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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · 1d

Has the air of a professor who will NOT put up with any tomfoolery or shenanigans.

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Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · 5d

*chef’s kiss*

Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 5d

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 6d

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 8d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 9d

Luke putting R2 in an enormous bag of rice on Dagobah.

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Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · 11d

Really interesting article about a problem our leaders (and probably ourselves) are unequipped and unwilling to tackle. Data is how a problem is identified. But policy and action is how it’s solved.

WIRED @wired.com · 11d

Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke. What he’s uncovered in California is a nightmare. www.wired.com/story/the-la...

The LA Fires Spewed Out Toxic Nanoparticles. He Made It His Mission to Trace Them

Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke. What he’s uncovered in California is a nightmare.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13d

Study Finds Regular Journaling Can Help Provide Clues About Mysterious Disappearance https://theonion.com/study-finds-regular-journaling-can-help-provide-clues-about-mysterious-disappearance/

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 14d

Luckily, Oswald wrote "Magic" on one of the bullets.

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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 16d

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 16d

The good news is that if the rapture happens late enough you may still have time to binge all three seasons of The Leftovers before it happens

Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 16d

important to be clear that kimmel coming back is not necessarily a post-rapture event because no one seems able to say with confidence whether the rapture is more of a taco tuesday or a humpday thing

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Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · 19d

He is easily the most vacuous of the late night hosts. They know it and he especially knows it.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 20d

The people who *make this tech* can't get it to work in a simple demo, and their magical thinking about it has convinced them that they didn't need to do the most basic level of preparation for their demonstration. So it is, in fact, an excellent demonstration of what genAI will do for society.

Shacknews @shacknews.com · 21d

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

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Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · 20d

That feeling when you rush your lunch so you can make a meeting that is then postponed minutes before it was to begin.

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Mitch Gerads @mitchgerads.bsky.social · 21d

Good thing we’re almost at the end of year 4 of this bullshit, amirite?

— right?

RIGHT????

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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 22d

Speaking to Redford's sense of grace: QUIZ SHOW is streaming free on Hoopla, and it's one of the finest films about class and morality ever made in America. You should watch it.

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Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · 22d

Wonderful episode of an incredible show.

Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 22d

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · 22d

Wholeheartedly agree. Sepinwall has been my go to TV critic for years, guiding me to the small islands of TV greatness in a vast sea of “content”. Everyone should be reading him.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 22d

Sometimes I get asked if there is an equivalent to Roger Ebert today. I tell them yes, there is, but he's in television criticism, and his name is Alan Sepinwall.

Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 22d

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

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Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · 22d

The Sting is one of my all-time favorite films and Robert Redford was a fantastic actor and director (Quiz Show is another favorite of mine). Will be greatly missed.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26d

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 26d

if this shooter winds up being a red-pilled groyper the Kirk newscycle length will be mysteriously cut from two months to two days

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 27d

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

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Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · 28d

Regarding my last post: exhibit A. Land speed record, y'all.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 28d

Fox News' Jason Chaffetz: "I don’t think it was a coincidence that the shot rang out when you have a question about transgender mass shootings. Hopefully I am wrong. I will probably get criticized for jumping to conclusions... I don’t think that is a coincidence but we will see."

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Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · 28d

Am sure that at this moment there's a right wing media arms race to try and dig up any shred of evidence that Kirk's shooter was trans or an immigrant.

Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · 29d

Insane distances between gates during connections has led me to book 5am work flights just so I don’t kill myself crossing Atlanta or Minneapolis in less than 20 minutes.

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