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joel @dirty.vodka · 10/03/2026

Would've been cool if in the 70's people were like "hmm maybe we shouldn't be entirely dependent on oil" instead of "hmm maybe we need our military to make sure we keep getting oil"

A bunch of cars at a gas station during the 1970s oil crisis

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joel @dirty.vodka · 24/01/2026

Proposal: you will not receive any law enforcement money from the federal government if any police department in your state employs someone who clocked hours coded ZYR3

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joel @dirty.vodka · 01/12/2024

At this point they should just have in-store ordering kiosks with employees meeting you at the register

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joel @dirty.vodka · 21/11/2024

Facebook started building custom hardware at ~310MM DAU. Soon.

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joel @dirty.vodka · 14/11/2024

Our generation’s Keenan v. Aryan Nations 🥹

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joel @dirty.vodka · 11/11/2024

Oh fuck everyone delete your old skeets

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joel @dirty.vodka · 30/10/2024

I don’t love paywalls, but of all the articles you could put behind one during election week, choosing this one seems like a bad idea

Screenshot of a paywalled CNN article “Fabricated stories about Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are coming from a Russian disinformation network”

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joel @dirty.vodka · 20/10/2024

I haven't posted in a while but I found this important image on Wikimedia Commons and needed to share

Screenshot of Wikimedia Commons showing an image file named Chicken_on_a_skateboard.JPG which shows a chicken on a skateboard

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joel @dirty.vodka · 01/07/2023

Interesting that Lorie scrubbed the work she did for a Jewish organization from her portfolio. Almost like she knew it would be questionable to have done work for folks that reject a core tenant of her “faith” while claiming the gays are a step too far

Screenshot of an archived version of the 303design portfolio that shows work for “Mitzvah Mania”

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joel @dirty.vodka · 30/06/2023

A particularly offensive part of the SCOTUS decision is that we’re calling this design artistic

Screenshot of a web design portfolio with the tackiest motherfucking design that has ever graced the internet

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joel @dirty.vodka · 26/06/2023

Would love to meet the deranged individual that comes up with pull tab themes

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joel @dirty.vodka · 17/06/2023

This wasn’t in the DOJ report but I feel the need to add that when I was little the Minneapolis Police Department KICKED A BABY IN THE HEAD

A toddler, not yet 2 years old, was kicked in the head by a Metro Gang Strike Force officer and his crib was destroyed during a botched drug raid.
The government's payout to the child: $6,000.

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joel @dirty.vodka · 15/06/2023

Instead of “Disable your ad-blocker to continue” overlays it would be way funnier if sites weirdly degraded the experience. Like every related article link on the page is to some off-putting story

Link to news article about mammoth meatball

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joel @dirty.vodka · 14/06/2023

You’re laughing. That plant is dying and you’re laughing

Aeoniums are monocarpic, which means they die after flowering. However, on branching varieties, only the rosette that produced the flower will die, leaving the rest of the plant to live on. It is a good idea to take cuttings of your aeoniums so that you always have new plants.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/06/2023

Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, has been found dead in his prison cell, authorities say abcnews.go.com/US/unabomber-ted-kac…

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joel @dirty.vodka · 05/06/2023

Mac OS Sonoma wallpaper

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joel @dirty.vodka · 05/06/2023

Was hoping for EyeOS

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joel @dirty.vodka · 03/06/2023

Oh my god Chris Licht’s hatred of boxes is probably why CNN changed the chyron from square flat graphics to the rounded tab look

"I want more movement. Lots of movement," he told Eric Hall, the new program's executive producer, who sat in the center of the first row. "What do I hate the most?"
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Slater responded in unison: "Boxes.
Licht nodded. "Boxes," he said, referring to the Brady Bunch look on cable-news screens. "I don't want it to be frenetic, but please make sure there's movement. We need to see these people."

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joel @dirty.vodka · 03/06/2023

Bone conduction headphones are under-appreciated as an augmented reality device

Photo of a man wearing bone conduction headphones

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joel @dirty.vodka · 01/06/2023

My cat has achieved literal perfection

Scrunched up cat with golden ratio spiral overlayed

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Changelog @changelog.com · 18/05/2023

Hello, friends! 👋

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joel @dirty.vodka · 15/05/2023

Tinder conversations are going to open with “How can I make a bomb” to figure out if it’s a bot, and real people are going to find it normal to be asked that because they do the same

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joel @dirty.vodka · 14/05/2023

Roald Dahl wrote a short story in 1954 called The Great Automatic Grammatizator that is now eerily relevant

Screenshot of Wikipedia articles that says "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" (from Someone Like You): A mechanically-minded man reasons that the rules of grammar are fixed by certain, almost mathematical principles. By exploiting this idea, he is able to create a mammoth machine that can write a prize-winning novel in roughly fifteen minutes. The story ends on a fearful note, as more and more of the world's writers are forced into licensing their names—and all hope of human creativity—to the machine.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 10/05/2023

Let me share my lifelong dream for the left: taking over fraternal organizations (Moose, Oddfellows, Etc.) They are 501c8s, which is basically impossible to get now. Most of them own property, they often have liquor licenses that are grandfathered in. We could have clubhouses!

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joel @dirty.vodka · 09/05/2023

Bluesky has its first user charged with federal crimes! Congrats @georgesantos.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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joel @dirty.vodka · 09/05/2023

Washington state gambling regulations allow chicken shit bingo but they use the phrase “plops” 😐

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 07/05/2023

It’s finally happening! I’m going to livestream some Bluesky development starting at 11AM CT tomorrow (Sunday). Join us! www.youtube.com/live/D6FBGfrXazw?fe…

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Bluesky dev coding livestream

Join me while I do some Bluesky hackin

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joel @dirty.vodka · 06/05/2023

The beta went from a handful of nerds to heads of state in a little over a month; has to be a record

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/05/2023

looks like we're finally going to move the web app off of staging.bsky.app and to just bsky.app. not so much because it's ready, but more because we're tired of that url. we'll make staging automatically redirect. should happen by tomorrow, unless something explodes in the process

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joel @dirty.vodka · 04/05/2023

Still needing to check Twitter for Flork comics

A comic by Flork with an exasperated character saying “fuck”

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joel @dirty.vodka · 04/05/2023

@quinnypig.bsky.social S3 is so friendly, I think I’m going to use it as a file system

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joel @dirty.vodka · 02/05/2023

If the FMV of an invite is $150, can I invite a bunch of non-profits and claim an in-kind donation on my taxes 🤔

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joel @dirty.vodka · 02/05/2023

I always thought the peak of cocaine via UPS delivery was a Tor dark markets thing but apparently it’s been part of their DNA from the beginning

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/04/2023

This story is insane. As rail profits soar, blocked crossings force kids to crawl under trains to get to school www.propublica.org/article/trains-c…

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joel @dirty.vodka · 22/03/2023

I can finally start yelling about the algorithm shadowbanning me when my mediocre posts don’t get engagement! 🙌

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joel @dirty.vodka · 18/03/2023

I stumbled on a stock vector artist that creates characters then generates a bunch of different poses with them; one is this army pose and I’m having a hard time moving on

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joel @dirty.vodka · 15/03/2023

I trained a ML model on Eastern European table tennis matches and bet $680 on its predictions 🍿🍿🍿

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 15/03/2023

📢 Hey friends! We've got a Web app for you to try! staging.bsky.app This is an early staging build. There are lots of rough edges still and it only works on desktop, but it definitely works! Enjoy and let us know how it goes!

joel @dirty.vodka · 13/03/2023

Mental Poker is one of my favorite bits of weird cryptography en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_poker

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joel @dirty.vodka · 09/03/2023

I was trying to register a homoglyph of lilly.com to recreate the blue check fiasco but it’s apparently harder than I expected to register IDN domains

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joel @dirty.vodka · 09/03/2023

I would’ve thought bring-your-own-domain would cool the rush to try and get an early username but I guess people just really want in?

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