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Suds Terkel
@sudsterkel.bsky.social
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Baseball (Go White Sox, meh), BBQ, beer, books, Boston Terriers, bourbon. Begrudging user of the Oxford comma. Opponent of rampant enshitification who wonders whatever happened to authenticity.

Hailing from and still sequestered in ChiSuburbia.
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This is some major fuckery. If you want to keep your GMail tabs you're gonna have to do some work unless you're willing to let their LLMs/"AI" read your shit.

Helps explain why I'm 60th in line for this book, I guess....
A screen capture showing that 59 other readers are in line ahead of me to read Cory Doctorow's recently released book *Enshitification*
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Love this so much. Hopefully this means that the manosphere is entering its decline phase, though a glance at Spotify's podcast charts suggests otherwise. (Weird to see that anyone listens to Fucker Carlson in this day and age.)
The most recent Spotify popular podcasts, which is dominated by creeps like Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and Theo Von.
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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*Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults-Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
October 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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This was one of the hardest things I've ever written -- literally took me nine days....
Booker was the best of all possible boys. Within a few months of getting Smitty back in 2010, her behavior made it clear that she was not a lone wolf, that we should get her a pack mate to help keep her company. That company came home with us over Memorial Day weekend 2011 in the form of Booker. We had known we wanted a second Boston Terrier, and lucked into a red one from one of the breeders we applied to. He was the sweetest little puppy, his little elongated face constantly giving him a worried-looking expression during those first few months. He and Smitty loved to play; she was a bit of a bully so he would counter by nipping her in the rear legs, a habit he continued into adulthood. We crated them separately overnight those first few months, until one day when we found them napping together in his crate and switched from individual crates to a shared pen for sleeping. From that first day onward, Booker always wanted to be part of whatever we were up to. In fact, he was with us for several months before I was finally able to leave a room without my little shadow – but only when he was very deeply asleep. Booker quickly began to show some of his best talents, such as barking at anything that moved within a 200-foot radius and finding the nearest sunbeam as it came through our windows or skylight. He was also quite adept at finding and eating treats, jumping onto any lap of any height, climbing onto the built-in bench on our deck in order to jump over our backyard fence, giving kisses, snoring, and snorting. And he was great at chasing after squirrels, be they real or imaginary. He was also adept at snuggling, so much so that in his later years he gained the nickname of The Snügler, his Norwegian-accented persona. He was also known as Mister B, the porg, Bookersly, The Book, oink pig, capybara, and a few others I’ve forgotten. Booker was surprisingly musical, and enjoyed doggy dance parties, tolerating being led around the dance floor on his hind legs for as long as ten seconds at a time before he’d try to chew my hands off of his front paws. Any number of jaunty tunes ran through his head, leading him to throw jazz hands whilst lying on his back on top of me. I also wrote several jingles for him, including a ditty simply known as “The Book” as well as the chart-topping hit “Mister B, You’re a Mystery to Me.” Booker was his own little man, and in his younger years he would instantly decide whether he liked or disliked someone. His perceived enemies would be barked at and occasionally even nipped at, which…was embarrassing. But by and large, he was pure love, and as his vision and hearing faded over the past year or so he stopped acting as an antagonist. The Book had a great 14-1/2 years and a terrible final 14-1/2 or so hours. Around 130am on Monday, 29 September I was awakened by the awful sounds of him thrashing around on the bedroom floor. I got up, turned the light on, and saw he was having a terrible seizure that lasted several minutes. When it stopped he was disoriented, running around the house for a good 15 minutes before I could calm him and get him back into bed. Unfortunately he had four more seizures over the next few hours so I finally called the nearest 24-hour vet and was told to bring him in. I wrapped him up in a pair of bath towels and drove him over to the clinic, during which time he had two more seizures. A vet tech who had been apprised of his condition immediately took Booker from me and he was admitted to the hospital. I was there about two hours, with a vet telling me there could be a wide variety of causes ranging from epilepsy to a brain tumor. She told me he could be put on anti-seizure medications but that they would only reduce the frequency and severity of his seizures, not end them. And they would also require monitoring his liver and pancreas. I went to se… Kristen was out of town working on her documentary film but scheduled to fly back home that afternoon, so I texted her about the situation so that only one of us would have to spend the day physically exhausted on top of all of the emotions. Shortly after I got home, around 6am, the hospital called and said he’d had another seizure. I told them I’d come in around 4 when Kristen was back. With time to think, I was resigned to the idea of euthanizing my baby boy, and visiting with him again doubled my resolve. They brought him out in a blanket to see us, and for the first half-hour of our visit he couldn’t stop loudly crying, his sides bellowing in and out with each whimper. He finally calmed a bit, but he wasn’t interested in the treats I’d brought for him. A vet ran through our options, and we agreed that his quality of life would be poor on the medications. We smothered him with caresses and kisses and practically drowned him in our tears. I took a few final pictures and videos of our baby before the vet gave him a pair of injections that literally ended his suffering in a matter of seconds. And now Smitty is once again a lone wolf, albeit one of very advanced age. But while she so often has seemed lost in doggy dementia over the past year, she definitely knows she is a pack of one once more and compensates by staying by our side at all times. I never knew I could love an animal so much. Booker was the best of all possible boys. Booker the red Boston Terrier, the best of all possible boys
October 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I agree with Matthew....
September 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Welp, I've been Raptured and now I'm hanging with Steve Albini.

CK is nowhere to be found up here!
September 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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And as we continue to quadruple-down on the dumbness of our times, some butthurt conservaturd theocrats in my town will be attending tonight's village council meeting to...force a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk during the public comments portion of the meeting.
Crazy people plan to do a crazy thing
September 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Made some BBQ for a friend's party on Saturday. Did the pork shoulder for 18 hours; might've been my best pulled pork ever. The ribs were also well received.
A pork shoulder cooking, very early in the process. After 3 hours in a 225° smoker, the meat was still under 100° The pork shoulder is almost done cooking, and three slabs of baby back ribs have joined it on the Big Green egg The baby back ribs are done and cut into single-bone servings
September 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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This is a real quote from a genuinely bad person.

This is what we "fight" daily. People who literally want to harm others for the crime of...empathy. For giving a shit about others -- even (gasp!) people we don't know.
September 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Well, now I'm skeptical....
A Wall Street Journal headline saying "Charlie Kirk Is Dead After Shooting, Trump Says: Live Updates."
September 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Granted, Donnie and Couch Fucker know even less than Jon Snow, but really bro...you've got beef with our trade deficit with India? That's what's making you clowns cry today!?!?
Chart of the top ten US trade partners from Wikipedia that shows the US has a $45.7B trade deficit with India, which is totally dwarfed by the deficit with the likes of the EU, ASEAN, Mexico, China, Germany, Canada, Japan, etc.
September 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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His inner Grimace comes out more with each Big Mac....
A picture of Donald Trump, whose right hand has some disturbingly purple skin on it....
August 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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A parody of the now-defunct Cracker Barrel logo that reads "Release the Files"
August 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Hypothetical question: Would you want to live in a world in which Rupert Murdoch had zero power and no media outlets of any sort even if it meant that *The Simpsons* never came to be!?!?
A picture of the new Alan Siegel book about *The Simpsons* entitled *Stupid TV Be More Funny.*
August 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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*Citizen Bezos* sucks more ass than seems humanly possible....
EXCLUSIVE: LAUREN SÁNCHEZ TO BE THE NEXT BOND GIRL?! JEFF BEZOS WANTS TO CAST HIS QUEEN Amazon’s Bond reboot is getting personal — and insiders say Lauren is gunning for the glamour Forget auditions — Jeff Bezos may have already picked his next Bond Girl, and insiders say it’s none other than his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez. “He’s obsessed,” says a Hollywood insider. “This isn’t just fantasy casting — Jeff wants her on screen, period.” Since Amazon snapped up MGM and the 007 franchise, speculation has swirled about who will carry the torch. But now sources say Bezos has bigger plans: rewrite Bond history — with Lauren front and center. “She’s not an actress,” one studio exec admits. “But she’s Jeff’s muse, and when you spend $8 billion, you get what you want.” Bond purists are already groaning — and the internet exploded after Bezos tweeted, “Who would YOU cast as Bond?” prompting jokes that he was shopping for fan reviews on Prime. Bottom line: Bezos doesn’t care what the critics say. This Bond film? It’s personal. Source: https://robshuter.substack.com/p/exclusive-delusional-norah-odonnell
August 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Oh, good. The bribes arrived from Yankton....
July 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Will someone please give the old whites more attention so they'll stop being so thirsty for it!?!?
June 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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A big sexy wookie
June 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Two plates of tacos are shown. One are some weak-ass gringo-style tacos with ground beef, yellow cheese, tomatoes and lettuce with the caption "I think ICE is going a good job." The other plate is authentic soft corn tortilla tacos with onion and cilantro and slices of lime under the caption "Fuck ICE."
June 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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That they do. And our drunkles keep falling for it!
A protest sign that shows a man pointing and a caption reading "They blame immigrants so you won't blame billionaires."
June 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Quote skeet with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as bribe.
Hawk's ship from the *Buck Rogers in the 25th Century* TV show that ran from 1979-1981
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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"I stand this morning with a difficult message. I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest." -Senator Mon Mothma with some all-too-timely words from Andor
May 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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May 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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🤣😂
April 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Hey, MLB! Try being more like Harvard, willya? (Writeup by @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social -- if you're not reading his Cup of Coffee newsletter on the daily, you need to check your priorities.)
April 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM