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Nikky

@nykida.net
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Just your normal person who enjoys a good read about normal person interests such as trains, Soviet Politburo politics, and birds. Seattle native hanging out in Philadelphia. I do coding stuff for @mcsweeneys.net sometimes.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Nor'easter" has got to be the black sheep of the contraction family. Doesn't even save a syllable.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 25/09/2026
Citing positive feedback and increased foot traffic that grew day after day for a year and a half, next week the car-free Pike Place Market pilot program will come to an end on Oct. 1 after it was deemed too successful to continue.
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Kate Dailey @katedailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Big news from Peter Dobrin and Sue Snyder and the @inquirer.com : William Penn Foundation offers to fund Academy of Natural Science for a year. Drexel did not say whether the had declined the offer. www.inquirer.com/arts/drexel-...
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William Penn Foundation offers funding to keep Academy of Natural Sciences museum open
A Drexel spokesperson did not say whether the school had declined the offer, but said, “No proposal has been presented that would provide a permanent, sustainable path forward" for the museum.
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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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Nikky @nykida.net · 25/09/2026
Okay I’ll bite #My9Games my9games.com/en/s/c02feba...
Homeworld
StarCraft 
Freelancer
Hellbender
Warcraft IIi
Satisfactory
Mechwarrior IV
Halo
Xcom2
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25/09/2026
"Writing can be small and wrapped, layered and touching, tight and nearly eternal in depth. Hold it between two fingers, hide it within a cove of denim beside your house key." buff.ly/UgZwq9D
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First, Add No Shame
“I remembered today that I don’t have to know everything to tell you one thing. You know how doctors learn ‘First, do no harm’? When it comes to suicide and ...
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"fart" @jonhendren.com · 24/09/2026
reading about the pros and cons of abolishing time zones. i would have to throw like 4 of my shirts away
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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Biblically Accurate VLC Instance
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KEXP Now Playing @kexp-feed.nvm2u.com · 17/09/2026
“Anemone” The Brian Jonestown Massacre — Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request (1996)
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/09/2026
"HOT MAN READING A BOOK WRITTEN BY A WOMAN." buff.ly/9sAeCpb
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MTA New York City Subway BINGO
“If you see something, say BINGO.” 9/10/26
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sports are the best form of entertainment because you can invest 2.5 hours into something only to lose. They should make a movie that you can lose.
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Nikky @nykida.net · 15/09/2026
You may not like it but this is the ultimate calculator pairing
A picture of a beautiful TI-83+ Silver Edition and a TI-86 graphing calculators. They are both perfect and have no flaws.
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Nikky @nykida.net · 14/09/2026
Recently upgraded my telephoto lens and I was seeing some weird ghosting when pixel peeping at 100%. Enough so that it made otherwise workable photos bad. Turns out the protective filter I had on it wasn't quite good enough. So now I'm just rawdogging it without a protective filter at all.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026
Honestly, "big-name studios can't agree on the premise of the Muppet Show" sounds like the premise of the Muppet Show
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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Nathan Field: You're a real PNG file, right?

Elizabeth Holmes on the PNG checkerboard background "Why would I deceive you?"
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Air to Ground Message: YEAH I GUESS A KID PUKED ON A CAT AND ITS A MESS BACK THERE. YOU CANT MAKE THIS STUFF UP Area: Louisville, KY, USA A: #a236c6ce84d F: #ffb6c6aa8cf
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 05/09/2026
You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 05/09/2026
we have strayed so far from god's light
an image of an RCA cassette to 3.5mm jack audio adapter
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/09/2026
"We are the silent majority, the undervalued and underrepresented, the stoic and strong. We are the people who buy Red Delicious apples, and we are done living in the shadows." buff.ly/BC0ovw0
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We Are the People Who Buy Red Delicious Apples
“We are the silent majority, the undervalued and underrepresented, the stoic and strong. We are the people who buy Red Delicious apples, and we are done livi...
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Michael crichton was 6'9" when he wrote Jurassic park. Imagine the dinosaur adventure Robert Wadlow could have wrote. 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (6'1"): The Lost World (1912)
Michael crichton (6'9"): Jurassic park
Robert Wadlow (8'11"): ???????????
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/09/2026
RIP, Dolly! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bar...
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Barren World
A hero’s death hits everyone, including animal artists living in a bleak forest.
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Nikky @nykida.net · 02/09/2026
It’s been a pretty incredible journey watching Alaska Air go from a pretty solid regional carrier to just an absolutely garbage carrier with global aspirations in around a decade
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The ticalc.org project @ticalc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
W o w
A TI-83+ Silver Edition, the raddest calculator of all time except maybe with the exception of the TI-89 Titanium, is pictured. 

A full page parody newspaper ad that reads "Finally, a screen they won't get addicted to. / Texas Instruments"
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Services I provide for my cats
Chicago streets and sanitation truck with the first s missing so it says treets and sanitation
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
it is so interesting going through these negatives and looking at someone's slice of life photos from 80+ years ago. here are a few more.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/08/2026
"Sure, this city isn’t near major job markets and doesn't have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency services, but it does have a series of dilapidated ranch houses located between a data center and a second data center that is currently on fire." buff.ly/03WTZvh
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Why Aren’t People Moving to This Town with Cheap Housing and Literally Nothing Else
“Sure, this city is in the middle of nowhere, isn’t near major job markets, and doesn’t have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency ...
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Nikky @nykida.net · 26/08/2026
Let us not forget Tim Curry's greatest roles, in no real order: - Long John Silver, Muppet Treasure Island - Anatoly Cherdenko, Red Alert 3 - Dr. Yevgeni Petrov, Hunt for Red October
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus.
The National Express 925 bus service between Woking Station and Heathrow Airport.
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Nikky @nykida.net · 26/08/2026
Life without sparkling water when you haven't been to Costco in a while: ah well alas, regular water is pretty great! I can drink this all the time! When you finally make it to Costco: Sparkling water is the best of all things and why would I ever drink non-angry water
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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 23/08/2026
The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors
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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 23/08/2026
“I would have given anything to have an alcoholic grandfather who drove a monkey to a swamp and kicked it out of the car. I’m so jealous.” —David Sedaris, interviewed by Eric Spitznagel (Iss. 28) www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
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An Interview with David Sedaris - Believer Magazine
David Sedaris knows more than any author should about his readers. He knows, for instance, that more of his German fans have seen their parents naked than fans of any other nationality. He knows that…
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Nikky @nykida.net · 21/08/2026
I will never forgive them for what they did to Smartfood White Cheddar popcorn. My favorite snack since I was about eight years old, until they started selling garbage a few years ago. www.eater.com/24394718/sma...
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Why Doesn’t Smartfood Popcorn Hit Like It Used To?
One woman’s quest to figure out why her beloved white cheddar popcorn started to disappoint.
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The Nokia 9000 Communicator (1996) was one of the first devices to resemble the functionality of a modern smartphone. It opened up like a laptop and merged a cell phone with a PDA, including email and web browsing over cellular.
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Nikky @nykida.net · 16/08/2026
Big Walk is a very very good game. Clever concept and really well-executed
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
whomst so amongst us i say
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photoJDL @photojdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Today's look back post: MSP circa 2007
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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 02/08/2026
fruitgushers on tumblr: "when the ghost of a 2000s emo kid tries to contact you via captcha"

[captcha box: "halp meh"]
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Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
X Money sounds like the name of a guy aggressively handing out burned CDs in front of the M&M store in Times Square in 2006
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 29/07/2026
enjoying imagining the discussion among editors in which they determined if this ought to be pluralized as Spider-Mans, Spider-Men, or Spiders-Man
The former World Liberty adviser said the scenario reminded him of the meme in which two Spider-Mans point at each other.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Homer (not a real person, wrote about inscrutable Mediterranean culture) was the Elena Ferrante of his day
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Nikky @nykida.net · 27/07/2026
A small reminder of what we really like about this here city share.inquirer.com/485lES
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The beauty of a walkable Philadelphia
Scene Through the Lens with photographer Tom Gralish.
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
lmao at the Inquirer being like “here are thirty LeBron stories, also our copy editor died RIP KING”
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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Blade Runner takes place forty years In the future.
Not so much science fiction as it is more of a futurism story.
How do things seem to be forty years from now?
It's no musical comedy, David.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/07/2026
‘He’d lie down in front of the moving ship’: a fresh look at Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition
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‘He’d lie down in front of the moving ship’: a fresh look at Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition
Shipwrecks, ice football and igloos for dogs … the digitisation of Frank Hurley’s photographs shows the heroic trek more clearly – and unlocks some remarkable new details
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