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Joe Trela
@alert74.bsky.social
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That guy who was on that show. Learned League trivia ronin sasquatch, amateur numismatist, flagrant vexillologist, occasional blue hair w/pronouns. Sanguis in auribus, stultusque in speculo.
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 7m
Tell it to 'em, Sans!
A scene from the video RPG Undertale. Sans (as in "sans serif" - his big brother is Papyrus) is a cheerful little skeleton dude you meet up with repeatedly during your travels through the underworld. You're perfectly capable of completing the game without slaying anyone at all (which gives you the best ending), but if you go out of your way to kill everyone you meet (aka the "genocide" playthrough) Sans will warn you: "here's some friendly advice." "if you keep going the way you are now..." "..." "you're going to have a bad time."* *This is accurate.
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 5h
"Permit was not pulled"
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 7h
Wondering if "gymnast to house painter" was some reference to a range of occupations that was put in the wrong part of the form (for example, it might have been followed by "house plasterer to kinetograph operator").
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 7h
They shame us with their dignity!
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 15h
I am large; I contain multitudes.
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 18h
Nome for the holidays!
A map of the nomes, or districts, of Ancient Egypt.
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 18h
Sorry, didn't mean to calumny the waterbirds

Let's make that "fascist 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘺𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘴" (the organism that causes that nasty fungal disease chytridiomycosis in amphibians).
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 19h
"Ernst Thälmann could not be reached for comment."
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 20h
"Because we are fascist herons!"

"Shh, don't say the quiet part out loud!"
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 20h
Yes, TV prices dropped dramatically as advances in manufacturing and economies of scale kicked in.

But this isn't happening with AI. Ever greater amounts of investors' money are being poured into ever larger data centers, but they have yet to pay off and might not ever

fortune.com/2025/09/23/a...
The AI boom is unsustainable unless tech spending goes ‘parabolic,’ Deutsche Bank warns: ‘This is highly unlikely’ | Fortune
“In the absence of tech-related spending, the U.S. would be close to, or in, recession this year,” George Saravelos says.
fortune.com
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 23h
As an incorrigible space nerd, I'm pleasantly surprised to have been beaten to the punch!
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 1d
So if you're planning on making a crappy 10 second uncanny valley video of fat Americans breaking through glass bridges, do it now!*

*actually I'd rather you didn't
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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d
I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...
AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought
An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.
futurism.com
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 1d
Just tell them Roko's Basilisk demands it.
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 1d
At which point we all win!
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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d
After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 2d
What do you zinc you're doing, getting in her bismuth like that? I hope you can cobalt with what this will lead to.
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 2d
"This is Traffic Copter One, and we're seeing a massive pile-up of tankies at the Tropicana Avenue exit of the 15. Recommend taking alternate routes."
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 2d
He's trying to comprehend how there can be graphite on the ground around Reactor 4. I mean, RBMK reactors don't just explode!
Con O'Neil as Viktor Bryukhanov (manager of the Chernobyl nuclear power station) in the eponymous 2019 HBO miniseries.
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 3d
Quite well apparently!
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 3d
If I can get through the pop music round in bar trivia, I have a decent shot of winning.

Fortunately, there were a fair number of oldies this time around.
The trophy for winning Wednesday bar trivia at the Rotator in Walnut Creek, California. Everyone who wins adds something to it, so it's a mishmash of stickers, plush figures, flags, props, and such, all on a wheeled base. Yours truly with my trophy and the Hat of Lights 2 (version 1 belonged to my dad).
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 3d
I hear there's a landfill full of bored apes outside of Albuquerque.
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 4d
Turkey Cake
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 4d
Well everyone he knows, anyway. And that's what's important!
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 4d
Nah, they're pretty chonky
A one pound package of smoked turkey tails. Each one is slightly smaller than a baseball.
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 4d
It's pretty mawesome (not to mention cromulent).
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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 4d
Warren Ellis's Crecy got that across rather pointedly.

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