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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hard to imagine this thing wouldn't just become a magnet for vandalism as soon as it isn't surrounded by troops night and day.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I miss Roger Ebert. As you were.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Brad’s 3am brain: Why doesn’t Schwab have a product designed to handle all of the activities of your daily financial life? Like white glove bill paying and subscription management and that stuff? Brad: why are you telli— Brad’s 3am brain: IT COULD BE CALLED SCHWAB DE VIVRE Brad: You suck

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My kiddo's favorite horror movie is It (1+2). Mine is It Follows. I want to do a double feature, but which to do first? It could be It/It Follows, so that It Follows follows It, or It could be It Follows/It so that when we watch It Follows, It follows.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This lil fella is the most relatable person on my feed today

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Flav = Cap Paris = Tony Stark? Ok, fill out the squad.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Honestly struggling to remember when the last time I referred to that social media platform in an in-person conversation. It’s like asking when the last time I burned a cd was. No fucking clue.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hello Bluesky my old friend I've come to scroll with you again

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Hel M @purplehel.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Does anyone I know have the ability to foster two cats for a (possibly long) while? a young lady i know is losing her housing and has no one to take her cats. the cats are both sweethearts, tho one of them isn't fixed. DC area, tho I could drive a bit to drop the cats off if someone could take them.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Some days, my mind feels like a mine field.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Has anyone started innerpeacemaxxing yet?

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Spitballing, but I suspect you could go a step further and connect a growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine to incipient fascism.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Not included in the piece titled "Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump": A single quote from a single libertarian issuing a warning about Trump at any point in the last 10 years. Seems like an avoidable oversight.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Like Kendrick, political as hell precisely because it doesn't bother to acknowledge the haters. They're irrelevant, beneath attention. And nothing is more intolerable to fascists than the thought that their enemies are cool, enjoying themselves, and not thinking about them.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

change a letter, ruin a cocktail: Gun & Tonic

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

News gathering is not profitable. It never has been, it never will be. Ads subsidized it for a long time, but that model is over. Subscriptions and donations are what sustain good reporting. And the philanthropy piece needs to be broadly distributed or we’re at the whim of fickle venous billionaires

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The utter dismantling of once-great institutions, one after the next, has been infuriating and depressing in equal measure.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Seconded. Delightful documentary.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I think I have finally learned to describe myself. I am a macrocynic but a microoptimist.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Legacy media summed up.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I have never felt so personally seen (or perhaps scrutinized) as when I read this piece by @monteiro.bsky.social. This is me and my wife. Also, I am incredibly lucky. (All of his writing is this good, go subscribe) buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

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How to avoid listening to Radiohead

Read all the way to the bottom for your goodie stocking. 💰 Support my bullshit for $2/mo💰 This week’s question comes to us from Mike Jacobsen: I love...

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

If there were a Spotify Wrapped but for food, fruit and yogurt w/ granola would easily be my top track, but I don’t have any idea what genre it would be.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

"Duty to perform" is a new one on me. Adding "for everyone" is next-level.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Fun fact: we kept our glass bottles for recycling out on the floor because our hamster liked to roll her ball into them, bowling style, and make a huge crashing sound. I miss Daisy The Hamster.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

People clean while listening to Earl Sweatshirt, right? That’s gotta be a thing.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

At some point, everyone is forced to confront their frailties, face the darkness, and ask themselves the question we all must face sooner or later: Can I Kick It?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/10/2025

It's not Democrats that have introduced thousands of bills focusing on trans people, it's republicans. This dichotomy where Republicans obsess over these things but it's Dems that get tagged as being obsessed drives me up a wall.

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lakeside lesbian @clover.blacksky.app · 20/10/2025

i'm starting to realize people are really saying "solidarity is too hard for me" when they complain about purity tests

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/10/2025

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

just about my favorite thing that happened this year.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Equal rights for trans people is frankly a low bar. Trans people go through so much. I think they deserve a bonus right, as a treat.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Might need to buy stock in whoever makes inflatable costumes.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

One of those observations that hits you really hard.

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🎃 Emily 🎃 @emmy.baby · 30/09/2025

Okay, funny bookstore category

Book section labeled "Most Stolen Books"

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Sexy Devonian Stone @devonianstone.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

my kid's rights are not window dressing, amd they are not trivial my child is not a "distraction" or a "purity test" and my kid is not an incomprehensible alien your willingness to sell out a disfavored group preemptively is a huge red flag go learn some shit #NeverNewsome

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Look for my new children's book "80 Different Vaccines, and Beyond Vaccines" in which I make up lots of new vaccines that rhyme with animal names and we go visit them at the vaccine zoo.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

True mensches (decent human beings) are willing to hear when someone says, "you failed here; there's repair that's needed." True mensches are willing to ask what might be useful if they're not sure. I just had a conversation with someone who listened & responded like a grownup. It was refreshing.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Concerts (most recently TVoTR) 2. A good cocktail on the porch in great weather 3. The smell of a book 4. Making my friends laugh 5. Whatever the hell was happening on this strange night

"Whiskey, neat" said the new customer at the bar.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This is sweet, and I am suddenly wondering whether I could handle being called 'Bradder'. Oh who am I kidding? I've been called worse.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Scenes with Grey: Grey (working through a puzzle): How did I get here? Me: Yes, that is one of the things you may ask yourself

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Hey you. Yes you. Do you need a little break from, well, everything? If you missed the Mood Music takeover by Melana Cadiz, she picked mellow songs and we talked about her life and creative process. You can still hear it on the archives for a few more days: spinitron.com/WOWD/pl/2117...

Promo for Melana Cadiz's guest appearance on Mood Music on WOWD, Takoma Radio

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Just me taking a moment to remember that time I found Waldo amidst thousands of people at a music festival.

Me and someone who looks like Waldo, at a music festival

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

At this point it's probably not helpful for them to actually find the shooter, since they've already decided all of us were the shooter.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.

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