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This is all true. I've been online continuously more or less since before there were pictures. We were very excited to type at each other. When my credit union introduced online banking, I had to telnet into it. That was great. Perfect. The command line didn't try to make small talk or suck up.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 3h

I loved dialing in to my public library's card catalog to browse and place holds.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe we should just stop caring about pundits?

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 10h

Barely even arithmetic. It's just counting.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 10h

The unethical part is using Substack.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 10h

Seriously, who would post an image of a teen on FB (or anywhere online)?

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 13h

In my town, more than half of homes are owned by out of state retirees who rent those houses out to working families. Those retirees are campaigning to eliminate property tax here.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 13h

But if the elderly can't afford property taxes on their too big (and too many) homes, they might have to downsize and make reasonably sized homes available to younger folks!

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 14h

They both look good, but the choccy chip ones are screaming my name.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 14h

Reminds me of faked wedding photos I've seen where the couple has done everything from put themselves in a place they never were to adding deceased (or just absent) family members, changed people's facial expressions, etc. I think people have lost the plot on the value/purpose of event photos

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 14h

When's the last time someone's heard him say the year without reading it off a page/prompter?

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alison 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @bluishorange.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

they sell professional cheese now

my hand holding a label for a bag of babybel cheeses that says “babybel PRO.” the cheese wrappers are an unappetizing bluish purple color.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 14h

Are you judging the Babybel for its career choices?

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 15h

I missed the confirmation hearings for @grok

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 15h

Well, first you have to realize these people chose to be there. But also, there's this thing when you here a couple people clapping where crowds tend to join in. Get a couple of friends to test it at the next auditorium style event you attend. You can get at least half the crowd to clap at anything

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 15h

Meanwhile in the 1990s I went to school in total darkness every day (because I lived on the extreme edge of a timezone, and pretty north, and my school started early). But also…schools can set their starting times to whatever they want. Clocks don't need to change for this.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 15h

That was my favorite snack break in my 20s.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 15h

Well, yeah, they need to know how the midterm elections go so they know which way to spin it.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 16h

Bless their hearts, they sure owned us libs. Themselves, too, but definitely us libs.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ooh that's a great way to handle it.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That's very significant especially given how many places hold Trick-or-Treat on a day other than Oct. 31.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Noah using 98% of all living beings as a shield is pretty sus.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The only way to see cognitive offloading and AI psychosis/dependence as a positive is to get yourself mired in it! It's like a drug pusher trying to peer pressure you into their additive product.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And now I'm wondering if there are any blind people (or animals) who are blind because their eyes are tuned to the wrong wavelengths and their own eye fluids are blocking what they would otherwise see.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They would probably need an eye that isn't a sac of water for that work out for them.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Post a vampire? I thought you were supposed to stake them?

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh God. WTF. I'm so glad I stopped watching Prime Video the second they had any ads for the paid plan.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And it sure seems like it would be more cost effective to just apply the $100 credits on folks' accounts. Who in the Trump family owns a paper company, envelope company, etc., or is there some need for them to prop up the USPS with postage?

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Whenever anyone mentions plumbers, I have to put effort into *not* bursting out into the local plumber's phone number song.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think it's definitely more about the quantity (and quality) of adverts you're being flooded with. I haven't seen any TV ads in decades, but I used to listen to the local radio station before it shutdown a couple years ago. I have piles of local services jingles rattling around from that.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"pausing a TV show turns your entire screen into a gambling advert" What fresh hell is that? This is a thing?

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And then if you get too overconfident, suddenly you're jamming your flathead screwdriver into a Phillips head and going, "Homophobia is actually just racism! It's just racism!!"

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Elizabeth Eastmond @opquilt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I sewed like a fiend today. Can I just say my LEAST favorite quilt border of all time is the piano keys border (sewing bunches of little strips together) because THEY NEVER FIT (so don't look too closely). I filled out the label request and sent it off. DONE! #quiltsky #nmaiquiltalong

Finished quilt top from four different blocks: bison, Hawaiian block, hand on diamond background, circular motif with a variation of Seminole border.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It says “a day in October” so I assume this is some sort of staggered day off for early voting (since the election is in November). Really doesn't make sense. Is it a reward (you prove you voted and/or are at least registered to vote and you get an extra day off)?

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What's the value in giving all the non-citizen military folks the day off? They can't vote. And how do you need a day off to send your ballot in the mail? I get that he thinks the military will overwhelmingly vote Republican, but this doesn't make any sense to me.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

10 years ago we were well into electing T, so I was definitely disillusioned enough to sadly believe it. 12 years ago, I would haven't have believed it.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gotta give the TV commentators time to talk it around so he feels solid in doing it.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'll be honest, photos of bits of Trump captioned with things like "he looks like a mummy, must be endgame" kinda lose their impact when he just keeps going anyway for a decade and counting Get back to me when he actually falls apart and until then, I'd rather see photos of kittens instead

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riolu aka riolu @wife.girl-mech.bond · 02/10/2026

Lots of rape apologists on the timeline

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, and given how wildly different various states' driving/road laws are, it's way too easy to cross state borders and even to transfer licensure.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Skydance: A creative†-first ho † AI

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hit'em where it hurts: right in the ballot.

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The POTUS campaigned on slurs, bullying, insults, etc., so…

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Audacious Ness @audaciousness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A fun (/s) part about being a queer US D-voter is being constantly told: * be realistic and only push for incremental change * stop changing the goal posts, you got what you wanted decades ago aka complete dismissal

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