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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 9d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · 13d

no person loves a piece of music more than fitness instructors love Get Low

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · 13d

I had to look up several things in this post and enjoyed it very much thank you

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 24d

Hnnngh I’m trying to hear the falconer but the gyre is dummy wide

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · 24d

Shel had it in 1981.

Scan of Shel Silverstein's "The Homework Machine," showing a Rube Goldberg style illustration that disguises a young baby in the works who is actually doing the work. Text:
The Homework Machine,
Oh, the Homework Machine,
Most perfect
contraption that's ever been seen.
Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime,
Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds' time,
Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be.
Here it is— 'nine plus four?' and the answer is 'three.'
Three?
Oh me . . .
I guess it's not as perfect
As I thought it would be.

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · 24d

I'm very sorry to have caught this message so late. Grendel was such a wonderful guy to see whenever you or Priscilla posted him, and I'm sorry for your loss.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · Sep 11

I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever.

www.nytimes.com

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Sep 8

nodding in agreement. this came out for me when I was in grade 8, so "grade 9" felt cool and aspirational. It was introduced to me by A Boy and that never sullied it. still know it front to back.

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Sep 7

realized today that "take a hike" is just the archaic form of "touch grass"

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Sep 1

I literally just told my kids about this today, how early you knew the direction it was going

Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Aug 31

you will find that it's very salty when you use rotisserie chickens, and I agree you want at least two, vs. the stock you can get from a single roaster you make yourself. I also like to simmer with a hacked apart onion and vegetable leavings (carrot and celery stumps, etc), which are discarded!

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · Aug 23

Here’s the weakest part of Demsas’s argument.

Twitter *in 2021* was arguably the most influential public square we had.

Twitter *in 2025* is, by some estimates, 75% bots.

There are still some communities holding fast there. I don’t fault them for it. But let’s not pretend it’s flourishing.

Twitter is - without question - the most influential public square we have. At one point, in 2021, a Pew Research poll indicated that Twitter served nearly one in four Americans. By 2024, two years after Musk had bought the platform, 21% of people reported using it.
More anecdotally, no other venue sees elected officials mingling with academics, Fortune 500 CEOs, and celebrities. In Washington, Twitter is still one of the best places for a young think tanker or journalist to gain attention for their work. The posting-to-policy pipeline is alive and well — just look at Stephen Smith's one-man, years-long crusade to make single-stair apartments a reality. I've also found sources and new voices on the website and have had new
perspectives surfaced that I would not otherwise have encountered.

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Aug 18

rest well, little guy. you won, you were best dog.

a sweet little black and tan dog at the beach, captioned: Jasper Jones, 2012 - 2025. you can tell he is an excellent dog of many talents.

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Aug 15

made the mistake of looking at a single mattress website and now the internet wants to show me eighty thousand mattresses. Corveigh! Romble. Bimp? try Jarna, it's Canadian.

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Aug 13

in our house we hiss "worst roommates" at them when they do shit like this. or fail to do it. you get me.

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jasjuliet @jasjuliet.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ame the Witch, her Fox familiar, and the Ink Demons Enzo and Cyril in pursuit of The Wizard Sky.
@worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
#WorldsBeyondNumber

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Aug 11

intellectually I know it's jarring and inappropriate. yet my nostalgia embraces it thoroughly.

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Aug 11

so real. I didn't even remember that the sex scene in Blade Runner is at best coercion and at worst rape, that was just the water we were swimming in, back in the 80s

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · Aug 7

"Bluesky is dying"

Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.

two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .

ALT: two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .

media.tenor.com

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Aug 6

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Aug 4

fuckin brrr

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 4

"stick to menswear"

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion.""

I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?"

Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?"

I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Aug 2

holy smokes.

Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · Aug 2

Hey Gang! I could not be more thrilled to step behind the screen for Campaign 4 of Critical Role, and cannot wait to share all the amazing things me and this incredible team have been cooking up for you! 🐲⚔️🔮

Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Jul 27

*helplessly*
none pussy left beef

post by d-adpool on tumblr:
not putting my whole pussy into it today lads. you're getting my left labia at best

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Gwynn 🇨🇦 @niranen.bsky.social · Jul 20

that was later on, at the bank: www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCrin...

Sooo we fucking in the bank now?????

www.reddit.com

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