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Erik
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Google hasn't been my default for years, but like... ???
google.com showing very reasonable suggestions for "eugene v debs" in a private browser window
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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The Chad "yes" meme; a drawn profile of a chad white guy with a fascist barber and a steely look and the text "Yes."
September 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Still of Viggo Mortensen from David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future (2022).
August 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Still of Al Pacino from the "SHE'S GOT A GREAT ASS" scene in 1995's Heat.
July 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Lady Deirdre Sky laser eyes meme
July 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Unrelated: damn, I've been sleeping on this guy.
The rearmost couch boy, who's making an incredibly dramatic pose that I didn't notice until now.
July 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Yeah, that's actually not where I was going with that, but thanks buddy.
Screenshot from a code editor with a comment saying "This is a vibe-coded canvas animation that is not understood by anyone." It is followed by an AI-suggested autocompletion of "It's a testament to the power of the human mind."
July 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Christopher Walken as Sicilian mafioso Vincenzo Coccotti from a famous scene with problematic commentary on Sicilian ethnicity from the movie True Romance.
July 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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The "society if" meme; i.e. an idyllic, futuristic utopian society.
June 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The face of why.bsky.team's avi copypasted over an extremely french man.
June 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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tfw you're a single political and cultural entity inevitably coming into being over time
June 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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A skeleton standing on a gallows with a noose around its neck and a caption, "First time?".
May 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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A true gamer would never make this complaint.
Bluesky post: "My grandma was 99 when she said, 'You don't want to live to 100.'"
May 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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"pnpm run ios"
May 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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epic handshake meme of "ai haters" and "ai stans" jointly "fetishizing ai"
May 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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"You wouldn't build a thing" in the font of the iconic anti-piracy ad from the early oughts.
May 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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See this prompt from one of my chats. Now imagine this same functionality but with a potentially very large text. "which sections discuss x?" or "what language is used to describe y?" or "do you find any instances of z?". There are systems that let you do this and serve up the sources directly.
Q: Political dysfunction / corruption, but as a result of a slow process over time? Like, "sclerotic" A: Yes—sclerotic is excellent for describing systems that have become rigid, inefficient, or dysfunctional through gradual ossification. Here are other strong candidates, depending on tone: Single-Word Options: Calcified – hardened over time, resistant to change Encrusted – overlaid or weighed down by accumulated layers (often of tradition or bureaucracy)
April 24, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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@thelouvreof.bsky.social
Screenshot of @thelouvreof.bsky.social post: 1. @mattyglesias.bsky.social replying to himself without switching to his sockpuppet account. 2. @thelouvreof.bsky.social riffing on this by pretending to reply to themselves without switching to a sock puppet account.
April 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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"The Human Freedom Index"
Doctored image of Barack Obama giving Barack Obama the Medal of Honor.
April 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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dril tweet: "the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: 'theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron'"
April 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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AI-generated image (ChatGPT 4o) of an ecstatic hacker with lightning coming out of his eyes and cables connected to his head, sitting in front of a keyboard.
March 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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David Graeber saw God.

Great presentation by @kissane.bsky.social
Presentation with David Graeber quote: The hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.
March 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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”Social should be a substrate, not an enclosure.” — @wang.social

Very good 👌
March 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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”No steps backwards” — those concerned about Bluesky’s liberal biases can stop worrying; they’re actually Stalinists.
Paul Frazee in front of a presentation, the quote ”No steps backwards” are on the current slide
March 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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@blaine.bsky.social just set an exceptionally high bar with the opening talk at ATmosphere Conference.
Blaine at a speaker’s podium
March 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM