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Cyborg K9 🌹 @cyborgk9.bsky.social · 1h

Conservatives/Republicans nowadays need to be mocked and ostracized, not coddled and treated as reasonable people.

If you don't believe in science, don't respect others who are different from you, and are fine with lower taxes for the rich + growing wealth inequality, you're a terrible person.

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Guelph Lost Pets @guelphlostpets.bsky.social · 2h

LOOKING FOR OWNER. This grey/brown tabby short-haired cat (with spots & stripes) was found in the Rickson Rd & Kortright Rd W area of #Guelph on Oct 10. If you have any info about him/her please contact the finder via pawboost.com/landing/pet/...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 2h

One of the wildest issues AI creates is that it makes people who shouldn't do things they don't understand, do those exact things believing they understand.

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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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

Job application to be in this admin is just "Check one or more"
🔲 Evil
🔲 Incompetent

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 2h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 9h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 14h

The political project of the Trump Admin is mass death. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow. This is the real threat, not the people they target to justify their actions.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4h

Guess they are counting on the troops to murder their fellow citizens for free.

CNN @cnn.com · 14h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Cyborg K9 🌹 @cyborgk9.bsky.social · 10h

The right-wing is a Death Cult.

#uspoli #cdnpoli

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Cyborg K9 🌹 @cyborgk9.bsky.social · 10h

#Caturday
#cats #猫

A black and white cat laying on the back of a grey sofa, with her forepaws curled up in front of her.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 11h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 12h

Just look at this goofball

My cat Basil staring up at the camera from where he lies belly up on the bed, slightly starting to fall off. His eyes are huge like anime character and he wants to play

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 11h

IRS layoffs are costly for the U.S., redistributing wealth to the top 1% (who lie on their taxes at jaw-dropping rates).

The bottom 99% generally pay their taxes. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Taxes evaded as a percent of taxes owed from a study showing that the 99th wealth percentile and above evade significantly more taxes than everyone else. The richest evade 25% of the taxes they owe on average. The bottom 95% evade less than 3% of their taxes on average. While these data are from Scandinavia, similar patterns are likely in other countries, including the U.S.

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Dorothy Parker Fucks @dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social · 13h

Tweet from @dril: turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 13h

We will NOT stand for Trump and Vought decimating our health sciences with RFK Jr's permission.

JOIN US FOR A RALLY AT HHS ON FRIDAY 10/17!

WE ARE TAKING BACK SCIENCE.

#ImpeachTheQuack
#GetOutTheVought
#TakeBackScience

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 3d

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 14h

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h

I'd start by pressuring elected officials to stop recognizing the authority of the court. Supporting officials who promise to fix it once in power and to refuse to recognize any of its rulings since at least 2015 as valid. And investigate, charge, prosecute, and convict its extremist members.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h

The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 15h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 23h

Minor medical situation on the flight and it’s cool that my wife is able to jump up and help out when they ask for a licensed medical professional.

One day someone will need a regular expression so I stay ready.

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Bauske @bauske.bsky.social · 21h

These little things go a long way to make a game feel "good". If you're not aware of them, it's hard to describe why a game may feel more satisfying than another.

André Cardoso @andremc.bsky.social · 5d

Recently had the opportunity to build 3 demos to demonstrate the power of game feel!

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Ben Porter @eigenbom.bsky.social · 1d

oh wait

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Cyborg K9 🌹 @cyborgk9.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, an actually "pretty decent" thing from this government.

#cdnpoli

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 1d

Canada’s new government is starting Automatic Federal Benefits. We’re going to pre-file taxes for up to 5.5 million low-income Canadians, so they get the benefits they are entitled to — money that would otherwise be left unclaimed.

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