@samantic.bsky.social
Ok fine I'm here.
This is astounding
02.12.2025 13:28 — 👍 275 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 1
Here’s Nick Cave replying to a correspondent called Valerio who was asking him about how to respond to a growing sense of cynicism - here. www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-still...
24.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 855 🔁 324 💬 6 📌 18
Sam Reich flipping a coin saying "heads normal, tails insane..." and then looking at the result of the coin flip and saying "It's normal!"
my brain/body deciding how to react to caffeine
21.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 589 🔁 45 💬 8 📌 5
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
25.08.2025 14:11 — 👍 12249 🔁 3619 💬 124 📌 255“I’m sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but he’s the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trump”
22.08.2025 02:53 — 👍 3920 🔁 679 💬 39 📌 29The biggest flaw in the Billy Joel documentary is devoting no time to his signature achievement, "Oliver & Company"
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oh you think the fans blowing on the server racks in data centers use too much air? you know what uses even more air? people breathing. check and mate, dipshits.
03.06.2025 23:26 — 👍 591 🔁 36 💬 5 📌 0
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Elvis Costello is the Wiggles for adults (complimentary)
29.03.2025 04:47 — 👍 1765 🔁 102 💬 47 📌 8
Article from 1921 labeling the time period as "the age of nerves"
Article from 1930 labeling the period as the age of nerves.
Article from the 1940s labeling the time as the age of anxiety.
Article from the 1950s labeling their period as the "age of anxiety"
Many say that we live in the "age of anxiety" and I have recently learned that, not only are many of us struggling, but we are also, apparently, deeply unspecial.
17.03.2025 18:15 — 👍 615 🔁 105 💬 7 📌 2tried to start a commune on myst island but fell apart over basic things like taking out garbage, doing dishes, who resets the puzzles at night, which brother to give the pages to, who gets to sleep in the spaceship, etc
05.03.2025 13:33 — 👍 1602 🔁 357 💬 1 📌 9Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue.
TWENTY.
As in, they call that getting slammed.
So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.
TWENTY is a lot.
Big fan of Cheekface, always nice to hear something new that scratches that TMBG/CAKE part of my brain.
22.01.2025 19:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Glad you're enjoying Gideon. That's literally all I know about it because apparently I quote versions of "none pizza with left beef" enough to be informed when it is referenced in literature.
08.01.2025 22:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0frog fact!!
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