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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
FUNICULAR
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cf. Saul Steinberg
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Darla had considered adding a third window to get a little more natural light in the place, but Bob had (predictably) blown their budget on all his signage
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shout out to Manly and its neighboring town Fertile, the duo responsible for a classic small-town headline: “Manly Man Marries Fertile Woman“
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you understood anything you would know that those are terms of art in the powerful political movement known as the London Underground
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And she’s bitter about the over-the-top blowout
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
its so good, the pacing of jokes is fantastic
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I know them feels
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sea for President 2028
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That really does seem to be a recurring theme with these people
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You said it
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Likely 40s, could be 10-75°
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For once, I was hoping it was AI
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Both Fred Rogers and Dolly Parton are giants in American history. They each added more net benefit to the country’s citizens than all but a handful of people over 250 years. It’s a very short list above them
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Rick Rubin doesn’t believe dinosaurs existed, so nothing he says would surprise me
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
he’ll have much better equations in the next two weeks
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Data / data Dada / dada Let’s call the whole thing off
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yes, and that is the second-order effect. When you always put shareholders before customers, the customers will leave – which dooms the shareholders
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Yes, that’s what I tell creative people (my kids included) worried about audiences generating bespoke slop. If anyone can use any AI system to make anything, any time, the value of that product is (precisely) zero. And that’s not a business
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Darryl had only gotten the sales job with Upper Midwest Doors earlier that week. He could hardly believe his luck
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“And standing here tonight, I’m afraid that I don’t hear a thing. Just — silence.”
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Believe me, the book lives up to it
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Reminds me of the Stan Freberg sketches of Washington crossing the Delaware, or picking up the new flag from Betsy Ross. “Are you kidding me with these colors?”
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Yessssssssssss!
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sounds like a politician knows how to get elected to national office
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I’d bet Fred Trump had more than a whiff of elderberry about him
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
How timely as i struggle with my own airport mystery: why in the name of all that is good and holy can I not get out of O’Hare after 2 days
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Some people are saying I’m a complicated man
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Another example of @kottke.org's Great Span
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Worst case scenarios, harsh realities, insurmountable obstacles, disastrous consequences, widespread abuses, deepseated problems, lost opportunities, serious repercussions, major implications, vested interests, hidden agendas, unanswered questions, certain individuals, no uncertain terms.
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Harriet Nyborg is gonna buy a shit-ton of these
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
47 pages later…
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
five living writers that you've read five books by each @nicholsonbaker.bsky.social Robert Caro Elena Ferrante Ed Tufte @colsonwhitehead.com
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
And fear, of course — almost goes without saying
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I would second Wolf Hall and add (on a much smaller scale) The Limey by Steven Soderbergh. The feckless Terry Valentine is supported and protected by layers of people, some unwittingly, and Terence Stamp has to get through them all.
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I don’t know, but I‘m certain you’re about to tell me
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In retrospect, of course, the name was a little too on point – but Melanie remembered regretting the choice even before the ink was dry on the loan
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
pleasantly surprised they didn’t write “Bright Bars” tbh
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Mr. Rogers and
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I love to see data like this — even though I own farmland where corn is currently growing. It gives me great hope for an all-electric future that will be good for everybody
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ruth Ann had never learned exactly how to say the name of the place — where to put the emphasis, you might say. But she kept coming back, all the same
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
On the other hand: you said “starts to feel a lot like reading your own obituary” — not “started to feel like…”
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Sorry, but *at best* its a 4.2 on the Chichter scale, a light tremor
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Cedar Rapids is the home of the National Czech & Slovak Museum, the oldest purpose-built mosque in America, and a great influx of new Americans from Sudan, DR Congo, and Togo, among many others. As a native Iowan, I love to see it
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
He didn’t so much “park” as “stop near an area where legal parking might occur”
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Yes: my grandmother died in childbirth in 1943. We’re not very far removed from that time after all
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Bo @peculier.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
What a great photo! Made me smile
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