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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Confused by traditional Venetian blinds, is there ever a world where I’d want to jack up on side versus the other?

Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

They are both ultimately music for middle schoolers, but Alkaline Trio is more “let’s share a coffin and drink each others’ blood” while Blink-182 is “pee pee, poo,” yet somehow Blink aged better.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Me at 17: Khalil Gibran is revelatory Me at 27: Gibran is kind of corny Me at 37: Khalil Gibran is revelatory

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I keep thinking that reading more will make me smarter, but I think I’ve hit a plateau.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Glasses are so unserious you’re telling me I have to bend the light again because my eyes are dumb

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We used to poke each other on FB like they were streaks on Snapchat. (Layered outdated analogy here.)

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Yeah the Nazi bots are getting even worse over on Twitter (even with me having blocked over 10k accounts). So still Tumblr vibes over here?

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Anyone still poking each other on FB?

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Just had old man flashback to my brother and mom having cellphones with long range walkie-talkie capabilities so they didn’t have to use minutes if close enough to each other.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Still thrown off from booking this Chinese band years ago, but then they came to play and were a bunch of white guy expats who teach in China and come back to tour through the U.S. every summer.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Where is everyone getting these advanced unproofed copies of novels that fill my nearby little free libraries?

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I think a lot of directors (and the rest of the cast and crew!) put a lot into their movies, but that video Coogler made explaining aspect ratios was tremendous PR for Sinners. I know people who went to see it purely because of that.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Why are so many retro and local gaming shops right wing coded?

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Awe, as someone only lightly into Star Wars, I enjoyed the formation of the scrappy group and the Storm Troopers in a tropical setting.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The Endangered Species Act itself is already only a half measure/stop gap against the continued loss of diversity on our planet. Making it so “harm” only covers direct harm to animals and not their habitats is narrow thinking and dangerous.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Seven ChatGPT written finals and counting. I don't think anyone outside of academia really understands how big of an issue this is. We're about to be begin graduating generations of students who have offloaded the entire learning process of their degrees onto predictive algorithms.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Serious question: what is going on with those academic press books, published even just a few years ago, that are like $100–new and used?

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

moratorium on making fun of any bad musicians who come out in support of Gaza

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I don’t know why but I want to share a flashback I had to my middle school biology teacher who had us work in the school greenhouse for the entire spring semester. We didn’t learn a thing and then he sold all the plants at the local farmer’s market and we didn’t see a dime for our labor.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Niche complaint: I feel like number lock should be the default on a keyboard. I should press it to turn the numeric pad off, not the other way around.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Reading Pynchon is making me realize how factory navel gazing, uncharitable, flinching, and stagnant my MFA workshops were.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

It took me until my 30s to finally watch The Godfather and even with all the buildup, reappraisals, spoilers, memes, and hype, it was flippin’ great.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Replacing the concept of diplomacy with “making deals” is predictable for this admin but still so incredibly stupid.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Wonderful, themed use of nesting parenthesis here! Bravo.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I’m old (and generally unaware of streaming personalities) and had never heard of ishowspeed until his recent travels in China. So, good marketing move I guess. Went there at a time when people are generally interested in China’s rise. Made me at least Wikipedia him.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There are so many books I need to cram read before my exams but whoops I just read Moby Dick again.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

GenAI slop has killed my previous love of em dashes. RIP

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

“These trainings should take four hours.” No they’re going to take me a month of forgetting to click to the next slide while I’m busy working on something else and then them timing out and then me forgetting about them entirely until the next threatening email from HR.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

AI slop Ghibli, encroaching fascism, doomed Earth. Maybe in context, I shouldn’t be stressed about my imposter syndrome and lack of perceived preparedness for my upcoming comps exams.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Agreed. Not to mention drone striking an underage U.S citizen. He is not a sympathic ear concerning imperialist violence and eroding our democratic institutions, I’m afraid.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Obsessing over Frozen details: 1. Did the sisters literally not talk to each other for over a decade? Did they ever catch each other in the halls? 2. How do the sisters breath through those nub noses with drastically sloping and narrow bridges?

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Rewatching Frozen for the thousandth time with my sick-at-home toddler and I am struck by how powerful Elsa is. Like, eternal winter any dissenters or enemy countries.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Just saw the Elon takeover of our democratic institutions referred to as “the nerd reich” and like, I know we are just coping, and I do find it darkly funny, but dang this is getting bleak.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I have almost 10k blocked accounts on Twitter to make it (barely) usable. Maybe I’ll come here full time…

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I’ve remained largely on Twitter because of the speed of news on there and the, frankly, more in-depth analysis (I know, ironic when I am referring to threads of 280-max character posts), but it really is like a dying mall in there these days.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Can’t make fun of, say, the kids finding Kate Bush from Stranger Things cause I’m pretty sure my love of Echo & the Bunnymen came from Donnie Darko.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Is this a safe space to announce that I find that the more McCarthy I read the cornier I find him because he starts to come off as a parody of himself? This has nothing to do with chronology of his work.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Ok this place is finally getting some juice

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Kinda bummed ChatGPT uses emdashes so much. It used to be such a fun punctuation.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Doechii often reminds me of OutKast (complimentary)

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/11/2024

Once you realize that Trump isn’t nominating cabinet members to RUN agencies but DESTROY them, it makes more sense.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good. Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Someone on Twitter claimed MGMT’s Kids is pure 2000s slop and I’ve never disagreed more. Overplayed but overall stellar song that they kept including on albums until the gen pop caught up. Had to post over here on bs so my subtweet is extra sub.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I thought I’d be numb to the Trump administration antics, but I have to admit, the flurry of pardons and executive orders, many of them done on a miniature presidents desk on a stage in an arena, is fucking surreal.

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

What gets me is, in the long arc of history, when have conservatives ever been in the right?

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I think it’s cute when millennials (ie, my wife) do the stank face when their jam comes on.

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