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Mx Wred 🦠Plague arc🦠 @mxwinifred.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 13:06 UTC

CEOs were a mistake. No company should hire CEOs, they should be laid off because they just cost the company too much money and there's plenty of homes for CEOs

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 22:24 UTC

“Of the nature of poetry itself, Orlando only gathered that it was harder to sell than prose, and though the lines were shorter took longer in the writing.” — Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 20:24 UTC

Bookmail!

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 11:20 UTC

“Finally, I would like to thank… a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.” 2/2

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 11:20 UTC

Began reading Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando, originally published in 1928. The end of the acknowledgements section sounds completely modern in content if not in diction: 1/2

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 22:41 UTC

Oh, just having a couple of cocktails on the patio after leaving work a little early today. The weather is nice in KC, but it must be gorgeous in Manhattan.

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 20:04 UTC

Web designers who make a button invisible until the cursor is over it: why? What purpose does that serve except to frustrate any user who’s searching for that button? (And I’m talking corporate websites here, not artsy personal ones.)

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 17:31 UTC

Autocorrect just changed “for some reason” to “due since rain,” so I would 100% trust AI to diagnose an illness or drive my car.

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 14:44 UTC

HIPAA VIOLATION! ALSO RICO!

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 26, 2024 at 13:16 UTC

The primary benefit of AI is that it makes me increasingly reluctant to be interacting with a device.

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

Took the dog for a walk in very light rain this morning and experienced a joie de vivre that’s rare for me these days. Not even the noise of rush hour traffic diminished it.

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 12:59 UTC

Spotify. Used to be it took an extra step to add algorithmic suggestions to a shuffled playlist. Now it takes an extra step to remove them. I know I shouldn’t even use S, but I’ve spent a lot of time curating my playlists. Including tracks that have disappeared, though their titles remain.

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 12:34 UTC

I dreamed last night that I was telling friends that humanity had run out of resources, but this was being hidden from us; and that we should enjoy what we can when we can, because the end was nigh. (I was kind of morbidly curious to see how it was all going to play out.)

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 12:28 UTC

This is not a heartwarming story. It’s a story of our failure to be a society. “School lunch debt” is an idea that should send shivers down everybody’s spine.

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 09, 2024 at 12:24 UTC

I’m reading D.T. Suzuki’s Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism and it’s going very slowly. This morning I read the phrase “immortality of deeds” and spent 15 minutes thinking about it before continuing to the next sentence.

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 08, 2024 at 13:44 UTC

When I’m forced to use self-checkout, I act the befuddled old man so that an employee has to spend more time helping me than a cashier would spend ringing me up and bagging my stuff.

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 08, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

In general and with some exceptions, British actors are better at doing American accents than American actors are at doing American accents.

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 07, 2024 at 17:28 UTC

I think my brain expects something like bewore / had beworren.

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Caracabe @caracabe.bsky.social [ View ] May 07, 2024 at 17:27 UTC

I suddenly got curious about the past tense of “beware” and the dictionary says it’s “bewared,” which my brain refuses to accept as a proper word. I guess if the need arises, I’ll go with “had been bewaring.” (Yes, I know that’s not exactly the same tense.)

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