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Fact: if you laid 1,000,000 bananas end-to-end (tip-to-tail), you would have done something no one has ever done before #bananafacts
Irony is dead
December 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
No one thinks I'm funnier than I do
March 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Only poseurs spell it "poser"
March 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Fact: bananas significantly outnumber people, thus enabling the predator/prey relationship we see today #bananafacts
January 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Fact: unlike yellow snow, yellow bananas are perfectly safe to eat. #bananafacts
January 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Don't even dream about crossing the creamed corn gang.
January 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025
December 16, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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This is pretty incredible. If you want Twitter out of your skyline entirely, this’ll do it.
for anyone who hasn't heard the Good News: @xblock.aendra.dev
December 3, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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saying "semantic satiation" to myself over and over till it loses all meaning
December 3, 2024 at 1:16 PM
"The incidence of teaspoon loss over the period of observation was 360.62 per 100 teaspoon years. At this rate, an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased annually to maintain a practical institute-wide population of 70 teaspoons." (quoted by @tspiresjones.bsky.social in a reply)
In case anyone on BlueSky hasn't seen it, this may be the funniest scientific study ever published. Bringing it up now as the amazing @scotsfriction.bsky.social has just issued a "teaspoon amnesty" for our common room www.bmj.com/content/331/...
November 28, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Working on a prototype AI-powered smart Dixie cup dispenser. AI will use facial recognition to track your bathroom habits to determine when to dispense a cup for you. Look for the iCup to launch in 2025.
November 25, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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I was fucking joking!
November 25, 2024 at 1:31 PM
I prefer to refer to my jokes as "surrealist" instead of "not funny"
November 24, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Fact: if you laid 1,000,000 bananas end-to-end (tip-to-tail), you would have done something no one has ever done before #bananafacts
November 22, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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Word of the day is ‘catchfart’, from the 17th century, used of a servant who followed their master or mistress a little too closely.
In today’s terms, a catchfart is someone who fawns upon the boss or who follows the political wind.
September 2, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Fact: the inside of a banana is also a banana #bananafacts
November 13, 2024 at 10:02 PM