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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry but if the ice cream truck drives by playing its music the second week of October, I'm going to assume it's being piloted by a clown who wants me dead

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 1d

I liked it :)

Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 14d

Right around now in the press cycle is when I start growing concerned that I won't like the Cool Person's Auteur Film That All The Cool People Like

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 1d

"true! and yet," the cretic of our age

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

there are few things that seem more in need of a good, hard re-think than this inevitability myth. this erasure of the element of choice that's always present in the use of any technology. not buying in can make life harder, can force a more intentional daily grind: true! and yet.

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 2d

I like ordering tuna from a company whose shipping box advertises its tuna because it is highly unlikely that such a package will be stolen

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone who is on Hershey's side in this lawsuit is a cop

Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 16d

Hershey defeated a lawsuit claiming it misled consumers who were disappointed the Halloween-themed Reese's peanut butter candies they bought lacked the decorative details shown on the labels.

Hershey beats lawsuit claiming Reese's Halloween candies aren't spooky

Hershey defeated a lawsuit claiming it misled consumers who were disappointed the Halloween-themed Reese's peanut butter candies they bought lacked the decorative details shown on the labels.

reut.rs

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 3d

I can't determine whether this is the year that Benicio Del Toro finally convinced Hollywood that he's very funny or if Hollywood finally convinced Benicio Del Toro that he's very funny, but either way, we're feasting

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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 5d

Ever since reading this @albertburneko.bsky.social paragraph a while back, I find myself thinking about it, encountering unwelcome exemplars of it, far more often than I wish.

Text of a screenshot from a piece at Defector by Albert Burneko, titled "Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose": "My suspicion, my awful awful newfound theory, is that there are people with a sincere and even kind of innocent belief that we are all just picking winners, in everything: that ideology, advocacy, analysis, criticism, affinity, even taste and style and association are essentially predictions. That what a person tries to do, the essential task of a person, is to identify who and what is going to come out on top, and align with it. The rest—what you say, what you do—is just enacting your pick and working in service to it."

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 4d

Really sucks that the people who seize the most wealth, power, and privilege are also the people least equipped to see themselves as fortunate or to consider any amount enough, and will thus continue to embody a sense of grievance against the people "holding them back" until they die

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 5d

After a few days witnessing the Bad Bunny Super Bowl thing I guess my questions are:

Is this just how it is now? Are white people just going to cry about every single thing that ever happens from now on until forever now? Like on top of the kidnappings are they just going to keep fucking whining?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

1 Onion Subscriber vs 20 Non-Subscribers on our new series: Encircled. Subscribe at https://membership.theonion.com/?campaign=701a500001bfegPAAQ to get the paper delivered to your door.

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 5d

I'm on the Metra in Ravenswood

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 5d

Hanging out with my friends screaming about how much we love our friends

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 5d

Another downside to the term "deskilling" is that it sounds like it's taking our precious weatherman away

illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 5d

AI deskilling is real, but like with "hallucination" I wish we had a better way to talk about it. "Deskilling" sounds like AI is doing your thinking and your work for you, when what's really going on is you no longer have any idea whether what you're looking at is true or if the output is any good

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 5d

What the beer bottle portended has come to pass. I am indeed living the 'high life'

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 6d

High praise

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 6d

I just bought the dumbest hat and I can't wait for you all to see me in my big ugly glasses and my big dumb hat. It will be legendary

Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · Apr 1

Bought a pair of glasses so big and ugly that the store associate tried to talk me out of them. Exceedingly obvious that my loved ones find them off-putting. Everyone walking on eggshells around these ugly glasses. I love my new big dumb stupid ugly glasses so much. Adulthood is a gift

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 6d

Small clarification: none of us will have to "look for" the latest Taylor Swift release; we are likelier to have to seek any brief respite from it

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 6d

This October, look for new releases from Taylor Swift, Brian Eno, Sparks, Brandi Carlile, and more.

10 new albums to listen to in October

www.avclub.com

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 6d

Am I the only one left questioning why the dog would prefer to be tethered to an empty tin can

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 6d

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 02,1945

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- SLUGGO: OH, LOOK WHAT SOME MEAN BOY DID
SOMEONE HAS TIED A TIN CAN TO A LITTLE DIGS TAIL
P-2 NANCY HAVE REMOVED THE TIN CAN FROM THE DOGS TAIL, AND PLACED IT IN A TRASH CAN
NANCY: THERE --THAT'S BETTER
P3- THE DOG IS LOOKING AT THE TIN CAN THAT NANCY PUT IN THE TRASH.
P4- CAREFULLY THE DOG PUTS HIS TAIL IN THE LOOP ON THE STRING THATS TIED TO THE TIN CAN.
P5- NANCY IS VERY SURPRISED TO SEE THE DOG HAPPILY WALKING DOWN THE STREET WITH THE TIN CAN TIED TO HIS TAIL.

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 7d

This is a good encapsulation of how "no ethical consumption under capitalism" is best understood: as an encouragement to make incrementally more conscious consumption choices wherever possible, NOT as an invitation to nihilistically consume fuck-all because systemic changes are outside our control

Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 7d

Jane Goodall, from a March 2020 Paste Magazine interview: www.pastemagazine.com/article/jane...

screenshot of text:

Do remember to tell people, when you write your article, that the most important message today is that every single day, each one of us lives, we make some impact on the planet, and we can choose what sort of impact we make; what we buy, what we wear, where does it come from? Did it harm the environment when it was made? Did it lead to cruelty to animals like terrible factory farms? Is it cheap because of child slave labor? If we start making ethical choices every day, millions and billions of us, we move towards a better world and a world of citizens who will push governments to make the ethical decisions themselves.

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Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 7d

Gahhhh thank you!! Writing about art is intimidating!!

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lagringanovelera.bsky.social @lagringanovelera.bsky.social · 8d

This Art Installation Memorializes The Places We’ve Lost Forever, In Chicago And Beyond blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/t...

The longer you live in Chicago, the more places you lose.

Thank you Marnie Shure for this news on this super-interesting exhibit!

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