cassidy
@cdg.bsky.social
dj, singer-songwriter, queer variety show person, arts and culture writer, home cook, often online 🧐 (they)
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cassidy
@cdg.bsky.social
· Nov 19
I don’t think I ever announced it on here but my indie rock band Boy Howdy! finally put out our debut EP after 5 years of existence :) boyhowdyband.bandcamp.com/album/howdy
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Sorry to anyone who thought Wokeness was annoying but as we now know it's the price we pay for a civilized society
December 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Sorry to anyone who thought Wokeness was annoying but as we now know it's the price we pay for a civilized society
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I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
I’m listening to the first track of perverts by Ethel Cain finally and can confidently say this genre is Scary Music That Makes Me Tear Up Involuntarily, which is exciting and cool but like, idk if I can do this in one sitting lmao
December 4, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I’m listening to the first track of perverts by Ethel Cain finally and can confidently say this genre is Scary Music That Makes Me Tear Up Involuntarily, which is exciting and cool but like, idk if I can do this in one sitting lmao
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the HORSES affair is a startlingly low bar to cross to see if people actually care about protecting games from censorship of upsetting themes because it's far tamer and has way more moral clarity than a lot of stuff that doesn't get banned. but it's also very clarifying to see who can't cross it
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
the HORSES affair is a startlingly low bar to cross to see if people actually care about protecting games from censorship of upsetting themes because it's far tamer and has way more moral clarity than a lot of stuff that doesn't get banned. but it's also very clarifying to see who can't cross it
Your toilet is leaking and folks, you’re gonna want to sit down for this — it’s not the kind of leak a plumber can fix!
NEW: Your "end-to-end encrypted" poop pictures taken by this $599 (+ subscription) smart toilet camera are actually not end-to-end encrypted.
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‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
techcrunch.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Your toilet is leaking and folks, you’re gonna want to sit down for this — it’s not the kind of leak a plumber can fix!
little baby couch for the little baby ronni who is actually an old lady (and doing better in the last day or two! ❤️🩹)
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
little baby couch for the little baby ronni who is actually an old lady (and doing better in the last day or two! ❤️🩹)
I don’t need more distractions today but will def watch this later
I've watched this video twice now, just for pleasure
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I don’t need more distractions today but will def watch this later
It’s even good after the article ends
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It’s even good after the article ends
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it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
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people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
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I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
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The Chair Company was so good… like truly so crazy and madcap and yes the ending was a bit insane but also, some lovely unexpectedly grounded moments that helped you take all the main characters more seriously!
December 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The Chair Company was so good… like truly so crazy and madcap and yes the ending was a bit insane but also, some lovely unexpectedly grounded moments that helped you take all the main characters more seriously!
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This comment on an NYT soup recipe is a banger
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This comment on an NYT soup recipe is a banger
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avg linkedin user like "i'm happy to announce i'm starting a new position as part of the how to kill superman by blocking out the sun research team at luthorcorp" & the comments are all goons from similar branches of the legion of doom going "omg congratulations 🎉"
December 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
avg linkedin user like "i'm happy to announce i'm starting a new position as part of the how to kill superman by blocking out the sun research team at luthorcorp" & the comments are all goons from similar branches of the legion of doom going "omg congratulations 🎉"
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This is a good argument for why we shouldn’t hide that we are socialists and we should loudly proclaim what that means !
870 out of 1201 (72%) surveyed Americans support ramping down harmful/unnecessary production/consumption, taxing the rich, universal basic services and guaranteed jobs, democratizing business, and ending exploitation of disadvantaged countries. As long as nobody gave a name to those policies!
I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is a good argument for why we shouldn’t hide that we are socialists and we should loudly proclaim what that means !
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Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work newrepublic.com/post/203784/... via @newrepublic.com
Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work
The National Guard shooting suspect felt abandoned by the CIA after working together for so long, his fellow unit member said.
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
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Man this reminds me of stand-up sets I’ve seen where someone says a bunch of stuff about their life, mental state, and values and you spend the entire time not laughing but thinking about how much they need therapy and/or friends
A piece Olivia Nuzzi published yesterday (as part of a Substack Q+A) called "Signs Your Book Rollout Has Gone Awry":
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Man this reminds me of stand-up sets I’ve seen where someone says a bunch of stuff about their life, mental state, and values and you spend the entire time not laughing but thinking about how much they need therapy and/or friends
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You love to see it
The American Economic Association says it has accepted Larry Summers' resignation and "imposed a lifetime ban on his membership." www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
Statement from the American Economic Association
www.aeaweb.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
You love to see it
The AI dub clips linked in this are INSANELY bad like it’s actually shocking! glad they’ve mostly taken it down but oh my god I hate that it was ever allowed to exist
Aht aht aht.
Just because Prime Video quietly walked back its AI Beta for anime doesn't mean we should let bygones be bygones. Keep that energy.
Just because Prime Video quietly walked back its AI Beta for anime doesn't mean we should let bygones be bygones. Keep that energy.
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The AI dub clips linked in this are INSANELY bad like it’s actually shocking! glad they’ve mostly taken it down but oh my god I hate that it was ever allowed to exist
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OK bad stuff happened to me as a kid so now getting me off is as involved and exhausting as setting up the board game Mousetrap
December 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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oh my god someone made it (and kindly tipped their hat to me) bsky.app/profile/harp...
December 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
oh my god someone made it (and kindly tipped their hat to me) bsky.app/profile/harp...
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