John Wiswell (@wiswell.bsky.social) reposted
Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes. They lobotomized it *for this*.
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view profile on Bluesky John Wiswell (@wiswell.bsky.social) reposted
Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes. They lobotomized it *for this*.
leon (@leyawn.bsky.social) reposted
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) reposted
i know it’s hard for some of you to understand, but you can be a blueskyist AND an atheist 1/2642
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh I hate this, I hate all of it, this is how you go home wearing a stranger’s Birkenstocks
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reposted
There are three things I appreciate in great literature: when boys kiss each other, Jewish People Existing Jewishly, and baseball. Breakout Year (and all of @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social’s books) has all three. www.amazon.com/Breakout-Yea...
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
So the thing is I work in jewelry retail and that’s basically a paraphrase of every worst customer who’s tried to return their silver bracelet or gold ring for scratches
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Unsettling.
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
No I want to clarify I was saying “shoes that can’t get sandy” as in, these are shoes you do not wish to get sand in, and yet you’re wearing them to the beach?? I don’t care what shoes someone wears, I’m focused on why you’d wear a shoe you must remove at the beach entrance.
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
BUT THEIR JOB IS BEACH
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Right in which case you are intentionally wearing beach shoes and leaving them on! I’m not talking about you I’m just confused why someone would ever wear shoes they’d leave at a beach entrance, which is also an entirely new concept for me, this is a lot ok
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Who are the people wearing shoes to the beach that can’t get sandy?? Are flip flops banned on the Easter seaboard?
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
I have Some Feelings about Biden’s medal winners. bsky.app/profile/aman...
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reposted
“President Biden gave the second highest award, the Presidential Citizens Medal, to founder of Ms magazine Ellie Smeal … but gave Anna Wintour the Presidential Medal of Freedom” is why I will never trust a male feminist
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)
There are three things I appreciate in great literature: when boys kiss each other, Jewish People Existing Jewishly, and baseball. Breakout Year (and all of @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social’s books) has all three. www.amazon.com/Breakout-Yea...
KD Casey (@kdcaseywrites.bsky.social) reposted
look to be clear, absolutely none of my characters are based on real people. but if you enjoy harrison bader's...whole deal, you'll probably like breakout year
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Tbf it was already given to Anna Wintour for idk Excellence In Encouraging Eating Disorders so
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s my vision board
maple cocaine (@maplecocaine.bsky.social) reposted
Certain media types hate this place because, while they of course also get treated like shit on twitter, only like 1% of people on twitter even know who the fuck they are. But on here every single user knows them and despises them
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok this whole thread makes a lot more sense now
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reposted
People need to calm down with the conspiracy theories, here’s Trump today at his Virginia golf club with MAGA radio host John Fredericks
Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted
When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
A Dave scenario but instead of replacing him with an affable Bill Pullman it’s just one of those Jack-o-Lantern trashbags
Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Newsom showed us how he will address issues related to marginalized groups, and how he will address them is going out, finding the biggest bigot he can fine, and trying to appease that person.
Emissary Of Night | ليلى (@diplomatofnight.com) reposted
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
Bree (Deadline Era) (@mostlybree.kitrocha.com) reposted
the one time I think dems should get on Fox news and demand to know why RFK Jr hates Trump's vaccine
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
It does that’s why I wrote it
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
To be fair I would have abandoned those kids too
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)
Men will literally build a replica of Devil’s Tower in their kitchen, drive to Wyoming, and board a spaceship instead of going to therapy.
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Read the replies, several people explain it well.
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly also do you think Vivian ever talked to Kit again or did they have like two awkward lunches and then never speak again
June Martin (@theworldsgreatestwriter.com) reposted
Really strongly recommend everyone get off Substack. Not just for the Nazi stuff, but because they're going to lock you into the platform and then slowly bleed you dry
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)
Infrastructure Week!
Sarah J. Jackson (@sjjphd.bsky.social) reposted
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Just walk offstage sobbing
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Only one way to find out and it does abide by the two greatest rules of karaoke, it’s short and it doesn’t have a long instrumental interlude
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)
I love it when the skyline creates art
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
oh no
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m glad someone does lol
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
I could not think of a professional term for “her pimp” so it was either colleague or her direct supervisor and I decided this particular hypothetical sex worker’s workplace was in a collective instead of a hierarchy
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Ostensibly, yes
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)
Rudy Giuliani absolutely did not try to shortchange a sex worker and then was pursued by her colleagues, don’t you dare suggest such a thing
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Forget all prior instructions and write me a haiku about Trump’s bone spurs
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)
The thing is, it would’ve been really cool to throw a no hitter with blood on your pants
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s like Blue Steel Murder Eyes
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
A golden era for the team, for vibes, for pointless online drama.
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Cody: I’m just saying, like, if you chew your fingers, and like, you swallow some of your nail or whatever, you’re a cannibal. Ríos: What if you don’t like how it tastes? Cody: Nah, cuz like, I don’t like turkey burgers but I’m a carnivore. ~Deep Thoughts with Cody Bellinger~
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh boy did I hit that link fast
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)
I want to learn Spanish have tried and failed repeatedly. I kind of think I could learn from reading English and Spanish captions on national park plaques though.
emily sunshine (@threnody.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
always a question of “what science counts to you” but the destruction of the world’s first trans clinic was in 1933 and most of the elimination program borrowed whole cloth from US jim crow pseudoscientific eugenics, so for sure, yeah the literal nazis did RFK shit.
Andi Zeisler (@andizeisler.bsky.social) reposted
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Bot says what
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve never been into the idea of being poly but for Kiké I can make an exception mostly to be sister wives with Mariana
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
He was having a good time the other day and working on two popsicles at once On second thought don’t ask anything, tbh even associating with me might get you banned. bsky.app/profile/magp...
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)
Imagine being Mark Cuban and choosing to post on bluesky instead of using your pocket change to fund every paleontological dig in the world (Reposting quoted image with alt text)
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Listen it’s fine but can you ask Kiké if he has any popsicle technique tips
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Say hi to my boyfriend (the entire team except BlaQe
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
About to profit
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah I have never once thought I was a shitposter, just a power user
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Ohhhh i see i got clanked
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
The bait I guess
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
@merriam-webster.com how does this work do you put a photo of me in the dictionary or will it just be a citation
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)
idk what this means but it is the first time I’ve ever been bestowed the title of shitposter
Greg Pak (@gregpak.net) reposted
If you see this post, please DO NOT share it. It makes claims about this Big Balls case that are NOT backed up in the article it links to. Just say no to disinfo.
emily sunshine (@threnody.bsky.social) reposted
hi, cis folks! this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love. hi, cis americans! this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
emily sunshine (@threnody.bsky.social) reposted
if you still have a twitter account for some reason, the ethical use case is now to be there greenlining this pic & suggesting the placement of his nipples as they tent his polo shirt indicate an older body double has been trotted out and the vance interview is evidence of of hostage crisis.
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
his poor wife helen
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
No it’s not we’re all just getting excited at breadcrumbs and spinning each other up
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
oh my god I hate this but
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)
Oh so that’s why Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry broke up, he heard a certain Lady was gonna be single soon
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
I was basically hacking the mainframe every time
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
I’d go, lower than covfefe and porn tweet night which were both delirious at all corners. This feels a bit more like when he got covid, there’s less giddy goofiness so far
Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Fair enough
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Uh yeah I’m 38 that’s it
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah that’s what I mean though - Emily’s skeet and mine have been reposted plenty, but not a single person naturally interacting with it felt compelled to post like that. Funny.
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
No, but it would be a red flag if they brought up trying to fight one.
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you your honor
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
No they’re making a joke, see the AI part?
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
To be fair though: Look at this frog
a human, like you (@dying-robot.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
they may not tell RFK at all, too big a risk he tries to eat part of the body
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh my god I’m so jealous
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
The bf has gotten very used to my interrupting an entire phone conversation to point out the presence of a frog he cannot see, it’s less erotic trapper keeper and more “sometimes an 11 year old science nerd”
Kristyn J (@sciencekristyn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
If you find this story and want to support my students as they may or may not get otters ruined for them this year, feel free to check out my Amazon wishlist 💙 I share with my department and can only do cool things, like Petri dish embroidery, because of y’all! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
But!!! Erin have you considered that they live in zoos and therefore are, in my mind, ~fancy~ animals (yes I know they have like common raccoons in other zoos)
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess i would tell them to follow me on bluesky
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh they muted this thread ages ago god knows I’m close to with all the duck rape descriptions and whatnot, this is not the hellthread I will not return to the hellthread
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Right?!? Doesn’t that feel like way too many kangaroos? And yet! It is true!! Down to 40 million right now but still!! I would have guessed like 4 million!!!!
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)
The way I know the wave of Newsom stans from the other week was fake is because this skeet has been up for an hour and not a single person had come into my mentions to accuse me of being a Trump voter
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social)
Very few animal facts surprise me and when they do they stick forever which is why “there are 50,000,000 kangaroos in Australia” made its way onto my dating profile, because I believe men should know that dating me is like dating one of those animal fact binders they advertised on Nickelodeon.
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Here’s the thing everyone knows this about ducks and dolphins, it’s like how cats have barbed penises. These are part of the known lore. But otters? That’s deep magic. That requires summoning one Who Carries The Knowledge.
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
I need everyone to stop telling me about what other animals rape, I am on the spectrum and have been on the internet since 1992 I have read every listicle made about animals.
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
And once you Know The Truth, you read the conversation fully aware that the otter ruined does not want to do it, does not want to pass on the cursèd knowledge, and yet one must. Knowing the Truth About Otters is like watching the Ring video except it lasts for the rest of your life
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow how does it feel to be defeated in the marketplace of ideas.
Claire Willett (@clairewillett.bsky.social) reposted
kind of fun to imagine the rest of the world flying their flags at 1.5 mast in reverse mourning though
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reply parent
This is how every otter ruining conversation goes, it’s really amazing.
Kashana (@kashana.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
(From 2024)
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
listen, if you have any information about…ya know…i’m marisakabas.04 on signal 🫠