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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 26/09/2026

I'm in a lot of smart home forums and all these bros are reprogramming their Alexa and Google Mini to respond to "Hey Jarvis", and I'm over here mapping the phonemes for "Showtime, Synergy!"

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 09/09/2026

We Have Always Lived In the Torment Nexus

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 09/09/2026

We've been thinking that the data center boom is being driven by a few voracious, greedy geek billionaires, but what if it's actually nascent AI manipulating markets and companies behind the scenes to feather its nest, so to speak, and bring about the singularity?

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 05/09/2026

Post a picture of you from another era.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 29/08/2026

I'm nearly 50 and I think I might be an adult now?

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A New Color (1/5🧵)

Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.”

Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.

Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.”

Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 19/08/2026

Inside Out. The protagonist demonstrates up front that her hero's quest is unnecessary and the premise is harmfully reductive.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 03/08/2026

A lot of white people who believe they are the master race seem very intent upon destroying the environment, leading to heat and sun indexes that they are racially less likely to survive due to the generic disadvantage of their low melanin counts.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 17/07/2026

It is ridiculous that "How Soon Is Now", the ultimate shy youth loneliness anthem, was used on the soundtrack of The Craft, and that Charmed used it as its theme song as a result.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 10/07/2026

I will never use a social media platform or app or API that makes it difficult to pick up where I left off and read every post from those I follow in chronological order. I don't want new or shiny, I want confidence that I'm not missing anything.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 07/06/2026

The priest cited an Arab proverb: "You forget those with whom you laughed, but you will never forget those with whom you wept." Trauma bonding is a thing, yes, but exalting it should be antithetical to Catholic theology. If the News is Good then shouldn't you bond in joy?

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 07/06/2026

It's wild that Jesus doubled down on eating flesh and drinking blood, pretty much the most taboo place he could have gone. Sadly, Christian Nationalist edgelords would probably equate that with "owning the libs" rather than questioning sacred cows.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 04/06/2026

Twenty years ago you never could have called a show "From", it would have been completely unsearchable. Now I can Google "guy from from" and it knows I mean Harold Perrineau.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 03/06/2026

There is a bike lane wide enough to drive a bus down but all the bikers are on the sidewalk trying to run me over.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 02/06/2026

Guillotine futures just keep rising. How high can they possibly go? 💎💎💎👊👊👊🚀🚀🚀 🌕🌕🌕

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 01/06/2026

The Name of the Winds of Winter, amirite?

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 31/05/2026

You can't worry all the time. I hope.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 30/05/2026

Freshman spring break beach trip, in search of greater neck-up sun protection, I found a discarded wicker bucket hat. Days later I saw a bunch of them at DQ, inverted, holding flower pots. I spray painted mine chrome and wore it anywhere sunny for the next 4 years.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 29/05/2026

Some days everything's on fire and there's no winning, only surviving long enough to take a walk and hopefully start working toward finding respite.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 28/05/2026

Team work makes the dream work but wife work makes the life work. (By which I mean putting in the work to support your spouse, not putting them to work!)

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 27/05/2026

It's kind of weird how on one side you have a ton of antagonists from Scooby-Doo and Batman and Minecraft and the like, and then on the other you have a basically immortal serial killer franchise. Which you think of first when someone references The Creeper says a lot.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 26/05/2026

Yesterday it was cold and rainy. The waterpark was empty so I put on my wetsuit and went down the Master-Blaster.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 25/05/2026

Once upon a time in the 90s, Barnes & Noble's had a software section run by Babbage's, a mall chain that sold software and computer extras. My first day I ran out of the store with the register drawer to try to catch my manager leaving because the drawer wouldn't close.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 24/05/2026

It would be really crazy if, after these last several years, I found out that I have developed heart problems not anxiety.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 23/05/2026

I wonder how many main characters think they are sidekicks?

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 22/05/2026

If I had it all to do again, I'd talk even less.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 21/05/2026

When my high school girlfriend asked me what I wanted from the relationship I gave her transcripts of my online chats with "kiRa". (This was the 90s, talkers via telnet.) We broke up soon after. I was so dense! Four years later I met kiRa IRL. We've been married 26 years.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 21/05/2026

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 20/05/2026

My father picked cotton professionally. I only ever picked cotton recreationally. When we left I told my mother I'd move back as soon as I was able but the first time I went back to visit it was all gone.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 19/05/2026

I once spent a summer reading books on etiquette and place settings and men's couture in case I ever needed to work as a manservant or major domo. Fleeting hyperfixations are a heck of a thing. (Sadly, I remember almost none of it.)

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 18/05/2026

The baby changing table in the men's room was down again for the first time since they fired this one guy who used to inexplicably hang out in there a lot BUT, plot twist, there was a diaper in the trash can.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 17/05/2026

BSNF never got back to me so I guess admitting to hopping freight in the folly of my youth wasn't the move.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 16/05/2026

My kids each inherited a few of my interests, taking them further than I did. Somehow that lessens the mental load, feeling like I had these hyperfixations to check off; they did it in my stead. This is the sort of living vicariously through your kids that I can get behind.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 15/05/2026

Yesterday there were three turtles on the log in the lake. This morning I completed Letter Boxed in two words straight away. Everything is coming up Milhouse heading into the weekend!

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 14/05/2026

Taking three days off from work seems like a great idea until you have to catch up on three days of work on day four. Oof.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 12/05/2026

I'm realizing that I was bad at assessing emotional responses as a child. Father laughed at a political cartoon once? I drew it as a Father's Day card years later. Mother said she valued being called out by a preschool drawing? In highschool I recreated it for Mother's Day. 😭

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 11/05/2026

I have an occasional nightmare where I forgot about a college class and only discover it at the end of the year after I've missed every test and due date. My youngest just found out he's in an additional dual enrollment course he didn't know about, from a whole other college. 💀

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 10/05/2026

My anxiety at gifting occasions has reached petrification levels. What if I openly appreciated people and gave them gifts year round rather than celebrating certain days?

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 09/05/2026

When they were toddlers, my eldest two had a routine where they would stand on my shoulders, dive forward, I would catch them by their ankles, flip them up in a half backflip, catch them under the arms, set them back onto my shoulders. We were the terror of old ladies.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 08/05/2026

I got an invite to a meeting this morning with people I don't know about a contract I'm not on. I was concerned that my company wanted to move me into it. I was hoping they had invited the wrong person. They just want my help with a proposal. Phew!

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 08/05/2026

Me: They sell three chocolate chip cookies for $1 with the proceeds going to charity. I HAVE to eat them, it's FOR CHARITY. My wife, in tears: But you've already eaten a dozen, honey, your diabetes -- Me, stuffing the thirteenth cookie in my mouth: FOR CHARITY!

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 06/05/2026

I was convinced that some of my college short fiction classmates were slacking because they expected the class to be a cakewalk. In retrospect maybe they were new to storytelling and critical engagement. The professor was a poor moderator and I was an uncharitable cad.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 05/05/2026

A pair of geese is nesting at a water detention pond along my daily walk. Yesterday they emerged with a gosling gaggle. They kept trying to cross the street but turned back, even when I stopped traffic. Eventually I was able to shoo them across, flapping my arms at them.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 04/05/2026

The summer before my senior year in high school I did a college summer class in Oxford. It was the 400th anniversary of Midsummer Night's Dream so everyone was doing it and I saw dozens of performances. On the weekends I moonlit as a porter for tips from other tourists.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 03/05/2026

I walk 2x/day to get a tea. Every time I go into the bathroom the changing table is down, and every time I put it back up. It shuts firmly with no suggestion that it might fall open on its own. I've never seen a baby in this place. Who is using the changing table and for what?

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 02/05/2026

If I enter "90" in the microwave it counts down from :90 (90s/1.5m). If I enter "130" it counts down from 1:30 (1.5m/90s). Why, when I enter "190", does it do 2.5m (1m 90s/150s) rather than 190s/3m 10s? If the last two digits are > 59 it should treat the whole as seconds.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 01/05/2026

Why is it that the people preaching "ethical self-interest" don't want to tax the rich in case they one day are among them, when they should be looking out for the less fortunate because that is far more likely to be them one day. More like delusional bootlicking.

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 30/04/2026

As a teen I subtracted 10 from my birth year when creating BBS accounts. One of my favorites had a forum where the owner posted erotica about her husband. I wasn't there for that so ignored it. Years later I went to my first local meetup and obliviously introduced myself. 💀

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Dan Guy @danguyf.fivesided.com · 29/04/2026

Indeed sent me a notification inviting me to apply for a remote tech job for one of the biggest freight railroads in the US and oh man, if there was ever a job that was going to lure me away it would be freight train SRE/cloud infrastructure.

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