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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

but where's the ROI in getting arrested youtube.com/watch?v=-_6mni6k0Zw&t=22s

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Clavicular Interview

YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

which of these official smashing pumpkins shirts do YOU think is classier to wear with reissue JNCOs?

a variation of the ZERO shirt worn by Billy Corgan for the album artwork of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, but instead of saying ZERO with a star it says 42ZERO with a marijuana leaf. I guess Billy thinks smokin' grass is pretty cool. omg ur so funny, Billy.

A silhouette drawing of Billy Corgan with the large words Adore, with white face paint and a goofy expression. He's probably supposed to look like Nosferatu, and has a cheeky expression as if to say "look at me! I look like Nosferatu!" but fails to realize he looks like a clown, for a clown is what he is.

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

legit nightmare fuel looking around the simulated "360° preview" of stadium seats (on the site of certain ticket reseller)

screenshot of simulated view of audience in a 360 degree virtual preview of a seat for sale on a ticket reseller website. the same 3D model for a creepy guy in flannel and a beanie hat is being used 3 times in succession, along with similar for a blond haired woman. they are all smiling the same smile and looking to their left as if leaning over to talk to someone who isn't there, with creepy, vacant eyes and smiles

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

saw the 40th anniversary release of the Transformers (animated) movie yesterday and totally forgot about:

screenshot of the Animated transformers movie intro credits with the text "Orson Welles as Unicron" in hallucinogenic font with outer space (planets, stars) as the background

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

pierogi hoagies: is this something?

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

if a programmer's token spend is 10x, does that make them a 10x programmer?

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail...." jwz.org/hacks

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I applaud this exercising of the 1st amendment in the form of performance art meeting local politics www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NtO...

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“The Emperor Is A Fan Of Flock” — Darth Vader Appears At San Diego City Hall

YouTube video by 619 News Media

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

every day we stray further from God's light

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

additional evidence that the western US has no idea how to make a bagel properly / every day we stray further from God's light

advertisement for Ziggi's coffee and Philadelphia cream product collab. It says "finally, a bagel you can drink." pictured is an abomination in the form of a latte in a clear cup, where the top 1/8th of it is cream-cheese like foam with a butter knife spreading it, as if a bagel. to the right is the text saying "available for one week only"

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

trending: bad things happening everywhere also trending: people didn't like that one video game

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is a neat idea. We have ingredients and nutritional values on food, declarations whether YouTube product videos are sponsored or not, etc. Why not something like this for what goes into writing code or prose? bsky.app/profile/beau...

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

sometimes it be like that

the steam installation dilaog box for the game quake. it says the game size is 1.77gB. it also says the local drive only has 1.25gB free and "! NOT ENOUGH SPACE". it is implied this is because the OP hoards files

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Humans suuuuck at code review. I've been doing this for forty years, and all I've seen is decades of thinly-disguised LGTMs" yegge.ai/essays/the-s... "My 35 years in the tech industry includes almost two decades split between Amazon (1998-2005) and Google (2005-2017)." yegge.ai

Screenshot of Steve Yegge's blog post with the text:

It will go better for you anyway. Humans suuuuck at code review. I've been doing this for forty years, and all I've seen is decades of thinly-disguised LGTMs. Just let it go, mate. It's almost time.

Screenshot of Steve Yegge's home page (landing page) with text from his bio saying "My 35 years in the tech industry includes almost two decades split between Amazon (1998-2005) and Google (2005-2017)."

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

some free first-date ideas: - go to a protest together - canvassing - attend a DSA meeting

a screenshot of the new york times article with the headline "Gen Z Can't Afford a First date" with the subheading "from $130 dinners to expensive cocktails and exorbitant movie tickets, a crushing economy in NYC is creating a fresh barrier to... "
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/nyregion/gen-z-dating-too-expensive-cost.html

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

bsky.app/profile/wara... so, I did two simultaneous degrees (one arts, one science) and sort of tried doing both professionally, simultaneously. this is a good way to speedrun getting to the tumbleweeds

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

through the cracks in the Wall of Trash trying to placate the algorithm, sometimes a TruTube shines www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvjt...

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85178d88a9bd4b0da456d66eb78d0177

YouTube video by Perfect Scarecrow (plastekpet)

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I just found $20 adrift on the sidewalk IT PAYS TO GO OUTSIDE, MY FRIENDS

A 20 and the nyc sidewalk it was found on

Dollar sign tongue sticking out emojis in triplicate

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

not the hero we deserve but the one that we need right now www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1If...

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Mr. Bat Man [Indian Dancing Batman Bollywood] [ Tollywood ]

YouTube video by Eviel Khon

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

why in the fresh hell would you *ever* make (never mind publish) builds that are non-reproducible? in any case I wish the OpenTracks team good luck and a swift victory in the war on understanding and fixing things

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I went to the post office and found a playstation on a stoop

A photo of an original Sony PS1 in a window sill

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

why don't you take a moment and click on this (it is probably nicer than whatever other doom you were about to scroll anyway) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy5E...

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ハムスターのジャズバンド

YouTube video by やじ馬ストリート

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I read in the encylopedia that super balls are made of Zectron, which has no article of its own. A search later and

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

www.businessinsider.com/spacex-stock... "some of the rockets didn't thrust, triggering an automatic launch abort," the charlatan said in a post on his platform which was rolled-up into the debt-laundering shell-company that will try again with a targeted launch timing of "whenever gravity gives up"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

thanks for the suggestion youtube, I did often wonder why this imaginary child who goes to magic school is so lackluster at mixed martial arts. instead of utilizing the armbar, the fool reaches for the macguffin rock. my disbelief is no longer suspended, how will he ever truly defeat wizard-hitler?

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

every hometown's got an ominous megastructure... what's yours? bsky.app/profile/chim...

The tower known as Barad-dûr, high above a dark gray landscape of Mordor stretching as far as the flaming eye of Sauron can see.

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

fun fact: it is called "trickle down economics" because they were pissing on everyone's legs and calling it rain. not many people know this

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"goose value 71" is gonna live rent-stabilized in my head for a very long time

a screenshot of a slide from a presentation by Softbank where there is a a goose with the caption of "goose value 71" next to the words "it was the goose that created value" above the equation 74 - 3 = 71 above 3 golden eggs. keep in mind the job of alt text is to explain what is in the image, not explain how it makes sense (if any)

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A 2024 Senate study showed that 30% of Yale's graduate students and professional students experienced food scarcity. So in 2025 Yale created a video series on how to stretch your food budget, a bold and innovative solution vs. simply paying their grad students more www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q6f...

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Low-Cost, High-Nutrition Eating for Graduate & Prof Students: Intro

YouTube video by YaleCourses

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🚴 #bikesky if you have any links that help explain the deeper issues of car culture and how this looks from a cyclist perspective, this comic's replies could use it bsky.app/profile/twon...

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I haven't been this excited for a match between close rivals (ie two countries with sideways "Y" on their flags) since norway vs sweden (ie two countries with sideways "t" on their flags)

World cup match listings with CZE vs RSA flags for june 18th 12:00pm. both flags are made of shapes that could be viewed as sideways Y's

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A certain idiot becoming a trillionaire Is an indicator of corruption and the currency itself becoming diluted & devalued, not actual skill, worth, or ability of said idiot.

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

ngl this mandelbrot still goes hard a dozen years later www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXTp... also, conveying "mandlebrot" and "going hard" in the same sentence unfortunately makes me a mandelBro

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Hardest Mandelbrot zoom in 2014, 10^198 - 350 000 000 iterations

YouTube video by Fractal universe

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I couldn't remember "the water of life" (and, no, it did not give me the answer because search is broken)

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

tl;dr Elon & frens are changing the rules so index funds are forced to buy bum stocks like SpaceX (which has non-profitable X and xAI rolled up into it) right after IPO. You have until tomorrow (May 28th) to comment that this is a bad idea (and please do)! www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/gov...

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

this song is actually inspired by space missions to the moon. not many people know this www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN6...

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Nine Inch Nails - Came Back Haunted

YouTube video by NineInchNailsVEVO

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

An open letter to product people: Adding a dialog that proclaims your new feature when I start your app won't work. I don't even process the text on it. I close it rapidly and do thing I opened the app for, then resent you and the app a little more, until I uninstall. Use an in-app notification

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

how it started / how its going

Nice digital drawing by a real human: a illustration of a cute caterpillar on a late 90's beige computer with a CRT, and a windows XP background. it is very stylilzed rounded and cute, and has the hand-lettered caption "On my puter". Probably hand-drawn in photoshop with the brush tool using pixelated (non-feathered) edges.

A terrible image made by Google's NanoBanana: a hellish cyborg mothra plugged into many wires, sitting in a hangar with grim looking troops standing around like scene in Half Life 2. Cyborg-Mothra's eyes are red and full of screens that have non-descript but seemingly bad images of world events on it, as if the data is being wired in.

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Williamsburg / Bushwick / Ridgewood bsky.app/profile/jcsa...

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

to whoever in history actually originated the quote "If you're not a liberal when you're young, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're old, you have no brain" did u consider the simpler explanation is maybe just that ur an asshole?

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/04/2026

New York's proposed budget can pass any day now. Contact your representatives NOW to demand they keep censorship and surveillance out of the budget. www.eff.org/3dprintny

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Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

If you live on the border of Brooklyn & Queens, open your window on this nice ~60 degree day to experience a peculiar mixture of weed smoke, charcoal grill, and ice cream truck jingle all swirled together with the crisp air wafting into your apartment

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

outmogging all y'alls, every day (in every way)

An illustration of the character Mog from Final Fantasy VI leisurely sitting back in a purple polka dot chair and holding a glass of wine.

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It turns out that LLMs, IoTs, and surveillance capitalism were just stepping stones on the road set forth upon us by the original Furby (1998), merely to bring us here to this inevitable, hellish, logically-extreme conclusion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHFW...

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You’ve Never Heard Comfort Like This… 🦌 Skylar Grey Is Fawn

YouTube video by Fawn Friends

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It is going to be very, very karmic if this administration (and its wealthy sponsors) piss off the rest of the world enough that they won't let even the wealthiest of US citizens emigrate, and then we vote in candidates who can try them and tax them into the ground once they have nowhere to run.

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