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Costco report: they have Halloween stuff out already

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Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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There’s a New Message for You in MyChart, Charlie Brown

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What’s this red drink like?

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How many colors you think we’re seeing at once here

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The only crime I’ve committed is thinking about it on a long weekend

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what kind of monster sends an email at 5pm the day before a 4 day weekend that suggests that I screwed up. I'm still annoyed about it! On a holiday!

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This looks like a cutscene in a CD-ROM

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Went to the theater and saw pulp fiction in 480p

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I don’t know how Larry Hogan got my phone number but I’m leaving him on read instead of opting out

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“Have we lost you?” It’s like breaking up with a manipulator

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This shit is so corny. If I was trying to make democrats look feckless and weak this is the kind of stuff I’d do

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My partner has a habit of rescuing worms from hot sidewalks in summer, moving them to grass and muttering words of encouragement. They also like to dress in suit, tie and sunglasses. So to bystanders it looks like there’s an FBI agent who is tasked with looking after the welfare of worms

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Posting this for no reason at all

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I was told “greedflation” wasn’t real? And that I was foolish for thinking it was?

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I’ll have a bucket of yellow paint to use near ladders and ledges and stuff. Maybe a ventilation shaft even, who knows

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Is this the sequel to repo man?

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I should revisit Siamese Dream that way

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House to myself for the weekend, my main agenda items are: 1. Replacing every filter 2. Eating a pizza, and 3. Watching an upsetting movie

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Feel like this is one of those things young people wouldn’t believe we used to have to do

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Really good writing here

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This lady quit her job and invented the joint checking account

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This was a really good piece!

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I’m sure he feels some guilt about it, probably does a real good job of rationalizing though

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Great that some people are finally noticing but they will absolutely not admit they were wrong before

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Voting is like taking a bus, you pick the one that’s going in your direction 🙂 This bus took us to a pretty bad place! This is what we were worried would happen during the primaries 4 years ago

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He makes more money than me now

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One time one of my direct reports had to reschedule a 1:1 meeting with my boss because he had to use the bathroom. I think of this whenever I have to take a shit before a meeting

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Someone just called me to cancel a meeting because they have diarrhea. Don't tell me that

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In my day to day I have to carefully consider use cases, edge cases, organizational structures, etc and to me it feels like their answer to any problem is just “let’s ask the robot”

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One of the things that bothers me about LLMs is that they embolden people who approach technology like it’s magic

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Shrinkflation strikes again

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Lizzie née Acid Lich (in perpetual number mode)'s avatar Lizzie née Acid Lich (in perpetual number mode) @acidlich.bsky.social
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Good morning to the surf rock instrumental version of toxic

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scrolling by some targeted ad for a pet treat dispenser & hearing "roargia o'reefe" in a scooby doo voice in my head all the sudden

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It’s been too hot for walks so Dana’s been grumpy but she won’t bother us if we’re doing chores. She knows e.g. folding laundry is important, but if she sees us on the couch looking our phones she’ll howl and whine for playtime

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Get down here, we tipped officer Big Mac on his bun & we’re throwing stuff at him

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To be fair it’s been 13 years since I updated my prescription so I expected a little bit of a transition but two weeks is too long

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About two weeks with the new glasses and my vision is still a little warbly - I should probably go back to the doc right

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I must have beer. Beer is the mind chiller. Beer is the little break that brings total relaxation

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Book covers that look like shitposts

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We gotta fix the phones, this shit is annoying

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Officer: Ma'am are you driving under the influence? My manipulative vizier in the passenger seat: (Whispering to me) This man seeks to ruin you, my liege. He envies your power. Do away with him, lest you lose all you have achieved! Me: No sir 🙂

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Upset that I understand this joke

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To me this is just more evidence that covid is the disease from The Stand

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