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I mistrust AI, don’t like social media algorithms but I love self driving cars, so in terms of disliking tech I’m somewhere between Black Mirror and Alien Earth. This makes sense to me.

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 8d

Venmo: need to search?

Me: yeah here’s the first four letters of my friend whom I send money to all the time

Venmo: nah, how about these four strangers you’ve never heard of?

Me: no I want my friend.

Venmo: I’ll show you him for one second but then back to the randos

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 8d

Great news!!

🫧 Kay Hanley 🫧 @kayhanley.bsky.social · 9d

Working on a full length Letters To Cleo album for the first time in almost 20 years and I'm glad it took this long. I love and appreciate this part of the job so much more now ♡

come see us w/ the cavedogs
11.19 Bowery Ballroom NYC
11.21-22Paradise Rock Club Boston

tix --> www.letterstocleo.net

concert poster with a green and yellow flowered hand grenade
letters to cleo w/ special guests The Cavedogs Nov 19 Bowery Ballroom NYC Nov 21 The Paradise Rock Club Nov 22 The Paradise Rock Club Boston

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 12d

Friends: be mad with me
Me: I am
Friends: not the right way though
Me: no I think I am
Friends: go fuck yourself
Me: that’s what I was thinking

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 12d

Instagram before: put pictures here

Users: we love it

Instagram: okay add your location, to everything

Users: uhhhh maybe

Instagram now: okay also put music and sound on every little thing so it’s annoying

Users: what? No! Why?

Instagram: you must

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 13d

More

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 13d

I bought a T Shirt from an Instagram ad and the algorithm has gone insane. 100% T shirt ads. I feel like I finally said to an Aunt “I guess I like music” and now she’s like “FINALLY. I KNOW WHAT TO GET YOU FOR CHRISTMAS.”

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 13d

Not this year! But you would and will when it does!

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 14d

Once again for Halloween I will be dressed as Some Guy In A Wig.

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 17d

In a tremendous act of self-love, I will not be playing the video game Baby Steps.

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 17d

The Monkees: Let’s combine all of the financial manipulation of a band with all the ego problems of a bunch of actors.

Wait, it worked???

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 18d

True

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 23d

I stand by my sources (me making shit up)

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 23d

It’s not as fun as I thought having an angry egomaniac paranoid grandfather for president.

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 23d

Hah actually it’s about a post on the Beatles reddit that said “why did the Beatles stop making experimental music?”

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 24d

My favorite style of Reddit rage bait is an insane claim disguised as a question.
“When did all gas stations stop carrying cheese?”
Or “Why does everyone hate the piano?”
Or “When did people stop learning how to do long division?”

Very good and smart way to talk to each other I love it.

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 25d

I love that I check social media so much it’s good for me to see people I taught improv to once or twice be mad all the time this is good I am good

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 25d

I open this app and check my brain for something to say and all it has for me is “lotta crazy people out there.”

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 28d

I stand by it

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