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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 26/09/2026

That one time I world championships when I was floating

Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 21/09/2026

Every now and then I have to pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming because my partners are absolute smoke shows, in addition to being so incredibly smart, talented, kind, and loving. I love these women more than I can ever adequately express. @abgushte.bsky.social @hazelweakly.me

A stunning person with ethereal presence takes a mirror selfie, crowned with a jaunty black bow perched atop elegantly styled dark hair. They're dressed in a bewitching black ensemble: a lace-adorned crop top paired with a pleated mini skirt featuring crisp white striping at the hem, all anchored by chunky black platform boots. Sheer fishnet stockings and an ornate black lace choker complete this enchanting gothic look. One hand lifts their phone to capture this moment of charming self-admiration in a cozy bedroom sanctuary.

An absolutely radiant person glows in an ethereal silver sequined gown that cascades elegantly to the floor, with a daring high slit and long sleeves that shimmer with every movement. Their long chestnut hair falls gracefully past their shoulders, framing a face adorned with bold dark lipstick and sparkling jewelry. They lift their phone with a confident, luminous smile, captured in what appears to be a glamorous elevator or hallway—a moment of pure elegance and joy.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 10/09/2026

For my birthday last week, i got engaged to @abgushte.bsky.social 🥰🥰🥰

A handwritten birthday card in flowing black ink on cream paper reads: “Happy Birthday, my love. You are the flame of my heart and the center of my universe. Let's get married,” followed by a small hand-drawn heart.

A close-up of a hand resting on the open birthday card, its fingers curled to display a ring on the ring finger. The band is crafted from deep blue lapis lazuli inlaid in polished titanium, catching the light against the handwritten proposal text partially visible beneath.

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Adriana Villela 🇨🇦 🇧🇷 @adrianamvillela.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

TIL learned the term "brolulu". Wanna know what it means? You'll have to watch @cassidoo.co, @elchefe.me, and Divyasha Pahuja on the latest episode of @geekingoutpod.bsky.social. Catch it on our YouTube channel or on your favourite podcasting app: 📺: buff.ly/IotDU8e 🎧: buff.ly/0RwXJck

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Geeking Out Podcast @geekingoutpod.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We brought back @elchefe.me (GenX), @cassiodoo.co (Millennial), Divyasha Pahuja (GenZ) to talk about wrangling with AI at work from different generational prespectives. You can now catch it NOW on our YouTube channel or on your favourite podcasting app. 📺: buff.ly/IotDU8e 🎧: buff.ly/0RwXJck

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 30/08/2026

I did use Claude to help me format this idea out because I’ve never DM’d before. And it says 4, but we could possibly do 6.

Recruitment flyer for “The Last Course,” a D&D one-shot at Minerva’s Cauldron, a three-star restaurant at the crossing of realms. Tagline: The busiest night of the year. The most feared guest in the realms. Four hands, one kitchen. Event details: D&D 5th edition, character levels 3 to 5, 4 player seats, about 4 hours runtime, one-night session, set during the holiday “The Long Ember.” Description: tonight the realms tilt toward the dark, and Minerva’s Cauldron runs its hardest service of the year. Somewhere in the dining room sits The Fork, the most feared and permanently anonymous critic in the realms. Players are the kitchen brigade — pick a station, survive the rush, and cook something never made before. Four suggested stations shown with icons: Boucher (Barbarian, Paladin), Saucier (Wizard, Warlock), Pâtissier (Sorcerer, Monk), and Poissonnier (Ranger, Rogue, Bard), noted as a rough guide rather than a rule. Two stakes highlighted: the restaurant’s third star is in question, seen by some as resting on old reputation rather than current skill; and the kitchen’s ingredient portals aren’t guaranteed one-way, so something may come back through tonight. RSVP section with blanks for date and time, location, and contact, plus four empty circles representing the four open seats, captioned “Exactly four seats tonight. The brigade needs exactly four hands.”

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 30/08/2026

1. Does anyone still read these posts? 2. If so, are any of y’all into one-shots? 3. And if so, would you be interested in doing a one shot I thought up?

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 28/08/2026

Finding out that the universe will not experience heat death makes me glad I didn’t go long on space heaters.

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Adriana Villela 🇨🇦 🇧🇷 @adrianamvillela.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

On Sept 8 at 12:00 ET, we bring back former panelists, @elchefe.me (GenX), and @cassidoo.co (Millennial), and Divyasha Pahuja (GenZ) to talk about how all 3 generations can help each other in our new AI reality. Don’t miss it: buff.ly/tsuraZ2

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Geeking Out Live: Ctrl+Alt+Gen(AI)?

We've heard from GenX-ers and Millennials talking about their views on AI-assisted software development. We've heard separately from GenZ-ers. But we haven't...

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Geeking Out Podcast @geekingoutpod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

GenX-er @elchefe.me, Millennial @cassidoo.co, and GenZ-er Divyasha Pahuja share their perspectives on surviving in the age of AI and how the 3 different generations can help each other navigate these uncertain times. Save the date for Sept 8th at 12:00 ET: buff.ly/EiunlC8

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Autumn Nash 🎃👻💀🖤 @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I loved building a Linux distribution as an engineer, contributing to Fedora, and before that as a Security Product Manager. I’m looking for new opportunities that contributing to open-source projects, in roles like Solutions Architect, Forward-Deployed Engineer, Dev Relations Engineer, or Product.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 13/08/2026

Happy “No Longer Have to Register Suppressors or Short Barrel Rifles” Day!

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 09/08/2026

The way intersectionality drains from these liberal white women when the topic goes from men working to dismantle the patriarchy and transphobia to white women working to dismantle white supremacy and colonialism…

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Smurfette Transformation Meme

Alt: Smurfette slowly turning from blue to gray and her hair turning dark, and the whole scene turning from color to black and white

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 28/07/2026

Remember when all the liberals said we were crazy for wanting to defund police? Shit like this is what happens when they have too many resources.

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

To be clear for non-tech followers: an LLM can only output content, such as text or images. That has no impact on the world until we make it so. Text output can be commands or tools called. But we have to explicitly wire those tools to the tool caller. If you do that without controls, that's on you.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 22/07/2026

Best I can do is a “beans don’t belong in chili” dad

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning

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Pipehawk Consulting @pipehawk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The secret service have shot multiple innocent bystanders around the White House this year. The secret service has also been involved in at least 2 self-inflicted GSWs this year. In an era where ICE agents are shooting up our streets, the secret service has been able to stay under the radar.

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Pipehawk Consulting @pipehawk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Leave it to Meta to delete my story naming David Brouillette, the ICE officer who murdered Joan Guerrero in Biddeford, ME on Monday. FWIW, Brouillette lives in the Bangor area, is a realtor for Realty of Maine, has a wife named Emma and two daughters. All publicly available information.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 14/07/2026

I’d taking some time off from meaningful training for several months. There were some changes at the gym and I’ve started coming back and training more often. The cardio wasn’t there at first for sure. Today, though, after I put it on a couple of people, I was asked “I take it you’re back?”

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John Wick: Yeah, I'm Thinking I'm Back

Alt: John Wick: Yeah, I'm Thinking I'm Back

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 10/07/2026

Can someone explain why I had to deal with this? I check Texas SB 2420 and they only covers the App Store

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 08/07/2026

It looks like this:

Two MMA fighters twisted into a human pretzel on the mat. The fighter in teal shorts lies on his back while his opponent, in black shorts, has climbed onto him from behind like a mischievous koala, wrapping one arm around his face and neck in a tight seatbelt grip. The bottom fighter’s spine is corkscrewed dramatically — hips facing one direction, shoulders wrenched the opposite way — in the gymnastics-meets-agony shape jiujitsu players call the Twister. His face is scrunched in a wince that says ‘please let this be over soon,’ while his bare feet dangle awkwardly in the air, as if reaching for an exit that isn’t coming. Chalky canvas below, dramatic Japanese text painted in the background, and not a single part of this position looks like it belongs in a yoga class.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 08/07/2026

Every liberal white dude who defends platner needs to be introduced to the jiujitsu submission called The Twister.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 08/07/2026

Rooting for Argentina is like rooting for the patriots (derogatory)

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 03/07/2026

I’m unaware of terms like mudoko dako, quimbandas, chibados, or other pre-colonial African genders being used as slurs locally, but I’m very willing to be wrong 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 01/07/2026

This *feels* like it’s invalidating non-binary and genderqueer folks. It could be better stated, at least. This is not to diminish the fact that people are using the argument to justify taking away the rights of trans folks, but it feels like throwing the baby out with the bath water.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 30/06/2026

One thing you can count on from the Dutch team is to have exactly no honor or integrity. Morocco should have attacked while that Dutch player was down because the Dutch certainly weren’t going return the favor.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 24/06/2026

Any side sleepers have pillow recommendations? It’s time to replace mine.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 22/06/2026

I can’t recall a time when I knew of Peter Theil’s existence where I didn’t know he sucked. It’s the Elon Musk rule: if you didn’t already know he sucked it’s because you didn’t want to know. It was only until your own reputation was tarnished by association that you had a “sudden realization”.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 20/06/2026

Seeing the videos of this and I was struck by how the police didn’t try to insert themselves into this and the crowd opened the way for the stretcher and helped get him down off that roof. I’m telling you, the city is different now, in the best way possible.

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Off-duty EMT at Knicks parade helps save man after apparent overdose

An off-duty EMT jumped into action at the Knicks parade Thursday when a man appeared to be suffering from an overdose.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 20/06/2026

The evergreen pansexual internal debate: is that person hot or do I just like their glasses?

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 18/06/2026

I stayed in a room overlooking Times Square all week and my hotel room was no more than 100 feet from it. What I loved most about that was all week long, regardless of what country’s fans were reveling in the square, you’d still see lots of Palestinian flags and chants of free Palestine.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 16/06/2026

I’ve been to NY many, many times, starting in the mid 90s. The city has changed so much, in so many ways, but has always had a spirit and vitality that I’ve loved. This trip, though, it’s like that sprit and vitality is tuned to 11. The vibes are immaculate. My favorite city got even better.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 14/06/2026

Seeing discourse again wherein liberals are surprised that leftists don’t consider them to be leftist and saying “well, what is a leftist if not someone who doesn’t tar and feather the gays and hates Trump?” For me, the entry gate for being a leftist is anti capitalism.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 12/06/2026

Watching people who I used to respect turn into soulless shills for AI makes me sympathetic to people who say how their parents used to be good people but Fox News turned them into bigots.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 10/06/2026

It is wild work to see someone argue that the reason they are vegan is because they’re against the exploitation of the lives and labor of animals, but then also be vehemently pro-capitalist. Like, you’re against the exploitation of animals, but you’re okay with the exploitation of humans?

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 07/06/2026

Just a reminder to anti-gun liberals that the racist judicial system that’s been used for decades now to deny guns to Black people and poor people is now being used for trans people and pretty soon expect it for any LGBTQ folks. The GOP will be thanking y’all for your service

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 07/06/2026

I had a dream the other night that @lookitup.baby borrowed my cat (as one does) Bentley and when they brought Bentley back, Ian was singing his praises and calling him a very good cat and I woke up beaming with pride. Ian, if you ever want to borrow Bentley, I’m happy to make arrangements.

A gloriously round and distinguished tuxedo cat named Bentley sits loaf-style at the center of a small wooden coffee table, commanding the frame with the quiet confidence of a CEO who owns every room he enters. His plush coat is a dapper patchwork of jet black and bright white — black across his back and head like a little cape, with a pristine white chest and belly that he wears with tremendous pride. His face is particularly charming: soft white with dark markings above his wide-set, golden-green eyes that give him a permanently thoughtful, slightly philosophical expression, as if he is pondering something very important (likely dinner). His little pink nose is a perfect button. His white paws are tucked neatly beneath his considerable belly in classic loaf formation — the pose of a cat who is both deeply relaxed and mildly suspicious. Long white whiskers fan out magnificently on either side of his face. In the softly blurred background, Kim, a young woman with auburn hair twisted up in a casual bun and wearing glasses and a cozy black hoodie, sits barefoot on the couch with a laptop, attending to presumably very important business — though Bentley has clearly already decided that HE is the most important business in this room. A lavender tumbler with a straw stands on the left side of the table, a loyal sidekick to the star of the show.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 06/06/2026

Aubrey has been training since she was 4. Now at 16, she’s a force of nature. Fast, great pressure, good strategy, and always learning. Getting to roll with her today and talk through nuances is such a joy for me as her father but also as someone who is a fan of her journey. 📷: @abgushte.bsky.social

In a bright, industrial-style BJJ gym with exposed concrete ceilings and gray competition mats, a teenage girl sits on the mat in a red rash guard and olive green leggings, bare feet tucked beneath her, arms extended openly mid-conversation — the body language of someone making a point with relaxed certainty. Facing her, close enough to whisper, is her father: a stocky, curly-haired person in a white and teal Scramble “Senshu” rash guard and gray shorts, kneeling with their back to the camera. Around the edges of the room, other practitioners sit and watch quietly against white brick walls, a small American flag bunting visible in the background.

And yet the image is less about jiu-jitsu and more about this: a black belt leaning in to offer the kind of razor-thin insight that only thousands of hours on the mat can produce — not to fix anything broken, but to sharpen something already formidable. She listens with the relaxed attention of someone who’s heard hard things before and made them look easy. It’s the rarest kind of coaching conversation: two people who both actually know what they’re talking about, except one of them is still in high school. Her father will offer the detail. She’ll nod, try it, and make it her own. Dad will watch — and feel that particular pride that has no good word for it.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 03/06/2026

It is now the sad period in time when I go from a fan and supporter of the Netherlands to the most rabid dyed in the wool hater of the Dutch and everyone who likes them. But only for a few weeks.

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Santi Gimenez Celebrates Goal for Mexico

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/06/2026

Rachel does so much to help others, and now she needs help too. I really can’t overstate how much she has done to keep our neighbors in MN housed. Let’s get her back!

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 02/06/2026

Happy Pride! Soviet 40mm gas mask kits are $10. Do with this information what you will. hkparts.net/hk-rifle-smg...

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Russian GP-5 Gas Mask Kit - Soviet Military - New

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 30/05/2026

What’s really funny is that the money Amazon is “spending” they’re essentially paying themselves.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 29/05/2026

Watched the Questlove documentary on Sly and the Family Stone this weekend and it’s absolutely a must watch and I’ve had them on heavy rotation for a while already and I don’t foresee that changing anytime soon. If you don’t know their music, you should get acquainted

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 28/05/2026

Pride should not include terfs. This shouldn’t be controversial.

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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 22/05/2026

WTF NOT ROB BASE 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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