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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 12h

They changed the narrator for the CSB videos :(

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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is a 60something couple here wearing Mötorhead shirts?

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ahh crap my tv is dying. Who has recommendations?

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Chris Barrus @quartzcity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

thread:

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Things are terrible but I just remembered the old website about “David Bowie’s Area” and cracked up

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do not tell me to buckle up for your “thread.” I will throw myself through the windshield. I will eat the hood ornament. I will never buckle up.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And scene.

quote from 1984 where the party is always right.

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It strikes me sometimes how much the humor I shared with friends 20 years ago relied on cruelty.

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metal dot txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Knocking over five other 40 year old Californians: HUELL HOWSER

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The real star of Repo Man, generic packaging.

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Cop on tv: “The head was decapitated from the rest of the body.”

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

never a good start

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A good A1C result always improves the day

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Everything is terrible but at least you don’t hear much about webinars nowadays.

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s 100F in Irvine which I believe is a zoning violation

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This weather is making me something something

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It’s 80 and rainy up in the canyon and I’m at an abbey, which is weird place full of people in monk suits. What a bizarre day. Damn this chair hurts.

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I haven’t been to an air show since I saw an airliner go down and explode at one when I was 8.

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How can all three AI services be down? Are they all in AWS us-east-1 or something?

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Southern California, memorial service, for a communist intellectual, at a Catholic Church. What the hell to wear?

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And ask him do you want to make a deal?

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Locals: the Ortega highway just closed due to a fire. Avoid

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

$100 unexpected copay AND Jackson Browne Muzak. Screw this doctor

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 31/08/2026

birth (expensive), school (underfunded), work (precarious), death (expensive)

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 29/08/2026

The record scratch of all record scratches

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Alarming typo on grocery list: “giger beer”

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There was an old gentleman in the airport dressed like a typical traveler: vest with too many pockets, sensible shoes etc. And then a huge purple wizard hat which he did not remove even on the plane.

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Fellow socal residents: what will Ontario’s new name be? More importantly, what to call La Cañada?

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bluesky app is now just randomly quitting. I’d go out and touch grass but I’m on an airplane.

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🌹🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is about the Bayeux Tapestry. Someone put me out of my misery, please.

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tfw you’re 4300 miles away and your home internet shows down.

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There is some kind of cultural center here in “the old potato barracks.” Were the potatoes… armed?

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

wait no fuckin way wacky packages were the absolute apex cultural common coin among my peers circa ‘74 we were reading art spiegelman

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Met a woman at this museum who is about to sail on a 68’ boat from Iceland to Greenland. This sounds absolutely terrifying.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 22/08/2026

Oh my gosh today is George Herriman's birthday!

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The guide helpfully warned us against walking around in the lovely soft moss because sometimes it will give way and “you will fall into an abyss.” #iceland

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Bluesky app keeps cutting off text instead of wrapping it. When I try to work around this by changing the font to smaller, it refuses to keep the preference and goes back to default. Quality software.

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm not sure why they exist, but if you'd like a firsthand tour of what the old internet was like, I recommend this website of (gently erotic) short stories about Roy Orbison being wrapped in clingfilm: michaelkelly.artofeurope.com/karl.htm

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Ulli's Roy Orbison in Cling-film site

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In the Icelandic news: Someone dug up an urn containing a woman’s ashes, took most of it and then buried the urn again. The woman’s family have no idea who did it or what they did with her ashes and police have no clue either. The woman was born in 1943 and died in 2024.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 20/08/2026

“Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognised in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.” Robert Louis Stevenson, “An apology for idlers” (1877) www.wired.com/beyond-the-b...

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Robert Louis Stevenson "An Apology for Idlers"

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just saw two big immersive Björk video pieces and am now in an altered state

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In less awful news, Southern California is being gently attacked by clumsy, iridescent figeater beetles.

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