It's Not Just a Trend, It's a Phenomenon Uses of the "not just a __ it's a __." sentence structure roughly doubled in large U.S. company documents in both 2024 and 2025. The chart grows from ~30-50 between 2015 and 2023, then exploding to 200 in 2025.

Anytime I see "it's not just a, ..." pattern in writing from a person I know, I immediately lower my opinion of them.
When it's "it's not just x, not even y, ...", I assume they are a 100% idiot.
(Or worse, spamming me and treating me like an idiot by direct copy/pasting unfiltered LLM output)

Therapist: oh hey you’re done early doing the meditation

Me: inner child’s haunted

Therapist: what?

Me: *loading a pistol and getting back to closing my eyes taking deep breaths* inner child’s haunted

Olivia M Ross’ "Pandora’s Aquarium (2025)" is a techno seapunk choose-your-own-adventure that links its story to the user’s webcam 🐠 Commissioned for the Internet Archive x Gray Area Trillionth Webpage Net Art Commissions, it's online & in the Archive 🌐

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It is!! I think it’s super cute

CSS Day 2026, 11th & 12th of June, Amsterdam CSS Day is the conference for CSS designers, developers, spec writers, and browser vendors.

cssday.nl is a refreshing website among the AI bloated react sites

Excited to read!

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

my nft coworker finding and following me on Twitter was really the nail in the coffin for Twitter for me

Mama Mia yeah I heard mixed thoughts on the untitled theme

Where is this?

This looks adorable
The app he was using was stark phong shading 3d coin。on one side a big A and the other side B

Ofc it was npm lol

people talk about ai like its magical, but tbh computers were already pretty magical, and having a body in the first place was already way more magical than either of those things

(this skeet is ai neutral)

Photo wearing a one-of-a-kind GLITCHWEAR sweater.

Screenshot of the GLITCHWEAR interactive, browser-based generator software.

Screenshot of the GLITCHWEAR store.

Screenshot of the GLITCHWEAR store.

Thrilled to see Dan @makeitdoathing.com has finally opened the glitchwear.store store for his one-of-a-kind, computationally generated, buyer-customized knitwear. I'm delighted to confirm that these are gorgeous and comfortable garments, too.

One cool thing about being temporary being on this beautiful earth is the privilege of letting the mystery be for some questions…

I prefer this fart sandwich over what my flight home was: the person next to me was watching the new Sidney Sweeney movie with subtitles and I couldn’t look away it was some normie victim complex wet dream where the crux of the movie a frikin cop saves her

Pour one out to the dillies not dallied 😔

I found the Zs fighting over Colorado Springs

I’m sitting between two dudes on this 6 hour flight the entire time one of them is just flipping a coin on a coin flipping app and the other is spinning some fidget gauntlet device that might have a deep significance to him and one of them keeps farting

Relatedly my favorite trope is the paradigm shifting discovery that’s a sad side chapter in a sad grad students thesis.

Whenever you see an opportunistic techy say “✨The first EVR to use this tech in this way such and such” just know they’re wrong and the actual first person to do it was a sad grad student who hated their work too much to publish it in any flattering or hyped way

This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.

I wrote about “Slow LLM,” a new web tool that discourages AI use by… making chatbots really really slooooooowww

It can be run as a browser extension or even deployed at the network level as a DNS service, making everyone experience mysteriously slow response times. @404media.co

I was reminded I could reread special books. Started rereading all about love. It’s crazy how it’s revolutionary to say abuse in the name of love isn’t love.
I am so grateful I know it wasn’t love.

My friend is R Tyler and the artist he said reminded him of was mietze conte & if you disagree with him no you don’t I need this okay

realtionships are our mirrors YouTube video by Char Stiles

I showed a friend a song I made and he said it reminded him of one of my fav artists.
Never kill urself 🌈

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Obviously I’m not going to point this out on his post bc that’s not the point of what he’s saying but I cannot get it out of my head the MAGNITUDE of how wrong that statement is

On linked in a founder bro posted he got a pi tattoo because “unlike most numbers that end or repeat, pi keeps going, much like founders” and I have not been able to get it out of my head how it has been proven in the 1800s that the set of irrational numbers is VASTLY larger than rational

Yes!! I feel like a lot of content on this topic online unfortunately gets around to what managers think about a lot for maximizing stakeholder value lol. Ive been wanting to write about this concept from the stance of not maxxing value for company but for growing friendship and community.

this is so true, I think it’s such an epidemic idk if it’s nyc/usa coast specific (I hear it’s worse in LA) there’s gotta be a word for it… we talk about this a lot when working w eachother at hex house