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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · Dec 2
Reminder on this new platform that my grandmother defends all my posts and will not allow me to see harm
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Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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They say the sign of a good ad is when your eerie AI mascot briefly appears to have had its throat slit
February 9, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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If you’re down by a big enough margin you should be allowed to forsake your creator
February 9, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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The moment where he gave the kid the grammy was very sweet but somebody needs to verify it was actually Liam Ramos before we all just say that lol
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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Had my NFL career end overnight because the cameras got high def footage of me mouthing "He's so MEAN" after having a dust up with another player
February 9, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Both teams have taken a knee out of respect for the Chicago Bears!!
February 9, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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Football teams should be able to earn coins for completing various challenges throughout the season. Eventually, these coins could be exchanged for in-game items like a double sized football and a sword that can teleport you to the endzone
February 9, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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Something the AI people never get is that if you can generate a book every day, so can everybody else! I have access to Claude and if I wanted a book written by Claude, I could have one today! Why do I need you?
sarahweinman.com Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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The Muppets are representative of a human tradition going back thousands of years. They found crude paintings of Kermit in that Werner Herzog doc about the ancient caves
February 6, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Do I miss warm winters? Sure, but also I am continually thrilled to remember how nice a random bit of sun on a twenty degree day can feel after two weeks of cold
February 5, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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Brain worms, irony poisoning, we’ve given the new sickness of the internet a lot of cute little names but what it really boils down to is a surrender of the self. Like any good addictive substance, the internet promises oblivion to those who seek it. When we scroll, we are gone. We’re not embodying ourselves or experiencing things from our own perspective. Instead, we’re living as an eternal voyeur, a silhouette in a dark theater. We will never get to that white hot core of the internet but if we aren’t careful, we’ll waste our lives chasing after it. Life will become like an episode of streaming television, something that plays in the background while we space out. When we finally do look up, we may well realize that the entirety of our physical lives was deferred to a tertiary plane of attention. Turns out that if you spend life second screening, there is no first screen, no primary focus. There is just a person’s perception, all they’ll ever know of the world, being asymptotically divided over and over again until it’s spread so thin it may as well have never existed.
February 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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Forgot alt text on these sorry gang
But that was about to change with the introduction of Neopets. The website, launched in 1999, was essentially an attempt to ride on the coattails of Pokemon’s massive success. Users could adopt cartoonish pets, give them names, and battle with them. While it seemed like a game on a surface level, it was something slightly darker: proto-social media for children. The pets were the reason everyone was there, but each user had an individual profile and the ability to send messages to others. It even had its own version of an endless feed in its “NeoBoards” feature. This is where the real hooks sunk in. Some threads were conversation starters, but most were just people’s loose thoughts. Each press of the refresh button refilled my screen with more strange perspectives to embody. Over twenty five years later and I still remember thread titles like they’re my friends’ old phone numbers. There was so much to read, so much to consume, and the time would flow away like it was nothing. It silenced my thoughts and without knowing what I was giving up, it felt like a respite from the developing neuroses that I was still mostly keeping to myself. The screen became a bright, beckoning light in my living room, a sun I could stare into with impunity and vanish for a moment. When I did, I’d lose myself for a moment, becoming everyone and no one. Eventually, it was harder to pull myself away. Maybe my story is familiar. Maybe it’s not. But in the serious efforts to be on my phone less that I’ve taken over these last few years, I haven’t had much else to do but watch you guys. I’ve seen your thirty part Instagram stories and your 50 Bluesky posts a day and I’ve taken the gamble that many of you might relate to this more than you’re willing to admit. The problem isn’t just that screens are bad for us, the problem is that the screens are too good. It’s not that phones can kill us or that our gaming PCs will make us forget to eat, but that in aggregate, the presence of an eternally “better” option, one of perfected leisure that hijacks every impulse in our minds to make us feel at peace, will never not seem preferable in comparison with the friction of the real world. Your family might say things that annoy you, dates might not go well, but a few more hours scrolling could take you anywhere. Brain worms, irony poisoning, we’ve given the new sickness of the internet a lot of cute little names but what it really boils down to is a surrender of the self. Like any good addictive substance, the internet promises oblivion to those who seek it. When we scroll, we are gone. We’re not embodying ourselves or experiencing things from our own perspective. Instead, we’re living as an eternal voyeur, a silhouette in a dark theater.
February 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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I've gotta be honest with you man I am getting kind of exhausted by the ongoing vibe of this website
thebarrylad.bsky.social Barrylad ‘26 @thebarrylad.bsky.social · 5d
Lol did dril say something about the candy asses moderating this place?
Dril posting on IG stories that he’s banned from bsky
February 4, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Wrote about internet addiction, how it hijacks impulses towards anxiety or compulsion, and of course, Neopets.
But that was about to change with the introduction of Neopets. The website, launched in 1999, was essentially an attempt to ride on the coattails of Pokemon’s massive success. Users could adopt cartoonish pets, give them names, and battle with them. While it seemed like a game on a surface level, it was something slightly darker: proto-social media for children. The pets were the reason everyone was there, but each user had an individual profile and the ability to send messages to others. It even had its own version of an endless feed in its “NeoBoards” feature. This is where the real hooks sunk in. Some threads were conversation starters, but most were just people’s loose thoughts. Each press of the refresh button refilled my screen with more strange perspectives to embody. Over twenty five years later and I still remember thread titles like they’re my friends’ old phone numbers. There was so much to read, so much to consume, and the time would flow away like it was nothing. It silenced my thoughts and without knowing what I was giving up, it felt like a respite from the developing neuroses that I was still mostly keeping to myself. The screen became a bright, beckoning light in my living room, a sun I could stare into with impunity and vanish for a moment. When I did, I’d lose myself for a moment, becoming everyone and no one. Eventually, it was harder to pull myself away.
February 4, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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We need to start treating the politicians who want to do nothing the same way we treat the politicians who did this. This is basically just a call for a quieter and more respectful version of an agency we've watched kill people and tear gas children
schumer.senate.gov Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 5d
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:

End the roving patrols and racial profiling.

Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.

Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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Particularly maddening bit of enshittification is that somewhere over the last 18 months we lost the ability to efficiently and digitally fill out a PDF form to the point where I now just print everything out, fill it out by hand, and scan it with my phone
February 3, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Not a great time to watch an episode of Mad Men right before Industry, Sally Draper is not supposed to behave that way
February 2, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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The real life shire
cyrthogg.bsky.social Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 9d
From the Epstein documents: The FBI having to Google where Wisconsin is???
The FBI not knowing where Wisconsin is, apparently?
February 1, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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Chicago I am issuing a formal “moon big” alert
January 31, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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Man Catherine O'Hara was one of the funniest to ever do it
January 30, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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So first they post an epic Landman clip about how pronouns don't make any sense. That's your cue to reply with an Andor scene about how fascism is bad. He's going to come back with a Don Draper meme so you need to be ready to counter with a Tim Robinson gif. This is the fight. This is how we win.
January 30, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Trump wants fascism but hasn't figured out how to solve the Country Too Big problem. He has enough goons and federal agents to gum up a couple American cities but not enough for the number of people who hate him, he can't arrest every journalist, the scare tactics are upsetting but ultimately anemic
January 30, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Always fun when a piece of my text makes the previews, like getting to sneak a lil treat before dinner. I loved working on Secrets of Strixhaven and I think it'll be a real hit with players. That "and so on" is one of the funniest bits of rules text I've read.
January 27, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Reposted by Dan Sheehan
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idea i had
January 24, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Unfortunately a lot of people in very key positions of political, journalistic, and cultural power are letting their desire to not be living through a fascist rise effect their ability to help prevent the fascism
January 25, 2026 at 12:01 AM