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Lightly seared on the reality grill


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how many watts of RF and in what configuration do we require to cook mosquitos?

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Preschool and Beyond the Infinite

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𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠's avatar 𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social
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did he have hands? did he have a face? congratulations, assembly is complete!

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christ, maybe this why Canadaland covered him recently

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behold my proprietary boot camp materials

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it’s nice to watch an exciting scene and say “I bet some people had a great day at work”

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Microsoft have announced an exciting new feature for Microsoft Word: users can now disable the Axiom of Choice and allow sets of Heading Styles with no maximal heading. "Your documents may encompass all ineffable Creation," executives say, "and are no longer bounded by the limits of Man's reason."

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they won’t even let me try to do it all at once 😠

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why are you afraid of this lit stick of dynamite? a light breeze was already blowing by

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no finer practitioner of motivated reasoning

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too easy to confuse the daiquiri/cocaine hand signals

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mom yelling at me to put the lid back on the blender

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home ownership is a portal into the previous owners’ madness

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The other day I described a pointless meeting as “a real time toilet” and it instantly went into the phrase book.

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sneaking a weirdly reactionary paper on the life extending power of trepanation onto arXiv and waiting patiently

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putting premium bird seed in the feeder to unlock exclusive new calls

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I love to prune a fully grown tree using a pair of toddler’s safety scissors

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Weirdly, Winnipeg is also a popular stand-in for Chicago

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Do these people think “ph” is short for “email”

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I feel like somebody invented a cool hammer and is actively replacing all the cutlery in my life with cool hammers

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I would love to see a review of corporate NVDA holdings

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I’m giving Kagi a real go this weekend. I’d love to ditch Docs et al but that may be a challenge

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How about you run this through Grammarly: eat shit

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Alito caught passing a second API key via environment variables

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the 10.7cm radio solar flux was elected president in 2000, 2008, and 2032

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eurorack synthesizer. ruin your life

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ten hours, single shot

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pong is a game

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what hardware are you installing?

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oh man the two books after God Emperor are truly off the rails

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newspaper and plain cardboard compost like a champ. you just want to avoid coated paper products and non-soy-based inks

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it was nice of Jack to help out

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just remembered when jerry garcia died, some djs at whpk made a bunch of flyers and posted them around chicago saying "if you miss jerry call this number and leave a message about what he meant to you" but put steve albini's phone number on it. one of the all time great pranks.

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One of the most classic and wonderful things Steve Albini ever did was his famous letter to Nirvana about producing the album that would become In Utero. kottke.org/13/09/steve-... Will miss @electricalwsop.bsky.social and especially arguing with him about Prince's production style.

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3z engineer

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does this sort of case expose the auditors to anything more than reputational risk?

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"Houston we have a problem" Ok I'm gonna need you to open Developer Tools

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to be fair, the headline doesn’t say what the drugs will do

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sorry, I’m on a C: drive diet

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If there’s a way to accidentally kill yourself with Microsoft Excel, Marshall will find it

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2 Eds 2 Furious

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