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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 5h

on forums before emote reactions, if somebody said something really funny you kinda had to riff on their post in order to express that you thought it was funny or it'd be considered low effort. it would result in whole pages of nothing but good jokes, all one-upping the previous. A Poster's Crucible

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 7h

Deadlock has a hero who is a Washington square park chess hustler. The amount of love this game is being made with is unreal

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 8h

Good idea. That should get em through the next few weeks.

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 8h

Of course you know what I immediately remembered

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 20h

Hollywood Handbook is on a generational run at the moment

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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 29/09/2026

Since WWE's trying to exploit PAC's death, it's time to talk about this: Remember how PAC suddenly had visa issues when AEW started? That's because, when the AEW trademarks were filed, WWE called USCIS to claim he walked out on his visa. After leaving him alone for a year and giving him his release.

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They want your data because high quality context is the only way to make consumer LLM products like Muse any good. They want blanket permission to know everything about you in perpetuity, because without that, Muse will be costly on inference, hallucinate, make mistakes, and feel worse to use.

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kohler, please hire me to do some branding work.

An Instagram reel ad for a Kohler x Studio McGee collaborative project, with the text: “Introducing the Claude Collection.” A woman in a smooth brown dress stands at the sink of a bathroom, with many earth tones present throughout.

Another image in the ad, which is a slideshow: a low, backless toilet against brown floral wallpaper. “Claude Smart Toilet”

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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026

Can you imagine Percy Shelley reading Frankenstein for the first time

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 28/09/2026

Pac had the most beautiful finisher in wrestling, and for a long time he had a look & vibe I would describe as "underwear goblin." Though he was as good as literally any leading-man wrestler on earth, he excelled as a character actor in the ring. He was a fixture of my wrestling life. I'll miss him.

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is beyond shocking. A singular talent.

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh my god what? PAC????

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

people on some parts of the internet are having a really hard time dealing with the movie Primetime and it reminded me of this post.

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I like to do these not as my exemplars or best-evers but as my personal landmarks/cornerstones, around which my tastes developed

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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colin @colin2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I might've posted this already but there's at least one subreddit full of ai psychosis sufferers who mourn 4o and beg OAI to bring it back. The first comparison that came to mind when looking at it were the Avatar forums full of people suffering depression over Pandora not being a real place

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Tom the Anime Sicko 🔜 Hell @tomharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what I mean about how we have to become snobs. When a bitch says shit like this to you, the move is to immediately become very mean, and laugh at them, and say out loud that you don’t respect them, things of that nature, things Ezra Klein would never do

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm filthy rich and don't know anything. Since being smart has had no bearing on my success, I guess that nobody needs to be smart

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey D&D people: intuitively, I think Warding Wind should interact with breath attacks somehow. Not salty about anything I swear

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Bob Mackey @bobservo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i’m too depressed to even make the meme at this point

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s sooooo funny to me to be this earnestly concerned about the electoral performance of your political party and then drop in a “fake and gay” as if you were actually a hip 4chan guy

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caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nabbed this as a response to a post but they deleted it so here it is anyway

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There should be a bring your wife to work day

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the cleaned up blu-ray reissue of the miniseries of tinker tailor soldier spy looks so good and really complicates the already impossible discussion of which version of it is the best

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 21/09/2026

Shout out to the wheelie teen who had no idea what was going on and let his freak flag fly in front of 50 mayors. I hope they all thought it was cool as hell.

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just finished Iain M. Banks’s final Culture novel and became very sad that there aren’t any more of them

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Listen up liberals, we will eat the bugs. We will get in the pods

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Truly hated learning about these freaks

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

God, there’s always one more Skarsgård than I remember there being.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"I am not complicit," "why would I deceive you," big couple weeks for really non-suspicious ways to phrase things

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