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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

to the man making multiple calls on speakerphone in the hallway outside my office: I wish you a very Wet Socks sir

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I need to eat breakfast and take a shower so I can drive my kid to swim lessons but Pancake has decided he wants to be in a blanket fort with me and how can I say no to that face??

An orange and white cat hugs his person under a light green fuzzy blanket

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today in “never thought I’d say those words in that order” we have WHY IS THAT DOG WEARING A WIG

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve been at my desk for hours but my brain is just sitting here sullenly in No Work Today mode so the whole day so far feels like a waste

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m glad Kate Beaton is getting the accolades she deserves for her serious work but the old snarky comics about Jules Verne and the Brontës and Aquaman will always be beloved to me

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@dimension20.dropout.tv I am BEGGING you to hire Ursula to collaborate on a future season. She writes fantasy novels AND horror novels AND snarky d&d campaigns, c’mon she is PERFECT

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

giving extra side-eye to all the people parked badly *at the DMV*

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12/09/2026

the only good thing billionaires have ever given us is their ex-wives, evergreen

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

back at the eye doctor, where I am again the youngest person in the waiting room by easily 25 years

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Friend’s kid: can I try your sunglasses? <picks them up> Kid, scoffing: are these even rainbow?

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

are those boots a “there are horses in space for some reason” situation or a “first gay in star war” situation 🧐

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

it’s not often that I think “I wish there were more drunk people nearby” but honestly it would be preferable to the extremely annoying children at this baseball game

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@drawfeeshow.com has ruined me, I can no longer imagine a crab without thinking of SpongeBob and Lucille Ball youtu.be/tt4dXsyxgQc

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Imagine A Crab - Drawfee Animated

YouTube video by DeepBlueInk

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I find linguistic diversity fascinating but sometimes I read a thing and my face reacts before my brain does like when someone on this here internet referred to a sippy cup as a “suckie cup”

A comic sketch by Abby Howard in which a long-haired person looks up from their phone with angry eyebrows, astonished open mouth, and haunted eyes

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

bought my kid a Bruce the Bat Dog shirt at the team store because I am a sucker

A golden retriever running off a baseball field with a bat in his mouth

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

eternal blessings on my friend Zander who picked us up from the airport, sparing us from having to deal with a ride share as One More Thing after 22 hours of transit

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Friend’s memorial service is this weekend and the one thing making it less of a bummer was spending some leisurely time with close friends. So of course our flight got cancelled and instead of getting in tonight we’re going to get to the hotel at 1am Saturday

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hypothesis: I think that the current pope has bopped along to Sister Act I can only hope that @clairewillett.bsky.social will weigh in with her expert opinion

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Spouse: turns on the big light Me: hisssss Spouse: head on, apply directly to the forehead Me: HOW DARE YOU Spouse: sings cars4kids Me: I see you’ve chosen the path of violence today

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

apparently when American health insurers are pretending they’re not the literal devil they shave 33 cents off your balance

A medical bill showing a balance of $665.67

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I found a Rarity-82 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. SHARPSHOOTER · 875 points · 10 rare words. Only 25 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 7 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/TV3TPT

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OUTLIER · Daily Global Word Game Scored on Rarity

The daily global word game where rare words win. Same grid worldwide. Can you find what everyone else misses?

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

having now done many many zoom calls I am excruciatingly aware of my Resting Disgusted Face. I promise I am not sneering at you, that is just what my face looks like every second I am not actively adjusting my expression (if I was sneering at you I would be doing it in the chat)

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“I’ll go get food after this inning” I thought, 6 runs ago

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

still mad at this IT'S BOTH YOU DICHOTOMOUS FREAKS I have a harder time doing repetitive chores than others despite being able to perform at the 99th percentile and above on complex reasoning tasks because my brain is different the moral value assigned to "not doing chores" is a social construct

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Workday often has bad vibes but it feels extra creepy and ominous today

Screenshot of the landing page in Workday. There is a search bar and links to HR tasks but it also says Hello There for some reason

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/07/2026

once again I am asking for a democratic party that actually does what republicans claim they will do

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Larry knows he has a job and that job is media darling

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

ok but what is the downside tom

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

you call miette? you leave a voice mail on the office phone to tell me you’ve sent an email? JAIL FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

rain is an anxiety trigger for me so I’m having a REAL FUN TIME trying to stave off a panic attack this afternoon

Snippet from a weather report. There has been 3.7” of rainfall in the last hour. Today’s total rainfall will be 5.45”.

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

should have known better than to try to organize anything 😼

An orange and white cat stands on the bottom shelf of a large cupboard filled with board games and puzzles

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

dropped this question in the family group chat just to cause chaos

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

More things I appreciate about minor league baseball: this stadium has a peanut-free section, and the seats are actually quite good instead of being shoved in a corner somewhere

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/07/2026

difficult to overstate how much I despise prediction markets and everything they have done to society at large

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

well the good news is that I’m not moments away from a migraine but the bad news is that the air really is yellow

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Lot of people in the comments here getting all high and mighty about paper maps. I am also old enough to have used a road atlas and printed mapquest directions and I have to say google maps is 1000x more helpful when you are actively in the process of driving somewhere

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

my great-grandmother did not drag her children from WV to MA to keep them out of the coal mines only for some snotty Brits to call crab with seaweed butter Appalachian cuisine she’s been dead almost 30 years but now I can hear her skeleton rattling around mumbling “not enough lard…”

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Undead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/07/2026

Good Scissors Not In The Fucking Drawer theonion.com/good-scissors-not-in-t…

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

periodically american media are forced to throw a rapist to the wolves to satisfy all those pesky girls but doing so doesn’t come naturally to them, and certainly isn’t indicative of a big dramatic turning point in their ongoing contempt for women

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’m just a woman, staring inside my fridge, begging the random ingredients to get together and make something edible.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

an election is a job interview to become one of the most powerful people in the country. he is “innocent until proven guilty” in that no one can throw him in jail without a trial. it doesn’t mean “you are legally obligated to give him the job he wants and he can’t ever face a single consequence”

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Me too! Although to be fair I have never been communicated either

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 02/07/2026

Four more days of…EXTREME HEAT!!! *strikes a muscle pose* *passes out* *is nudged into the shade with a long broom*

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

it is HOT as satan’s BUTTHOLE and I DO NOT LIKE IT

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