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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kohl’s Cash Rules Everything Around Me

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 22/06/2026

Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can tell you (having spent a lot of time since COVID writing songs in the Nashville writer circles) that there’s a lot of keeping your left-leaning cards close to your chest among writers, and a lot of careful political ambiguity among artists

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

just got laid off, really feeling that nostalgia… if anyone happens to be hiring a graphic design person with a focus on branding, ideally working on something that’s not hastening the end of humanity, lmk!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Just go to therapy, bro.

DAVID JIANG, COFOUNDER and CEO of smart glasses company Viture, tells me about how he used to yell at his kid.

His 10-year-old son played tennis. During tournaments, Jiang says he had a habit of shouting and criticizing his son’s mistakes as he played. He wanted to apply pressure to make him succeed—it was the way he’d been taught to raise kids, after all. It made sense.

But then, unprompted, his smart glasses sent him a message. The AI assistant in his company’s newest wearable had picked up on what he was doing, recognized that his behavior wasn’t helpful, and messaged him about what he should do differently. Stop shouting. Stop criticizing. Just be there, be present, and show that you support your son. That worked, Jiang says, and being called out like that has supposedly made him a better father and improved the relationship with his kid, all thanks to his yet-to-be-released Vonder AI glasses.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

god this is good

flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine.

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 13/09/2026

I put my pants on like everyone else: hanging them from a basketball hoop and asking my friend Giant Jonathan to dunk me.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

imagine being a menswear writer and having to go back to writing about this fall’s best socks after reading anthropic employees say AI might destroy humanity in a few years

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Done! Looking forward to your shots in my feed

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

National Day of Mourning immediately

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 25/08/2026

it should have been illegal for dolly parton to die

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is a winning platform. It’s also a moral one. And about as American [aspirational] as it gets.

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I thought this was going to be a pickup line

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

so much of my timeline is arguing FEROCIOUSLY over nuanced issues, and the rest is capital P Posting

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

All around me are familiar faces…

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

was… that really necessary to point out when he died? yikes

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Spidyssey" was RIGHT THERE

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

TIL how many dudes don't know samus isn't a dude

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

as this scrolled by I thought it was a Heated Rivalry poster. I think the NFL should just lean into marketing every game like there's serious sexual tension between the opposing quarterbacks, see if they can catch some hockey sizzle

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Cleveland Sirens is hard AF as the name. Logo could be a little better, but the name is killer. See y'all in the stands! #ClevelandSirens #WNBA #ClevelandRocks www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRb2...

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We are the Cleveland Sirens.

YouTube video by Cleveland Sirens

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

bluesky is non-algorithmic in its standard feed. no algorithm, no penalty

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

and then Half-Life came out in 98 and nobody ever argued about anything again. the internet was a peaceful place ever after

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

god, I miss those days... and then in 97 it became Jedi Knight vs. Quake 2. I may or may not have been a member of a forum that existed purely to debate which was better. for my money, Duke and JK all day.

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Jeff Epstein? the New York financier?

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I had to check, Miles Teller would have been 26 or 27 when they shot this why does he look like an infant

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/07/2026

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the magician and the serpent

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

That is then covered by Tom Waits scatting

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junie sylvia 🌸 @juniperplexed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

convincing the right to give a shit about global warming by telling them the wildfire smoke is actually the mexico movie filter crossing the border illegally

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

hold up, is "foosball" an americanism? because "football table" sounds absolutely unhinged to me

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

tie some paracord to an arrow, shoot it into the branch, and yank that sucker down. perfect excuse to buy a bow

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

yup. my late 30s/early 40s crew followed up the usa wc loss with a round of mario kart

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ceej @ceej.online · 30/08/2025

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/07/2026

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

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