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Clare Conroy
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Does Not Rhyme
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Does Rhyme
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July 22, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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acarsdrama.bsky.social
Air to Ground Message:

PAX ARE ASKING FOR WORLD CUP SCORES. THANKS

Area: Jersey Shore, NJ, USA
Type: Boeing 777-200
A: #a9aadf4296f
F: #f8373dd6472
July 2, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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scientits.bsky.social
‘Say yes and never do it’

Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios. I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.” That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene. I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it. That’s great advice for life. It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
June 28, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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robertcruickshank.com
This is absolutely right. Voters aren’t making a right-left-center decision when looking at Dems. They’re making an effective-ineffective decision. And Dems of all stripes can fail that test.
June 24, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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grudgie.bsky.social
It is absolutely true that Dems need to win swing voters to win elections.

The misdiagnosis is that swing voters are “moderates.” They are not. They have almost entirely incoherent politics. You don’t win them from the middle. You appeal to your base with conviction and hope swings like the vibes.
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Jun 21
The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.
June 21, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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miriamelder.bsky.social
Feeling kind of emotional about how much collective joy and rooting for human achievement and creativity has powered this year - from Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl to Artemis to the Knicks and World Cup. At first it felt like balancing out the evil, now it feels like something bigger.
June 19, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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bernielomax.extranapkins.net
It took 250 years but American cops finally racially profiled a white guy
thenbacentel-m.bsky.social NBA Centel (MIRROR) @thenbacentel-m.bsky.social · Jun 18
NYPD thought Tyler Kolek was a fan and almost arrested him 😭😭

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June 18, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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mattbrown.bsky.social
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
April 10, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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cblevins.bsky.social
This is so, so well-articulated.
People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.
April 3, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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darthbluesky.bsky.social
hello
what did i miss
tell me every thing
March 27, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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sickoscommittee.org
PSA: SEAHAWKS KICKER JASON MYERS IS NOW ON THE SUPER BOWL MVP BALLOT

VOTE NOW ON YOUR PHONES

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February 9, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
fuck this Ring commercial hiding fascism behind dogs
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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ziibiing.com
My friend Jake’s dad got shot in the face with a flashbang by ICE and has to have reconstructive jaw surgery.
Donate to Support Leon’s Recovery and Community Aid, organized by Ryan Virden
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January 30, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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smashfizzle.bsky.social
Listen to me. This can happen. THIS CAN HAPPEN.
soraya.press Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · Jan 24
Everytime I listen to the Sinners soundtrack it makes me crave a Broadway adaptation
January 24, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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meredithshiner.com
I’ve never loved anything as much as the people at Soldier Field rn love being at Bears games either that or I’ve never been capable of being drunk enough.
January 18, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
I need a video of the Pope doing “Good! Better! Best!” at 5:30am in Rome
January 11, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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karenho.bsky.social
I will read every interview with Heated Rivalry writer and director Jacob Tierney because his quotes are truly a reporter's dream: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
"They made me feel really old,” he says. “They were like, ‘What is a wolf and why is it on parade?’ And I was like, ‘I hate both of you.’ And I was like, ‘Feist? 1,2,3,4?’ And they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, we watched that on Sesame Street.’ And I was like, ‘Again, I’d like to push you down a flight of stairs. Your youth enrages me.’”
January 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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hrnews.bsky.social
Hudson and Connor will be presenting at the Golden Globes!

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January 7, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
The US has transformed from a (sorta) functioning democracy into a poster regime, a rogue troll state, fueled by internet clout. And the abduction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is likely just the beginning.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-rise-o...
Maduro’s arrest is connected to a new kind of politics I’ve spent the last year struggling to describe. A profoundly embarrassing collision of violent nationalism, illiterate social chatter, and memetic fascism that’s been spreading across the globe since the pandemic. We’ve seen hints for years now that the elites of the world are just as addicted to — and dependent on — the same social platforms that we are. Ignoring the near-constant public embarrassments of our shitposter ruling class that play out on platforms like X every day, our leaders are also digitally networking with each other behind closed doors. There’s Chatham House, the group chat that fried the minds of Silicon Valley’s most reactionary CEOs like Marc Andreessen, that’s been running since COVID started. Which is adjacent to the text message network of powerful men that convinced Elon Musk to buy Twitter in 2022. Last year, the Trump administration was caught planning out airstrikes in a Signal group. And days before the campaign in Venezuela, Republican operatives secretly teamed up with a far-right YouTuber to storm daycares in Minnesota. You take all of that and throw in last year’s Discord-based election in Nepal, the international white nationalist incel terror cells spreading across Telegram, and the fact Charlie Kirk’s killer allegedly carried out the attack for the members of his Discord channel and the picture couldn’t be clearer: Politics — and political violence — is now something performed, first and foremost, for an online audience. It almost doesn’t matter what happens irl if it makes noise online.
January 5, 2026 at 7:48 PM
missconroy.bsky.social
Tried to walk out the same subway turnstile that Tony Goldwyn was trying to walk in through. (I, of course, moved over one)
bolt451.bsky.social Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️ @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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adambvary.bsky.social
There are so few perfect seasons of TV, and #HeatedRivalry just had one. The best possible version of what it set out to be. And let me just say, Connor Storrie AND Hudson Williams deserve lead actor Emmy nominations. Whole worlds pass over their faces in those final episodes. Thrilling. THRILLING!
December 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
missconroy.bsky.social
“Since rookie season.”
“Summer before.”
😭😭😭
Oof. Way to nail the landing. #heatedrivalry
December 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
missconroy.bsky.social
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

(I’m not sure if this is about work or politics, but I’ll take both!)
December 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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meredithshiner.com
Our son was born at a Northwestern hospital and sees a NU-affiliated pediatrician and it is really frustrating to know that he or any number of kids we know will be denied by this system care that otherwise would be provided under medical ethics but diverges from political ideology of those in power
Screenshot of the anti-trans provisions of the Northwestern/Trump administration extortion document: guidance. As of the Effective Date, Northwestern has reviewed and, where appropriate, revised University training modules to comply with the foregoing. 28. Northwestern will uphold its commitment to Title IX by providing safe and fair opportunities for women, including single-sex housing for any woman, defined on the basis of sex, who requests such accommodations and all-female sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities. 29. Northwestern and its Feinberg School of Medicine shall not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries, including but not limited to mastectomies, phalloplasties, vaginoplasties, and/or any other procedure intended to alter an individual's sex characteristics, on any individual under the age of 18 years old, effective immediately upon the Effective Date of this Agreement. a. Northwestern shall revise all policies, protocols, and public-facing materials at Feinberg School of Medicine to reflect the commitment set forth in this paragraph on hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries to individuals under the age of 18 years old and ensure compliance with federal laws. b. Northwestern shall notify all faculty and administrators of the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwester's commitments set forth above regarding transgender surgeries on minors within thirty (30) days of the Effective Date. 30. Together with its first quarterly certification as set out in Paragraph 49, Northwestern shall submit a report to the Assistant Attorney General, confirming compliance with the preceding paragraph. The report shall include documentation of compliance, such as revised policy documents and copies of notifications sent.
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM