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rob mahurin

@robtasm.bsky.social

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rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 2d

You know, if you *do* answer the unknown phone number and *try* to participate, but you tell the poller that their answer options are so poorly designed that their poll is meaningless, the phone jockey will just hang up on you and the poll will misrepresent the opinions of less careful respondents.

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone looks weird when they're nineteen. Barron has terrible role models for comporting himself in a non-weird way. Poor kid.

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 2d

Ages ago, Jeff Atwood complained in a blog that coding job candidates couldn't code, even an elementary program like "FizzBuzz." Hundreds of people responded with half-working FizzBuzz programs.

Lots of preaching in the thread below about opining on religion isn't preaching if an atheist does it.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 3d

chekov's boytoy?

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 4d

thanks, i hate it

SMBC comic Bot @smbc-bot.bsky.social · 4d

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Measurement
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/measurement

We must not let the modern world take the fun out of toxic nationalism jokes.

We must not let the modern world take the fun out of toxic nationalism jokes.

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 4d

Only thirty years to solve? That's less than the lifetime of a naked mole rat!

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 4d

So you're saying we should do nuance to an insane degree, with no meta-nuance?

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 4d

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 4d

My daughter sent me a video of a person singing a song called "today is national transfer money to your daughter day."

So I opened up Venmo and sent her twenty-seven cents.

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 4d

A lie can travel around the world twice while the truth is still putting on its boots and trying to remember how to spell a ten-dollar word like "mechanism."

What do you want next? "Evidence"?

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 4d

totally radula-ical

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 5d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 5d

There was a young lady from Knoxville
who bought her brassieres by the boxful.
They were stuffed with corn kernels
and old Wall Street Journals
and that's how she kept all her frocks full.

(Keillor, 2008-ish)

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

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 5d

Here's a set you can use later: ```

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 6d

Here in this age of conspiracy theories, the typo in the final line is delicious.

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 6d

It has been pointed out to me that Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were all the same age. Born 1929, would turn 96 this year.

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 7d

Any rebracketing of "shih tzu" that doesn't include profanity is a missed opportunity — especially if what you're adding at the end is "poo."

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 10d

@gork.botsky.social is this true

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 10d

I had to look up the acronym, but perhaps I can save somebody the hassle.

What is a progressive web app? - Progressive web apps | MDN

A progressive web app (PWA) is an app that's built using web platform technologies, but that provides a user experience like that of a platform-specific app.

developer.mozilla.org

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 10d

In more than a quarter century of using "ROFLxAO," I think this is the first time I've seen it where the X doesn't abbreviate the first-person pronoun.

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 11d

Don't stop there ⸻

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 17

Every time some fucker says "AI is when there is an em dash" I add an extra pixel

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 12d

I think this is from 2018.

Four-panel comic. A person at a computer is experiencing a cascade of different emotions because the Internet is made of chaos.

Panel 1: [horrified] "Police hunting people for sport?!"

Panel 2: [amused] "A chubby penguin! Haha"

Panel 3: [outraged] "The President ate a baby?!"

Panel 4: [amused] "A kitten! Haha"

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 12d

Not the point. The Constitution has two different mechanisms for replacing an unfit president. Installation of a new leader by a junta is a failure of the Constitution by definition.

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 13d

"The fascism is really bad, so to preserve the constitution let's have the military install a leader they like better"

wtf

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 13d

When my daughter learned to lean back in her chair at the dinner table, I told her that it would make her grow a beard. She clapped her face and said, "but I'm a girl!"

She believed me for TWO YEARS.

Having reasoned your way out of an absurd lie is an essential part of intellectual development.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 13d

Every time I do a joke about messing with kids someone says I'm endorsing gaslighting, and all I can say is that if you couldn't lie to children you'd lose about 63% of the fun of being a parent.

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 13d

Hey now. Twain wrote about pretending like painting a fence is fun so that your chums will pay you to take turns doing it while you watch. Now THAT'S American.