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i was fired a few weeks into my high school tenure at Subway for being "bad at making sandwiches"

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/10/2026

agreed with the caveat that i think taco bell should make it explicit in their marketing that the chicken crunchwrap, their boldest innovation in decades, is transgender

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 01/10/2026

ok time to stake a claim: I don't generally think there's any evidence LLMs could write a rewarding novel of any sort EXCEPT they could definitely do a better job of _Ready Player One_

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Bryn Boice @brynboice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I want to beg teachers and professors to bring back reading plays and stories aloud in class. It’s real, real-time, and different people *hear* different things in the text and are eager to discuss their takes. Empathy is imbedded in this work.

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Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i want to hunt Muse for sport

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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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Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

i went no contact with my mother for a couple of years and it was one of the (hardest! but) healthiest things for our relationship. Sometimes cutting a parent off is the best invitation you can give them to do the work!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This has been a slowly metastasizing moral panic for years: Liberals, drunk on therapy-speak, are cutting off their parents over minor slights and miscommunications. There is little evidence of the underlying phenomenon and even less of the cause. Look at this egregiously thin nut graf.

Although exact figures are scarce, the number of people cutting off close kin — particularly children cutting off parents — appears to be rising. Some speculate that therapists offering a speciously easy solution to a seemingly untenable problem are to blame

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Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

prob true of tech writ large tbh; being a designer has really been a dream career for the specific kinds of work and thinking i'm good at but it was a vastly different industry + world when i started in 2013 and i would never in a million years tell someone to swing for it

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

wow what a blessing to exist

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 27/07/2026

The people who complain about empty bike lanes do not want full bike lanes. They want no bike lanes.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yet another example of this being a pro-death administration. They are simultaneously making it harder to stop cars from wreaking havoc on our streets while also gutting programs that would enable people to get around safely outside of cars.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This gun’s for hire, even if we’re just…

Sign for a bagel shop called Bagels By the Park.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

solomon in 1 Kings 3

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Maybe you need to do your one minute of Clickens now. For mental health. clickens.chicken.pics

Which is more persistent?
A painting of a hen and a chick is soft browns
A painting of a brown and orange cock on a blue background

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"England has defeated the Norwegians and is heading to meet the French"

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Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

gender euphoria but it’s being liked by a dog that bites men

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Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

my ultramarathon hobby was unlocked 5 years ago because the running store guy was like "so your feet hurt after 10 miles because your shoes are too small"

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Scam Ghouldin @scamgoldin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two

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Crippled Giraff Decals @crippledgiraff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Having my organs removed and preserved in my collection of Dunkin' Canopic Jars.

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Calling The Atlantic to see if they’ll let me write 14k words about the impact of that Sears ad from the 90s. Europeans don’t have AC because they’re not scared their wives will leave them for not calling Sears.

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Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

a friend kindly made the 'an unexamined life…' quip in reference to my neck tattoos and dear buddy that is grievously overestimating the thought i put into any of them

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 06/06/2026

A positive masculinity is one which annihilates the distinction and so annihilates itself entirely.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This is something I struggle with. I appreciate that men want models of how to be. But when we try to populate “positive masculinity” with traits — strong, smart, kind — they are all equally available to women. Masculinity and femininity are empty concepts, absent gender hierarchy.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 06/06/2026

This is good advice.

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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 13/11/2025

Yeah I support LGBTQ Light rail Going from Brooklyn To Queens

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Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

lugged an air conditioner on/off the 1 to my 5th floor walkup on a 92° day and feel like i deserve several notches in my nyc rewards punch card

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hey man, this sucks @pykea.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

"don't be clever, just be brave" is most of the rest of our lives, y'all

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

We have unlimited money for paramilitary forces that kidnap people off the streets but also have something called "school lunch debt" what are we doing here

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

If you can afford it, a *monetary* donation (it goes a lot farther!) to your local food bank would be a most excellent thing to do right now.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

There’s one policy that Democrats could run on that guarantees they’d sweep back into power: making .webp images illegal

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This is my advice to teenagers. You’re probably way meaner than you think you are - because people actually care about your opinion more than you think - and you’ll probably wish you had been kinder

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annalise @casualpasta.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

there are over 8 million people in this city and the fact that bananas shit doesn’t happen more often is a testament not to cops or politicians but to the fact that people aren’t as violent or scary as some would like us to think

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I will keep pounding the drum that we must utterly abolish and destroy the concept of "parental rights". There are parental *responsibilities*, and those responsibilities may involve parents being given the latitude to decide what is in the child's interests. But no "rights" over another human being

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/05/2025

the whole deal with "longermism" is not that its adherents think deeply about the future, it's that they concoct bizarre futurist scenarios that just happen to justify their profoundly sociopathic behavior in the present it's just the laziest form of self-serving utilitarianism imaginable

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Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

remarkable to me the plaintive, breathless AI discourse about how copyright law will kill the industry with zero self-awareness of or concern for the industries AI is gleefully marketed as destroying

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Was thinking how alt-milks for coffee are primarily vehicles to add water (for temp control) and fat (for mouthfeel & flavor). Then thought, you know, butter would be a great alternative. You’d want to thin it w water, emulsify the mixture, make sure it doesn’t solidify. Anyway I’ve invented milk.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

for half this you could hire a doctorate level human being

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