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max mccarthy

@maxmcc.com
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crossing guard at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. SF; he/they

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt
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Pru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
tech bro is short for technically broken
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 26/09/2026
bake-off :) with nigella :)
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Very Greek tragedy thing about LLMs is that they simulataneously provide clear evidence that writing is extremely important to cognition while they also cause people to stop doing it.
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 23/09/2026
vibes
a sign that says THIS IS A (burned triangle) AREA. Who knows what it used to say. it's been burned with acid and fire or maybe magic
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 21/09/2026
i wish i knew what he “thinks” quotation marks are used for
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 20/09/2026
not commenting on this discourse but if you’re gonna try and posture using fancy words like “memetically,” consider spelling them correctly
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tara @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My enemies are amassing on the outskirts of town. Probably to apologise for their grievous misconduct
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Katie looks at a pic on Grindr featuring a muscular man labelled "hungdaddy." She asks "why do all these dudes on Grindr just post their torsos. She types in the app and says "whatever, I'm too horny to think striaght. I'll take a chance on one of 'em." She receives a knock on the door. She opens it and standing in front of her is a armless, legless, headless torso.
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 18/09/2026
this is me if you even care
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Your culture loves food and family? And you have lots of different opinions on things? Can’t relate. My culture consumes Huel and lives in pods. We all think the same.
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 10/09/2026
really think the only good use case for ai image generation is making hilarious slop memes of charlie kirk. other than that it should probably be banned
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Won the supey, played like poopy @moosebigelow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Lenny from the simpsons changing a sign that says 365 days without charlie kirk saying something racist
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 09/09/2026
also, these are nouns, you transphobic dumbass
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tautologer @tautologer.com · 09/09/2026
user: how many Rs are in strawberry?
claude: there are at least three
user: can you count them?
claude: don't play games with me, kid
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Navier-Stokes fight is a perfect encapsulation of where AI development is right now: this should be really cool and exciting, and instead because of Silicon Valley egos it's become a fight over cheating, surveillance, and companies trying to get one up over the other
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fabius @fabius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Honestly it is primarily "upset because you enjoy plugging yourself into the making-you-upset-machine", and the enjoyment part is important
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
hey wait a minute if politics is war by other means and war is hell then politics is just hell by other means there, we've completed "Political Theology" and we can all go home
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 08/09/2026
every couple of months i remember that i've been forgetting to remember the alamo
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area".
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 01/09/2026
surreptitiously recording people in public because they simply think i’m brushing my teeth in the middle of the street
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026
Some friends are teaching their baby ASL as an early bridge to speech and they made the mistake of teaching her “want” as a concept. Now she wanders around the house signing “want” all the time as an expression of unfocused desire. They fucked up and made the baby invent the opposite of Buddhism.
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 31/08/2026
somehow the dictionary is wrong about the pronunciation of worcestershire (–shur, not –sheer)
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 28/08/2026
they’re just like me 🥺
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 28/08/2026
oh they did it again 🙃
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 26/08/2026
just gonna be screaming “wrong 80-year-old!!!” every day until It Happens, huh
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton taught me it was ok to be universally beloved
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Long story short, there was a fanfic called “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality,” things got out of hand, and now Africa doesn’t get AIDS medication. Try not to think too hard about it. It’ll just drive you insane.
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 21/08/2026
kinda want to go as natalie harp for halloween lol
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You think I'm talking about the ballroom. Oh no, friend. I mean the Supreme Court.
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 21/08/2026
[metacommentary] recent discourse has been so bad that i’m contemplating getting a lobotomy and rejoining instagram. then i can just look at pretty people doing stupid things instead of fighting about what gender spreadsheets are
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 21/08/2026
currently trying to induce a manic episode specifically fixated on finishing chores
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 21/08/2026
okay, glad i’m not the only one whose entire list of notifications was suddenly marked unread
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ceej @ceej.online · 20/08/2026
they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
(browsing the produce section) now do we want e. coli or salmonella or both
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 18/08/2026
time for some lapsang souchong, motherfuckers
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Every day you read two headlines, one like "Trump orders U.S. Aircraft Carrier to get him Chik-fil-a" and one like "Hakeem Jeffries: We Must Be Very Cautious in the Way We Consider Speaking About Methods of Bringing About Incremental Change to U.S. Tax Code"
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
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Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 13/08/2026
Our age of information is collapsing...
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 12/08/2026
had the thought "huh it's not quite as sunny and warm as the weather forecast suggested" because i forgot that part of the sun is literally missing right now
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Don't stay on twitter so long you stop believing in sunscreen" sounds like an idiom people 200 years in the future will be using but won't remember what it means
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 05/08/2026
the airbnb where i'm staying labeled one of the kitchen drawers "hidden drawer 1 of 2" and i absolutely fell for it
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 04/08/2026
reporting for duty (specifically, hot-gay-boy-running-shirtless-in-the-park-on-a-warm-evening-then-posting-about-it duty)
a slutty sweaty shirtless short shorts selfiea slutty sweaty shirtless saluting sarcastically selfie
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 27/07/2026
i only recently learned that water is actually intrinsically slightly blue. like not just because it's reflecting the color of the sky
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 26/07/2026
my life is so fantastic except for i have a tummy ache
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 22/07/2026
i really struggle to make sense of what it even means to live in a world where you can say 'you should do a breakthrough' at a computer and it produces a mathematical breakthrough
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 21/07/2026
thai restaurant in my area now proudly displaying a huge ai slop banner with a physically incorrect rendition of the bay bridge and the scariest looking rice you've ever seen 😞
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