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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 30/09/2026

I love that chatbots can’t even think and even its rudimentary word-based pattern recognition was immediately broken by basic McKinsey era business principles.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 25/09/2026

Protip for SMS scammers: If you want to get someone to tap a link by pretending to be an automated message from a payday loan place, spell the company’s name correctly.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 22/09/2026

Yeah, I'm old. Shut up. Also I was very young, my mom's employer sent her home with a cutting-edge workstation so she could keep working after my younger brother was born.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 22/09/2026

I’ve never seen anyone get fined for any of the multitude of pro-Jesus messages I’ve seen written on eyeblack. I wonder where I should report it next time.

From the NFL rule book, Rule 5, Section4:

Article 8. Personal Messages

Throughout the period on game day that a player is visible to the stadium and television audience (including in pregame warm-ups, in the bench area, and during postgame interviews in the locker room or on the field), players are prohibited from wearing, displaying, or otherwise conveying personal messages either in writing or illustration, unless such message has been approved in advance by the League office. Items to celebrate anniversaries or memorable events, or to honor or commemorate individuals, such as helmet decals, and arm bands and jersey patches on players' uniforms, are prohibited unless approved in advance by the League office. All such items l approved by the League office, if any, must relate to team or League events or personages. The League will not grant permission for any club or player to wear, display, or otherwise convey messages, through helmet decals, arm bands, jersey patches, mouthpieces, or other items affixed to game uniforms or equipment, which relate to political activities or causes, other non-football events, causes or campaigns, or charitable causes or campaigns. Further, any such approved items must be modest in size, tasteful, non-commercial, and non-controversial; must not be worn for more than one football season; and if approved for use by a specific team, must not be worn by players on other teams in the League.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 22/09/2026

(For the youths, Kurt Loder is very much from the ‘90s so his joke was that it was on brand for him to be singing an extremely ‘90s MTV song.)

A Simpsons screenshot of Kurt Loder with the caption, “This is Kurt Loder reporting from… the ‘90s.”

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 15/09/2026

I encourage everyone to say things that would infuriate @ashmcgonigal.com.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 13/09/2026

I of course have infield dirt courtesy @lastdivebar.bsky.social but 1) it’s not enough to grow anything and 2) I’m not sure it’s especially nutrient-dense for plants if I had more of it.

My hand holding sealed jar of red infield dirt from the Oakland Coliseum labeled “Baseball’s last dive bar, Sep. 26 ‘24, 1968-2024.”

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 11/09/2026

Well if there are entire books saying it’s right it has to be true.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 09/09/2026

Could be worse, you could be on the other side of the tunnel.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 09/09/2026

White men ARE a minority in the US and probably always have been. Men in general are 49% of the population so even before you factor in race we're not a majority. By my math white men were 29.65% in 2025!

A pie chart of the US population by race and sex.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 07/09/2026

It does though? Right? I was under the impression that was the entire point of having a Constitution.

The lawsuit, first filed in 2022, says the contamination violated Jacksonians constitutional right to bodily integrity. Donald Trump-appointed judge Kurt Engelhardt disagreed. (Highlight begins.) "The Constitution does not provide redress for every governmental wrongdoing," (Highlight ends.) Engelhardt said. "Defendants' actions allegedıy deprived Plaintiffs of clean water and guileless information. These deprivations, while grievous, do not infringe upon any deeply rooted constitutional right."

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 02/09/2026

This headline is the weirdest framing. Is the implication that Russia WANTS full scale war with a 32-nation alliance? Or that it’s somehow NATO’s responsibility if Russia attacks one of their members?

Apple News widget. Headline from the Wall Street Journal: “Russia is testing NATO’s ability to hold back from a hot war”

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 01/09/2026

Big Cow, of course, being different than this big cow, who’s more religious figure than conspiracy theory.

An enormous cow standing among normal-sized cows.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 25/08/2026

Shoutout to the legendary Gary Bogue who, the third time I texted him for his anti-skunk-smell solution said, “Write it down this time, ok? I’m not gonna be around forever.”

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 25/08/2026

My cameras are still attempting to describe what they see and I don’t like this one, because I was definitely alone.

People Approaching Door
Side Gate detected: Two people walk down a narrow outdoor walkway at night, illuminated by a bright light, and head toward a door at the far end.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 25/08/2026

This ad gave me absolutely no useful information about anything, it piqued absolutely no interest in its subject, and yet somehow it made me support SB1203 slightly more.

Instagram ad from something called CALSAGA opposing something called SB 1203. “Your safety just got a bigger price tag. $2 billion in costs for small businesses = Fewer security guards protecting you.”

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 19/08/2026

My security cameras have started describing what they see and this is DEEPLY offensive to my people (muscle car weirdos).

A phone alert from Wyze that says, “Someone in a black t-shirt and blue shorts walks past a dark gray Chevrolet Bolt EUV and goes into the house.” The car is a Chevrolet Camaro SS! For shame.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 16/08/2026

Thank you(?) to @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social and @aftermath.site for introducing me to cheap electronics by suggesting this shockingly cheap stand alone MP3 player and in-ear monitors, it sounds incredible and cost me a combined $95, which is like two trips to Burger King.

A hand holding a Snowsky MP3 player with a screen that looks like a cassette tape (though it’s much smaller, only a couple inches across) playing Ghost’s Miasma.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 16/08/2026

Everyone please enjoy this video of Mr. Hank on a coffee run this evening.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 13/08/2026

Me: Ok, so where is this screed going… Grace McCarrick:

The Matt Bors comic with the guy in the well saying “Yet you participate in society. Curious!”

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 10/08/2026

From there I go through the disco mines and around the column of fire to get to what appears to be the backrooms. Then through an ornate door and past a recording studio I find an enormous museum, behind which is a profoundly unnerving abandoned party in a giant cave.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 10/08/2026

Retired cattle dog Ace and I went out to try to shoo them away. He gave one solid woof, the turkeys ignored him, he stared for a while then gave me a “Well, I’m not sure what you expect me to be doing about this.” look.

In the bottom left is Ace, an old black and white cattle dog, peering suspiciously at the flock of turkeys from a prior post in the top right.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 10/08/2026

The worse news is Edie and Hank are trying unsuccessfully to scare them away and it’s giving me a headache.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 10/08/2026

Well, the bad news is there’s a decent flock of turkeys camped out in my front yard threatening the landscaping.

Nine (or so, they all blend in) wild turkeys in my suburban front yard, next to a tree, the sidewalk, and a red Fiat.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 09/08/2026

This really is Rowling’s remaining fans in a nutshell, disrespecting actual real humans out of devotion to a fictional character who doesn’t even make any logical sense.

"Actually we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby's grave," he said.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 08/08/2026

UPDATE: She spotted another one.

The same white dog as before, in a different place in the park, staring at one singular pigeon.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 08/08/2026

If there’s one thing the dog loves it’s barking at me while I’m getting ready for bed. But if there are two things, the second is staring at birds.

A smallish white dog laying on its belly on some grass staring at four pigeons.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 05/08/2026

I've lost $22,748 per year in buying power since I was hired at @edsource.org in 2019. That's $1,900 per month to cut from my budget! I'm well past "don't eat so much avocado toast" territory and into "barely put any money in savings and watch your credit card balance creep up" territory. 1/3

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 04/08/2026

Anyone who orders a gun off Temu deserves exactly what they get.

An Instagram ad for Temu, and the photo is a gun. Just a straight up handgun with bullets next to it.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 03/08/2026

I mean look at this, it’s terrifying. He somehow entered the uncanny valley despite being a real person. Horrifying.

Slater from Saved by the Bell in June 2026, but he looks like he’s wearing a mask of his own face.

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 31/07/2026

I regret to inform you that it’s a cosmetic effect of the temples, like on the sides of the head, and not regarding perception of or rate of travel through time.

USA Today headline: “Ozempic is giving people ‘temporal hollowing.’ Doctors are sounding an alarm.”

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Daniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 30/07/2026

Alternately, they're about the same height and there's enough of a resemblance for it to work.

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