David Mahaffey
@dmahaffey.bsky.social
Editor, geek, recovering catastrophizer.
Feeds remain antidotes to the labyrinth of walled gardens that comprise the modern internet. RIP Google Reader, and long live RSS. Other benefits in this @literaryhub.bsky.social article on why you should get (back) into RSS curation: lithub.com/why-you-shou...
Why you should get (back) into RSS curation.
Right after college, I moved to San Francisco, a city where I knew one person. I had a lonely time at first, and in particular I struggled to stay connected to the friends I no longer shared a camp…
lithub.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Feeds remain antidotes to the labyrinth of walled gardens that comprise the modern internet. RIP Google Reader, and long live RSS. Other benefits in this @literaryhub.bsky.social article on why you should get (back) into RSS curation: lithub.com/why-you-shou...
Truly the most fictional of all the science fictions. Utopian, not eutopian.
July 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Truly the most fictional of all the science fictions. Utopian, not eutopian.
The 90s are for hot country music, not for hospitable temperatures. In both cases the 00s are so much worse.
June 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The 90s are for hot country music, not for hospitable temperatures. In both cases the 00s are so much worse.
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The otter keeper gave this baby otter a sock to keep warm. She later turned it into a onesie with holes for the hands, feet, and tail
April 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The otter keeper gave this baby otter a sock to keep warm. She later turned it into a onesie with holes for the hands, feet, and tail
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sometimes I feel like a dinosaur, cause no one looks anything up anymore 🦕
April 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
sometimes I feel like a dinosaur, cause no one looks anything up anymore 🦕
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"It is with a heavy heart that we admit Spines for Senators has failed in its mission to provide invertebrate lawmakers with the transformational surgeries they so desperately need."
Spines for Senators Is Now Pitchforks for the People
It is with a heavy heart that we admit Spines for Senators (S4S) has failed in its mission to provide invertebrate lawmakers with the transformatio...
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March 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"It is with a heavy heart that we admit Spines for Senators has failed in its mission to provide invertebrate lawmakers with the transformational surgeries they so desperately need."
Do I overcaffeinate myself? Very well then, I overcaffeinate myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.
February 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Do I overcaffeinate myself? Very well then, I overcaffeinate myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.
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Let me take this format for a spin
February 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Let me take this format for a spin
Fear is an instrument.
Susan Werner - Fear is An Instrument
YouTube video by Susan Werner (SW)
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Fear is an instrument.
Everything the billionaires (and DJT) do is alarming and deeply harmful, but I am also very impressed by how petty it all is.
February 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Everything the billionaires (and DJT) do is alarming and deeply harmful, but I am also very impressed by how petty it all is.
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It's really easy to find the source of images. If you google neurodiversity smorgasbord, my name and website comes up. Here's the image without my name covered up.
February 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
It's really easy to find the source of images. If you google neurodiversity smorgasbord, my name and website comes up. Here's the image without my name covered up.
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Hey, friends! My personal portfolio website (and shop?!?!) are up and running! It lists all of the services I offer. I'm still waiting on a few testimonials but the site is live!
Would love it if you can give it a share!
Would love it if you can give it a share!
Tea Fougner
www.teaberryblue.net
February 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Hey, friends! My personal portfolio website (and shop?!?!) are up and running! It lists all of the services I offer. I'm still waiting on a few testimonials but the site is live!
Would love it if you can give it a share!
Would love it if you can give it a share!
Only the parody version used "download a car!"
Last night @dmahaffey.bsky.social and I had the very disorienting experience of both being 100% certain that the original 2004 anti-piracy ad used the line "you wouldn't download a car." 100% convinced. But no. It was "you wouldn't steal a car." We were, as the younger adults would say, shook.
January 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Only the parody version used "download a car!"
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hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago!
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
January 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago!
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
Before you decide whether or not to take that writing advice about mixed metaphors, find out whether it's coming from a bartender or a chemist.
January 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Before you decide whether or not to take that writing advice about mixed metaphors, find out whether it's coming from a bartender or a chemist.
Harrison Ford, tender curmudgeon.
Listening to the Quiet with Harrison Ford - 2025
YouTube video by E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Harrison Ford, tender curmudgeon.
It's true because I read it online and it did not hurt my feelings.
January 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It's true because I read it online and it did not hurt my feelings.
It has been suggested that bumming people out is one of my spiritual gifts, and this is true. I'm not trying to be the bummer I wish to see in the world, though. Just extrapolating from available context.
December 8, 2024 at 4:48 PM
It has been suggested that bumming people out is one of my spiritual gifts, and this is true. I'm not trying to be the bummer I wish to see in the world, though. Just extrapolating from available context.
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Today’s poem is called ‘Love Excels’.
December 4, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Today’s poem is called ‘Love Excels’.
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Hey we're Taco Bell Quarterly, we're a prestigious Literary Magazine. We pay $100! We're open for another week. Submit something. This is one of our favorite poems published in our last issue, TBQ6, Staircase wit by Rhiannon McGavin.
https://tacobellquarterly.org/staircase-wit/
https://tacobellquarterly.org/staircase-wit/
July 25, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Hey we're Taco Bell Quarterly, we're a prestigious Literary Magazine. We pay $100! We're open for another week. Submit something. This is one of our favorite poems published in our last issue, TBQ6, Staircase wit by Rhiannon McGavin.
https://tacobellquarterly.org/staircase-wit/
https://tacobellquarterly.org/staircase-wit/
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If you're wondering how bad the Borderlands movie was, it was bad enough to give me Covid.
August 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM
If you're wondering how bad the Borderlands movie was, it was bad enough to give me Covid.
Alas poor York Peppermint Patty! I knew him, Horatio.
November 1, 2023 at 3:01 AM
Alas poor York Peppermint Patty! I knew him, Horatio.
I wrote the intro this month for The Sun's celebration of Debbie Urbanski's 2016 speculative story "The Portal." I also took Past David to task for positing a false dichotomy. Genre fiction is literary fiction. thesunmagazine.org/issues/573/t...
The Sun Magazine | The Portal | By Debbie Urbanski | Issue 573
There had been no omens to suggest that, by going through the portal a second time, Amber would ruin the rest of her life: no bats circling the entrance nor eno
thesunmagazine.org
September 13, 2023 at 12:35 AM
I wrote the intro this month for The Sun's celebration of Debbie Urbanski's 2016 speculative story "The Portal." I also took Past David to task for positing a false dichotomy. Genre fiction is literary fiction. thesunmagazine.org/issues/573/t...