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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 29/09/2026

chimed in for the first time on a work meeting to get two people who were raised-voice fighting, actually agree that [thing that a person i work with more was suggesting] is totally doable + good, and everyone should do it, and here's how. kinda understanding why they hired me now

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 28/09/2026

never has there been a man more vulnerable to the soft findom of guilt, than noel household

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 25/09/2026

thursday night green bay packers game, or "the reason why friday morning will be a brutal slog" as it's known in this house

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 24/09/2026

you can't talk about kirkmas but you CAN talk about easter, the most famous holiday about how it was Good, Actually, that a dude got got

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 21/09/2026

my contribution to Transplant Discourse is i've lived in a bunch of college towns and a couple decidedly-not-college-towns in my life and if you are living in new york (or cosplaying as such), buddy...you would not enjoy cities that don't get a lot of new people coming in regularly

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 20/09/2026

best part of october (other than the candy): watching a bunch of youtube horror shorts to curate an anthology for people worst part: having like an hour's worth of material and everything else that's good is clocking in at 40m+

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 19/09/2026

finally digging into the tv section of archive.org, and within 10 minutes debating whether i need any other streaming service ever again

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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 18/09/2026

“I ASKED FOR EXPERIENCES AND I GOT THEM” is going to be psychically load-bearing for the rest of my life I fear

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I ASKED FOR EXPERIENCES AND I GOT THEM!!!! LIFE IS NEITHER INDIFFERENT NOR CARING!!!! SHE IS ONLY MOTION!!!! BROTHER GET IN THE BOAT!!!!! OR SINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 18/09/2026

ok so while i cannot in good conscience EVER recommend working for an unbroken string of flailing tech companies, i CAN wholeheartedly endorse getting a job in the warm and mellow embrace of the university system as a follow-up

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 18/09/2026

(delusionally) i'm not becoming a birder in middle age, i just downloaded merlin because i'm curious about what i hear in my neighborhood

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 18/09/2026

mormonism is basically the aum shinrikyo of american christianity, but other than 'under the banner of heaven' no one really wants to acknowledge that or else you start having real uncomfy conversations real fast

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 17/09/2026

great news at the new job: having a meeting cancelled 15 minutes beforehand hits just as good here, as it did at my old job

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 14/09/2026

packers loss was dogshit and very sad in this house but it WAS very funny going for a walk right after the game and seeing how many other people in the neighborhood were out, in the green and gold, just trudging off the sadness

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 12/09/2026

I understand it takes time to develop games, but the biggest announcements so far at Blizzcon being a game in 2029 and a game in 2030 is wild. Telling me about a game that far out is basically the same thing as telling me about a dream you had one time.

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 12/09/2026

my 9/11 memory is that it happened while me and my friends were commuting from the high school in town where we were doing our cisco networking cert classes, to our primary high school it was basically like we stopped to get breakfast and then we got to school and we had missed All of History

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 11/09/2026

staying up until midnight to see what presents the saudis are going to bankroll hitting my chimney

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 11/09/2026

(post for eastern timezone and further friends only) no but it would be REALLY funny if it Happened today

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I AM DAD @iamdad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 09/09/2026

i really should've listened to orville peck EVER before today, having discovered that his range (at least, in "already gone") is exactly mine. i could've KILLED at karoke for years now

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 09/09/2026

i agree with ben burnley's "complaining about online people" stance but i simply cannot support playing fallout 4

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 08/09/2026

just had to extract the cat from the basement ceiling, a place i was not aware he could get to. because he sure couldn't get back out himself. fucking a

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 04/09/2026

this is just the answer you get when you've floated all over the midwest but you pronounce "bag" like a normal person and not an sctv character

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 03/09/2026

every australian comedy-game-show i see on youtube reinforces my belief that the better a country's social safety net, the more insane (positive sense) their comedians are allowed to be while still being housed and relatively well fed

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 01/09/2026

swanboy's too good a friend, because if it were me i'd be rooting for anything that ruins noel's chances at happiness, having interacted with noel ever

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 01/09/2026

so far my biggest criticism of zero company, other than "crashed 3x on one mission that was very annoying to redo that many times" is that it keeps giving me more cool companions than i can put in a given combat. great problem to have. a++

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 31/08/2026

major downside of working and living in a college down: the ikea pickup center's hours are, fucking, noon to four mon-fri. "regular business hours? what are those?"

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 31/08/2026

getting a bit sad in meetings with people re: my impending departure, it's all been good people i like working with and they are upset i have kind of blown up their shit with this. monkey's paw is going to curl and i'm going to have meetings with people who suck to make me remember why i'm leaving

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 29/08/2026

an insurance adjuster goes to the country to check on an author

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Current state of things: there's crop art of Signal at the Minnesota State Fair www.cropart.com

A white hand with Signal-blue painted nails holds a cellphone with a near-dead battery, with the Signal icon the only app on screen. Crop art by Molly Gehrke

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 26/08/2026

update: got and signed the offer letter. the long national nightmare is over: i have a new job, that i am actually excited about, with an institution that is not-awful, applying my stupid money number skills to GOOD crap that helps people, while making 0 concessions on pay or wfh benefits

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 26/08/2026

bike helmets are like seatbelts: you wear them FOR you, but not necessarily BECAUSE of you

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 25/08/2026

unfortunate that i have to classify Virginia as "Visited" because this map, like the clowns in Congress, refuses to recognize Washington, D.C.

where i've been. mostly the midwest, and texas.

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 24/08/2026

man you can know in the abstract that public institutions move slowly, but i verbally accepted a new job on friday and was told i "should" be getting the offer letter today, and it is still Killing Me

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 20/08/2026

as a spreadsheet person: you should herd us all into a large field and keep us there until the elements claim us

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 20/08/2026

sebastian absolutely not beating the (un)official neuro diagnosis with his musical choices

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 20/08/2026

i swear to god Reacher (the series not the character) just burns money for no reason. like they had "where is my mind" play over the credits of an episode. just to do it. not part of any score in the episode itself, just hey do you want a good song? let's hear it together kids, licensing costs, what

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 19/08/2026

"debating whether i mounted my big tv too high on the wall across from my large couch" a problem i should be income-taxed another % point or two just for considering

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 17/08/2026

yeah dude when they said Lanterns was "like true detective" they meant "pays character actors to intone ominous bullshit and stare at each other" not like, "interesting things happen" or anything

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 15/08/2026

moving into the new house and had 2 thoughts 1. i wish anything, at all, related to Computer wasn't some combination of expensive/fragile/heavy as fuck 2. kind of annoying to set up the office when all ethernet cables come in either 6 foot or 60 foot lengths and nothing in between

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 12/08/2026

had 2 job interviews this week that both seemed like they went really well, so you KNOW i'm expecting to hear two crushing disappointments next week

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 11/08/2026

having one of those work days where people should be legally required to hop onto Dead by Daylight in the middle of the afternoon just for me

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 09/08/2026

every time there's an article with hand-wringing about mamdani and 9/11 ceremonies the people interviewed are like, "i just don't feel safe leaving long island to honor the memory of my son, who died trying to complete a leveraged trade for infant blood securities. not my mayor!!"

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 07/08/2026

fancy way of saying i post mostly for myself when the mood strikes, and that i have a sleep schedule. be crushed in my dullness

the latest dumb funny thing. an account analysis identifying this account as The Tide: You arrive on schedule, and the schedule has a night in it.

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 05/08/2026

i'm just glad haley stevens will have the free time to pursue her original passion, being a two-line character in an off-putting but still 3/5 'i think you should leave' sketch

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 04/08/2026

i AM going to cancel thanksgiving if elected though. basically anything except halloween is right out

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 31/07/2026

like many 1983s, i'm sure: - cryptid - information superhighway - stimming - telework - vaporware

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francis derby's delightful dining experience @annihilator.family · 31/07/2026

someone books a 10 am meeting with me, at 9:30. they ask how it's going and i just drop this into chat

"i just need to get through this week" cycle of unlimited misery

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