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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve started keeping my bike helmet on, or very visible, when I go into local shops just because I want them to know some of their customers do come by bike.

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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Actually it's a problem to ride your bike when it's too nice out. Mainly because then you have to force yourself to stop riding and go inside and get other things done which is terrible.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I always hesitate to lean too heavily into New York City exceptionalism. Lots of cities around the world are great and many of them do plenty of things better than us. But this @anildash.com essay gets at what I do think is exceptional about New York, especially at this particular moment in time.

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At 25, we are all New Yorkers, again - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 10/09/2026

Matt, channeling Baudelaire (complimentary)

From Charles Baudelaire, “The Bad Glazier”:

At last he appeared. With great curiosity I examined all of his panes and finally said: "What?
You have no colored glass? No pinks, no reds, no blues, no magical panes? No panes of the gods?
Impudent creature! You sell your wares to the poor, and yet you have no panes that are able to make life beautiful!" And I abruptly pushed him,
groaning and stumbling, out to the stairs.
I then went out on my balcony and grabbed a small flowerpot; when the man reappeared at the door | let my engine of war fall right on the back of his pack, the reverberations from the impact sending him reeling. Falling on his back he managed to break all of his poor, portable merchandise with a crash akin to lightning striking a crystal palace!
And intoxicated by madness | screamed furiously:
"Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 08/09/2026

You have to make making culture a priority. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/how-should...

What do we lose when software is our greatest cultural export? Doesn't it bother you that Al has made the signs in your neighborhood uglier and removed the quirks of human idiosyncrasy in the handwritten note stuck in the storefront window? Wasn't it better that people could choose whether to see the silly Wile E. Coyote movie instead of leaving a finished project in the vault to die in tax write-off purgatory?
Weren't you amazed to learn that the Circe scene in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" was shot completely in-camera, with prosthetics and no CGI? Aren't there different, more difficult stories out there that also deserve to get told, and to also get told well?
Don't people work hard enough and suffer too much not to deserve, in their short lives, to encounter beautiful and well made things?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just realized that boro and kantha — the Japanese and Indian techniques for repairing cloth or creating new material from scraps by connecting them through a series of running stitches — looks a bit like the peeling bark on an aging tree.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

A lot of people @ing me saying “I liked it.” Lots of books aren’t good and are still likeable! HP is fun to read! It’s got plot and characters and stakes, and as for the plot holes and bigotry— plenty of other books, some of which we consider to be excellent, are rich in plot holes and bigotry 🧵

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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

But also the massive surge of rage when the inconsiderate person who used it ahead of you in the office failed to clear the timer.

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Obviously I will remember Dolly as a remarkable songwriter and philanthropist. But she was just as much a champion for working people, and the food she loved — and shared with the world — reflected that Of course I had to write about it for @weareravenous.com www.weareravenous.com/there-was-no...

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There Was No Greater Champion For Working-Class People Than Dolly Parton, and the Food She Loved Was Proof

Following the loss of the greatest songwriter in history, I'm drowning my sorrows in biscuits and gravy.

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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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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No cheating. Post the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.

A sundog rainbow over the oil-slicked Gowanus canal.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 24/08/2026

the way of the future | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE is looking down. A SECOND PERSON is on the ground.
MATTIE: WHAT ARE YOU DOING DOWN THERE?
PERSON: OH I'M MOVING AROUND LIKE A LITTLE WORM.

PANEL 2: Closer in on the PERSON, who smiles beatifically.
MATTIE: SEEMS UNCOMFORTABLE.
PERSON: IT'S THE FUTURE! ALL THE BIG MONEY IS ON IT, MANY ARTICLES AND LEADING FIGURES ARE SAYING IT AS WELL.
PERSON: WHO AM I TO ARGUE!

PANEL 3: MATTIE puts a hand to her chin.
MATTIE: I JUST DON'T SEE THE BENEFIT. FOR MY OWN LIFE.
PERSON: YOU CAN EITHER GET WITH IT OR PERISH IN THE FUCKING DUST, OLD WOMAN.

PANEL 4: The PERSON holds up their phone. On it is a photo of a tech CEO-looking guy on the ground, being interviewed by a journalist
TEXT: DAVOS
TEXT: CEO OF SquirmX SAYS WRITHING AROUND WILL ACCOUNT FOR 700% OF US ECONOMY WITHIN 2 MONTHS
PERSON: THAT'S A DIRECT QUOTE.

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just misread a weather warning on my phone as "Fish Flood Warning" and, given how the actual weather has been, didn't even blink.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 14/08/2026

If anyone needs me, I’ll be in here

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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Smitten Kitchen has been my go-to for all this time, because I love her sensibility, and trust her testing. I'm so grateful she's kept going!

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 11/08/2026

Hi, want to feel mildly electrocuted from a surfeit of beauty, history, grief, art, and literature (laudatory)? If yes, read @jdconnor.bsky.social on @flaminghydra.com today flaminghydra.com/issue-624/

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Wrestling with angels

J.D. Connor considers Paul Klee, Leonora Carrington, and the destinies of 1940

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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

That I should solve my knee pain by never doing squats or lunges again because "women only do them to make their butts look good."

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Monsters

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 29/07/2026

Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵

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Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'

Alt: Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

From the ancient Polyphemus to Jimothy, people have spun stories about real & imagined beings to define the parameters of "normal." Here's an excerpt from HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, a history of the category of the human from antiquity to the present, told through the idea of the monster.

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Humans and monsters | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

good article and, crucially, a good list at the end of cookware/kitchenware lines that are still quality (and family owned)

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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The Ronettes Pickering @stoatie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Utterly fed up with advertising people who have zero care about their own products and just launch complete garbage because it “looks pretty good”…TO THEM.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 19/06/2026

Half this book has me like, “Wow what an astute observation of human social dynamics, how lovely,” and the other half is just biting me my thumb and internally screaming.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss.

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”

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Franklin Habit @franklinhabit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🎵 Ah ! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira ! Les aristocrates à la lanterne. Ah ! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira ! Les aristocrates on les pendra. Si on n’les pend pas On les rompra Si on n’ les rompt pas On les brûlera. 🎵 -- Revolutionary anthem (still very much in use), first heard 1790 (English below)

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

You guys, are bike lanes gentrification or are they DEI, I can’t keep it straight

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404 Media @404media.co · 11/07/2026

“It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

So riled up by a bad slop graphic of dumplings that I nearly missed my subway stop. As one does.

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 08/07/2026

ALSO TODAY: @annaleen.bsky.social asks what “living in the future” means now. “By training our attention on ‘the future,’ even rhetorically, we create a psychological barrier between ourselves and what’s actually happening. We endlessly defer action.” flaminghydra.com/the-wave-of-...

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The Wave of the Present

We’re living in the future I’ll tell you how I know I read it in the paper fifteen years ago – John Prine 1. Billboards and billionaires solemnly inform us that we are “living in the future.” You...

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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I had this same professor and he insisted that we only “write what we know” but then was disappointed when what I knew was not cocaine-addled prep school parties or broken families with addictions. My life was clearly too boring to be a writer, and his class made me stop writing.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This was a terrific test! I am quite good at spotting AI images (my uncanny-ometer is on constant high alert these days), but this quiz was an excellent walkthrough lesson in honing those visual literacy skills.

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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Now a teen bro is in the aisle announcing to his mom that sardines are “objectively nasty” and no one should eat them and I hope someone explains to him what “objectively” means soon

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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Restocking an almost empty shelf of canned Heinz beans at the Park Slope Food Coop and either it’s a coincidence or else a lot of people here are wrong about both football and beans.

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vermilionink @vermilionink.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Society exists to take care of human needs. Full stop.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.

A nihilistic sheep, who, like so many other sheep, just wants to watch the world burn, staring at me insouciantly, moments after it has set fire to a large portion of the United Kingdom.

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