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2024-09-28 15:50:26

The title gives away the plot, but this is a very good, long, detailed summary about the entire Wordpress/WP Engine fiasco of the past week from every angle: https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt

2024-08-29 17:09:23

RIP @npub12ez…uyf6
He taught me so much about neurodivergence and he was so nice to give interviews to my team at Slack. He was one of my favorite follows and I’ll miss having you around Steve.
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2024-08-28 18:51:12

I’m gonna train my next dog to bark non-stop at anyone who uses speakerphone in crowds without headphones so I can just play dumb and say “sorry about my dog” as the dog heckles them incessantly.

2024-08-27 14:58:46

(me tapping the sign again)
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2024-08-26 16:45:06

put this in The Louvre
https://mefi.social/@best_of_mltshp/113029305719454562

2024-08-24 14:58:13

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@npub13vv…0sze omg thanks, I spent 20min this morning trying to track this down before posting but Google search is so friggin broken now I finally had to give up.

2024-08-24 14:25:46

I consider it a great honor that my instance’s admin told me someone on the internet reported my account for “communism”
(all because I suggested low-priced public transit might as well be free to make it easier to adopt and encourage increased usage)
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2024-08-19 21:29:07

a friend said he spent part of the weekend googling whether republicans carrying around jars of JD Vance's sperm really happened or if the images were AI generated and it really nails down how weird politics are today that you have to do this bizarre kind of research and that yes, it actually happened at GOP rallies.
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2024-08-18 22:34:30

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@npub1w9a…04m0 I just learned a few months ago it's a portrait of the band. Sting is the spiky hair one in the middle.

2024-08-18 00:42:53

these postcards from @npub1tvy…nq84 are so good they should be official Harris/Walz billboards all over the country https://chrisglass.com/voting-postcards/

2024-08-17 15:29:39

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@npub1xxt…f2tp mine is all spot on. It’s kinda frightening, every single place I lived in college and childhood. Like why would any company need my SSN when I was an undergrad barely paying $400 rent somewhere?!

2024-08-17 15:14:59

Searched for my name in the SSN hacker dump and I got about 20 results for every address I’ve ever lived at. Thankfully, I’ve had my credit locked for the last two years but damn.

2024-08-17 02:49:32

When you become a regular at the bar inside the Baseball Hall of Fame, I bet the bartender says “So, will it be the Musial?”
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2024-08-16 00:34:05

Went down the “Sovereign Citizens” rabbit hole on YouTube last night. Mostly it’s 4chan guys who declare themselves the president of Jeff-land, then stop paying car registration fees or taxes so when they get pulled over, they argue like a 6th grade debate club president to cops who have zero patience and whip out the handcuffs immediately.
It takes a lot to ever make me root for cops, but seeing these junior Alex Joneses getting arrested is pretty fun.

2024-08-14 16:58:32

McDonalds brought back meal deals that include a collectors glass. Loving the 1970s vibes of it all. https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/collectors-meal-with-big-mac.html

2024-08-14 01:38:31

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@npub13vv…0sze has anyone ever gotten spur of the moment married after the voting booth given so many justices of the peace are around?

2024-08-14 01:20:46

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@npub1238…g63g after maybe the 5th or 6th one, the fast and furious movies are totally just cartoons now with cars and people and set pieces that defy physics entirely.

2024-08-13 18:43:26

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2024-08-13 16:06:34

the entire GOP platform
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2024-08-12 18:41:23

I signed up to all my Patreon subscriptions on their website years ago. They don’t /need/ an iOS app. I never use the iOS app. I’ve tried it but it offers nothing and takes 30%.
Just go all-in on your website, Patreon. Tell Apple to fuck off. Let the open web win again.

2024-08-08 15:08:15

“The Dave Matthews Band Chicago River Incident” would be a killer band name

2024-08-06 03:14:56

TIL in equestrian dressage events there are many competitors in their 50s and 60s.
Imagine being at the airport trying to get to Paris arguing with TSA about your riding helmet
“But I’m an Olympian, I need this for my event!”
“Yeah riiiight… hey anyone want to pat down this lyin’ grandpa over here?”
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2024-08-05 22:06:00

a BUSINESS GENIUS bought twitter in fall of 2022
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2024-08-04 00:59:47

“Can you make dinner some time?”
“Sure, how about 1957?”
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2024-08-03 18:13:04

‼️ 1 in 37 Americans currently have covid
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2024-08-01 17:05:40

The most boomer opinion is it’s impossible for one person to come from two different backgrounds.
Anyone under 50 understands everyone has overlapping identities. It’s hilarious to see the GOP lean into such an outdated view of the world and people but hey that’s their entire brand.

2024-07-31 20:18:22

There’s no male birth control pill yet but I would argue the guy in line behind me at Disneyland explaining Dr. Strange’s vital role in the Marvel Universe to his friend is as close as you can get without a prescription

2024-07-30 16:24:03

Got off a plane at LAX to this accidentally cinematic view
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2024-07-29 04:33:50

I hope in 2024 we can stop caring what right wing attention freaks say about things. Oh, some guy hated the olympic ceremonies? Who fucking cares? It was beautiful, surprising, and joyful.
I'm done opening news apps and seeing stories about "the backlash" to popular things when you dig down and find out it's one weird christian complaining on instagram. That's not a real backlash!
Stop caring what random jerks think. Stop broadcasting their bad faith readings of everything.

2024-07-27 17:28:21

two screenshots worth of good news
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2024-07-23 20:12:13

What was that? You want me to fly to fourteen different cities, spend a day going to a soccer match all so I can publish a tiered list of all the #NWSL stadiums ranking them from best to worst? Ok, sure, here's the fruits of all that labor:
https://unofficialnwsl.stadium.guide/a-tiered-list-of-all-fourteen-nwsl-stadiums/

2024-07-23 17:53:45

yay the corpse flower bloomed and Derek is live on stream talking about it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6CvTg5M2yQ
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2024-07-21 20:13:27

Kamala Harris and Mayor Pete in debates against Trump and Vance would be good. You have the party of the people versus a literal country club landlord and his idiot Yale graduate investor friend as they both shit on "elites" but the main people backing them are other billionaire landlords.

2024-07-21 19:20:07

Congratulations to the New York Times, who not only fucked up the 2016 election by publishing the Hilary emails shit weeks before that election, the relentless op-ed bullshit for the past month will certainly put into question the chances the Dems had of winning in 2024.
But I bet you sold a lot of newspapers stoking the fires of fascism, so great job NYT!

2024-07-20 14:32:16

10/10 joke, no notes
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2024-07-19 17:55:50

a couple weeks ago I finally got fed up about missing important emails in Gmail's auto-filtering system I'd been using for the last ten years and I have to say going back to just one email inbox is so goddamned freeing.
Also? I unsubscribe from anything I don't read regularly, which was probably the point of Google adding a "promotions" tab you ignore for weeks: so people could be zombie members of mailing lists they don't read, forever

2024-07-16 16:16:57

As a 25+ year long fan of Tenacious D, it’s weird to see JB throw his lifelong friend under the bus over one bad joke on stage that KG already apologized for. Jack’s statement reads like it was written by lawyers under pressure from film studios or something. They’ve done so much crazy improv shit on stage over the years and it doesn’t always land, it’s a real surprise to see Jack shut down the band over this.
https://writing.exchange/@ernie/112796680432518794

2024-07-12 20:29:27

We should name our heat waves after oil companies, in alphabetical order like hurricanes or tornadoes. So you’d say the western US is currently suffering from heat waves Shell Oil this week.

2024-07-12 04:17:13

I can already tell this is the stupidest tech news post of the year and it’s only July.
Who in the cinnamon toast fuck wanted AI assistants to have equal footing with human employees? Who would think that’s a forward looking visionary thing to do and not the most dystopian shit imaginable to have Slackbot be your working peer at an onboarding session.
https://lattice.com/blog/leading-the-way-in-responsible-ai-employment

2024-07-10 15:11:13

The Olympic uniforms for the USA perfectly capture the range of attitudes in our nation.
It’s half yes, we love Talledega Nights but also? We love those jerks at the yacht club who foreclose on an orphanage so they can bulldoze it to put up a parking lot.
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2024-07-08 17:58:20

I went to an over-the-top seafood brunch on Sunday at a seaside restaurant and the only thing that bummed me out about the place was the bathrooms were labeled His and Hers instead of a more on-theme option like Buoys and Gulls

2024-07-02 22:48:02

a long time ago I added a French city to my list of towns tracked in the weather app and every few months when I’m checking the temps across the country, much like a slot machine I intermittently strike comedy gold
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2024-07-02 16:41:01

1/ this is a Gen X entrance exam:
Complete the number sequence: 8, 6, 7, 5, _, _, _

2024-07-01 22:06:36

🙋‍♂️ question: how else is cheese made?!
scratch that—I actually don’t want to know the answer to this question
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2024-07-01 20:39:42

Hi TSA, longtime traveler, first time caller. When you’re ordering X-ray machines for deep searches of everyone’s stuff at the airport maybe don’t buy this specific brand of devices
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2024-07-01 13:09:22

There’s no fucking way a president gets immunity from law breaking activities, the balance of our three branches is fundamental to the fragile democracy we have but if the court that he stacked himself lets him walk free we’re in for so much more chaos than I ever imagined. ⚖️

2024-06-29 14:19:02

I’m at the Supreme Court building looking around for the Venmo QR code so I can send money to justices to get them to change laws I dislike
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2024-06-27 19:49:27

I love how the Justin Timberlake DUI story got the full onslaught of JT’s press machine behind it and all the news about it now is a supposedly “overzealous cop” that “shouldn’t have pulled him over or busted him” completely co-opting the more obvious story: when you’re rich and famous as JT why are you driving any vehicle yourself when you’re at parties getting fucked up?
Just call someone in your entourage to pick you up, dumbass.

2024-06-25 14:43:00

If you ever set up Slack, you got emails saying anything older than a year would be deleted on all free plans soon.
What's weird is the big key feature of paying was you'd "unlock" every old message ever posted on your previously free team.
I just got confirmation from a Slack employee that if you pay for Slack six months from now on say, a team with 5yrs of posting history you won't see anything older than a year ago.
They're *really* deleting old stuff.

2024-06-23 14:13:59

Everyone should have equal access to everything no matter who they are seems so simple and fair that it was something I understood as a child innately. Happiness and contentment doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game.
I feel like 50% of the population grew up with an opposite view because this really does dominate my local and national scene politics:
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2024-06-20 19:53:32

Just booked a car rental at Hertz. Picked an EV since it was on sale. Hertz included a $60 charge to refuel the car from empty that can’t be deselected. Small print says I need to tell a hertz employee on my way out I don’t want to pay for gas to get the $60 back.
And companies wonder why customers dislike them.
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2024-06-18 16:06:26

I
LOV
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THIS
SIGN
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2024-06-17 19:10:23

I watch a ton of YouTube and my personal rule is any recommendations that include Joe Rogan are channels I instantly block forever.
What’s wild is I have to block a few new channels every week as it seems there are hundreds of channels with Joe Rogan clips all with names that include “JRE” and the YT algorithm really, really wants me to see some Joe Rogan flat earth bullshit now matter how much I avoid it all.

2024-06-17 15:38:06

My wife bought a bunch of grilling tools a couple weeks ago to give me as a gift but they sat in an unopened Amazon box by our door and then Friday all the grilling tools I ordered last week arrived because I needed them and that’s how Dad it got in my house yesterday.

2024-06-16 19:19:24

my tiny county, an hour from Portland, has an annual summer fair and usually they get C-level country stars to headline a concert there but this year for some reason the headliners are Smash Mouth and Sir Mix-A-Lot.
I have front row seats to both and I can’t wait but I’m a little sad they have to play my tiny county fair next month.

2024-06-15 02:24:42

Our ax throwing bar’s slogan has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the bar’s slogan.
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2024-06-15 01:58:02

Each day, someone is born that didn’t know the internet classic™ way to keep your hotel room’s blackout curtains together using the pants holder thingy on a hotel clothes hanger
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2024-06-14 17:44:12

languages are funny
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2024-06-13 19:59:21

When you hear some weird advice like “that gas station’s bento box is actually good” and you know it goes against everything you thought you knew about gas station food, it’s worth taking the chance.
PS: the teriyaki chicken and rice was pretty solid!

2024-06-13 18:21:29

I love this. It reminds me of the first time they added a eMTB race category at the annual Sea Otter bike fest, and in protest a pal raced his regular MTB in it and got 17th place out of 25 in his heat which is impressive for no motor! https://petapixel.com/2024/06/12/photographer-disqualified-from-ai-image-contest-after-winning-with-real-photo/

2024-06-09 15:50:22

I was watching Instagram reels and there was one on how to enjoy disneyworld with no lines and it began by saying get up at 4:30am to workout while booking fast passes then get to the park 90min before opening and I thought it was a parody of Disney advice videos but I kept watching and it wasn’t comedy they were dead serious through the end.

2024-06-06 15:05:40

Checked out the scotus blog livestream of Supreme Court opinions where lawyers explain the decisions as they come out in realtime and it reminded me of 20 years ago, loading up macrumors every January to read what was being said in untelevised apple keynotes, but instead of a new PowerBook or iMac, the stream is about which of our fundamental rights just got curtailed.

2024-06-05 17:59:38

NYC canceling their congestion pricing plan just before launch is absurd. Each time I go to NYC it seems crazier to me that any public cars are allowed in Manhattan at all. It worked in London, it works all over Europe.
Big trucks bring in morning supplies. Taxis help people around. But privately owned cars? Pay $20 for the one day you must drive around but otherwise? Subways and buses can take you everywhere.

2024-06-05 17:19:13

Ouch. Two friends on opposite coasts that are the most covid safe/avoidant people I know both caught their first covid this week. Be safe out there folks.

2024-05-30 22:50:08

Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride
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2024-05-30 22:30:00

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2024-05-29 00:33:53

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@npub1jx7…0jmm
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2024-05-28 21:00:55

The 2nd place GOP candidate for president out there celebrating the genocide of civilians.
She was always as bad as Trump.
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2024-05-26 13:52:04

We passed an anti-price gouging law in Portland years ago that is simple and brilliant.
Every store inside the airport must sell items at the same price they’d be in a normal store inside city limits.
It’s a bit of a shock when you buy a bottle of water there for $2, then on your return trip it’s $8 somewhere else.
Every airport in every city should have this law.
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2024-05-23 00:52:22

classic rookie mistake: said "yes" to a iOS update in the middle of me making dinner which included the music playing on the HomePod and the timer on my potatoes in the oven.
now the question is: will it remember the cooking timer once it finally reboots?! Also, when you send music to a HomePod, doesn't it just play on its own, separate from your phone? Ugh.

2024-05-20 18:50:47

I love this fake retro hat only because the very first thing I bought online was a white Netscape hat just like this in September of 1995 from Netscape.com’s store.
I was so terrified of buying online the first time I used a brand new credit card and watched the statements for three months afterwards to make sure it wasn’t stolen by other websites before I ever used it again.
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2024-05-20 18:01:01

On my last flight, I grabbed the Delta emulator app and bought a PS5 controller at a Best Buy in Houston and downloaded a few N64 and NES games and getting to play games full screen on a iPad with a PS5 controller was kind of incredible and I'm gonna write up a blog post about it because it was a little tedious and confusing to get games onto devices and play smoothly, but once it's done, it's kind of magic.

2024-05-18 15:59:46

trying to wrap my head around the guy in front of me in the airport TSA Pre line who had no idea giant plastic bottles of water you bought at the store weren’t allowed through security.
The rule has been in place for what, 23 years? How did he even end up in the TSA Pre line?

2024-05-12 14:23:45

I wish I could tell my ten year old self reading Omni Magazine and sci-fi short stories that in 2024 shit will actually get a little weird, like that time solar flares caused our robot tractors to not plant seeds at the right time, jeopardizing our food system https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/112428406876457168

2024-05-12 05:58:24

I'm so glad this happened last night in Dallas https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/1cpcagz/aurora_borealis_shinin_down_on_dallas_can_you/

2024-05-11 19:04:49

In March of 1997 WIRED Magazine published their cover story on how browsers might soon disappear as everyone would prefer stuff pushed to them instead of discovered via following links.
It was widely panned and browsers are still very much alive today but I have to say when I look at Instagram and TikTok, those are all-Push content apps and maybe WIRED got it a little bit correct?
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2024-05-09 18:00:44

In 2003, a friend ran her first 5k and raised money for a great cause, Guide Dogs for the Blind and I gave $20 happily. To this day, Guide Dogs mails me postcards every few months, no matter how many times my address changes. Today I got this text from the nonprofit 21 years after my sole donation.
My point is Customer Relations Management (CRM) software like Salesforce is too good at what it does and must be stopped.
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2024-05-09 16:53:34

This is my Apple ad parody. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/apples-misstep/
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2024-05-09 13:08:56

There's nothing like an airport at 6am to teach you which strangers near you are giant Las Vegas hotel fountains of anxiety, spraying all over everyone

2024-05-08 21:13:38

is there anything more quintessentially California than seeing a $200k Luicid Air parked next to a 1970s RV someone is living out of?
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2024-05-03 15:03:57

I started watching the Fallout series with the family but as soon as the first episode ended, I annoyed everyone by playing YouTube videos of every visual reference in episode 1 while saying stuff like “the playing basketball with bricks is a reference to the popularity of Japanese basketball leagues in pre-war Seattle and the people trying to recreate it while they were in the internment camp”
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2024-05-02 21:45:29

a 600km live bluetooth connection? in THIS economy?!
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/02/hubble-network-connects-a-bluetooth-chip-to-a-satellite-for-the-first-time/

2024-05-02 15:19:09

I’ve had this app installed for less than an hour but I can already tell it’ll be killer for handling drafts and finally having something that lets me search through my own 2,000+ posts here whenever I want to reference old ones.
https://mas.to/@bardi/112365896372971256

2024-04-29 15:55:08

it’s so weird how some kids peacefully sitting with signs suddenly turned into a warzone after we called in overly funded militarized cops, gosh it’s so mysterious how that always happens
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2024-04-29 00:44:02

I’m honestly amazed when a pop star debuts a song in a movie because they’ve written a real banger of a hit but they have to keep it secret from the public for a couple years until the film comes out.
"Dance the Night" by Dua Lipa is an instant hit the first time you hear it, but it took years until Barbie came out to unleash it on the world.
It must take incredible patience to sit on a great creative work for so long as a performer.

2024-04-27 14:16:53

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“The answer to any problem in the USA is always racism” sounds like oversimplified hyperbole until you try to travel anywhere from historically black neighborhoods in major cities and find out infrastructure choices made 100 years ago were never fixed and the disparity still exists to this day and everyone just seems fine with it being like this?

2024-04-27 14:10:21

I’m in Chicago, a town so famous for light rail the trains are part of the cityscape and identity.
Today I need to travel 16 miles but if I opt for public transit it will take 2h19m, even though I can get there in a 34m car ride.
It’s strange how there are no trains near where I’m staying.
(I’m currently on the south side of Chicago)
Gosh, I wonder why there were no trains built here?
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2024-04-27 13:43:29

Lawyer: my client should be able to Fuck Around, forever.
Lefty SC justice: What about the Finding Out step that always follows?
Lawyer: We eliminate it. It never happens ever again, but just for the office of President. Everyone else continues to Find Out.
[6 out of 9 SCOTUS justices nod in agreement]

2024-04-26 17:01:57

Trump getting a SCOTUS hearing on whether or not he’s an annointed king when he also personally hand-picked 1/3 of the very justices ruling on it in the same week where Harvey Weinstein’s judgement gets appealed despite dozens of victims makes it so clear that ultra-rich white men can do anything, anywhere and with enough resources they will never face consequences for anything no matter how disgustingly they lead their lives and it’s fucking horrible and depressing to see this shit play out.

2024-04-25 17:35:13

Enshittification comes for us all, even Descript which I already pay $20/mo for because it's the best podcast editing platform on earth. Last year they added a Robot AI feature that could take your voice and create new audio from your own scripts to let you insert missing words. I went to test it out again today but got this message on a single sentence.
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2024-04-25 14:29:27

all-time new record for Amazon packing efficiency. Spouse ordered a watch battery this week and it showed up inside this box with butcher paper around it.
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2024-04-23 21:13:59

Day 3 in Moab: Poison Spider Trail
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2024-04-20 16:57:20

Just realized I’m spending 4/20 entirely inside the boundaries of Utah.
THIS TRIP WAS INSUFFICIENTLY PLANNED

2024-04-18 20:11:38

Hey! You want to rent some office space, you total piece of shit asshole?
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2024-04-18 16:27:05

A dentist in town has one of those movie marquees on his sign and he’s anointed himself the pun king of the city, but I can tell most of the jokes each week are ripped from tweets or Instagram memes.
It gives me a whole new appreciation for artisanal, single-origin, locally sourced original puns.

2024-04-17 19:18:41

new post: Feeling duped by Amazon's "magical AI" bullshit https://a.wholelottanothing.org/feeling-duped-by-amazon/

2024-04-16 16:49:36

I have to buy tickets to a soccer game at SeatGeek Stadium in Chicago, so I pulled up my SeatGeek app I use for handling my home soccer season tickets and there were only highly marked up tickets for resale.
I go to the soccer team's own site, click "buy single game tickets to this match" and I'm directed to "My Pro Venue Tickets" where hundreds of seats in every section are sold at face value.
I guess stadium naming rights don't come with exclusive distribution?

2024-04-16 02:28:55

Why is the biggest TV ratings star in sports getting paid about the same as an office manager in a moderately successful company?
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2024-04-15 17:27:33

AI could prove its usefulness by auto-removing audience laughter from the last 30 years of sitcoms when I play them today.
I tried to watch a highly regarded comedy from the late 90s/early 00s and it was filled with so many laugh and applause breaks that I turned it off. It felt broad and insulting.
Let me enjoy comedy on its own merits of the material. Do your thing, AI.

2024-04-12 16:54:51

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Waze (also owned by Google) totally ignores the metric system completely and gives you speed warnings like “oh no you’re going 45mph in a 43 zone!”
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