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hoink

@hoink.bsky.social

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Probably mostly going to post about movies, video games, and Minnesota sports.

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Alex Kain

@tdcpresents.bsky.social

October 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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Dan Devine

@yourmandevine.bsky.social

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

August 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM

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Kørg(x)³ 😐🎹

@korgx3.bsky.social

The person who named them woofers and tweeters should have named more stuff.

July 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM

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Aysha

@ayshaufarah.bsky.social

“AI will help with pointless interactions like item descriptions and NPC barks” if it’s pointless it shouldn’t be in the game. If there’s nothing interesting about something, cut it

July 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Apologies for the radical pinko commie talk, but I too think everyone in the world deserves health care.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 6

WATCH: @katmabu.bsky.social blows Jennings’ mind by saying “everyone deserves health care”

Reminder: this is how it is in every other developed nation, where the cruelty of the Republican Party has not killed universal health care on behalf of the insurance companies. #MedicareForAll