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★ thomas brodie singstar ★

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · Apr 4

All this instead of chicken vaccines.

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Jeff Mac @jeffmacishere.bsky.social · 5h

today, Cuomo was endorsed by:

-Donald Trump
-Elon Musk
-Stephen Miller(?!)

I mean, was the concept of "touching a public doorknob and it turns out to be both wet and warm" not available to do the talk shows this week?

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 16h

I keep looking at coming back, and the property taxes are literally as much as my current mortgage. I understand that some of that expense will shake out in greater convenience and cheaper food and such, but jesuschristhowdopeopledoit?

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 17h

How nice of her to track you down!

The scuff would be fine, I think, but the little inversion at the bottom doesn't look great. On the bright side, I recently had both bumper covers replaced and it cost a lot less than I expected.

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Jeff Mac @jeffmacishere.bsky.social · 17h

we're reaching the singularity when Mike Johnson is going to be asked about the last sentence he literally just said during THIS press conference and he's going to claim he hasn't heard about it

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 1d

The nudge setting does get cleared occasionally. Happened to me yesterday.

But Facebook-style posters don't seem to understand that they can just delete and repost.

"Benal obsrevation" (1 minute ago)
"My kingdom for an edit button!" (1 minute ago)

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 2d

That squirrel is spotted! How is that squirrel spotted?

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 2d

So fwiw, which is nothing, the only thing I know about Smoltz is that my cat spent Game 1 of the 1996 World Series desperately trying to remove him from the television and eat him.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 2d

Similar; I use a multi-input monitor with a separate and visually distinct K&M for each machine. One color for work. Work's peripherals are so crap I don't even sign for them, so I stick with extremely mainstream brands for the K&M.

I've never had a mixup, unless you count looking up recipes.

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

Dislikes will be used to rearrange replies.

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

I like the idea of going back to Dreamwidth, except for the part where I enjoy interaction.

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

My only guess, besides throwing spaghetti at the wall: The median user assumes all feeds have algorithmic meddling, so let's do some ostensibly user-driven algorithmic meddling. Never mind lessons going all the way back to, idk, Slashdot.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

WASH A DISH, FUCKFACE

Kiplinger's headline in my google feed. This is also the entire text of the letter, fwiw; no nuance.

I Retired at 60 Two Years Ago With $3.1 Million. My 62-Year-Old Wife Still Works Because She Wants to, but She Resents My Free Time. Help!

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 3d

The bluesky team at this time cannot confirm its awareness of the existence of Palestinians or Gaza or Palestine or anything lalalalalla i can't hear you

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

"Improved toxicity detection."

Until they acknowledge how antisocial, how actively bad, their moderation has been since its inception, we have to interpret all references to improving moderation as "making it more like it is."

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

But it works so well on Reddit.

No roving downvote bots detected, not ever!

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

Well ... too early for a Darwin, unless you know something I don't know involving Bryan Johnson and 220 volts.

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

Ocean could work!

I see folks hoping for the Grand Canyon, and while I'm sure that place is full of idiot bones, I'm agin it.

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

Conall Maccon has a castle because he's an earl, not because he's a werewolf

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

"Demo" in what sense, exactly?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

Elon Musk says he's going to demo a flying car by the end of the year.

Elon Musk Tells Joe Rogan That He Will Demo a Flying Car by End of Year

gizmodo.com

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

It's funny, my immediate reaction was not "that'd cause a concussion" so much as "standing in that room would FEEL like a concussion" goddamn 6 axes of high gloss zebra print.

But yes, I do associate glossy marble with danger.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

I clicked on one fatuous, ill-informed student op-ed and now my feed thinks I need to know if the Harvard Crimson shifts in its chair or picks its teeth. Everything is so unsubtle these days.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder if spending day after day stewing in his aesthetic feels like a concussion.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

unsafe! unsafe!!

Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 3d

Parents - check your halloween candy carefully. Someone may try to teach your kids the C programming language

A snickers bar cut open with a basic example for how to swap two numbers using a temp variable in the C coding language

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

At a small European airport earlier this month, a British lady who kept nudging her suitcase in front of mine got sent to the back of the line and wound up boarding last.

My heart grew three sizes that day.

Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 3d

Passenger unfamiliar with the concept of assigned seats, hard to imagine how at their age but

queen elizabeth is wearing a purple hat and gloves and waving at the camera .

Alt: queen elizabeth is wearing a purple hat and gloves and waving at the camera .

media.tenor.com

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 3d

Which presumably has a manual control option like any old puck robot?