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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Synthetic performer" calls to mind the brief and weird tv show Greg the Bunny, where the muppets were "fabricated Americans".

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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

AI. Ain't nobody stealing more books than that.

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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 · 14/08/2026

Per her last post: Weird. I remember assholes with torches shouting "Jews will not replace us" before someone got run over and killed in Charlottesville. Don't love seeing that get laughed off, but tell me more about this HR thing you did.

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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

He’s like two weeks away from pivoting to the alt right and running on a GOP ticket for something.

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

Right? "It's an important question". Counterpoint: it isn't.

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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 · 13/02/2026

I've seen a (still somewhat gender-coded) version of this in my career doing user experience in software. The technical building/testing of a product is the "work." Figuring out how to make it useful, safe, and addressing other human concerns is... something else. Usually an obstacle to "the work".

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

Works on so many levels! Ok, just the two. But they are both really good.

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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

Halloween weed? (Halloweed?) In this economy?

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

Wait, are there people out there arguing for 100% unregulated marijuana, like you could sell it to kids? WTF is he arguing against?

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

Question for the author: who is the "you" in that statement? Followup question: who were the libertarians? Ok, I am sure the article probably gestures at the second question somehow. Who cares?

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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 · 09/02/2026

Is Chappell Roan big enough yet?

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

I am genuinely grateful that my worst ideas and opinions have long since drifted off into the ether. I had some pretty bad ones!

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

Also, "a bunch of kids are claiming to be Jain so they aren't forced to spend ~$800/mo on institutional food" doesn't really seem like a cultural 'over-accommodation' problem so much as an outright rejection of specific food service offerings. Just a whole different kind of problem.

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

I think there is a real dichotomy between the "everyone should have to suffer as I did" and "I suffered in ways that others shouldn't have to" mindsets. At least the author is 21 and might someday feel differently.

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

"I’m often doubled over in agony from the problem, for which there is no known cure, so I decided to ask for a single room in a campus dorm where I could endure those moments in private." This was me before I knew I had celiac. I later had surgery to remove intestinal damage. 'Gluten intolerance'.

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

"Some diagnoses are real and serious, of course, such as epilepsy, anaphylactic allergies, sleep apnea or severe physical disabilities. But most students, in my experience, claim less severe ailments, such as ADHD or anxiety." Mental health problems are made up, y'all!

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

"They had disabilities to get benefits or exemptions .. copies of lecture notes, excused absences and access to private testing rooms." Notes! They got notes! And time/space to demonstrate what they learned. The perfidy! I can't speak to Stanford housing, but that isn't a universal problem.

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

Just a thought, but maybe the kinds of kids that have both the academic and financial support that gets them into prestigious schools also have better health care support, too. Parents and doctors that are more likely to actually notice and deal with issues like ADHD.

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

It's super weird that I have 2 of the 3 things listed in the subhead (celiac, not "gluten intolerance", ty). Of course, they weren't diagnosed decades ago when I was at college. I just had to fucking deal with it.

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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

I suspect that having a propagandistic cheerleader for the man that can dole out federal money by the billions has a lot more economic value than reporting news, and the sports and literature desks (and about 80% of the rest of the paper) are completely extraneous to that.

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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

Never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink from a squid.

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

If it's not one thing, it's an otter.

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

"Let's fix the Kennedy Ce-- er, I mean the Trump Kennedy Center!" "Ok, how" "Let's demolish it!" "Then what?" (pretends to answer fake phone call)

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

Personal hypothesis, probably not that original: A lot of folks that came of age politically (as I did) during a largely stable political equilibrium are very, very good at analyzing trends, and not very good at all at understanding shocks that materially change basic dynamics.

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

"They suggested we were going to do something. So we did something."

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

I feel like "That's why they are being ID'd right now" is very, very important here. I am also curious how much 'ID'd' is a euphemism for detained, physically restrained, or additional harassment.

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

I especially loved "in hushed tones". Like, big loud talk about loving Melania (and Trump as a husband!), but suddenly shy about 'admitting' they don't trust Democrats.

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

Charles Murray wrote a whole-ass book about who he is and I have always believed him (about that).

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

Seconded. Delightful documentary.

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

There is no more a political statement than “please don’t talk about politics”.

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Brad L @uxbrad.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Every headline I've seen says "thousands" which seems technically correct in the same way that saying "many dozens of protestors" would be technically correct. That's a whole lot of humanity in the streets.

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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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