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just a millennial drifting from platform to platform.

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Riley @riley.northsky.social · 7h
Please enjoy my Murderbot pumpkin (without making direct eye contact with it)
A white pumpkin being held aloft by a hand in an outdoor scene. There are concentric circles carved out of it in the pattern of TV Murderbot's helmet.
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 11h
Did a presentation to the director-level leadership team at work for the first time in like 7 years AND didn't choke, please clap
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 12h
Re: The scary media as kids meme — Poltergeist? ✅ No problem, to my Catholic mom's horror Ernest Scared Stupid? ❌ Nightmare fuel, absolute trauma, hard quit the film, never felt so betrayed
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
[A parody of MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD, in which the kindly Mr Rogers takes us to see local things in his town.]
 
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MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD

MR ROGERS:

Hi there

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Today, I’d like to take you to visit some of my neighbours… 

[He puts his coat on to leave his house]  

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At a wonderful local event,
 
[We see the cute toy-town diorama of his village famous from the TV show. The camera pulls out…]

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The Data Center protest.

[The camera has pulled out further and now we see a huge DATA CENTER at the edge  of town]. 

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MR ROGERS [joining a crowd protesting outside the Data Center]:

The Data Center is an enormous, windowless, endlessly humming building outside of our town

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…Which has tripled energy prices, drank all the water, and created four jobs.

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[to camera, as if kindly explaining to the viewing children]:

Four jobs! Golly!

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LADY PROTESTOR [probably NAOMI KLEIN, holding a sign]:

In a way, the Data Center is kind of a vivid metaphor for a future we feel locked out of!

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MR ROGERS [to camera again]:

A metaphor.

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That’s something that lets us clarify our feelings about something else. 

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LADY PROTESTOR:
How do you feel, Mr Rogers?

MR ROGERS:
I feel like bringing down the government!

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MR ROGERS [now holding a sign and protesting]:

It’s good to have neighbors.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
logging on to stupid final fantasy to water my stupid glazenuts because they're DRAMA QUEENS
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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 20/06/2026
werner herzog with a speech bubble over the quoted post
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026
Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...
Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie: 
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“what if women get organized” how about what if men didn’t rape us
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW @hookieduke.bsky.social PIZZAMAS SHIRT? This is not a drill.
pizzamas.com
Pan Pizza John Shirt
Pizza John is the GOAT. Sometimes you have to put down the pan flute and dig into a pan pizza. This shirt is for people who are a fan of the wild.
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Lee Worms @gleefulworms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Commissions! open! Please DM me if you have any inquiries <3 #OC #Art ~
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imagine if I didn't have to sit on hold with multiple roadblocks every 90 days to get this prescription for a non-controlled substance that has been approved for 99 years. Imagine that. What a world we'd live in.
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Tissa @dtissagirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kids are the best people
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When your cat kind of forgets he's sitting near you but then he looks over at you and is like, oh right — *starts purring* That's the good stuff
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You know, I really resent that bullshit marketing and scammers have robbed me of the joy I had in my 20s that when my phone rang it was because someone who wanted to talk to me was calling.
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It's me, Nico. @nicasio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Times are getting a bit tough on my end, and having some work lined up would help immensely. If you have any need of editing or sensitivity reading, please keep me in mind!
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One of those weekends. Strong start.
A to-do list that's a little less than half checked off.
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alicia 🍳 NYCC AA I-24 @acorviart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
me: draws Real Animal guy who has only seen Real Animal in the context of one Entertainment Medium: whoa is this fanart of Entertainment Medium
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
can we at least agree that one of the weirder things we've done as humans is invent a scented trash bin liner.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the vvitch is a horror story about what new england was like before dunkin
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i have given rice cakes a bad rap in my head because i grew up in the 90s diet culture era but sometimes i just want the fucking Texture™️
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I will never not read about Boatlift.
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 11/09/2026
Uh hi and it's in my colours???
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My mother was set to fly from Detroit to New York the morning of 9/11. We didn't have information about where the planes were coming from, and I was at school, so I spent a few hours stewing in fear that she was dead.
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Spent some time this morning rereading Tom Junod's fine piece of journalism. Memory is a funny thing, for each of us.
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The Falling Man
Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in i...
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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Absolute S-tier level of dudes rocking
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What's the over/under on Blizzard management doing mass layoffs now that they've finally agreed to acknowledge union terms.
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I guess "started a garden" but I feel like I haven't reached the concerning fervor levels necessary to qualify for a midlife crisis. Not ph-testing the soil yet. Am getting more interested than I thought I would be in the bugs that show up, though.
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
RT with your home river: Saying the Mississippi River is my "home" river feels like trying to claim Lake Superior: a deadly degree of hubris. But I did grow up next to it, and watched it break its banks and flood in 1993, so there's that.
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
TRUMP: I can Godzilla whenever I like. if the 9/11 boys, the terrorrorists, came and wanted to eat this building, I'd Godzilla them. bam. not a lot of people can turn into Godzilla, Obama can't, but I can. Could have done it in 2001 but I was golfing, big shame, oops BBC: Trump remembers the fallen
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
casually cruising linkedin job listings as a form of self-harm
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Watching a series of very technical tutorials at work for a new piece of software and I'm always amazed by how the instructors fail to explain why something matters. I don't just need the technical info, I need to know the use case. 🫠
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
jfc, i just got an email that the nytimes is increasing my subscription cost by 60% in one go. this is the only news service i pay for and i was raised in a household that believes in funding journalism but also it's 2026 and my housemate lost his job and we're all steadily going broke over here 💀
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
One of my favorite, underappreciated political books is "The Bush Tragedy" by Jacob Weisberg, which justifies the sin of psychoanalyzing a public figure. Jake now writes about Bush's legacy of passivity in the face of the destruction of what good he did. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/g...
newyorker.com
George W. Bush’s Code of Silence
He lovingly paints immigrants, praises free trade and diplomacy, and rues the coarsening of American politics. Why won’t he talk about Donald Trump?
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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
a nymph's rest
drawing inspired by part of Waterhouse's painting "Hylas and the Nymphs", except I'm focusing on only three nymphs, partly immersed in water, enjoying the sun, no longer looking at Hylas (he doesn't exist here) but enjoying themselves in their corner of the pond
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 02/09/2026
Underrated god-tier advice
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Caoimhe Deyn @empressofkashyr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Phase one of trying to get a prescription refilled involved 9 phone calls over the course of 90 minutes. The refill has not been obtained. The job is not done. Healthcare is a full time job.
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Truly cannot explain the weirdness of Boston Moving Day if you have not been there. 66-70% of the leases in Boston end on August 31/begin on Sept 1. The City is MOSTLY rentals. The City does not sleep for this 24 hour period. It is literally insane.
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hey, so, I know four people who have gotten into traffic incidents in the past few days, idk if Ford Mercury is in retrograde or what but please give yourself some extra time to get where you're going.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/01/2026
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Go-Man Vs. the Star Dragon OUT NOW! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Every drag show this weekend is going to have to make some very hard choices
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Narnia came to me at a time of great transition in my life, and the idea of permanent belonging altered my chemistry. "Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia." Over the years, it became a reminder that we're always allowed inside books. Even Susan. Especially Susan.
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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I was in the car listening to NPR when the news about Dolly broke, and I said "No!" out loud. And then like two minutes later I hopped a curb on a slow right-turn and rattled myself pretty good. Environmental storytelling, much to my chagrin.
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