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@not-a-horse.bsky.social
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“only good at critical theory” - some guy once

civic tech, arts & crafts, comments my own etc. etc.

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oh my god the twink bus got me
Reddit post glorifying the older LA Metro bus model, which the Redditor inexplicably calls the “twink bus.”
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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is this a gender reveal party?
Filet crochet in red heart mercerized cotton in natural. The pattern is halfway to spelling out “girl” so I looks like it says “yııı”
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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what I love about making my own crochet/knitting patterns is it basically feels like using Kid Pix but for adults
A crochet pattern that says “horse girl” in gothic script
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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this large son let me sleep in past 6am this morning, please clap.
September 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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dreaming up an unhinged new craft project
Knitting colorwork chart of a Ric Flair tweet from 1:43PM on 5/5/24 From Earth with 1.2M views. It reads: I Spent $1500 At @PiesanosSFP To Be Disrespected More Than I Ever Have In My Entire Life. After Taking 20 Pictures With Customers And Staff, I Was Asked To Leave Because Of An Issue I Had With The Kitchen Manager Taking Too Long In The Bathroom. I Would Highly Recommend That Anyone Who Wants To Enjoy A Relaxing Time In Gainesville At A Nice Restaurant To Never Visit This Place! WOOOOO! I have maintained the capitalization, punctuation, grammar and line breaks of the original tweet.
September 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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tweet from the Iron Sheik (RIP) “HULK HOGAN MAY HAVE BEEN A DUMB SON OF A BITCH IN THE RING BUT OUTSIDE THE RING HE WAS ALSO A DUMB SON OF A BITCH”
July 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Top: “can everyone see my screen?” in Zoom

Bottom: “can everyone see my screen?” in Teams
Top: A squirrel holding a grenade Bottom: a trout with a headset and a tie Artist credit: Dylan Aiello
July 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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I MEAN. This enormous ham just exists in my house doing silly yawns.

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A large adult son, better known as a pitbull, trying to look over his shoulder while laying on the couch. The arm of the couch is smooshing his face, but he is unbothered. What, a couch in the way of my face? No, this is what my face normally looks like.
July 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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So glad Apple continues to be at the forefront of terrible UI choices that then filter down to other interfaces, such as *checks notes* the CVS app.
Screenshot of the menu options are the bottom of the CVS app. There’s some garbage see-through white behind the menu icons so you can see the store ads beneath.
July 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Basically what Figma Autolayout does to components.
A collage of “honk if you” bumper stickers on the trunk of a car, all overlapping in a cascade of nonsense.
June 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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It was so bad, they called in the NG/USMC cuz the civilians were playing Wait and Bleed from the 1999 critical self-titled album by Slipknot
June 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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speak on that.
A white Subaru in from of an Art Center building in Pasadena, CA during the LA Art Book Fair. A sign affixed to the roof reads HONK IF YOU LOVE RELATIONAL AESTHETICS.
May 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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All I want is a meditation app or playlist that isn’t AI slop, and I finally find something but it has THE WORST UI AND IA.
The Open app Home Screen: a weird dark gradient with tiny font that’s low-contrast against the background.
May 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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marriage…haha am I right
A heterosexual wedding cake topper, discarded in the grass median on sunset boulevard in Echo Park, Los Angeles
May 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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My tall son just farted on me send help.
The sleepiest pitbull known to man, tongue lolling out, in a deep-REM honk shoo.
May 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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I love living in the moment at a show, watching the performance on stage through one or more phones held up to record the whole fucking thing.
A crowd of inexplicably tall and geriatric Gen Xers at the Mogwai show in LA on 4/29/25, with one particularly tall fuck holding their phone up to block all view of the stage.
April 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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As you’ll see from this uxer journey map…
The International Phonetic Alphabet (revised to 2020)
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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like…what is happening and how can I sign up
Wheat paste posters on a plywood wall say “TIRED OF LOOKING AVERAGE? STOP BEING AVERAGE get life changing surgery here BECOME A HORSE. Call: +1 (443) 878-7072 experience rebirth be transformed DARE TO BE YOU DARE TO BE FREE YOLO BECAUSE YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE” this is accompanied by an image of a brown horse with a heart shaped white blaze and long blonde hair
April 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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having an absolutely normal one
Wheat paste posters on a plywood wall say “TIRED OF LOOKING AVERAGE? STOP BEING AVERAGE get life changing surgery here BECOME A HORSE. Call: +1 (443) 878-7072 experience rebirth be transformed DARE TO BE YOU DARE TO BE FREE YOLO BECAUSE YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE” this is accompanied by an image of a brown horse with a heart shaped white blaze and long blonde hair
April 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Hey this week sucked, but have you considered doing a crappy craft project about it?
A piece of white cotton woven fabric in an embroidery hoop; a blue polka dot fabric patch in an oval has hot pink embroidered stars and letters in the word “DARN.” Orange thread for four stitch practice rows above.
March 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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In the NatSec group chat
Bella Goth from the Sims 1 sitting down at a computer
March 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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normal stuff right here
A brown grocery bag on the sidewalk with a sign reading “DEAD BIRD DON’T TOUCH! ANIMAL CONTROL PICKING UP FOR TESTING”
March 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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A workbook? Oh no thanks, I’m p good at worrying already.
Spine of a purple book with the title “THE WORRY WORKBOOK” in white sans serif text.
March 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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@metrolosangeles.bsky.social have you considered updating windows
An in-train screen showing stations is blocked by a warning modal showing that Windows can’t update.
March 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Reading more about areas of the world that don’t get a ton of American press coverage is a goal this yr. Again, thoroughly researched and a fascinating look into a topic I knew little about previously.
Cobalt Red: How the blood of the Congo powers our lives by Siddharth Kara. Featuring a photo of artisanal cobalt miners digging into a rust-colored hillside in the Congo.
March 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM