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Chris Ford

@riotmaam.com
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I was a flannel and Docs-wearing baby dyke getting teargassed at queer events in the 90s. Doing the same goddamn things in my 50s but w/ gray hair and orthopedic inserts. Member of the Cult of Pilates. Obsessed with Americana music. Lover of asshole dogs

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
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JaneLane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem have dropped out of Ed Sheeran’s tour
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Muppets Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem
Alt: Muppets Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 15/09/2026
Unbelievable www.instagram.com/p/DdUmGqOEpST
Katie Dippold Instagram post of a previously unseen babydook party photo in which she’s smiling and toasting the camera
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 14/09/2026
@erikahall.bsky.social I was made aware of PDX "Werid Fest" and the Chicken Beauty Contest over the weekend and *immediately* thought of you. It's Sep 19 just in case you feel the urge to get some Clickens inspo...
An illustrated poster advertising a Chicken Beauty Contest at Weird Fest in Portland, Oregon. Three fancy chickens walk down a fashion show runway while audience members hold up signs that say "Yas, Queen!" and "Werk It".
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The predictable Discourse is starting and I'm going to take a strong stand here: you can both want to abolish ICE and laugh really, really hard at Milo Yiannopoulos getting arrested by ICE after a decade of stoking the ethnonationalist hatred that led us to this point
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Linette🌻🌸🏵️🌺🌱 @ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
tear down some statues of evil white men and put up some of dolly
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the greatest quote in human history.
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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pee Wee Herman & Dolly Parton singing a duet? Here ya go...
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026
thinking about how they were having to fire & arrest people to try to bully them into being sad about some of these fuckers, and if you want the whole world to stop and grieve your loss, there's one simple life hack: be a good person who just wants to do good things
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 15/08/2026
"...attempting to deliver design “wisdom” while your mouth is still attached to a tech oligarch’s asshole is both messy and difficult to understand, and I’d appreciate an Altoid or a mint before you did it." Goddamn, that Mike Monteiro sure can turn a phrase.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Covid never ended. Everybody just pretended it did.
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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Every time you check out a library book instead of ordering from Amazon, ask a friend instead of an LLM, cook a meal instead of ordering from an app, or go for a walk instead of scrolling social media, you interrupt the cash flows of insane CEOs. Do it! Ruin their day!
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 13/08/2026
I lived in San Diego so we all had fake ids at 16 and were dancing on speakers at Senor Frog's, drinking upside down margaritas til the sun came up, then stumbling across the bridge to the US and a full day of high school reeking of clove cigarettes and bad decisions. Good times.
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crazy ass moments in nu metal history @numetalmoment.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Eddie Van Halen holds Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit at gunpoint until he returns his guitar equipment (2002)
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Cliff @cliff.leaninto.it · 12/08/2026
Michael Alfonso won't see all your little jokes. Know who will? Your friends who look like someone drew eyebrows on a dog.
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 10/08/2026
@monteiro.bsky.social and @erikahall.bsky.social I saw this print at @birdhousetattoo.bsky.social in PDX this weekend and felt like it was relevant to your interests 😂 (cc: @floridanorcross.bsky.social )
A two color poster with a black guillotine above the words "live laugh love" in red gothic type.
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 01/08/2026
"Bitter people don’t start stealing furniture from work when upcoming layoffs are announced. Petty people do." When I was in design school I was working on a CD-ROM project and found I wasn't getting paid. And that's the story of how I got my first shoebox sized 1 gig hard drive. Viva la petty! ✊
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 31/07/2026
Circa 1971: 1. American Staffordshire terrier 2. Cootie catcher 3. Mental health day 4. Primal scream therapy 5. Wiseass
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 31/07/2026
Hot take: The Highwomen > The Highwaymen (sorry Willie, Waylon, Kris, and Johnny. But it's the truth.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQy...
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Public domain work exists. Fair use exists. Creative commons exists. Stock art exists. Making a fucked up little sketch in any app with drawing tools exists. No reason to be gleefully complicit in exploitation for a muddy cartoon.
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 03/07/2026
Also Sleestaks.
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 03/07/2026
Corn tortillas: -Crispy and soft tacos -Taquitos -Tostadas -Chilaquiles -Chips -Enchiladas (and yes, I will judge you if you use flour) Flour tortillas: -Burritos -Fajitas Either: -Quesadillas (Apparently I have strong tortilla opinions 🤣)
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 30/06/2026
This is Penny. She came up with her own trick. Really hopes you like it, and will repeat it as many times as necessary until you acknowledge that you do. 14/10 (IG: pennycorgipoo)
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
trans rights are human rights and anyone who tells you otherwise is a stone cold bigot fuck SCOTUS and kavanaugh specifically
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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A photo of algae with white letters in the upper left: Pantene Color of the year 2026 and a paint chip appearing box with a solid block the color of the algae labeled Pantone #658a2a American Flag Blue.
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 15/06/2026
Hot take: AI is just a less cool version of Conky from Peewee's Playhouse.
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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
(crashing through a plate-glass window) ratatuneille
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Oh, you can't write a 5-page book report without AI? I fucking wrote 5-page book reports without having read the goddamn book. Get your finger out of your ass.
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"Where USDS and 18F prioritized function, accessibility, and the needs of underserved populations, the studio’s mandate emphasizes beauty, delight, and the visual language of consumer technology. The distinction is not trivial ... "
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Peter Arnell, designer behind Pepsi and Tropicana rebrand failures, named first US chief brand architect for 27,000 government websites
Peter Arnell is now America's first chief brand architect, tasked with unifying 27,000 federal websites by July 4. The studio has already failed accessibility audits.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Apropos of nothing, intentionally shitty photoshop will always be better and funnier than any AI
An image of starmer, macron, and Merz in a sinking boat, obviously copy paste in an artistic and truly very good way
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.
Anne Hathaway bought the rights to a novel about a tradwife influencer who wakes up in 1855 and has to actually live the life she's been selling online. The book is called Yesteryear. It came out 3 days ago. The film rights were already sold to Hathaway, who will produce and star.
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
let me say this again: come and take it
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Bitch I will beat your ass
The New York Times telling me that my dog is dumb
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I’m not proud of it but if Forrest Gump started talking to me on a bench I’d have left
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
People are asking ChatGPT things I would normally just ask a friend, parent, mentor, therapist or medical professional for or about. It takes work to build and maintain those relationships, and figure out who is the right person to ask, but the alternative is a digital tool known for lying to users.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
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Melanie @grammar-girl.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Oh shit, THAT'S WHERE STRINGER COMES FROM
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 15/04/2026
Sitting here imagining Bjork as the most whimsical death doula ever...
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 14/04/2026
Chaka sad...
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
was once New Amsterdam.
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If you're in LA today or tomorrow, artist Shepard Fairey is giving away free #NoKings protest posters at his gallery (and the posters are free to download, too): obeygiant.com?id=99231
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Obey Giant - The Art of Shepard Fairey
AKA Andre the Giant Has a Posse. A street art project and an experiment in phenomenology by artist and skateboarder Shepard Fairey.
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/03/2026
If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...
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Chris Ford @riotmaam.com · 27/03/2026
This has sparked a lot of good conversations w/ friends today. My fellow open source friends, if you're anything like me you'll read it and think "Holy fuck! Did they write that just for me?!?" (hat tip: @ipstenu.org) kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-...
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Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give
I thought I was having a spiritual awakening. I was having a psychiatric emergency. I was at a tech conference in Sweden when it started. I hadn't slept in...
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Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 09/03/2026
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
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Proloe 🌙🧚‍♀️ Very Fairy Vtuber @proloe.gay · 28/02/2026
I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere
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