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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22h
Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 16h
Techbros trying to speed up the right wing protomanosphere fear that women will replace men with electronic devices, as though men weren’t already doing enough to make that happen.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Australopithecus 3 million years ago:
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026
no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave
two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 09/10/2026
Jim Cantore, mister lean into hurricane force winds and jump up and down in thundersnow, surprised a mainland side resident at Miramar Beach wearing an OU hat would be looking forward to landfall.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 08/10/2026
Uncle Lewis and Aunt Bethany in the waiting room except that Uncle Lewis can only whisper yell.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 08/10/2026
Ok, has anyone read “A Canticle for Lebowitz”? Think Mrs. Grales/Rachel.
Biden next to Trump but it kinda looks like Trump is growing out of Biden?
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We are going to erase the national debt by selling chances to destroy Trump shit with a sledgehammer
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 07/10/2026
Happy to announce my developing headache from not sleeping.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 07/10/2026
Yes, Teams, my microphone is muted. I'm allergic to b̶u̶l̶l̶s̶mornings.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 07/10/2026
This mandatory training could have been an email. Yes, it's 3AM here.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 07/10/2026
A Google sign-in notification for Auto-Latex Equations feels like it really could use the proper orthography for LaTeX
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 05/10/2026
Also the touchscreens do _not_ like Florida sun.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 05/10/2026
It's amazing that someone who was seemingly outspoken about 2016 Trump is now kissing the ass of a shared community leader (DHH) who has devolved into *phobia and racism. As a former Louisville Twitter person said: "make it through a post without glazing DHH challenge"
LinkedIn post: People have been begging David to loosen his grip on Rails or even to walk away entirely for 20 years. Now that he's signaling interest in walking away, the same people are pissed as hell. Smart.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 05/10/2026
Salem’s Lot (1979) Pretty sure I buried myself under the covers for years after seeing it on HBO and probably is part of the reason I started sleeping face down.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 05/10/2026
Reminds me of
McDonald’s Philippines Chicken McDo
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 04/10/2026
Ok, who regularly does adolescent/amateurish parodies of songs in stressful situations? For example, my “lab mix” 25 years ago had intestinal issues in her crate for the 😱 time and I just blurted out, “Poops, I did it again…”
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 04/10/2026
Why in the bloody hell is someone shooting mortar shells off in Largo, Florida on October 3rd?
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026
The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 01/10/2026
“I forget you have a 502 number” says my son whose phone number is tied to Pensacola.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 30/09/2026
I found a recording of the "Good Grief" tour stop on 2026-09-19 and "Just a Kid" is still getting to me. (It's about her friend and former manager, Chad Joseph, who died from lung cancer in 2020) [Live @ SiriusXM] performance www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvBj...
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Sara Bareilles — Just A Kid [Live @ SiriusXM]
YouTube video by SiriusXM
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 30/09/2026
Oh shit I was in Atlanta too does that mean I get a free trip to DC?
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 30/09/2026
I don’t know, Sara… I’m having trouble feeling it…
Sara Bareilles quote from “Home”: “You don’t need to worry everything’s already alright”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 29/09/2026
Wife at the "Good Grief" concert: [Sara] has a set of lungs (particularly "Still Crying" and "Gravity") Me (internally): www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN8x... and also "...an E3 and an A5 in the same set?" (No, she didn't do "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", because the audience would have been a puddle.)
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Vocal ANALYSIS of my FAVORITE YOUTUBE VIDEO! Sara Bareilles singing "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
YouTube video by The Charismatic Voice
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 28/09/2026
This one for me.
Calvin and Hobbes strip:
::Calvin hammering nails into coffee table::
Calvin's mom:Calvin! What are you DOING to the coffee table ?!?
Calvin: *
Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question of what?
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 26/09/2026
Is ordering a pizza so complicated that we need a fucjing AI interface for jt?
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Myoclonic Jerk @myoclonicjerk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It wasn’t just the 7 men that showed up for the raping, either. Texts were sent out to the entire frat making it known that she was available for them. Not one called the cops. Not one rescued her. Every one should be complicit.
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Dawn @502eire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am once again begging business owners (including self-employed people) to understand that if you don’t have money to pay your taxes year after year your business model does not work
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Giant Space Ants @spaceants.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the game between South Alabama and Kentucky shows up abbreviated as a War of 1812 rematch
graphic reading

USA vs. UK
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>
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Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028.
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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Me, setting the blender to MAX with the lid off: "technology is truly advancing beyond our control"
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 26/09/2026
I was jabbed in the back nearly early morning with a St X baseball player’s pencil in Geography class freshman year and then same guy (because alphabetical) tried to stuff my fat ass into a locker in PE. No one said a damn thing or even gave the dude a weird look.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 24/09/2026
Apparently, Atlanta has Waymos (in partnership with Uber) and burrito taxi robots.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 24/09/2026
In Midtown Atlanta and wife has discovered her eleventieth place that sucks less than Florida.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 24/09/2026
All this time I’ve been scratching my head at “When did a Tommy Tuberville team win a bowl game to decide the NCAAF champion?” And it was because USC vacated theirs.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 23/09/2026
Not bad
Fox Theatre view from our hotel room in Midtown ATL
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 22/09/2026
I guess it’s not too shocking 3.5 miles SW of the University of Florida in Gainsville
Bitcoin accepted sign at a sushi restaurant in Gainesville
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 22/09/2026
“The mosquitoes responsible for spreading dengue are daytime biters.” 😳
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 21/09/2026
Apparently, the main selling point for the Dem candidate for FL-13 (Pinellas except for eastern portions of St Pete) is affordability (with a mention of Luna's corruption).
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 19/09/2026
Sara Bareilles and Philippa Soo on a cast recording?? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_th...
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Into the Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording) - Wikipedia
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/09/2026
...and what do you call this act? The Technocrats!
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/09/2026
when ur corrupt oligarch homies fail to stop the release of a movie that documents ur words and actions
a disheveled and corpulent Elon Musk looks up in annoyed surprise, a glass of wine in one hand and french fries in the other
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 17/09/2026
I’m annoyed that I keep watching the “Drop a Pin Show” (Barstool related?) pop geography quizzes because the answers are soooo bad (yeah yeah intentional)
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 17/09/2026
tp88.us/books_all.html I'm 8 books short of last year's total, but 500 pages ahead
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Books Reading Visualization
Thomas Powell's reading visualization — interactive chart of books read, all books including in-progress.
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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 17/09/2026
I’ve been in far too happy a mood lately so… Listening to Sara Bareilles’ Good Grief Tour Set List music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
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Sara Bareilles' Good Grief Tour Set List on Apple Music
Playlist · 23 Songs
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