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Neon Chinchilla

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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · Nov 24

If you showed up here from a starter pack my best advice to you is go through my timeline. (I would recommend that for anyone you follow.) You can see if we are going to vibe. If I am interesting/boring/offensive to you.

Welcome to bluesky regardless of whether you choose to stay following or not.

A Punisher skull with pride flag colouring and the text "You are valid and worthy of love. Fuck anyone who says different!"

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Radical Mainiac @radicalmainiac.bsky.social · 5h

Kitty Heaven 🤭
Cozy, lazy, paper bag, wood stove warmth, cuddly perfection 🥰
💜🥰😸🥰💜

Kitty laying on a paper bag in front of the wood stove

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 4h

Inflatable Heroes.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 16h

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 37m

The man was a gift.

We need more John Candys in the world.

Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 37m

In a world full of shit eating demons like Donald Trump finding out people like John Candy exist is life affirming. A man who cared. Who was sweet and thoughtful despite all his success. And he was a die-hard, patriotic Canadian to boot.

If you loved his work watch it. If you are Canadian watch it.

Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 37m

You aren't crying. I am. I am fucking bawling.

Why?

Because I watched the John Candy documentary. I grew up on his work. I have seen every episode of SCTV at least twice. I never looked into his personal life. Finding out he was an amazing human being was just perfect.

John Candy: I Like Me - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 5h

😁 indeed

Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 5h

Justin Trudeau was Canada's prettiest Prime Minister.

He also legalized weed.

Never forget.

So damn pretty.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looking dreamy with a steely look of determination on his face.

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phil mccrevice @jewkrainian.bsky.social · 6h

oh you’re a patriot? i bet you don’t even cum when you hear the national anthem

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 6h

HANG UP YOUR WAR SCYTHE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE ANXIETY. AND YOU WILL WIN.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 1d

some say it’s art, some say it’s not

Golden lamp in the shape of a nose with a bulb hanging from the right nostril.

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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 5h

I am disappointed in Justin. I hope this is just a fling.

He can do better.

daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 7h

do you think trudeau and katy perry make out in her cybertruck

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 12h

They should have done the Tron movie in claymation

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 6h

“San Francisco doesn’t have cops” is the kind of thing you hear from a moron

💀 The Haunted Typewriter 💀 @hauntedtypewriter.bsky.social · 6h

CEOs are now recommending to Trump where to send the national guard next. Kind of makes me think this whole authoritarian thing is cover for the same class war that's been happening in America forever.

Silicon Valley tech boss Marc Benioff says he's all for Trump sending troops to San Francisco since 'we don't have enough cops' | Fortune

“We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it,” Benioff told The New York Times on Friday.

fortune.com

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Momus "Bones" Jones @boyq.bsky.social · 6h

Trudeau/Perry current events are precedented.

Momus "Bones" Jones @boyq.bsky.social · Jul 29

lmao, I can't resist posting this SCTV clip

The Trudeau/Prickley affair

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Michelle H. Davis @lonestarleft.com · 6h

@jaworskifortexas.bsky.social

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 7h

Nice pale horse you got there, bro. Be a shame if hell followed with you

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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 6h

My mom is great.

She also remembers when I was younger and a bit of a hellion.

But she knows I am on my diplomacy arc. Attempting to be the nicer and kinder me. It's a work in progress.

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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 7h

Not that I had plans to be mean to the guy or anything. My mother means well.

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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 7h

"So which reporters are on bluesky?"

Lots of them. Brian Stelter, for example.

"He is the one that looks like Jason Alexander right?"

Right mom.

"Don't you be mean to him."

No, mom. I won't be mean to him.

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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 7h

Just a reminder:

I can't be mean to Brian Stelter because my mother told me not to. She actually forbade me.

(True story. Weirdest dinner conversation of the past decade for me.)

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springmeisterblu.bsky.social @springmeisterblu.bsky.social · 1d

Stereo symphony of skylarks… sound on

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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 7h

I solve this problem by being the weird relative.

The Amytyville Horror @msfoxifurnasty.bsky.social · 19h

everyone be extra nice to canadians rn their thanksgiving is at the end of a weekend they cannot escape their weird relatives

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 11h

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 10h

as enjoyable as it is to dunk on vibe coders, this is just the nature of cloud services. they’re really expensive and they can easily cost you shocking amounts of money really fast even if you know what you’re doing! if you don’t know what you’re doing, messing with them is just asking for trouble!

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.

tom_watts • 3d
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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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 10h

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Patch your shit, peepz.

New 7-Zip high-severity vulnerabilities expose systems to remote attackers — users should update to version 25 ASAP

Patches for two high-severity ZIP parsing flaws have quietly been available since July.

www.tomshardware.com

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