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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 2h

this HAS to be a work

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 2h

SECONDED

I tried them all

these are the best

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 2h

GOALS

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 2h

donor was in a different time zone

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OneFein...Bat? Like, for Halloween or whatever? @onefeincat.bsky.social · 1d

You bolt awake in Central Anatolia. You are not online. It is the year 1097 CE. You are the Sultan Kilij Arslan, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The Crusaders must be repelled.

AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1d

So now Music Discussion Age Gap discourse is a thing

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 1d

I work _so hard_ to get them
lined up

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

I put a sticker from the same brand over my brand sticker

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 1d

so hey are you neurotypical or do you have stickers over the branding of all your personal electronics

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 2d

it’s BECAUSE I do that, I can still do THIS

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 2d

she knows it’s toooooo late

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 3d

energy normal levels

tired all the time why

persistent exhaustion mayo clinic

caffeine toxic dosage

sleepiness remedy lifehack

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 4d

someone should redo the projections for outcomes for young people in New Zealand where 50% of them move to Australia as soon as they can afford it, because that’s what’s actually going to happen

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 4d

that, exactly

Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 4d

as best I can tell the infrastructure and practice for doing so is a bit bush league at the moment

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 4d

yeah, my interest was in “infrastructure to run models”, which is not what you meant at all 😁

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 4d

1b. include non-white people

the weird jbouie reply guys list has been paying dividends for me

there's also an antiblack racism labeler somewhere that i use

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 4d

I’m seriously well into double digits on dodging whatever rage bait the timeline is dangling because creepers usually escalate, so the guy being a dickhead to your friends today will inevitably escalate to being more generally repulsive about six months from now, but you’ll never even see it

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 4d

my pro tip for a better bluesky experience:

1. find someone, ideally a woman or more fashionable gender identity, who is smart and well-informed

2. block the weird reply guys in their mentions saying patronising shit they wouldn’t dare to say to you

3. wait six months for this to pay off

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 4d

it’s a moral duty to try

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 4d

sorry, I misread “in house” as meaning something else.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 4d

not just any car

this specific one

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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 5d

Ever since reading this @albertburneko.bsky.social paragraph a while back, I find myself thinking about it, encountering unwelcome exemplars of it, far more often than I wish.

Text of a screenshot from a piece at Defector by Albert Burneko, titled "Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose": "My suspicion, my awful awful newfound theory, is that there are people with a sincere and even kind of innocent belief that we are all just picking winners, in everything: that ideology, advocacy, analysis, criticism, affinity, even taste and style and association are essentially predictions. That what a person tries to do, the essential task of a person, is to identify who and what is going to come out on top, and align with it. The rest—what you say, what you do—is just enacting your pick and working in service to it."

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 4d

@albertburneko.bsky.social this piece changed my life even more than the thompsonesque pot roast screed

also I was this many years old when I realised that kevin roose and kevin trudeau are not the same person

I just assumed shitty infomercials to crypto whatever booster was a logical progression

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 4d

jfc

Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 4d

Does “in house” mean “we run our own models on our own hardware”?

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