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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

look I made a drawstring band
where there never was a drawstring band

A person wearing a newly knitted grayish blue balaclava with a ribbed drawstring band around the face hole. There’s a piece of yarn where the drawstring will eventually go.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

he’s clearly going through something but I kind of wish that something didn’t involve live-streaming the block

A close up of two of the signs with more detail:

ASSQUACK-
THE DUCK COIN REVOUTION
LIVE 24/7 AT WWw.ASSQUACK.REHAB
What's Going On Here?
You've stumbled upon the wold's first livestreamed duck-powered wealth movement. Yes, real ducks. Real livestream. Real crypto.
And a real shot at something big — if we move together.
What's a Meme Coin?
A meme coin is a community-driven cryptocurrency that thrives on energy, humor, and hype.
People buy it not just for profit to join, the faster it grows.
Viral equals value.
3. Watch the Ducks Live -They re our 24/7 mascots of madness and momentum.
4. Never Sell eNever Sell - Holding builds community strength.
The longer we stay united, the higher we fly.
Why This Could Make You Rich
Meme coins explode when people spread them wildefire.
I everyone here buys a little and spreads the word, this can xplode.
It's not just about ducks— it's about us building our own fortune together. We are early. The meme is hilarious. The internet is hungry for something new. The next viral moment is waiting— and it's ours to create.
Join the Star's
→ Columbia - The plus-size queen
→ Carroll - The cute one
- Douglass - The dude
Join the coin. Watch the ducks. Spread the word.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

I regret to inform you that the ducks are become crypto

A cream Shiba Inu walks by a wrought iron fence with a number of obnoxious laminated signs advertising “assquack”, a duck themed meme coin premised on running a livestream of three ducks in the front yard of a brownstone in Brooklyn, where keeping ducks is illegal. Behind the fence is a pond with some ducks in it.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

russ & daughters slander wtf

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

splash image on the guardian us front rn goes hard

A screenshot of the homepage of the Guardian US. Top headline: "US supreme court appears poised to overturn Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’
Ruling in favor of Christian legal group could undermine care and rights for LGBTQ+ youth across the country"

The accompanying photo shows two protestors from the shoulders down holding signs. One, held by a person in a rainbow shirt, reads: "I was born GAY. Were you born HATEFUL?" The other, held by an adult, reads: "Does Conversion therapy work for BIGOTS?"

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

i know that as a people (journalists) we have a deep and under-explored psychosexual attachment to second mentions but does anyone normal actually call cbs "the tiffany network"?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

this is very good

— lol, lmao —

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

www.theguardian.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of words when 14 would do

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

did you see the longer excerpt from her federalist society speech? It’s… a lot bsky.app/profile/jool...

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

“In the fight for the West, I know who my allies are. And my allies are not the people who, looking at facile, external markers of my identity, one might imagine... My allies are people who believe that America is good. That the West is good. That human beings —not cultures-are created equal”

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

bellissima

We're thrilled to announce that Anduril founder Palmer Luckey will join Bari Weiss live in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 8, at 7:00 p.m. for a conversation on the future of American power-and the fight for the West.
Tickets are LIVE- get them here!

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

“Riefenstahl’s heterodox politics are hard to pin down. She has called herself ‘classically liberal’ and ‘really more left-wing than not’ on different occasions.”

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

ngl that is fashier than I expected

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

“In the fight for the West, I know who my allies are. And my allies are not the people who, looking at facile, external markers of my identity, one might imagine... My allies are people who believe that America is good. That the West is good. That human beings —not cultures-are created equal”

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

I picked up my stitches the wrong way around and had a weird ridge so I ripped it out and redid it today and I’m so pleased at how much better it looks

A grayish blue balaclava in progress on a set of circular knitting needles. There’s a ribbed section protruding around the face hole thanks to the magic of picking up stitches

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

You’re knitting up from the neck, so you start out in the round. But to create the face hole, you have to break the circle. After you bind off the 8 stitches, you’re not in the round anymore so you knit to end of a row and then turn it over and knit back. That’s called knitting back and forth

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

yeah they just admire her for being an effective opportunist

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

meanwhile the free press’s biggest stories that weren’t immediately debunked/morally and journalistically depraved are like… “scandal! at the dalton alumni association”, “why it’s okay to be annoyed with disabled people”, and “it’s not weird to want to see virgins on screen”

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

all of the praise is like, entrepreneurial

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

like often with someone who is incredibly shitty there is at least one person who will say “well he has access” or “ugh he does get some scoops”

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

its funny how not a single actual journalist has been like, “actually she’s good at journalism”

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 2d

I recently listened to this May 2025 episode of Tech Won't Save Us (@techwontsave.us) with @joolia.bsky.social about the War on Empathy and it's so good, Julia is so good and so smart. techwontsave.us/episode/275_...

The Roots of Elon Musk’s War On Empathy w/ Julia Carrie Wong - Tech Won’t Save Us

techwontsave.us

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

♥️♥️ thank you Jessica

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

her writing is so bad that it distracts from the utter vacuity of the sentiment – bari weiss grew up in a house that had a television

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much! The line about having the same number of stitches on each needle really threw me but I'm pretty sure I get it now

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