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Peter Merholz

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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 14h
tip toe inbounds
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Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social · 3h
The Terrazzo at the 1920s Blackpool Winter Garden was quite wild
A 1930s colour photo of a colourful terrazzo floor, probably a dance floor
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 14h
Oh man. Would love a clip of Gabby shout-calling "YAY AREAAAAA!"
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 15h
@oneirodynia.bsky.social @mike.teczno.com y’all got to cheer harder!
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 15h
@oneirodynia.bsky.social Please tell the Valkyries players to not "go at" Kuier. They tried that last game, too. It doesn't end well.
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 17h
@ifyoucantwell.bsky.social You may have already been shown this, but Ringer NBA analyst Zach Lowe went out of his way to highly praise Halt and Catch Fire on his latest podcast. A clip: youtube.com/shorts/2KG8g...
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'Halt and Catch Fire' at 96 on the Best TV Shows of the 21 Century list??? | The Zach Lowe Show
YouTube video by The Zach Lowe Show
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Criterion Channel 24/7 Bot @unoff-criterion-ch.bsky.social · 23h
🎬 Now streaming on Criterion Channel 24/7: Detour Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer Starring Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard, Pat Gleason Next film starts around: 69 minutes (3:13 PM EDT/12:13 PM PDT) Watch on Criterion Channel
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/hann...
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 02/10/2026
WNBA refs are… not good
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 01/10/2026
K Curves are everywhere. They're the defining economic pattern of this internet age.
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 01/10/2026
#WNBA I'm cheering the Valks, but cannot deny Ogunbowale's greatness. Wow.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These are stunning
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 30/09/2026
Let's just stop at the first 13 words. The world would be a hugely better place.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
I would die for the Weird Puppies at the Sacramento SPCA
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Nick S @holgate.permanent.red · 30/09/2026
Too many Americans are permanently embarrassed wannabe enslavers.
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 30/09/2026
The United States was a slaveholding nation, and has never instituted a formal process to repair, reconcile, or otherwise come to terms with this aspect of its history. Every American should feel ashamed of this.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. First observed in 2013 as Orange Shirt Day, it is a day for public commemoration, learning and reflection on the history and intergenerational trauma of the Residential School System in Canada.
Poster announcing National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — September 30 — orange background with white Indigenous-style artwork showing a jumping whale, flower, dotted waves and night symbols, with the Government of Canada wordmark at the bottom.
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 30/09/2026
It’s evident that no good UX practice is at play with most model companies, and only a passing glance at places like MSFT. They instead rush features to market and hope for the best. The basic usability of these tools is atrocious.
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Stef Pause @pause.im · 29/09/2026
Fresh what now?? Another great example of @karenmcgrane.bsky.social’s maxim “truncation is not a content strategy”
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And I'll be honest, in the 4.5 years I've been running this account, this is easily in my top 10 favorite threads I've ever written
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 26/09/2026
You listening, Toronto?
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/09/2026
Mario De Biasi, 1958
steam locomotive inside a grand station, with dramatic beams of light piercing through the smoke and the arched glass roof.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/09/2026
Banff Meatateria Fred Herzog, 1955 www.crestonmuseum.ca/a-closer-loo...
snowy street scene, parked cars out side a row of shops, a large mountain in the background. It still looks like this today
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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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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 26/09/2026
So, yeah, flying into Billy Bishop is kind of ass, unless ur staying downtown
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 25/09/2026
My only take on the TV thing: Taskmaster should be on it. I came to it late, but it’s a marvel of television. Like, it suits the medium perfectly, and is executed perfectly.
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 21/09/2026
Me, when I’m home: what’s new on YouTube? (settles in with snack) Me, when I’m traveling: I NEED TO SPEND EVERY MOMENT VISITING PEOPLE OR DOING SOMETHING, ANY TIME IN MY LODGING IS WASTED
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 21/09/2026
I am too sweaty a person to ever live in New York. I’d go through multiple shirts daily.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 21/09/2026
You’re all watching the latest season of Taskmaster, right? While Richard and Matt may be the name draws, Chloe is bringing a delightful chaos to the whole proceeding.
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 20/09/2026
Anyone in Brooklyn up for dinner tonight? Just got in.
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Criterion Channel 24/7 Bot @unoff-criterion-ch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🎬 Now streaming on Criterion Channel 24/7: House Next film starts in: 89 minutes (1:03 AM EDT/10:03 PM PDT) Watch on Criterion Channel
Film poster for House
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
*Every day I see the fossil fuel biz getting mercilessly pounded with increasingly powerful and accurate robot bombs, while every day, the planet's carbon emissions also somehow soar *This activity seems like the apotheosis of the "unsustainable," if that word means anything
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 19/09/2026
Palpable exultation
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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pitcher hit a backflip after sending the Amarillo Sod Poodles to the Texas League Championship Series
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Criterion Channel 24/7 Bot @unoff-criterion-ch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🎬 Now streaming on Criterion Channel 24/7: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Directed by David Lynch • 1992 • United States Next film starts in: 136 minutes (11:06 PM EDT/8:06 PM PDT) Watch on Criterion Channel
Film poster for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 18/09/2026
Late 80s/early 90s Bay Area punk was a strangely and righteously special scene.
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 18/09/2026
Double jabbed 💉💉 Kaiser is ready for its members!
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O. Sharp @o-sharp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They have largely become the evil they once deplored.
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Opinion | Why Israel Fears This Searing New Documentary (Gift Article)
It’s hard to tell whether Israelis are enraged by “NAZA” because they think it’s full of lies, or because they know or fear it’s true.
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 18/09/2026
Ok Crossplay? nytimes.onelink.me/B892/it76do0h Friend Code: KCTV-QGKK-PXX4
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Download the Crossplay app
Go word to word in Crossplay, a 2-player game from New York Times Games designed for friendly competition and social connection.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026
Share if you agree
Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket
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Pseudandry @pseudandry.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Simple ✔️
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
MORALS ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 16/09/2026
Any followers play Words With Friends? I’m looking for more combatants! My username is peterme. play.wordswithfriends.com/kfET/zdfgwd5j
play.wordswithfriends.com
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 16/09/2026
hey I heard you like sankey diagrams that show huge populations making terrible decisions
A very complicated Sankey diagram showing the usage of electricity in the United States. Or the left are sources of energy and on the right are consumers, so, for example, nuclear is on the left and residential is on the right. Petroleum dominates.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips
howtovote.tips
How to Vote / Cómo Votar
A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.
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Criterion Channel 24/7 Bot @unoff-criterion-ch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🎬 Now streaming on Criterion Channel 24/7: Jules and Jim Directed by François Truffaut • 1962 • France Starring Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre Next film starts in: 107 minutes (10:52 AM EDT/7:52 AM PDT) Watch on Criterion Channel
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