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DonP @donfoolery.com · May 28

If I had a band, Sophie here would be my next album cover.

Straight on shot of a small gray striped tabby cat blepping with the tip of her tiny pink tongue

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Matthew Story @mattstorymusic.bsky.social · 13h

Back when Marvel was the thing, I'd ask guys who said they couldn't pronounce black names if they could pronounce "Mjolnir".

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DonP @donfoolery.com · 14h

I knew I was forgetting something today...

DonP @donfoolery.com · 1d

Seems like it's been a long time since I heard about a book I was interested in *before* it was published! (Only a day before in this case, but I'll take it!) 🤣

www.grubstreet.com/article/revi...

What Does Gabrielle Hamilton Have Left to Tell Us?

The chef’s new memoir is a lucid, harrowing examination of family turmoil.

www.grubstreet.com

DonP @donfoolery.com · 14h

The absurd use of a frog to troll your political enemies? I totally get it now....

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 16h

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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Winnie Yost-Zahn 🏳️‍⚧️ @winnie-writes.anticapitalistcatgirl.com · 15h

In too many states, erotica will require ID uploads, so does this mean ChatGPT is just going to have a massive database of government IDs to train itself on?

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 15h

October 2025
AI gooning is the master of the Internet
Only Claude stands against it
Waifus are now battlefields

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Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 1d

Anthropic cried poor about paying damages to the writers from whom it stole. Many of us received nothing at all. But here Anthropic is, spending its stolen savings on to coat Powell Street BART in its appropriately poop-colored branding. "Keep thinking"? How about you *start* thinking, Anthropic.

Photo of the inside of Powell Street BART station in San Francisco shows columns covered in poop-colored wrap emblazoned "Claude" and "Keep thinking." The floor has received the same treatment in paint or a plastic rug.

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DonP @donfoolery.com · 1d

"Still in all, every night we does the tell, so that we 'member who we was and where we came from..."

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

DonP @donfoolery.com · 1d

A writer's attitude toward the Turkey City Lexicon tells me everything I need to know about their writing AND about them as a person.

I will not be taking questions at this time. 🤣

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

DonP @donfoolery.com · 1d

Seems like it's been a long time since I heard about a book I was interested in *before* it was published! (Only a day before in this case, but I'll take it!) 🤣

www.grubstreet.com/article/revi...

What Does Gabrielle Hamilton Have Left to Tell Us?

The chef’s new memoir is a lucid, harrowing examination of family turmoil.

www.grubstreet.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 1d

today and every day

An indigenous woman holding up the finger and saying, “Fuck Christopher Columbus”

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DonP @donfoolery.com · 2d

My favorite scene in I'LL HAVE WHAT PHIL'S HAVING is the segment with Ray Romano in L.A. when Phil Rosenthal describes the card Ray got him one birthday that read, "What do you get for the guy who has everything... because of YOU?"

DonP @donfoolery.com · 2d

NGL, I never knew what Robert Bloch looked like but damn if this doesn't perfectly match the picture I had in my head.

Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 3d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

DonP @donfoolery.com · 2d

Looks like a jelly bean got mixed in with the coffee beans...

A sleeping tuxedo cat with an exposed paw showing a pink toe pad among 3 other black toe pads.

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DonP @donfoolery.com · 2d

When am I going to learn that someone is always going to figure out YET ANOTHER way to play Chick Corea's "Spain"?

youtu.be/BSxug-uBdes?...

Sirius Harmonica Ensemble – SPAIN (Chick Corea) | Hohner

YouTube video by HohnerMusic

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 3d

When I compare what they insurrected over to what we haven’t insurrected over it makes perfect sense to me why they feel empowered to kidnap kids in broad daylight

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DonP @donfoolery.com · 3d

I feel like a local watched THE GOLD and got ideas...

www.syracuse.com/crime/2025/1...

Scammer got elderly person in Tompkins County to give them $500,000 in gold bars

Troopers say they arrested the man who went to pick up the gold bars.

www.syracuse.com

DonP @donfoolery.com · 3d

Of all the things I have to write and all the things I have to read, to say nothing about all the things I have to do, why not start reading a Sam Lipsyte's THE SUBJECT STEVE that I bought on impulse today? It's less than 200 pages, why not?

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 3d

it's the weekend! writers - rejection *does not mean* you are a bad writer!

keep writing!❤️‍🔥

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DonP @donfoolery.com · 4d

I admit, I'm curious as hell whether the dynamic of being Gestapo together changes how the White folks in ICE relate to the Black and Brown folks in ICE and if so, how...? 🤔

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 4d

Black people - Do you have any members of your family who joined ICE? If so, what drove them to make such a horrible decision, and what is your family dynamic like?

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DonP @donfoolery.com · 4d

So... White Star Line was the SpaceX of its day...??

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

If you want proof that people are incapable of learning here is your reminder that Titanic had a sister ship called the Brittanic that was pressed into service as a hospital ship during WW1 and was so successful that they called her unsinkable and then she sank on the next voyage

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Tim Boerger @timboerger.bsky.social · 4d

One upside of this whole Bari Weiss bullshit is that every time I see one of her memos,I feel better about my own writing.

Every time my imposter's syndrome pops up, I can look at this and say "can you believe someone is sending this shit out to a professional newsroom?"

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4d

Here's the full memo.

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DonP @donfoolery.com · 4d

Recently issued to select supervisors at the day job...

Small yellow anthropomorphic toy dumpster on fire with a smiley face, holding a sign saying, "It's fine. I'm fine. Everything's fine."

DonP @donfoolery.com · 5d

Oh, me too!! I couldn't believe it when I found 'ALLO, 'ALLO on streaming.

DonP @donfoolery.com · 5d

I've said this before, but I cannot believe they still show ARE YOU BEING SERVED? on PBS in the year of our lord 2025.

I mean, if there's one example in my life of one of my faves being problematic...