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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm always disappointed by @nytimes.com lack of culture. Go watch MIB2.

NYT Game "Spelling Bee" with Ballchinian as the entry, a reference to the movie Men In Black 2

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 20/09/2026

💯 "If you don't learn how to do the heavy lifting of thinking & writing, you'll become an animal that survives eating only its own shit. Our words are what feeds the machine. AI becomes our mirror. When we only ever look at our reflection, the mirror becomes the meal." -Samantha Bise

A poem called: AI Cannibal Diet.
A student tells me I should teach how to write using AI as a tool. I tell him we don't use forklifts in the gym. Some tools can weaken us. This is less profane than what I really want to say to him: If you don't learn how to do the heavy lifting of thinking and writing, you will become an animal that survives eating only its own shit. Our words are what feeds the machine. AI becomes our mirror. When we only ever look at our reflection, the mirror becomes the meal. Soon we are eating what we already ate, chewing yesterday's language and calling it a new recipe. We harvest our own manure,
dress it up as knowledge, and the system that feeds it right back to us. Mama and baby birds passing chewed worms from beak to beak. Never swallowing or digesting a thing, but calling it sustenance. A strange new carnivore. Not flesh eating flesh, but thought eating thought, until the words become marrow-I mean narrow.
It's the new fad diet. All the rage.
Consume everything. Digest nothing. Intellect becomes thin. Translucent. AI anorexia. Outsource appetite. All thoughts pre-digested for you. No need to chew on a single thing.
by SAMANTHA BISE

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wow! What a treat. It's one of those amazing stories that I wish I could re-experience for the first time. Though, it's also better in new ways upon rewatching.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reading it to my boys and we just got to the dwarves' capture by the spiders!

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What kind of turtle is best suited for working in an Amazon warehouse? A box turtle.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Wow, tell me you don't care about those suffering with lactose intolerance without telling me.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I suspect that most arrogant assholes spouting Bible verses to support their political aims are the same. They believe they are worshiping Jesus, but are really enamored with the idea that they know more about God than anyone else.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just had a Saturday thought... I used to be v. conservative, a good Evangelical Christian who knew all the "right" answers. But I was often flippant and arrogant because I was so unthinkingly confident my answers were correct. In hindsight, I worshiped theology, not Jesus.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Talarico: When Ken Paxton talks about costs, you can tell it doesn't come naturally. It's a little like he's trying to speak French or something. It's like affordability is a word he learned on Duolingo that morning. Who does he think he's fooling?

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Geez, I'd settle for childless weekend at home. We might get some chores done without them immediately being undone by the younger two.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm so tickled that Tom is still on the move!

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Alt text for above gif: a stereotypical cartoon chef making a classic "chef's kiss" gesture, kissing his fingertips to express pleasure.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You can find lots of good advice about how to be a parent, but one thing not nearly enough people discuss is the need for really great poo-phemisms. I, for one, am partial to "the devils playdough." Follow for more #ParentingTips

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The glass is half empty. Pessimist: The glass is half full. Narrator: They are both trying to drink more water.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ken Paxton has officially released his new “affordability agenda.” It will help the wealthy more than working Texans.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Imagine having the money to do anything your developmentally-arested-at-13 brain finds cool... and still deciding to post ai slop of yourself doing those things your emotionally-stunted self finds cool.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The new school year has started. Pray for me 😂

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm tempted to pull all my investments out of the market and prep to buy as soon as the bubble bursts.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 29/07/2026

But guys... you don't have to give up your addiction to rage. Just turn it towards things that actually deserve it: like billionaires, techno-fascists, and data centers! Then we can all be angry together!

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Some days my kids make me think "you're lucky you're so cute 😡" But other days I think "I'm lucky you're so cute 😍"

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A great example of a man who doesn't know the difference between "bad-" and "dumb-" as prefixes.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I want so badly to like Aldi, but the little inconveniences, like not opening till 9am and having less control over how much produce you need, really begin to add up. It becomes really difficult to argue that I'm actually saving money when so much of my time and mental energy is used up there.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We don't have any second hand dishes, but we have a lot of tables and bureaus and dressers that have been thrifted by my wife. Beautiful pieces with mysterious history.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Second hand is (almost always) the best. The knowledge that I get to love that which has already been loved is deeply and perfectly human.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It does and it doesn't, imo. It does at first, but then it brings about a lot of redemption, I would argue. But it wasn't quite as good, if you ask me.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I absolutely love The Sparrow. The sequel is quite good too, but not quite as good, imo

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So, I was locked out of my Bluesky for a while because I couldn't decide if I wanted to give personal data to verify that I am, in fact, closer to 40 than I am to 30... But I'm back in case anyone noticed.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

He actually subcontracted me to handle it. I'm on summer break.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 24/06/2026

HAD pop-up submission call edited by the pope when?

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My kids seem like their interest is inversely proportional to how good the movie actually is 😩

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My kid insisted...*INSISTED*on a free-with-ads movie on Tubi called Shark Bait. If Shark Tale was Finding Nemo purchased on Temu, this was the Temu version Shark Tale. I tried numerous times to get them to lose interest so I could turn it off... So bad.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Congratulations! That's wonderful news!

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Well, Coraline is based on the book and made by the same stop motion animation studio as Kubo; it's very good and more mainstream than Kubo.

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Sam "One-Wheel" O'Neil @onewheeloneil.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

How mainstream vs how niche are you looking? Like, is suggesting Indiana Jones too mainstream because you've definitely seen it? Is suggesting Kubo and the Two Strings too niche because many of your peers may have also missed it?

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