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acrostical.bsky.social
Allison C. Rost
@acrostical.bsky.social
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The acrostic got its name from me. Half sarcasm, half sincerity, all cringe. She/her/hers.
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Kazakhstan!
Borat standing in a village with a few pigs and a bunch of people
February 13, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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All but two of the active flights at San Jose Mineta International Airport (11 minutes from Levi's Stadium) are private planes.
A FlightRadar24 map of SJC, showing lots of planes on the ground at the airport.
February 9, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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Two of these dudes voted for Creed!!!!
A bar graph from the NYT showing that, of the surveyed NFL players about their dream Super Bowl halftime performer: 13 wanted Michael Jackson, 11 said Drake, 4 for Beyonce, and 3 each for Chris Brown and Travis Scott. In the fine print underneath the graph, a number of musical groups received two votes, including the early 2000s faux-hard rock band Creed.
February 2, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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Lmao @espn.com your app was confused for a good five-plus minutes at the end of the Sugar Bowl.

I'm really glad I was also listening!
Screenshot of the ESPN app at 8:45 PST, showing that Georgia was driving with nine seconds left in the fourth quarter. It was Ole Miss that actually had the ball. A screenshot of the ESPN app at 8:46 PST, showing that Georgia had just scored a field goal with six seconds left to go up by three. Ole Miss actually scored those points. A screenshot of the ESPN app at 8:49 PST, correctly showing that Ole Miss was up by five points with one second left (after also scoring a safety), but the stats still say that Georgia had just scored a field goal and had a 99.2% chance of winning the game.
January 2, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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The Saturday before Christmas, and THIS is the PG&E map for SF. Big yikes.
A map of San Francisco showing red zones indicating power outages throughout what looks like a third of the city, with concentrations in the Richmond, Sunset, Presidio, Haight, and Castro.
December 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Sounds like I missed something truly special.
Four WTF reactions in a row on my Bluesky feed, I'm guessing about some guy who made a TV appearance tonight?
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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uhhhh this is gross
A headline: "Rob Reiner, wife killed, their son arrested. What was his net worth?"
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Uhhhhhhh...
A Bluesky prompt labeled "Age Assurance": "It looks like you haven't added your birthday. You must provide an accurate date of birth to use Bluesky." There's then a button to "Add your birthdate" or a link to log out.
December 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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@ every bay area weatherperson: why on earth does it look like this outside when the radar app looks like this???
The view from my car out in Alameda this afternoon, showing active rain on the windshield. A screenshot of my weather app 10 seconds later showing a clear radar and a current status of cloudy and 62 degrees.
October 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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ok seriously
Another Outlook grammar "suggestion" that asserts I should be writing "us website" rather than "our website."
October 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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foh AI
A grammar "suggestion" on Outlook that says I should use the wrong there/they're/their.
October 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Awww. I still can't believe I even got to be in the same room as Jane Goodall, let alone take her photo! This was in...2015?
A photo of Jane Goodall wearing a green button-up shirt, standing at a lectern with a microphone, with a stuffed chimp at her side.
October 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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War-ravaged Portland.
Downtown Portland near Powell's, showing a clean street with light-rail lines, a few skyscrapers, and a Shake Shack. A look at I-5 in Portland at sunset. It's pretty empty and calm. A handmade billboard outside a mechanic in Portland, which reads "Hate creates a lot of problems. It never solves them." A shot from a bridge over the Willamette River in Portland, with a lone boat on the water and gentle ripples.
September 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Saw this not long after your skeet. If not for the flair...
A Reddit comment from u/GuestCalm5091 that reads: "North Carolina got a always have an old Coach because their name literally spells und."
September 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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I reloaded LinkedIn and ended up in 1994.
A screenshot of LinkedIn with broken formatting that makes it look like it got hung up on dial-up internet.
August 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A Bay Area Mentioned meme, with BART, cable cars, IPAs AND wine, Steph Curry, super burrito, etc.
August 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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may have just hit an AI breaking point
A feedback form to Yahoo! Mail about an AI summary on an email thread about an obituary. The feedback reads: "This is a conversation with family members about a loved one's obituary. It's jarring to see an AI summary at the top when we're discussing such a sensitive topic."
June 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Currently:
Two back-to-back posts on Reddit: one in r/oakland with the title "What the hell is that consistent booming from the West?"; and another in r/sanfrancisco with the title "Relax, it's only fireworks."
May 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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whoa
A screencap from Google showing a photo of a young Black man with the following description: Federiko Federiko is a Finnish college basketball player for Texas Tech Red Raiders of the Big 12 Conference.
March 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Patrick Schwarzenegger as Saxton Ratliff (a Duke grad) in S3 of "The White Lotus."
March 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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THE WHITE LOTUS: S3, Ep. 1.

Me:
The "mentioned" meme, but for North Carolina, with the character wearing a UNC hoodie and a fishing cap while holding a Bojangles box and a Cheerwine, set against an image of the Appalachians.
February 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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So you agree that the people who'd use Meta AI glasses are stupid enough to damage a piece of art?
Rachel MacAdams in "Mean Girls," at the point where Regina George says, "So you agree you're really pretty?"
February 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Big oof, Word.
The grammar checker in Microsoft Word telling me that the phrase "dear husband" should instead be "dead husband."
February 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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if you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery
A real pedestrian bridge in San Francisco's Japanese Tea Garden that looks like it's out of a cartoon.
January 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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This is why soap operas originally became a thing.
A tweet from @DiscussingFilm that reads "Netflix execs tell screenwriters to have characters 'announce what they're doing so that viewers who have a program on in the background can follow along." They also have thousands of micro-genres including 'casual viewing' which is used for movies/TV that go down best when you're not paying attention."
December 28, 2024 at 8:16 PM