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Wilber and Ana, laying next to me on the couch. Think I'm gonna eat a couple edibles and play a video game
A black and tan dog named Wilber and an orange spotted cat named Ana
October 4, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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When people say stuff like this, do they understand that they're arguing for getting rid of freedom of speech?
A screencap of a post by lumitydsa.bsky.social, quote-posting a post from merovingians.bsky.social. The merovingians post reads "BIG development in the DSA NPC meeting; after trying to punt the decision to convention (which in August 2027 would leave any DSA AOC 2028 involvement on the outside looking in), the NPC votes narrowly to make the vote on AOC 2028 themselves in March 2027 after member consultation." lumitydsa.bsky.social added this observation to that: "At this point my disdain is with the system we have now. That has made this whole process a mess. Presidential elections should be 4 months tops! Not 2 years, that would give Dsa far more time to decide whether to run, who to run, and let convention give final say. As to get involved or not."
September 13, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Jesus, talk about utter lack of self-awareness
A post from erikhane.bsky.social: sidenote: once again every screnshot of me has that awful "Bluesky Elder" tag lol. "look what this geriatric dipshit is saying" 4/4 Meanwhile, his account has the "Bluesky Elder" tag on it
September 12, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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This is the most cursed idea for Senate re-alignment ever advanced. I present to you: The Radial States of America
A ridiculous map of America with DC relocated to the geographic center of the lower 48 and all 50 states redrawn as pizza-slice wedges radiating out from the center
July 30, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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From the Hugging Face writeup of what it's like to have a rogue AI have its way with your network, we get this snippet, and, man, reality ain't beating the hack writer allegations like this
"The last meaningful activity was at 13:37 UTC: list the staged binary, hostname, date."
July 29, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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Yeah, @aelkus.bsky.social nails it here
‪ae‬ ‪@aelkus.bsky.social‬ · 2m Bluesky Elder TACO is probably true in some meta sense that Trump keeps chickening out about chickening out ‪ae‬ ‪@aelkus.bsky.social‬ · 1m Bluesky Elder its marvelous, really. he says he's going to bomb iran. he doesn't. then he says he's going to make peace. he doesn't. he says he's going to bomb iran. he doesn't.... ‪ae‬ ‪@aelkus.bsky.social‬ · 31s Bluesky Elder he TACOs about TACOing
June 15, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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and these two posts are the only times I've ever mentioned Cait before this. There's one where I mention that I think she's a bully, but which she is not tagged in and certainly wasn't in her mentions. And the other is a very old recommendation of her to a friend who I was trying to get off Twitter
Yes, Cait is a bully. She always has been. She was as chaeronaea, she was as punishedcait, and she is here. The thing is, she's almost always bullying people who are themselves bullies, which is needed. Stancil is an attention whore who deliberately picks fights. Mix those and this is what you get daniel ‪@justdaniel.bsky.social‬ Bluesky Elder Hi @supertiff.bsky.social . There aren't DMs here yet, but here are a few accounts that I like following: @roxiqt.com , @faineg.bsky.social , @pocketcindy.bsky.social , @darthbluesky.bsky.social , @charliejane.bsky.social , @merrittk.com , (removed cait from the alt text here, so that the indexer doesn't pick this up)
May 14, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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Ok, this is kinda hilarious to me. I noticed today that last week I was added to the following blocklist, by notable bluesky personality Cait, most known for unleashing hate mobs on Will Stancil. She characterizes the people she blocked as "weird little freaks in my mentions"
May 14, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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Wow, 2000 days since I hit 420 days of Duolingo
A duolingo streak dialog showing a 2,420 day streak
May 10, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Whoa. As if once being in a hot tub with Debbie Harry isn't already a flex all on its own
TIL that magician Penn Jillette and singer Debbie Harry were once in a hot tub when Harry suggested that the watr jets should be angled for a woman's pleasure. This led to Jillette filing a patent for a "hydro-therapeutic stimulator," which he named "the Jill-Jet"
April 28, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Oh, so he's freaking out freaking out
Trump says "I'm not a basket case" By Laura Sharman Asked how Saturday’s incident impacts him as the US president, Donald Trump told reporters he is in a dangerous job but that he is no “basket case.” “I like not to think about it. I lead a pretty normal life considering, you know, it’s a dangerous life. I think I handle it as well as it can be handled,” Trump said. “I think a lot of other people, you know, you read stories where they become basket cases, to be honest with you. I’m not a basket case. I really take it as it is. I do it for the country. I’m not doing it for any other reason.”
April 26, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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Here's the actual context. What you just typed is "you hate pancakes" on a post about waffles, and is a thing you'd never have tolerated 10 years ago
A thread from why.bsky.team where the first post reads "New Claude found zero-day's in OpenBSD, ffmpeg, Linux, and FreeBSD", with a link to the anthropic blog post about it and the second post reads "Looking forward to what the 'ai sucks ackshoeally' crowd has to say about this one."
April 17, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)

Person of Interest (2011-2016), the greatest science fiction TV show of all time
Screencap of the IMDB header for television show Person of Interest, showing that it ran from 2011-2016 and had 103 episodes. Also, not shown in the photo, this is the greatest science fiction TV show of all time, and it was dressed up in police procedural cosplay
April 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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Real Gazans aren't raising money on social media
The not-very-smart account nyktv.itch.io posting a testament to their credulousness reading "When are you going to stop marking gazans as spam accounts"
April 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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Bloomberg says there are 40,000 stranded sailors in the areas around the strait
A Bloomberg headline reading: Iran's Hormuz Blockade Leaves Stranded Crews Braving Missiles and Signal Jamming. The subhead reads: Tehran's maritime blockade has left a fleet of stranded tankers and 40,000 sailors facing a crossfire of drones and electronic warfare
April 10, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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I find it amusing that I'm on both of these blocklists
A blocklist called 'Techno-pessimists' with a description reading "people who don't like things like AI, Bitcoin, VR, Robots, or Digital Watches and won't stop complaining about it" A blocklist called 'AI enjoyers' with a description reading: "This list is manually curated. It includes AI spam bots, people that egregiously post AI images and AI enjoyers. If you think you shouldn't be on this list, get in touch"
February 1, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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Have a picture of Amelia the Cat to make your day better
A large, fluffy black cat named Amelia lays majestically on a tree stump
January 26, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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Hoping the ICE personnel in Minneapolis have a great time outside on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
A screeshot of the Minneapolis weather forecast for the next few days showing a high of 8 and a low of -20 on Thu 1/22, a high of -9 and a low of -20 on Fri 1/23, a high of -2 and a low of -14 on Sat 1/24, and a high of 4 and a low of -3 on Sun 1/25
January 21, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Here's a screengrab and a link to the post that Karen, I mean Jen, will either detach or block me over

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‪JenTheTracy‬ ‪@jenthetracy.bsky.social‬ · 35m the intern is learning to be a yes man and needs to know there are real people outside of their political bubble
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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This image sums up why even New Jerseyans make fun of Staten Islanders
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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I would be in trouble at my job if my uptime number looked like this: usa-status.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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With the sources being cited as being from Nashville, that sure suggest Keith's people. Can you imagine your friends telling people that the problem is you aren't able to satisfy your partner, who happens to be Nicole fucking Kidman?
October 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Clearsky has this as its current list of the most-blocked accounts in the past 24 hours. Next time they do a data refresh on these stats, those new Trump admin accounts are gonna go shooting to the top.

Also, the fact that Justin Wolfers is at the top of this list is a huge indictment of this place
October 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I'm not tagging Jon Fasman, who is on this site, because authors often don't control the headlines put on top of their work. But if this headline is an accurate representation of the content (which I don't know, since I'm not a WSJ sub), he should be embarrassed to call himself a cultural critic
A headline from the Wall Street Journal, bylined to 'Jon Fasman', reading "It's Finally Time to Give Johnny Cash His Due" and with a subhead reading "Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took years for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength."
October 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM