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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1 more thing to know about fires while camping in CA your fire permit is a contract it says even if you start a wildfire by accident you're liable for damages i'm not saying don't get a fire permit i'm saying it's your incentive to BE FUCKING CAREFUL never unattended / 10ft clear / water bucket

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

here's a tip if someone uses the word "would" in an argument there's no argument they're making shit up out of suppositions they wish were true — i'm telling this to you so you recognize it: when it's being done to you and when you're doing it yourself

post by ricky hanya where he's parrying someone's logical argument telling him he perpetuating the misidentification of jane doe by saying

"if it wasn't here, then we *would* have at least some journalists writing articles about eh wrong woman being identified"

* emphasis mine

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

he looks more and more like an oiled potato every day

an oiled potato just kidding he's your oiled president

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

most confusing thing about my impostor syndrome is how shocking it is when people treat me with deference or respect like, does nobody realize i'm an impostor??

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

mine from a trip to méxico 2017 or so

a large, square, overhead, electronic billboard on a single pole that apparently runs on windows and is malfunctioning because it shows a patterned background with a small pixel-font message that repeats 3 times reading ventana de reproducción1 (reproduction window1), and a glimpse on the right side of the OS or application that's running the billboard

in front of the billboard are aerial cables crisscrossing it

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"one song" the podcast that at minute 45 of a 75-min episode is STILL telling you what they're going to be talking about later in the episode

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

theory: it's not that our times are any more exhausting than other times in particular it's how we receive and engage with "our times" that causes exhaustion in crumbs to be deciphered quickly one after another and barely two in a row about the same topic

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

maybe in a couple weeks or months i'll remember to re-follow david simon who knows?

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i love a summer rebound with highs in the 90s in october no i really do! these fucking flies tho HUGE like they don't know it has become time to die so they keep growing

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

confused last night i heard something hilarious because it was spoken by stephen colbert in strangers with candy emailed it to myself as a teeshirt idea: "i may not be much but i'm all i think about" but when i looked it up just now it's originally by anne lamott???

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

my emily litella memes rely on an impossible demographic old enough that you remember the canonical way she makes errors young enough that you know what a meme is

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

stupid prizes: s trophy antis trophy catas trophy

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

read the thread, i disagree it's wheel of fortune because it doesn't matter what the answer is in fact it's frustrating if you ~do~ know it you're yelling why don't you solve it already?? while they're buying vowels milking it for money > just solving the problem: quintessentially american

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oh god i just heard the plural of practice: practicies

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

feels like people don't have an intuitive sense of the diff between premier & premiere

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

can't believe it's taken me this long to figure out the UK police are ska all over and sharp!

uk cops in formal wear featuring black and white checkerboard

uk cops in skirt suits featuring black and white checkerboard hat trim

uk cop in perfect eye makeup just pointy enough to say it's cateye and tight uni that's just ungh (!) and features black and white checkerboard

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i just paid my tax debt all of it pls clap

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

you can't tell me this isn't sidney sweeney

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if you find my body, wrinkled and hollow and dry emptied from the inside by expulsion just know i went and defrosted that home-made chicken stock that'd been taking space in the last corner of the freezer since the year... (well let's just leave it at that) and drank some

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hadn't been down to gilman in a while renewed my card last night am 🖤-ened by the kids nobody under 50 shoulda had ~any~ interest in the old-man bands on the bill (& we were there) but the kids ruled the pit SO hard as many girls as boys! trans kids! new games all the energy none of the fear

the 924 gilman st membership card for 2026/2027

to go into the famous all-ages punk club in berkeley you have to become a member for the year ($5) and sign the back, which is a sort of contract that you'll abide by their rules:

NO RACISM
NO SEXISM
NO HOMOPHOBIA
NO TRANSPHOBIA
NO ALCOHOL
NO DRUGS
NO FIGHTING
NO STAGEDIVING
NO MAJOR LABEL BANDS

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

to be fair, ripple is just the aggregate section of WaPo, and that article came from the hill not that WaPo can't do its own unforced bottom-hitting tho, let's look at A1 right now:

wapo's leading headline on september 28 says:

at every turn, trumps ideas for aiding U.S. consumers run into resistance

two things to quibble: we're now saying these are ideas? (but not starting a war that closes the strait, that wasn't an idea) and that they run into... resistance?

i mean sure, if reality undermines a dumb idea, let's say the idea is being resisted

my IDEA for flying by flapping my arms is running into RESISTANCE

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

shows i'd easily bump off the list simply because OITNB did better to the genre, has better commentary, is plain *better* house eastound reindeer gambit mare chernobyl that's the easy ones, no contention there are more, tho they require argumentation and it may boil down to prefs but THESE?

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

sure this is a new sin, negative tracking but typographically speaking, they've been scraping the bottom for a while now

wapo headline that crashes ascenders and descenders

from the time of biden's stimulus plan

wapo headline that crashes ascenders and descenders

wapo headline that crashes ascenders and descenders 3 times

from the time just after the bone-saw murder

wapo headline that crashes ascenders and descenders two times and in one case the descender goes through the ascender

from the last presidential election

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

whoso would be above the law must be outside its protections, too — iono just sounds like something emerson woulda said

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

degraded myself way down to being happy about a harry kane goal to no benefit because after the counterfactual WC final that played today spain still won

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

can we just examine the absolute fantasy and what it tells bout the people imagining it that anyone is getting job interviews right now

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

iono what the trigger-warning dog dies in movie discourse is exactly but i tried watching flow yesterday and i couldn't get through 5 minutes, aggregated as i skipped around because even if he lives and it ends happy THAT CAT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE MY JOHNNY AND HE WAS IN TROUBLE THE WHOLE TIME

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the imperial boomerang theory can't be right even if the tools of colonial repression are turned inward wouldn't you also need the installation of a tinpot ruler whose interests are superficial, self-enriching, and ego-driven and his policies friendly primarily if not solely to US business?

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

beleaguered & besieged!

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

art but make it attendant to the ghoulishness at the white house no really, one of these is ~not~ a painting by mark stock

a weirdly lit major domo or whatever with a green and golden background signifying opulence

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

italian coach vehemently arguing with his 2nd in the most my family talking about ~anything~ ever

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

wait also don't make me look but did any star trek properties make the list?

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

breaking bad should not be #1 because it betrays its own premise: a *chemistry* teacher who solves problems with *chemistry* justbuysagunandmakesitkilleverybodybutwithoutany *chemistry* ?? and it's not a mere suggestion of a premise it's recurring it wraps seasons it's in the SHOW'S LOGO

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

surprised he didn't go with …oh iono… AMERICA UNDUM-TELLIGENCE or something

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

in search of a sonnet about william carlos william sounds like some kind of pun but it's not it's real it refers to WCW as the doctor or good doctor it was a trick a broken sonnet you read it once & it made little sense but if you read line 1 then 14 then 2 then 13 etc it came together

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i never get tired of trotting this one out

pirate* campaign poster for the runoff election between matt gonzales and gavin newsom for mayor of san francisco

photos of then–worst president ever, bush, candidate newsom, and governor schartznager with the caption "compassionate conservatives"

* pirate because as funny as it was to fold newsom into the ranks of republicans, nobody took credit for the poster, certainly not matt gonzales

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

teams have lost their fucking minds or something two months since the world cup is a short time to forget how to play usual stalwards, germany–netherlands, look like uncoached amateurs like when we were kids, all in a bunch kicking at the ball into each other

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

adidas' last dance with die mannschaft is maybe payback for the betrayal?

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

alphabetize a fucking menu FFS

screenshot of the tools menu in adobe acrobat where if you're looking for something you know the name of, you still need to read every line until you find it because it's not alphabetized fill and sign is followed by add comment is followed by convert to PDF is followed by add a stamp jesus christ

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

love it that cookies permissions are basically if you say no it just means we'll ask again next time if you say no it just means we'll ask again next time if you say no it just means we'll ask again next time if you say no it just until you accidentally say yes and then they never ask again

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

one of my favorite genres of friend is the one who *every* time you see them they forswear the last thing they were on because they found a brand-new thing to get on and WOW does this seem like the right thing to be on, so excited!

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

insurance: you must use a surgeon from this list for your combined broken zygomatic arch and broken jaw operation surgeon 1: we don't any of that surgeon 2: we only do one of those surgeon 3: we do breast reduction $20K's worth of TRUE STORY (and it was only $20K 'cause i went to the county hosp)

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

zap the pee ram with the four-key bongo and other things we used to say in 2004

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

on the one hand i'm not sure i see the usefulness in this like if i carry a book i buy in omaha to timbuktu and log it from there & when i do there's a dot in timbuktu, which is gonna help font-pairings seekers even more than before… how? on the other hand i'm gonna put dots ALLLLL OVER my town

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the awful woeful wool fool —— what kinda business do you think that might be?

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the thing about billy the kid is holy shit is that a corduroy cardigan and how do i get one too??

closeup of the billy the kid tintype showing his rad cardigan sweater with a thick corduroy-like texture, like much bigger than what you think of when you normally think of corduroy

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the A.V. @theav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

for a brief, brief period i worked in tech the company made an internet-enabled walkietalkie so you could talk with anybody any distance at the push of a button as long as it was paired WITH YOUR CELL PHONE every day i felt job security required i kept quiet about what a cellphone already does

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