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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, yeah, like those chocolate coins with the gold wrap.

Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 1d

The "New York Post" is the American version of "The Sun" newspaper.

(Better known as "The Scum".)

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 1d

Move the picture of Steve Buscemi a little closer to act as Caboose's co-host, when he wants one.

Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 1d

I think about that fucking constantly.

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Anime Herald @animeherald.com · 1d

In case you missed it, digital preorders for Anime Herald Magazine are now available!

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Preorder your digital copy ($15.75 USD) at hera.fyi/buyahmag1dig 💻
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#anime #magazines

Cover art for Anime Herald Magazine, which features a tag that reads "Anime Herald Magazine - we speak otaku. No #001 Fall 2025, launch issue"

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 1d

Pro tip for operating in Nevada: If you plan to break the law, go BIG, so they'll comically reduce your penalty.

If you just do small crime, they'll throw the book at you.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 1d

Bring back the parking disk.

📸Holger.Ellgaard - CC-BY-SA-3.0

Photograph of a European 'parking disc' on the dashboard of a car. The parking disc is a blue rectangle, with a white "P" parking symbol printed on it and a white arrow, and a white rotating disk that has times printed on it.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 2d

I've had deeper interactions with customers at the hardware store, while disappointing them that I couldn't order a thing they wanted because it was discontinued.

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 2d

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wow I can't believe that turning every website into a gigantic target for malicious actors could possibly have negative consequences

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 3d

COME OUT YE YANKEE FANS
COME OUT AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN
SHOW YOUR WIFE HOW YOU WON MEDALS
IN BOSTON AND CHICAAAAAGO
TELL HER HOW TORONTO BLUE JAYS
MADE YOU RUN LIKE HELL A WAY
FROM THE GREEN AND LOVELY FIELDS OF ROGERS CENTREEEE

meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 3d

anti-yankees cover of Come Out Ye Blacks And Tans

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 3d

For the record, UK Police can never say "there's a personal shortage" as an excuse for not doing something productive, because look at all the personel they managed to find to do this nonsense.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 3d

The most I escape this shit is my part time hardware store job, and even that's actually a total lie, because we keep getting price changes dumped on us due to the tariff shit and they've aggressively cut hours likely because the economy is actually shit.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I can 'turn off my phone' all I fucking want and do something to distract me, but setting aside that I have fucking object permanence, this bullshit is honestly permeating everything.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 4d

This is just Enron with extra steps.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 4d

I'm rooting for it at this point, my team got knocked out so fuck it, let's get the funniest outcome possible.

Canada takes baseball from the USA.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 4d

The phone book company?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4d

Look I'm not just talking as a Blue Jays fan here, but can we agree that the Jays winning the World Series would be peak right now.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 4d

The most enraging part of this is that the fucking Republicans benefited from the 2020 Census results.

Texas and Florida gained seats while California and New York both lost seats. And Republicans gained in NC after '24.

Map from Wikipedia showing congressional representation changes, most of the country had no changes. Of note, CA, IL, MI, OH, WV, NY, PA all lost 1 seat, while OR, MT, CO, NC, FL gained 1 seat, and Texas gained 2 seats.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 4d

I love that standing literally means fucking nothing anymore.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, fucking wonderful.
Just what nobody needed.

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

U.S. bank regulator proposes curbs on agency watchdogs reut.rs/470OtYZ

U.S. bank regulator proposes curbs on agency watchdogs

A leading U.S. bank regulator proposed rules Tuesday that would limit how bank examiners can police and address shortcomings within lenders, as the Trump administration continued efforts to rein in supervision the banking industry has long complained is overly punitive.

reut.rs

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 4d

What's in retrospect really funny about this statement, is that what I've technically described is "Life on Mars", a UK television show where this effectively happens.

Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · Feb 25

For some reason my brain then connected to British Rail...

And now I want to write an isekai, where the person is transported back to the era of 1990s British Rail.

Which is a totally normal thing to think of.
I'm a totally normal person.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 5d

Want to point out that the fact I can't sign up for a Viz Media subscription on their website, that I *have* to use the app to set that up is the stupidest shit ever.

Take my fucking money.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 5d

This one goes out to ALL the Bluesky staffers right now:

How To Kill A Brand

YouTube video by Doc Adams

www.youtube.com

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 6d

Hey, @jay.bsky.team - you going to explain recent bans, or is the idea that a little fear in the user base will go a long way?

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 5d

Oh yeah, fuck going back to that place.

I'll actually figure out how to build a website that runs off a computer in my basement before I do that.

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