David Veldt
@davidveldt.bsky.social
I like to write and ride bicycles (separately).
www.interactually.com
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Not only am I constantly fighting and filtering spam emails, phone calls, DMs on every social, and junk mail, but sometimes new kinds of spam come into my life. Like crypto webinars suddenly appearing in my calendar.
Calendar spam? Really?
Calendar spam? Really?
January 20, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Not only am I constantly fighting and filtering spam emails, phone calls, DMs on every social, and junk mail, but sometimes new kinds of spam come into my life. Like crypto webinars suddenly appearing in my calendar.
Calendar spam? Really?
Calendar spam? Really?
It's an "eat leftover mac and cheese straight out of the pot made for the kids" kind of a snow day
January 20, 2026 at 6:53 PM
It's an "eat leftover mac and cheese straight out of the pot made for the kids" kind of a snow day
The first time I understood sarcasm was when I was 5 years old and popping wheelies on my bike in my driveway, timing it out so passing cars would see. A guy went by in an open-top Jeep and yelled "Ohhh cooool!" and his girlfriend laughed. Devastating. I think about it all the time.
January 18, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The first time I understood sarcasm was when I was 5 years old and popping wheelies on my bike in my driveway, timing it out so passing cars would see. A guy went by in an open-top Jeep and yelled "Ohhh cooool!" and his girlfriend laughed. Devastating. I think about it all the time.
We're maybe months away from "Food. Mouth. Ahhhhh"
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 PM
We're maybe months away from "Food. Mouth. Ahhhhh"
A cruel joke is when the doors to be installed in the open hole that leads to my home office were delivered today - the day my kids finally went back to school after two weeks of chaos right outside my door hole
January 5, 2026 at 8:07 PM
A cruel joke is when the doors to be installed in the open hole that leads to my home office were delivered today - the day my kids finally went back to school after two weeks of chaos right outside my door hole
If I told you I'd circle back to something after the holidays and you didn't object, that's a binding agreement that both parties are satisfied with said task never happening. That's just basic lawyering. Look it up.
January 5, 2026 at 7:49 PM
If I told you I'd circle back to something after the holidays and you didn't object, that's a binding agreement that both parties are satisfied with said task never happening. That's just basic lawyering. Look it up.
How is it possible I caught a cold after Christmas? I had like 8 mimosas. That amount of vitamin C should've made me indestructible.
December 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
How is it possible I caught a cold after Christmas? I had like 8 mimosas. That amount of vitamin C should've made me indestructible.
I don't exactly have my finger on the pulse of the literary world so I rarely read books released within the past year. As a result, my end of year favorites are like a [very old] Jim Gaffigan bit.
#booksky
#booksky
I JUST SAW HEAT!
YouTube video by Pestz4Evah
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December 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I don't exactly have my finger on the pulse of the literary world so I rarely read books released within the past year. As a result, my end of year favorites are like a [very old] Jim Gaffigan bit.
#booksky
#booksky
Always a treat to share cute pics of the kids with my parents whose every interaction via text makes them seem extremely annoyed
December 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Always a treat to share cute pics of the kids with my parents whose every interaction via text makes them seem extremely annoyed
October 2016: Isle of Skye, Scotland. Day 2 of driving on the left side of the road. I forgot to look right and cut off a gentleman that had just taken a deep drag from a cigarette. He slammed on the brakes and smoke came out of his nose and mouth. Maybe his ears, too. He called me a twat.
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
October 2016: Isle of Skye, Scotland. Day 2 of driving on the left side of the road. I forgot to look right and cut off a gentleman that had just taken a deep drag from a cigarette. He slammed on the brakes and smoke came out of his nose and mouth. Maybe his ears, too. He called me a twat.
I'm going to start sharing some Google Street Views along with a fond memory from that spot
December 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I'm going to start sharing some Google Street Views along with a fond memory from that spot
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The most compelling argument for this is that Sam was once a baby raised without ChatGPT, and look how he turned out.
FALLON: “And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
ALTMAN: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
ALTMAN: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The most compelling argument for this is that Sam was once a baby raised without ChatGPT, and look how he turned out.
Back on my bullshit (buying a domain name after hearing a new funny word)
November 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Back on my bullshit (buying a domain name after hearing a new funny word)
East of Eden. Everyone cites the timshel/"thou mayest" part - which is great - but for me it was everything around "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."
Not to mention the most beautiful writing I've ever read.
Not to mention the most beautiful writing I've ever read.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
East of Eden. Everyone cites the timshel/"thou mayest" part - which is great - but for me it was everything around "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."
Not to mention the most beautiful writing I've ever read.
Not to mention the most beautiful writing I've ever read.
A dude with frosted tips spoiled the World Series for the Blue Jays. Unacceptable. Some are saying disgusting, even.
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
A dude with frosted tips spoiled the World Series for the Blue Jays. Unacceptable. Some are saying disgusting, even.
Rereading this today after many years with, unfortunately, new meaning and understanding.
David Sedaris reflects on his sister’s death and what it meant for his family to go from six members to five.
David Sedaris’s “Now We Are Five”
A person expects his parents to die. But a sibling?
www.newyorker.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Rereading this today after many years with, unfortunately, new meaning and understanding.
My brother died suddenly and unexpectedly yesterday. I want to scream about it into a void, and no one knows me here so here it is. He was a wonderful man and had a wife and three young daughters and nothing makes any sense in this world. It's terrifying and devastating and just... beyond words.
August 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My brother died suddenly and unexpectedly yesterday. I want to scream about it into a void, and no one knows me here so here it is. He was a wonderful man and had a wife and three young daughters and nothing makes any sense in this world. It's terrifying and devastating and just... beyond words.
Detroit Tigers just won in 10 innings with a walked-in run, the first of the entire game. On paper, an incredibly lame game, yet the crowd went wild and I threw up my arms like it was a grand slam.
a group of baseball players hugging each other on the field
ALT: a group of baseball players hugging each other on the field
media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Detroit Tigers just won in 10 innings with a walked-in run, the first of the entire game. On paper, an incredibly lame game, yet the crowd went wild and I threw up my arms like it was a grand slam.
Realtors really need to take it easy on the photo effects. Listings are starting to look like Thomas Kinkade paintings.
August 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Realtors really need to take it easy on the photo effects. Listings are starting to look like Thomas Kinkade paintings.
[covering my head in anticipation of being pelted with cabbages] alright baseball games are actually going *too* fast now
Tigers beat Twins, 6-3, in a game that featured 6 home runs and still lasted just 1:58.
August 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
[covering my head in anticipation of being pelted with cabbages] alright baseball games are actually going *too* fast now
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This is what social media should have always been
July 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is what social media should have always been
People ask why I sign up for 100+ mile gravel bike races and I tell them it's for the challenge and feeling of accomplishment after. But really, it's because I get to eat what can only be described as a "shit ton" of carbs in the two days before the race, and a massive cheeseburger when I'm done.
June 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
People ask why I sign up for 100+ mile gravel bike races and I tell them it's for the challenge and feeling of accomplishment after. But really, it's because I get to eat what can only be described as a "shit ton" of carbs in the two days before the race, and a massive cheeseburger when I'm done.
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Extremely attacked by this headline www.vox.com/culture/4150...
The midlife crisis is coming for millennials lol
How millennials are freaking out about being halfway to death, when everyone’s broke and already in therapy.
www.vox.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Extremely attacked by this headline www.vox.com/culture/4150...
I've always felt the same about this old Cincinnati Reds logo. Just look at this guy havin' fun playin' ball.
May 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I've always felt the same about this old Cincinnati Reds logo. Just look at this guy havin' fun playin' ball.
Reposted by David Veldt
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?