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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 9m

The thing that still makes me laugh about all of it, in a gallows-humor sort of way, is that I used to write documentation for a certain large tech company's fraud detection services. So I know how these things are supposed to work! In practice, though....they're often a mite flawed.

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 12m

They do, however, start going FRAUD ALERT FRAUD ALERT WAS THIS YOOOOUUUUU?!?!?!? if I make more than one PlayStation Network purchase in a row. Never fails.

(Moral of that story: stop buying DLC, self. I know. But still.)

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 17m

But speaking here as a documentation writer…oh, god, I feel your pain.

Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 18m

When it comes to games, I’m willing to read up to a point, and that point is usually, “I’m playing on console, the screen is six feet away, your lore and tutorial text are in minuscule fonts, and my eyes hurt.”

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 25m

Compare to: everymac.com/systems/appl...

Macintosh Performa 630 (CD) (PC) Specs: EveryMac.com

Technical specifications for the Macintosh Performa 630 (CD) (PC). Dates sold, processor type, memory info, hard drive details, price and more.

everymac.com

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 26m

Love how the image is of a Mac Performa circa 1994-ish with the logos removed.

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 29m

I had a long talk about that one w/my card provider’s fraud department, since I did get the alert about a large transaction, fortunately, even if they didn’t notice it was wildly uncharacteristic. I didn’t even know what the site WAS. Now every time I see their ads, I practically hiss at the screen.

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 35m

And the consequences ripple out even to people who want nothing to do with it. I had my credit card info stolen last year to run up hundreds of dollars on a sports betting site (and somehow it didn’t get flagged as fraud, which still pisses me off beyond words).

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 3h

The world lost a genial man, a genius communicator and a supreme artist. I lost a friend - beloved Drew.

Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · 6h

Rest in Peace, Drew Struzan

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 23h

Too many people view reading as “something you do” rather than “a skill that can be developed.”

If you want to get better at kicking a football, you have to kick a lot of footballs. If you want to get better at reading, you have to read a lot of books.

Also, it’s fun to be good at things!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 23h

Occasionally, I'm forced to confront the fact that I used to write headlines myself, and none of us can resist a bad pun when the opportunity presents itself.

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 23h

Local headline: "Updates: Mariners' lead over Blue Jays balloons to 10-3 in ALCS Game 2"

Me: "And I'm sure that's going over like a lead balloon in Toronto."

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 23h

meanwhile, dis Crete: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete

(...I'll see myself out)

Crete - Wikipedia

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 1d

We may be rooting for different teams, but we are united in our distaste for bad kerning.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 1d

OK there's my Unhinged Literary Opinion: Pratchett is the greatest humanist/philosophical writer of our era.

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

and since he really does have a quote for everything, in the wise words of Sir Terry Pratchett: “Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 2d

Puppetry! Yay!

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 2d

My mom was from Minnesota and would certainly let you know about it, just in very specific contexts. Most of them to do with weather.

(Read: Yes, Mom, I know you had to take your driver's test in the snow. You've said. Many times. Now try parallel parking while going backwards up a hill.)

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 3d

Me? I love finding out about wins from the local seismic network. :) bsky.app/profile/pnsn...

Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 3d

You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment

Seismogram showing ground motion at T-Mobile Park for game-winning single by Seattle Mariner Jorge Polanco, JP Crawford scores!

MLB poster for PostSEAson 2025 that reads Seis the Moment with a small seismogram between the Seis and the The. Has website for PNSN seismograms of the game. mariners.pnsn.org

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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 3d

You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 5d

Reading this anecdote and begging, BEGGING people who are not in creative fields to wrap their brains around the fact that figuring one's way through those stuck transitions *IS THE FUN PART*.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 5d

It exists in a particular context, actually! Performa was a line of Macintosh computers back in the '90s.

(I had the Performa 630 CD. Amazingly, Apple's site still acknowledges its existence: support.apple.com/en-us/112345 )

Macintosh Performa 630 and 630CD:Technical Specifications - Apple Support

support.apple.com

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5d

lede = introductory section in journalism

bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information

Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 6d

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

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Jenny Griffee @jgriffee.bsky.social · 5d

It’s bizarre that the experiences vary so widely, but they sure seem to, these days. :\