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spleenly

@spleenly.bsky.social

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Woke worker, adrift academic, data digger, conflagrant coder, lightly dark, deeply shallow. Every tech job, all at once. he/him #ATX My shitposts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdkxyw2r7xlx5kjhsolgagv6/feed/aaabdifjqy6jm

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 19d

Consider that we don't even have a shared cultural understanding of what can be flushed.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 17m

My grandfather had an amazing policy which was if he was sitting on his front porch anyone could stop and talk to him, but *at no other place or time*.

spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 23m

Decided hint of autumn in the air. And burning car.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 27m

Plot twist: markets revealed to be fundamentally irrational.

spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 53m

The two modes of shark respiration being called "buccal pumping" and "ram ventilation" needs to calm down.

spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 1h

Also stirring. So much stirring.

spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 13h

Family in town so I will mostly be chopping vegetables for the next 24 hours.

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𝐭⃥𝐡⃥𝐞⃥ 𝐋⃥𝐢⃥𝐯⃥-⃥𝐢⃥𝐧⃥𝐠⃥ 𝐝⃥𝐞⃥𝐚⃥𝐝⃥ @soppressexy.bsky.social · 21h

I am a certified hater but aware enough to keep my opinions to myself

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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 4h

Australians make the best horror because they live on the earth’s most terrifying continent.

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𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗼🪾🍂 @apexamigo.bsky.social · 3h

im vicariously smart through you

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 2h

Considering recreationally driving three hours to look at a facility.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 8h

Hot take, but I don't really care for the undead.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 8h

Cause of death: complex systems.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 9h

AIs save the planet by creating a super corona virus is actually pretty hot with the tech bros right now.

spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 9h

I read in project 2025 that serial killers actually murder a relatively small amount of people relative to the total economic value of the entertainment produced.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 10h

3 hours later and I'm still thinking about that bubble.

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 12h

I am finally leaving work. Who wants to fight?

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 11h

Some of these plushie costumes could conceal a decent size mech suit, just saying.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 11h

Resting did you just bookmark me face. Yes.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 11h

Okay, but I might.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 13h

Wielding a giant knife is my coping mechanism.

spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 13h

Family in town so I will mostly be chopping vegetables for the next 24 hours.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 13h

Google Keep aptly named in this regard.

spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 13h

Why they won't give us one.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 13h

A drafts folder is just gooning for posting.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 13h

Good luck evicting the Taco Bell. Blight only makes them stronger.

spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, I can see how your "reconceptuized retail corridor" is achieved by kicking out all the tenants and leaving a mile of real estate vacant and chain-linked for 10 years.

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