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Try to remember, they’re locked in here with us. Bring back Connolly’s Citizen Army.

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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh great, another comic book where the bad guy is Haskell.
Something about monads. You have to be a Rick and Morty fan.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you see this handsome fellow today, wish him a happy birthday.
The Big Lad, a very handsome dog, looking suspicious as ever.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Big Lad has a real “To save the village we had to destroy it” energy. I will not the irony of Jenga somehow not being in pieces.
Every card game on earth strewn about in pursuit of a chipmunk that may be behind the buffet.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Always loved this line from _Breath_ by Tim WInston.
"How strange it was to see men do something beautiful."
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Obligatory.
No one ever expects Clown College. But they have other programs. Seriously you guys, this is not an MLM. This time anyway.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Been adding one card a day this week to my house dashboard and I am both aware that it will never save me but also very happy with it.
Vibe coded slop to make it easier for everyone to diagnose issues around the house.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
To be clear, I am not endorsing the doing so either and I don't want anyone to think I am in favor of horrific behavior. I just think there's maybe a couple generations of American kids we could kill off wholesale.
Every generation shouldn't have invented sex.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Never beating the allegations, bsky.
Someone who thinks they generation invented sex tells us what the outdoors probably looks like.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’ve been proper drunk before, but not to the point my DNA complained.
Voicemail to text that claims Amino called me.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Now that I know the punchline, I am *dying*. All I can see is the poor dude as someone on their first rollercoaster just after the bar locks down. "This is going to happen no matter what I do." Also, the old timey lawyer schtick would make Matlock blush. I assume it was this guy.
Futurama lawyer bird
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is the work of a true fan.
Wikipedia entry for the greatest album of no time.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
When Ring Cameras and Nextdoor invade real life. Could have done with an editor’s note that just said, “[no it fucking wasn’t dimwit — ed.]”
“ Property owner Allison Pellegrino, whose significant other filmed the recent Rye bobcat, said it was as big as a mountain lion and that it was so scary that they're going to put up cameras to watch for wildlife creeping onto their home.”
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Oh this is the stuff, Guardian reporter.
A “friggin​’ patriot” who had traveled from his home in Washington state to Washington DC to mark the milestone, Forster thought many of the state offerings “sucked”, he told the Guardian: “They’ve had how long? It’s just a total disappointment.”

It was unclear whether he had seen the two-dimensional cutout of a grand champion market goat in Nebraska’s pavilion; the toy Caterpillar industrial machines, in a sandpit inexplicably filled with corn, in Illinois’s; or the two giant dice in the corner of Nevada’s
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Just boarded our plane and the new pet sitter sent this.
The big lad wearing a baby gate like a skirt. A tight fitting skirt.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How it started/ how it's going? Definitely thought it was a different type of spam from the preview.
Text message with a misleading preview
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Ok, fair enough, let’s revise it to don‘t shit where you OR I eat.”
Damned cat cleaning herself right at my spot on the table
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Dichotomy of man: we have enough trees I’ve gotten into forest stewardship. OTOH, fuck elm trees. They know why.
Elm trees are bastards who get even harder to split over time.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I realize this is such an odd thought to have just before bed in 2026: Matt Trakker had no choice but to park like a That Guy whenever he went to the store.
MASK car with doors that open up and out.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Anyone else notice Women's Rights went backwards right around the time Virginia Slims stopped being a thing?
Cigarette ad that made it clear slimmer smokes were lady smokes
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Not awful enough I have to watch Everton get jobbed by this ref, I gotta look at Florian Wirtz's entry in the Cole Palmer Memorial Award for Poor Tonsorial Decisions contest.
The cover photo from r/justfuckmyshitup
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I've been working on a Slack bot/ CLI for automating tasks for me and I am excited to see how this playlist comes out.
Slackbot named Sandy asking Spotify to make a mix from Hot Chip, Tyler Childers, Harry Styles (damned kid!), Sturgill Simpson and Luke Slater.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"It's a vibe-slop life/ for us!"
Annie in better times. Like The Great Depression.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I thought no one could ever fill the Marcus Smart-sized hole in my heart, but I am starting to have feelings here.
A fake Tiger Beat cover staring Hugo Gonzalez because I am totes in love.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
i.redd.it/rhzda58918u4... Now we know who he was talking to.
“Get a Brian! MORANS
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Police sketch of the guilty party.
A very good boy seemingly unbothered by being bad.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
If any of these image generators were worth a damn, they'd let me rework a photo of Pam Bondi from today to include her perfect co-counsel.
Lying Cat from Saga.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
You know it's bad when I've gotten to the point I am posting this in a work chat.
“And what is good, Phaedrus,
And what is not good—
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?”

― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
the timeline feature in Immich has become one of my Must Check places since I set it up.
A good dog in a good place 3 years ago
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Today's Far Side calendar hit a little too close to home given the current Department of War.
Stereotypical looking '50s general leaning back in a meeting: "On the other hand, gentlemen, what if we gave a war and *everybody* came?"
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
On second thought, I should have kept the thinking part collapsed.
Claude AI trying to think how to let me down gently
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
And gorgeous as hell, which is annoying.
The Mighty Thor, by Jack Kirby
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Love this from Liar's Bench Beer
Liar's Bench has renamed their No Dice temporarily to remove the D
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Since when?
New Yorker Shuffalo telling me it lacks a classical education. How did it even get in the building with such poor connections. One does loathe the hoi polloi being in a role to provide education.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I'll be sure to ask him at our next meetup. And to complain about "Low T GOP". He's clearly been letting Frank Thomas write his screeds again.
A picture of me making an incredibly brave and trenchant point.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We've had cats for over a decade and I've yet to write "cat food" on a grocery list.
Far Side cartoon wherein a dog attempts to lure his nemesis into the dryer with a sign promising "CAT FUD". Left unclear to the reader is what the end game is and whether this is an attempt at murder or a fairly harmless prank.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In my normal routine doing the New Yorker’s Shuffalo when the name of the dog from Hagar the Horrible pops into my name, unbidden.
Letter wheel with S N E T R E E which inspired Snert.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
From Tom’s Crossing

There are sadder sights in life, but pin that one up on the cork board just the same.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
One of these names does not inspire confidence.
4 knives, including one named "Slippy Sendy"
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Tom’s Crossing is just amazing. From start to … well, a sixth of the way to the finish.
There are ways we know things. Sometimes it's laid out neat and clear, how somethin happened, how somethin's gonna happen, like an itinerary or, in the case of who someone is, like a yearbook pic- ture with a résumé stapled behind. But as you've likely figured out by now, that's not generally how things unfold in the thick of things. That
first impression is too often just a way to not see what happens next. The clearest view, on the other hand, demands an awareness mindful of the slow but uninterruptible accretion of detail. But that is a pro- cess that tolerates no rush. This is what some might call slow time but is really just time in all its fullness, especially when the matter at hand
is real friends, which is perhaps our greatest try at fullness. Fer now, let us agree that this recountin so far does require some effort to coerce from memory and instincts a reasonable assessment and picture of those involved; though quite rightly it seems equally fair to expect now and then some effort here to refresh our collective
understandin of folks depicted here.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Ned Flanders' Beatnik parents, maaannn
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
IT just added spyware to control our machines and it's named "Splashtop Streamer" and this is the icon in my toolbar. SEEMS LEGIT
An icon that looks like a 13 year-old put a semen spray emoji on my desktop. Right in my eyes, even.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Have you guys considered getting an Oura ring and writing an AI integration so a computer can make you feel bad about it? Because at least one maniac did! Could be you had exactly 182 restless periods last night.
Someone using AI to reinvent both the hairshirt and fortunetelling.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Yes, but have you considered the NYT says middle Minnesota is A-OK with this?
The "Paper of Record" on their "talk to white folks in the nearest Localz Only dive bar no sane visitor would go near".
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
What a country: the same day RFK Jr declares the war is over, I get the counter-insurgency manual in the mail.
Copy of Delish High Protein
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
In case you were getting worried about the Rise of AI, please know I am wasting everyone‘s carbon credits asking shit like this and then marking the feedback useful.
Some idiot finishing up a question with an AI bot about hanging picture frames by asking how to do it if there were no walls in the world.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Can’t decide whether to burn this or try to scam the nearest archaeological society.
Weird branch from our firewood
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
You can tell there were zero user interviews in the process of packaging this magnetic bowl for holding loose parts during a job because it came with those nuts and washers and who wants to finish and find left over parts?
Brand new magnetic tool bowl
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Why yes, work filter, I am petty enough to wonder if you know about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotless_I -- spoiler: they don't.
Me being incredibly small and using the wonderful Espanso text replacement tool to ensure I can express myself more fully.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Gee, I wonder why my Amazon review didn't get approved.
Perfectly valid review of an $8 screw that you can get for half the price elsewhere or easily find a substitute for.
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Tom @tclancy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I am obscenely jealous of whomever works at our local frou-frou grocery because apparently they've never had an intrusive thought. Way to ruin my day.
Sign that is telling me not to poke the watermelons which is OBVIOUSLY going to make me think about nothing but poking watermelons all day and I had to suppress the urge to point this out to other potential pokers.
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