Denise Brick (she/her)
@viperbrick.bsky.social
Wildly enthusiastic about my wife, two kids, and Weimaraner. #handsomepodsquad
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If the point is intimidation, they win if you're afraid. Worrying doesn't prevent anything bad from happening. Make yourself a little playlist and go outdoors for 15 minutes and look at the sky and make your life feel like a movie. If bad things are coming, don't let joy be stolen prematurely.
Your new favorite holiday movie!
This Waitrose ad is better than the majority of movies I've seen this year.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
Keira Knightley stars in Waitrose’s Christmas ‘mini romcom’ ad
YouTube video by Daily Record
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November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Your new favorite holiday movie!
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if i was elon i would just get off social media. i wouldnt stay there waiting for joyce carol oates to hit me with the sickest burn ever uttered by mankind. kind of fascinating that hes in a hell of his own making. he can get off this ride at any time. except he cant. because of his personality.
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
if i was elon i would just get off social media. i wouldnt stay there waiting for joyce carol oates to hit me with the sickest burn ever uttered by mankind. kind of fascinating that hes in a hell of his own making. he can get off this ride at any time. except he cant. because of his personality.
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We can't live in constant despair: we need hope and joy to keep us buoyed for the long road ahead.
A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We can't live in constant despair: we need hope and joy to keep us buoyed for the long road ahead.
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Around the Cake https://www.wikiart.org/en/wayne-thiebaud/around-the-cake-1962
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Around the Cake https://www.wikiart.org/en/wayne-thiebaud/around-the-cake-1962
It's so frustrating when assumptions are made about men and their votes. This same thing happens with the Latino vote. We don't need a left wing Rogan, just lean into what we really believe in, stop being milquetoast.
What Young Men Problem? open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
What Young Men Problem? open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
What Young Men Problem?
Democrats won clear majorities of this constituency.
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It's so frustrating when assumptions are made about men and their votes. This same thing happens with the Latino vote. We don't need a left wing Rogan, just lean into what we really believe in, stop being milquetoast.
What Young Men Problem? open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
What Young Men Problem? open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov should California divest itself from voting with Dominion machines?
October 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov should California divest itself from voting with Dominion machines?
If the point is intimidation, they win if you're afraid. Worrying doesn't prevent anything bad from happening. Make yourself a little playlist and go outdoors for 15 minutes and look at the sky and make your life feel like a movie. If bad things are coming, don't let joy be stolen prematurely.
October 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If the point is intimidation, they win if you're afraid. Worrying doesn't prevent anything bad from happening. Make yourself a little playlist and go outdoors for 15 minutes and look at the sky and make your life feel like a movie. If bad things are coming, don't let joy be stolen prematurely.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
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Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.
September 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.
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The real female gaze
a close up of a person 's hand with a black shirt on
ALT: a close up of a person 's hand with a black shirt on
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July 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The real female gaze
Her toxicity is impacting 3 couples
Ok my take on The Ultimatum: Queer Love Season 2: Dayna is the real villain of the season
July 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Her toxicity is impacting 3 couples
Where I live, there were 22 days that were over 100F by the end of July last year. This is the kind of innovation that I can get excited about, and it's not even very high tech.
Ashley Ogawa Clarke wrote a story for Vogue last year about fashion brands incorporating fan-powered tech into their clothes, which is already popular with Japanese laborers. I was skeptical of the tech, but this video is pretty convincing.
IG keeganhasegawa
IG keeganhasegawa
July 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Where I live, there were 22 days that were over 100F by the end of July last year. This is the kind of innovation that I can get excited about, and it's not even very high tech.
What the New York Times Got Wrong About Gen X
open.substack.com/pub/jonsmall...
open.substack.com/pub/jonsmall...
What the New York Times Got Wrong About Gen X
A new article tried to write our obituary. We're just getting started.
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April 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
What the New York Times Got Wrong About Gen X
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THIS is the serotonin hit I need on a Monday morning, so now I'm sharing it with you. Chills!
April 14, 1993: Chicago Bulls fan Don Calhoun attends his first Bulls game in three years and throws in a 75-foot shot that wins him $1,000,000.
Per Sports Illustrated, Calhoun was selected to shoot because a Bulls employee felt his “suede hiking boots wouldn’t scuff the court."
Per Sports Illustrated, Calhoun was selected to shoot because a Bulls employee felt his “suede hiking boots wouldn’t scuff the court."
April 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
THIS is the serotonin hit I need on a Monday morning, so now I'm sharing it with you. Chills!
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Anybody have any ideas on how to get an old brain to run faster on startup? I don't want to replace the whole thing (tbh I have some apps I like and the desktop is finally coming together after 50 years), but I did a shutdown/restart overnight and this morning the indexing service is slow as hell.
March 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Anybody have any ideas on how to get an old brain to run faster on startup? I don't want to replace the whole thing (tbh I have some apps I like and the desktop is finally coming together after 50 years), but I did a shutdown/restart overnight and this morning the indexing service is slow as hell.
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Can we have this button on Pinterest plz
March 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Can we have this button on Pinterest plz
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Holy crap, yes. We were all functionally getting raised by the older kids but every now and then your mom had to be a massive hardass about something that was absolutely not clarified until after it was a problem.
Running around like a fraggle all summer: Awesome.
Arbitrary parenting: not awesome.
Running around like a fraggle all summer: Awesome.
Arbitrary parenting: not awesome.
Possibly the single most accurate description of parenting from 1970-89 ever written.
February 19, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Holy crap, yes. We were all functionally getting raised by the older kids but every now and then your mom had to be a massive hardass about something that was absolutely not clarified until after it was a problem.
Running around like a fraggle all summer: Awesome.
Arbitrary parenting: not awesome.
Running around like a fraggle all summer: Awesome.
Arbitrary parenting: not awesome.
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My eighth grade teacher called this "mad lib" writing.
She'd have written "by zombies?!?" in red pen after the first sentence.
"... the policing of language." -"[by zombies?!?]"
Where "it" is used as a subject, she'd circle it and write something like, "Plutonium? Fish? Clown cars?"
She'd have written "by zombies?!?" in red pen after the first sentence.
"... the policing of language." -"[by zombies?!?]"
Where "it" is used as a subject, she'd circle it and write something like, "Plutonium? Fish? Clown cars?"
February 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My eighth grade teacher called this "mad lib" writing.
She'd have written "by zombies?!?" in red pen after the first sentence.
"... the policing of language." -"[by zombies?!?]"
Where "it" is used as a subject, she'd circle it and write something like, "Plutonium? Fish? Clown cars?"
She'd have written "by zombies?!?" in red pen after the first sentence.
"... the policing of language." -"[by zombies?!?]"
Where "it" is used as a subject, she'd circle it and write something like, "Plutonium? Fish? Clown cars?"
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Feeling this very much today. Via poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram.
February 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Feeling this very much today. Via poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram.
This is why I'm never going to learn to spell disingenuous.
Whenever I'm trying to spell unnecessary I just hit n, C, and s until auto correct kisses me on the forehead and tells me to stop.
January 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This is why I'm never going to learn to spell disingenuous.
Beautiful, timely words by @jessicajocelyn.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Beautiful, timely words by @jessicajocelyn.bsky.social