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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Aug 1

I agree… but we need your Frasier takes. Pls reconsider

-gen x/gen y/millennial/Oregon trail/xennial person

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Jul 19

wait… Zionism? Irish Zionists?

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · May 24

It’s been two months since I wrote about AI which, as someone who detests having to write about AI, feels like not much time at all.

On fake books, cash traps and magic beans, and why I continue to hate every vapid tentacle AI thrusts in our direction.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Séamas O'Reilly: We have elevated AI that almost never works as well as what it replaces

I could write an article just like this one every single day, each filled with brand-new examples of AI’s constant enshittification of the media we consume

www.irishexaminer.com

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · May 10

The phrase “heil H-“ is itself a call to action

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Apr 24

The smoked turkey on baguette sandwich from Al’s Deli, Evanston, IL.

The owners, two brothers, inherited the biz from their dad. One worked the register, the other made the sandwiches. Everything as fresh as can be, with grainy French Dijon and a cold smear of mayo. Perfection

Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Apr 23

New Kids on the Block, Omaha Civic Auditorium, Jan. 1990

my mom stuffed her ears with toilet paper due to the nonstop screaming

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Apr 7

Infuriating.

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Joe @jojojrshabadoo.bsky.social · Apr 6

I saw Rick Steves on the bullhorn leading a pretty large group of protesters in a small city outside of Seattle that consists mostly of rich people and retirees. Definitely not a place you usually see a protest!

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Apr 5

ok, The Golfer is the new name

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Apr 5

my grandmother grew up on a farm during the depression. guess who loved pre-made pie crusts, and Spam, and margarine, and buying her groceries at Aldi?

Grandma

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Apr 5

He looks like Jor-El just locked him in the Phantom Zone

Guinness Paltrow @myfriendkatye.bsky.social · Apr 5

My local news somehow scored a worse version

Donald Trump on his phone in a car looking like all gums

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Apr 2

gabagooledygook?

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Apr 2

every time Elon suffers my health replenishes like Link in a fairy fountain

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Mar 30

Try The Wager, by David Grann - not arctic, but does involve Drake’s Passage, extreme peril, dastardly British behavior

or

Into the Raging Sea, by Rachel Slade, about the sinking of the El Faro, a modern maritime disaster

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Mar 21

This just made me cry laughing, and then I started actually crying?

A treasure, by @jpbrammer.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/johnpaul...

Catholic Hymn Tier List

An incomplete yet substantive ranking

open.substack.com

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Mar 20

Part 1 of my Catholic Hymn Tier List is up! I made mid and high tier available to paid subscribers as a treat for sticking with me through my Mexico hiatus, but the honorable mentions and low tiers are readable by all. Let us pray.
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/catholic-h...

Catholic Hymn Tier List

An incomplete yet substantive ranking

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · Mar 7

Well we learned something from this, our 572nd rocket explosion, said SpaceX spokesperson Farty McCrablice, it's when you have a floundering company run by a drugged-out shithead with virtually no oversight, things tend to explode.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Mar 5

They’re going to demolish the country and then they’re going to say that Biden did it and all of these Nazi maga dipshits who only want genocide and slavery to come back are going to pretend they believe it because that’s easier than facing the horrifyingly failed reality of themselves.

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Mar 4

I 🩷 MOOSE

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Feb 26

if I could travel in time sometime
I’d travel to the end of all of mankind

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · Feb 24

People born Catholic: I swear, if Ginny DiMinico makes baked ziti one more time.

Adult Catholic converts:

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Feb 21

I never could have predicted this, but the faintest and most distant alarm bells started going off in my head when they started marketing Star Wars’ Empire as an aesthetic choice. The bells got a little louder when Walter White became a hero - not an antihero and cautionary tale.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Feb 18

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Feb 12

the reason i exist is because the British colonial project tried to wipe out my great- and great-great-grandparents. When you start to truly understand and feel the pain of that, it wakes you up to the numbing, enervating lie of whiteness

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Kathleen St John @kathleenstjohn.bsky.social · Feb 10

this is the Iowa I know

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