The Octillionth
@theoctillionth.bsky.social
Just a nerd who like tabletop roleplaying games, software development, GIS, and a bunch of other random stuff.
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My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
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oops the Anxious Gen Z Workplace Trend Tone button on my keyboard got stuck and now I need to go take a microvacation www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
A Day in the Life of the Gen Z Worker
Are you sure these are new workplace trends? Are you sure you aren’t just describing a routine phenomenon in an alarmed way?
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July 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
oops the Anxious Gen Z Workplace Trend Tone button on my keyboard got stuck and now I need to go take a microvacation www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The defense of the United States is a serious business. Breaches of national security are especially dangerous. But the Trump team's excuses - especially those from Pete Hegseth - are laughable.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Trump Team’s Denials Are Laughable
The president’s officials must know that what they did in the Signal group chat was wrong—and dangerous.
www.theatlantic.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The defense of the United States is a serious business. Breaches of national security are especially dangerous. But the Trump team's excuses - especially those from Pete Hegseth - are laughable.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Suddenly, playing Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" all the time at Trump rallies starts to make sense.
Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
March 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Suddenly, playing Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" all the time at Trump rallies starts to make sense.
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Groland is a legendary French comedy show about a fictional country.
They aren't always good, sometimes reactionary, but when they hit gold, they hit gold.
They aren't always good, sometimes reactionary, but when they hit gold, they hit gold.
February 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Groland is a legendary French comedy show about a fictional country.
They aren't always good, sometimes reactionary, but when they hit gold, they hit gold.
They aren't always good, sometimes reactionary, but when they hit gold, they hit gold.
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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
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Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”
February 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”
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Horror story where a woman is threatened by a monster in her basement but is more terrified of having to make a phone call to someone about it, and just keeps putting off calling an exorcist or exterminator or something
A year later she and the monster are buddies
A year later she and the monster are buddies
January 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Horror story where a woman is threatened by a monster in her basement but is more terrified of having to make a phone call to someone about it, and just keeps putting off calling an exorcist or exterminator or something
A year later she and the monster are buddies
A year later she and the monster are buddies