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@shawnhils.bsky.social

deep cuts and jokes. https://twitter.com/shawnhils?s=21&t=xRPREL8G2o0Wsm-WTqkygw

created May 28, 2023

210 followers 423 following 750 posts

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Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

rapture this rapture that why don't you log off and wrap ur hands around a cold one

23/9/2025, 3:36:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Sterne (@petersterne.com) reposted reply parent

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

23/9/2025, 3:09:58 PM | 1618 350 | View on Bluesky | view

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22/9/2025, 2:15:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

I find all this parsing and arguing over identity and lack of clear motive to drive home the point: it's the guns

19/9/2025, 5:42:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

lmao

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19/9/2025, 5:34:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

you can tell they’re treating Kirk’s murder with a serious and somber attitude by the gifs

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18/9/2025, 8:10:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

One neighbor who lives across the street from the Robinsons, declined to be named. He said he's Lawrence from the movie Office Space
12/9/2025, 11:46:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social) reply parent

the trump video is from yesterday. I think Rupar saw the screenshot of the transcript going viral and wanted in on the engagement www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...

12/9/2025, 4:15:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

24 years ago to the day

12/9/2025, 3:48:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

r/IAmTheMainCharacter

12/9/2025, 3:39:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) reposted

This is why you don't fill federal law enforcement with incompetent political hacks. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

 Sept. 10, 2025, 6:33 p.m. ETJust now Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Beau Mason, the commissioner of Utah’s Department of Public Safety, says there remains an “active investigation” for the person of interest. But minutes before he said that, the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, said on social media that the shooter was “now in custody.”
10/9/2025, 10:35:20 PM | 775 137 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

how it feels to be in the 59th Street subway station

MC Escher’s “Relativity”
10/9/2025, 3:18:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

ur telling me a vice president was unhappy with the roles and lack of support they were given by the white house?

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10/9/2025, 3:14:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) reposted

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

10/9/2025, 7:36:37 AM | 2903 1722 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

the greatest part about this is they're not claiming someone photoshopped the document, they're saying 22 years ago--among a collection of other famous people's letters-- someone forged his signature as if we're living in the 1960's

9/9/2025, 7:11:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

thinking about her

9/9/2025, 2:38:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jennie Coughlin (@jenniecoughlin.bsky.social) reposted

NEW POLL: The poll found that 46 percent of likely voters currently planned to choose Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, in a four-way race for NYC mayor. His support spans racial and ethnic groups but is especially strong among young and highly educated voters.

9/9/2025, 9:06:05 AM | 489 89 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Gurri (@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com) reposted

It’s a shame no one had the power to bar Trump from office four years ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

4/9/2025, 3:01:12 PM | 2008 392 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

tshirt for this website

a picture of a red tshirt with white lettering saying
2/9/2025, 7:17:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

holding space for you dying

28/8/2025, 8:55:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social) reply parent

Subway cookie on a rope

27/8/2025, 2:10:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

SEO rules all

27/8/2025, 2:09:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social) reply parent

bsky.app/profile/dwbo...

27/8/2025, 2:59:27 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) reposted

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

26/8/2025, 11:41:55 PM | 45920 11582 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) (@mikesenters.bsky.social) reposted

A reminder that this shit with Cracker Barrel is nothing new. As Ganz points out, the right loves doing the consumerist nostalgia bit and it's most perfectly incapsulated by a series of truly cringe tweets posted a few years ago:

26/8/2025, 3:06:02 PM | 312 61 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

just some fellas who stand on the left of the escalator

26/8/2025, 7:45:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lydia Polgreen (@polgreen.bsky.social) reposted

The ghoulish fixation on preexisting conditions and starving children in Gaza is bizarre. In all modern conflicts the death toll is measured in excess deaths. This is something I wrote about Congo's civil war almost 20 years ago:

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25/8/2025, 8:24:27 PM | 1625 345 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social) reposted

“What they’re offering people is not health insurance or economic security,” Stanley says. “They’re offering them delight in the torture of others.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

25/8/2025, 4:36:28 AM | 529 201 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/8/2025, 9:36:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social) reply parent

ok I’m tuning in. also this description reminded me of Barbarian Days which predates these guys but reading it made me realize how far surfing has come (derogatory)

22/8/2025, 10:46:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

i would condemn the protester for spending the time to make a bad tweet into a sign

22/8/2025, 11:52:32 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture WIRED (@wired.com) reposted reply parent

As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children.

19/8/2025, 5:19:10 PM | 2470 1087 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/8/2025, 3:31:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs.bsky.social) reposted

listening to the dumbest dudes at the gym swear Obama was going to take over the country with the national park police for eight years and then seeing this is some amazing whiplash for me

14/8/2025, 6:57:52 PM | 748 114 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

my main takeaway from this video is that these fed brothers can not run. foot speed like toddlers in sand

14/8/2025, 6:39:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

blatant and shameless SEO trolling

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14/8/2025, 6:36:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Bondi (@pbondi.bsky.social) reposted

I’m so old, I remember when Pam Bondi’s DOJ defended employing a January 6 rioter, as a “valued” senior advisor, who urged protesters at the Capitol to kill cops. THIS WAS LAST WEEK.

14/8/2025, 5:17:52 PM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mara Gay (@maragay.bsky.social) reposted

In a lengthy call in June, Obama congratulated Mamdani, offered him advice about governing and discussed the importance of giving people hope in a dark time. Others in Obama’s orbit have also shown a keen interest in Mamdani, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

13/8/2025, 6:44:00 PM | 1944 319 | View on Bluesky | view

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14/8/2025, 4:20:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

they didn’t think they could fool anyone, it’s just a gimmick press release (last paragraph). this is what happens when it’s August of the off year. staff are bored out of their minds and trying to stay busy

13/8/2025, 5:59:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

pervert chef

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13/8/2025, 2:10:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

how the offshore windfarm buoy looks at you after your 9th hour at sea beceause the jet ski ran out of gas

12/8/2025, 6:19:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social) reply parent

absolutely rancid dorks are running shit

12/8/2025, 4:27:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

look at this mf

12/8/2025, 4:25:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social) reposted

The extent to which the American economy is being transformed into a machine for scams and outright bribery should be spoken about more directly. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/scams-and-...

12/8/2025, 3:53:08 PM | 955 301 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social) reply parent

the stomp clap hey news cycle enters its second week

11/8/2025, 4:20:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

the flag football league is an actually an elaborate meth ring

11/8/2025, 2:04:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com) reposted

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

11/8/2025, 1:52:58 PM | 13612 3406 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Read (@maxread.info) reposted

have sensed some confusion re: the origins of stomp clap that i'm all too happy to clear up maxread.substack.com/i/170106944/...

a genealogy of stomp clap
7/8/2025, 6:24:41 PM | 367 56 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

can’t believe not buying things from amazon and walmart for one day didn’t work

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8/8/2025, 11:31:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grimm ☀️ (@mugrimm.bsky.social) reposted

I can't emphasize enough just how bad the AI that tricked cuomo was lol.

7/8/2025, 4:12:43 AM | 608 68 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

the only thing I gotta say about this is that the edward sharpe aesthetic has been co-opted by anti-vaxxers who are posting about food dyes and selling carnivore diets to suburban moms and boat owners

6/8/2025, 7:13:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social) reply parent

that yoshi silhouette

5/8/2025, 2:56:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

The Rehearsal season 3

5/8/2025, 2:18:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social) reply parent

i always wonder how things like that happen, like The Illusionist/The Prestige in 2006. producers at the same party just beefing with eachother and seeing who can make it first

5/8/2025, 2:12:06 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

can’t let context hold you back from getting these tweets off

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5/8/2025, 1:47:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture bobby (@bobbylewis.bsky.social) reposted

the rj reynolds tobacco company says children who don’t smoke will be at a disadvantage in the future

31/7/2025, 11:00:52 AM | 260 53 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/7/2025, 3:49:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

there are kaaba's everywhere for those with the eyes to see

30/7/2025, 2:41:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

the world's first self-driving outdoor patio covering

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29/7/2025, 6:33:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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people still on twitter logging on to bluesky with screenshots of tweets in their camera roll

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25/7/2025, 3:34:08 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ᴄᴏʀɴᴇʀ ᴇxᴇᴄᴜᴛɪᴠᴇ ™️ (@killlthehype.blacksky.app) reposted

That man on EVERY SINGLE PAGE 😭

25/7/2025, 2:34:16 PM | 1328 345 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

Deranged situation in Gaza: -Israel banned UN as food aid supplier, replaced w US nonprofit Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) run by Trump evangelicals -GHF insufficient supplies, UN has more waiting -GHF says will deliver food *for* UN, obvi UN doesn't trust -GHF says *UN* is making this political

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24/7/2025, 4:57:34 PM | 685 225 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

Jubilee:

24/7/2025, 1:56:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

really fun

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21/7/2025, 3:54:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

i'm at a taco truck in sedona and everyone is talking about how "AriZohranmentum" is over

16/7/2025, 4:37:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted

This is amazing. Yesterday Trump claimed he talked to his uncle about how brilliant the Unabomber was when the Unabomber was a student of his at MIT. The Unabomber never went to MIT, he was identified in 1996, and his uncle died in 1985.

16/7/2025, 2:24:43 AM | 11726 3196 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maia (@maiamindel.bsky.social) reposted

"I, an extremely rich guy, sat down two candidates for public office and told them I'm going to decide which one of them is going to drop out and who's going to get all my money" is basically the cartoon version of the argument for why having extreme wealth inequality is bad for democracy

3/7/2025, 4:47:40 PM | 1212 276 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

right after jeffries was elected speaker in 2023 he delivered a speech featuring "the ABC's of democracy" and I immediately knew Dems had made a mistake democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-...

2/7/2025, 10:03:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

look at my opposition party dawg

Hakeem Jeffries post on Instagram Photo of himself standing in his office holding a baseball bat with caption “House Democrats will keep the pressure on Trump's One Big Ugly Bill” Chuck Schumer post on X NEWS: I just got the name struck off this bill with a move on the floor of the Senate. It is no longer named
2/7/2025, 6:53:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

breaking my hooters restraining order to ask out the server again but this time will be different

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30/6/2025, 11:49:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

a warning that you are guilty by association from the lawyer of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump

27/6/2025, 6:40:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

[in the most nasal voice imaginable] unwoke the boats

27/6/2025, 4:55:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

"taking the politics out of ship naming." listen to yourself

27/6/2025, 4:50:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ted Friedman (@tedfriedman.bsky.social) reposted

The immediate success of congestion pricing, after the Dem establishment insisted it would discredit the entire party, was a great advertisement for Trying Shit.

26/6/2025, 9:02:06 PM | 1704 296 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

extremely we needed this rain voice we needed this rain

26/6/2025, 10:06:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) reposted

We’ve got secret police black bagging people and sending them to gulags, the scary parts of communism are already here idk what these people think a public grocery store will lead to bsky.app/profile/jame...

26/6/2025, 5:37:21 PM | 2777 589 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

the NY Dems are an extreme example of the national party’s instinct to defer to seniority and assume the old rules still apply instead of recruiting fresh energy. that’s the long way of saying Status Cuomo *carl paladino voice*

26/6/2025, 6:37:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

struggling with real wars so they’re retreating to the more familiar media wars

26/6/2025, 6:20:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

why won’t you do our propaganda about jets that go vroom

26/6/2025, 2:51:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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seniors signing up for another term of ordering around staff and attending dinners wearing a little pin on their lapel

25/6/2025, 10:16:23 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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CNBC and WSJ today

25/6/2025, 10:00:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Miles Howard (@milesperhoward.bsky.social) reposted

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

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Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

thank you for joining this emergency meeting of the five families: landlords, hudson yards, john catsimatidis, equinox, helicopters

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Profile picture Eli Valley (@elivalley.bsky.social) reposted

And the Being Normal olympics begin.

Betar tweeting
25/6/2025, 3:31:21 AM | 5805 696 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Defector (@defector.com) reposted

"The elites that have rallied behind Cuomo are doing so precisely because he has not learned or changed, and because in his strident unwillingness to do either he represents the only future they care to imagine, which is one in which they remain on top." defector.com/andrew-cuomo...

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Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social) reply parent

[wearing a name tag on a lanyard and walking up to the stegosaurus at the open bar] looks like they let anyone in here!

24/6/2025, 5:11:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social) reply parent

they/them is plural! [a short time later when he hits the $58 parlay on a college baseball game] LET'S GOOOOOOOOO

24/6/2025, 5:04:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

wow no overlap with, and yet all good choices

24/6/2025, 3:43:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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trump trying to solve the middle east crisis on truth social

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Profile picture Andy Hoberek (@thathoberekguy.bsky.social) reposted

The President is slashing government services, sending troops into US cities to abduct people, illegally bombing Iran, and the Democratic Party is mobilizing its full might to … stop New York City from electing a mildly left-leaning mayor.

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Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

This really isn’t a hard message. Obama neutralized the Iran nuclear program through the hard work of diplomacy, but Trump tore up the deal in his first term out of spite and chose war instead.

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Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social)

congress? anyone want to step in here

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Profile picture Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman.bsky.social) reposted

Okay maybe this is too hot a take for 5:30pm on a Saturday but I think meme accounts that don’t give any attribution paved the way for people to accept AI words and imagery because it separated culture and entertainment from the idea that someone had to have those thoughts and compose them.

21/6/2025, 9:35:59 PM | 2871 500 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social) reply parent

"The focus on white genocide in South Africa stems from concerns about farm attacks, which some view as racially motivated. Use code KILL THE BOER for 15% off your next order at Grubhub"

20/6/2025, 12:29:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn (@shawnhils.bsky.social) reply parent

“that’ll be $18 for the salsa”

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Profile picture David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) reposted

I know only so many people care about New York City, and I respect that. But I want people to know that this potatohead goober owns the consensus Worst Grocery Store Chain, for price and for quality, in a city with some truly heinous grocery stores.

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