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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 9h

yeah, OU (not the more famous OSU) is in athens (not the more famous athens) and miami u (not the university of miami, whose logo probably everyone in america has seen, not in miami) is in oxford (not the one you're thinking of). upper sandusky is 50 miles southwest of sandusky.

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 9h

yeah "how it looks" vs. "how this is pronounced in a more well-known context" is an interesting distinction

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 9h

oh no i just realized something embarrassing: when i said all of that i was actually thinking of miami university. ohio has too many place names that are shared by other, more famous places and i end up getting them all mixed up.

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 10h

yeah i always get pissy when people not from/not living in ohio make fun of it (we're allowed to though). athens is nice! i've only been there to go to stuff at OU (once for a weird nerd summer camp thing in 7th grade, once years later to visit a friend who was going there)

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 10h

yeah my part was nice-ish (see initial post) but, you know, still ohio

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 10h

my condolences....

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 10h

Gallopin Tony is plum tuckered out.........with the fishes

jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 11h

the lima in ohio is also pronounced that way!

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 11h

"you imagine that?", fucking brutal

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 11h

even that i is in question

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 11h

just the name of the city. REM almost gets it right but even then nobody from there says it without reducing it to caioga

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Found out Nicki Minaj's cousin got stood up at the wedding for getting swollen balls from his vaccine

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 17h

World's Oldest Hypebeast

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 18h

That Munky

jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 1d

this one took me a while

jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 1d

no it doesn't. what are you talking about

jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 1d

how quaint that we used to dread everything we have to buy or use becoming "smart". oh you don't like your washer collecting data on you? that's cute, now it does that and also makes critical behind-the-scenes operational decisions based on trillions of dice rolls

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 1d

a thing that's kind of similar to this to me is how everybody rolls their eyes at 90s gen x anti-consumerism (presumably because it falls short of anti-capitalism) when that was so much healthier and more principled than what we have now

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 1d

charles "entertainment" commonwealth

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 2d

it kicks ass to want stuff because you always get it

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 2d

it's all connected, he just pulls on his beard when he wants his hair shorter and vice versa

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 2d

i never remember what theo von looks like and whenever i see his name i picture palmer luckey and i figure it's probably not that different

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 2d

i'm seeing a headline that starts out "nicole kidman's bottomless" but surely the rest of it is cleaner than that

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 2d

i just want to back up to the first thing this person said. we know exactly how AI works. people made it on purpose.

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 3d

i mean, his desire to leave the country is predicated on the idea that a) democrats will win back at least the congress if not also the presidency by 2028 and b) they will choose to punish anyone at all, or even reverse anything that has been put in place. so, you know,

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