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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 11h

My Zojirushi water heater is one of my prized possessions

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 14h

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 15h

This would have RULED

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 15h

Oh FUCK THIS MAN

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 16h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 18h

You can switch to an OSS Android fork but that’s not a trivial effort

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 18h

This absolutely sucks but it’s always hilarious to me when people go “I’m moving to Android!!!!” like Google is in any way better

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 18h

'By applying protections meant for vulnerable groups to shield government actors, Apple has created — within its own ecosystem — a new kind of protected class: state power itself."

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 19h

i do not have a lot of hope for what will be left when i get in.

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 19h

i'm just never going to see nine inch nails again, am i. jesus

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 19h

I hate Ticketmaster so fucking much.

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 20h

in 2007, steve jobs promised an all-in-one device that would serve as a cell phone, an ipod, and an internet device. what he introduced next was the Mac Pack: a 135-pound backpack with a pull-over steel dome housing a computer monitor, a 14-foot aerial antenna, and a 900-foot retractable power cable

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 20h

If that woman could not find a good man in New York looking like that, then we need to just close America until we figure out what's going on with men. Because Eric Adams should not even be on the table let alone be your great love.

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 20h

i really love bouie's transformation into triumph the insult dog

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 20h

as someone who currently has doug ford as provincial leader, i am so jealous of everyone who has khan pritzker

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 22h

(I've tried neon ichiban and globalcomix but the lack of a native app is still a dealbreaker. i want to read on my ipad on the train! the train does not have good wifi!)

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 22h

Amazon search results are, sometimes, mystifying

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 1d

Good Drink

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 1d

Minus the crash halfway through the final form of the last boss at like 3AM that made me say fuck it and knock it down to very easy to see the ending since I didn't want to do all that shit again

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