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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 8h
In the waiting room at the hospital the other day, a volunteer at the "pre-reception" desk kept pulling down her N95 mask to cough. She caught me watching her coughing once & said with an apologetic smile "I think this place is making me sick"
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A grade 4 classmate once wrapped a can of dog food for our teacher for Christmas & got him to promise in front of the class to eat it but during recess the teacher had swapped it out for a tin of pie filling and when he unwrapped it the kid burst into tears & screamed that the teacher was a cheater
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
me: Instead of elect a clown expect a circus, how about elect a clown, expect a big tent? SO: That's completely backwards me: I mean in the pants of the clown supporters SO: Why would it be big? me: Elect a clown, expect many small tents SO: (sigh) Did u feed the cats?
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Weird AI: this sounds funny Weird A.I.: this smells funny
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe this latest right wing obsession with Greek mythology has something to do with the father of the Gods being a prolific rapist(?)
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Surely the draft IPO filing suggests AI is more of an existential threat to OpenAI than the rest of humanity given all the money it's hemorrhaging.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CNN headline: "Republicans are panicking about 2026. Should they be?" Article then goes on to say they have good reason to be panicking. So... Betteridge's Law of Headlines no longer applies(?) Weird, I wonder why....
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Idea for a new magazine about popular music/ politics/ pop culture: call it Gun and Rose
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
pie aren't squared pie are round
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Guy caked in orange makeup with a dyed hair transplant, shoulder pads, false teeth and lifts in his shoes has a problem with the word artificial
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I never answer our landline phone because every time it rings, our rescue tabby runs over to one of the handsets & waits to hear S.O.'s voice on the answering machine. It is a charming thing to see.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
can someone please remake the converse ad but with golden Trump running shoes on the lyncher wearing the Klan robe?
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remember when a NYC fundraiser auctioned off a dinner date with Weiss & Bowles, & Bari allegedly yelled “And you can make out with Nellie!” to encourage bidding? How gross is that? Touching your lips to something Bari Weiss has been kissing... Gross
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
going to feed our two rescue cats and having them, in their excitement & purring, push their heads against my scoop holding hand & spill kibble everywhere except in their bowls is a fitting metaphor for my life
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Aha's song Take On Me is all about hooking up cuz he'll soon be gone, but in the last lyric of the chorus he sings "in a day or twoooooooo" at such a high pitch that you can't really make out the words, which I'm guessing led to some pretty awkward mornings after.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Finally. The higher interest rates everyone voted for
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran A ginger selling someone out for pieces of silver Unheard of
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
just found out about Paul Rudolph's Niagara Falls Public Library building. Remarkable
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What makes the song Dust in the Wind great? 1st verse- pretend to get a rhyme out of eyes/ gone/ dreams & curiosity; 2nd verse- rhyme sea/ see; refrains- straight up rhyme wind/ wind a zillion times. Super meta songwriting approach- like why bother with rhyming cuz we're all going to die anyway
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I really admire Peter Sarsgaard as an actor, but his performance in the remake of The Magnificent Seven comes across like he's doing Heath Ledger's Joker(?)
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
quick question for any landscapers out there: when you're deliberately mowing over a pile of garbage, which gives you more joy?: a) the damage you're doing to the equipment; b) the noise you're making; or c) the mess you leave behind.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
(texting) son: plz pick up egg whites S.O.: what for? son: fuel for a prototype car dad and I are building in the basement She got home late w egg whites, asked for more info about the prototype & was furious to find out that the whites were for eating I couldn't stop laughing for about 20 minutes
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
LOTR spinoff where Merry and Pippin return to the shire, but the adrenaline rush of battle has awoken a bloodlust in them. No longer able to relate to peaceful village life they team up at night to commit horrible crimes.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
watching the battle scenes in the LOTR movies and saying "Can you imagine the smell?" every 5 minutes
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Our oaf rescue cat Winston has discovered that climbing on guitar amplifiers gets him attention making it his favourite activity, so now I've lost the carefully curated tone of a favourite preset channel due to his chewing on knobs while stepping on buttons until he eventually hit save #Caturday
A photograph of an oaf-like rescue cat, yellow-eyed, mostly white with tabby patches on his head and back including a circular patch above his right eye, sitting sunlit on top of a Fender Mustang amplifier behind an electric guitar on a stand, about to start pawing and chewing the amplifier's buttons and knobs in order to get attention
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Street vendor sets every clock and watch he sees to Paris time.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Our age of the-bronzer-using-guy is collapsing
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
They say we all have our own coping mechanisms, but I prefer to install coping by hand the old fashioned way
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
if Charlie Brown did have hoes, that's an awful lot of head
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
re Space X colonizing the moon or Mars, Columbus proved beyond a reasonable doubt that curiosity driven state sponsored navigation is an inherently bad thing
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
in high school one of my friends' dads (the guidance counsellor) showed me a pad where he'd written "how can I soar like an eagle when I'm surrounded by tourkeys" & asked if I got the joke & I said yes, it sounds smug but misspells turkeys & he said no, then looked confused, then got red in the face
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
CNN reporting on the ICE agent who pointed his gun at a Virginia woman who broke no law: "The gun was out for much of the encounter, according to the video footage." Not "as the video footage proves" but "according to" What you see with your own eyes is now just the video footage's opinion.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Is Kalshi taking predictions on how many ICE agents shock themselves in the nuts?
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Politico: "Crowley defeats dem socialist Hong in Wisc governor primary: victory is a relief for establishment Dems" (39.8/39.4) on El Sayed: "Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted: razor-thin margin will only deepen divisions over the future of the Dem Party." (48.5/47.5)
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The wnba should just give courtside seats to every game to Royce White's ex. Given the 50 year restraining order the judge issued against him for physically abusing her and their son, he wouldn't be able to enter the stadium let alone step onto the court.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
show idea: "Double Jeopardy" Winning contestants from the Trebek years come on and don't have to answer sh*t cuz they've already been through that. They just tell stories about cooking Thanksgiving for everyone in a toaster oven and whatnot.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I've seen a few obituaries that have said "died suddenly" but never one saying "died instantly" and there are obviously some people who die instantly. Maybe that's because writing "Died instantly at age 44" makes it sound like turning 44 made their head explode.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
this white spider has sat in the same location, in the same poise, on this echinacea flower since it opened weeks ago, presumably catching flies that land. As it has increased in size, it must be having some success. Interesting that the stripes on its abdomen match the petal colour. #BloomScrolling
photograph close up of an echinacea flower with a large white spider poised on the scales of the flower's disk at the edge of the petals facing upward, with its two longest legs pulled back like an unsprung trap. the spider has short symmetrical pink stripes on either side of its abdomen that closely match the pink of the petals.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
texted s.o. asking her to pick up some pho on her way home, she texted back a thumbs up emoji, but without my reading glasses I mistook it for a middle finger emoji and without questioning it made something else for dinner.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In high school our gym teacher once gave a health class lecture on a mental wellness theory he'd developed from Pink Floyd's The Wall album, & when he wrote his name on the board he put Dr in front of it jokingly & some kids complained to their parents about that because he did not have a PhD
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Happy Bastille Day! I read that the guy who had the head of the Governor of the Bastille on his pike in the days after the storming took it at night to a bank and had it locked up for safe keeping, because he was afraid someone else might steal it & parade around with it.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
People saying they named Claude to rhyme w God like it's inappropriate, but considering that it's crap hyped by oracles who promise it can/will perform miracles (that you'll never see) so you'd better subjugate yourself, start making offerings of water & power, or you're going to be left behind...
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The aptly named Primal Scream daylilies now starting to bloom. Clearly not the most sophisticated/exotic flowers, but they are fairly tall & somewhat larger than most daylily blooms, providing daubs of vivid colour that stand out even at a fair distance #BloomScrolling
Photograph of a Primal Scream daylily in the morning early summer sun with a backing of green rose of sharon leaves. The blossom is large with slightly ruffled petal edging (sepals less so) and transitions from carrot orange to a yellow throat. Stamens are light orange with dark brown anthers. The flower is larger than the average daylily flower.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy Canada Day! With the thunderstorms yesterday the northern catalpa trees have passed peak bloom & started dropping flowers making huge circles of spent blossoms on the turf. For context, the distance from the turf to the u/s of the branches is between 5-1/2 & 6 feet. #BloomScrolling
a photograph of a near mature northern catalpa tree in bloom on a spring morning. The turf below the tree from the trunk to the drip line is filled with fallen white blossoms making a huge white circle on the ground that is roughly 25' in diameter
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
agile: able to change quickly fragile: easily broken, damaged, destroyed there should be a word "freager"
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
One of our northern catalpas, now at least 25' tall, approaching full bloom. Leaves are wider than my spread hand.
photograph on a sunny summer afternoon of a northern catalpa tree that is approaching maturity and near full bloom, dotted with white orchid-like flowers with purple markings in their throats that cover almost a third of the foliage in irregular horizontal bands. The leaves are large (at least 8" across) and heart shaped, like a jack and the beanstalk plant.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Can't Supreme just sue the Court for diminishing the brand?
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
so I guess that's way more fencing than it would take to go around the Empire State building vertically.
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
so is the fence around the reflecting pool in the original $14 million, or is it an additional charge?
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watchutalkinboutwillis @watchutalkinbout.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
shoulda paid the pool guy in Trump crypto
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