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Melissa
@carbonorchestra.bsky.social
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Middle-aged goth, Fannibal, and general nerd. She/her.
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carbonorchestra.bsky.social
You know you've properly curated your timeline when multiple people independently QT the McMahon clip with this gif.
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
As someone who is this guy's age I can tell you 100% that if you were into Pixies, Nirvana, 120 Minutes stuff, etc. but didn't like the Beatles you had to have worked hard to contort yourself into that special little box. Your enemy, if you absolutely needed one, was hair metal. GTFO here with this.
New York Times newsletter stuff from Ben Sisario: "In 1987, when I was a budding teenage rock snob, the checkout lane at my local supermarket was crowded with magazines commemorating the Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” still hyped after 20 years. If I didn’t groan, I at least rolled my eyes. To this Gen X kid, few things were less cool than the Beatles, the musical embodiment of the cultural dominance of my parents’ boomer generation. I preferred the Pixies, Nirvana and whatever else caught my eye on MTV’s “120 Minutes” (though Kurt Cobain’s adoration of John Lennon couldn’t be ignored)."
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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moryan.bsky.social
everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
kiaspeaks.us kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 4d
My favorite piece of content today.
actuallychloehayes › millennials 20h serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with ? was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all. Q 2.9K
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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apocalypticanow.bsky.social
The NYT actually listens to a reader for once and it's in the service of this atrocity
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5d
That's what happens when you take headline advice from your FB readers
New York Times Facebook post from one day earlier. Above, a photo of Joan Didion in her kitchen with the headline "How Joan Didion Did Thanksgiving." Below, the top comment from a reader: "title should have been 'How Joan Didion Thanksgiving". don't be scared of a good pun."
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
carbonorchestra.bsky.social
Made the gingerbread version, but the shortbread is unexpectedly more of a blondie with this recipe. 🍽️
Millionaire's shortbread (gingerbread, caramel, and a chocolate layer on top) sitting on a white surface: 4 pieces, 2 of which are not entirely in frame. Closeup of a piece of millionaire's shortbread. Three other pieces are behind it, 2 of which are only partially in frame.
November 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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cethanleahy.com
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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kiswanson.medsky.social
Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
carbonorchestra.bsky.social
Finally gave millionaire's shortbread a try to see if I could pull it off. It's messy but tastes quite good. This holiday season, I'll be making a gingerbread version. 🍽️
Two halves of a tray of millionaire's shortbread on a white cutting board. The cookie, caramel, and chocolate layers are visible. A piece of millionaire's shortbread on a dark blue ceramic plate.
October 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
carbonorchestra.bsky.social
Baked with black cocoa for the first time.
Black mint chocolate chip cookies studded with white chocolate chips on two trays lined with aluminum foil. A closeup of mint chocolate chip cookies studded with white chocolate chips on two trays lined with aluminum foil.
October 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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punkrockhistory.bsky.social
40 years ago today
Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye backstage after Black Flag concert, DC Space, Washington DC, October 4, 1985.

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #blackflag #henryrollins #IanMacKaye #history #punkhistory
October 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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wisesnail.bsky.social
After a somewhat long time, I was in the mood for #Crowley! I forgot how much I loved painting him <:

I hope you like it! 💙

#AnthonyJCrowley #DavidTennant #GoodOmens #IneffableHusbands #Wisesnail
Digital portrait of David Tennant as Crowley. He is immersed in darkness, and only his profile and his right hands are visible. His hand slightly cover his mouth, and he has a pensive hair. Some splashes of red add brightness to the portrait.
October 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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hayao.lol
annual PSA
a witch holding a candle saying if you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.
October 2, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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idieyoudie.bsky.social
Surprise! Turns out the five people you meet in heaven are all Edward Ka-Spel, and he just wants to smoke a bowl and talk about Fairport Convention.
September 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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kawulf.bsky.social
I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint.

I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.
September 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
gentle reminder for anyone who is anticipating the need for caramelized onions later this week: you should probably start now
September 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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kenjennings.bsky.social
Oof. Rolling Stone dot com about to find out how many people were mostly subscribing for Alan Sepinwall.
petersagal.bsky.social Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Sep 16
I know nothing about Rolling Stone and its management, but Alan Sepinwall is the smartest, hardest working TV critic working today. His work has elevated the medium. I don't watch a show without checking to see what he thought of it, before or after.
iancasselberry.blog Ian Casselberry @iancasselberry.blog · Sep 16
Rolling Stone fired Alan Sepinwall, Status’ Oliver Darcy reports. That’s probably the end of my subscription.
September 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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timcarvell.bsky.social
A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.
timcarvell.bsky.social Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · Sep 16
Well, this is fucked up and depressing.
iancasselberry.blog Ian Casselberry @iancasselberry.blog · Sep 16
Rolling Stone fired Alan Sepinwall, Status’ Oliver Darcy reports. That’s probably the end of my subscription.
September 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
carbonorchestra.bsky.social
gotta say, the thirst-mourning over Robert Redford has been an entertaining distraction from, well, *gestures wildly*
September 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
carbonorchestra.bsky.social
Quote with your fan art.

#Hannibal and the periodic table, from around 2016.
A recreation of the periodic table with screenshots from Hannibal that are loosely analogous to the properties of each elemental group.
September 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM