I just remembered my friends and I used to use “ambitious” as an insult in high school! It was like referring to someone a try-hard, which is also a stupid and shitty thing to call someone as an insult! (Please note I was both ambitious and a try-hard in every good and bad sense of the words)
December 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I just remembered my friends and I used to use “ambitious” as an insult in high school! It was like referring to someone a try-hard, which is also a stupid and shitty thing to call someone as an insult! (Please note I was both ambitious and a try-hard in every good and bad sense of the words)
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write:
Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to...
www.openculture.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
Oops Books CAN Kill
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Oops Books CAN Kill
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I recorded this Christmas organ version of "Brass Bonanza." The original version was the official theme song of the Hartford Whalers, who played in the National Hockey League from 1979-1997.
December 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I recorded this Christmas organ version of "Brass Bonanza." The original version was the official theme song of the Hartford Whalers, who played in the National Hockey League from 1979-1997.
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The token had heft and weight, and, like an ancient Roman coin, carried with it millennia-old human understanding of what currency means: this for that.
The MetroCard was slippery, hard to share, full of secrets.
The MetroCard was slippery, hard to share, full of secrets.
December 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The token had heft and weight, and, like an ancient Roman coin, carried with it millennia-old human understanding of what currency means: this for that.
The MetroCard was slippery, hard to share, full of secrets.
The MetroCard was slippery, hard to share, full of secrets.
“Well…on a dumb level, I'd like my Twitter to be off the hook. This could all get super earnest, so I was thinking of hitting up some BoJack guys. You know? Some, some, some of the Lampoon kids…just to smash that shit, make my feed a little powder keg people need to check-in with?"
posting should be something you do secretly in the kitchen while your family eats dinner. if someone in real life asks you if you post online you should deny it. more than anything elon wants to be known as a great poster and this is why he’ll never be one. he’ll sooner weave a ladder to heaven
December 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“Well…on a dumb level, I'd like my Twitter to be off the hook. This could all get super earnest, so I was thinking of hitting up some BoJack guys. You know? Some, some, some of the Lampoon kids…just to smash that shit, make my feed a little powder keg people need to check-in with?"
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I find research just as gratifying as the writing itself - whether it's for fiction or essays. I like seeking & learning, I like it when one piece of art illuminates another. I love when the process makes me feel like a detective cracking the case. denying yourself this pleasure makes no sense to me
There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I find research just as gratifying as the writing itself - whether it's for fiction or essays. I like seeking & learning, I like it when one piece of art illuminates another. I love when the process makes me feel like a detective cracking the case. denying yourself this pleasure makes no sense to me
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Like we literally do not have to take these fucking jagoffs or their thought experiments seriously. And when you tell them they’re full of shit they can’t function because they’ve only ever been told they’re exceptional
December 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Like we literally do not have to take these fucking jagoffs or their thought experiments seriously. And when you tell them they’re full of shit they can’t function because they’ve only ever been told they’re exceptional
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
The iPhone update looks like the wetness is the essence of beauty commercial from Zoolander 😐
a shirtless man is swimming in the ocean with the words ho bisogno di acqua written below him .
Alt: Ben Stiller as Derek Zoolander as a merman swimming with the words “ho bisogno di acqua” written below him .
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The iPhone update looks like the wetness is the essence of beauty commercial from Zoolander 😐
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People across the world will likely spend the end of the year revisiting or newly discovering Reiner's art. When the other one dies, people will be looking for places to party and then they'll put him out of their minds.
December 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
People across the world will likely spend the end of the year revisiting or newly discovering Reiner's art. When the other one dies, people will be looking for places to party and then they'll put him out of their minds.
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Great story
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Great story
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I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.
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lol you mean @prisonculture.bsky.social & i sold more copies of our zine on consciousness raising than olivia nuzzi sold of her “if i did it” doorstopper @marc-fischer.bsky.social
even if you’ve never written a book you only sold 1200 fewer copies last week than Olivia Nuzzi
Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book—With RFK Revelation—Sells Just Over 1,000 Copies
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
lol you mean @prisonculture.bsky.social & i sold more copies of our zine on consciousness raising than olivia nuzzi sold of her “if i did it” doorstopper @marc-fischer.bsky.social
I love the Coffee Bean/Rum Raisin/Toast of New York [my 90s fav, thanks Sassy] revival but I wanna see some goth babes in Vixen ASAP
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I love the Coffee Bean/Rum Raisin/Toast of New York [my 90s fav, thanks Sassy] revival but I wanna see some goth babes in Vixen ASAP
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
I have a friend who does one of those “our family’s year in pictures and accomplishments” holiday cards but she is a single, childfree woman with an amazing job who travels and parties a lot so she just makes it all about her and I love it so much 🏆
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I have a friend who does one of those “our family’s year in pictures and accomplishments” holiday cards but she is a single, childfree woman with an amazing job who travels and parties a lot so she just makes it all about her and I love it so much 🏆
I’m not going to stop using ✨ there are maybe five things left that are giving my entire sad sack deal little lifts along the way right now and the ✨ emoji is one of them so ✨✨suck✨✨it✨✨A✨✨I✨✨
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I’m not going to stop using ✨ there are maybe five things left that are giving my entire sad sack deal little lifts along the way right now and the ✨ emoji is one of them so ✨✨suck✨✨it✨✨A✨✨I✨✨
My most-used emojis in 2025:
1. 😂 (69×) (nice)
2. ❤ (22×)
3. 🎺 (20×)
4. 💕 (16×)
5. ✨ (15×)
anisota.net/harvest
1. 😂 (69×) (nice)
2. ❤ (22×)
3. 🎺 (20×)
4. 💕 (16×)
5. ✨ (15×)
anisota.net/harvest
Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
anisota.net
December 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My most-used emojis in 2025:
1. 😂 (69×) (nice)
2. ❤ (22×)
3. 🎺 (20×)
4. 💕 (16×)
5. ✨ (15×)
anisota.net/harvest
1. 😂 (69×) (nice)
2. ❤ (22×)
3. 🎺 (20×)
4. 💕 (16×)
5. ✨ (15×)
anisota.net/harvest
“Right now it’s time to…PICK UP THE ‘PRAM, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!” - me, going to fill my prescription for an anti-depressant
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“Right now it’s time to…PICK UP THE ‘PRAM, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!” - me, going to fill my prescription for an anti-depressant
When your early-aughts workwear pops up in the thrift store to punch you in the throat
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
When your early-aughts workwear pops up in the thrift store to punch you in the throat
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Me, prepping: cooking is somehow both incredibly boring AND stressful I hate it I hate everything this is torture actual torture
Me, stirring sauce seemingly 17 hours later: THE SECRET INGREDIENT IS LOVE 🥹🥹🥹
Me, stirring sauce seemingly 17 hours later: THE SECRET INGREDIENT IS LOVE 🥹🥹🥹
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Me, prepping: cooking is somehow both incredibly boring AND stressful I hate it I hate everything this is torture actual torture
Me, stirring sauce seemingly 17 hours later: THE SECRET INGREDIENT IS LOVE 🥹🥹🥹
Me, stirring sauce seemingly 17 hours later: THE SECRET INGREDIENT IS LOVE 🥹🥹🥹
