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Old Hobgoblin

@oldhobgoblin.bsky.social
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chicagoan, urban cyclist, computer programmer, flight sim nerd, gayguy. learning spanish.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/10/2026
if you think about it, winning via a direct connection to the divine father of all creation through His appointed emissary on Earth is a much more egregious cheating scandal than banging on trash cans
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Old Hobgoblin @oldhobgoblin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the parking meters have been sold
The Giant from Twin Peaks saying "It is happening again"
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Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A tech journalist needs to investigate why Gmail search got so bad
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this is FAR more demotivating than some left wing shitposting or podcasting critic of the democratic party can ever be
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"She Bought a Bicycle and Bloomers Instead of the Furniture" The Illustrated Police News (UK) November 21, 1896
Illustration featuring a woman dressed in a puffy-sleeved outfit with bloomers riding a bicycle on a street and waving to a many in a sailor uniform standing on the sidewalk holding a sack.
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 10,1953
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NANCY: AUNT FRITZI-MY CAT IS
THREE YEARS OLD TODAY
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NANCY: I BOUGHT HIM A BIRTHDAY CAKE 
FRITZI: MAYBE CATS DON’T LIKE CAKE
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NANCY: OH, I'LL FIX IT SO HE'LL LIKE IT
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NANCY’S CAT LOOKS ON APPROVINGLY AS NANCY SETS A CAKE WITH THREE FISH ON THE TABLE, THE FISH HAVE A LIT CANDLE IN THEIR MOUTHS
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It is bad for the future of left politics in the United States that the dream so many Americans have is not "live in a country where I am well compensated for my labor" but "acquire enough wealth so that I can have Passive Income as a landlord"
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jae (hallowed) @fubarchitect.com · 31/08/2026
this is why dhh's version of apolitical software doesn't work also, queers like apolitical software as well. it's just that being shitty to queers is itself "apolitical" in the eyes of much of tech
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Old Hobgoblin @oldhobgoblin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm sure he's talking about the auto start/stop thing. I would have sidestepped this problem by making it functionally illegal to buy anything other than a hybrid in like...2005.
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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Seeing Like a State is one of the worst books ever written.
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HEALTH @health.band · 25/08/2026
1946-2026
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Critical Mass This Friday.
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Old Hobgoblin @oldhobgoblin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in my teens my dad bought a work van from the local auto parts store when it was closing down for $900. I have no idea how many miles that thing had on it, but it was a lot. I drove it frequently, and almost nothing worked in the van, except for this, god's own inline-6.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Old Hobgoblin @oldhobgoblin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
it's really surreal being a longtime indycar fan and processing this shit. the drivers I've followed for years hanging out with a fascist pedophile and hearing I shouldn't let my politics ruin it.
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Harris Foster - Biddy Blas FAN ACCOUNT @harris.zone · 19/08/2026
Chris just sold me on the reTerminal Sticky. Can’t wait to play around with it. This sentiment here is essentially informing every tech purchase I make lately, from the SS1 to the Steam Machine:
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Old Hobgoblin @oldhobgoblin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
absolute brain geniuses putting that many full grown men on a deck looking like that
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 17/08/2026
Most high profile divorces don’t really matter to me. But I never thought I’d see such an acrimonious split between Cause and Effect. I thought they would be together forever
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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 15/08/2026
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake, the 1988 presidential election, the Zapatistas and the Peso collapse, and the fall of the PRI.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hm, has Meta ever been known to do funky math that led to the obliteration of whole industries? Trying to remember.
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 11/08/2026
Star Wars characters (original trilogy) and where I think they would stand on trans issues, a thread
a bunch of star wars characters in lego form
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Eli @elienis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It's real. My book "When the Sun Hits: The High-Volume History of Shoegaze" is now available for pre-order. Out March 30, 2027 via @stmartinspress.bsky.social Pre-order + more info here: read.macmillan.com/lp/when-the-...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
it wouldn't solve all of america's problems but legalizing non-dealer models of car sales would probably defang a lot of the GOP donor class
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No Gods No Mayors Podcast @nogodsnomayors.com · 18/07/2026
The No Gods No Mayors Podcast
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jam @socialistboat.dad · 16/01/2024
starting to think the profit motive in news is just as damaging to society as the profit motive in health care or education or transportation or housing or food or... hmmm wait a minute
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 06/07/2026
the reason the discourse over this is reaching annoying heights that nobody wanted is because this guy is ontologically evil and is corrupting the entire moral fabric of this country in a way that is so transparent and humiliating that it is impossible to wash the taste out of your mouth
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Old Hobgoblin @oldhobgoblin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
my favorite thing about the Hotmail purchase was how high the FreeBSD guys were flying for years on Microsoft's inability to transition off it.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 04/07/2026
you, a loutish plebeian: happy 4th of July! me, an evolved sophisticate: happy #Shoegaze Saturday
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Wow you’re telling me capitalists colluded to raise prices on necessities? Fuck. I thought this system was inherently efficient
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Idk, maybe it's just me slowly pupating into a beautiful old man butterfly, but when people say things feel "off" now, this is kinda what i'm talking about. this is just really shocking stuff, and if you said it even during the Bush II admin, you would be out of politics, out of a job, etc.
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Katy Shaw @katyashaw.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
In honour of Joanna Page winning @taskmaster.tv, my husband imported Curlywurlys from the UK, many times eleven of them! Cat thinks it's Churu.
A black three legged cat inspects an absolutely massive pile of Curlywurly chocolates.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/06/2026
Thomas Pynchon Spotted For First Time In Years In Instagram Reels Comment Section
Thomas Pynchon Spotted For First Time In Years In Instagram Reels Comment Section
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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Has the UK considered just making the cat Prime Minister?
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ron Howard owes us a Hilbilly Elegy 2
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The claim that "Israel wants to kill its way out of every problem" is the sort of thing that tends to draw a DOJ investigation and the blocking of federal funds when made by campus actors.
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
You couldn’t make Caroline in the City these days due to the cities being too scary
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 12/06/2026
you guys i’m beginning to think american capitalism might have a dark underbelly
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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
America is “Getting Rolled”* *Latest Fad Slang @theonion.com
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john j. kim @jkimpictures.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Beach weather ⛈️ North Avenue Beach
A lifeguard exits as a thunderstorm approaches over North Avenue Beach Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The NBA Finals have been pretty great so far, and have given fans basically everything they could have hoped for, with one exception—the chance to think more about President Donald Trump. That ends now.
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Old Hobgoblin @oldhobgoblin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
this was a very big deal to me. I had been using the milestone releases for months prior and the 1.0 was a big day.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The American people don't want to hear about water fountains, or the "reflective lake." They want to know the latest on the ballroom.
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Old Hobgoblin @oldhobgoblin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I love how Honda just randomly pops off with some of the weirdest shit you've ever seen. Yes, it's 1984 and I need an 1100cc 90 degree V-4 with a shaft drive, thank you.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026
I wish them only failure.
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Substack wants to have its HBO moment. Here are its plans to crack TV.
Substack sees a future where you can enjoy your favorite TV show as a blog and interact directly with its creators and stars in the comment section.
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Old Hobgoblin @oldhobgoblin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
my hot take is if you slapped "celica" on the side of this and it cost 40 grand, people would be loving it
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