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log̷o, respawned dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My god... the coffee scale is screaming

My right hand pressing into a small coffee scale on a wooden cutting board. The scale's display shows "EEEE"

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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's an essay I wrote on the roaring twenties in Cairo, when the Egyptian capital was packed with dance halls, bars, and cafés where larger-than-life stars delighted local and foreign audiences alike. Learn about the drinks and bites that kept the shows running 🥂

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A Taste of Cairo's Roaring Twenties

The city’s food was just as sensational as its nightlife, and the era’s celebrities had their favorites.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 27/09/2026

The reviews are rolling in...

Screenshot of a LinkedIn comment that reads "It's progressive now to discriminate on the basis of race, see, and s.o.? I thought that had been illegal since July 2, 1964 when The Civil Rights Act was signed into law."

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

hey, this rules

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026

It's really comin down out there (civilization)

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 25/09/2026

🔥from @sbworkersunited.org: “Starbucks has abandoned its core value of belonging to satisfy a right-wing agenda. Instead of standing up for the baristas and corporate workers that make the Starbucks experience what it is, the company has turned its back on us to curry favor with Florida politicians”

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 25/09/2026

Starbucks recently settled a lawsuit with Florida over its DEI practices. While it has a long history of projecting itself as a progressive company, this capitulation is just the latest example of the company wearing its liberal bona fides lightly—and discarding them once they become inconvenient.

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Starbucks’ DEI Backslide

Starbucks wants you to think of it as a progressive company. But as its recent DEI lawsuit settlement shows, that reputation is has always been superficial.

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Starbucks’ DEI Backslide

Starbucks wants you to think of it as a progressive company. But as its recent DEI lawsuit settlement shows, that reputation is has always been superficial.

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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

they've started doing ad reads for Claude on @99pi.org and I'm devastated - a podcast dedicated to the beauty, meaning and intention of the human-designed world is now being paid to suggest cutting that human element out completely

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 25/09/2026

I think about this scene literally every day.

Peep Show, Mark is sitting on his bed while getting ready in the morning, looking at himself in the mirror. The text says, "Socks before OR after trousers, but never socks before pants, that's the rule. Makes a man look scary... like a chicken"

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow's article: Starbucks is actively ruining what's left of its progressive image. Sign up to get the newsletter in your inbox: thepourover.coffee/subscribe

Two options meme. First option is "Salvage what's left of its progressive reputation" and the second is "Settle a DEI lawsuit with Florida"

Then the guy sweating is Starbucks

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 24/09/2026

Me: I'm going to write a short, newsy piece on the Starbucks DEI lawsuit settlement for my newsletter. Also me:

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Pages 5
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Characters 13541
Characters excluding spaces 11437

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the horse is spitting fire

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 23/09/2026

For what it's worth, the frontrunners are currently all pop culture references in varying levels of niche. Lenny and Carl, Johnny and Ronny, Walter and Otis.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 23/09/2026

We're working on a list of potential names for the two kittens we'll be adopting in a few weeks, and some possible options just make me laugh so much. For example, imagine a cat named Craig.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Right, I’ve had enough of this now. We’ve got left of centre governments in Scotland and the UK. Every public body needs to be off X and finding appropriate alternatives, right now.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 22/09/2026

Love to move into a new rental and play a whole new round of "Wait, where's that smell coming from" and "Why did the floor do that"

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Joe Audino @joeaudino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

well that just makes all this even more embarrassing

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026

you think it's a coincidence that the most evil and corrupt people alive want you to believe that trans people are the real problem?

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 21/09/2026

It's restaurant week in a few places, so upping my piece about how it got a reputation for being cringe, and why it actually still rules www.weareravenous.com/restaurant-w...

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Restaurant Week Is Good, Actually

Chefs and diners have been plenty skeptical of Restaurant Week's discounted menus. But what if it's a better way to learn what a city's restaurants have to offer?

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 21/09/2026

Supposed to be writing an article, instead I spent the whole morning researching robot vacuums that aren't cloud-connected or require an app (very hard to find, it turns out).

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Auld Bendy @auldbendy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oi oi nationalise the water you slaaaaagggs!

Danny Dyer among celebrities at water industry protest.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everyone you know is fighting a battle you know nothing about: A terrible war against tiny elves

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"The project, which [the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community] has vehemently opposed, is set to be financed by a contentious $50 million taxpayer subsidy ... KBIC's letter of opposition to the Michigan legislature detailed multiple harms Highland Copper had already caused to the area's wetlands[.]"

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI critics: This is a theft machine for lazy turds with no imagination AI Stans: This is the greatest, most powerful tech in history. It is not a theft machine. There are no original thoughts anymore People Who Created AI: This is a theft machine for lazy turds with no imagination

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 20/09/2026

As a proud Cheesemaker (class of '77),

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh I see you think this has nothing to do with you

Rishi Sunak stood on a lecturn speaking which has a STOP THE BOATS sign on it

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

MSPs from the two largest ‘progressive’ parties in Scotland regularly watch Arthur’s Seat burning from their parliamentary office windows because of climate change

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 18/09/2026

Love that he was also a member of Modest Mouse for a bit for some reason.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 18/09/2026

I get a lot of these spam emails and they always make me laugh because why would private equity be interested in acquiring a micro-niche coffee website that gets a few thousand visitors a month. But after reading the below expose, maybe Jordan's real...

Hi Fionn,

I hope this message finds you well. I am looking to get in touch with you regarding The Pourover. We have a private equity firm that is looking at acquiring businesses in The Pourover's industry.

Are you available this week to discuss the opportunity?

Thank you,
Jordan Thompson
Senior Vice President, Investment Banking

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hundreds of people have been arrested and accused of terrorism offences for holding signs saying they support Palestine Action. But apparently this organised campaign to literally terrorise lifeboat crews and endanger lives isn't terrorism?

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 18/09/2026

I'm not sure British people actually do understand the climate crisis threat, Andy.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 17/09/2026

We moved house at the weekend, and the new place seems to have come with a resident murder of crows. For the past three days they've been hanging out on the big birch trees behind the house. Very appropriate as we get closer to Shocktober, I hope they never leave.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 17/09/2026

The shop's co-owner on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DdWPUqyGzq...

Instagram post from Moka Pot co-owner Nick Carnes (@nicky_carnes) You think alittle paint on the walls and smashed windows is gonna stop us? We’re a community coffee shop. We are here for everyone and anyone. We always have been, and we always will be. #fucknazis

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 16/09/2026

Help people keep trying to engage with me about this article (defending Nespresso??) and I just...

Four images of David Lynch being interviewed, with the word "film" replaced with "article".

First image, he says: As soon as you finish [an article]...
Second image: ...people want to talk about it.
Third image, he closes his eyes and grimaces
Fourth image: ...And it's, um, the [article] is the talking.

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Lamentably Awake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Piddington getting a "we're listening and you have valid concerns" from Nandy is yet another reminder Labour are a far right party. Grannies and vicars holding anti-genocide signs? Terrorism. A village doing far right sedition? Support and indulgence.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/09/2026

i don't think the author intended it this way but to me this reads like "how dare you subject a precious and innocent small business owner to the social media panopticon we built to police the behaviors of the rabble"

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