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Geoff Holtby

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Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · Dec 24

EVERY PODCAST
an exhaustive list of all the kinds of podcasts that exist. (1/n)

1/ MY MURDER ADDICTION
Cozy little true crime stories from your cozy quirky best friends! Every week we detail a new horrible way our listeners could be murdered if they leave their house. Brought to you by BetterHelp.

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Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 3h

Rare case where the song in a movie about writing a really good song is actually legitimately really good.

Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 1d

This is very obviously a photoshopped image passed around by people making fun of Jews. Please apply even a little bit of critical thinking to things you repost.

Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 1d

It is very obviously a photoshopped picture passed around by anti-Israel posters. If you think this is real you are incredibly dumb.

Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 1d

Polarization makes people so dumb. Think for even two seconds if this is more likely to be an actual screenshot of a real Israeli food blog, or a photoshopped meme passed around by anti-Israel posters.

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Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 1d

If you search the text of the post, the only hits are a engagement-farming meme accounts, and an Israeli food blog that has that exact formatting but does not have a gumbo recipe. It's clearly a photoshopped meme passed around by anti-Israeli accounts.

www.myjewishlearning.com/article/isra...

Israeli Food | My Jewish Learning

True "Israeli cuisine" might exist; it's something food critics and academics love to argue about. Israelis have developed and continue to enjoy a delicious cuisine rooted in the uniqueness of Israeli...

www.myjewishlearning.com

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Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 3d

OK, this one is more inscrutable than Cow Tools to me.

Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 4d

Kakabeka

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 5d

Got lucky today

Wordle 1,571 3/6*

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Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 5d

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, they agree that they don't like his statement, but not exactly a meeting of the minds. And I have to say I find one side significantly more repellent there. The outright denialism / ok-but-if-it-did-happen-then-they-deserved-it about Oct7 from some lefties has been shocking.

Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 5d

This could be the basis of a great heist movie

Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 5d

Reminds me of how people are somehow still unaware that Forbes dot com is a content mill basically anyone can pay-to-publish on which has nothing to do with the print magazine.

Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 5d

This feels like people getting excited about the fabulous possibilities of Doritos-flavoured cigarettes you can use to place sports bets. None of this seems good. Social and regulatory norms haven’t even caught up to human-created addictive short video content yet, and now we want to automate it?

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Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 5d

Welcome to being a politician, Zohran

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Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 5d

It’s funny, on Twitter I’m seeing Israel supporters tearing him down for only having one para actually about Oct7 in his Oct7 statement before he pivots to criticizing Israel, meanwhile his hardcore pro-pal supporters are enraged at him for even having that one para.

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Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 6d

ah, the classics

https://www.tumblr.com/256gb/663416122771750912

Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 6d

lol. lmao, even.

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 6d

YVES ENGLER HASNT EVEN APPLIED TO RUN FOR NDP LEADERSHIP???????????

And he’s been accepting donations while implying he applied but hasn’t been approved yet???

Omg 🤦‍♀️

Article here: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

TORONTO STAR article except reads:

“"It has recently come to my attention that Mr. Yves Engler has been sharing with the media that he has not yet been approved ... to stand as an official leadership candidate. I would like to clarify that we are not in receipt of an application from Mr. Engler, and as such he has no current standing within the leadership contest," chief electoral officer Éric Hébert-Daly said.”

Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 6d

This is in response to the Bsky CEO taking the controversial stance that murder is bad.

Deviant Ollam ツ @deviantollam.bsky.social · 6d

When you were typing this, you must have known that the reaction by the whole community was going to be negative.... But were you surprised by just how negative the reaction has been??

This post shows so little self-awareness and it's just unbelievably disappointing to witness.

Reposted by Geoff Holtby

Why @why.bsky.team · Mar 19

My unified theory of political discourse centers around the fact that the quote post was invented in 2015

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Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 6d

That was one of the clans in Mechwarrior 2, right?

Geoff Holtby @gdholtby.bsky.social · 8d

This story from Isabel J. Kim in the latest issue of Clarkesworld is really good.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 8d

I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now

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