Jarrod Baker
@jarrodbaker.bsky.social
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lapsed comedian | voice actor | pākehā | trying to be better | good in bread | overalls enthusiast
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almost 2 years ago
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slate
about 5 hours ago
gotta be another way to do this
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I don’t have a lot of nostalgia for the past but I do miss the times when search engines didn’t make stuff up and you couldn’t have arguments with them
1 day ago
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just put my truck’s registration on hold for 6 months and honestly it feels like fortuitous timing
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Clive Thompson
3 days ago
A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found … “The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”
washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...
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How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed
Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...
https://washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/how-elon-musks-sci-fi-hyperloop-failed/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Stella Sacco
about 2 months ago
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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once we ban under 16s from social media we should let them loose on dial-up BBSes alongside random grown adults, like a tiny subset of my generation were
5 days ago
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wait guys I thought Claude was the ethical one
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5 days ago
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wait guys I thought Claude was the ethical one
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5 days ago
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holy shit it’s scan day all of a sudden (they must have had a last minute cancellation). the next time you hear from me I will be mildly radioactive
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5 days ago
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Cape Cod Demon Hunter
6 days ago
"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard
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hear me out: what if Australia’s economy is falling behind New Zealand’s *because* of all the New Zealanders who moved there
thespinoff.co.nz/business/04-...
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New Zealand’s economy is set to outpace Australia’s. Will it convince Kiwis to come home?
The Reserve Bank thinks the New Zealand economy will grow faster than Australia's over the next two years. But don't start celebrating too soon.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/04-03-2026/new-zealands-economy-is-set-to-outpace-australias-will-it-convince-kiwis-to-come-home
6 days ago
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really hope Iran doesn’t install a new leader who is even more hardline but also is mad that America killed his dad. that would probably be bad right
6 days ago
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Taylor Lorenz
7 days ago
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
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Athens Grease
7 days ago
fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this
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sorry team we’re all full up on horrors for now. can’t fit in any new horrors until at least August I reckon
7 days ago
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today I saw two dudes walking through Wellington wearing matching t-shirts that said something along the lines of “I HATE SATAN”. hope Satan saw you babes
9 days ago
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Jerad Walker
10 days ago
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
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you don’t understand! our AI is the good kind of AI! it only kills people one at a time
10 days ago
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Paul F. Tompkins
10 days ago
In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel
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Museum of Twitter
10 days ago
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post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed
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10 days ago
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depressingly the linked article also features a second wealthy person using his capital to fuck with the media
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11 days ago
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Startling Lady of Gore
11 days ago
Imagine an influencer dolphin telling insecure teenage boy dolphins women won't look twice at a guy without a sponge on his head, and all the woman dolphins going 'sponges are a red flag tbh'
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if I understand things correctly I believe I’m now supposed to start a meth lab?
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13 days ago
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confirmed: I’m being referred for a PMSA PET scan and to radiation oncology. I said “not now, cancer” but unfortunately it didn’t listen
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13 days ago
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it’s really a Sisyphus-grade curse that so many ostensibly hetero men seem to hate women so much. what I’m not clear on is whether it’s the men or all women who are the victims of the curse
14 days ago
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putting my daughter to bed and so of course the cats think I’m putting them to bed too. guys I have shit to do
14 days ago
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No cheating, your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist (I assume it counts if I took the picture?)
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15 days ago
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Daniel José Older
16 days ago
Wow that franchise took a dark turn
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Brendel
18 days ago
Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment
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David Slack
19 days ago
And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con.
www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
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Dan Nguyen
19 days ago
i heard Jeffrey EPSTEIN did 9/11 so he could get rid of the buildings most likely to be used to house the massive document trove resulting from his future sex crime convictions
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Stella Sacco
19 days ago
THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO
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solar energy, anyone?
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20 days ago
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Kari Dru
20 days ago
My dudes, there is an HIV vaccine in clinical trials.
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well The Darkness were fuckin’ great at Meow Nui tonight (as was the opening act, Rageflower). their fans, on the other hand? not so much
20 days ago
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Mike Ginn
about 1 year ago
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
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must have been a particularly shit day to be a small business in the CBD today. I may have to buy an extra pastry or two tomorrow to help make up for it
22 days ago
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Mary Robinette Kowal
22 days ago
Proposal: vampire romance is necromantasy
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more mr. nice guy
23 days ago
personally i think jay-z has most likely been looking at a two digit readout this whole time and he's got absolutely no idea how much problems
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Marcus Hutchins
24 days ago
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
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Neon Genesis Ewangelion
25 days ago
greatest headline of my adult life
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beetle moses
25 days ago
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I know you’re not supposed to feed kākā nuts and seeds but how do we feel about hot chips. Asking for a feathered friend
25 days ago
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my conspiracy theory: some of the people advocating for youth social media bans just want a legal defence for sliding into a young person’s DMs
25 days ago
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Claire Willett
25 days ago
never seen a better clapback to "just playing devil's advocate," this made me screech
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weirdly the gas lines company in my area doesn’t have any information on their website about how to ask them to stop supplying gas to a property. plenty of info about how to get electricity decommissioned though. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
25 days ago
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more mr. nice guy
almost 2 years ago
i think it would be sad when rutger hauer dies in blade runner even if he hadn't seen cool stuff
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all I’m saying is that if famous people my age could please stop dying of cancer it would do a lot for my cancer-related existential dread
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