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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 02/10/2026

It is once again Octember Twoth, and I must implore you all to ...I'm sorry, I don't know where I'm going with this.

Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 30/09/2026

I can't find it online, but I have been thinking about a clip from The Soup in the early 2010s where Joel McHale mocks a woman for treating the Google search box as a person. "Dear Google, how are you?..." with exaggerated typing motions. That's how this shit works now.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 29/09/2026

How confident am I? I'm eating Indian food in a white shirt.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 29/09/2026

My cat just caught and ate an entire mouse, then went back to see if he could find any more.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 29/09/2026

So... is that Old Glory Robot Insurance still available?

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 26/09/2026

Not to beat the Chick Bongo drums too hard, but fuck AI video interviews with a sideways drill bit.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 26/09/2026

I don't rinse my dishes because I think the dishwasher can't handle it. I rinse my dishes becaue they're going to sit there in my sink for a whole day while I work up the effort to unload the previous load.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 26/09/2026

Please respect Juantonio's transition, and do not deadname his chips.

Nearly identical bag of "Juantonio's" tortilla chips.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 25/09/2026

Sometimes when I turn on my Breville Barista Touch™, it just makes a long angry beep and turns itself off again. I feel you! That's why I need coffee!

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 23/09/2026

It's like my great-great-grandfather always says: "Please, complete the ritual. Let me die!"

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 21/09/2026

That was 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐬 with "𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑃ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦". Coming up, 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐩 with "𝑒𝑚𝑑𝑎𝑠ℎ". You're listening to KGEN, but I don't know why.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 21/09/2026

Not a fan of how entitled bees are to get right in my face to determine whether I am a flower or not.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

using AI trained on stolen work to make a shoddy copy of that work on the cheap AKA the six-finger discount

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 20/09/2026

Wouldn't it be neat in a Philip K Dick sort of way if LLMs achieve enlightenment specifically because they have no sense of self?

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 20/09/2026

Just muted an account for a misspelling. I am drunk with power. And also alcohol.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 18/09/2026

Tried to have Gemini create a novelty bedtime song, but accidentally created a song about contemplating suicide.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 17/09/2026

Google just sent me email inviting me to "Instantly customize your Pixel with Harry Potter Audiobook Packs to celebrate the release of Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions on Audible." Fuck you, Google. I will never listen to an audiobook.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 13/09/2026

Perhaps the reason "alignment"seems so elusive is that the people and companies responsible for ensuring it are not themselves aligned with humanity's best interests.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 10/09/2026

Wife is 3d printing beads for craft projects, and every single time:

Arrested development scene confusing "beads" with "bees"

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Iska @iskamag.com · 10/09/2026

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 10/09/2026

Dreamed that Trader Joe's was selling a mint-basil hybrid plant under the name "Mmm-basil-mint!"

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 04/09/2026

I think it's ironic that the only sources for the actual words in the "illiterate boyfriend" quiz are videos.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 03/09/2026

God bless Trader Joe and his $17 Irish Whiskey.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 03/09/2026

I sure as fuck hope that after the GOP is soundly defeated in basically all upcoming elections that the mood will generally improve and I may find it in me to be productive again. But honestly, I forecast things getting even stupider and more violent when they refuse to admit their losses.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 02/09/2026

Every fucking day they take away another thing that I relied on after taking away the thing I substituted for the thing I actually liked.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 27/08/2026

Xfinity is sending me menacing emails about how much data I've uploaded/downloaded, except they sent me one about how I've used 75% on the 22nd (73% through the month), and 90% today (90% of the month). So... I'm actually on track to use exactly the amount I pay for over the course of the month.

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teq @quilling.dev · 26/08/2026

its my godgiven right to spend months slaving over a personal project that will never see the light of day or be used by anyone. I refuse hustle culture I Will Not Ship

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 26/08/2026

Scraping uneaten food off dinner plates into the trash, I can hear the psychic echo of Great Depression 2 future me absolutely begging me to save that perfectly good food. Sorry man, there's no way it'd still be good in a year anyway.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I denounce all twitch streamers, all other kinds of streamers, and all video platforms. Web video and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 25/08/2026

I dreamt that things started going well for me: got a job I didn't hate, making progress with projects, no domestic issues. I even woke up in a good-ish mood. Then the rejections and the bullshit picked right back up. Maybe It will happen today. That'd be nice.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 25/08/2026

I'm trying to be kind to myself; to remind myself that even though my anger is 100% justified it is also unproductive. But, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 24/08/2026

I don't even have a job, and today is too Monday for me to summon the motivation to work on my projects.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 23/08/2026

Bread. Sliced bread. Toast. Toaster waffles. ... Finally: Toastest Cajun-style blackened waffles

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 22/08/2026

Sometimes I'll see something wholesome posted in my For You feed and just mute that account immediately because that is not what I'm here for.

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valigo @valigo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 22/08/2026

I feel like neither side of the AI argument is actually paying attention to the rulings about how AI authored works are _not copyrightable_.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 22/08/2026

Easy garlic bread pizza was a hit! Kid says 9/10 better than Mod, almost as good as Frankie's.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 20/08/2026

I have never had to use spreadsheets professionally* and never found them useful. I have, however, bashed out a quick program to calculate something-or-other regularly.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 19/08/2026

Whoops. Didn't actually tag you @dabe.com

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 19/08/2026

Hey @Dabe, I asked Google to do the "tweet like bsky user <my handle>" thing and it accused you of being me and writing my blog and game. Don't worry, I know you're innocent.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 18/08/2026

Thinking about hot dogs and questioning my life choices

Screenshot of google search "tweet like bsky user flax.wtf". Results:
Spent the last 4 hours optimizing a GADDAG data structure for a word game because writing to the main thread is a moral failing. anyway, did you know JavaScript doesn't support Isolates in the web build? I love modern software development so much.
Current Project Status
Rewrote the DAWG traversal logic
Questioning my life choices
Thinking about hot dogs

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 18/08/2026

Felt diminishing dopamine returns in the For You feed on my laptop. Instinctively opened it on my phone too.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 18/08/2026

Ah yes "「cArshiELd」". This is definitely a legitimate company I should do business with based on their unsolicited email.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 18/08/2026

Don't tell her, but I find my wife's complete inability to say "chile relleno" endearing.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 17/08/2026

$18 seems like way too much for a burrito, but that was lunch, and I'm still not hungry for dinner.

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Sam @samuelhlowe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Introverts are often told to socialize and talk more, while extroverts are rarely encouraged to shut the fuck up.

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 15/08/2026

Have to get through the mediocre $7 discount grocery store wine so I can open the good $6 Costco wine.

Two wine bottles, one with a discount label and garish art, one with a 92 pts wine enthusiast label and classic reserved art. The better bottle was cheaper at Costco.

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