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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Last: I'm still a poster guy. And I like that this obvious crossover for a tour called "The Gathering" exists. But I can't fathom putting it on my wall or in my flat file, especially for $40.

concert poster for Weezer: The Gathering, made to look like a Magic: The Gathering card

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Had a good time at Weezer's The Gathering tour last night. Capsule review thread from someone who doesn't really go to live music much:

looking at Weezer from the 200 section, Rivers Cuomo on camera.

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I visited the new home of the piece of the Berlin Wall behind the Orlando CityWalk Hard Rock Cafe (which is now actually in front of the Orlando CityWalk Hard Rock Cafe). The location is also a designated stroller parking zone.

piece of the berlin wall, behind a stanchion labeled Stroller Parking

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"GFiber is now gFiber". Glad they're putting that private equity knowhow to work. Thanks for selling it off, Google.

Screenshot of an email subject line announcing the rebrand

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm the #1 global player of pro drums on the Simpsons Monorail Song. (only one other person ever played it)

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Turns out Fortnite is deeply weird and kind of fun, especially playing it with my kid. I threw a few bucks at the Krusty skin, what a time to be alive. I find the general UI and unlock system completely inscrutable though, making me an Old for sure (The monorail song also plays on my menu screen)

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Mediocre out-the-car-window VA mountain pic

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Well, it's permanent. I'm grateful they got back to me! But pilgrimages will be different from now on.

email from the hard rock general manager: "this is permanent given how much that thing weighs! I think it needed to be front and center!"

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'm sorry to post screenshots from the other place, but this is Important News: Hard Rock Orlando moved my favorite piece of the Berlin Wall from behind the restaurant to out in the front. To be honest this is weirdly disappointing to me. I liked that the old placement was inexplicable.

screenshot of a twitter post: pictures of where the berlin wall used to be behind the restaurant, now left a hole in the ground

screenshot of a twitter post: pictures of the Berlin Wall out front of the Hard Rock Cafe, with the plaque

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Youtube Music's quarterly Recap now suggests I ask AI about what I listened to. Are there people who think this is a good use of resources?

Suggested prompts: how would a cowboy describe my listening? And guess my love language based on...

Well now, partner, your trail's a neon canyon. Nine Inch Nails grinds like a rusty spur before Daft Punk rolls in like a chrome tumbleweed. You're kickin' up glitter at Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club then driftin' into GUNSHIP's synth- wave sunset. It's a high- tech hootenanny for the digital frontier

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Still smashin after all these years

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Canabalt still rocks. Mobile games peaked early.

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I found a charging cable for my first Gen iPod touch, and it booted up! Most apps don't connect to anything anymore. The BBC News app is fascinatingly frozen in a snapshot of 2011.

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The Fitbit One was a perfect pedometer design, and I can't find a modern equivalent. I just want a simple, non-connected step counter that clips to my pocket without getting in the way. Doesn't exist.

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Reflecting on how much my quality of life has improved since 2004. (I kind of miss Spaghetti-O Western though)

Book cover: a man, a can, a plan. Cookbook of recipes of canned food

Recipe for Spaghetti-O Western: cans of noodles, beans, and some cheese

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

the Arizona was a perfect theme park meal. It came with a ton of fries, reasonably priced. RIP.

menu screenshot: Arizona Combo, 12.49. all-beef hot dog, smoked bacon, pinto beans, grilled onions & peppers, cheese

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My personal May the Fourth tradition is to share this, the best piece of Star Wars humor ever created. @davidmalki.com created it when we didn't know anything about Episode VII yet.

A fake track listing from the Star Wars: The Force Awakens soundtrack.

1. STAR WARS (MAIN THEME)
2. THE IMPERIAL MARCH
3. STRANDED (FINN’S THEME)
4. GRAVE OF A CALRISSIAN
5. NOW THIS IS PODRACING (REY’S THEME)
6. JIZZ-WAILING ALDERAAN NIGHTS
7. LUKE ENCOUNTERS A GUNGAN
8. BOOP BEEP DEEP (BB-8’S THEME)
9. BRIENNEOFTARTH
10. BIG BAD SABACC HUSTLERS (ELEGY FOR THE FALCON)
11. FLIGHT OF THE G-WINGS
12. VADER HAD A BROTHER!?
13. EXPLORING EACH OTHER
14. THE REVENGE OF BURPO FETT
15. CHEWBACCA, PADAWAN
16. TAKE OFF THAT EARRING, HAN
17. THE LAST MIDICHLORIAN

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This is what journalism has been reduced to: clickbaiting the fact that you can now get a bottle of water instead of soda with a costco hot dog.

Screenshot of a news story in Facebook: costco changes 1.50 hot dog and drink combo. What to expect at NC locations

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Now that I have signed cards from both Paul Reubens and Patrick Warburton as their Star Tours droids, I think I can retire from collecting.

Two trading cards of droids, with signatures

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is Hermes. As of today, we've kept him alive for a very unexpected three years. He also murdered all his roommates. But Happy Birthday, Hermes!

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A few minutes before the Artemis crew broke the record for farthest anybody's ever been from Earth, their Nutella broke loose and floated by.

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It's a show about mental health and suicide that balances humor and drama really well. I loved it, even had my own line. Get there early.

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Daniel Radcliffe's one man Broadway show, Every Brilliant Thing, is really good. He's out mingling with the crowd before it starts, assigning a bunch of people one-liners to yell from the audience at the right times.

Daniel Radcliffe interacting with the crowd, holding up a card

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I've been trying to make good-faith efforts to use AI in my work. Today outlook suggested asking Copilot to find priority tasks for me. I clicked that suggestion, and Copilot immediately told me it can't do that. (🧵)

I asked copilot: "Look through all my emails, chats and meetings and let me know what are the top 3 things I need to get done in the future."
Response:
"I get why you’d want that—that’s exactly the kind of thing a good assistant should do.
However, I need to be clear about a limitation first
I don’t have access to your emails, chats, calendar, or meetings unless you explicitly share that information with me.
I can’t see Outlook, Teams, Slack, Zoom, or other systems on my own.
That said, we can still get you to a very useful "top 3" quickly. Here are the practical ways forward, from most to least powerful:"

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

www.axios.com/2026/03/07/t...

Screenshot from article: Consumers will spend an extra $175 million a day at the pump versus a week ago, De Haan said.

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Meanwhile Trader Joe's is out of all the usual suspects, but also all fruit except limes. I think the stress of the world is getting to everyone.

An almost empty store shelf, with only limes remaining

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I benefit from opportunities to process the state of the world through genre fiction. If you do the same, check out Marvel's current version of The Ultimates. 20 issues so far of an oppressed world organizing and rising up against the oppressors.

Cover image of The Ultimates #1, featuring an array of Marvel heroes

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I looked at a few walkthrough videos of Darkmoor, and the goat wasn't there in late November. See youtu.be/nlbC7cQPW08?...

screenshot from a youtube video walkthrough of Darkmoor. An empty roof is circled - no goat

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I have some minor theme park news to break: #EpicUniverse added a goat on the roof of Pretorius' Scientific Oddities in #Darkmoor / #DarkUniverse. On 1/20, my daughter spotted roof goat & I took a picture. Later, we wondered just what that goat was doing up there. (🧵)

A well-lit fake goat, standing on a roof in the Darkmoor section of Epic Universe

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I took my kids to see the piece of the Berlin Wall behind the Orlando CityWalk Hard Rock Cafe for the first time. Their reaction: "yeah, this seems like the kind of thing you'd like."

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

The new movie was a bit of a dud, but it reminded me how much I truly like the Avatar franchise. I finally jumped into the Frontiers of Pandora game, and it's incredible. I get to fly an Ikran all around this world, exploring and doing cool stuff. You can't take a bad screenshot.

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Visited my childhood mall, and now there's a place where you can play with goats?

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Google now displays AI summaries of Reddit pages in their results. I hate it, don't need it, and can't turn it off. Finding Reddit discussions is the last thing Google's good at. Stop it.

google search results showing an automatic summary of the results from reddit

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

the press photos in the Disney / OpenAI announcement are just the dumbest things. Who wants to watch this? Who's excited? What possible context would make this an attractive way to spend my limited free time?

a man with a lightsaber stands next to R2D2

a man getting ready to run a race against Lightning McQueen

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

These are the amazing suggestions for how I should remix the screenshot of news that my parents sent me. What a complete and utter waste of time.

A long list of dumb suggestions like give it a bob haircut, and turn it into a fun photoshoot

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My top five artists for the year are all from various Tron soundtracks, and I'm very proud of myself.

1: Daft Punk
2: Nine Inch Nails
3: Dan Le Sac
4: Trent Reznor
5: Joseph Trapanese

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I somehow left without this incredible Blood Dragon trapper keeper

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

"We have everything we need in abundance" - from a local community fridge flyer. This phrase is burrowing itself deep inside my brain today. What if that was a foundational societal assumption, and we built from there?

Flyer for a community fridge opening party: "we have everything we need in abundance"

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

When I was a little kid, I listened the crap out of a cassette of vaguely Halloween-themed pop music. I looked it up recently - it was Hallmark's "The Sounds of Halloween": Thriller, Ghostbusters, Monster Mash, and more. This year I learned just how wrong my little kid memories of it were. 🧵

picture of a cassette with a low-budget vampire on the cover: The Sounds of Halloween

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

This is actually for sale at Spirit.

a "Tariff Tunic" costume, a sandwich board listing various tariff rates by country

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

We asked nicely and got to sit in the front of the Disneyland Monorail today, with the pilot. Bucket list item checked off. Bonus picture of the controls!

Me, leaning in and giving a thumbs up while in the front of the monorail

Monorail controls. A joystick, two screens, and a bunch of excellent classic clicky buttons

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I bought the Tron: Ares soundtrack on CD, my fist physical album in maybe a decade. It's in this little cardboard sleeve, and I'm kind of disappointed to not have a new jewel case in my life.

A cardboard CD sleeve viewed from the side, very thin.

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