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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Also, so happy to see Station Eleven make the list. Not enough people watched it, but it’s a brilliant adaptation and one of the most moving (and ultimately hopeful) shows I’ve ever seen. An all-time fave.

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Sam @very-simple.com · 26/09/2026

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF Always and forever:

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Here's Looking At You Kid

ALT: Here's Looking At You Kid

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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I found these two boxes in Instagram settings but it's definitely opt out. I turned mine off. I don't know if you've done this yet.

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Sam @very-simple.com · 25/09/2026

Realizing I missed a few on my first pass through, but here’s a better list. Green=watched all the way through Yellow=watched a substantial portion (usually at least a full season unless it’s a limited series) and should probably pick back up Red=gave up on after an episode or two.

The Netu ork Times
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
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Breaking Bad (2008-2013)
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The Wire (2002-2008)
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Mad Men (2007-2015)
4.
Succession (2018-2023)
5.
Fleabag (2016-2019)
6.
Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
7.
Veep (2012-2019)
8.
30 Rock (2006-2013)
9.
Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-2024)
10. Atlanta (2016-2022)
11. The Office (U.S.) (2005-2013)
12. Arrested Development (2003-2019)
13. Girls (2012-2017)
14. Friday Night Lights (2006-2011)
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Six Feet Under (2001-2005)
16. The Office (U.K.) (2001-2003)
17. The Americans (2013-2018)
18. I May Destroy You (2020)
19. Chernobyl (2019)
20. The Crown (2016-2023)
21. The White Lotus (2021-present)
22. Lost (2004-2010)
23. The Comeback (2005-2026)
24. Deadwood (2004-2006)
25. The Leftovers (2014-2017)
26. Black Mirror (2011-present)
27. Better Call Saul (2015-2022)
28. Band of Brothers (2001)
29. Key & Peele (2012-2015)
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Severance (2022-present)
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Survivor (2000-present)
32. Andor (2022-2025)
33. Enlightened (2011-2013)
34.
Schitt's Creek (2015-2020)
35.
True Detective (Season 1) (2014)
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The Pitt (2025-present)
37.
Battlestar Galactica (2005-2009)
38.
Homeland (2011-2020)
39.
Watchmen (2019)
40. Adolescence (2025)
41. Louie (2010-2015)
42. Hacks (2021-2026)
43. Peaky Blinders (2013-2022)
44. BoJack Horseman (2014-2020)
45. Happy Valley (2014-2023)
46. Broad City (2014-2019)
47. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
48. House of Cards (2013-2018)
49. Normal People (2020)
50. Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)
Explore the list at nytimes.com/bestTV
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The Good Place (2016-2020)
Downton Abbey (2010-2015)
Stranger Things (2016-2025)
The Bureau (2015-2020)
Insecure (2016-2021)
Nathan for You (2013-2017)
I Think You Should Leave (2019-present)
Chappelle's Show (2003-2006)
PEN15 (2019-2021)
Peep Show (2003-2015)
RuPaul's Drag Race (2009-present)
Slow Horses (2022-present)
The Thick of It (2005-2012)
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013-2018)
Mare of Easttown (2021)
The Rehearsal (2022-present)
The Handmaid's Tale (2017-2025)
Ozark (2017-2022)
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005-2012)
The Shield (2002-2008)
Beef (Season 1) (2023)
Squid Game (2021-2025)
Barry (2018-2023)
The Bear (2022-2026)
Ted Lasso (2020-present)
Somebody Somewhere (2022-2024)
Modern Family (2009-2020)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005-present)
The Good Wife (2009-2016)
How To With John Wilson (2020-2023)
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Better Things (2016-2022)
Justified (2010-2015)
Planet Earth (2006)
The Great British Baking Show (2010-present)
Shogun (2024-present)
Reservation Dogs (2021-2023)
Dexter (2006-2013)
Baby Reindeer (2024)
Eastbound & Down (2009-2013)
Catastrophe (2015-2019)
The Night Of (2016)
Station Eleven (2021-2022)
The Diplomat (2023-present)
House (2004-2012)
Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017)
Community (2009-2015)
The OA (2016-2019)
Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)
Scandal (2012-2018)

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Sam @very-simple.com · 25/09/2026

I’ve watched 27(!) shows all the way through, and quite a few more during their heyday but didn’t finish. Also though, wondering how to count “I’ve watched Station Eleven at least a dozen times”?

Sam @very-simple.com · 25/09/2026

I’m mostly excited that the nor-Easter this weekend is totally going to rain out the Global Citizen Festival, which ordinarily fills my neighborhood with thousands of assholes and forces a shutdown of the entire Great Lawn during two of the most beautiful weeks in fall.

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The AI actually wasn’t the problem here. You could do this racist nonsense with photoshop.

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Everyone focused on the China part, while I am sitting here going WE SHIP SENSITIVE MILITARY PARTS VIA UPS?!

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Had my final appointment with my orthopedic surgeon this morning and apparently my fracture is completely healed and I got the all clear. Still need to do more PT to deal with the longer term stuff.

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honestly funniest thing that could happen is that instead of needing to spend money to demolish the ballroom after he leaves, it just collapses in on itself on January 20 at 12:01pm.

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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He doesn't understand how risk pooling or insurance fraud works. People who "never file a claim" subsidize everyone else and cannot be committing insurance fraud (which requires filing claims).

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Sam @very-simple.com · 22/09/2026

My extremely milquetoast normie governor Kathy Hochul has more balls than this guy.

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Sam @very-simple.com · 21/09/2026

Oh good*, my sister-in-law is on a flight that is supposed to land at Newark in about three hours. *sarcasm.

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Sam @very-simple.com · 21/09/2026

Time to restart my vigil for when my grandfathered-in-with-my-AT&T-plan-free-HBO will finally end.

Sam @very-simple.com · 20/09/2026

Even if this weren’t a completely transparent pretext because he things “NATIONAL SECURITY” is a set of magic words that let him do anything, no competent military advisor would suggest storing all of your munitions in a giant target standing on its own in the middle of a traffic circle.

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Sam @very-simple.com · 20/09/2026

He’s clearly worried the courts are going to kill his arch, so he’s trying to shoehorn in a ‘national security’ excuse for it, because that’s the argument they used for the ballroom/bunker.

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Sam @very-simple.com · 19/09/2026

Is it? I’m proud of these folks for standing up, but “regular people have to form a human chain around a cultural institution and memorial in order to protect it from the petty, cruel whims of our tyrant president with the impulse control of a toddler” is not how anyone would define “democracy”.

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Sam @very-simple.com · 19/09/2026

My parents wardrobes and desk used to belong to Rita Moreno, and we regularly refer to it as “Rita’s furniture”. (They ended up with them because their dear friend was an interior designer who worked with Moreno for years).

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Sam @very-simple.com · 19/09/2026

Got my new iPhone today and just realized that the burgundy color was the exact same color as my favorite pair of 12-hole Doc Martens that I bought at Trash & Vaudeville back in like, 1994. They were darker than oxblood and I never saw another pair in that color 🤣

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Sam @very-simple.com · 18/09/2026

Some idiot keeps using one of my alternate email addresses for his PayPal account, and, well, now his account is suspended because I am obviously not verifying anything they send.

Sam @very-simple.com · 18/09/2026

As someone who works literally in the middle of Park Avenue, I am very excited for this. Only wish we still had the north-facing Helmsley Building views.

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I don't want to put this in the thread because it's too long already, but @kathryntewson.bsky.social 's latest attempt to get AI bros to explain how AI can tell if something is true had me flashing back all the way to...yesterday. Please note I am temporarily disabled and need a working elevator.

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This underplays how much Bruni absolutely reads Stephens for filth here. "I sincerely hope they enjoyed their Vineyard shellfish"? HAHAHAHAHA. (and for the record, we have both early voting and no-excuse absentee voting these days. people can vote from the Vineyard!)

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I'm trying to come up with a coherent theory about Trump's destruction of Kennedy's legacy in particular, rooted in the NYC media's describing Trump as "kennedy-esque" when he was a young man (yes, really).

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LOVE coming to the office extra early because I have both an 8am call AND an in-person event to attend later in the day, only to have the 8am call get cancelled after I get here.

Sam @very-simple.com · 16/09/2026

Today in “fun with AI”, first is the google gemini result for whether the elevators are back in service at my local station. Second is the actual status from the MTA’s website as of 6:55pm today.

Subway Station Elevators
• Status: Operational
December for a complete equipment overhaul.
elevators are running normally. M MTA +2

mta.info
72 St
2 of 2 elevators out of service
) Capital Replacement: Street to downtown platform &
Affected lines: 1 2 3
Estimated return to service:
Fall 2026
ID: EL240
Outage reason:
Learn more about
Capital Replacements
Travel Alternatives
Capital Replacement: Street to uptown platform al
Affected lines: 1 2 3
Estimated return to service:
Fall 2026
ID: EL239
Outage reason:
Learn more about
Capital Replacements
Travel Alternatives

Sam @very-simple.com · 16/09/2026

I have never related to a Pope more than this.