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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

You know what's awesome? When a service you pay for decides, without any warning, to start blocking access to its public API so you can no longer retrieve necessary information.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

We're watching a series called "My Life Is Murder". The main character (played by Lucy Lawless) is named Alexa. Our Amazon devices are going absolutely nuts.

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jcrabapple @jason.gts.snakepit.us.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Reddit post asking what's the scariest haunted house near NOVA.

Top comment says "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue".

Reply days "Terrible actors this year".

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I am so tempted by this, but the price is a bit much for a popcorn bucket, even if it is awesome and collectible. The #Alamo is running 2 #Toho #Godzilla films over the next few weeks. One of them is Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, and you can add this […] [Original post on higheredweb.social]

A screenshot from the Alamo Drafthouse website showing a photo of a popcorn bucket that looks like Mechagodzilla's head. The heading below the photo says: "Mechagodzilla Popcorn Bucket". The description text is as follows:
"While supplies last, add the Alamo-exclusive Mechagodzilla Popcorn Bucket to your ticket. This 7” x 10” x 10.5” plastic popcorn vessel is ready to reign supreme on your shelf or face off against your Godzilla Popcorn Bucket. Pick yours up at the box office before your showtime. Any item not picked up within 30 days will be beheaded."

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

In a world of Morgan Wallens, be a Zach Bryan or a Kacey Musgraves.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

We're watching "It: Welcome to Derry". I only finally made the connection by episode 6 that the psychic character Dick Halloran is the psychic character from The Shining.

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

a sentence will always look like poetry if you hit enter a lot

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Trump & Epstein: Biz partners. @mugsysrapsheet.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

THIS is what I mean when I use the hashtag: #DisasterPresidency

Picture of RFK Jr with the headline from Time Magazine:

For the first time in 25 years, child mortality rates for preventable diseases are projected to increase, after having declined for 25 years.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@waldoj I was very glad that Hyundai/Kia fought back against the "get rid of buttons" movement in auto manufacturing.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

If you believe the folklore about Wooly Bears (or whatever you call them) and their predictions for winter, I don't think this is a good sign.

A photo of a "Wooly Bear" on a concrete floor. The animal is completely black, with no brown stripe at all.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty. Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too […]

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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The Super Bowl is going to Disney World. Disney+ to stream upcoming Super Bowl #Sports #Media www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/disney-stre…

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Looking for something fun and different to do tonight in the #WinchesterVA or #MartinsburgWV area? We're hosting Music Bingo at The Pub in Bunker Hill from 7-9 p.m. Come join us. Good times, great food and cold beverages.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

This won't mean anything to most folks, but I was today years old when I realized that Gravity Wiz (the team behind a bunch of awesome 3rd-party Gravity Forms add-ons) is also based out of Virginia Beach (the same place Gravity is based out of).

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Watched "Now You See Me, Now You Don't" last night. It lacked some of the magic (pardon the pun) of the first 2 films, but it was still enjoyable, and it had a nice twist, as well as some nice cameos.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I paid $139.99 for an SSD in February last year. That same drive is "on sale" today for $349.99, with a regular price of $489.99. This is sad, ridiculous and unsustainable.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@lars I wish there were more hybrid solutions like Plex, where you host everything on your own server, but routing it all is pretty simple thanks to the stuff on their central end. I would love to find a solution like that for something like NextCloud, so that I didn't have to decipher all of […]

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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Watched Backrooms last night. I sincerely have no idea what we watched. I'm guessing it might have made a bit more sense if we were fans of the web series, but it honestly made no sense at all to me. I saw a few reviews on IMDB that seemed to have the same issues we did. It felt like the middle […]

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

We've reached that point in the year where I wake up with a sore throat and horrible congestion every morning. I'll have to get the humidifier cleaned out and running again to mitigate a little of it, but I'm not sure what else to do.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@jcrabapple the good news is that there are other options for good subs in our area, but I do understand the odd craving for Subway every once in a while.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

New single out today that's a collab between P.O.D. and Norma Jean. Also another new single from Hatebreed today. Not a bad day for those into heavy music.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Is there a QR code generator that 1. is a website 2. is free, no account needed 3. is not secretly also a link shortener 4. does not look like a scam 5. does not include extra branding (the way the Chrome one does) a friend just asked me this and I really could not find one

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

When I said "up to 10 copies" of some songs, I was a bit off. I've started trying to clean things up a bit, and near the beginning of the process, I found one song where there were more than 35 versions.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I take that back. What an incredible ending to that game. Would have never expected that.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Ravens are gonna Raven. They always play a good first half, but they seem to forget to come out of the locker room for the second half more often than anyone else.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

If you're curious what "large" means in this case, I think there are somewhere around 200,000-250,000 files. I'd be willing to bet there are fewer than 100,000 unique, good karaoke versions in there.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I inherited a large #karaoke collection from some of my former KJs that shared them with me. One of those KJs is a digital hoarder, so there are up to 10 different versions of the same songs. I'd love to find a tool that would identify these duplicates (and maybe files that have bad filenames) […]

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

It's not brilliant to take advantage of the less fortunate of us as a means for building an empire. We need to stop equating intelligence with boundless greed.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

My first night hosting karaoke by myself (meaning that I wasn't filling in for someone else, or doing it as part of something else) was pretty good. We had a great crowd, and only a few minor hiccups in getting things working. I have to say that the OpenKJ software worked beautifully (better […]

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I wonder what I'm doing wrong. Maybe different cables? Maybe disk format? I just copied ~80 gigs of files from one drive to another in about 1.5 hours. I'm now trying to copy those same files to a different drive, and it is estimating it will take 20+ hours. The 1st drive (NTFS Crucial x9) […]

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

If you're looking for something fun to do tonight, I'll be hosting #karaoke at The Pub in Bunker Hill, WV. There are Happy Hour specials from 3-7 p.m. and karaoke goes from 8 p.m. until midnight. You must be 21 or older to enter The Pub. #MartinsburgWV #WinchesterVA

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Guess I won't be getting much work done today. My ISP tells me there are no outages in my area, but their chat bot is also broken, so I can't even report it. Meanwhile, my Ting sensor tells me that there are at least 380 homes in my area with a Ting sensor that all went offline at the same time […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

This little critter has been hanging out above our hummingbird feeder for the past couple of days, defending its territory from other hummingbirds in the area. It gets downright brutal whenever any other hummingbirds come near.

A hummingbird with green accents sits atop a metal post where a hummingbird feeder is hanging below

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Daughtry just took the stage at the Great Frederick Fair.

A photo of Chris Daughtry and his band on stage with fog surrounding them.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Very sorry to hear that Duncan Sheik has died. I saw that he was in "critical but stable" condition yesterday, but I guess he didn't make it. If it were possible to wear out a CD, I definitely would have worn out his self-title debut album, and I actually listened to Daylight quite a bit, too.

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

the fuck you mean “trans question”. i have a trans answer: let them live and do whatever they want.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Finally got the win at trivia tonight. We've been close for the past month or 2, but always messed up the final question, causing us to tumble down the scoreboard. Last week, we messed up the final but still came in 3rd (because everyone else also messed up). This week, we got the victory for […]

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Bob K Mertz :distressedUS: @bobkmertz.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Ed has to be regretting not standing up to Kraft but I agree with AOC that we really need to keep the focus on Robert Kraft and the censorship power he used. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I'm not sure which is worse: The guy who was watching videos on his phone at full volume while sitting on the toilet in the public restroom. Or the guy standing at the urinal in the public restroom using his phone while he was peeing. I think the most disturbing part is that they were both in […]

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I gotta be honest, whether you agree with the decision to remove Macklemore from the Ed Sheeran tour or not, I feel like Sheeran is doing more harm than good to his own reputation by blaming the promoter.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I guess the Packers' check to the refs cleared already.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

The fact that they ignored both daughters' attached documents is a big enough issue. The fact that it took them 5+ months to process the kidlet's tax return - she filed it on March 28; the letter was dated Sept 8 - is an even bigger issue.

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Curtiss Grymala (he/him/his) @cgrymala.higheredweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Virginia really seems to have screwed up this year with their tax return processing. Both daughters had to file "non-resident" tax returns in Virginia, being residents of WV that worked jobs where VA taxes were withheld. Thing 1 got a letter 2 or 3 months ago that basically indicated VA had […]

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