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Jay.
@meangrape.com
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I stopped studying the cello. I started studying Arabic. I grew up on the other side of the middle of nowhere and am an inveterate urban dweller now. I like mathematics, fountain pens, and TTRPGs. https://sidewalks.meangrape.com
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Jay. @meangrape.com · Oct 18
My 17yo daughter just asked me “is AD the same as CE?” The yiddishkeit is strong in this one
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 5h
Docker desktop is using 37GB of this. I'm spoiled.
Screencap of htop running in a terminal window. A bar representing memory in use is on top, swap in use below. 100GB of 128GB RAM is used. 1G of 2G of swap.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 1d
I feel like this about most of Monte’s stuff. Great ideas, but…
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 1d
Moving here from SF was a bit of an eye opener in re Puritanism
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 1d
I visited a friend this weekend. He lives in the lower East side. One night I wanted pie. What did I find? A pie store. Not a bakery that has pies but a pie store. A ten minute walk away. And not only is it open at 730pm, it is open until 11pm. Fresh pies until 11. I might have to move.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 2d
Fuck the Embraer 175
Two blue jean clad thighs at an angle bumped up against the back of an airline seat.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 2d
Miss 18 is crushing it at @plagdle.bsky.social
Victory screen. You guess the pathogen based on clues. This is victory in 1 guess Leishmaniasis, no vaccine, protozoa, 14 day minimum inoculation.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 2d
Another one! Fire in the mouth!
A landscape oriented picture. In the background is a large picture of Disney Snow White holding the old multi-colored Apple apple logo. A gorgeous man of South Asian descent with a closely trimmed beard and short curly hair wearing a white linen button down with the sleeves rolled up past his arm is leaning back with his head horizontal. He's holding what looks like a long skewer with a wooden handle. Some part of it is inside his wide-open mouth while fire rises out in a long stream reaching his hand.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d
im glenn greenwald. im kyle rittenhouse. im an ai generated talking pepe meme. im bari weiss, all those stories tonight on 60 minutes
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 2d
On the bus to LGA. It’s not a smooth ride; the bus’ suspension isn’t great
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 2d
I saw a man on the sidewalk yesterday. He was selling etrogim from a table. None of them were great quality, and they all had a pitom.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 2d
It’s 4am, and I’m awake. Try to go back to sleep? Get up and read? Get up, eat, and read?
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 2d
Proof!
In the background is a large picture of Disney's Snow White holding an apple that looks like the old multi-color Apple logo, In the foreground is a devilishly handsome gentleman of South Asian descent wearing a white linen button-down with his sleeves rolled up above his elbows. He's leaning with his head tilted horizontally. His mouth wide open, he's holding a metal sticklike thing engulfed in flames putting it between his lips.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 2d
I just spent two hours taking photos of my friend breathing fire. We set up lights and everything.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 3d
I might write a manifesto for TDTDD. Test driven test driven development. Test need tests, too.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 3d
I have never seen the Big Lebowski
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 3d
I'd never heard of Unknown Armies before a week or two ago, and now I'm seeing it everywhere. ("Everywhere" means about 4 times here on BlueSky.) I was so interested by the mechanization of character internality that I bought all 3 books and have them on the top of my tbr pile
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 3d
The M4 Max compiles Haskell very quickly. So nice
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 3d
I got three free drinks from the bartender
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 3d
The view from my best friend’s roof
Panorama. Left to right: looking over the rooftops of buildings. Most are old brick and from four to eight stories. They are long and narrow. In the distance in the middle is a river with a large bridge over it. On the right is the downtown Manhattan skyline. Looking through a hole in a stainless steel square. A densely forested park surrounded by a mass of shorter buildings.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 4d
Izzie and Sargun are engaged in sandwich discourse. The mutually agreed on result is that there are only sandwiches, tacos, and dumplings.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 4d
No, Sargun, I am not going n a refreshing run through Brooklyn with you tomorrow.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 5d
So he’s blind, can hear, and can’t speak. People can talk to him, but have to understand sign language to understand him? I feel like I’m missing the point
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 5d
Unfortunately, a hwæt that will languish unheard.
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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 5d
Hwæt! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
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non-binary disaster bisexual @persian-slipper.bsky.social · 5d
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 5d
And, obviously, the d12 is the best.
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 5d
I forgot to mention seforim and other Jewish accoutrements and board games
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Jay. @meangrape.com · 5d
The view from my office chair. Lots of fountain pens, ink, and TTRPG books
Wooden floor. In front of me is a small wooden table with dark metal legs. In the middle on a crafting mat is an open laptop. To its left a stack of books taller than the laptop. To its right a few notebooks 📓 n top of each other. On the table behind the laptop from left to right: standing upright: four gray books with silver gilt Hebrew on their spines, a taller book with gold lettering, a handful of smaller books, two thick books labeled Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English, A thicker book labeled Oxford A…, a handful of thin graphic novels. Pen holders full of pens, two wooden pen stands either about 8 upright fountain pens. A small cortado glass filled with dark inky water. About six ink wells. The handles of a vise grip. Behind the desk against the wall are four bookshelves. On the left and right sides they’re tall dark brown wood with six shelves each. In the middle are shorter ones with four shelves each. The leftmost one we can see two shelves of board games and two shelves of books. On the top there’s some black spray paint, two chanukiahs, and Wyrmspan, another board game. The first short one we see one and a half shelves of TTRPG books. On top is a white ceramic bowl and a short stack of books. Its short neighbor shows us a partial shelf of books and a shelf full of fountain pen ink. On its top is a cardboard box; a wooden bowl, and some odds and ends. On the wall above the two small bookshelves is a picture of the Crab Nebula. The tall bookshelf on the right shows us two shelves of books, one shelf of notebooks and stationery, and a shelf half of books and half of stuff. On top we have a Lady of Pain funko pop, a pair of shoe lasts, and an open cardboard box (it has perfume samples in it).
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