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@notapattern.net
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semi-feral after a few months on mastodon, not sure i'm ready to be rehabilitated into another billionaire's habitat. i was wirehead2501 on the bird site 🐘: weatherishappening.network/@kat (🪞: @tak.notapattern.net)

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Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
(explaining an american car to a european) yeah so imagine if you were sitting in the back seat while driving,
small european car vs normal (?) US SUV
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Right in the middle of a White House event promoting their bizarre vision of "health," one of them passed out and required medical attention. The writers are getting lazier and lazier.
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Sara “Blade” Reine @smreine.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
i don't know this man and i wish him well, but it's very pointed for someone to have a medical emergency with a chyron like that from this administration like i wouldn't write something this on-the-nose
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
bread
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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
sunlight
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 05/11/2025
Suck it Andrew Cuomo
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 05/11/2025
Bing bong
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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 15/10/2025
CURRENT SKY SITCH OVER BOSTON
A VIEW OF A PARTLY SUNNY SKY
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
the good news is that chaos is where new ideas are born, new paradigms are constructed, and the building of our future begins. the bad news is the chaos
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
ancient people had many of the same problems that we did, such as showing up for the first day at work in a biotech lab to find that your coworker is a snake with arms and legs
a relief from the Temple of Esna, thought to have been made in the first millennium BCE
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
never tell me to "cool down." you may not talk to me in this way and i do not accept commands regarding what emotions i'm allowed to feel and when i'm allowed to feel them. i mainly have this problem with my exercise bike, but now that i'm thinking about it, this goes for everyone else too
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 22/07/2025
You want less traffic in your city? Nope. You want to stay safe from a rocket launch that seems to explode more often than not? Too bad. bsky.app/profile/them...
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
no one wants or needs to see "AI" content which you used "the AI" to create in an attempt to shame the "AI." chuckle contentedly at it at your desk by yourself and do not take a screenshot
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Justin Fox @byjustinfox.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Chart showing risk of being murdered in the subway if you rode 500 times last year (0.4 in 100,000) versus other risks such as that of dying in a traffic accident in the US last year (12.1 in 100,000)
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wolf pupy @wolfpupy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
a lot of people are angry at me for calling magpies "the tuxedo cats of birds" when penguins exist, but penguins are not birds, they are ice mammals.
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 18/07/2025
me when i'm holding a hammer
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
[hearing the tea kettle immediately start screeching once I walk into another room] there should be an aphorism about this
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
the AI sex bots cannot be anything other than a way for the panopticon to vacuum up all of your private sex thoughts to add to the database of your browsing activity, search history, likes, retweets, "encrypted" DMs, shopping habits, phone contacts, GPT conversations, geolocations, etc
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kat @notapattern.net · 17/07/2025
the polyphasic sleep thing is wild!!!
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I begin to wonder what other body parts you left in San Francisco, Frank, and I further begin to wonder if any of them were really yours.
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Doctor* Bluman @drbluman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
getting on a curiously empty subway car: -20 NYer points
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kat @notapattern.net · 16/07/2025
i was gonna say, are you new here? that empty car is *always* empty for a reason 😬
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XaiaX ̆̈ (🎃) @xaiax.net · 16/07/2025
You have to appreciate the commitment to this extremely specific bit.
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kat @notapattern.net · 15/07/2025
i’m on team “cute laugh lines”. absolutely no desire to look 20 years old forever, that would be weird!
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
mist from an afternoon storm hanging over the fields at sunset. people used to ask me "you think everything's a joke?" and i did and still do. its funny that we only see nice stuff for a moment in between doing two other things. its funny to take a crap. it's all funny. i hope im a tree next time
the sun setting over the green mountains in central vermont
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 15/07/2025
Using an umbrella in the subway is a vibe.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I’m going to groundbreak somebody’s ass when my inquiry into who is responsible for this terrible era is completed
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 14/07/2025
Zeroing out transit spending is just idiotic culture war nonsense rather than sound policy. Owning the libs and making the country worse off for no real reason.
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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 14/07/2025
a crime happened ON them? TO them? ABOUT them? how specifically do crimes happen on or about parents www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
T-Rex: Batman, who was the world's greatest detective on account of how nobody could detect better than him, scowled.
T-Rex: He'd just detected his LEAST favourite thing...

T-Rex: ...A CRIME!T-Rex: And at the scene of said crime was a man dressed like Sherlock Holmes, which made sense because he WAS Sherlock Holmes. YES: these two detectives were finally going to met!!
Dromiceiomimus: Do they get along?
T-Rex: HAH! Not hardly!!Utahraptor: Because they both think they're the world's greatest detective?
T-Rex: Nah, that part's fine.

T-Rex: But on a dinner date, they discover that Sherlock LOVES crimes, because he loves solving puzzles! Meanwhile Batman HATES crimes, because his parents died when a friggin' crime happened on them! So as you can see, they're on opposite sides of the crime question.
Utahraptor: Sorry, wait, they're DATING??
T-Rex: ???
T-Rex: I thought everyone knew??
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XaiaX ̆̈ (🎃) @xaiax.net · 12/07/2025
We need a randomized Olympics. Every Olympian should be randomly assigned to an extra event, different from the one they qualified for. I want to see someone from the hammer throw competing in the high jump. Some rhythmic gymnast has to compete in archery. If they win they get a PLATINUM medal.
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kat @notapattern.net · 12/07/2025
i agree! Camelot was my first time seeing him and he’s my canonical Lancelot now. what a dreamboat
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/07/2025
Fix This Sign xkcd.com/3113/
Comic. [Person with ponytail using handheld device in front of a large sign with crooked, off-center header, with crooked QR code (with illegible URL) and crooked list beneath] Header: DOANATE TO FIX THIS SIGN! List: $10 Fix kerning [kerning around “rni” of kerning is difficult to read]; $20 Align Columns [out of alignment] $20 Fix text size [much smaller text size]; $50 Fix typo; $50 Fix centering; $100 fix rotation. PERSON: Grrr… [caption] My new company’s business model is based on extorting graphic designers.
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kat @notapattern.net · 11/07/2025
saw it for the second time this week and while i still feel incredibly mixed about the production as a whole, i’m writing Jordan Donica’s name in my notebook and drawing little hearts around it 😍
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aka.farm @akafarm.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Losing my shit seeing "Salesforce" the software in this list like the world's beigest jumpscare
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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 09/07/2025
SCIENCE CORNER: technically rocks can't yearn for anything, up to and including the gentle touch of meat www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
T-Rex: I'm going to ensure my legacy - and I'm going to do it by doing something NOBODY HAS EVER DONE BEFORE!

T-Rex: In ALL OF RECORDED HISTORY, baby!Dromiceiomimus: No problem, bud. You know what nobody's done before in all of recorded history? Had this exact conversation on this exact date.
T-Rex: No! NO DATE SHENANIGANS. I want to do something utterly original!Utahraptor: Easy - just write down a paragraph of words, and odds are it'll be completely unique.
T-Rex: Not that either!

T-Rex: It has to be - I don't know, PHYSICAL! I want to PHYSICALLY do something that's never been achieved before.
Utahraptor: Ah, I understand. Then just dig a hole and touch a rock that's never been moved by non-geologic forces before!T-Rex: ...Actually, that one IS pretty cool!
Off panel: Right? What's neater than handling something that's been yearning for the touch of meat for millions of years??
T-Rex: Huh! You made it weird, and I take it back!
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kat @notapattern.net · 10/07/2025
i love this 😂 the Joy Division one especially is perfect
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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Oh hey, I wrote a thing.
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kat @notapattern.net · 10/07/2025
i recognize that this is an incredibly short person thing to say but i simply cannot IMAGINE caring how tall someone is. i like when someone is shorter because i don’t have to stand on my tiptoes to kiss them. that is all
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Only connect. This is the power of the platforms we can use. Only connect – because it's the thing needed, the thing so many ranged us against us really don't want you to do. Find your running tribe.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
for everything wrong that happens on this planet we still get to see stuff like this
sunset in the green mountains
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Gunnerkrigg @gunnerkrigg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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kat @notapattern.net · 07/07/2025
this was in fact my actual strategy back in the okcupid days. don’t try to be as normal as possible - get all the weird shit on the table first and you will find your people.
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XaiaX ̆̈ (🎃) @xaiax.net · 07/07/2025
The first time this works is the only time it’ll ever need to.
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kat @notapattern.net · 07/07/2025
i think it’s just that humans like anthropomorphizing things. it’s like one of our core competencies. the Turing test is actually very easy to pass because we want so badly to believe that anything we can have a conversation with is People
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XaiaX ̆̈ (🎃) @xaiax.net · 07/07/2025
In the early twenteens I was working on the back end of a phone company’s female coded heavily scripted chat interface and I showed them how it could be more dynamic if we just copied ELIZA and it blew their god damn minds. Chat interfaces are some kind of dipshit influencing magic spell.
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kat @notapattern.net · 07/07/2025
obligatory: buddy, they don’t even let ME fuck the chatbot
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I like the idea of using this method to draw something V e r y S l o w l y.
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kat @notapattern.net · 07/07/2025
i liked this video (notable because i watch maybe five social media videos per year). i liked the part where he went from picking up lettuce to picking up smol turtles. then lettuce. then turtles. can my next job be arranging lettuce and turtles
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