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Pizza Rachel 🍕👨🏻 @dftbarachel.dftba.social · 28/09/2026

🍕One more sleep til Pizzamas! 🍕 In celebration of the most wonderful time of the year i give you: 👨🏻🍕The Pizza Johnt! 🍕👨🏻 (Johnt, Font👀) The font is available on my Ko-Fi, but during Pizzamas if you reply with proof of pizzamas purchase/PIH donation, i’ll dm you it for free! ko-fi.com/dftbarachel

the alphabet illustrated as gloopy slices of pepperoni pizza and a mustachioed john green-like character

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 10/09/2026

Half of all baby books are "this is sue. Sue drinks fruit juice. Do you too like fruit juice like sue?" And the other half of baby books emotionally devastate you for weeks

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 01/09/2026

Listening to humans and Dr Jerome Goddard talks so much like my family in Alabama it's unnerving It's such a lovely accent and cadence, its wild you don't hear it more often in media

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 26/08/2026

You guys don't understand the vile things I would do for the opportunity to sit in a garbage truck and control the little grabber arm

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 09/08/2026

WHY DIDNT ANYBODY TELL ME THAT THE TERM PIPE DREAM IS ABOUT SMOKING OPIUM FROM A PIPE AND HALLUCINATING THAT CONTEXT COMPLETELY CHANGES WHAT I THOUGHT THE MEANING WAS

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 07/08/2026

Gang, did I just find the pangram?!?

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 06/08/2026

look, as a programmer, if the goblins that run around inside your computer demand you turn it off and back on again in order for something to work, you should just turn it off and back on again fighting with the goblins has always been a losing battle. we've lost so many good people already

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 26/07/2026

What are y'all's smush secrets because I can only ever get like 200 points how the hell are you getting 600?!?

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 25/07/2026

There were a few years at work where any time somebody was sick I reacted in Slack with a hospital emoji. Slack even kept it in the recently used box It turns out it wasn't a hospital- it was a "love hotel". I never noticed because it's so tiny And none of my coworkers told me!

Screenshot of slack message from Coworker Margaret, saying "I can't make it into work today, I am dying of illness"

Underneath are two reactions, a get well soon emoji and what appears to be a hospital

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 13/07/2026

In honor of sam neil here is a thread of my favorite dinosaur facts

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 13/07/2026

nnoooooooo What horrible news to wake up to

A screenshot of many notifications on my phone telling me that sam neil died

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 06/07/2026

Dress for the sleep you want, not the sleep you have.

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 02/07/2026

nobody make fun of me for saying some nerd shit but I never feel quite as alive as when code stuff breaks at work and everybody is panicking It's high-stakes programming like in a hacker scene in a movie. I am the only one who can save them. Olivia Rodrigo is providing dramatic background music.

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 27/06/2026

Fun fact, when you do a custom puzzle in Hank's 4x3 game, when he says "the whole puzzle is in the URL", it's base64 encoded. (I'm going to spoil my own custom puzzle, but you can click here to play first if you want)

hankgreen.com

4 × 3

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 26/06/2026

I love this 1912 newspaper report on stegosaurus They had no idea how rad they made it sound

From Wikipedia:
A reproduction of a stegosaurus from a 1912 edition of Popular Mechanics reprinted in The Cincinnati Enquirer with the headline "Was Most Grotesque Animal" and caption "Stegosaur, who lived in Utah ages ago, is a freak of nature."

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 25/06/2026

My brother in law asked "do you know what you'll do for Open Sauce next year?" I said no, I'm too busy working on my project for this year He said "you should do one where you let people waterboard you"

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 25/06/2026

TIL I realized (and double checked) that "going down a rabbit hole" as a saying comes from Alice in Wonderland In hindsight it feels obvious but I still haven't recovered

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 18/06/2026

The newest episode of Humans is basically just Helen Hunt telling Hank "I don't understand your big words, nerd." but nicely

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 13/06/2026

Idk if anybody else will find this wild but we went to an alpaca farm today and I learned that alpacas and llamas are in the camel family. After you learn that and then look at one, it's crazy how quickly your brain goes "oh shit that looks like a camel in a fur coat"

Alpacas with freshly shaved fur, with fluffy little hairdos on the tops of their heads where they weren't shaved

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 11/06/2026

DO BEES TAKE PISSES? I SWEAR TO GOD I SAW A BEE FLYING AND SO MUCH LIQUID SPRAYED OUT LIKE A PISS THAT WAS A 10TH OF IT'S BODY WEIGHT, NOT A TINY BUG PISS IT HAPPENED TWICE SO I KNOW I'M NOT CRAZY

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 10/06/2026

I'm going to Open Sauce again this year, but this time I'm going to let people perform science experiments on me. If anybody I know on here is going, stop by and shock me www.opensauce.com/exhibits/the...

opensauce.com

The Human Lab Rat — Open Sauce 2026 Exhibits

Run a science experiment on an actual person! Shock him, spray him with water, or give him a treat for positive or negative reinforcement.

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 07/06/2026

I like knowing that there's a chance Skyler and I have hummed All Star by Smash Mouth to our baby more than any other parent has to their baby

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 22/05/2026

Can anybody think of art that is made specifically for the sense of touch? I can think of some for all of the other senses, but touch is hard. Music is sound art. Perfume is smell art. But what about touch? Does a massage count as touch art?

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 13/05/2026

My work finally released a trailer for the movie we've been working on for years Pizza baby's name will be in the credits as one of many "Production Babies" youtube.com/watch?v=POne...

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Wildwood – Official Teaser Trailer

YouTube video by LAIKA Studios

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 12/05/2026

There's a kind of joke that nobody ever laughs at and we need a word for it It's when everybody is talking about something bad and somebody makes a joke that's essentially "It's worse!" and people sigh Like "AI took our jobs" and somebody says "Well at least it made electricity more expensive!"

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 08/05/2026

My flight was delayed so I made some improvements to the Artemis earth timelapse

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 07/05/2026

After hank's video I wanted to see if I could stabilize the Artemis earth timelapse better I've completely stabilized the earth and stars, but you can still see the satellites, auroras, and lightning

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 06/05/2026

Is string cheese made special or is all cheese just waiting to be stringed

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 06/05/2026

Sometimes I think it's important to embrace that dinosaur is more of a ✨vibe ✨ than a classification for normal people Yeah technically birds are dinosaurs, and pterodactyls are NOT dinosaurs but some people just want their favorite dinosaur to be mosasaurus and not be told that's a wrong answer

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 04/05/2026

I hadn't even heard of Raye before a few weeks ago but this new album vibrates my soul it's the sound of floating into the sky youtu.be/NXkn1Ee7Q5o?...

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RAYE - I Know You’re Hurting. (Live at Abbey Road Studios)

YouTube video by RAYE

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 22/04/2026

Sam Fender is like Noah Kahan but British and there's more saxophones

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 15/04/2026

Guys I don't want to start shit and I know nobody will believe me I swear to God I'm not making this up But I watched the pot and it fucking boiled

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 11/04/2026

Can you imagine spending 9 days in a little space ship, falling back to earth, and then having to wait half an hour before they open the door and let you out I mean obviously things could have gone wrong and I bet they're thankful they're safe, but damn I bet they want out of that little tin can

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 08/04/2026

Look at this absolutely gorgeous picture of the moon eclipsing the sun from Artemis images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

A photograph of the dark side of the moon eclipsing the sun. A large soft halo is formed around the moon from the light of the sun behind it. Stars are visible around the moon.

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 01/04/2026

rocket launches with people in them are nuts What do you mean the people are just in the little tiny dot at the top And most of the rocket is just fuel And then you see how big the blast is We got the best scientists to essentially strap a few brave souls to the top of a bomb, and you can tell

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 29/03/2026

I gotta say I really thought this tweet was gold when I posted it Like new pinned tweet worthy post I thought this was going to pop the fuck off

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 28/03/2026

You don't remember this, but before you are born into this world from The Ether, your soul had to make the choice about whether you'd like sour things or spicy things. Whichever one you didn't choose would kill you

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 25/03/2026

Obviously there must be evolutionary pressure and hormones that cause this but it's absolutely wild how much I love our baby Objectively she's a potato that cries and poops But I would happily spend an eternity cuddling with her I never even cared about babies before How does that happen

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 24/03/2026

I don't think anybody else finds this funny but I love getting idioms wrong My go-to is "I'm so hungry I could ride a horse"

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 24/03/2026

Project Hail Mary is important because we don't have enough hopeful sci-fi it's so hard to do because plot *requires* bad things to happen and the default is for the sci-fi thing to be what goes wrong. Aliens kill everyone, robots take over, the miracle cure has consequences, etc

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 23/03/2026

Apollo 15 did a demonstration on the moon where they dropped a hammer and a feather at the same time to show that without air resistance they both fall at the same speed They didn't pick up the feather afterwards Now for the rest of time there will be a piece of a dinosaur sitting on the moon

A photo of the landing site on the moon of Apollo 15, featuring moon dirt, lots of aluminum foil looking debris, some astronaut footprints, and a small white feather

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 22/03/2026

Guys I don't want to over hype it but the Project Hail Mary movie is so good Amaze amaze amaze

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 20/03/2026

I thought it would be really funny to use comic sans as the font that I programmed in but the joke is on me it's actually pretty readable and you immediately forget it's comic sans

a screenshot of generic python code, using comic sans as the font

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 19/03/2026

I am unhappy to report that despite it not being my circus, I must now deal with the monkeys

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 14/03/2026

I sincerely apologize to anybody who follows me that you have to endure the whiplash of me alternating between being a dinosaur account, a programming account, and a "I just found out what this idiom means" account

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 14/03/2026

I want to film a dinosaur movie in the next few years and the biggest hurdle I've had so far in writing and planning is that there was no grass Grass didn't actually spread and become the way it is today until AFTER the Cretaceous How the fuck do I avoid GRASS when I'm filming It's everywhere

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 13/03/2026

Even *Smash Mouth* knew about climate change back in 1999 when they wrote All Star Smash Mouth!

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 12/03/2026

I relate so deeply to the childhood depicted in the SNL sketch Wells for Boys I didn't have a well but there was a creek I could walk to and stare into. absolute s-tier location for pondering

youtube.com

Wells for Boys - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 12/03/2026

Programming is like talking to a genie. Your code might work but half the job is thinking critically about the EXACT WORDS you used to make sure it can't go horribly wrong while still technically achieving the wish (for now) AI code is great at making wishes, but bad at double checking the wishes

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