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Nick (derogatory) ✨
@slothropsmap.bsky.social
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Yinzer ambassador to the west coast • Moo Deng’s spiritual successor • Tallest Italian to live-tweet brain surgery

Don't fuck with me. I'll spend another three hours in Excel. I don't care.
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I had to make certain this was real. It is.
AI slop of Dilbert standing next to a cartoon Trump and Vance. It was posted by the official White House X account. The post reads: Rest in peace, Scott Adams.💙🇺🇸
January 14, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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January 14, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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I look like a wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man.
A depiction of a green wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man from S4E29 of Family Guy.
January 14, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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🚨 Pavement tour! 🚨

For reasons I shall not reveal here, I missed Pavement play DC's Warner Theatre on my 33rd birthday. I will not make the same mistake in 2026. stereogum.com/2485111/pave...
This is a tour poster for the indie rock band Pavement, designed with a DIY, zine-like aesthetic featuring yellow and black hand-drawn elements, scratchy doodles, and a distressed texture throughout. The centerpiece is a photograph of six people posing together casually. From left to right: a man with shaggy gray hair in a white button-down shirt; a man with glasses wearing a brown cap; a man in a white baseball cap; a bearded man in the center wearing a red t-shirt that says "Floyd Homers" with his arms crossed; a person with green hair and orange-tinted sunglasses in a plaid shirt; and a man on the right in a white t-shirt, laughing with his eyes closed and wearing a cap. The band's name "PAVEMENT" appears at the top in bold yellow letters with a black outline, styled like a street sign with arrows on either end. Below the photo are the tour dates: Fri July 17 – Oakland, CA – Mosswood Meltdown Sat July 18 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall Tue July 21 – St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre Wed July 22 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed Thu July 23 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Sat July 25 – Richmond, VA – The National Mon July 27 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium Handwritten notes and doodles are scattered around the margins, adding to the lo-fi, collage-style design.
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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We now have two top-tier posts about Eric Adams eating leprechauns. I don’t know about you, but I Believe.
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go "this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn't understand normal sane Americans crave" and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like "Leprechauns are real and I'm going to cook one" 9:43 AM • Aug 14, 2023 Everybody can reply
January 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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These posts now live in a permanent constellation in my mind. Don’t make the rules.
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go "this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn't understand normal sane Americans crave" and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like "Leprechauns are real and I'm going to cook one"
January 13, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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it was just a matter of time
An iPhone text message that reads: nick unfortunately. you are canceled
January 13, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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Need to look up when David Byrne got his microvascular decompression. genius.com/Talking-head...
[Chorus] The wind in my heart, the wind in my heart The dust in my head, the dust in my head The wind in my heart, the wind in my heart comes to Drive them away, drive them away [Guitar Solo]
January 13, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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Jenny Nicholson & @JennyENicholson You know that thing where you disagree with a guy online and suddenly his vocab switches from completely normal to "writing missives from the revolutionary war in a quill pen" as though that's going to give him some kind of intellectual high ground
January 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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I was born in 1989, so this chart is fairly unsettling. What am I? A droplet in a cultural wave? Is my name no more than a sound that briefly excited a random community of people at a random point in time? Troubling questions.

Don't look up your name. engaging-data.com/baby-name-vi...
An area chart that proves my name was a historical accident. I am ruined.
January 12, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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you are barely smart enough to breathe
January 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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One of the more notable things about Tom Homan is that Obama gave him a presidential award for being "really good" at deporting people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
In 2015, when Barack Obama was in office, Homan was given the Presidential Rank award for distinguished service for his work deporting people. A Washington Post profile about him and the award in early 2016 noted that, earlier in his career, he wouldn’t publicly reveal which side he was on in the immigration debate and instead focused on enforcing laws. But, the profile noted, he was “really good” at deporting people.
January 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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look, it had to be done
Even the way people on Wall Street talk and interact is changing. Bankers and financiers say that Trump’s victory has emboldened those who chafed at “woke doctrine” and felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people. “I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled … it’s a new dawn.”
January 12, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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Yes! Guide the audience. You want your villain to look like a rotten egg.
Darth Vader without his mask. He looks insane.
January 12, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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The Departed Rat is the most unfairly maligned artifact in contemporary pop culture.
The rat at the end of Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (2006). He included it because Americans don’t know how to read.
January 12, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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Joe Namath is in the Hall of Fame, but he absolutely shouldn't be. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Nam...
January 12, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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There of course is no law, but as I said, Trump is more than happy to loudly threaten anyone whether or not he has a cudgel. It keeps working! Why would he stop?
Nick (derogatory) ✨ ‪@slothropsmap.bsky.social‬ Listen I’m not an expert on this topic but yeah, it strikes me as impossible for Trump to simply declare new card rates. But industry has been disturbingly pliable the whole of Trump II for fear of direct reprisal. Consider that X is still on the Apple and Android app stores.
January 12, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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God it is amazing how completely Ken nailed this take.
January 11, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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He did it. He actually did it.
Pope Leo holding a Da Pope shirt given to him by people who are surely Bears fans.
January 11, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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Certified LA Moment: just ate a $40 pickle that was grown by Pamela Anderson.
A jar of expensive pickles that were grown by Pamela Anderson.
January 10, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Truly, David Chase is a marvel. He was about 15 years ahead of the curve on this - getting Tony to weaponize the language of therapy in the defense of self-indulgence and cruelty.
Tony in therapy, saying: I want to direct my power and anger against the people who deserve.
January 10, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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Tony Soprano sitting in Dr Melfi's office, looking grumpy. It's probably about the ducks.
January 10, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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Lemme know if you’re going.
TICKETS SECURED
January 10, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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I have just begun Pathologic 2, a game which I understand @catacalypto.bsky.social worked on, and which many of my more discerning mutuals love because it is weird, devastating, and brutal.

Big fan of weird, devastating, and brutal. I’ll keep you all apprised.
Three weird little guys.
January 9, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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Want to make sure that those who don’t read the article at least see this.

Situation could certainly be worse, but this is a signal and an escalation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/w...
Explosions followed soon after near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, but the country did not say whether a nuclear-capable missile from that testing site was responsible. If confirmed, the use of such a weapon - though armed with conventional or dummy warheads — would be an ominous threat to Ukraine and its Western allies and an escalation by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
January 9, 2026 at 3:42 AM