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Drew Mackie @drewgmackie.bsky.social · 8h

Today, @iwritewrongs.bsky.social and I recorded the final episode of our podcast. Yes, I found a way to mention Arleen Sorkin.

Arleen Sorkin in character for a production still of Open House.

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 11h

Lost wallet update: I realized this had happened after I walked into my neighborhood bar for a drink on the way home and had already ordered. Fortunately, earlier today I had shoved the money I had into my pocket rather than putting it back in my wallet's money clip, so I could pay for that...

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 12h

Well, on top of everything else this week, my wallet apparently fell out of my pocket on the Metra because I'm about walking home and according to my tracker, my wallet is somewhere in Evanston.

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 12h

Well, on top of everything else this week, my wallet apparently fell out of my pocket on the Metra because I'm about walking home and according to my tracker, my wallet is somewhere in Evanston.

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 14h

Ghost of Isaac Asimov ripping up the Laws of Robotics: "never mind...this is too funny"

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 14h

Well the discussion stupidly got so heated for no reason that I ended up yelling and someone ended up yelling back at me so I probably should have cancelled. On the other hand, we laughed about it at the end, and we definitely need to talk more about it for Monday.

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 17h

I will not reschedule the meeting I don't want to have this afternoon. I will not reschedule the meeting I don't want to have this afternoon. I will not reschedule the meeting I don't want to have this afternoon. I will not reschedule the meeting I don't want to have this afternoon. I will not resch

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 21h

oh Mike who bought M&Ms at the office and didn't eat them, Mike who skipped breakfast this morning and needs a little treat thanks you

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy 44th anniversary to the debut of Remington Steele. Other possible captions for this image: 1) This could be us but you playin 2) me and who? (either role) 3) [insert any appropriate outdated meme response here]

Pierce Bronson and Stephanie Zimbalist in a promotional shot for Remington Steele

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"This is my favorite Mary Worth plot since Wilbur was presumed dead after falling off the cruise ship but was really partying it at the resort he washed up to" used to not be a thing you could say in polite society but thanks to the internet you can just blurt it out to people you've never met

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 02/10/2026

(This was my old Buffy meme)

Buffy from Hush holding up a white board on which I've photoshopped: "They're using agile to do the wrong things faster!"

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 02/10/2026

I have updated my Buffy agile meme

Buffy from Hush holding up a white board on which I've photoshopped: "They're using AI to do the wrong things faster!" but it originally said AGILE and I scrubbed out the G and the L.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm a white cis man who can still fairly easily code switch the gay away and there have been multiple trips within my own country I have not taken because I wouldn't feel safe, but sure it's mind-boggling.

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The only Digger that matters to me.

A drawing of a blue grey mole; he is wearing a shirt that shows his feelings and it says 'Shy"; underneath is his name Digger.

A stuffed Differ with a sweatshirt that says Digger

An animated version of Digger. His white shirt says But on the top but the rest is cut off in the picture

A playskool puzzle of Digger who is tipping an orange construction hat. His sweatshirt says Digger but only half of his body is above ground.

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Thomas Bamonte @thomasbamonte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The @nitachicago.bsky.social expands the Access Pilot Program across its transit network to include CTA and Pace, creating a regionwide reduced fare program for households receiving SNAP or Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) FRESH Program benefits. nita.illinois.gov/about-rta/pr...

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Northern Illinois Transit Authority | NITA expands income-based reduced fare pilot Access across Metra, CTA and Pace

The Access Pilot Program has offered reduced fares to Metra riders who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits since 2024. 1,…

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy 25th Anniversary to Fever

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taber @kvetch.gay · 01/10/2026

one reason Lake Superior is so much deeper than the other Great Lakes is that unlike the others, much of it is in an ancient rift valley — about a billion years ago the North America craton started splitting, but failed, leaving behind the Midcontinent Rift System, a deep intrusion in the Earth

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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think people need to know that the Arlington Bakery has baklava cheesecake.

Slice of cheesecake with a baklava crust

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Get on the elevator / I run into Debi Mazar" can never rhyme for real but Madonna (who has been doing a weird accent for decades when she wants) not only doesn't try to rhyme but she hits syllables so it's not even close. I will never tire of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abty...

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Madonna - Danceteria (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Madonna

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Earl Grey Screams Club @earlgreymemes.club · 30/09/2026

Happy 35th Anniversary to "Darmok"

curated design by unknown author, a certifiably ancient image (but originally a ThinkGeek shirt maybe?), a screenprint-style image of Jean Luc Picard of Star Trek TNG playing guitar, in the style of a rock band's tour shirt, with text: Darmok & Jalad at Tanagra September 1991

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026

tracing Japanese managers challenging an ump’s call, I’ve watched this 500x

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A slightly bigger scoop in beef stroganoff is also highly recommended

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember this the next time any of these assholes hide behind the church for their sanctity of life bullshit

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I thought I was mad at all the fundraising texts I was getting from states I don't live in from people I would probably vote for if I lived there. But getting something from JIM JORDAN has unlocked a new level of ire.

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someday when I'm empress of the Great Lakes Republic I'm going to incorporate any town in cook county into Chicago and tell Houston to go fuck itself

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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 30/09/2026

broke: "culture wars" woke: "fuckin curtain-twitcher weirdos needing told to *sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up*"

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As the great philosopher spoke to us at the turn of the millennium "Music makes the people come together Music, mix the bourgeoisie and the rebel" I will not be listening to AI-generated music.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So when I sleep a certain way, though my hair is no longer red, I have been told I have a Tintin look about me after I wake up, which is often followed by a related-to-this-illustration joke. Anyway, just saying, with a little hair dye, this would be a VERY niche Halloween costume for yours truly.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

I really just want like… 3/4th of the economy prosecuted for fraud. Is that really so much to ask?

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So I can't find the post I thought I made in the past where I basically said "I can't wait for this movie to ruin me" but watching this I've learned from Wikipedia "Billie Piper [plays] Patsy Pollock, a casting director who nurses Charleson during his last days" and youtu.be/XHQ9sWe40bk?...

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ELSINORE Official Trailer (2025) Andrew Scott, Olivia Colman

YouTube video by ONE Media

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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m deceased

Jeremy Allen White and Aaron Sorkin
Brown

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can't believe I'm making a jokey Friends reference about the guy who created The West Wing in the year of our lord 2026 but here we are. Must see TV indeed.

David Schwimmer as Ross Gellar the Season 10 Friends episode "The One With Ross' [sic] Tan"; he is very brown in a fake way in a yellow t-shirt which is only magnified because he is standing in front of the purple door to Monica and Rachel's apartment.

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm occasionally not thinking about this for a while and then I'm reminded of it and things are better

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Voirey Linger @voireylinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Friends, Spooky season is upon us. Remember... foods dyed black with charcoal can interfere with medications. Don't eat them if you have an Rx

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me seeing that Peter Thiel pic from today: people should stop doing so many drugs Later, me seeing that Aaron Sorkin pic from today: maybe people who started doing drugs should not stop doing drugs

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Glauber Gleidson Peres @glaubergperes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@worldsofdrwho.bsky.social Dr Who' song theme by Sing Sound System on Facebook Link: www.facebook.com/share/r/14jS...

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is such a perfect crossing of my specific interests that I can't believe I did not know this.

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