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Can Okar

@canokar.bsky.social

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Who knows what I’ll write about here but maybe less Turkish politics? Or maybe more…

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Nov 17

A guide for those who need to *fully* quit the other place (I deactivated over a year ago, haven’t looked back):

1) You can’t have a burner account - if you’re half in, you’re all in

2) Remind yourself why you quit - it’s like smoking. X makes you feel like shit - remember that

cont.

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · 12d

Sorry but who are you?

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · 16d

As an Arsenal fan who hates PGMOL, I am absolutely delighted to say Arsenal’s penalty just now was insanely wrong.

It happened so far outside the box that there is no legit explanation for it at all.

PGMOL and the entire referee class in England needs to go.

Incompetent, corrupt or both.

Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · 23d

The people who shout “Get in the hole!” at golf might just be the worst people humanity has to offer.

Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · 23d

Someone I thought was roughly my age came up to me smiling the other day.

Turns out he’s now a granddad.

I’m not worried about him per se, but yeah, the parents are now quite young. The grandparents might be your age. And the real danger is the people who might soon have great-grandchildren.

Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Aug 23

After I quit Twitter, I’ve been very “not terminally online”.

That photo just clarified half a dozen jokes people have been making at me since I started wearing that shirt.

Thank you.

Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Aug 23

Wow, you’ve lost half a Paul in retirement - looking great!

I also have this kit to be fair - I’d wear this one on date night or to work. It’s too classy for the Emirates.

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Aug 23

I’ll come Home in September I reckon. Buy the new kit - I have a feeling it might become like one of our O2 or Sega kits if we can find some luck.

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Aug 23

Mate, can you spit on your hands, turn 720 degrees where you stand and pray to your Gods in earnest please?

I’m not having anyone curse this season before it’s even begun.

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Aug 22

Dunno man. That lovely team has derailed Arsenal in each and every one of the last three attempts.

The 2-2 in 23 after Saka’s pen was soul destroying.

The home defeat over Christmas in season after was part of the collapse we couldn’t come back from even with 18 wins.

Last year killed us off.

Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Aug 1

I was at a dinner recently where a bunch of people were talking about how AI was “literally predicting the future and knew everything about their pasts”.

I had to bite my lip but desperately wanted to scream, “IT’S FORTUNE TELLING!”

Turns out that’s what it is.

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

softwarecrisis.dev

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Aug 1

I’ve been reflecting on this overnight and I truly believe the next time the Tories are in power and try to remove the license fee, we show them this and just say, “Quod erat demonstrandum” before walking away in barely constrained hysterics.

Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 31

And its more famous meme brother (which is fake but still gorgeous): youtu.be/G8qhrURrQbI?...

mummy voice

YouTube video by kmlkmljkl

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 31

While we’re at it, here’s the original mummy sound: youtu.be/4-Iok_QiE64?...

Scientists recreate what a mummy's voice would've sounded like

YouTube video by Matt Novak

youtu.be

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 31

Here you go brother: youtu.be/tTkF8tomobA?...

Neanderthal voice

YouTube video by Ragna Þórsdóttir

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 31

“One two three…”

“Now higher pitched.”

“Ooone twooo threee…”

“Now push your skull down and make a noise!”

“MWAAAAARRGGGGHG!!”

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 31

This reminds me of that CBS story of what an Egyptian mummy would have sounded like and it collapsed the internet with how ridiculous it was (even before it got memed).

Tattoo had better be “Gyok 14” or I don’t believe.

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 28

First off, I think he’s wrong. Second, he’s one of life’s contrarians. Third and most importantly, running cover for dangerous ideologies through “innocent” criticism is one of the big curses of modernity and this is clearly one of those instances.

Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 28

You know what else is “unpleasant”?

Forest fires, hurricanes and mass starvation caused by climate shifts.

Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · Jul 28

(Conversely I do think we need to admit that industrial scale solar is unpleasant, ranking somewhere above pig farms but below all crop tending in its aesthetic impact)

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 27

“That’s not London. She’s south of the river.”

Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 27

Lads, Ourkid has it bang on with the dead hangs. Mix up passive and active and watch your body basically fix itself like magic.

Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 23

12, 13 and 14 back to back are awful takes.

Terrible.

And I’m glad you’re finally outing yourself as plain vanilla. Kink shame away!

Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 23

It’s going to be wild discovering in a couple of decades what the scientists came up with this time.

Although we need to be patient given we’re still waiting for the testers to catch up with whatever they were doing in 2012-7.

Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 21

Türkçe’de hiç ROFLMAO, LOL gibi kısaltmalar var mıydı o dönemde? Sonradan random atmak geldi ama o dönemde (90ların sonu) sanki direkt İngilizce acronymler kullanıyorduk…

Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 16

Reddit continues to be down.

Why is the internet just getting progressively worse?

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Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social · Jul 15

I feel like the more accurate analogy would be Royal Mail opening your parcel and claiming the contents inside as its own just because I used their service.

Now perhaps Royal Mail could do that if for some reason they lent me a million quid to buy the parcel and then I didn’t pay them back…

Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · Jul 15

I just read my mortgage docs and Santander says they can TAKE MY HOUSE. bye forever santander, i'm going to get a mortgage with someone who _respects_ their customers