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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Remember, asking anthropomorphics to serve soup in a Vietnamese restaurant is a pho paw.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ah! I see what kind of day it's going to be. Me: *tugs laces taut before tying shoe* Shoelace: *snaps in two*

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Downgrade a Movie Minor-Incidental-Damage Ralph

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If a certain proposed renaming scheme goes through, it's maybe worth noting that the Great Lakes mnemonic goes from HOMES to SHAME...

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger Jupiter, Gale & Inferno

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"Here's a mandatory training class about how to 'deepen your understanding of sustainable product design at' our company. Oh, and also, here's four announcements about all the AI resources we have available."

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Me: "I should fold the laundry before I go to bed tonight." The cat: *races into the bedroom ahead of me while I'm carrying a load of clothes, jumps up onto the bed, walks onto the shirt I started with after it's halfway folded, sits down on it, and then falls asleep* Me: "...or maybe not."

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

All four realmships lived together in harmony, until Hringhorni, the Fire Realmship, attacked.

A screenshot from the Evercold Final Fantasy XIV website, announcing the new area, the Realmship of Fire, Hringhorni.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Furries are willing to excuse and even celebrate an awful lot of ugly behavior as long as the character doing it is "hot."

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Among the songs you didn't know you knew: Gran Vals, by Francisco Tárrega

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"The Treachery of Politicians"

A grayscale picture of Richard Nixon behind a lectern with two mics, as he points out toward he audience with a serious look. The caption beneath reads, "Ceci n'est pas un crook."

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

In honor of the recent holiday, a bit of trivia: The only US President who was born a King was never elected to the office.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Tired today. Feel like I just don't have anywhere I really belong.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I've been getting a lot of phishing spam lately (some of which leaks past the filters) claiming to be from Blue Cross/Blue Shield stating that I need to choose new plan options or confirm my existing ones. One came in today with a "From" line that was a bit more honest than usual: "Blue-Cross BS"

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Today's excitement was a power outage that somehow confused my computer into forgetting it had a graphics card until I reinstalled the driver. It took over two hours to get everything diagnosed and sorted.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I have coined the phrase "deus ex machaerā" to describe the original ThunderCats series.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

There is no passive-aggressive like the passive-aggressive of a cat who has decided that this one flavor of cat food that she used to really like no longer qualifies as "food."

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A sequel in six words: "Husband bought the wrong size. Sheesh."

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

No problems at all? Nil issue.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Closing in on 15,000 words in this story. This one may actually have legs.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We need a buddy-cop drama about cybercops policing LLM models producing biased or unverifiable output and similar problems, justified by the fact that the models are unable to determine their own truth from within their systems. It would be called "Tarski and Such."

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Are we vibe coding again?

A picture showing my display name, "DaJaGr," followed by a box with an icon of an exclamation point in a triangle and the words "Invalid Handle"

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In the Portland area for a week's worth of all-hands meetings. Today I did my three obligatory things for Portland: Go to Powell's, go to the Columbia River Gorge, eat at Burgerville.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Inspired by something I heard on the radio today, a thought about the Semiquincentennial: If you're having a hard time enjoying it because of the current administration, remember: - It was 5 years from the Signing of the Declaration until the Battle of Yorktown.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I have been pondering Raymond Smullyan's puzzles on Transylvania and Looking-Glass logicians and how those relate to LLMs and Gödelian natures thereof, and coming to some interesting, if vaguely unsettling, conclusions.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

So, it looks like my tax refund this year will cover almost ¾ of the fit that my car threw on Sunday.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"The British analyst Donald Winnicott argued that the ability to be alone is not a personality trait but something that develops out of experience. His best-known line about solitude is deliberately paradoxical:

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

A UC Davis biological research project attempting to perform genetic sequencing on arugula was recently forced to postpone their results because of difficulty in making progress. Turns out it really was rocket science.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I tried doing a turkey-tempeh-shiitake meatloaf tonight. It failed sort of, but the failure mode was interesting. It was not only edible, but quite tasty, and the components all did their work on the flavor profile. It was just that the beans in the tempeh were so large that they overcame the

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Obscure rhetorical terminology humor: Syllepsis in a dad joke is zeugpa.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

A panel from a comic book. A character is holding a phone picturing the Marvel character Thor and a figure in Asgardian garb with a blue-eyed white-furred cat head. There are two speech bubbles:

Thor: "Loki, I would ask thee to stop being Cat Thor."
Loki: "Not on your life."

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

One month ago, I took my 12-year-old tuxie cat to a vet specialty clinic for radioiodine therapy to treat her hyperthyroidism. She'd been through a lot, including the discovery that she did not tolerate the primary medicine used to treat the condition, which led to a lot of not eating/throwing up.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Rhyme a word, ruin a classic... The Grapes of Math. ("John can harvest 500 bushels of grapes from his vineyard. How many bottles of wine can he produce if...") The Mall of the Wild. ("Wherever did you get that lovely pelt?") The Lord of the Strings. ("The definitive biography of Yo-Yo Ma.")

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I now have a small, radioactive predator in my home who is being made very frustrated by the existence of a bathroom door.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Well, my cat is off for three days of radioiodine therapy as of this morning. I'm not QUITE a nervous wreck, but the next two and a half weeks are going to be...interesting.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Why have ordinary, boring construction when you can have

A road sign reading "RADWORK AHEAD TUESDAY."

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The last month and change has been... something. In late October, one of my cats was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. She was prescribed a transdermal medicine to help control it while we evaluated the best option for her. About 2½ weeks into it, she got quite sick to her stomach.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

For no other reason than that this is simply a gorgeous recording of the piece: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvAw...

youtube.com

Dello Joio Lullaby | Satoru Takishima

YouTube video by Satoru Takishima

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Q: How many Congresspeople does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Two. One to assure us that everything possible is being done, while the other one screws the bulb into a water faucet.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The idea that only pork knuckles from pigs raised in Welsh valleys are truly worthy of consumption is an example of the "cwm hock, ergo proper hock" fallacy.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Just learned about AGI-based floors for deductions for charitable giving that were rammed through as part of the OBBBA. This sucks: if you itemize, it makes regular giving to support charities' ongoing needs harder, and it discourages giving to a variety of causes.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I have been trying my hand at writing some riddles. Let's see how this goes:

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I've seen this cross my feed in reposts a few times, and... it's weird, I guess, but I've only seen the other side of it. I actually did want kids. Except I suck at dating, apparently, and never found a partner. Eventually, I hit a point where I had to say, even if not "it will never happen," >

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Spotted on the back of a Tesla: "I know, but it's paid off."

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Using any website anymore: NO, I do not want notifications YES, I am using an ad blocker NO, I will not turn it off for you NO, I do not want your tracking cookies NO, I do not want to sign up for your newsletter NO, I do not want the player for the autoplaying video to follow me down the page

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"Changing from something nominally human to something rare and strange—perhaps monstrous to some, perhaps frightening—and then back again is a concept some may find repugnant. They shouldn't. We all of us do it every day in many different ways, don't we?" —Roger Zelazny, "Blood of Amber"

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Me: *gets out vacuum* Cats: *uneasy stirring* Me: *brings vacuum towards office, where cats are* Cats: *retreat deeper into office, eye vacuum warily* Me: *moves vacuum to center of room, so it doesn't directly block the path out* Cats: *exeunt, pursued by a bear*

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"...Give my heart wings, with visions and dreams this world cannot steal away."

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Human sorrow is not a zero-sum game. If I choose to give voice to things that I struggle with, that is not an indication that I am attempting to diminish anyone else's struggles.

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DaJaGr @dajagr.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Four out of five doctors surveyed recommended sleep to their hardworking patients. (The fifth one was asleep at the time of the survey.)

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