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Chris Wooden

@slowdumars.bsky.social
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Southern California kid. I write and cook (come check out my pop-up when you're in San Diego!). I mostly talk about music, hoops, fiction, and food. A defector from the petty wars. #clippers #lvaces #chesleafc #cruzazul

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
An underrated classic. I truly think it suffered from the idea that critics didn't want to accept Eddie could direct too. He was already too successful. "You gonna shoot me in my pinky toe?" Lol
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Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social · 14h
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 14h
It figures we'd both have Goon Squad and a B.E.E. book on ours
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 14h
Fuck it I'll do this one
9 Books I'll Never Forget

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Other Stories by Truman Capote
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance by Kevin Starr
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Slow Days: Fast Company, The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 16h
NEW: I made some embeds to track Elon Musk's super PAC using FEC data. Our candidate tracker is polling daily so you can jump on this page any time before the election to see where those millions are going (mostly Texas, Ohio, and Michigan so far). Next report is Oct 22.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/10/2026
and now the owners can't complain about payroll disparity, right right
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Also good luck to mlb as they try to force a lockout under the “small market teams have no chance” narrative on the heels of the Brewers, Guardians or Rays winning the World Series. Whoopsies!
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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I got into a coffee-shop conversation with a few people about what we were reading, and a guy apologized because he was reading Infinite Jest and therefore being "performative". I told him that the idea of the "performative male" is a right-wing idea meant to police gender. I hope he believed me.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I forget who posted it but the idea that Americans live inside a “casino run by murderers” has not left my brain since I saw it
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New Snoh Aalegra!
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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
D'Angelo singing "Cruisin" with Smokey Robinson at the 1996 Essence Awards. As introduced by Sinbad and Halle Berry. The greatest moment in American history.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 08/10/2026
TODAY: Three years after the October 7 attacks and the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, a selection of our work on Israel, Palestine, and this ongoing moral and humanitarian catastrophe. www.google.com/url?q=https:...
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A Palestine reader
Three years into a genocide
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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the human condition in 2026:
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An underrated wiki page
Heading from Mary Steenburgen's Wikipedia page that reads: Music Career

In 2007, Steenburgen underwent minor surgery on her arm, which required a general anaesthetic; shortly thereafter, she began experiencing "music (...) playing in her head day and night". She subsequently took music lessons so that she could write down what she was hearing, and by 2013 had almost 50 songwriting credits. She has collaborated with musicians from Nashville and was also signed to Universal Music Group as a songwriter. She performs one of her own songs in Last Vegas.

In 2018, her composition "Glasgow (No Place Like Home)" as performed by Jessie Buckley featured as the climactic musical moment in the film Wild Rose and won Steenburgen several awards, including the 2019 Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song. On October 30, 2020, Steenburgen signed a global publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group.
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
idk i like writing about country music and jazz precisely BECAUSE both genres are widely misunderstood, written off at opposite ends of the spectrum: one as too stupid to care about and one as too complicated and snobby. both wrong obvs. but damn those misconceptions can grate!
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Half of the reason that people become interested in movies in the first place is sex and dating and everything connected with eroticism on the screen. I felt that not to deal with all of that in its most naked form was to shirk part of what's involved in being a critic. (2001)
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We live in such an incredibly stupid era
Gavin Newsom: I just signed an executive order permanently declaring Artificial Intelligence "Artificial Intelligence" in California.
You're welcome, America.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
EXECUTIVE ORDER N-10-26
WHEREAS California dominates Artificial Intelligence ("Al") innovation. even as no state has taken more aggressive action to strengthen the safety. security, and consumer privacy of Al; and
WHEREAS, while language and choice of terminology can have significance, purporting to change something's name cannot distract a person of normal intelligence from recognizing the impotent and craven failure to take action to address well-documented emerging security and safety risks posed by that thing.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor of the State of California. in accordance with the authority vested in me by the State Constitution and statutes of the State of California, further informed by common sense, do hereby issue the following Order to become effective immediately:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: All agencies and departments subject to my authority shall refer to Artificial Intelligence and Al as "Artificial Intelligence" and
"Al," notwithstanding any rebranded or different terminology used by the federal government, unless inconsistent with the law.
I FURTHER DIRECT that as soon as hereafter possible, this Order be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State and that widespread publicity and notice be given of this Order.
This Order is not intended to, and does not, create any rights or benefits. substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, against the State of California, its agencies, departments, entities, officers, employees, or any other person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused pe Great Seal of the State of lifornia to be grixed this 30th day September 20
AVIN
Governor
ATTEST:
alifornia
SHIRLEY N. WEBER, PH.D
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good riddance, bozos.
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Those "No Time Like October" shirts the Cubs are rocking in the dugout are going to go so hard once their off-season vacations begin tomorrow.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Paywalls are toll roads to a gated community, one that the average American cannot afford to enter in an era of inflated prices and deflated expectations. Democracy relies on an informed citizenry. Pay-to-play democracy is no democracy at all." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 28/09/2026
we are about to find out who got the bestiality clearance
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
i guess the idea of genius is appealing because it suggests there's a shortcut to the tedious experience of becoming good at something. and if there's no shortcut the time spent looking for a domain you're naturally gifted at is just more time wasted. ok happy monday everyone let's get this bread
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Max Scherzer was NOT coming out of this game! 😤
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This song still fucking rips Listen to Cuntology 101 on your streaming service tidal.com/track/390850...
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Lambrini Girls - Cuntology 101
Listen to Cuntology 101 on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Written it many times before, but it bears repeating: Every player and team and league that does this is rooting for its fans to lose.
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My go-to: www.traderjoes.com/home/product...
traderjoes.com
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One of the most important relationships one has is the relationship they have with their closest taco shop. Grateful to live a 3 minute walk from one of the best to do it.
Interior of an old, tile floored taco ship with a fading, hand painted sign that reads Don Lucio's Taco Shop #2. 

Location: IYKY
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is how I found out that MMJ released an album this year. Quite the fall-off
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
She's never been better than she was here
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sammy Hagar
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LeeAnn Wombat @jonnyauping.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
why doesn’t ABC News interview mickey mouse who can do things other mice can’t do including have a dog friend and own a separate dog as a pet
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A chune
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josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 04/08/2026
thrilled as i am to see the 9/11 high school gymnastic routine do the rounds again, it doesn’t hold a candle to the 9/11 middle school interpretive dance set to the music of lmfao
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i am saying with 100 percent sincerity that this needs to be in a museum
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Obviously this country has been a charnel house for centuries but I cannot emphasize enough how much worse our response to 9/11 made every single fucking thing here and abroad. Every single thing. They well and truly got our asses.
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As if we aren't going through enough right now
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I don’t believe AI will kill us all. But I do believe it can make all our lives worse, which has already started to come into effect, and it’s clear that the people behind the technology don’t care at all about the human cost.
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
200 Cigarettes is bangers only from start to finish
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
dlvr.it
Pablo Torre deserves his victory lap over journalism critics
On Wednesday, the NBA brought down the hammer on the Los Angeles Clippers. After an investigation into allegations that the team had circumvented the salary cap to pay Kawhi Leonard extra money on top of his salary that was on the books, the league concluded that it had “found a pattern of misconduct and multiple…
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slop enjoyer @slop.guru · 03/09/2026
i legitimately think threads may be a bigger net-negative on society than twitter is at this point
screenshot of threads post:

slop.guru now
god this app is fucking evil. why would you change it for 7 days and then change it back do you think i am magically going to give a shit about ai by next thursday? fucking insidious behavior

screenshot of a “dear algo” request response:

Your feed will be updated for 7 days based on your request. now
dear algo stop showing me ai discourse or anything related to ai or people talking about liking ai or hat...
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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The handful of times I've been on there have made me question humanity's future more than anything else. Truly some of the worst, stupidest ideas and arguments I've ever seen.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
wait sorry late to this but, WHY THE PARTY-SIZE FUCK IS MARK WAHLBERG STARRING IN A MOVIE ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
by any means movie poster
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xthexlambx.bsky.social @xthexlambx.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Also sucks that most national media personalities and essentially every individual sports follower I know is gleefully dancing on the clippers’ grave with no mention or sympathy for the fans, clippers staff, and media members who will suffer.
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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