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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 2d

I hate the new Sora so much. This isn’t like getting fooled by a good photoshop job. It’s so much worse.

Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh, just got sloplash real bad.

Sloplash - The feeling when one’s soul is crushed upon realizing that something they thought was good and real is actually just AI slop.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 17d

This is the first time the MLB app has ever put this y here

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Sep 10

I suspect that over the past 15 years, the Mariners spent more time within two games of the postseason cutoff line than any other team, and it is not even close. Any baseball stat geeks (complimentary) know how to check this?

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is very good.

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Jeff @jeffmeyer.dev · Sep 4

Sloptimism

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Sep 4

We need a word for the gutting disappointment you feel when you see something that warms your heart and fills you with optimism but then your realize it was AI generated and never actually happened.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Sep 1

She then completely deconstructed the gender binary. “And why does the woman have a dress when women don’t always wear dresses?” Almost nobody in line for the women’s room was wearing a dress. “And sometimes men wear dresses.” Folks, the kids get it.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Sep 1

My seven-year-old saw this sign while we were waiting in a line for the bathroom and asked, “Why are only men allowed in that elevator?”

A sign that says elevator with a box with three people icons that look like the men’s room symbol.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Aug 31

Don’t even worry, CVS has the Werther’s Originals safely locked up.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Aug 4

Sick of your pocket calculator using woke math? The all-new CalcGOP uses advanced technology to check with the Trump White House to ensure it never gives an answer that might offend the President. If woke math is detected, CalcGOP will automatically suggest a government-approved alternative!

The iPhone calculator, but the plus sign is a swastika and the equals sign is an approximation sign.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jul 7

Usually I am frustrated by the seemingly normal words that Firefox's spell checker does not know. But I'm actually impressed by this one. I will not be clicking "add to dictionary." What a horrible word.

Text says, "influencers on social media." The word influencers is underlined to signify it is not recognized or is spelled wrong, even though it is correct.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 29

Any reporter looking for a real-world, local example of how this will affect your community should just call up any assisted living facility/nursing home and ask to talk to someone in the resident financing office. Ask them what would happen if Medicaid dried up.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 29

And Medicaid isn’t just for people who are already poor, it’s also for people who didn’t think they were poor until a major medical issue or long term care wiped out every penny they had saved up. Happens all the time because our healthcare system is garbage. It’s there for any of us.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 28

Slashing Medicaid will kill poor and disabled Americans. Republicans know this and are trying to do it, anyway. This is what an actual extremist policy looks like. It kills people. Yet shitty Dems want to spend their time attacking Mamdani. Fight for the people, not against them. This is dire.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 28

Like, sure, the film might be better if the studio hadn't ripped it away from the creative team and recut it a Hollywood action film. But that's all ancient history now that we're several years beyond the film's 2021 setting. As an artifact of the 90s, it's so good. There's a cyber dolphin!

Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 28

You all listened to the movie reviewers back in the 90s, so you missed this.

A scary guy with long hair with the subtitle "Jesus time."

The guy is on fire and being electrocuted with his arms outstretched.

Ice-T with a circle A tattoo on his forehead with subtitle "Piece of shit."

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 13

I met Jimmy Wales when I was in college and told him, “I like your website.”

R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 11

It led me to became a theatrical sound designer in college, which is how I met the friends who eventually led me to Seattle. Funny how life plays out.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 11

The experience of digging through these old tapes was really impactful on me, though. I assumed that since it had been abandoned since 1969, it was never going to be released. It was a chance to play music producer with disjointed bits of genius and often bizarre takes.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 11

Pretty much everyone assumed the album would be in two halves (two sides of vinyl). I remember being shocked when bootlegs of the first performance in London leaked and it turned out to be three acts. I quickly made a new mix with the correct order.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 11

I was obsessed with Smile by the Beach Boys back when the lost tapes leaked onto file sharing networks in the early 2000s. Nobody knew the song order until he performed it live in 2004, so everyone had to take these bootlegged tapes and try to create their own mixes. It was a lot of fun.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 6

They probably just caught some microdrafts that missed you. That’s a common weather phenomenon this time of year.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 6

Well, none of this applies to bikes. You can buy those on vibes.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · Jun 6

A new gpu would outperform mine by 150% at a price of $450 (after tax). But since my gpu costs $0, the price-per-performance advantage of keeping my existing gpu is literally infinity.

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