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Howard Mittelmark
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Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · Jan 18
Occupant was my father's name. Call me Current Resident.
howardm.bsky.social
Not now, editors.
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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stchris.bsky.social
Trojan clown car
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
howardm.bsky.social
Nobody assumes that.
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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paullicino.bsky.social
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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marchanddcitron.bsky.social
The Bible is always foretelling a pair of guys like Donnie and Mamdonnie.
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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gojeffgo.com
New Good Good Things! Enjoy this cornucopia of holiday goodness, sans squash (earth’s least desirable vegetable): art, music, classic Conan Thanksgivings, Stone Roses, wine & cheese recs, not-good Hallmark Christmas movies, Bill Berry, funny Bluesky posts, and more!

www.gojeffgo.com/good-good-th...
A scene from the 2025 Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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kevjg.bsky.social Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 4d
he never looks at JD that way
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
howardm.bsky.social
[Meeting with client paying me $500/hour as an online reputation consultant]

Me (after going through his phone for 119 minutes): Stop posting.
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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isaacbutler.bsky.social
Hey Folks! Come hear a sneak peak of my new history of the culture wars tomorrow as part of Fall of Freedom!
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
howardm.bsky.social
I'm gonna go ahead and assume this is one of those no matter where you go there you are situations.
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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spidey004.bsky.social
True story. #Spaghetti 🍝👹🍝
A photo of a poem titled “Spaghetti” Spaghetti in the morning Spaghetti in the night Spaghetti in my pockets? Something isn’t right Spaghetti is a pasta That everyone enjoys But when it becomes sentient That’s when I lose my poise Spaghetti ambulating Slurping through the countryside Seeking its next victim No matter where they hide Malevolent spaghetti Creating death and loss Turning people into meatballs And lifeblood into sauce
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
howardm.bsky.social
Is there some (albeit extremely generous) way of understanding Altman's answer that makes it a reasonable thing to say?
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6d
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.

COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?

ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.

conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. COWEN: What’s stopping that? What’s the ultimate binding constraint? ALTMAN: We’re working on it really hard. COWEN: If you could have more of one thing to have more compute, what would the one thing be? ALTMAN: Electrons.
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
howardm.bsky.social
This is very much worth reading.
ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 8d
4x Garbage Day byline today from me, @bumas.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, and @jlfeder.bsky.social.

Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it?
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
howardm.bsky.social
It's really hard to say "Enlighten me" and not sound sarcastic.
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
howardm.bsky.social
This reads like exposition from a very bad novel by someone who has never met an artist or been to a cafe, and has only ever seen New York on TV.

From this profile.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/n...
"Coffee in the morning is my No. 1 priority. I usually go to Oslo coffee. It's very tiny, very communal and all of the people who work there are artists. They've all become friends and we meet each other outside of the coffee place as well. It has a very "Cheers," where-everybody-knows-your-name kind of vibe, but cooler because it's more rock 'n' roll."
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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blippo.plus
❤️📡

“It really is a work of art, nailing the aesthetic of early-'90s TV and uncannily capturing a time and place in the way a song or a smell evokes a memory - in a way that feels almost personal.” — 9/10
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
howardm.bsky.social
Silence of the Lambs is almost the Platonic ideal of its kind, and Red Dragon was pretty good, too, but this is the first thing I've read that suggests we wouldn't all have been better off without Hannibal.
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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phineas.bsky.social
Hot for Creature
A graphite sketch of the face of the Creature from Frankenstein (2025) and Victor’s hands as he loosens the bandages around his face rough graphite sketch of the Creature from Frankenstein (2025) in his little bandage shorts and foot wraps flinching away from Victor (out of frame) as he sits hunched on a stone slap he is chained to.
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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danparadis.bsky.social
Basically a series that centers around weird men yelling "actually let ME tell YOU why everything YOU KNOW is a lie" back and forth
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
howardm.bsky.social
Ah, yes, Asimov's Foundation series, famous for all the Alien Xenomorphs and sexy space babes.
An ad from X for a game described as "based on Issac Asimov's Foundation series." It features a busty space babe kneeling under a desk, hiding from a Xenomorph-type alien, and they are positioned so that it is easy to think the Alien is about to mount the space babe, and not with her consent. It's a video, though, and when you play it, it is quickly resolved that is not what is going on. I was going to mention that but didn't for two reasons. The first is that it maybe it's just me that reads it that way, and I'd be revealing more about myself than anything else, but you know, I do that all the time and I can live with one more incident. The other, though, is that I believe there is a good chance someone would come into the replies to make sure I was aware that Asimov was known for getting handsy, which of course I know, everyone knows that, and I would be a little annoyed, and want to put that person in their place for not realizing I know everything they know and then some, and I'd be compelled to say something about having met Asimov, and I wasn't surprised, bragging basically, to one-up them, which is bad enough, but I'd be bragging about knowing Isaac Asimov, which is like bragging about catching a bus (although I do have a good story about that), so in order to avoid that I'd just ignore the person because I am simply not generous enough to say, "Thanks for letting me know" so I end up being rude one way or the other, and I don't like being rude if it's not for a good reason, and this, my friends, is not a good reason.
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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valliard.bsky.social
I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill.

#art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI
Enraged ink blotty dubious rendition of Shakespeare in a ruff stabbing a malfunctioning robot in the eye with a giant quill. Ink is spurting from the robot's eye. Shakespeare's teeth are very large.
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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brianralexander.bsky.social
Oh, and you should read my book.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Glass House
For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land*A New York Post Must-Read Book**A Newsweek Best New Book**One of The Week's 20 Books to Read i...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
howardm.bsky.social
[my funeral]

A bear emerges from the nearby woods, knocks the coffin over; it breaks open and my body flops out; the bear drags it away, but four eagles swoop in and fight the bear off, then fly away with most of my body, now in pieces.

My wife: It's what he would have wanted.
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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mbsycamore.bsky.social
"The book is at once a subtle, outrageous, energetic and kaleidoscopic look at queerness, with Sycamore’s trademark energy and high literary style." Thank you for this gorgeous conversation in Xtra Magazine!!🌺🌺🌺
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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moultano.bsky.social
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
ens0.me Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 21d
In a world where fossil fuels didn't exist, they'd be invented in fantasy as a fictional trope

oh yeah, of course the dominion of the evil sorceress powers their machines with black sludge that is literally made from death and decay, what else would they use?
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM