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@schwindter.bsky.social
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 1h
I need a CityNerd analysis of Mike Tomlin’s Minecraft city
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 5h
"this microdrama got 24 million views!!!" and of course there's no stated view standard. for fuck's sake
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 13h
the entire reason i seek out art is to experience the world beyond my ken
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this was how it *started*
three people sitting behind microphones on a small stage: Patrick Wyman, Josh Gondelman, and Claire Aubin. A large screen behind them reads “team aubin #1: player: Robert Moses. Sport/position: formula 1 driver”
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
flood the internet with the rapists’ names. we know how to manipulate algorithms and LLMs so that they cannot escape
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
going to sue mark z for copying this
stickers of an anthropomorphic popcorn bag cheekily showing us his butt
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
silicon valley looked at scalper culture and decided we should make society out of it
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
evergreen
the donnie darko in therapy meme template.

panel 1: donnie says "i made an ai agent that can make phone calls for you"

panel 2: therapist says "an ai agent or a person in the philippines?"

panel 3, the bottom: donnie says "a person in the philippines"
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i'm goin' in tomorrow, any other ABs up for a lil platelet donation?
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hello, I’d like to hire someone in Los Angeles to do a tarot card reading at a small gathering, if you do such a thing or know someone who does, lemme give you some money, please
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” 32,000 men in an Italian Facebook group devoted to drugging your wife and taking nonconsensual explicit photos of her and sharing them. It didn’t get shut down until a woman discovered and exposed it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared online
The My Wife Facebook group had 32,000 members before it was shut down for violating adult sexual exploitation policies.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
steve has put together a montage so affecting and good that if we are not able to license the song he cut it to i will wither and die
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
instead of cutting your family off you used to just move away but now if you don’t answer a text within 5 minutes boomers’ll call the cops on you
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
sailing into the West upon seeing brainrot become the dominant advertising aesthetic (again? arguably the quiznos gerbils were brainrot)
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i know i shouldn't pass judgment on parents because i'm not one but i just don't think you should bring your 10-year-old son to the movie theater to see primetime
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
are we calling "an investment fund bought the building" "gentrification"? www.nbcnews.com/world/spain/...
a screenshot from the linked article that reads: 

"The case has brought new attention to an ongoing housing crisis in major cities across Spain, as gentrification has caused rents to skyrocket and the stock of affordable housing to shrink, leading to growing public anger.""An investment fund acquired Abascal's building in 2018 and sought a steep increase in her rent, and she had been fighting eviction for more than five years, according to the Madrid tenants union."
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i would've gotten my ass fired for refusing to write this article
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
why is the ritz carlton yacht collection advertising on youtube. who's doing their media planning
a pre-roll ad on youtube for the ritz-carlton yacht collection, with an image of a giant lit-up yacht at dusk in a peaceful bay surrounded by lit-up towns
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026
Genuinely, half of me thinks the main area of AI experimentation going on right now is in how fully the concept of an "ai agent" can legally indemnify its operators
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
can only describe the color of the air right now in New York as “peach”
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i'm on the
a light blue colored ford cargo van from like the 1980s with "Depressed Express" written in orange hippie-ish cursive on the side. near the bottom is "VROOM and GLOOM" in pink and around the gas tank is written "out of gas & out of sorts"
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it's cool that it's impossible to decouple yourself from meta products if you're trying to make and market an independent film outside the studio system
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026
🧐 www.axios.com/2024/10/25/m...
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Scoop: Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters
It's the first news deal Meta has made in the AI era.
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i don't wanna talk about coffee at interviews i wanna talk about the person at my screening of Zone of Interest who kept unwrapping candy throughout and also was vaping weed
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"i live in new york and i will never get rid of my car because i need to be able to go directly from my house to wherever i want, whenever i want" go live literally anywhere else that caters to your specific brain disease
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
take a moment to enjoy a sung version of the complaint to ea-nasir
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Complaint to Ea Nasir - Sung Mesopotamian Music
YouTube video by Farya Faraji & World Musicians
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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
re: best 21st century TV chat, this single scene from Deadwood would place the show in the Top 10 on its own (and it has like twenty scenes just as good)
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Compassion & Friendship in Deadwood
YouTube video by Max Brazil
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
my favorite tv series of the 21st century is the one that hires me to write for it :)
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
a screenshot of a frankly not very good script but i wrote this dumb little joke literally 11 years ago so:

EXT. THANGORODRIM - DAY

We see a formidable mountain range, all rock, rearing into the sky,

ZOOM IN

MAEDHROS hangs from a precipice by his right wrist, bound in iron. We hear a RECORD SCRATCH.

FREEZE FRAME

Maedhros: Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*touching earpiece* I’m hearing it’s time to rewatch LOST
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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Game of Thrones started in 2011 which means the first wave of Khaleesis will be getting their driver's licenses next year
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
begging publications (ahem Wired, Verge) to stop doing those animated story headers because they are destroying my little macbook air's performance. why is firefox using SEVEN ENTIRE GB OF MEMORY???
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"spend 40 to 50 minutes circling neighboring blocks" looking for parking??? aside from the "take the train or bus" angle this is a nightmare amount of extra pollution to put in the air around a fucking school!
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ezra klein admitting he never knew how to read a map is... instructive
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i'm not kidding when i say this dude needs to lose his fucking license and car www.youtube.com/shorts/hBcXT...
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Driver Speeds Through East River Esplanade
YouTube video by Hell Gate
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 24/09/2026
Last month, Zoox test driver Jay Davis and 3 coworkers were doing testing in an AV, when he said everyone "got quiet for some reason." Later they felt lightheaded, and one even vomited. They reported the symptoms and returned to base -- and Zoox sent them back out. techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/z...
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Exclusive: Zoox grounds Atlanta test fleet after workers report toxic gas exposure symptoms
The repeated incidents led one worker to file a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which opened an inquiry and told Zoox to investigate the exposures.
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
crypto for affordability dot com
a photo of a tv on which is an ad for “cryptoafrordability dot com” that says “crypto lowers the cost of business”
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AI agents are exec-class tech. shit that you would only invent if you already had a human doing shit for you that you should be doing yourself, and you don't want to pay a person to do it. "make me a reservation" "buy me a movie ticket" "plan me a vacation"
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i guess she didn't know it at the time because none of us did but it is buck wild that elizabeth holmes invited the documentarian who literally became a pilot with a job ferrying 737s around the world for his docuseries into her home
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
downstairs neighbor is blasting kpop in an effort to drown out the construction noise from the fucking homeowner across the street (renovating their little patio)
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
as i age and my joints begin to deteriorate i am ever more acutely aware of existing in a world that was simply not built for people who are only 5 feet tall
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
made maybe the best red sauce of my entire life and have to wait several more hours until dinner to enjoy it, the apartment smells unbelievably good
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the donnie darko in therapy meme template.

panel 1: donnie says "i made an ai agent that can make phone calls for you"

panel 2: therapist says "an ai agent or a person in the philippines?"

panel 3, the bottom: donnie says "a person in the philippines"
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reminder into the void here that @maris.bsky.social and I coedited a whole project for @literaryhub.bsky.social subtweeting: Pamela Paul’s tenure at the NYTBR … lithub.com/what-was-los...
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What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022
“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
sorry to the mayor but i think we need him to go be the president's vizier. "oh yeah sorry man i can't hang if miller's there, he just kills the vibe" and boom, stephen miller's out on his ass in less than 24 hours
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
hoodie season is heeeeere, support a documentary about america's indie movie theater renaissance (there are also hats, totes, tees, kid/baby apparel etc.)
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i give it a week until we see another curséd "newsom 2028???" article that doesn't address this at all
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