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there's an entire club named after me and i'm simply honored but then again totally makes sense there would be

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i do this for myself every time i write, it's entirely for me, not for anybody else and unfortunately with followers, there's a tinge of i wonder what they'll think which goes against what i want, also makes my writing worse so here's my solution: if you follow me i will block you sorry! (bye)

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the way i heard it was brasil didn't really bother to show up to the election assumed eh… it'll be fine with lula again and that's how flavorless flav made it into the runoff so today everybody who had stayed home went fuck that

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dear USA of americans this may or may not come as a surprise but you are the tackiest people not sure how it happened but it did, early stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni; or, was trying to look classy per european fashion, didn't know how, did something gaudy and CELEBRATED IT

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look at the flag nobody's ever been so collectively proud of something so garish stars ~AND~ stripes? might as well be polkadots and plaid

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real USA of america people do it why can't you only time i've ever been was when relatives from argentina visited san francisco and took me out to dinner and that's where they wanted to go also they brought their own wine and CF charges corkage i took obama's comment to mean: the decor is tacky AF

👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism@milobaynes.bsky.social

All this Cheesecake Factory stuff is a tad confusing to me, who has never been to a Cheesecake Factory. (not for any reason, I just never got around to it & no one I know ever said, “let’s go to the Cheesecake Factory”) Should I go eat at a Cheesecake Factory? Will I be moar Americanism if I do?

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funny enough when i was in argentina this time last year and they invited me to their house for VERY nice steaks and a ton of other very real quality food all scratch-made (by their housekeeper) as i was leaving and passed the hat tree by the door… they had one of those red hats i didn't ask

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they were the only ones like that but then again they have the money for it most of my relatives are poorer, leftier like they took me to a demo against the authorization of a foreign-held copper mine that would (will, because it passed despite the demo) pollute the main water source of the city

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real USA of america people do it why can't you only time i've ever been was when relatives from argentina visited san francisco and took me out to dinner and that's where they wanted to go also they brought their own wine and CF charges corkage i took obama's comment to mean: the decor is tacky AF

👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism@milobaynes.bsky.social

All this Cheesecake Factory stuff is a tad confusing to me, who has never been to a Cheesecake Factory. (not for any reason, I just never got around to it & no one I know ever said, “let’s go to the Cheesecake Factory”) Should I go eat at a Cheesecake Factory? Will I be moar Americanism if I do?

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those relatives do see it as USA-iconic tho i was like, how bout nice italian in north beach they: cheesecake factory or… house of nanking, SF chinese is its own thing! they: cheesecake factory you want GREAT cheesecake? tartine cheesecake factory ZUNI! world class!! CHEESECAKE. FACTORY.

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sports gear in general lighter, stronger, better at doing whatever it's supposed to do from cycling to camping to socks even good lord the canvas tents with wooden poles we couldn't touch the ceiling of during rain but we still had to carry several miles roped to backpacks that weighed 8lbs empty

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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it's ok people! (i mean people going insane with vertigo looking at this photo) that is not a hallway beyond the vault door it is a flat photo of a hallway pasted onto a wall inside the vault door WHEW look at the curved shadow it'll help you you see it as a wall & your stomach might settle

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Major American banks have reported unauthorized artificial intelligence bots inside consumer accounts, sources told Axios Thursday. trib.al/mmFWL8c

trib.alAI Bots Are Accessing People’s Bank Accounts UnpromptedBanks are rushing to update their terms of service and block the bots.
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smithereens is just so casually depressing for a punk movie like where's the veneer of fun even as things fall apart because it sure was there before the halfway mark a funny thing happened on the way to the forum coulda been actually as funny as i remember it from when i was 7 yrs old but it's not

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oppo thought experiment — movies that would totally suck in their best articulation: grease is a perfect move (if you don't have a thought in your head) but if reshaped into a movie for people thinking it wouldn't exist

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live feed from my notifications cam: you have no money can we have some money? you have no money can we have some money? you have no money can we have some money? you have no money can we have some money? you have no money you have no money you have no money you have no money you have n

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some things are better left un-investigated i just ruined decades of joke-cast thinking for myself by looking up why *69 had that particular number (no it's not bc you can do to them what they did to you) it's just the feature that was introduced after *68: "activate call forwarding on busy"

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jop application software is SO smart not only does it take out all the spaces when it tries to spit my own resume back at me for approval it also allows me to toggle job-starting / -ending dates for my *past* experience that includes 2027 and beyond, all the way to 2100

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best part is when my job dates overlapped you know, because i taught 2 days a week during springs for the past decade while also working my own freelance stuff and sometimes taking on a contractor job and the bot was all NO WAY THERE'S NO WAY NOBODY WORKS TWO DIFFERENT JOBS ON THE SAME YEAR NOPE

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@theav.bsky.social

jop application software is SO smart not only does it take out all the spaces when it tries to spit my own resume back at me for approval it also allows me to toggle job-starting / -ending dates for my *past* experience that includes 2027 and beyond, all the way to 2100

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kinda hard NOT to blow by all that crap when you doubt anybody will be reading any of it other than a bot THAT COULDN'T READ THE RES I UPLOADED IN THE FIRST PLACE

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the world's not small we don't keep meeting because the world is small we keep meeting because our minds are narrow

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the URGE to send this cover letter before proofreading it WHAT i've been working on it for hours touching things up and reworking sentences here and there and back here and back there and oh yeah over there too it's GOTTA be perfect by now why read it again right?

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99 times out of 100 i have phở and that's it 1 time out of 100 i have phở and if i don't get to a bathroom within 2 minutes sweartogod (100 times out of 100 it was really good phở don't get me wrong)

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you either use a descriptive (when new in a place and there's only a few of you) like: big bend, snake hill, bathroom rock or you tag something with a word that has other meanings like: lincoln, oklahoma, sacramento but don't use a descriptive that relies on a tag! united states of américa ????

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why am i not being interviewed for one of these i'm not young but i def went no contact w/ parents before the pandy suggested by my therapist (no really) wrote them a letter saying bye bye no i didn't diagnose them no need just years and years of every time there was contact it felt bad ✂️

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

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only regret is that my dad didn't deserve it me and him woulda been fine without my mom but he was just a minion to her, the conduit and when you burn bridges you gotta actually burn the bridge now he's dead, sad but also w/o a living bridge my sister is no contact, my niece is no contact…

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there's gotta be a name for this shot like maybe presspoolphotog-henge? where someone with a camera sits pointing it into the gap until an unsuspecting astral body gets in frame and they get their cute-poignant ephemeral photo making nobody as happy for its existence as the photographer

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the person at the deli counter turned my mortadella into baloney just by cutting it 2mm thick & lunch this week is ruined

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must be a special challenge a threading of needles writing a character so fucking unrecognizably dumb yet so familiarly relatable that you miss them when they get killed (as a result of their own stupidity)

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no but the real damage to the phone'scape what with robocalls, constant spam is that you get 1 random call—albeit legit & you panic! bc you can't pick up there's NO WAY one picks up so what could it BE?? collector? scammer? nefarious gov agency? hospital/morgue?? so much time wasted in angst

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dissatisfied with the leftist discourse lately like people are waiting for something to analyze critically by forming cool-ppl clubs and talking shit about the ppl on the right but making fun of what they look like or some opinion on—say—a song they mentioned liking we've never heard 0 substance

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or making fun of (sometimes former) colleagues SO ad hominem that instead of listing their sins they leave it at dropping their initials in someone else's comment very "well, you know how [person] is" like no, i'm not taking your shorthand, tell me, go ahead and say ~what~ it is you decry

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and this is prolly least-of, but it adds up misunderstanding one's position as a poster if one is a research essayist, one's every post will be read as such so don't say XYZ if you don't mean ~exactly~ XYZ and definitely don't come out and say it's OTHER people who misread (!) XYZ … to mean XYZ

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easy garibaldi did his thing in italy then came to the continent to fight for independence in (what would become) brazil, uruguay, argentina known in the US during the civil war he was offered a commission in the union army, he said only if the US freed the slaves a priori (lincoln said nah)

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name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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well the novel i'd been working out in my head exactly about a gov agency retroactively deciding my parents did our immigration paperwork wrong so i had to prove to a private-equity AI it wasn't my fault & i was casting as a kind of farce since it was all too outlandish? … is now too realistic