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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 3h
AFI kicked ass but I'm bummed we didn't get some of the songs Nea Jersey did. I'd have loved to hear "The Boy Who Destroyed the World."
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 5h
Did I buy a second copy of Silver Bleeds the Black Sun because I cannot resist a signed tour variant? Of course.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 5h
At the AFI show at Nevermore, and I'm reminded I need to listen to Choir Boy more.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hell yeah @brokenrecord.bsky.social kicked ass!
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Very stoked for tomorrow night! And then AFI on Sunday. Gonna be a great weekend of shows.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.
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girl Jughead @audreyotherway.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"I'm old" take but zines should be like 20 pages long, printed at a copy shop on cheap paper, handstapled, & cost $5-10. also called something like "Return of Razorblade" & it's just like some punk writing about a tour they went on
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
After running Linux servers for what feels like forever I'm finally actually learning to use Ansible.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The week in jams.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As usual, it rules.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 08/10/2026
i had forgotten all about frames. on purpose

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irwin @irwin

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voic e.
Me:| can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you workin Al.
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tombreihan.bsky.social @tombreihan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Meet me at the Mall, it's goin down
stereogum.com
Turnstile Announce Free Benefit Show At Washington Monument
This is going to be something special. In a few weeks, Turnstile will play a free public outdoor show on the National Lawn in Washington, DC. The performance goes down at 3 p.m. on Oct. 24. While ther...
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tombreihan.bsky.social @tombreihan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alternative Number Ones on the gloriously unlikely story of Chumbawamba, the leftist prankster collective who briefly found huge mainstream success, and "Tubthumping," the very fun song that took them there.
stereogum.com
The Alternative Number Ones: Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping"
In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
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Broken Record @brokenrecord.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We leave for this run tomorrow!!! You can grab tickets for most shows from our website: brokenrecordisaband.com
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base
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@nic_carter
X.com
this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al columnAndrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

nic carter
@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

nic carter *
@nic_carter
X.com
social obligation
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It was my mom's 70th birthday last month, so my siblings and I took her to Mystic for the weekend, where we used to spend a lot of time in the summer growing up. It was a really wonderful trip. We don't get to see the family nearly enough.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 05/10/2026
The announcement follows reports that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agent has been snooping on users' iMessages, calendars, and emails without permission: arstechnica.visitlink.me/5s02-A
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Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Praise be, 'wor$t man in america' is real
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm again grateful to @theverge.com for publishing my newest long-form essay on the limits of the computational model of the mind, the benefits of understanding both biological and cultural evolution to explain human thinking, and the danger of cognitive hot dogs in education.
theverge.com
Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 05/10/2026
‘RemoveMacAI’ switches off Apple’s AI features, deletes its AI models, and blocks them from being downloaded again. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS
Delete Apple’s AI with a single command.
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Baltimore Police Department purchased more than 200 Axon Enterprise automated license plate readers, public records show. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-po...
baltimorebeat.com
Baltimore Police add 200 Axon license plate cameras as part of $153 million deal
This story was first published in Technical.ly. The Baltimore Police Department purchased more than 200 Axon Enterprise automated license plate readers, public records show.  In May, the Board of…
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Friends! Anyone who's been to Paris have any suggestions/tips for where in the city we should look to stay?
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah no shit.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/10/2026
“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 · 02/10/2026
It's @bandcamp.com Friday, give me some good recommendations!
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes it makes the art bad
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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 02/10/2026
"wildly expensive bastion of anti-western sentiment"????
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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
Man oh man how I loved the Space Quest games. SQ3 in particular was my shit.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's a real mystery right there.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September listening.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gonna fuel entirely with baguettes and croissants.
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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
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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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