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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 2h

I received direct email marketing from a company that has previously sold me goods. I clicked to see the promotion but didn't add anything to a cart or even view a product detail page. Within an hour the company sent this "you forgot to buy our shit" nag. Email is the enemy and must be eradicated.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 6h

Premise: Cinnamon gum and candies (Big Red, Red Hots, etc.) have now been fully supplanted by sour-flavor alternatives.

Big Red Commercial

YouTube video by commercials818

youtu.be

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 3d

Apple Watch has all these health features that maybe sort of work but are fairly imprecise by design. So Apple says “Talk to your doctor” and then if you talk to your doctor they're like “Huh, yeah, I dunno keep an eye on it” as they type frantically into Epic MyChart during your 8-minute visit.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 3d

I am sick of the thresholded swipe gestures that make it so you have to flick hard to “move” a smartphone interface (for example, to go back by flicking toward the right). This is a paradigm that needs to end.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 4d

What if I also told you that

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 4d

Sir Grapefellow

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 4d

When the flight crew thanks you for your “loyalty” for flying one of the four remaining domestic airlines and probably the only one that goes from your origin to your destination.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 5d

”The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. We are suddenly eager to have things and people declare their beings totally.”

^^ Marshall McLuhan wrote this in 1964, 60 years ago

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 5d

Oh my god.

savetabsoda.com

Save TaB Soda

Convince Coca-Cola to bring back TaB Soda

savetabsoda.com

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 6d

Good thing we have these computers around to compute shit for us.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 7d

This is the only reason I single-signon

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 7d

Passionate about moving symbols between B2B SaaS services

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 7d

We need to shut down architecture schools until we can figure out airport restrooms.

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Reposted by Ian Bogost 🍔

Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 9d

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group!

Internships in
Story,
Ideation,
Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks),
Prototyping (3D printing etc),
Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!)
Physical (springs and spinny things)
Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students. We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept…...

!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students. We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept ...

www.linkedin.com

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 9d

many people are saying

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 14d

Somewhere I have a photo of the Cow Clicker cow someone drew on the Facebook HQ whiteboard “wall”

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 14d

Found the original Cow Clicker “design document,” including a fully-conceived basically final cow sketch (and a bunch of seemingly complicated ideas that thankfully never got implemented).

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 15d

Wowww

Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 15d

Wonder if I'll ever top this.

The Truth About Slushies Must Come Out

Every slushie is different. Every slushie is the same.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 15d

omg

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 15d

What are you doing tonight?

Oh, pouring out and sorting my bag of lump charcoal.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 15d

They renumbered to match the year, Windows 95 style.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 15d

iOS26 is full of idiotic, terrible tiny changes that make things worse, and it’s not just me being cranky. I think my “favorite“ is that you now have to tap twice to see the Safari tabs you have open.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 16d

I'm listening.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 17d

This is going to be my new photo for everything.

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