potpie

hello I'm a Latin teacher and I have lots of weird hobbies

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2025-04-18 23:42:44

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@nprofile…args I dunno but... this Roman dice tower looks mighty nerdy to me. I think the evidence is piling up.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/361/602/996/094/180/original/7754c104e8191a67.jpg

2025-04-18 23:42:44

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2025-02-17 23:59:40

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@nprofile…2gcn @nprofile…cf37 I was just thinking about this the other day. Intolerance is a negative. Tolerance is neutral. If you stack them--tolerance of intolerance / intolerance of tolerance--you get the same thing: intolerance.
That said, I think the version in your post makes the most sense, especially as an explanation for someone who hasn't thought it through yet.

2025-02-09 01:08:32

Here is my conjecture. Conjecture alert!
Detaining immigrants and attacking public education is about replacing the exploited foreign workers with exploited American (read: "white") workers. Attacking public health and science is about creating a constant parade of emergencies that can be used to justify more and more arrogation of powers to the supreme executive and his oligarchs. The path may be a great depression, and the destination is empire.

2024-12-23 18:40:22

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@nprofile…vvfe eww

2024-12-22 18:01:13

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@nprofile…0tvd a sweet keyboard, nothing super fancy but nicer than what I got now

2024-12-20 16:09:52

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@nprofile…0tvd my process is usually:
Google the problem > results are all forum posts asking about the exact same problem > all replies just say "the solution to this is well known, jeez! Just Google it!" > cry

2024-12-16 05:38:11

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@nprofile…vdcr @nprofile…gfyr I wonder if Putin is just giving orders, or if he's convinced Trump he's a real bestie and he's just feeding him terrible advice.

2024-12-16 01:43:51

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@nprofile…0tvd the dark web is part of dark wing duck's dark feet

2024-12-14 18:41:35

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@nprofile…kjrn I realize it's just a joke but, in the interest of accuracy, it's my mom, not scientists, who says that.

2024-12-13 11:57:46

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@nprofile…e6ql Dafuq?

2024-12-11 06:20:36

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@nprofile…fecl one of the trolly problem variants: the active killing is bad, the active killing with extra rube-goldberg steps is... less.... bad???

2024-11-29 18:44:36

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@nprofile…ppst yesterday my computer failed to deactivate my food slot: that's why I'm so bloated and slow today

2024-11-28 14:50:45

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@nprofile…0tvd but if you use a mouse in VIm the Linux fairy decaffeinates your coffee in the night

2024-11-16 20:41:52

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@nprofile…0tvd friends! Haha

2024-11-16 01:12:25

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@nprofile…0tvd 🖐️

2024-11-02 16:01:45

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@npub14ka…um78 @npub16hp…87l4 we've heard Kamala Harris laugh and, honestly, I don't think it's weird at all. We've heard Tucker Carlson laugh and he sounds like a horror movie villain; it's terrifying. And we've heard Donald Trump laugh... never. Because he's a psychopath.

2024-09-06 14:53:24

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 Xitter

2024-08-25 14:54:09

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@npub1qe5…8ugl it's a good point but laughter is kryptonite to fascism

2024-08-25 11:39:44

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 tried to teach myself c++ in middle school
I'm not really a programmer though. I only know enough to make some specific solutions for my work.

2024-07-30 05:30:50

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@npub12uf…6hdv the free speech absolutist strikes again

2024-07-27 20:01:52

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 I became a Latin teacher... But my homebrew programs and shell scripts are integral to my workflow so... I should look into farming.

2024-07-21 20:08:42

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 AbsoLUTEly not.

2024-07-07 18:32:33

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@npub1khx…geyg I love these otherworldly behemoths.

2024-06-23 18:31:27

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@npub1alq…mnj6 I've seen some 80s science fiction: just ask them to divide by zero and they'll explode.

2024-06-07 18:28:19

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@npub1tel…4v4v Donald Trump today at a press conference forgot his own name and shoved a microphone up his ass on camera. Here's why that's bad for Joe Biden.

2024-05-28 12:51:48

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@npub1xyj…6rzz are those olives in your taco?

2024-05-01 05:21:03

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 even more impressive considering he is a goose

2024-04-25 22:52:27

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@npub1su4…a0dw feels like we speedrunning this dystopia now

2024-04-13 20:27:56

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 4MB. An IBM 486 with Windows 3.1. What a time.

2024-03-09 14:40:25

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@npub18nn…c8ue I have literally become skeletons.

2024-03-03 16:09:45

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 Damn straight. Getting good at something like that takes time and attention. Most of mine is already claimed, so... I embrace the casual.

2024-02-25 04:53:25

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 Trisquel I bet.

2024-02-19 17:02:11

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@npub18lj…80hq Cracker Barrel is dating Chipotle. They don't seem to have much in common, the age difference seems inappropriate, but they look happy I guess and it's not really our place to criticize them so.... anyway.

2024-02-17 01:53:29

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@npub1sk4…d83s there's a name for that... I wanna say.... Paul?

2024-02-04 06:23:21

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@npub1sk4…d83s Yes, in some dialects. I remember hearing a paper that mentioned this at a linguistics conference I went to twelve or thirteen years ago.

2024-02-03 12:32:57

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 This is what makes me feel like a grumpy old man. Instead of complaining about "kids these days," I go on rants about slow software, apps that need constant updating, functionality that changes all the time, and poor user interfaces. I find myself telling young people about buying programs on CDs "back in the day." Send help.

2024-01-28 01:34:18

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@npub1sk4…d83s I knew a girl all through middle and high school; she and her sister were both extremely sheltered, no TV allowed, hardly any movies, hardly any events with friends unless their mom could chaperone...... Then they went to college and did aaaallllllllll the drugs and had most of the sex. I'm just sayin. Shit can backfire.

2024-01-20 05:56:42

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@npub1vqm…ccpx strategic luddism

2024-01-19 21:52:32

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@npub1tvq…l6jk going outside must be like walking into a cream pie while getting sleeted all over your face

2024-01-14 14:31:31

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@npub1xr8…3q0g paraphrasing a post I saw a long time ago: "All you people saying we're sinking are alarmists; my half of the boat just went UP a hundred feet! Sinking, my ass!"

2024-01-13 17:04:28

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 the Macintosh Classic like we had at school and the IBM 486 like I had at home.

2024-01-06 20:32:22

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 printf("oh hey what's up?");

2024-01-03 18:30:55

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 awwww snap! Good thing I've got a spare craptop lying around.

2023-12-22 15:19:00

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@npub10ae…nlyc why not just fill every device with resin after assembly and stop pretending it's about anything besides making technology into expensive disposable garbage

2023-12-12 00:09:51

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@npub1qag…9gyn @npub1d8z…zgls I think it differs a lot from case to case: even in the calculator example, we probably agree that kids should not stop learning times tables. Using ChatGPT as a starting point, a collaborator, and a tool is one thing; copying its output without reading it is another.

2023-12-01 15:38:47

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@npub1su4…a0dw it's a trash melon anyway

2023-11-28 17:12:24

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 after I read this Werther's butterscotch candies appeared in my pockets

2023-11-19 15:54:13

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@npub1u2h…z4d7 @npub1tzv…fnvp @npub1qe5…8ugl I think that's exactly the locus of the bullshit. The AI is a language model. That's it. If that's all you're using it for, then it's very good. But the company is happy to mislead or--at the very least--to profit from the ignorance of the general public.

2023-10-27 22:08:42

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@npub1su4…a0dw ooh lemme break out the "famous last words" scrapbook

2023-10-14 12:59:32

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 is anyone still playing bzflag?

2023-10-06 20:52:20

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@npub1su4…a0dw sounds neat, I'm already considering which Linux distro would be best for it

2023-09-30 13:53:23

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@npub1tel…4v4v at what point do we enter a de facto Purge?

2023-09-26 16:57:27

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1ch0…7gec which is biologically ironic, given that X is pretty much the default sex chromosome.

2023-09-21 23:27:16

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@npub1dm5…5sqe @npub1knf…tu8j why use figuratively literally instead of literally figuratively?

2023-09-16 04:30:34

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 I struggle with Windows as little as possible, but for work I occasionally have to try to print something or connect to a projector from a Win laptop. It's amazing how the dialogs for settings go further back in time the more you click. You start with the sleek new interface, then there's an old school window popup, pretty soon you're scrolling through options in a white pulldown list and there's radio buttons and tabs and checkboxes and no logical organization. It's like archaeology.

2023-09-10 10:58:20

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@npub1grx…uxfe all I'm saying is... you could get a safer distance using paint filled balloons and a trebuchet

2023-09-03 12:24:11

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@npub1tvq…l6jk their real pronouns are idont/understand/what/pronouns/are/ifailedmiddleschool/trump2024

2023-08-29 04:19:23

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@npub1960…w6j3 @npub1483…lv2w
Scenario 1: unemployment is high
Braindead response: "Look at how many people are unemployed! Clearly they are just lazy and no one wants to work!"
Scenario 2: unemployment is low
Braindead response: "Look at how many businesses can't find workers! Clearly people are just lazy and no one wants to work!"
Now you know my parents.

2023-08-26 12:35:20

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 woah now let's not be too hasty: did we configure the sandwich first?

2023-08-20 00:25:23

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@npub1tvq…l6jk read that as Seinfeld at first and for a moment I lived in a very different world

2023-08-19 17:53:16

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@npub1tvq…l6jk A launcher. Also a whole new account on a special platform. BTW we're gonna send you notifications while you play. And even though this game is single player only you can't play unless you log in to our network first. Also a bunch of what we promised in this game will actually come out in some DLC you'll have to pay for later. You don't mind if we collect all possible data about you, right? Here spit in this cup.

2023-08-16 16:47:13

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 "Finally!" -s

2023-08-15 20:52:39

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@npub1su4…a0dw
you: [hit "scan to PDF" ]
printer: As you sacrifice this document on the altar of light, I must pour a libation for the spirits of my ancestors.

2023-08-15 02:29:59

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@npub1tel…4v4v fun fact: every indictment returned in the state of Georgia begins with, "well bless his/her heart..."

2023-08-09 00:21:08

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@npub15ef…n95r @npub1v2s…mqq5 what tickles me is that the 'no' vote was over 60%

2023-07-29 00:42:02

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@npub15x4…3p3l @npub1cjl…97du "Move fast! Break things! Hurt people! Destroy democracy! Frolic madly as the world burns!"

2023-07-15 11:45:46

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 how to add a user to sudoers

2023-07-06 20:44:24

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@npub1su4…a0dw oh weird, are there a lot of ticked off ex-employees from Twitter? I wonder what could have caused that. Sarcasm.

2023-06-19 12:48:14

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 unplug computer