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max mccarthy

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People always tell me that I’m tall. I work on interaction prototyping at Apple. SF; he/they.

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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · May 8

ridiculous that i am just a loose collection of molecules that has somehow decided to "feel bad" this morning

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The Hearse Whisperer @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 5d

I'm a single issue voter and my single issue is "do you want to feed my friends into a wood chipper", if your bitch ass can't manage a weak little "no" then get the fuck out of my face!!!!

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 5d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 5d

announcement: i will be using the term "short king" exclusively to refer to men who are taller than 6′0″ but shorter than i am (6′3″)

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 6d

how to deactivate torment nexus

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deactivate torment nexus no survey

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · Sep 11

what a lovely day, I sure hope nothing bad happens

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 7d

idk it sucks to work in a hated industry but as someone who worked security for a decade idk man you need to log off if you're reaction to poor tech critics is seething contempt.

like the tech is being used to mass fire people and revenge porn at scale, that means you also get dumb criticism too

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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 9d

it's a great day to have perfectly neutral opinions about taylor swift :)

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 12d

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?"

GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 12d

kavanaugh stop? i wish he would!

max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 13d

had to check to make sure you hadn’t made up “chip barm pea wet” to make us look like fools for believing it was plausible

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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 14d

currently visiting beautiful washington, dc and the national guard units standing around in parks or guarding the krispy kreme just look so… sloppy, and embarrassing. literally nothing for them to do, and they know it

max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 20d

it’s a tricky one to rhyme!

max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 20d

and to tell your Kleins apart:

if the Klein be Naomi then she’s a homie;
if the Klein be Ezra… oh buddy, et cetera

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 20d

“I’m joining the war on Autism, on the side of Autism” meme with Cyclops from Xmen edited ij

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20d

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 20d

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

The Simpsons old man sitting on a stump telling a story but all the kids have been replaced with headstones

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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 20d

(also this character won’t be affected by your computer’s attempts to fix the direction of your curly quotes, so it will always be the right shape/direction)

max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 20d

(this is also neat because this symbol is correctly classified as a letter, rather than as punctuation.)

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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 20d

there’s a separate unicode character that should be used, though not all fonts support it.

one quick trick is to copy-paste the symbol from the wikipedia article!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifie...

Modifier letter turned comma - Wikipedia

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