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@puffinpurple.bsky.social

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Another tired neurodiverse queer nerd on the internet, how original Posts and such auto-delete after a few days; Everything is fleeting, posting doubly so

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J @puffinpurple.bsky.social · 40m

That can't be the answer to *all* my problems... 😅

J @puffinpurple.bsky.social · 45m

He's seen a fair bit, so knows a lot of the arcs and beats, but for some reason the random assortment he's seen really doesn't gel with him 🤷🏻

J @puffinpurple.bsky.social · 1h

What are people's Deep Space Nine episode recs so I can prove him wrong?

Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3h

I'm a Wars guy more than a Trekkie. But largely I really really love both and only prefer Star Wars marginally.

HOWEVER.

Some of you have started suggesting Andor is equivalent to Deep Space Nine.

This is objectively incorrect. Andor is far better than a shit sitcom at a space petrol station.

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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3h

A little friend and I made a short video about my talk at droidcon London. 🥰

youtube.com/shorts/5TCfZ...

Systems Design Interviews 🤯 (The Hate-Free Way) with Chris Ward #TechInterview #InterviewPrep

YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon

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J @puffinpurple.bsky.social · 7h

Not sure how to feel about suddenly finding out I'm living in Belfast... 😅

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Gray Frights! @clickgate.bsky.social · Aug 26

Everybody’s talking about TAYLOR SWIFT when instead they should be talking about TAYLOR EXPANSIONS! 😤😤😤

A list of Taylor series expansions of various functions

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J @puffinpurple.bsky.social · 3d

Boinking often leads to boinking.

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking abt how Tolkien was a fan of Mary Renault (his ex student BTW). And he wrote abt being "deeply engaged" with her work. It lives completely rent free in my mind. Like she almost exclusively wrote twinks from the ancient near east edging. This is like if GRRM was a huge fan of MXTX.

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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 4d

I'm giving a talk at the Unicorns In Tech Summit next Saturday: "How my ADHD made me a better engineering manager".

This will be a tough talk to give given that lately I'm finding things are increasingly getting much much harder. But I hope it'll be useful.

Tickets here: www.unicornsintech.com

Graphic advertising my talk at the Unicorns in Tech Summit: "How my ADHD made me a better engineering manager".

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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 4d

Good morning from me and this hungry little buddy.

Me with a crow on my head eating peanuts out of my hand. The crow's mouth is very full.

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J @puffinpurple.bsky.social · 4d

"He Felsted on my Hereford until I..."?

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 5d

*beastie boys*

well old homer simpson made nuclear POWER
getting paid peanuts by the HOUR
all the employees are taking TURNS
getting abused by mr BURNS

and so he became a union MAN
going on strike for a dental PLAN
didnt want his daughter to make FUNNY FACES
because after all LISA NEEDS BRACES

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J @puffinpurple.bsky.social · 5d

The Philippines, next to Leb Siam and Hentia

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 5d

Brother, you already *were* a ghost. Up there, screaming — along with all of them. Scaring each other. Haunting each other. It's the living who are ghosts. The dead are silent. They don't rattle windows or write letters in blood. The living do. Leave them behind. Rest.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 5d

Jane Goodall was actually the only one keeping the apes in control. Now there's a power vacuum

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J @puffinpurple.bsky.social · 6d

Might just delete this account and replace it with a bot that just screams, exhaustedly

Will accomplish the same goals 😌

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patrick @partnardy.bsky.social · 6d

logging off from a chat session where the bot tells me to hang myself and seeing a bunch of ads for reasonably-priced rope

CNN @cnn.com · 6d

Meta will soon use what people tell its artificial intelligence chatbot to get even better at selling them things.

The company said users’ chats and interactions with Meta AI will soon be used to target them with even more personalized ads. https://cnn.it/4nXks2K

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tom @tomwalker.bsky.social · Jul 17

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6d

time ran out, rest in peace ❤️

We’re Running Out Of Time If We Still Want To Kill And Eat Jane Goodall

There’s something I’ve been meaning to bring up for a while now. I know we’ve talked about it over the years, but we’ve let ourselves get sidetracked from it for too long, and to be honest, the clock ...

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