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Tim Price

@timprice.bsky.social

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Right-handed lefty writer. Former think tank inmate. Most run-over Staten Islander of 2008 (Nominated)

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1m

Love is innumerate

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 6m

Single undeleted comment in an ancient Reddit thread: Edit: nvm, figured it out

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 8m

Unrelated have you ever wanted to turn into a werewolf and go apeshit

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 17m

pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 8h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 38m

Just bolted awake from a terrifying sleepslop

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 45m

Introducing SpongeBob SquarePants two-thirds of the way into the story to prove a very important point

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 50m

As soon as I thought of it I thought about what an insane multidirectional troll it would be to do that with a book you had not used AI to generate, which only increased the jokerfication factor

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 58m

Sickos man saying “Yes… hahaha… yes!” while looking in the window

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Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 1h

becoming the double joker by imagining a 20-minute YouTube video about a fan theory that a new novel is actually a ChatGPT summary of the in-universe events and “story inconsistencies” are due to unreliable narrator

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1h

I just jokerfied myself a little bit by imagining a scenario where the literary device of the frame story makes a comeback, but instead of the narrator sharing a tale they heard in a tavern or read in an old book, it’s just them saying they asked ChatGPT

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1h

Terrible day to have thoughts

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1h

Me writing this post

The Joker on his dancing stairs

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1h

The age of the epistolary novel is over; the age of the grok novel has begun

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1h

I just jokerfied myself a little bit by imagining a scenario where the literary device of the frame story makes a comeback, but instead of the narrator sharing a tale they heard in a tavern or read in an old book, it’s just them saying they asked ChatGPT

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1h

It’s bad enough that you’ve called me. Now this?

Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 6h

On the way home from the barn I heard a This American Life piece by a guy who had an AI clone of himself call his friends to have conversations and I would just like to state now that if anyone ever does this to me, we will no longer be friends. WTF is this world where we outsource all interaction?

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 2h

I like it when a couple like Trudeau and Perry get together because it consolidates two situations I’m ambivalent about into one

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

this is bad for society but incredibly funny

This is the birthday text I received from my sister

[obviously GPTd message]

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 2h

If he asked me six months ago I would have said it’s not going to be that helpful. I have out-forecasted the forecaster

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 2h

Lay’s: Because You 🫵 Are Not Better Than That

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 4h

That’s fair. It’s a stacked cast, but you can never have enough Carol Kane.

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 4h

I’ll never forget watching this with my girlfriend who had never seen any of them. When it got to the part where the Jawas trap R2-D2 and everyone’s beeping and honking at each other, she turned to me with a look of grave concern and asked “Is this the rest of the movie?”

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 4h

*putting on STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE for my kids* hope you all are ready to get bored

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

It always looks silly from these guys but this basic logic where the most marginalized people are actually elites representing “the machine” is also the shared understanding people running newsrooms and universities believe as well.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 5h

So was the fight for voting rights just a big waste of time?

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 5h

They really think the DOGE busybody emails were an epic masterstroke

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

No Way To Know Whether New Boss Wants To Fire A Lot Of People Or Genuinely Has No Idea How Anything Works Here

Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 5h

Writers Guild rightly tells members not to respond to Bari Weiss

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/wga-cbs-news-staffers-not-respond-bari-weiss-memo-1236546038/