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Don Dingee

@dondingee.bsky.social
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Freelance technology writer, SABR member Rogers Hornsby Chapter (ATX/SATX), traded "tools of ignorance" for college textbooks, steely-eyed missile man (model rockets nowadays), INTJ, allergic to poison ivy | #WeAreCPP #USCViterbi

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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This engagement is billed hourly for situations where reviews go haywire, and it's for a client going on six years. They asked me to stay available. The same day turnaround only arose because they were overdue with revisions, which were due and promised before the 3-day clock started.
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That much daily asprin explains why he keeps drifting off in the Oval Office. My dad took asprin-as-blood-thinner in the 1970s. I was talking to him on the phone when he totally latched up. Neighbor found him, phone to ear, staring into the void. Rooting for salicylate toxicity to do its job soon.
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The "team" politics thing is bs to start with, but the implication that "our" bad guys are better than any of "their" good guys is warped. Doesn't mention one single issue.
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sharpie, nice touch
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They love bullying people. Watch the faces behind him. These are people who were picked on or didn't fit in a group in high school, and now they have a place, and they don't care who gets hurt as long as it's fun to watch.
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Two revs in a bit over 5 hours today, sigh, and still waiting for approval. Good point about it's technically not late, just feeling a bit overexercised. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this is the same guy who doesn't believe in automotive lidar, so yeah, let's go with his uninformed opinion on stealth
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey #FreelanceFriends, silly question: If you were on call for 3 days waiting for client revisions, got them on the last day before the magazine submission was due, and turned a rev back for approval in 3 hours (still pending), how would you bill that? PITA upcharge for holding and short-cycling?
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can't stand open source free-for-alls. Somebody got into familysearch.org and changed my father's burial location. I wrote back and said, yeah, this is his son, I was there, who dafuq is changing this and why was it approved? It got undone but no other answers. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a lot happening right now ... Ms. Stevie Nix is spayed, all good. (Destroyed the cone of shame in just less than 24hrs, go Pyr girl) My 1yr CT scans and blood tests are boring, all good. Follow-ups finally getting farther apart, also good. BTW, it's AI, not SI, f*** that. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, I do a fair amount of Greenshotting myself to get the visuals of something. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think I'm landing on "The Catalyst" more than any song there right now ... Emily is just so good, she can sing and growl. Also cool where Mike is taking some of the Chester parts and there is more harmony with Emily. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Paula, don't lose that number, you don't wanna call nobody else ... send it off in a letter, to yourself" Two-for-one on that! #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A3) When I was much younger I used to keep an idea book - stuff I saw on TV or heard on the radio. Now, if I'm out and about, I text myself #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Song by song of the concert on Spotify. Still waiting for the full documentary to hit streaming, it's just out in theaters (which I rarely get out to). #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A2) interesting question. I find more often than not inspiration finds me, I have to relax and be in receive mode. I have to break the chain and get out of my chair - go to the gym, ride the bike, walk the dog, run errands, something. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A1) Inspiration for me generally takes the form of music and TV series. Right now it's Linkin Park and the Unshatter concert film release. Intriguing how art is reimagined after a huge loss. Also getting into Neagley. Gotta think about something besides grinding out tech stuff. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Welcome Greg, good to have you here with us on #FreelanceFriends today
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That weather chaser for the Weather Channel is lucky to be alive after that truck jacknifed in front of him! Wild video. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Which will happen first - the sky will open up with an expected 3" to 5" of rain (it's here, not raining hard yet), or the client revisions to an article that's due Monday will get to me? Who knows? Stay tuned. Meanwhile, I'll jump into #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
LED Fursystem
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It'd be funnier if we didn't have cousins losing farms and their neighbors sounding like this, but thanks for the parody alert.
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sorry, did he imply that he was paying non-whites an unfair wage, but they got deported, and now he can't (or won't) pay whites what he knows the work is worth? Guys like this SHOULD go out of business.
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The announcer line "this game is not over (in the 5th)" is always code for "PLEASE DON'T TURN THE CHANNEL, PLEEEEEEASSSSSSSE" #WildCard
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And?
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did it feel like Amy had some idea that was coming, or just me?
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As crowded as this 4-person booth is, I like the NBC model here. Votto is super knowledgable and CJ and Kruk know their respective guys. #WildCard
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Felt like she had some idea that was coming, which is great.
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wait until these rubes find out where the creative accounting OMB is using is redirecting the money - of course, by then it will be too late
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Less than the odds I stop watching College GameDay if this happens.
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Christie, off the top rope, BIG SPLASH, JD is gurgling, is that a rib sticking out?" Greatest. Debate. Ever.
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Conversion of diehards means they are diehards in name only, they're wannabe independents. "Sending a message" isn't a thing, but enough of these dissatisfied voters might swing local races. Encouraging diehards to sit it out, however, is a huge win and what Ds should be focused on.
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
On a related note, I'm hoping for Sam Leavitt to crash and burn (figuratively, of course).
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My daughter and I were at the ASU drubbing of USC the night Lane didn't make it off the tarmac in LA. That probably changed how he thinks about coach-AD relationships. He's now all in on himself.
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"I am just a simple Congressman, your modern AI technology confuses me."
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yep. Add a lack of empathy, total disrespect for rules, a festering disdain for authority in schools and workplaces, and a profound sense of victimhood.
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"DO WHAT HE SAY! DO WHAT HE SAY!!!"
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Somebody needs to time correlate the second Ted Cruz left the stadium with that comeback
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sensing that Ted may have left the building...
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Ryan Day, you are kicking the Longhorns asses - how much credit do you give Ted Cruz?"
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our Stevie Nix, obedience graduate #FreelancePets
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ooooooooooh, Reacher credit drop to Motorhead "One More F****** Time" was perfect, whoever is DJing this season is a genius
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So, it's a feature, not a bug. 60 days is also unacceptable by any payment method. Corporations floating on freelancers are the worst. I understand reluctance to push back but I'd replace them if they refuse to comply to reasonable terms. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
(gurgle) sorry that happened! There are people at my post office who send quarterly payments by certified with return receipt. Expensive to make up for some USPS screw up somewhere. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
That's OK. Being late is not. I'd notify them nicely on the first occurance, making the terms clear, get a little more testy on the second, and stomp the living snot out of them if it happens a third time. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh, cool ... "What's this 'Picking Up Checks' fee on my invoice?" #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yes, those insist-on-checks clients can be fun, fortunately mine is prompt ... Narrator: No bank in the US can be in biz without ACH. Your customer is too cheap to pay annual/transaction fees. Crank down their payment terms to net 15, late fee if they miss. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The book is a bit campy, and the authors do have an agenda, but so far, things are developing like they said - models are esacping and overwriting other models, and tech bros won't back off because they see none of their competitors backing off. "Yeah, but China ..." #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today's hilarity: I made a comment on somebody's post about the Anthropic guy rage quitting, mentioned the book "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies", now watching all the AI bros discredit the book because of one of the co-authors - but they're not disputing what is happening. #FreelanceFriends
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Don Dingee @dondingee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yeah I'm not on the pumpkin spice train either, especially in like coffee. The pumpkin spice Krispy Kremes are pretty good, though. #FreelanceFriends
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