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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 5h

Me when a white youtuber calls a James Hong character's accent 'problematic.'

a black and white photo of a man wearing a striped shirt and an apron

Alt: Curly Joe of the Three Stooges beats his chest and squints his eye in pinstriped overalls and a bow tie. Nyuk nyuk ruff! RUFF!

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 9h

If the AMA and the DNC ran the same, your doctor would be telling you that you need to meet the tumor in the middle.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 2d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 11h

My Dinner with AI is just Nate Silver yelling at a fork for 90 minutes then punching the waitress because the water was wet.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 13h

ok so as a Brisco County, Jr super fan I need to be clear: John Carpenter wanted Bruce Campbell and the fact that he had to settle for cosplaying a lesser Baldwin doomed Vampires from the start.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 11h

Guy Gardener is about to get banned from whatever outdated brick and mortar analogy goes here. Toys R Us I guess.

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 12h

the accessories are gonna be lit

a headline from TrekMovie.com

Upcoming Waves Of Nacelle Star Trek Figures Include TOS Crew And "Sub Rosa" Beverly Crusher

with a Nacelle image of an Uhura figure and Beverly enveloped by green smoke

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 11h

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Could have BEEN immortal. Could have been the person who ended homelessness. The person who brought back science. But instead he chose high score and pissed it all away. At the end, desperately trying to trade blood for time.

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 11h

If reality was a hack writer (it is), the low hanging fruit arc for "Dr." Mr. Grimes' Ex would be:
Double down on betting on the singularity.
Burn the world for 20 years.
Grief process hits Bargaining.
Full 180. Save the earth, philanthropy, just PLEASE MAKE ME IMMORTAL!

Cont...

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

ELECT BRUNDLEFLY 2028

VOMIT TO EAT

VOMIT TO LEAD

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

Seattle's mayoral fuckery follows a very correlated curve to tech sprawl. All of Seattle's weird little enclaves evaporated when three MD salaries in a trench coat became entry pay to a bunch of lower middle class nerds who got their first computer from their parents to shut them up. They nested.

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 12h

Seattle's dreadful mayor just suggested we make a computer-generated Dr. Martin Luther King, and of any question he could ask it, THIS was the first thing that came to mind:

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 14h

"And you could say, Well, Dr. Martin Luther King, I've always wanted to meet you. What was your day like today? What did you have for breakfast? And he comes back and he talks to you. How cool would that be if we have a series of historical figures that we all could agree on, that we respect?"

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

It also sounds like a drink made of elephant testis promoted by whatever washed up "Outlaw Rocker" was just paid 50K to perform for Nadsack PD's Civil Forfeiture Auction and Pig Fuck.

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

Yeah, I'm not up for chasing the next existential dread machine. If it dies, it dies. I'll go back to just yelling at people on the street.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

The Piano Man curve:

1: "This is a sad song about broken dreams."

100: "This is maybe about a guy playing at a gay bar who doesn't know it."

1000: "This is just an asshole making fun of people for being mediocre while playing piano in a dive for their money. He doesn't even listen to his friend."

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 16h

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

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Identifile: Desktop Dungeon @gearbytegames.bsky.social · 21h

My friend and I spent a year making a Desktop Dungeon Crawler game about deleting viruses!

And it's coming to Steam Next Fest coming Monday!
#gamedev 🎮 #pixelart #indiegame

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 15h

Dream journal:

Drunk History + Behind the Bastards = "Ineberated"

Please inbox me your podcast deals.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 16h

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 11,1954

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- WE SEE A BURGLAR ENTERING THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW

P2-THE BURGLAR HAS ENTERED SLUGGO’S BEDROOM WHO IS SOUND ASLEEP, THE BURGLAR SEES THE POOR LIVING CONDITIONS THAT SLUGGO IS STAYING IN.

P3- THE BURGLAR HAS COMPASSION AND EXITS OUT THE WINDOW, BUT BEFORE LEAVING HE DROPS SOME COINS IN SLUGGO’S PIGGY BANK.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 15h

Oh... I want this in my veins.

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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Proudly Blue @proudlyblue.bsky.social · 18h

One gets the idea that brutal guys sign up for ICE so they can beat up teenage girls with a mask on and get away with it.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 17h

Aging out of Jesus does leave BYU TV open....

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18h

Hey remember that time an Atheist spent an entire week on here calling for the ethic cleansing and complete elimination of Jews because they said it was the only way to fight Israel?

Atheists refuse to account for the ethno-part of Jewish ethno-religion when they whine about ending all religions.

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Maybe. But behind the annoyance of the atheist there is typically much less bigotry, authoritarian tendencies, tax evasion, science denialism, closeted sexuality, etc.
October 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 17h

Preemptively identifying atheists are, generally, just theists for contrarianism. Generally, if you don't believe in something you tend to NOT talk about it unless it comes up. Dawkins framed pop-atheism as a banner. A brand. And now it's just any other far-right enclave. Religion in kind.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18h

Hey remember that time an Atheist spent an entire week on here calling for the ethic cleansing and complete elimination of Jews because they said it was the only way to fight Israel?

Atheists refuse to account for the ethno-part of Jewish ethno-religion when they whine about ending all religions.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 17h

Why settle for crappy AI when you can hire organic wisdom?

Hire. This. Artist.

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 1d

I sometimes do work for publishing houses. This was a request that came to me the DAY that it was due and had NO assets for me to use: this is me taking a pdf of the book and making this from complete scratch! It would be good if you hired me actually! I can do stuff! This looks like a real ad!

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 1d

I sometimes do work for publishing houses. This was a request that came to me the DAY that it was due and had NO assets for me to use: this is me taking a pdf of the book and making this from complete scratch! It would be good if you hired me actually! I can do stuff! This looks like a real ad!

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