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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social

I talked to Wired for A LONG time about how The Onion works now and also alluded to some very stupid, very fun things coming very soon. www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Q: What makes you hard to work for? What are the things that drive your staff crazy about you? A: The same things that make me good at this make me bad at it. I have that psychotic news brain where I'm just like, “We’ve got to get this done in two months or it's over.” We're working on a project that will be out next month that is one of the more ambitious things that we’ve ever done, and I was like, “It’s gotta be done by the end of August.” They should throw stuff at me. They should pick up hammers and throw them at my head.
sep 2, 2025, 4:23 pm • 2,013 168

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Don't Negotiate With Insurrectionists @wonderdogabides.bsky.social

"Guys, get this, Trump, but AI"

sep 2, 2025, 5:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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Gibbie 🇨🇦🦫 @gibbie.bsky.social

sep 2, 2025, 4:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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John Gosland @johngosland.bsky.social

Wireds pro Ai stance has been a massive blemish on otherwise decent work 😭😭😭 Some of the worst stories - including a made up LlM freelancer working for Wired - have happened in the last 6 months and it actually breaks my heart

sep 2, 2025, 4:25 pm • 21 1 • view
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ellenahzulu.bsky.social @ellenahzulu.bsky.social

LLM AIs frighten me. They're palantirs, persuaders & bullshit generators, giving people garbage facts, half-assed analyses, made-up research & opinions as programmed by some SV techbro overlord with an agenda. If uncorrected, this shit gets spread exponentially & it will overwhelm us all.

sep 3, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
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John Gosland @johngosland.bsky.social

Wait until your boss and stupid ass data scientists says that you are “going too slow” and how production features in an app that handles social security and credit card info should only take “a couple hours tops” with Ai 💀💀💀 Quit/lost my last job over Ai ethics and what the company wanted me to do

sep 3, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bensmom33 @bensmom33.bsky.social

Is this tied to Trump's 2 pm announcement? Is The Onion leading a new Department of Satire?

sep 2, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social

There has been a 20% decline in unnecessary iowa location referencing in the onion since you took over and i stg if you dont mention the b-bops on fleur in des moines i will unsubscribe

sep 2, 2025, 5:16 pm • 3 0 • view
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danger-noodler.bsky.social @danger-noodler.bsky.social

PLEASE TELL ME THIS ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION WAS AN ELABORATE STATERICAL POLITICAL LARP THAT YOU ORCHESTRATED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

sep 2, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social

ClickHole cable news channel

sep 2, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bad Horse @badhorse.bsky.social

Hey if you can dodge a hammer you can dodge a ball

sep 2, 2025, 4:35 pm • 10 0 • view
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Ceaușescu Speedrun Enthusiast 🐈‍⬛ 🍉 𓅺 @becklo.com

Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it’s sterile and I like the taste.

sep 2, 2025, 4:57 pm • 3 0 • view
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sid (scary version) @sidvicious.ca

i recently learned that is in fact not sterile

sep 2, 2025, 4:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Ceaușescu Speedrun Enthusiast 🐈‍⬛ 🍉 𓅺 @becklo.com

I won't ask how you learned that.

sep 2, 2025, 4:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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ratexla 🇸🇪 @ratexla.bsky.social

Well. I’m a vet nurse. When the vets want a maximally sterile urine sample, they stick a needle directly into the bladder (guided by ultrasound) and draw some out that way. Bc urine gets more or less contaminated passing through the urethra, across a bit of skin, etc. 😬

sep 2, 2025, 5:12 pm • 7 0 • view
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Ceaușescu Speedrun Enthusiast 🐈‍⬛ 🍉 𓅺 @becklo.com

I was just being funny, but I appreciate you taking the time to explain that!

sep 2, 2025, 5:17 pm • 7 0 • view
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ratexla 🇸🇪 @ratexla.bsky.social

Anyway… Every time someone claims urine is non-disgusting bc it’s ”sterile”, I wonder (or ask) if they would eat a spoonful o’ shit that had been boiled to sterility 😜

sep 3, 2025, 10:47 am • 1 0 • view
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John Mulloy @johnmulloy.bsky.social

SCIENCE!

sep 2, 2025, 7:16 pm • 2 0 • view
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Bob S. @editorkid.bsky.social

Well, yeah, but if it's my own urine, all those contaminants were already part of me. And if it's the horse's urine, they're flavor additives.

sep 2, 2025, 7:32 pm • 2 0 • view
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Ceaușescu Speedrun Enthusiast 🐈‍⬛ 🍉 𓅺 @becklo.com

The fact that the animal you went straight to was "horse" is making me lol

sep 2, 2025, 7:34 pm • 3 0 • view
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James daSilva @jamesdasilva.bsky.social

Good stuff. Very curious about the archiving project! I'm sure the focus is on print first, but also the website mirroring of those print issues needs a lot of work. Anyways, take your time, it's a lot to be publisher *or* archivist, much less both.

sep 2, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Linda Bessin @bessinaboutburbank.com

Totes?

sep 2, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ser Skellington Bones, Esq 💀⚖️🐊 @deadersesq.bsky.social

Local Man Thinks Hammers Are For Throwing

sep 2, 2025, 5:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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Claire @claire.chapien.net

youtu.be/oXOQk69lGq4?...

sep 2, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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David Stone @david-stone.bsky.social

By the way, I just ordered your "Kitten Thinks of Murder" tote bag for a friend who recently adopted a kitten from the animal shelter.

sep 2, 2025, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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McRaeWrites @mcraewrites.bsky.social

Do we get the hammers donated to us? Have to line up, or?

sep 2, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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captaincornbred.bsky.social @captaincornbred.bsky.social

guess you could have said 2 weeks

sep 3, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view
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Sylvie 𓂀 Goddess of Cringe 𓂀 Daughter of the Land and Sky 🌍🌱🌈🌦️ @2souls1cup.bsky.social

You overwork your employees? In this economy? 😟

sep 2, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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no fun @no-funeral.bsky.social

looking forward to The Onion's "day of reckoning"

John Schnatter, sweating
sep 2, 2025, 4:47 pm • 3 0 • view
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Andrew Conn @andrewconn.com

Onion games section?

sep 2, 2025, 4:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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ratdog69.bsky.social @ratdog69.bsky.social

Ok, why do your writers have hammers?

sep 2, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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FLEABttn @fleabttn.com

looking forward to it

sep 2, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dylan, 💯% Procedural @urzaz.bsky.social

🔨💨

sep 2, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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James Hesky @james-hesky.bsky.social

Thank you for buying it. I was legit worried it was about to perish.

sep 2, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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SeanQ aka Stinky Peet @seanqueue.bsky.social

I work in product development and we have a customer like you, in between curses we openly question whether they even understand how time works.

sep 2, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sebastian ☀️ @faurasebastian.com

Local CEO Invites Readers to Kill Him With Hammers (For Real This Time)

sep 2, 2025, 4:30 pm • 44 0 • view
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Sean_GMC @seangmc.bsky.social

The Funion

sep 2, 2025, 4:29 pm • 2 0 • view
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Rayna Helgens @raynahelgens.bsky.social

New government dropping end of August

sep 2, 2025, 4:24 pm • 6 0 • view
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Josh Hillis @jbh42.bsky.social

I worry the bullshit from Wired's last article w Taylor makes this less appealing to so many, while it is way more valuable

sep 2, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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foggythought.bsky.social @foggythought.bsky.social

Planning the "Hitler Dead" full page story is one thing, calling out the dates? That's ballsy.

sep 3, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
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James @jspell-art.bsky.social

image
sep 2, 2025, 6:29 pm • 5 0 • view
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Genderflux Superfluid @rewhan.bsky.social

"You can tell Tim Onion is the one good CEO because he actively tells his employees to hit him with hammers" :P

sep 2, 2025, 4:59 pm • 3 0 • view
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devoiddavy.bsky.social @devoiddavy.bsky.social

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Verlaine @rogerday.bsky.social

So you peeled back some layers

sep 2, 2025, 6:51 pm • 2 0 • view
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Arthur Simon @simonearth.bsky.social

InfoPeace?

sep 2, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sarah Følina @subtlefire.bsky.social

with a bunch of ads telling you the health supplements you really need are the parodies we made along the way

sep 2, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view