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cassidy
@cdg.bsky.social
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dj, singer-songwriter, queer variety show person, arts and culture writer, home cook, often online 🧐 (they)
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cassidy @cdg.bsky.social · Nov 19
I don’t think I ever announced it on here but my indie rock band Boy Howdy! finally put out our debut EP after 5 years of existence :) boyhowdyband.bandcamp.com/album/howdy
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utopia-defer.red
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
cdg.bsky.social
Man this reminds me of stand-up sets I’ve seen where someone says a bunch of stuff about their life, mental state, and values and you spend the entire time not laughing but thinking about how much they need therapy and/or friends
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h
A piece Olivia Nuzzi published yesterday (as part of a Substack Q+A) called "Signs Your Book Rollout Has Gone Awry":
Signs Your Book Rollout Has Gone Awry By Olivia Nuzzi Your agent texts you, unprompted and with no elaboration, “I love you.” Monica Lewinsky reaches out to check on your mental health. Frank Rich encourages you to send your book to Fran Lebowitz because “she is not online.” The woman who realigns your chakras in Santa Monica sends word from her Scotland retreat that she is available for an emergency remote chakra realignment session anytime. An architect of the Iraq War says he’s “been through several things like this but “nothing quite as bad as this.” Your other agent calls to tell you she’s lost three clients “over this.” It seems a positive development when Tina Brown describes your “pretentious” book as “Ezra Pound meets Barbie.” Your colorist who maintains the Barbie aspect refuses to charge you because you “seem so scared” when you arrive to see her in Beverly Hills. A paparazzo attempting once again to convince you that your privacy depe somehow on allowing him to violate your privacy adds an ominous kicker this overture: “This never ends.” 87 percent of respondents to a survey say they believe you are a CIA operative Wistfully, you recall kinder public outrages in which there were what seem retrospect merely halfhearted threats of rape or calls to hang you for sedition Monica Lewinsky checks in again. The crisis PR experts are in crisis. You consider falsifying email correspondence between yourself and Jeffrey Epstein in order to improve your press coverage. You spend several hours reading about plummeting literacy rates and this soothes you. You spend several more hours thinking about Monica Lewinsky and her irrepressible kindness and grace. You find inventive ways to work the plummeting literacy rates into conversation. When a turtle arrives in your driveway in the afternoon you imbue his visit with meaning. You forget what day your book is being released. Sally Quinn tells you to take Ambien. Danielle Frum tells you to take Valium. Mitchell Jackson tells you to check into rehab. Caitlin Flanagan tells you to remember God loves you. Maureen Dowd tells you, “At least you’re still young and beautiful!” A famous self help author tells you to perform an act of witchcraft. You feed the turtle papaya from Erewhon. Many people use the phrase “self care” when addressing you. Multiple people suggest you “pivot to screenwriting.” Various people volunteer various actresses who should play you in a movie. Someone cautions that the demographics of the crowd at the New Beverly to see Goodfellas on 35mm may conflict with your efforts to lay low. You are making efforts to lay low. You remember the Paparazzo’s warning, “This never ends,” and decide he perhaps meant it wryly. You are surprised to realize your book is being released today. Monica Lewinsky checks in again.
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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jowiph.bsky.social
You love to see it
hannahgais.bsky.social hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 3h
The American Economic Association says it has accepted Larry Summers' resignation and "imposed a lifetime ban on his membership." www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
Statement from the American Economic Association
www.aeaweb.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
cdg.bsky.social
The AI dub clips linked in this are INSANELY bad like it’s actually shocking! glad they’ve mostly taken it down but oh my god I hate that it was ever allowed to exist
shineyezehuhh.bsky.social Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 1h
Aht aht aht.
Just because Prime Video quietly walked back its AI Beta for anime doesn't mean we should let bygones be bygones. Keep that energy.
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
cdg.bsky.social
I-
hausofdecline.bsky.social Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 4d
OK bad stuff happened to me as a kid so now getting me off is as involved and exhausting as setting up the board game Mousetrap
December 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
oh my god someone made it (and kindly tipped their hat to me) bsky.app/profile/harp...
December 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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joshlowe.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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cuteosphere.bsky.social
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
cdg.bsky.social
Lmao
dollarpbr.gay 🎄trash🎄 (holly and jolly) @dollarpbr.gay · 1d
if you’re anti-“baby it’s cold outside” you need to grow up and accept some people are into cnc
December 2, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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gorl.gay
earlier,,
frankie, my tabby cat, stretched out on bed in a sun patch. this POV is from in front of her, where her arms are stretched forward.
December 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
cdg.bsky.social
Always a classic
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
the things i want to say violate the terms of service here.
tinavasquez.bsky.social Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 1d
These are screenshots from an actual DHS press release that just went out offering "self-deportation" as a "gift" to "illegal aliens" this holiday season.

This administration is truly repugnant.
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
cdg.bsky.social
Uhhhhhhhhhh
jesbattis.bsky.social Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 3d
At this point, our intro comp/first-year English course has been so heavily revised, it no longer includes a novel, or "extended reading" of any kind, no "specialized" or "historical" reading, mostly in-class assignments, no research essay...and we are still seeing a 40-50% rate of AI misconduct.
December 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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golikehellmachine.com
she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked
caitlinmoriah.bsky.social dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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jackmirkinson.bsky.social
a real tell in all of this is that the trans instructor wasn't alone in trashing this essay! a whole other person also said they agreed completely that it sucked. but as far as i can tell only the trans person is getting punished. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...
Samantha, I am the other instructor for this course, and I have also taken the time to read your paper. I concur with on the grade you received. This paper should not be considered as a completion of the assignment.
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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shenanigansen.bsky.social
Panel 1: Shen is looking very closely at a leaf with a ladybug on it. He is happily saying "Oh if only I was a little ladybug." Panel 2: Shen looking up at the sky, his hands clasped in front of him, both the background and his seemingly pearlescent eyes full of sparkles at light. He blushes and says "How whimsical life would be! How free of care!" Panel 3: Closeup on the ladybug from the side, as it thinks "If I don't eat like 50 aphids and have sex right now I'm gonna kill myself."
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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kingadahipsters.bsky.social
carl weathers from arrested development. the “baby, you got a stew goin” scene.
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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happytoast.co.uk
More of this please
Bong Joon Ho's statement on ai in the creative industry needing to be destroted
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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requiemarm.bsky.social
turning this mfer into a crepe
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
cdg.bsky.social
Tubi started showing a mobile game ad on my television… that’s none of the TV’s business! stop it!
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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antlervel.vet
I have decided life will get better. I reserve my right to change my mind about that at some point. But that’s what I’ve decided
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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cait.bsky.social
i cannot believe i caught him stretching out his toesies under the tree
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Number of SNAP recipients Amazon 2,456 Walmart 2,318 Uber 1,799 DoorDash 1,462 Tempus Unlimited 1,425 Stop & Shop 989 Mass General Brigham 956 Dollar Tree 952 Albertsons Companies, Inc. 896 Bayada Home Health 887
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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veryimportant.lawyer
when a cAnCeLLeD performer ReËNtERs the cULtURe,
Mocking SpongeBob
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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nasboat.org
etsy truly has everything
a bumper sticker that says "Keep Honking! I just put Steely Dan on the subwoofer"
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM