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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Someone could (plausibly: already has) remake, present it as ironic comedy, and make moderate bank off YouTube ads.

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The number of my neighbors who didn’t realize trash/recycling pickup was a day late this week doesn’t speak well for Labor in the US (or, at least, Philadelphia). (Also: bagged trash on the curb in 88°F/31°C for ~36 hours ain’t great…)

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I called a friend who texted via Signal to confirm it was them. I worried because the message I received "smelled like" it was generated by an LLM. I heard my friend when I called. I'm still unsure zero LLMs were involved.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's 27 August 2026. My parents (roughly the US president's age) have obvious "can't make short-term memories" dementia, and I'm figuring out how I can care for them without breaking my lease roughly 1000 miles (1500 km) away.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As a testament to how well health care works in the US, these dudes who each own multiple cars worth millions of US dollars throw (let the video play from the point I've dropped) to a plea for financial contributions for their friend's health care. Cooooool. youtu.be/o5mcU0WegYA?...

youtu.be

I asked Tavarish for an update on EVERY SINGLE PROJECT!

YouTube video by VINwiki

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Upon reflection: usually with my non-dominant hand on the cap/lid, for precisely the next-step uses you suggest. But maybe the other way for a jar of jam or whatever, so the dominant hand’s free for the spoon. Maybe that’s actually more what you had in mind?

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You’re asking a more complicated question than I think you think you are. There’s “one hand holds (and the other twists the opposite)” either the cap/lid bottle/jar, but there’s also “both hands twist in opposition”. (I do that last.)

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Who are the “people”, completely ignorant of how music becomes popular, in this fictional construction?

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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I mean… taking sales down 100% was, in fact, the goal of bill proponents

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Beowulf. Grendel is the human.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This is just an opportunity for learning about the Commodore 64’s several offline data storage methods.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Huh. Sure does! I wonder which old Unix workstation I was remembering the mouse for which was a hemisphere broken by a sharp wedge sticking out the front for the buttons. (No, I didn't mean the iMac mouse.)

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Most recently because its motherboard’s potentially-explodey capacitors have been removed, to preserve the rest of it. Nope, but I hope it goes well!

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

(Nobody cares: the “buried” cube’s an unbootable 030. I choose to believe that the 040 lives on in another’s care.)

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I mean, I was making a joke at the expense of the NeXT mouse’s shape, but I think the external DSP available as an accessory for 040 cubes may’ve sported a knob? (Closet archaeology can’t answer that for me: I passed my working 040 cube off to somebody who’d actually use it a decade ago.)

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It’s too late at night (my time) to bother digging through the closet, but there’s a NeXT cube and, especially in this context, its peripherals back there somewhere. (This was about weird mice, right?)

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It’s a small, arguably petty, thing, but, in my experience, adults don’t drink from disposable plastic cups outside of picnic or beer pong contexts. Which third option did Mr. Jones intend to evoke here?

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Is this a bit? What copper stolen in which format? Resold how?

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

[GCPD's wireless security scans the RFID chip in Bruce Wayne's driver's license, tucked into Batman's tights, and notifies Gordon.] Jim: Oh. Hi, Bruce! Really enjoyed that river-side cook-out last month! So, about this mass-murderer…

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Hang on a minute: www.etsy.com/listing/1032...

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Both genders of the Trans World Airlines Overnight Bag is… really something.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Yeah, that’s already more attention than any sensible person should pay to those clowns.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Yikes! That’s too many at the same time! Ow! (Short version: the young man up at the start of this comes vaguely out of the incel “movement”, which promotes breaking one’s own jaw bone with a hammer imagining it’ll grow back “better” somehow.)

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Your going to broken bones as a point of reference without apparently knowing why the slime ball involved is “newsworthy” is too perfect. Please don’t admit it was a bit. (But aside: broken clavicles suck! I think less than ribs, because breathing doesn’t hurt…? Mileage may vary.)

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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

clavicular? sneako? are we living in a dick tracy comic??

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It took me A While to shut up and accept the first 30 minutes or so, but "Wake Up Dead Man" is a work of art that I recommend. Attached screenshot spoils nothing, but it may be funny if you can parse those letters. It helps if you are aware of professional wrestling's fandom.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm curious what your tell for "polo people" is, honestly… I swim at both a (PHL) urban YMCA and (when joining friends) a suburban one. In neither case do I see anybody else think about sets on the clock, which: fine! (Suburbanly, people get angry when I join their lane without prior approval.)

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

You’re underselling your own fitness there, I think. I agree with what you say about rhythm, but hitting that rhythm over distance depends on multiple muscle groups keeping up with each other. Good job keeping them all up to par! I’m sure not there any longer!

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

(I guess I sometimes also threw a ball around, but with at least 30 year’s distance from my last competitive game: water polo’s more about getting to the right place at the right time than anything else. See also all ball sports, really.)

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

That’s so much more fly than I ever did to train in high school & college. Bravo! That’s a *serious* workout! (Fwiw, I mostly played polo, so what I’m “good” at is tread egg-beater indefinitely and sprint 20 yds without notice, but… fly’s a workout!)

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

No, I was not aware of that specific abuse of perceived police power. That sucks. I don’t think that public consideration of which BAV test the cops haven’t been documented to circumvent yet is a useful approach to push back against police abuse of power.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I guess both of you could also just not drive drunk? I’d prefer neither of you did. What’s the actual argument you’re having here? I’m not sure either of you really wants to be on either side of it.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

It’s okay. “Celebrate” and “mock” are functionally synonyms in modern use, context-dependent.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

There’s a pretty blurry line between “making something a [virtual] collectible trading card game” and “gambling”. Call this the Kalshification of Knowledge if you write for, like, “The Atlantic”, or whatever.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

While that makes sense, it racks up negative points on my being comfortable cycling near a robot car, especially in low light. Seems like maybe it shouldn’t be on cyclists (motor or not) to alter their road habits for robot cars.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Fun thought experiment: how does the Waymo distinguish between a push bike and a motorcycle in this context? Is it swerving right because it thinks the motorcycle ahead of it is more right about where the center of the road is than its perception of the lane line?

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

As a human whose primary (by choice: transit if I’m lazy, car out of town/ample cargo) mode of transit is cycling, I would prefer the robot car’s evasive action to be away from me, rather than towards me. Shoulder-checking to see this move with nobody behind the wheel would be terrifying.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

“Demon” seems kinda harsh for mild-mannered Steve Inskeep.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Fair enough. I wasn’t trying to defend the dude, just confused.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

While his take is pretty shitty, unless I missed something, neither Israel nor the US were bombing Iran eight months ago, so I kinda doubt he was talking about bombs.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I propose a (weak) theory there… bsky.app/profile/0x67...

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Yes, but at least that group got the right hemisphere, let alone continent. The cluster in southwest Missouri is baffling. Even with awareness of Memphis (TN) and Cairo (IL), and the relative locations of their namesakes, that’s the wrong cardinal direction…

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Believing the 50 million dollars is available to the party posing the challenge is the sticking point for me.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I thought they delayed GTA 6…?

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

As near as I can tell, Eighth Inch (dot com) is no longer a going concern, but… damn, they made sturdy rims!

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I beat the crap out of this bike frequently, and maintain it less than I think I should. This front wheel is just a *hair* out of true (after five years of my use: who knows for the prior owner) right at the product label and a 1/16th turn further counter-clockwise.

My eighthinch.com Amelia wheel in my truing stand.

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

And, you know, I’ve got the wheel off and the tube back in, surely I should true it before putting it back on the bike, right?

A bicycle wheel in a truing stand in my kitchen.

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