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@mcflynnthm.bsky.social
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 1h
Yeah no shit.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 1h
“In fact, this build out is so important geopolitically that there are widespread reports of various countries intentionally seeding misinformation in the US about data centers to trick us into slowing down.”
theverge.com
Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers
Nothing drums up support like fearmongering.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 2h
It's @bandcamp.com Friday, give me some good recommendations!
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2h
Yes it makes the art bad
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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 2h
"wildly expensive bastion of anti-western sentiment"????
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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 4h
Did you know in Windows 11, WIN + MINUS: Will input en dash – WIN + SHIFT + MINUS: Will input em dash —
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 22h
Man oh man how I loved the Space Quest games. SQ3 in particular was my shit.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 23h
That's a real mystery right there.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 23h
September listening.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Turns out I did get into a marathon, just not an Abbott Major. Paris, here I come! 🇫🇷
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Got an email welcoming me to my Abbott's six star journey and was terrified for a moment that I accidentally got into a marathon.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cosmic Joke LP comin' on Revelation, hell yeah.
cosmicjokela.bandcamp.com
Suburban Decay, by Cosmic Joke
12 track album
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Sapling @saplingband.com · 30/09/2026
We’ll be featured on this alongside some rad artists today at 3 PM PST/6 PM EST. ✌️❤️🍝 www.firessecretbox.com @firessecretbox.bsky.social
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Speaker Johnson is back to falsely claiming that the millions losing #Medicaid coverage under H.R. 1 are either those who were fraudulently enrolled or were ineligible undocumented immigrants even as hundreds of thousands of *lawfully residing" immigrants lose their Medicaid eligibility tomorrow.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other.
A city that exists
There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other. Like a closed electric circuit (?) I could explain that better but I spent my life appreciating art. There are pieces of writing that stand on their own without any supplementary information but there's a reason that when we read a classic poem or short story we usually soon after want to know when and where and under which conditions it was written. Same with music. You can hear a song you like and appreciate it knowing little but the first question people often ask when you play them something by a new band is where are they from? It’s funny that you should ask because they are from a city that exists. Art is a conversation where the particulars of the world are made universal and the universal is made particular. Think about how powerful an engine of imagination it is for a young person hearing a band and learning that they are from some far off place – Tokyo or New York or even somewhere gross like the UK. It is a time portal. It is magic. It even works if the artist dead. So too with a painting. The little information plaque in the museum is an extraordinarily powerful tool. What if it said no one painted this nowhere? Well then you’d be looking at nothing. And now what would you be?
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The America.gov AI chatbot losing its mind if you ask it to "play minecraft" is so, so funny.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It also doesn't seem to be true:
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks, I hate it.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everything is awesome.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we should have killed this bastard when we had the chance
clippy >:[
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 29/09/2026
the truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
hes going to announce hes never heard of choosin texas
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah that seems right.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
please enjoy brand new tingler NOT POUNDED BY THIS FLOCK CAMERA BECAUSE SOMEONE CUT IT DOWN. HUH, INTERESTING. I WONDER WHO COULD’VE DONE THAT? out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HL6WHFVV and on buckaroo patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...
cover of NOT POUNDED BY THIS FLOCK CAMERA BECAUSE SOMEONE CUT IT DOWN. HUH, INTERESTING. I WONDER WHO COULD’VE DONE THAT? on the right there is a concerned ladybuck with her hands up in a gesture of NO WAY BUD and on the left is an angry lookin sentient flock camera
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 27/09/2026
it’s actually a very normal experience to not have heard a song that tops the charts, and you can read about why right here! www.typebarmagazine.com/streaming-mu...
typebarmagazine.com
Streaming Music, The Illusion of Choice, and You
Maybe it’s time to change our relationships to music streaming services.
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 27/09/2026
good evening music.apple.com/us/album/bab...
music.apple.com
Baby, I'm an Anarchist by Against Me! on Apple Music
Song · 2002 · Duration 2:40
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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Walking tours! fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/ Scroll down on that page for the Halloween schedule or look at the flyer posted at @fullstorybaltimore.tours
fullstorybaltimore.tours
Our Tours – Full Story Baltimore
Current tours: Black Reconstruction in Lower Charles Village Premiered in November 2025 'Tis the season for a gentle daytime walk with a hot drink in hand, through the Charles North, Old Goucher, and ...
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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Art! genuinesnips.art
genuinesnips.art
genuine snips by Emma Katherine Bilski
non-traditional wycinanki (Polish cut-paper folk art)
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
themomoftheyear.substack.com
I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Joined up with Falls Road Running Store for a BRF course preview run this morning. And came home with like $60 worth of food from Tortilleria Sinaloa 🌮
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
if anyone asks I’m a lawyer and this is protected
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Sapling @saplingband.com · 25/09/2026
We just dropped a new music video for our song No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service. ✌️❤️🍝 youtu.be/OF2bDwsefRg
youtu.be
Sapling & Friends - "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" (Official Video)
YouTube video by Sapling
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
popsci.com
Asteroid named after ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
‘I just hope this isn’t the asteroid that winds up destroying the Earth.’
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's that time again. Here's the week in jams.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Switched over to Dockhand, already much, much happier with it.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got
Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."
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Simone de Rochefort @doomquasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
“This is absolutely going to create a ton of outcry if we publicly launch this as default-on. It will kill all the goodwill and organic press we’re getting from early adopters,” they wrote. “Please think about how the headlines will scream ‘Meta uses humans behind the scenes to make calls’ or ‘Muse AI is actually independent contractors’ and result in a ton of bad press about the privacy and security of our data handling […] please PLEASE do not release this as-is and at least make this a user preference if we absolutely must launch this. Please.”
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Glad fall is upon us, time to start listening to nothing but AFI for the next couple of months.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You know the crew was out there last night, rain or shine.
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sincerely, do one minute of work on understanding how the generational cycles of parenting and growing up have informed who you are. Think about the ones that retain value to you and why, identify the ones you need to break and break them, and visualize a BETTER future for your own kids.
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Even just a LITTLE therapy, I’m begging you.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I keep dreaming up a blog post that's just a bunch of songs that aren't available on major streaming platforms. This will probably sit in the Drafts bin forever, much like my exhaustive deep dive through the Jimmy Buffett catalog.
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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Baltimore PSA!
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not great
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Can you forget how you feel about Meta?" No. Next question.
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