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Shaun of the 🥖

@cognitivebios.bsky.social
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"The Grizzly Adams of Automation." -@hcoyote Opinions are like bellybuttons: everyone has one and most people don't clean them very well. Human skeets only, therefore mistakes are all intentional and prosecutable offenses during the Geneva Convention.

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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Talarico is going to do and say bad things but before you comment, make sure you're framing your criticism with your answer to the question would it be better for Talarico to win or for that dirtbag Ken fucking Paxton to win
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
hello again
pdx airport carpet with a foot
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
For thousands of years the ability to speak and especially to write fluently was semi-consciously used as a (very problematic!) proxy for intelligence. About four years ago a few companies disproved by counterexample any linkage between fluency and intelligence. A lot of us are still catching up.
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
the responses to this post are kind of a lot i deleted something earlier about how, counter to what i learned in linguistics class, it seems like language leads thought sometimes, but here goes
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"I would like to apologize to my future self, it seemed like a fun idea at the time" is something I should have said a long while back.
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
meet me at the corner of 183 & oak knoll if you want an ass kicking
grey hat with an oval patch reading "TEXAS" on top and "FOREVER" on the bottom 

there's a pin in between the top & bottom words reading
"GIVE TRANS PEOPLE DRUGS" in blue & pink words
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
heyo @richardkadrey.bsky.social i need to complete my Sandman Slim digital collection and was wondering what the best platform for you is, my preferred friendly local bookstore doesn't have a relationship with anyone and I just wanna be able to read on my devices
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
sorry to any pals who are Timbers fans but it was pretty awesome to have been asked by the kiddo "who's going to score first and who's gonna win", have a whole conversation about predictions vs results, and then get to see Austin FC win 1-2 that Svatok goal was a fun watch
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
sad . . . . . . pretty funny headline though
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
idk about the math (not at all a criticism, I genuinely don't know the numbers) but spending money to prevent voter suppression in HTX is a fantastic idea
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
man invents ⭕️
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
made me think about bsky.app/profile/cyri...
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
issuing correction on a previous post of mine. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta respect the hustle."
ai slop image reading "SHEN'S FROM
TEXAS" with text description below reading "Shes From Texas Halloween T-Shirt"
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
trying to maintain the peace found in not chasing after the thoughts directly resulting from reading the words of stubbornly intolerant people who have influence and instead focusing on questions like "what is the effect of other people's belief or tolerance for these deranged rants"
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Maybe so. But it is not always so. If times change and we lose Tassajara and move to another mountain, the way we have here cannot be the same way we will have there.
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe." lol, sure, IBM probably tried to make the same point but the facts stand
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
to the cute couple examining and discussing the look of various Meta Glasses in the Best Buy last night: yes, when you heard me exclaim "ooh, Pervert Glasses" so loudly I was very aware you could hear me
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
weird little guys and their malarkey
buffalo bill meme template with text: "it puts the linux on its desktop or else it gets the hose again"
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
wishing i was hanging with @cheeseplus.biz, it's been too long bud
a gimlet in its natural habitat (a coupe glass)
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
100% true
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I see @varlock.dev followed me the same day I completely botched a meetup demo about how to use it because I was overzealous and didn't test the proxy beforehand. coincidence?
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I remember this one time I was helping someone who had lost their home when their neighbor's spouse torched their house and the fire spread get clothes from the donations we provided to anyone who needed them.
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
i know it's 97F outside and my guy needs a haircut but we took an after-lunch 1.5 mile walk with plenty of shade and water breaks and he's out like i was dragging him behind a bike goin downhill
poor mini goldendoodle, all tuckered out

he's a gorgeous cream color, with 2" wavy coat, curled up on a dog bed looking up at the camera all plaintive-like
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
it's been a very nice day but it's time for bed now oh ok then, i'll toss it one more time
a picture of a very good boy putting his sheep squeak toy on a person's lap

the Very Good Boy is a year old english cream goldendoodle, fuzzy and soft. please pet him
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
a classmate in a college physics course started crying when they learned that the bohr model of the atom with little balls zooming around a nucleus isn't a direct representation of how electrons work, it was powerful to witness "why would they lie to us for all these years"
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
it's nice that there are all kinds of people in the world because there's someone who appreciates this to balance me out slashpages.net
screenshot from the slashpages website reading:

# /chipotle

You should make a /chipotle page so when a friend is picking up Chipotle for you, you can send them a link instead of having to redescribe/retype your Chipotle order

/chipotle on IndieWeb
Creator: Shellsharks
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
i'm simultaneously very supportive of people's right to self determination and staunchly opposed to my child eating nothing but cheese and applesauce 7 meals per day ama
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
these little assholes stripped all the leaves from the fruit trees, dangit
a leaf cutter ant mound next to a rickety garden gate

if you lean real close you can hear them screaming "ICE must be abolished" before they climb your hair and strip you of leaves
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
we've let the garden go wild a bit but it's still a pleasant place to be
a bright orange flower in an overgrown green garden
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Did you know that it's illegal to say "I want to kill The Presidents of the United States of America"? It's illegal, it's a federal offense. It's one of the only sentences that you're not allowed to say. Now it was okay for me to say it right then because I was just telling you that it's illegal to
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Google Takeout was designed to keep you from saving things outside of Google's walled garden. Usability wise it's on par with tools like CA/Broadcom Rally and Workday, clearly designed for someone entirely other than the person who needs to use it most. Dark Pattern BS. I absolutely hate it.
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
whoever came up with the name of the ipv6 address record type was firing on all cylinders that day it's perfect Thomson, Huitema, Ksinant, Souissi, my proverbial hat is off to you
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
what's presented as an either/or here has more options, among them: the AI which Nadella gets to research & read for him doesn't have the advertised ability to research or read with discernment. it's a program, not a person. www.404media.co/satya-nadell...
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
i usually don't reskoot to show animus (1. a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will) unless i'm specifically snarking on a thing, is this the usual connotation?
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
isn't loinkdoing a microsoftian property why so hostile to user who already has account whatever happened to microstuft passport, huh? also wasn't i just signed in? why'd you give me this when i clicked a loinkdanged link if i am already signed in?
a screenshot of a linkedin signin page, which offers an account creation dialog with a large and obstructive "sign into linkedin with google" dialog overlaid on top. among the smaller and less emphasized text on the visible page is an "already on linkedin? sign in" link
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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 04/06/2026
Yet another precise measurement of how bad everyone’s CI/CD infrastructure is
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
the internet got a lot more tolerable when i started adding domains like substack to a dns blackhole along with other stuff i don't need (eg zuck & musk properties, dickover sites) turns out when you can't go there you stop what you were doing and continue with your day and it's fine, no blood shed
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
after a long and hard campaign we've done it.. bless us all. thank you all for your support, I look forward to serving you all as the next president of the united states of america. why did I decide to run you ask? no, it's a fair question, i'll answer. mostly i like the idea of televised naptime.
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"she said there's synthetic data showing up in prod traces." "shewhart now?" pdca yourself before you wreck yourself
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The poster art for Transylvania 6-5000 makes Ed Begley, Jr. look like Robert Redford. Happy International PMO Day!
poster art for the movie "Transylvania 6-5000"
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I was told that eventually it would be Morbin' time, did I miss that or is it still happening eventually?
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I made myself a cup of decaf black tea just now and I wonder if this is what it feels like to order a non-alcoholic beer for reasons other than "huh, I wonder what that tastes like"
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
youtube is amazing in the past year they've gone from "bad, but this is where the content is" to "is there anything here worth my time? how could i possibly find it, even if there were something i want to watch here"
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
bless you, Katie
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It's more than a bit frustrating that we don't have the ability to monitor attention patterns, chain-of-thought reasoning, etc in API offered LLMs I get that they don't want folks to slurp up the sauce but as someone implementing software in software it's a massive step backwards reliability-wise
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I know this is probably not a great solution for anything, but it'd be nice if the AI companies kept grounded brag docs because it's pretty easy to build up a list of ways in which clod or chajippity has failed, and harder to say "ok yeah this is a substantial win"
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
good on hungary and all. seriously. orban, good riddance one question is the other guy a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes sorry bye
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Count Chocula is WEAK on craisins
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
the thin man bites dog
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Shaun of the 🥖 @cognitivebios.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
3 Body Problems
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