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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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I got a call from the [redacted] government asking us to make mushroom ice cream for their [redacted] Awards event and I said yes because I’m a fungi. We’ve got some extra that will be available as scoops really soon.

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What the fuck is this sentence? “So, the Defense Department intends to continue funding that relationship until near the expected season finale of the Trump administration.” AI? A reporter trying to be cute?

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you’d asked me “If you visit Philadelphia and ask for information about Ertz, what are you going to hear about?” I absolutely would have answered “a convenience store.”

Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Taking a mandatory IT training and it can’t possibly be healthy that I’m vibrating with rage.

Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As we begin to head into Spooky Season, let this serve as your annual reminder that Zombie by The Cranberries is not a Halloween song, but Can’t Fight the Moonlight by Leann Rimes is.

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My four-year-old demanded five songs at bedtime tonight and, after looking them up because I was curious, it turns out they’re roughly equally spaced over a ~180 year period. 1805-1989

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/09/2026

It's important to remind readers that while there are a few anti-trans dems, many are doing great work. Spanberger in VA did not flinch at anti-trans attacks. Now, she just ended Governor Youngkin's infamous rule that would ban trans students from bathrooms. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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VA Gov. Spanberger Kills Youngkin-Era Rule That Would Have Banned Trans Students From Bathrooms

“Spanberger showed how Democrats win amidst Republican attacks.”

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tim’s last sentence is the experience closest to mine. I was working IT in Chicago and after news site traffic got clogged, I was tasked with getting an old CRT TV that was mostly used to play VHS tapes to connect to broadcast. Almost certainly the last time in my life I fiddled with rabbit ears.

Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just going to pretend this is a tribute to my recently-deceased history professor friend who celebrated Silverware Sex Cult Day every year in her class.

Resisting the urge to shout “Senator Ed Markey” at the airport Chik-Fil-A I’m passing.

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Should really be asleep but have instead discovered that Malört uses the slogan “Do not enjoy, responsibly.”

On the one hand, I just landed in DC after a delay longer than the flight and have important meetings tomorrow and need to sleep. On the other hand, Bluesky is roasting Seth Moulton.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 01/09/2026

I will admit I was not expecting a series of America 250 billboards promoting AbilityOne at National.

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I'm a Disney Adult in that I'm a dirty little fiend for infrastructure and the processes required to manage humans. Seriously cannot get enough of that shit. Rides? No. Mouse? Fuck off. Systematic analysis of moving thousands of tons of garbage without showing your hand? HOOK IT TO MY VEINS!!!

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Me at Bunker Hill Monument: “Goddamnit! Why won’t this work?!? [smears a third bloody handprint across the stone] I have a meeting to get to in DC tomorrow!”

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just said “for the back of a letter word” and am surprised and a little impressed at how nearly-meaningful that spoonerism is.

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In 1994 or ‘95, a friend of a friend was going to see a classmate’s band play in one of the common rooms at an adjoining college, but it was all the way across campus and I wasn’t up for meeting new people. In retrospect, I think it’s highly likely it was a proto-Mountain Goats performance.

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At a kid play place and have so far heard soft piano versions of “Just Like Heaven” and “Sweet Caroline.”

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Doctor Who Production News @doctorwhopn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Watch 2005-2022 Doctor Who for free with your library card on Kanopy. Weekly drops starting with Series 1 on September 4. youtu.be/4ibIXliL9DY?...

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Doctor Who: Kanopy Teaser

YouTube video by Kanopy

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Look, obviously I’ve known about Disney adults for some time, but when the fuck did Goonies adults become a thing?

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Gotta say: Republicans could not be emphasizing anti-trans bigotry more over the last two years and if this turns out to be even a moderate Dem win - and even more so if it's a Dem blowout - everyone should interpret it as strong support for trans people and repudiation of this crap.

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A lonely Coke Zero in the refrigerator at Galley House:

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Reading about tank genders.

Text that says: The tank was made in "male" and "female" versions: males carried two 6-pounder guns and three machine guns, while females had five machine guns.

Female tanks were considered more useful, since machine-gun fire was effective in pinning the enemy while friendly troops advanced; male tanks also had to stop to allow the 6-pounder gunner to aim. After April 1918, "hermaphrodites" with one male and one female sponson were built.

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

For reasons adjacent to the phrase “America 250,” I’ve been looking up words with an alphanumeric total value of 250. The shortest I found is NONTRUSTWORTHY but the most striking in the context of why I picked that number are CITIZENSHIPLESSNESS and QUASIGOVERNMENTALLY.

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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now savoring the thought of sigmund freud opening the newspaper to turn to his favorite comic, momma, and enjoying a few chuckles

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

When I was in jail, none of the Monopoly sets had dog pieces. Over a decade later, I decided to figure out why: boundlessplay.substack.com/p/play-behin...

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Play behind bars

Crosswords – by Keri Blakinger

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is a fun idea, but if I had a time machine I would go back to the early seventies and pay celebrities with amazing voices to record the theme songs to TV shows that didn’t exist yet: Orson Welles - The Facts of Life Johnny Cash - Cheers Rosemary Clooney - House Tiny Tim - Law & Order

Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Trivia: Everyone knows that this was Orson Welles’ final film role, but he appeared in an episode of what TV show, airing just days after his death, to explain the now familiar “dream sequence in black and white to indicate things not actually happening to the characters” trope to the audience?

Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

As a bicyclist, I know this is true, but as a pedestrian, I also know bicyclists cannot be trusted to behave lawfully or with any regard for the safety of pedestrians.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

This came to me in a vision

Listening to discourse?
I'll show you something interesting
The two types of
philosophy are Pleasant
Bureaucrat and Sexy Murder Poet. Rawls?
Bureaucrat. Mishima?
Murder poet.
YEAH.
Hobbes? Bureaucrat
Nietzsche? Murder poet.
Despite the adjective he became, Machiavelli?
Bureaucrat
@atherton.bsky.social

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

image of a gold record superimposed on part of Vaughan Oliver's iconic cover for the Mountain Goats' "Tallahassee" album, with a banner beneath it showing the entire album cover, an RIAA seal, and the text: Presented to THE MOUNTAIN GOATS to commemorate the RIAA Gold certification of more than 500,000 copies of the 4AD single "No Children"

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In my ongoing trivia series Lists that Inexplicably Contain More than One Entry: Post-Apocalyptic ‘00s TV Shows Starting with JER- Starring Lead Actors Who Later Portrayed Riverdale Parents (2)

Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As I frequently point out in the context of other (both reasonable and unreasonable) uses of the phrase, a swarm of bees is also a social construct.

Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

All respect to the @portersqbooks.bsky.social employee who decided their new anti-shoplifting campaign merited this display:

A bookstore display shelf with a sign reading “Smile! You’re on camera” with photos of shoplifters. Books on the shelf are The Lies of Locke Lamora, To Steal From Thieves, Hammajang Luck, Cloudthief, The Blacktongue Thief, The Thief, Fagin the Thief, Thief of Night, Lying Stealing and Other Ways to Save the Planet, The Bone Thief, Everyone in this Bank is a Thief, and The Rembrandt Thief.

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I need to get my brother to retell me the one really good story about graveyard shifts doing maintenance at this mall so I can retell it for you.

Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.

Patrick MacGoohan in an episode of Columbo; he’s seated at a glass desk in a wood paneled office with plants and wearing a black turtleneck with a tweed jacket.

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Reached the Veronica Mars season 2 finale in my current rewatch during dinner tonight so this was a startling face to suddenly see.

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I don’t know how to process one of my oldest friends having shittily written obituaries (very, very similar but with different bylines) at both People and NYPost.

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There’s a girl with a crown and a scepter…

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Honestly, there a lot of Taskmaster contestants that have personas that are exactly the right amount of douchy to portray Greek gods. Like, imagine Asim Chaudhry voicing, not just Poseidon, but specifically the Poseidon from the game Hades.

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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Now I really want the Homeric Epic Film Festival for the other eight members of Ocean’s Eleven. Especially “Carl Reiner Tours the Catskills”.