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Evan Engel

@evanengel.bsky.social

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Here to learn & help but also test some digs. Available for all your video/podcast needs. Probably listening to someone rock out on a B3. Formerly: Vice, Vox, WSJ linktr.ee/evanengel

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Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 13d

This is a weird one for me, but...

I'm putting on a show about online pranks, journalism, AI, & everything I've learned in the last 15 years working at their intersection.

Join me Oct. 15 at Caveat!

Evan Comes Clean

Between a career in journalism and hundreds of online pranks, Evan has learned a lot about the truth. Now he's sharing those lessons.

www.eventbrite.com

Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 3h

@zayddohrn.bsky.social get at me

Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 3h

Oh one time I wrote an entire feature screenplay in a day after putting it off for an entire semester. I wish I could find that script and see if it's any good. It was sort of a somber spy thriller about the Weather Underground

Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 3h

I wrote a paper about romantic symbolism in Frankenstein or something as the sun rose the morning it was due. At one point I quoted a Beatles song that was playing at that moment. Got an A and she specifically called out the song.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 17h

It would be so cool if any elected Dem had anything to say about the government deteriorating into a blatantly tyrannical state right before our eyes but I guess they're busy with stuff

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @lorenzofb.bsky.social for the gift!

Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 1d

I just finished this in hardcover and it's informative and thrilling. Most surprising part: a book about encrypted phones did more to raise my understanding of the scale of the drug trade than books I've read about the drug trade

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

Today's the day: DARK WIRE, my book on how the FBI secretly ran a tech company for criminals and wiretapped the world, coming to paperback. Updated with many more details. An Economist and FT book of the year. 404 Media subs: you just got 20% to your email www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/josep...

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Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 1d

Next week I'm taking the stage to reveal what a lifetime of online pranks & a career in journalism have taught me about this current moment. Join me at Caveat on October 15. One night IRL only. This is never going online.

Evan Comes Clean

Between a career in journalism and hundreds of online pranks, Evan has learned a lot about the truth. Now he's sharing those lessons.

www.eventbrite.com

Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 3d

describe your bluesky account in a single image

A Star Wars promo shot shows Princess Leia & Darth Vader on the beach

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 7d

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@eliyudin.com
I hate being bald and walking the same direction as another bald guy. It looks like we're being summoned by our king
August 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 8d

Ds could threaten hearings, prosecutions, and accountability in the future as a way to deter fascism today. They don't because they worry it would be an electoral loser.

The problem is that letting fascists romps puts elections themselves in peril. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/stop-plead...

Stop Pleading, Start Threatening

Schumer and Jeffries need to stop playing dead

www.everythingishorrible.net

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Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 8d

This, and Schumer has been explicit in his belief that some mythical suburban Republican will see the light if he just makes the right Sorkin speech. It hasn't worked yet but he won't let that stop him from trying!

Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 9d

The entire country 9 months into Trump 2

The "I am never going to financially recover from this" meme

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Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 9d

Centrists: What do you want us to do? We're the minority party!

Leftists: You had the White House and Congress for years, and we told you to abolish ICE

Ctrts: If we had done that, the Republicans would have run on it and won!

L: The Republicans won anyway!

C: Ah yes, nevertheless...

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 10d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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Jorkin D Penison @immaculatepizza.bsky.social · 9d

Prosecute ICE officers who have broken the law and make examples of their leaders

Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 9d

Abolish ICE.

Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 9d

ICE should not exist.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9d

the only responsible position for Democrats on any bill that gives Trump more power over anything is no

this goes double for bills that are abjectly terrible on their own merits, like KOSA

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 9d

Donald Trump basically announces that he is declaring war on anyone he deems a Democrat... and one of the leading Democratic Senators, @blumenthal.senate.gov thinks now is the best time for a bipartisan censorship bill that will let MAGA define what content is allowed on the internet.

WTF?

alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 9d

Are you kidding me right now? This is the last thing we need. KOSA is back no thanks to Senator Blumenthal who is working with the GOP and bringing in Republican Senators to convince the House to support it.

Please, CALL GOP House leadership and tell them to keep opposing it!

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Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 10d

This but not joking

Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 12d

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 10d

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Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 11d

Why aren't Democratic mayors & DAs charging ICE agents with assault over incidents like this one? Why are some Democratic mayors *cooperating* with ICE?

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13d

ALERT: ICE officer relieved of duties after videos show him shoving woman to the ground

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"Unacceptable": ICE officer relieved of duties after videos show him shoving woman to the ground

An ICE officer who was captured on video pushing a woman to the ground outside an immigration court in New York City has been relieved of his duties.

www.cbsnews.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11d

watch this.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 11d

So exhausting..

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Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 12d

Troops getting yelled at for marching in the bike lane

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Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 13d

Genuinely feels like he's trying to alter the SEO results for "Trump release files flight logs Island" so whatever you do, don't mention #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles alongside this news

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13d

Trump says he’s ordering the release of all government records on Amelia Earhart.

Trump: I have been asked by many people about the life and times of Amelia Earhart, such an interesting story, and would I consider declassifying and releasing everything about her, in particular, her last, fatal flight! She was an Aviation Pioneer, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and achieved many other Aviation "firsts." She disappeared in the South Pacific while trying to become the first woman to fly around the World.
Amelia made it almost three quarters around the World before she suddenly, and without notice, vanished, never to be seen again. Her disappearance, almost 90 years ago, has captivated millions. I am ordering my Administration to declassify and release all Government Records related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA
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Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 13d

Evan Comes Clean

Between a career in journalism and hundreds of online pranks, Evan has learned a lot about the truth. Now he's sharing those lessons.

www.eventbrite.com

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 14d

Don't stop looking at what is happening. These sadists are living out their fantasies. And our tax dollars are paying for it.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 14d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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