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Joseph Kohlmann (Spooky / Morose)
@jkohlmann.bsky.social
1.8K followers 2.6K following 3.7K posts
He / him · #Manhattan #NYC · Staff software engineer · Design+eng, #HCI, #DesignSystems, listening, empathy, #house #music, video #games, #photography, #cats, Black feminism, trans rights, Palestinian liberation, antiwhiteness, broken systems, #union labor
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Steamed Hams for An Unforgettable Luncheon
November 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you (flic.kr/p/2rqViYz)
A photo of trees and other greenery in Central Park, tightly framed and zoomed so that the trees and bushes completely cover the frame. On the far left you can see the side of a bridge, and immediately to the right of a tree trunk, a person wearing a bright red shirt standing along a pathway to the bridge currently hidden from view. Some of the trees with beige and brown-gray trunks also show slightly yellowing leaves, which stand out against the layers of green around them. Two famous Central Park lamps appear in the shot: one in the distance along the hidden path, and one near a tree trunk in the lower right third of the frame. Overall the shot conveys an enveloping density of greenery and tree canopies, with just a small opening in the upper right giving a hint of washed out building façade beyond the confines of the park.
September 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Care to comment, Mr. @kenklippenstein.bsky.social
An email from Ken Klippenstein in “Inbox - iCloud” from 7:58 PM, subject line: “690606 is your Substack verification code”. The first few words of the message body read, “Here’s your verification code to sign in to Substack: 690606. This code will only be valid for the next 10 minutes. If the code…”
July 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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You’re very welcome! Hang in there!!! 😢💜 Here’s Mel on my lap from earlier
Mellie the cat, an adult gray shorthair cat, is sitting on Joe’s lap in front of a white desk. Mellie’s head is on the right, ears perked up, looking forward. The shot is from overhead, and we can see a wireless “clacky” keyboard, a plastic laptop stand, a mint green and brown placemat, two black coaster, and a can of Celsius.
July 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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This one’s for you, @bbghost.bsky.social!!!
A photo of the underground subway platform at Hoyt-Schermerhorn St. in Brooklyn, NY, taken at a slight angle so as to imply a more expansive continuation of the platform off to the right of the frame. The far wall is covered in white tiles with a distinct stripe of light mint green with a darker mint green border. The platform across the tracks appears in a dingy gray/brown, with several tiled pillars and a large black sign with “Hoyt-Schermerhorn St.” in bold white letters hanging from the ceiling. An overhead fluorescent light appears in the upper-right corner of the frame, and the yellow paint of the platform curb appears along the lower right.
April 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Walter Bloomberg’s Prophecy has been fulfilled www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
*Walter Bloomberg, a Twitter verified account with the username @DeItaone, says in a since deleted tweet, “🚨 HASSETT: TRUMP IS CONSIDERING A 90-DAY PAUSE IN TARIFFS FOR ALL COUNTRIES EXCEPT CHINA”
April 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Here we go, finally:
A photo of seven purple crocus flowers growing on a patch of land enveloped by dead leaves. A dappled shaft of sunlight appears across the lower right corner of the frame.
March 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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@papapishu.bsky.social Dust of ̶L̶i̶f̶e̶ Highlight Reel
A screenshot of the bottom-right corner of Monster Hunter Wilds, which shows an item equipped named “Dust of Life”, but the Highlight Reel show’s semitransparent “HR” logo is covering up the word “Life”.
March 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Just faxed this to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s office.
A letter dated March 13th, 2025. To the office of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: As your constituent, I am demanding that you vote “no” on the cloture and “no” on the Republican Spending Bill. Since Inauguration Day, the Democratic Party establishment, including you, have aided and abetted the violent destruction of the American administrative state. You are a direct accomplice to this ransacking, having failed to mount any meaningful opposition to the Nazis in the White House and Congress. Hence, I am shocked but sadly unsurprised by your horrible choice, along with Senator Schumer, to vote “yes” on funding this government. All this does is grant these Nazis legislative affirmation they need to further accelerate their destructive plans of austerity, privatization, eugenics, racism, and white supremacy. You have failed me and millions of other New Yorkers, who have counted on you to throw a wrench in the machine of American fascism. The best thing you can do right now is resign; I certainly won’t be voting for you ever again. The second best thing is to vote “no”, to slow down this five-alarm fire. Don’t you dare continue to fan the flames. Sincerely, Joseph Kohlmann.
March 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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To the office of Coward @schumer.senate.gov:
A screenshot of a letter dated March 13th, 2025. To the office of Coward Chuck Schumer: Just 52 days in to the second Trump administration, this government has done damage that will take decades to even begin recovery. And I’m talking about the damage done by so-called Democrat “leaders” such as yourself. You are no leader. Your best choice would be to resign in disgrace as soon as humanly possible. As a constituent, you have betrayed my trust, not to mention the trust of millions of other New Yorkers. We were counting on you to mount real opposition against this fascist Nazi government. That means throwing a wrench in the gears. Putting your body on the line to protect your constituents from harm. Doing everything you can to slow down the Nazis in Congress and the White House. Instead, when push comes to shove, what did you do? You chose to acquiesce to the Nazis, in opposition to even the rest of the Congressional Democrats, as a means to keep the government open. You are so profoundly, disgracefully out of your depth. Keeping this government open does nothing but give an actual legislative green light to the ongoing sabotage. In closing, you are a coward, a fool, and a traitor to your constituents. I look forward to the moment you are forced out of Congress by a real opposition leader. Very sincerely yours, Joseph Kohlmann.
March 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Looks like there’s some kind of Following timeline scrolling glitch in v1.99, in which the timeline rapidly shuffles between content without any scroll gesture interaction from the user. Seen on iPhone 160 Pro Max / iOS 18.3.2 (warning: moderately fast flashing content on-screen):
March 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Is that him
A screenshot of a frame from a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 trailer in which all characters are dressed in stereotypically French attire. This particular screenshot features Alexandre Gillet as Gustave, who’s wearing round, gold rimmed sunglasses, a red beret, neck-length flowing wavy brown hair, a mustache and tightly trimmed beared, a white shirt with black horizontal stripes, and a red and white checkered sash over his left shoulder. The character is facing the camera, looking off-screen to the left.
March 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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This appears to be all the Democrats are capable of doing:
February 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Relatedly: x.com/BoringBiz_/s...
Boring_Business (@BoringBiz_ on Twitter): Three levels of wealth: No LinkedIn, LinkedIn, No LinkedIn
February 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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noah kulwin on X: "If you have a computer science degree you are presumed stupid until further notice. If you know how to code then I will believe you are illiterate unless proven otherwise. Only safe way forward.” The quoted tweet from “Forever Wario” reads, “The safeguard is impeachment? Aren’t these guys supposed to be smart?” and includes a screenshot of username tszzl saying, “the way the executive is structured should be way more freeform and open to interpretation by the sitting president. why not have a senior advisor with access to treasury? there are tons of unelected powers in government. the safeguard is impeachment”
February 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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You’re very welcome! I’ve been lowkey obsessed with this bird after seeing one slink by near The Pond in Central Park last September 🤩🥹
A photo of a black-crowned night-heron, a small bird with distinctive red eye, white-gray body, and black top standing on a slab of rock along the shoreline of a large pond. The bird is facing to the right and is looking to slink away sneakily.
January 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Ed, I’m ethically compelled to note that Desus cooked here x.com/desusnice/st...
A tweet from Desus MF Nice 💯 that says, "the real tiktok is the sound of the clock that ticks while god decides if you’re living in a way that glorifies his image”
January 19, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Second Best Lately I’m convinced that I want, possibly even need, to spend my free time writing. Coherent, carefully articulated thoughts — let alone “writing”, let alone editing — are increasing in importance just as their generative commodification accelerates. The latter threatens to hollow out our skulls, laying bare the naked grid of (VC-funded) mouse traps and ping pong balls threatening to drive our daily actions and reactions. I don’t feel like {reading, writing, biking, walking, talking, making, smiling, feeling, enjoying, dreaming, self-actualizing} because my head is already filled with a landfill of cacophonies deposited by cynics, opportunists, bigots, and fascists. Wading through this endless landfill inflicts a particular kind of self doubt: Who put this here? Why does it weigh so heavily on me? Do these people’s rotting mind palaces dwarf my own sense of repression and creative insecurity (empowering, perhaps), or do they magnify it? And who’s going to clean up all this fucking trash? So is this a diary entry? Is this an executive despair that “mind over matter” can help dig out of? I don’t fucking know. I’ll try to figure it out. Footnote: “Edited” in the copy editing sense, not in terms of self censorship or anything else.
December 17, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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You can also change your Following Feed Preferences:
A screenshot of Bluesky’s Following Feed Preferences, which is described as, “Fine-tune the content you see on your Following feed.” Options include the following toggles: “Show Replies”, “Show Reposts”, “Show Quote Posts”, and "Show Posts from My Feeds”.
November 17, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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Me, earlier:
A screenshot of a Slack message from Joseph Kohlmann that reads, “Couldn’t have happened to a bigger piece of shit!!!”
September 26, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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There is plenty of time to reach a deal before the election if the company would get serious. But we aren't going to wait forever. Tick tock!

Source for this entire thread: NYTGuildTech on Twitter x.com/NYTGuildTech...
White board with the words "46 days left" written in marker.
September 20, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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A land of contrasts here on semi-decentralized social media:
A screenshot showing 1.4K followers, 2.1K following on Mastodon, and 114 followers, 476 following on Bluesky.
September 17, 2024 at 12:20 AM
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They should have auto-generated alt text for these, c’mon 😤
Celebrating 10M users 🎉 #662,204, Bluesky Elder Certified, First 10%. Joined August 20, 2023.
September 16, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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Hahahah holy shit (via: https://x.com/ericuman/status/1801802705549107317)
Ms. Stonesifer organized meetings between Mr. Bezos and top editors and business executives at The Post's headquarters in October. Throughout the meetings, Mr. Bezos asked questions about the coverage, many of them focused on how The Post could turn its stories into products that would serve its users, according to two people familiar with his remarks. He was also focused on reaching new readers, particularly those in the middle of the country.
June 15, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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You’re welcome! Here’s a quick screenshot for visual confirmation as well:
The Graysky compose post modal, seen with the system text size set to 80% zoom. Only one line of the two-line reply I’ve typed is visible. The Graysky compose post modal, this time with the system text size set to 100% zoom. Both lines of the two-line reply I’ve typed are now visible.
February 9, 2024 at 10:02 AM