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2024-06-20 16:31:12

Houston is deeply in love with mediocrity, as personified by our latest mayor. This is transit project that would connect disparate parts of METRO and vastly improve its usefulness. Sorry, can't have nice things here. https://houstonlanding.org/metro-to-drop-university-brt-line-for-now-citing-rising-costs-and-changing-ridership/

2024-05-11 19:53:58

At my former regular coffee shop in my old neighborhood today.
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2024-05-06 02:25:15

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I thought maybe a fuse was blown in the bathroom but the incredibly loud fan in there is running. In the dark.

2024-05-06 02:11:55

I’m in a nice hotel room, except that the bathroom lights stopped working. There’s a very nice coffee maker but the cups they have are too small so the coffee overflows when you brew it. And they bang on your door at 9 PM to give you your free water bottles.

2024-03-14 15:46:43

that feeling when your employer is having a contest to see who can use the most emojis in Slack.

2024-03-13 02:58:48

American conservatism: shouldn’t everyone just work until they die? https://www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/ben-shapiro-no-one-united-states-should-be-retiring-65-years-old

2024-03-08 01:16:08

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@npub1u55…6c8n Yeah, they seem determined to follow the letter of these EU rulings while undermining the spirit of them, which I don’t think will end well for them. I’ve used a lot of Apple stuff for a long time & in the last few years they’ve really lost the plot I think; people were willing to live with some of this stuff in exchange for a super-polished user experience, and they are *not* delivering that anymore - iOS and to a lesser degree, macOS are really kind of shitshow these days.

2023-10-19 20:13:33

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@npub1xwe…p3ls it’s utterly crazy how much my peers in the marketing world are all in on this. Also: I think it spells the end of web search as we know it.

2023-10-17 22:38:03

Got an email from a restaurant (which I like a lot) that invited me to “vibe with their sister concepts.”

2023-10-01 22:17:36

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@npub1xs9…5h84 silliness. My company has taken a small step - if you live near one of our offices they’re asking you to come in once a month for “office day” and for teams to arrange schedules around interactive work activities so it’s valuable. Plus free lunch. It seems popular so far.
I am totally remote so nobody’s asking me anything but I do drive 2.5 hours to the nearest office about once a month for working sessions with my boss, which I enjoy.
There’s a smart middle way in all this.

2023-10-01 15:49:19

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@npub1u55…6c8n So a little googling suggests that yes, this is an Irish thing, which I did not know. Now wondering if it's a result of a lot of food insecurity in relatively recent history (it's gross, but it is nutritionally dense). Not that lots of other countries have had their own food issues though.
Weird.

2023-10-01 15:42:19

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@npub1u55…6c8n There was a lot of "kids must drink milk or their bones will break!" stuff going on but I am unsure if this was common in Ireland. Also wonder if it was a signifier of economic stability (mom grew up in WWII Belfast with a single mom, her dad died very young). No idea is it's common in Ireland though.

2023-09-22 09:58:54

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@npub1qww…6dyx yep went and did the update after I saw your toot.

2023-09-20 13:47:20

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Also very on brand for Apple: I assume there's some way to pick what photos it shows but *how* to do this is totally unclear - “let's hide the features" seems to be the Apple software team's rallying cry these last few years.

2023-09-20 13:45:13

The new Standby mode in iOS is clever and simple. I put my phone on its charger and there it was!
Now it takes a really long time to activate when I put the phone on the charging stand so it's pure Apple software: simple, useful, and unreliable.

2023-09-17 10:57:34

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@npub1nsq…23w7 this completely changes my perception of Japan.

2023-09-17 10:54:28

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@npub1lkv…2alt that little voice in your head telling you can’t have a lazy day should pounded into silence. But that’s a lot work so just take a nap instead.

2023-09-09 11:25:27

A storm came through, it rained, and it’s cool out. I’d forgotten what this feels like.

2023-09-07 13:38:46

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@npub189n…satx he won’t do it. I’m kind of rooting for the Mexican military to come in and take care of it.

2023-09-03 07:42:54

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@npub1jhg…t9mt and this is why I wear masks when traveling.

2023-09-02 11:01:11

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1qfw…eatg @npub1w7q…7k9n @npub1s3d…0tcp @npub1g3j…k5cu @npub1dme…ch6s this, 100%. One of the challenges of being my late father’s tech support was that I kept overestimating his ability to manage relatively small changes. He was very smart, an engineer, but things I thought were little would cause endless frustrating phone calls. Which I now miss terribly.

2023-09-02 10:57:12

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@npub1psd…9sr7 fix the world, Charlie! You can do it!

2023-09-01 22:14:48

Firefox.
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2023-09-01 07:33:41

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@npub1u55…6c8n how does one get the originals?

2023-08-22 03:33:03

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@npub1lkv…2alt she’s the queen of the local cafe. Like, they have a picture of her as wallpaper on the register screen

2023-08-22 00:19:39

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2023-08-21 01:56:32

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@npub1dr2…2knv sounds like that drive has gotten 0.1% more interesting since I used to do it all the time!

2023-08-20 13:15:06

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@npub1u55…6c8n y’all are getting in on our gulf coast action. Be safe!

2023-08-18 21:58:51

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@npub1s5a…0cc5 (content marketing world I meant to type)

2023-08-18 21:57:46

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@npub1s5a…0cc5 the entire content world is excited by AI content so watch out if you’re searching for things like “signs of poisoning” or “am I having a heart attack.” I actually think it’s the end of search as a useful tool.

2023-08-18 03:33:48

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@npub19zm…uz3f yes. They should. But they haven’t.

2023-08-17 13:07:33

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@npub19zm…uz3f fair enough but the truth is lots of people DO rely on Meta and “let ‘em burn” isn’t a great take.

2023-08-17 11:49:44

App developers, cut it out with the in app browsers or at least prove a setting to not use them.

2023-08-17 00:12:21

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@npub1u95…qv8f how’s the Touch ID working? I swapped out a faulty keyboard for my iMac and Touch ID just no longer works wirelessly and apple support is just useless. Don’t think I’d ever buy one again.

2023-08-16 13:01:23

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@npub1jhg…t9mt “have we removed enough features and obscured enough UI elements? Great, let ‘er rip!”

2023-08-16 04:04:50

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@npub1jhg…t9mt dude it’s Apple Music. Why do you expect anything to work right?

2023-08-14 23:41:53

Today would have been the first day of sixth grade for the children killed at school in Uvalde.

2023-08-14 13:04:16

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2023-08-14 01:12:13

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@npub1jhg…t9mt I mean I didn’t do it but I was annoyed enough to think about it. What I did do was say “have you ever had a family member who’s at severe risk, like death, from illness?” Cuz I webt through the early days of covid with that. He got real quiet.

2023-08-13 21:53:25

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@npub1jhg…t9mt it’s once happened to me once and I really wanted to answer “I’ve been exposed to Ebola.”

2023-08-12 18:46:43

Omg it’s only gonna be 100 out today.

2023-08-10 16:51:38

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@npub1u95…qv8f this so true.

2023-08-10 13:33:36

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@npub1u95…qv8f thank you! I think I missed it among all the videos and pop up crap. :)

2023-08-09 21:29:38

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@npub1u95…qv8f curious about the Hulu/Disney ad free combo. Wasn’t in the article.

2023-08-07 23:09:40

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@npub1jhg…t9mt that sounds like the best possible Fairfield Inn.

2023-08-07 23:08:20

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@npub1gmr…ds8n @npub1zfs…lsfg @npub14ep…cpuj yeah it kind of set my BS detector off.

2023-08-07 22:15:45

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@npub1zfs…lsfg @npub14ep…cpuj where is this terrible place?

2023-08-06 18:54:59

Playing around with Arc browser, and there are lots of cool and interesting things in it, but OMG they seem to have made things as unfindable as possible, along with helpful videos that show how to do things that involve clicking on UI elements that just don't appear to exist. I get that it's very new and all but I'm curious and frustrated all at once!

2023-08-06 18:30:56

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@npub1cme…w4rh I always loved, when riding my motorcycle out of the city north on GW Parkway, one shaded coot where you just felt the air temperate drop briefly no matter how hotnit was out.

2023-08-06 18:29:11

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@npub108n…r4z3 a classic!

2023-08-06 18:25:26

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@npub1jhg…t9mt nah that’s just how they roll at Mala Sichuan.

2023-08-06 17:37:12

holy cher airplay is such a hot mess

2023-08-06 11:47:09

Matcha mille cake with sparklers is great, fyi.
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2023-08-04 22:52:47

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@npub1jhg…t9mt if this shit starts taking hold we will buy a new car without it and then never buy a new car again, I think.

2023-08-04 19:16:16

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@npub1jhg…t9mt You know this leads to paying them for things like navigation.

2023-08-04 18:00:20

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@npub1u55…6c8n we haven’t seen these announcements in Texas but if you are shopping for a policy, forget it. Pickings are slim and very expensive.

2023-07-17 11:31:32

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@npub15x4…3p3l @npub1nfm…nzhu so weird how journalists think that social media’s main purpose is for them to find an audience. I’m not here to follow journalists and I think that’s the case for many other users.