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Two reasons Elmo wants everyone to think the Star shield fuckery came from the Whitehouse: 1. Doesn't want everyone outside the US government canceling contracts 2. Understands that Ukraine'd direct action division is really good at taking down individuals that are threats to their country […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 20h

@angrystaffer.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy If you're part of it: • You should be removed from your position • You should be removed from society • Your assets should be stripped and redistributed throughout the society you sought to harm

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Weird thing is, it's not like I'm talking about a budget oriented store.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I know more of their meats are coming in prepackaged and that selection is markedly reduced. Similarly, what's prepackaged is smaller — usually byvway oof thinner cuts (some uselessly thin).

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Makes me wonder if they've reduced the shift-hours of their butchers (and perhaps shifted to having remaining butchers split times across stores).

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

My immediately-prior use of suspicious quotes is because their butcher case is no longer anything resembling full. The ever diminished stocking has been happening over the last yearish, but is now quite stark. I imagine the switchover to individually wrapped steaks and reduced amount put out are […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Dunno if my grocery store is unique or part of a larger trend. If the latter, it looks like the runup in the price of beef is going to result in more plastic pollution. A butcher's case that used to only have slabs of cuttable meats an pre-sliced but thicker cut steaks is now mostly "filled" […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Everyone in the room looked kinda horrified, like they expected the president to fire me on the spot. Instead he laughed then, at a subsequent corporate party, bought me a glass of expensive alcohol that wasn't part of the event's open bar. HE loved telling the story of my response.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I didn't tell him the story, but... My first IT job was working at Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions. I had the opportunity to be Bell Atlantic's very first xDSL beta tester. A couple months into the trial, we were having a corporate all hands meeting. Division president asked what I thought. In […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Coworker was explaining why he wasn't comfortable with being as blunt as I am. Said he wasn't established enough to feel comfortable doing so. I explained that that's how I'd always been.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Half a byte is a nybble. How much is half a #scaramucci?

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

One of the weird things about #ImposterSyndrome is how it combines with an unusually-acute ability to "pick things up". If you _have_ that ability, it feels like _everyone_ should. As such, you tend to discount your own ability to see problems that "experts" should have more-easily detected …but […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Good Christ the new Tesla Roadster suffers a terminal case of the fuglies. Also, that body design is _not_ a roadster. I mean, for starters, where's the rag-top? When I think roadster, I think of the old my dad's old Metropolitan, the TR6, a classic Miata, Honda S200, my old Z3 or even just the […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Always a bit weird when you see someone you previously worked with and who, at the time, seemed "normal" start posting unhinged/hustle-culture style messages to #LinkedIn. It's like, "dude: I used to respect you".

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

When it comes to the K-shaped economy, while our household isn't, strictly-speaking, on the lower-arm of the "K", we've definitely got more in common, financially, with those who are than those firmly on the upper-arm of the "K".

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Dear Schwab: Your offer of an AmEx Platinum card to accelerate my investing with AmEx rewards is great, but I would have to be in a considerably better financial-position for a card with an $895 yearly fee to begin to make any kind of sense.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

It's like the #Trump admin was using #AI to make their "people" look sorta normal but have been running out of token-budget, lately. youtu.be/OghchbngVps?si=DChK7sUtt8U…

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@petermorley.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy Loooootta non retired people that wish that they got COLAs. Most salaried people's raises aren't even that high.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

And good Christ: her eyes are as dead, soulless and empty as her teeth are disturbingly bleached.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Is it me or does it look like Katie Zacharia watched the _Friends_ episode where Ross bleached his teeth and decided that was a look to strive for.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Would Tom have turned into as much of an absolute motherfucker as Zuckerberg did, or would he have been more like Craig? youtu.be/bKunNwD0uT8?si=OmLeofCfIw_…

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

MAGA wants the US to be the 4th Reich and the ballooning debt says this reich is soon to end. youtu.be/ZV6pUX8kJwg?si=sWz_vmxCWQy…

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

GitLab.Com having an ongoing service-interruption (especially since it's primarily effecting their #CI service and what I was working on was updating/optimizing CI pipelines) has pretty much screwed any possibility of being productive, today. :( #GitLab

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy Definitely if combined (especially in that order), yeah. :)

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Lulz... I have a Google storage subscription (I originally had Picasa but Google bought it and the storage subscription with Google was easier than trying to migrate all my photos). It includes the Google #AI Plus subscription. Guessing "too many" people were availing themselves of it. > Hi […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

After getting back from sitting my exam, found a Slack message complaining that my GitLab CI job was using up all of the project-group's free monthly-compute minutes. So, been spending the remainder of the day trying to update the logic so I can run the jobs via a GitLab runner hosted via […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy Seems like, if a witness — particularly a claimant — is trying to duck deposition, the case should be dismissed with prejudice and legal fees awarded to the defendant?

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Bought a very smol (sour cherry) pie this weekend.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

On the plus side of today's certification-exam, they handed me a "congratulations: you scored a 93%" piece of paper (even if it looks like their printer is 5 pages show of being completely out of ink). On the minus side, the certification-vendor's portal isn't showing my cert, yet, so I can […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Back when GrubHub (et. al.) was in the "get everyone dependent on you" part of the #enshittification cycle, I'd always disliked what I thought was the deleterious impacts of delivering food that was meant to be eaten AT the restaurant. However, during the lockdowns, I continued to order because […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Recently got added to a new project. No specific tasks have yet been assigned. Figured I'd look at the backlog queue to see if there was anything I could grab. There were six items in the backlog. All six were showing as both assigned and as "in progress". Umm… Why are they still in the backlog […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I get that the #Eagles are banged up and I should be happy they haven't been blown out by teams that c/should have. But two weekends in a row where the loss was due to coaching? Fire Sirianni. #NFL #PHIvsJAX

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Even if they don't manage to undermine this year's elections, the amount of criminal and civil liability they would face under a non-bought administration means the FAANGs — and every company that aided them and think they couldn't turn states' evidence — will be pumping hundreds of billions […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

When I see lifted trucks like this — and this one's worse from street level than from my porch (where I took the picture from) — I always think, "my condolences to your wife". And,judging by the sound, he's hit a modified exhaust and is warming up to leave.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

At supermarket. Pass by a dude in a sleeveless shirt and lots of arm ink. Wife compliments him on the ink. He thanks her and says it took a year to complete. My first thought was, " how'd you get that much time off work?"

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Stopped at the German grocer. Passing through the beer section and say to my wife, "they have your beer". Took her a couple ticks to realize we were standing next to the Hoegaarden display.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Always makes me a little sad to see an unattended Cybercuck. Almost feels like a wasted bird-flip. #swasticar #cybertruck

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Always weird when I join a new project, am told "go look at the IaC repositories on the git server," and, when I do, I see huge swaths of automation commented out. It's ike, "you're using `git`: why not just remove that block of code? If you ever need it back, it's in your `git` commit-history."

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy I mean, it's kind of how document-classification rules explicitly say that you can't declare something classified just because it's embarrasing (or otherwise not inherently-damaging to national security).

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Something I will never understand is people that prefer "on window mode" for any application that intrinsically operates as multiple screen-areas. If I can't quickly <ALT><TAB> between two, related actions, I get right vexed.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy In Trump's mind, any conversation he has in any capacity is covered by executive privilege, whether it has to do with the execution of his office — as POTUS — or not

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Been collaborating, for a few weeks, on a (long) document at work. During the initial writing, it was in a folder that all of the collaborators had write access to (and every document within it). Yesterday, they did a presentation on the topic the document was speaking to. After the presentation […]

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

"She" has a more prominent Adams apple this do.

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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Vampire Teeth Pin. Most people think Dracula says "I vant to suck your blood" because of his Transylvanian accent. But it's actually because vampires are unable to make a w sound due to their fangs. collabs.shop/vw386d

Enamel pin shaped like red open lips with white teeth and elongated vampire fangs dripping with red.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

European confused by "American tipping culture". It's like, _America_ hasn't had "American tipping culture" since the lockdowns. Before then, tips were for actual service roles, not self service kiosks. not for McD's type places, etc. youtu.be/6uvg5WSF7TU?si=NGKqP_Fo_oj…

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Watching a show on scientific paradoxes. Say to my wife, "wonder if they'll mention the 'coastline #paradox ' — where the smaller the ruler you use, the longer the coastline gets". Wife shuddered, looked away and clapped her hands to her ears.

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ferricoxide @ferricoxide.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Yeah, she said she wanted to move in, but when I came home expecting to find her with her stuff, it seemed like she just disappeared.

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