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Bonnes des heures Maple King
stuartp.bsky.social stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · Jul 1
you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois"
repost to receive his blessing
July 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
xerxn.bsky.social
sEnD mY bOdY tO aRbY's o_0 . 0_o
May 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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agoldman.bsky.social
Everyone get real excited -- huge huge news -- @heavyweight.bsky.social is coming back. I am so so excited, I can't begin to tell you. Also, I am here to tell you that Jonathan Goldstein is the rare human being who is exactly like he is on the radio IRL. He's humble, kind, curious, and so so funny.
‘Heavyweight,’ an Acclaimed Narrative Podcast, Returns
Pushkin Industries, the podcast company that will release the show, is betting that documentary-style audio programs can still win an audience.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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aridrennen.bsky.social
Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now
A screenshot of a text excerpt from a court proceeding, showing a conversation between Judge Reyes and Jason C. Lynch about an executive order that defines “sex” strictly as male or female. Judge Reyes challenges this definition, noting that there are roughly 30 different intersex variations and citing examples such as XXX chromosomes, androgen insensitivity, and five-alpha reductase deficiency. Judge Reyes emphasizes that not everyone fits neatly into an XX or XY pattern, concluding that the executive order’s premise—that there are only two sexes—is biologically incorrect.
February 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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mike10010100.com
This is fucking incredible.
REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional- REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people ... to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: I don't have an answer for you. REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it... People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the military We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country... calling them liars. (Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of benign a lawyer for the government" She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)
February 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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criminalsimpsons.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
xerxn.bsky.social
Today's lyrics I never quite noticed/heard clearly:
"The wails of ruined lives brought to a halt
By the serene hum of computers in air-conditioned vaults"
- Memory Machine, The Dismemberment Plan
February 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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world0fecho.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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disasteradio.bsky.social
The graphic design on dog roll is utterly boundless, I love it
January 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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brainmage.bsky.social
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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thejase.bsky.social
I think I've found the ultimate 80s sound fx.
January 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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thehorrormaster.bsky.social
I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David.
January 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
xerxn.bsky.social
The Son Of A Disgruntled X-Postal Worker Reflects On His Life While Getting Stoned In The Parking Lot Of A Winn Dixie Listening To Metallica.
January 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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realheathcliffs.bsky.social
15 Jan 2025
Heathcliff is playing clarinet on the back of his fence alongside the cantina band from Star Wars, playing their weird alien horns. A crowd of cats watch intently, with a few aliens from the Star Wars cantina scene mixed in. Iggy and Grandpa Nutmeg watch out their back window, and Grandpa says "You'll never see a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
January 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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jpbrammer.bsky.social
for the past several years of my life I have had a flat earther cover song of Adele's "Hello" in my head, where it resurfaces from time to time
January 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
xerxn.bsky.social
Hiya @harvilla.bsky.social I was going to ask if you've done a contextual tangent on the band Whale in one of your podcasts, then I had a google. don't think you have, but I found the Stereogum interview where you mention them.

Anywho, favourite Whale song that isn't 'Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe' ?
January 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
xerxn.bsky.social
Seduce me
Seduce me
Dress me up in Stussy
January 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood
Someone on Twitter writes: "Unfortunately die work wear or whatever is a psyop to turn men into women . Cuz why the hell else would he be telling them to dress that gay"
January 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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komaniecki.bsky.social
El-P: Shrewd dudes screwed up, flew the coop, pooped, and blew up

Killer Mike: Buy an AK-47 and **** the secretary of education
January 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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realheathcliffs.bsky.social
20 Dec 2024
Dumpty, Heathcliff's rock band with two other cats who all dress in big egg costumes, are playing a gig balanced on top of a fence, backed by a chicken DJ. The three cats are wearing Santa hats on top of their egg costumes, and mistletoe hangs in the background as a crowd of cats watch the show. Two birds observe the concert, one of them saying "It's the holiday extravaganza."
December 20, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
It has been a, uh, difficult week but I have not laughed louder and harder at something in a very long time than at this.
December 15, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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ceej.online
MENSWEAR GUY: Furthermore, you’ve neglected to even cut the vents of the shockingly poor-fitting sport coat you’ve, for some reason, chosen to wear to breakfast

MAN WHO STILL WEARS A THREADLESS TEE FROM 2003 WITH TWO ANTHROPOMORPHIC HOUSES HUGGING UNDER THE TEXT “HOMIES”: haha get his ass derek
December 13, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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nicemustard.bsky.social
COLE: COOP, THEY CAUGHT THE CEO SHOOTER. HIS NAME WAS TONY SPAGHETTI, REAL BOY NEXT DOOR. ABS LIKE ADONIS. POLITICAL IDEAS OF A FUTON. PERHAPS THE IDEAL MAN
December 10, 2024 at 5:10 AM