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David Fry

@davidfry.com
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Gardening, pickleball, chickens, dogs, composting. Lots of pictures of plants, moss and cool bugs. Technology entrepreneur and soup enthusiast. He/him. Corvallis, Oregon. #pnw

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David Fry @davidfry.com · 8h
I'm still floored by this Microsoft Copilot ad, the sheer hubris to make claims so obviously false. The target of that ad is not, as it would seem, small business owners. The target is AI skeptics. This is a politician telling the rubes, "I can solve inflation on day one. $1 pizza for everyone!"
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 21h
Microsoft is running an ad where the elderly owner of an independent pizzeria wants to "bring back the $1 slice" so Copilot looks through his spreadsheets and tells him how to make it profitable. OK sure. "AI is here to help with your magical thinking" is probably as honest an ad as you could make.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 29/09/2026
This is a truly brilliant ad.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 29/09/2026
Dahlia bulbs are fun gifts because you don't know what you're getting for months. We got these from our friend Lynda and have our first gorgeous bloom!
A large yellow dahlia bloom with red streaks emanating from the center. Behind it is a fence covered in grape vines.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 25/09/2026
This is fantastic reporting and a great story of progress.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 25/09/2026
Chalk this one up to "Everything is gender now." Small dogs are great friends, easier to care for than larger dogs, and they tend to live longer. I've gotten 19+ years of love and companionship with Petunia and 12 with Daisy. None of that has to do with gender. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 21/09/2026
goodnight measles goodnight mumps goodnight price at the gas pumps goodnight nazis goodnight rabies goodnight fascist nepo babies
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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Haha whoopsie the robot that I built that can do crimes did a crime. Haha robots will be robots right? I guess the only answer is to hold nobody responsible here and just laugh the whole thing off! Silly crime robots doing crimes. What knuckleheads.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 18/09/2026
I'm pretty sure that's not Al Gore. It's AI Gore, but we'll never know for sure until we switch to serif fonts.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 18/09/2026
What a big day for all my friends on the marketing team at BuzzBallz™. So many dedicated people put in long hours to make this happen. ALC 15% BY VOL. Drink responsibly. #buzzballz #popeleo #limerita
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 16/09/2026
Transphobes have 2 defining traits: arrogance and lack of empathy. If you can't put yourself in another person's shoes, and wouldn't bother to if you could, then you become incapable of understanding the desires and opinions of others. Bari Weiss is a failure because of hubris and indifference.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 16/09/2026
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Mr. Burns Alien: Traigo Amor Traigo Paz Simpsons
Alt: Mr. Burns as an alien, glowing with dilated eyes and a vacant expression.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 13/09/2026
They showed a Modelo ad earlier in the Beavers' game that featured a bunch of cheering Ducks fans which was a weird choice to begin with but hilarious considering how that game went.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 11/09/2026
We've got a neighborhood picnic coming up, so I asked Google's AI for some suggestions. This potluck is going to be one to remember!
Top Served-at-Room-Temperature Poultry Recipes
Picnic Chicken: A crowd-pleasing dish marinated in Dijon mustard, dry white wine, and neutral oil. Baked early in the day, this recipe is explicitly designed to be served at room temperature, which allows the tangy mustard marinade to meld beautifully with the juicy chicken legs. [1] (https://www.ballarddesigns.com/howtodecorate/2014/06/recipe-easy-picnic-chicken/)Chicken Soba Salad & Lettuce Cups: Excellent choice for warm days or meal prep. You can throw together finely diced cooked chicken with scallions, water chestnuts, soy sauce, and sesame oil for crisp lettuce cups, or toss shredded poultry with nutty soba noodles, cucumbers, and a tangy bibimbap sauce. Both are refreshing when served completely unheated. [1] (https://www.cookunity.com/blog/cold-chicken-dishes)Ottolenghi Clementine & Arak Chicken: A legendary dinner party staple featured on The Kitchn. It combines chicken thighs with unpeeled clementine slices, fennel bulbs, anise-flavored arak (or Pernod), brown sugar, and mustard. The complex, sweet, and herbal syrup coats the chicken and tastes spectacular at a comfortable room temperature. [1] (https://www.thekitchn.com/the-four-best-chicken-dinner-party-recipes-of-all-time-268069)The Secret to Juicy Room-Temperature PoultryWhen serving cooked chicken or turkey at room temperature, the meat can dry out easily if it isn't roasted precisely.Watching a visual demonstration on staging your oven temperatures ensures the meat stays incredibly tender and moist even after it cools down completely:
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 10/09/2026
And as is usually the course for this dude, once he stirs up enough drama and it makes the tech news, he shows up in the reddit posts on /r/wordpress to continue his shitty behavior in ways that must make his attorneys lose their minds.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 10/09/2026
Matt Mullenweg is now on a leave of absence from Automattic. About time! www.404media.co/wordpress-au... #wordpress
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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'
Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, wrote in a company-wide Slack messages on Wednesday, viewed by 404 Media, that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 09/09/2026
It's probably an unpopular opinion, but I think all the fiddling with the clock in the final seconds makes the ending of football and basketball games annoying. But overturning a result a week after the game ends will be a huge pain for the sports bookies, so we should do it more often.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 07/09/2026
I cannot wait for this movie to come out! This preview is hilariously weird. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJS...
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You Can See Everything | Official Teaser HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 07/09/2026
Some lady gave our client a 1-star review because the bartender was wearing an Oregon Ducks shirt. "he can keep his loyalty to himself, this is not OK in a Corvallis bar" Thanks Carol. 😂
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 06/09/2026
It's not a good sign when "The Economist" is suddenly unsure what happens to energy prices when demand increases.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 04/09/2026
In my mind an ideology is mostly just an outlook on how a community or the world could be a better place. In that sense, charities aren't "captured by ideology." Giving to charity is just one way to budget your wealth according to your values. But that assumes you want the world to be better.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 04/09/2026
I get a bunch of spam by phone and email wanting to buy or fund my business, much of it pretending to be "following up" on some discussion that never happened. It's annoying, and if we had a functioning government the FTC would work a little harder to stop it.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 03/09/2026
Cancelling HBO is easy!
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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'd put "went evil" instead of "insane" bc plenty of insane folks are out there pointedly not destroying all of society. But yeah.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 03/09/2026
What gif pops up when you type your name?
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Fry Futurama's Iconic Smirk
Alt: Philip J Fry from Futurama turns to the camera wearing a suit with a green bowtie. He seems to be glowing a bit. His expression has a slight smirk.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 30/08/2026
Septembeerfest in Corvallis is so awesome. We don't have a homebrew supply store anymore, but this town still has a phenomenal brewing culture.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 30/08/2026
"Political hygiene" www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbPR...
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Donald Trump's presidency is a conspiracy against the Constitution
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 30/08/2026
There's a little library in our neighborhood and someone just crammed it full of books with no regard to whether you could see the titles, a complete mess.. I was annoyed at whoever could defile a library that way, but the contributions included Jose Saramago and Chuck Palahniuk so I take it back!
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 30/08/2026
You guys, please watch this.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 28/08/2026
I got to see the lunar eclipse on our drive home from dinner tonight. Probably still time to check it out if you can see the horizon.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 25/08/2026
Of all the people on this Earth who found wealth and fame in their lives, you'd have a hard time finding anyone who used that privilege better than Dolly Parton.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 24/08/2026
My energy drink includes an ingredient called CarnoSyn® beta-alanine which the label cautions "some users may experience some harmless tingling." That's how you know its the good stuff.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 24/08/2026
The last 4 years have been such an anomaly that it's hard not to think we've already passed some sort of tipping point with climate change. Even among Democrats, there is so little discussion on this issue. But I have to wonder how long Republicans can continue calling this a hoax.
A chart from Climate Reanalyzer showing Daily Sea Surface Temperatures. The top line is red showing 2026 temperatures above any previous year. Sunday August 3rd is highlighted with an average temp anomaly of .82 °C over the 1991-2000 average, and 1 °C over the 1982-2010 average.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 22/08/2026
It seems like philosophy departments have become a dumping ground for right wing shitbags like Nathan Cofnas who have no special intellect, experience or knowledge, but still want to have credibility. He's not a biologist. He's a racist. So he claims 'Philosopher of Biology' as his expertise.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 22/08/2026
Observation not evaluation here, but I'm pretty sure there are now more questions on the blood donor questionnaire related to Ebola than Americans who have ever contracted that disease.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 22/08/2026
Grocery Outlet on 9th: ✔️ Give blood ✔️ Get a car wash from the CHS Cheer team ✔️ Opportunistic items for less
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 22/08/2026
Willie & Family Live
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 21/08/2026
My one and only viral post on Twitter was during the pandemic. I woke up one Wednesday morning with the idea, popped open Excel and got to work. So, yeah.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 18/08/2026
I wonder what this is about. Are they sending me a trophy?
UPS delivery notification: Hi David, 
Your package is arriving tomorrow. 
From EXACT SCIENCES 
Estimated Delivery 
Wednesday 08/19/2026
between 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 18/08/2026
YouTube AI slop has come for America's past time. It's really sad because there are millions of people in this country who know way too much baseball trivia and would happily share that knowledge, and who would never make this mistake. But the algorithms fill every channel with garbage.
A video with the title How MLBs Slowest Pitcher Humiliated Everyone with One Pitch. The closed caption says "span at one point striking out four batters in just a single inning."
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 17/08/2026
"We're focused on November 3rd, Not January 3rd" is an absurd talking point. This dude rehearsed that line to say "We're only focused on gaining power, not how to use it to help people." What a clever way to dodge every substantive question about policies people care about!
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 16/08/2026
My wife is making a 4 pound batch of natto, so our whole house smells like beans!
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Nicolas Cage Takes a Deep Breath
Alt: Nicolas Cage, who surely must appreciate the smell of boiled soybeans a much as anyone, takes a deep breath
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 16/08/2026
Cleaning up the front yarden and a wasp got me on the neck. Time for a lunch break.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 16/08/2026
I feel like the practiced talking point for the 3rd "I do not support" was originally "I do not support abolishing ICE". But Jeffries has his finger in the wind and knows that abolishing ICE is now the mainstream Democratic position so he ended up with "I do not support abolishing ... the Senate." 😂
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026
I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 14/08/2026
I've been very productive this afternoon. I think the folks at Cologuard are going to be impressed!
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 14/08/2026
A couple of years ago I meta mormon woman with a huge painting of a temple that took up the whole wall of her living room. She told me "the word mormon is a slur" and that they should be called "Latter Day Saints." Seemed wild to me that their choir would have used a slur on their album covers.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 13/08/2026
I sure hope they stick with this winning message through November.
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 11/08/2026
When the client ignores my advice to migrate to a better hosting company, and then their website goes down... #bluehost #eig
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Not It Bananas
Alt: A dude dressed in black touches his nose and says Not It
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 11/08/2026
Every time I see that dumb cartoon I get "I am four eels" stuck in my head for a couple days. Make it stop!
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