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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 9h

You know what Bose is great for? NPR. Sincerely, my mother-in-law.

(That clock radio-looking thing really does do voice well. It’s almost as if it spikes the mids at the expense of everything else.)

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 12h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Brad Linder @bradlinder.bsky.social · 13h

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 13h

*a take 🙄

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 13h

So I suggest looking into an option to include SOMEthing on the right, even if it’s just space. And if you wanna get crazy, maybe have width adjustable? (Skeets allows custom padding, which is nice, but that app has other issues IMO.)

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 13h

Posts get stretched out so long that it looks super-weird. Boost is not alone in this, to be clear! But I would kill for an iPad app that includes awtake on the righthand sidebar from the web view—or at least more white space (on both sides) to get post width in line with the width in portrait view.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 13h

Nice! Clean and snappy, and the pricing of Premium (and what’s locked behind it) is totally reasonable. (A pay-once option would be nice too though!)

The one thing that’s keeping me in the (uggh so buggy) web app is the landscape view on iPad:

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 19h

Ohh shiiiit it’s on to game 5 of the Scoops v. Skip Classic @andrewpfister.bsky.social

Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 1d

Hear that? That is the sound of Chuck Schumer sharpening up his favorite sternly-worded-letter-writing quill. JUST YOU WAIT until the ink dries

Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 1d

Man, too bad they don't have any contacts who might be able to provide bespoke computer-generated video

(Also thank you for my new go-to epithet.

”Frozen veggies? That is some shit from an ass”)

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · Nov 18

An elf owl, (i think), a small brown and grey owl with large golden eyes. The image is a compliation of photos showing the owl making 15 different facial expressions. A1 is pure shock. A2 is disgust. A3 is consideration. A4 is suspicion. A5 is speculative wonder. B1 is murderous rage. B2 is a hateful staredown. B3 is constipation. B4 is post-constipation relief. B5 is checking your liquid eyeliner. C1 is checking your false lashes. C2 is murderous rage again. C3 is a passport photo. C4 is looking at you like you are short. C5 is contempt.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 1d

I really like your ruminations on bigger topics in your reviews.

Hey, you should ruminate on rumination! Sounds like many heirloom apples have skins that require…special attention

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 1d

so presidential

AP photos show Rubio's urgent note to Trump before announcement of Mideast peace deal

Secretary of State Marco Rubio passed President Donald Trump a note during a White House event, hinting a Mideast peace deal was close.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 1d

Man, Apple tv is just killing it with their sf stuff.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 2d

“You Fuckers Couldn't Make This Guy the VP Because Women are Emotional or Whatever Shitty Excuse You Pounced On and I Will Never Forgive You (Reprise)”

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 2d

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 6d

I…
stay out…
too late…

[BWOMMMMMM]

got nothing…
in my brain…

[child giggling, BWOMMMMMM]

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 7d

question for the timeline

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 2d

Sir, it’s JR in Requisitions, so sorry to bother you but I’m being told the pancake mix is dangerously low and the in-house Starbucks is out of soy milk, please advise

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 2d

How about the Moviefone guy?

“If you know the name
of the Woke RINO you’d like to prosecute…
PRESS ONE NOW”

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 2d

BREAKING: Techbro Fails to Understand Humans, Corporations

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 2d

Absolutely! Reconnected with old friends, colleagues, classmates, neighbors…landed a gig or two…contributed to this dude’s dopamine levels…

Honestly, it’s genuinely not all bad. (But you gotta curate your feeds ruthlessly.)

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 2d

Oh I am ABOUT TO BE

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 2d

As an artist, I realize that I am a pioneer species in disturbed areas and any cool artiness I may bring is an eventual factor in gentrification. I try to prevent this by being as uncool as possible in public.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 2d

I think there’s different types of interruptions. There’s “so excited to contribute I can’t wait” like you describe, and there’s “sorry, this is urgent” but there‘s also “I don’t consider you talking to be worth my notice and so will just talk over you because I am the center of the universe“

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 3d

Still makes me giggle

A section of a Bubsy 3D review in the February 1997 issue of P.S.X. Magazine. The reviewer is Joe (i.e., me. Hi!) and the score is an…oddly specific…39.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 4d

Baby, dig that lemon scent