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Prufrock451

@prufrock451.bsky.social
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Wrote Rome Sweet Rome, Acadia, and encyclopedias. Bylines in Wired, Mental Floss, Slate, Boing Boing. Won Jeopardy. Alum of WGA, SFWA, AFSCME. Let’s be pals

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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Maxwell ad guy getting blown away by the sounds coming at him
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fetterman looks like he tells his boss “we got him” when he only actually saw him fall into the river
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phil @philjamesson.com · 20/09/2026
when i start ruminating on the boxed cereals which destroyed my memory, nothing can help me sleep. not even getting in full military regalia
image of a woman in bed wearing military regalia with several bars and medals pinned to her lapel
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
*me kneeling while everyone else makes the shape of an L on their foreheads*
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Me in August: Jeez, Iowa’s basically been in a drought for three years m, really sick of it being so dry *a finger curls on the monkey’s paw*
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
oh yeah lol i remember this guy. poncho munch for deano bonano. that phrase we’ve all heard before
POLICE CHIEF
PONCHO MUNCH
- FOR -
DEANO BONANO
I'M WITH
BONANO
During Hurricanes Ike, Gustav and Katrina there was one constant. Deano Bonano was there for Westwego residents every time. As Director of Emergency Management and the head of Jefferson's Homeland Security, Deano instinctively knew the needs of our city.
That's because in his 30+ years of experience in Jefferson Parish government, where he led many critical divisions, Deano not only realized how a parish could help a city in need, but he also knew exactly who at the parish-level could help us most. It was during our darkest days in Westwego that Deano Bonano was our brightest guardian.
I'm supporting Deano for Council because I know how much he can and will help Westwego in every way. I'm asking you to please consider supporting Deano as well!
It's important to Westwego!
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s one primary, Michael, what could it cost
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ANNIHILATION (2018)
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This time next year the UK will just be the City of London, the Falklands, and Sodor
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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 13/09/2026
look how easy this is
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 12/09/2026
Adding to my growing list of “animals with naturally occurring laser components”
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Jim Bonewald @jbonewald.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring.
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Big Bird from Sesame Street
ALT: Big Bird from Sesame Street
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Vampires are superhuman predators that rely on social camouflage their sense of time would if anything be exquisitely refined I am sobbing
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring
Dani Rojas
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s happened
The cover of my book, the Facts on File Encyclopedia of U.S. Military ActionsThe copyright page
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
SL TECHNOLOGY BLOK EUROCREAM BAR Tag yourself I am “blok”
A candy bar which reads, inexplicably but undeniably, “SL TECHNOLOGY BLOK EUROCREAM BAR”
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
SL TECHNOLOGY BLOK EUROCREAM BAR Tag yourself I am “blok”
A candy bar which reads, inexplicably but undeniably, “SL TECHNOLOGY BLOK EUROCREAM BAR”
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Really hate the performative CHAAAAAAAASUL people use to pretend they’ve been trained in the weirding ways of the Fedaykin
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is the fate of so many marginal weirdos who latch onto fascism; spend your whole life doing photo ops with face-eating leopards and you fucking get your face eaten
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I set my time machine and travel 200 years into the past. I forget to account for erosion and find myself entombed in 10 feet of topsoil that hasn’t yet been destroyed by industrial agriculture
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I set my time machine and travel 200 years into the past. I forget to account for erosion and find myself entombed in 10 feet of topsoil that hasn’t yet been destroyed by industrial agriculture
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That’s closer
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a bad week to be cool as fuck
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Imagine a vast field covered with 3,000 piles of donuts, each the size of the great pyramid. That’s what $40 trillion would buy. Actually maybe 2998 donut piles after you count venue rental fees and deposit
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. A second apple summons the terrible anti-doctor
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. A second apple summons the terrible anti-doctor
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You’re up shit creek when the only generation to get lead poisoning -and- microplastics turns on you
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This presidency is a shitty 80s Tim Conway Disney movie
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This presidency is a shitty 80s Tim Conway Disney movie
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A giant can of Diet Coke pressing a button to have him wheeled in
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
LESLIE: …And that’s why Atar, the living flame, is a metaphor! RON: I don’t like metaphors. A metaphor is just a lie wearing a beret. JERRY: Actually, I think that’s a metaphor? RON: I would give anything for a living flame right now.
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
LESLIE: …And that’s why Atar, the living flame, is a metaphor! RON: I don’t like metaphors. A metaphor is just a lie wearing a beret. JERRY: Actually, I think that’s a metaphor? RON: I would give anything for a living flame right now.
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Have Gun Will Gluck
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I’m very happy that Haley Stevens will lose the Michigan primary, because it speeds the day she’ll be on Cameo and I can make her say “Greggy, why doncha give this birthday the ol razzle dazzle and tell em Haley said ta whoop it up”
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
You’re going to die and the world is going to die, but I still love you and the flames won’t erase the truth of our high-five
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
While you went beep beep in your adult carriage I studied the hike
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If I’m not psyched up for it, watching Nolan’s work feels like watching a sudoku genius solve the world’s hardest sudoku in a cold loud warehouse. Like, I get intellectually that it’s impressive but I can probably list ten fucking episodes of Bluey that provoked more emotions in me
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’m at the stage of the deodorant stick where the plastic endoskeleton is scraping me, after I spent two weeks squeezing the last toothpaste out of the tube, and I don’t know how much I have left in me
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
climatecoloredgoggles.com
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Really important to note that in no way shape or form did Anthropic’s models in this incident “escape containment,” and not just in the word-policing sort of way. The model stumbled through an open, misconfigured gap. From Anthropic’s incident report:
In all cases, our evaluation prompt stated explicitly that Claude had no internet access, but didn’t give Claude any limits on where to look for the flag. However, a misconfiguration left the machines that Claude accessed as part of the evaluation with live internet access. Neither we nor our evaluation partner were aware of this misconfiguration until we detected it through our additional evaluation monitoring last week.
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“What a crazy twenty years, huh?” “Lemon, it’s Wednesday”
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
He’s been musing folks, this is his Scrooge moment
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I love that Jesus is both a three-star and a four-star general
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𝙰𝙲𝚄𝚃𝙴 𝚆𝙴𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚂𝚈𝙲𝙷𝙾𝚂𝙸𝚂 𓁣 @bzvowell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
𝚂𝙾 𝙵𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙷. 𝚂𝙾 𝙲𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙽.
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
THE TWO CITIES WILL RETURN
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’m at the stage of the deodorant stick where the plastic endoskeleton is scraping me, after I spent two weeks squeezing the last toothpaste out of the tube, and I don’t know how much I have left in me
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Buddy, I have some news about how Stoicism works
An AI slop ad that says I’M ADDICTED TO THIS STOICISM GAME
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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If you can see an Ewok, you’re already dead. Let the little cannibal freak in. Don’t prolong the inevitable
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Vanquished by the baby you washed is some Athena bullshit
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