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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 33m

Just got back from the timeline where Joe Pesci and Peter Falk swapped film careers. Columbo still works surprisingly well.

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 1h

It looks so nasty lmao. The sides are just as bad

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Gunnar Bergfalke @gbergfalke.bsky.social · 5h

A 1971 International roadrail catenary maintenance vehicle in museum in Ängelholm, Sweden, which I visited a few years ago.

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That Rabbit Bash @madrabbitbash.bsky.social · 10h

Silly bun and their hyperfixation.

Done by @thecubicguru.bsky.social after yearing me yap for so long

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17h

i saw people saying '6 7' and didn't get the reference so i searched for it on here and the first thing i saw was a picture of two buff furry wolfmen jacking off into a urinal. good night

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Deerposts (Spooky Edition) @deerposts.bsky.social · 2d

Me when I get u

#deer 🦌

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 18h

Hero: "I won't let you hurt those civilians, Gene Splicer!"
Villain: "Actually I found these people on a forum. They all came here willingly to be injected with my mutation serum"

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 18h

Evil scientist villain stopping the hero mid rescue of some civilians to say this time these people consented. They found them on the Internet.

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 18h

Another pie list devoid of the best pie: chess

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 21h

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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ヤンデドキ•SOX @yandedoki-sox.bsky.social · 1d

Draw your oc eating the 460,000 calorie McDonald's Sausage Biscuit reward

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 23h

Saw a video today of someone testing the difference between regular coke and "Mexican" coke and it turns out they're actually not very different at all. The cane sugar ends up just breaking down into the same stuff as HFCS in the acidic coke anyway

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 23h

Weird coincidence then

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 23h

Did you happen to watch a YouTube video about coke today

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 23h

Welp, it's time for Huntsville Republicans to eat crow! I hope we have enough Fell For It Again awards to go around!

NPR @npr.org · 1d

JUST IN: The Trump administration says it has started the process of issuing reduction-in-force notices to federal employees. It’s not clear how many workers are affected.

White House says 'substantial' layoffs of federal workers have begun, with few details

The Trump administration says it has started the process of issuing reduction-in-force notices to federal employees. It’s not clear how many workers are affected.

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 1d

I keep meaning to get this CSX retiree watch I have fixed so I can use it but I put it off

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 1d

Peace is when you call for the international community to start war in your home nation for the cause of austerity and free market capitalism

Screenshot of Wikipedia reading "In February 2025, Machado addressed a Patriots.eu rally in Madrid. Machado is a strong supporter of United States President Donald Trump, whom she described in 2025 as a "visionary" in relation to his opposition to the Maduro regime in Venezuela. After he deployed the Navy to the Caribbean in 2025, Machado praised the Trump administration. She has expressed support for the use of force to depose the Maduro regime; one of her advisors told the New York Times that she has coordinated with the Trump administration and that she has a plan for the first hundred hours after his deposition."

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👻👻👻boonoteat👻👻👻 @donoteat.bsky.social · 1d

this is a dark day for california's many historic downtown parking lots and strip malls

California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 1d

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 1d

I always love how wolves express annoyance with a fake bite

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 1d

Anja comes over to see if I have any food and gets interrupted by Bosch much to her annoyance. Taken on my last visit to see Caroline (the lead volunteer) and Tony (the owner). I’ve been a volunteer at Wolf Watch UK for around 7 years

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 1d

Are capitalist parties suppressed in socialist ones? Maybe but it'd be a lot cleaner call if they didn't repeatedly astroturf their election attempts with tons of illegal US cash and then cry authoritarianism when caught doing crimes

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 1d

The funniest thing about Trump being mad about the nobel peace prize is that it went to a literal Thatcherite who's also pro-Trump and wants the international community to forcefully install a conservative capitalist government into Venezuela. "Peace" indeed.

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 1d

It's clearly some kind of guy

Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 1d

"Kobolds aren't real"
Then what the hell is this

A monitor lizard standing on two legs in someone's bedroom

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