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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 30/09/2026

Kentucky Bourbon Barrel imperial milk Stout - A+

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 21/09/2026

It says failed on mastodon but it seems it also didnt post here

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 04/09/2026

Pretty good in the end, it says I talk the most like someone from Pennsylvinia (I have lived more than half my life here) and specifically Pittsburgh is one of the most similar. Weird that Seattle, WA and Portland, OR are just as high - I don't think of them as being similar at all I guess.

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 04/09/2026

Do they says yinz in lousiana?! How is pittburgh not bright blue with this choice?!

a screenshot of https://mydialect.us/quiz-standard.html where the question is how do you address a group of people and I have selected "yinz" but the map shows pittsburgh as being fairly unlike me - guessing I am from Lousiana

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 22/08/2026

Did anyone else play this game? It was the first game I ever played on my own home computer

A booklet for Texas Instruments home computer "Adventure" with a pirate illustration on it

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 21/08/2026

My girlfriend got me this T-shirt with coach tomlin made from all the Tomlinisms .. i almost don't want to wear it because i like it so much.. but its Steelers game day

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 21/08/2026

Sorry I don't know how to alt these progress shots.. it looks slightly more human, i guess

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 21/08/2026

Starting to take some kind of shape

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 30/07/2026

Lost the time, but maybe 1.5 or 1.75 hours into this now..is it better?

Improved painting, i hope.. the edges are more subtle, the anatomy a little improved, color and contrast better

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 30/07/2026

Backwoods Bastard Ale - Founders makes good shit. Brian approved 🙌

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 29/07/2026

1hr figure painting.. maybe i keep going...

A woman in a white dress seated, looks to the side.

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 17/07/2026

What must it be like near the fires so far away. This is Pittsburgh www.instagram.com/reel/Da3zQ9M...

You can just barely see buildings and bridges through smog

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 16/07/2026

TIL that Joe Cocker covered Summer in the City .... and also that if you search for a video with Bing it will show you and let you play the YouTube video in its own Bing search results page with its own ads.

What I described, it shows Joe Cocker - Summer in the City from YouTube and you can click and play it inline - it also shows related videos and ads for lululemon pants

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 04/07/2026

I like to think that the hallucinations are just from an alternate universe in which I am an american actor, comedian and writer known for my roles in films like "the big lebowski" and "office space".

A hallucination from LLAMA 3.2 1B which says " american actor, comedian and writer known for my roles in films like "the big lebowski" and "office space"."

Yeah, they pretty much all agree that I am a web standards advocate.

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 01/07/2026

Me getting a tattoo in Florence

Me getting a tattoo, on my inner forearm - snap as it is being done from down the arm

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 30/06/2026

I'm stuck in a loop that says please wait while your request is being verified..

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 24/06/2026

Instagram recommended, made me laugh.. https don't lie

An old picture of Shakira in front of a computer that says "Shakira surfing the old web" and underneath the @pun_bible account says "https dont lie"

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 23/06/2026

If you're ever in Florence, this strong ale is pretty good, brewed by new bridge pizza

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 17/06/2026

copilot search in bing is citing grokipedia 🤢

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 15/06/2026

. @danielroe.dev and @patak.cat presenting at @webengineshackfest.org abou npmx.. great stuff about community in here

Daniel with a title slide that has a great picture of the tower here on the coast

Patak showing hundreds of contributors already

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 15/06/2026

Ooh Eemeli Aro from Mozilla presenting at the @webengineshackfest.org

Eemili on stage presenting a slide that says client side localization without scripting with a cute fox character on it

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 15/06/2026

Staring the @webengineshackfest.org - its also celebrating @igalia.com's 25th anniversary this year!

A slide that says igalia 25rh anniversary with an XXV roman numerals stylized tl look like people holding hands

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 15/06/2026

My colleague Val presenting on Accessible testing in web platform tests and the fact that historically you couldn't write accessibility wpt tests!

Val presenting on stage with a slide saying that you couldn't and that the impactions were huge

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 12/06/2026

Baby birbs don't care about presence either

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 05/06/2026

They've seen 3.5 *million users per month* copying and pasting 117 Million equations per month into office since then, mostly from the Web - and it's all MathML. Societal good, that I'm pleased that we have a browser vendor working on. Thank you Microsoft. Please join the Working Group :)

A slide that says impact: accessible math in Microsoft 365 from MathML

3.5M users/month.
117M equations/month

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 04/06/2026

Google pushed a notification at me. Is it an advertisement? If i click, it takes me to an AI answer about Frigidaire maintenance tips. I... don't... own a Frigidaire refrigerator?

A notification from google that says
Frigidaire Refrigerator
Extend the life of your Frigidaire appliance

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 04/06/2026

Bird friend had a baby 🐥

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 27/05/2026

Tonight's painting... So far at least. www.instagram.com/p/DY1OoibBM4...

A painting of a dark haired woman with dark eyes and wearing a dark shirt. Her hair is pulled back but a little wavy. She wears dangly earrings

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 19/05/2026

Idk, I think it's no contest this one... www.amazon.com/Mocsicka-Bac...

The most neon backdrop you can possibly imagine that says "back to the 90s" on hot pink purple, yellow and gree grafitti of skateboards, roller skates, cassette tapes, boom boxes, etc

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 14/05/2026

The only thing I'm adept at growing is birds.

Two cute birds huddling, basically kissing atop a hanging planter of strawberries

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 10/05/2026

This is what happened when i clicked a news headline. Thanks, helpful.

There's a headline about a former NFL player sentenced to 16 years for defrauding 200 million from the VA and Medicare. Gemini helpfully defines "a sentence is a grammatically complete unit of words... etc"

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 21/04/2026

An _almost_ complete representation of Igalia attendees at BlinkOn 21 on the Redmond Campus - h/t to @infrequently.org for the photo

10 of the 11 igalians attending, standing on a balcony on a sunny day on the Redmond campus at microsoft.

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 21/04/2026

Really psyched to get to see @sarahedo.bsky.social speak today and meet her irl after like 15 years online or something!

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 20/04/2026

The charts! Igalia still a huge contributor, second only to Microsoft. Congratulations MS though, way to step it up these last few years!

An even bigger slice to igalia specifically in Chromium

Igalia has 13% of non google commits across chromium repositories, second only to ms who now has a third!

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 20/04/2026

Amazing, I've been lobbying for this for years: blinkon 21 is hosted by Microsoft! Maybe igalia next? 🙂 Love it

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 13/04/2026

Listening to the latest shoptalk show and @chriscoyier.net needs an example name and says "our banana plan" and for like 10 minutes they keep saying "banana plan" and I was so disappointed @davatron5000.bsky.social never says "there's always money in the banana plan"

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 13/04/2026

Since someone made me click to see something there - There's actual thruth and then "truths" (not usually actually true), but this is a Sponsored Truth, which I guess makes him money for weightloss ads in exchange for saying terrible things?

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 02/04/2026

I just want to stress again to my friends making MS Edge for MacOS that this bar at the top is getting impossibly packed. I can't tell you how many times I get frustrated trying to move the window!

A top bar of the Edge window on mac OS with basically no room that isn't input or button

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 16/03/2026

(looking for studies about how people feel about online tracking, even when they might have technically given 'consent') Me: Oh "Attitudes about personal data tracking among consumers in the United States as of October 2024" <click>. Immediately faced with 'This website and our 939 partners'.

A cookie window saying that they want to uniquely identify you to them and their *939 partners*

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 08/03/2026

Should I switch up my glasses?

Some funky octogon harry potter looking things

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 26/02/2026

Ah ok, great.. can you drink some of this please?

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