is favorably disposed toward dogs
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As a soviet tv viewer of a certain vintage, I believe I know what its gait is based on
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a man, I look for a bear claw
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Bruce Springsteen and the Belmar Borough Band
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Duplicate data
Still from Star Trek, with two Data-like characters
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@joshgondelman.bsky.social Hi, Josh. FYI: your website could apparently use a pep talk when someone gets a chance.
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Lift the chorus, speed it onward, Loud her praises tell
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
IYKYK
A cassette tape next to a blue BIC pen
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Credence Clearwater was in the dustbin of history. Can these youngsters bring it back? #BandNamesAsNYTHeadlines
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
From “Barbenheimer 2023: The Musical” to “Barbenheimer 2026: The Greek”
Screenshot of a movie theater’s website with side-by-side images of posters  for Stop Making Sense and Taylor Swift: The Eras TourScreenshot of a movie theater’s website with side-by-side images of posters for Odyssey and Hadestown: The Musical
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Had an idea for a joke about Charon, but couldn't get it across.
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
There is a Yiddish word for this — Farpotshket
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
@snell.zone @siracusa.social Robot, or poop?
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/07/2026
Please avoid all salads, including word.
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Finally! @newyorker.com condenaststore.com/featured/not...
A cartoon on a small puppy sitting in front of a judge. The judge, an older dog in a black robe, is hitting the podium with his gavel and saying, “Not guilty, because puppies do these things.”
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)
📂 Version 1.0 — June 20, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Draft_TJ_DO_NOT_EDIT.docx
Author: t_jefferson_33
Commit Message: "Initial copy-paste from my Mason_VA_Rights_Notes.txt and VA_Constitution_V2.docx scratchpads. Confine your review to grammar and typos, and do not redline, only leave comments."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
Line 14: "We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable..."
Comment from t_jefferson_33: "Certified banger."
📂 Version 1.1 — June 24, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Draft_TJ_comments_JA_BF.docx
Editors: b_franklin_GrittyOG and JA_redsoxfan (obo Committee, w/ Sherman and Livingston)
Commit Message: "First pass by the Committee of Five. Modest style changes."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
47 revisions (redlined), three full new paragraphs
Deleted: "sacred & undeniable" * Inserted: "self-evident"
Comment from b_franklin_GrittyOG: "250 years from now, people will think you wrote that banger. You’re welcome."
📂 Version 2.0 — June 28, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Committee_Review_FINAL.docx
Author: t_jefferson_33
Commit Message: "Incorporated Ben and John's very minor edits of my excellent first draft into a clean copy. Ready for the Continental Congress to approve verbatim."
📂 Version 2.1 to 2.8 — July 2 – July 4, 1776
File Name: Declaration_CONGRESS_REVISED2_redline_NEW_v4_approved..docx
Editors: Continental_Congress Group Chat (50+ active users)
Commit Message: "Line-by-line review by committee. Light trimming, a mere 20% of the original text. Optimizing for colonial unity."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
❌ CRITICAL DELETION: 300 word imprudent diatribe against KG III for transatlantic slave trade (“waging cruel war against human nature”).
Comment from dunkin_delegate: “Jefferson wrote that? He always struck me as a smug hypocrite. #IYKYK”
Comment from SC_delegation_delegate: "I thought we agreed this issue was off the table for now. It can be amicably settled later."
❌ DELETION: Large sections complaining about the ordinary British public being "deaf to the voice of justice."
Comment from NY_delegation_hub: "Guys, let's keep the finger pointed strictly at King George. If we trash the British citizens, we ruin any chance of future trade partnerships or alliances. Keep it professional."
➕ INSERTION: Added "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world" and "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence" to the closing paragraph.
Comment from Middlesex_Conservative: "Marketing requested more religious claptrap to ensure maximum buy-in from the zealots."
System Notification: User t_jefferson_33 reacted 👎(39 instances).
📂 Version 3.0 (Production) — July 4, 1776 (Late Morning)
File Name: Declaration_of_Independence_FINAL_v3_USE_THIS_ONE_SIGNED.docx
Editors: john_hancock_big_font
Commit Message: "Approved. Shipped to the printers. John Hancock didn't realize his zoom level was at 200% when he signed. Committee unable to find the one intern who can resize images, shipping anyway."
System Notification: User t_jefferson_33 has left the chat.
The draft of the Declaration was revised first by Adams and Franklin, and then by the full committee. A total of 47 alterations, including the insertion of three complete paragraphs, were made to the text before it was presented to Congress on June 28. After voting for independence on July 2, Congress continued to refine the document, making 39 additional revisions to the committee draft before its final adoption on the morning of July 4.

The draft shows the multiplicity of corrections, additions and deletions that were made at each step. Although most of the alterations are in Jefferson's handwriting (Jefferson later indicated which changes he believed were made by Adams and Franklin), he felt slighted by the way Congress rewrote the manuscript. In a consoling letter of July 21, 1776, the state's senior delegate, Richard Henry Lee, wrote to Jefferson that he wished that "the manuscript had not been mangled as it is." In an 1823 letter to Madison, Jefferson wrote that, at the time, "during the debate, I was sitting by Dr. Franklin and he observed that I was writhing a little under the acrimonious criticisms" of Congress. In fact, as Congress neared completion of the document by altering nearly all of his last paragraph, Jefferson could only write in the margin "a different phraseology inserted." Jefferson remained bitter about the changes made to the Declaration of Independence right up to his death. His autobiography was a major effort to set the record straight on its writing.
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The plot heightens
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty Throw Mel Brooks a birthday party
Marquee of an old movie theater. The vertical part says “Michigan “ in white letters on blue background. The awning says “Happy birthday, Mel Brooks! Producers 1:30 pm”
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
@shteyngart.bsky.social Новый рингтон…
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A fond farewell to David Hockney from all #dachshund aficionados
A man (David Hockney) is sitting leaning back in a striped armchair, with a sly smile on his face. He is holding a red smooth dachshund by each side. All three of them are looking directly into the camera. Behind them is a white wall with about 30 paintings by Hockney of those two dachshunds.
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Repost with the Russian agent who spies on your posts
The final shot of the tv series The Americans, with Phillip and Elizabeth late at night, standing with the main building of Moscow University in the background.  They are sternly looking straight ahead.
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
In 2015, before The Late Show with Stephen Colbert started, they did two weeks of test shows. Everything — the writing, the production, the guests, the studio audience — was “for real,” except the episodes didn’t air.
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Pick a Bond from the photos already in your phone
Hugh Laurie, as his character on VEEP, saying “ but I have to balance that against my need not to do it.”
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
slightly increase a band The Gates
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social Hi, Jeff. I know there is a lot of stuff going on, but I wonder if you have any insight into the release timeline of The Illegals podcast. It’s been a while since the most recent episode…
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
An Embarrasing Proposal, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1715-16, 🎥 via Linda Henry
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Ontario friends, is something particular going on in Toronto the week of the 25th? Hotels prices are through the roof all of a sudden…
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Social anxiety peony is having social anxiety.
Three peonies in a glass vase. Two have opened gloriously, the third is still a tightly closed ball. All three have speech balloons; the two opened blossoms’ balloons say “Hi!”, and the completely closed blossom’s balloon says “No.”
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James Thomson @jamesthomson.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Once again, Pi Day rolls around, and I forgot to actually do anything substantial to promote PCalc. Even worse, I added Tau in the latest release, and the Pi people and the Tau people have been at war for decades. Don't ask… But the current iOS version is 3.14.x and so Pi wins today! pcalc.com
A screenshot of PCalc running on iOS and displaying Pi.
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Drop a GIF you can hear
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Ellen Jovin is at the Grammar Table @grammartable.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Gift link: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/01/o...
bostonglobe.com
What I’ve learned from helping strangers with their grammar - The Boston Globe
Questionable syntax can be refreshing in an AI age — and a source of connection.
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Ellen Jovin is at the Grammar Table @grammartable.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Bostonians, do you have plans for National Grammar Day (March 4)? Chicagoans, do you have plans for National Proofreading Day ( March 8)? If not, we have options: www.rebelwithaclause.com/screenings
rebelwithaclause.com
Rebel with a Clause Screenings
Upcoming Screenings
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Ann Arbor Pitchbot @a2pitchbot.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Roses are red Violents are blue No apartments near me. I got mine, fuck you! #a2council
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I assume that his physio is @siegel.bsky.social and you can’t convince me otherwise
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Josh is superb, and these glasses make him look a bit like an owl 🦉
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 02/02/2026
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
❤️
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American Kennel Club @americankennelclub.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"You don't forget the best." We've lost an icon and a legend. Thank you for giving us Cookie Fleck and so much more. Rest in peace.💙
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
💔 youtu.be/FMbeMmYkAXQ
youtu.be
Mitch & Mickey - When You're Next to Me
From the movie : Mighty Wind All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment and DMZ Records No infringement intended Eugene Levy: "At the end of this movie, when we do the concert, it was all filmed basically live. We're not pre-recording the music and lip-synching to it. We're actually filming it live. It put a little added pressure on what you thought was a relatively good singing voice. It took a little work and I think I can speak for Catherine, too, as two of the relatively non-musician people. It was exciting and scary."
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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! Premieres tonight on HBO
Poster for the HBO Original - Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man - Now Streaming
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Who could ask for anything more?
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 31/12/2025
Nancy Friedman: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Seventy-one percent of people in Iceland are Costco members” and “In Sweden, the largest size of Hellmann’s mayonnaise — 600 grams — is called “American size”. [fritinancy.substack.com]
fritinancy.substack.com
52 things I learned in 2025
The news (to me) this year.
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Self-reflecting birds of Northern California
An egret standing in water, fully reflectedA snowy egret standing in water, fully reflectedA great blue heron standing in water, fully reflected
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Hung around in a pharmacy’s waiting area in line for seasonal vaccine boosters with @justinwolfers.bsky.social once
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Haaaave you met Brett, the mad genius/good witch/benevolent overlord of Mac users?
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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Finally finished last week’s episode of WWDTM, and isn’t it perfect that @joshgondelman.bsky.social knew that “slop” was @merriam-webster.com’s word of the year without missing a beat!
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