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A HUNGRY MOUTH @ahungrymouth.bsky.social · 2h

tweet by a hungry mouth: Dreamed i was the male lead in a late 90s sitcom. No one could stand me, called me "asshole," " pervert, " etc. Ended up at a party at Special Guest Norm MacDonald's house and made a witty quip disparaging the snacks, & he replied "Jesus, man. I worked really hard on this"

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3h

My grand theory is that 6.5 is the ideal rating on IMDb for an interesting movie because it means it alienated idiots. If you’d like proof: Almost every Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie is rated between 6.3-6.9.

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 9h

It's happening.

The Vitamin.

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cordeliaflyte
My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am
rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I
am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the
vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all
my problems were caused by this one deficiency

caracalliope
Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate
and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet
you persevered?

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 14h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 10h

I am actually speechless at the power of this imagery and the effect it will have on anyone who has ever taken their Catholicism remotely seriously.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Pat Stares At Clown World @patstaresat.bsky.social · 11h

GOOD FUCK HIM

Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 11h

After waiting several days to be collected by Banjo and Kazooie, an orange Jinjo was found dead on top of a large rock somewhere.
paletteswap.site/dif...

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Jam2go @jam2go.com · 16h

I've been testing out adding greenscreen footage into Unreal, but compressing it to look like it's a 90s FMV game

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 12h

this is… i… i think sarah’s article has genuinely unlocked all of 2025

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 14h

there's something here

A normal-versus-normal matchup is what politics used to be — persuasion, messaging, negotiation, compromise. Behaving this way will lose against someone donning body armor while calling you an antifa domestic terrorist MS-13 gang member. And the guy in the body armor will always lose to the guy in the inflatable frog suit.

3x3 grid charting how aura farming, shitposting, and acting normal interact

Aura Farming Shitposting Acting Normal
Aura Farming Stronger aura farmer wins Shitposter wins Aura farmer wins
Shitposting Shitposter wins Society loses Acting normal wins
Acting Normal Aura farmer wins Acting normal wins We live in a society

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A HUNGRY MOUTH @ahungrymouth.bsky.social · 1d

time to cook a dozen gyoza, hit the nicotine vape five times in quick succession and stumble around with the edges of my vision flashing red until i hide behind some waist-high cover for a while

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CC Kirby @cckirby.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Trebek saying "the creature" on this episode of Jeopardy! from Halloween 1997

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Super Mario 64 DS Hidden Stars @sm64dsstars.bsky.social · 23h

Spike Your DS Into the Ground Right Now

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
Debt & Money
Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

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According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Pat Stares At Clown World @patstaresat.bsky.social · 1d

I literally feel like this constantly don't attack me with this level of accuracy please

tylerr @whymymore.bsky.social · 1d

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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ellie @ellieglassheart.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely burst out laughing last night seeing this interaction on a GBVSR post about Meg

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𝔤𝔞𝔷𝔢𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 🦴 @gaze.bsky.social · 1d

asleep in the compost pile ❤️

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gospodyina @gospodyina.bsky.social · 1d

@ryannorth.ca the challenge of getting a dog out of a hole takes many forms

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Saint Riot @saintriot.bsky.social · 4d

In Final Fantasy Tactics if a unit gains too much faith they leave your party to go find God. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you had Beast Tongue and got a monster unit to maximum faith? Of course you haven't. No one has.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 16d

One of the smartest things Costco does is assigning every shopper a “Costco Enemy,”who stays in front of them putting carts in stupid places and blocking the aisle and going really slowly. This gives the shopper 30% more browsing time and creates a memorable, provocative experience