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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

husband siphoning gas tank because of the certainty this will happen again and soon

★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If one more person sends me one more giant ducking block of chat spam to give me basic background on a fine technical point EYE raised, I am going to drive to the sea for the express purpose of walking into it.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lady, the Burning Man of nerds is called "Burning Man."

Excerpt from an Atlantic article about Dungeon Crawler Carl. I don't think I want to know what the Atlantic says about DCC *or* DCon; I clicked to check whether I'd seen the Marriott in my feed, is all.

The quote: "puppet, dressed in a zippered vest and white, heart-patterned boxers. They stood out even among the 75,000 attendees of (highlight begins) Dragon Con, the pop-culture convention described as the “Burning Man of nerds,” (highlight ends) which each Labor Day weekend turns downtown Atlanta into a sea of spandex and body paint. The uniform”

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

anyway not a single person has used the new "term" at work today

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 29/09/2026

Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future”

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 18/12/2024

I'm about to rebrand all my cron jobs to AI agents and raise a $100,000,000 seed round.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm visiting a place where they keep a lot of dysfunctionally rich assholes And I was explaining to an 80yo what does and doesn't concern me re: robocalypse And the "heheheHEH" that our waitress heheheHEHed was so bruised and so knowing, I wished I could take it home to pick apart later.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Re: LRT, I used to have a friend who got dropped from her HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY PhD program because she studied the history of domestic machines and a new department head didn't approve of "kitchen tech." Some men need more kickin'.

@kebrightbill.bsky.com says, "People keep making absurd arguments like this because anthropologists who don't think anything women do counts as work keep getting on Al Gore's internet and making insane claims about labor saving devices not actually saving labor."

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People keep making absurd arguments like this because anthropologists who don't think anything women do counts as work keep getting on Al Gore's internet and making insane claims about labor saving devices not actually saving labor.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think most folks who see my posts are on iOS, but fwiw if you're Pixel 6 or later, get the September 5 update FORTHWITH. There's a fucker of a modem vulnerability. I've been back revved because I thought Pixel Drops were optional and got rolled in later. That isn't/is no longer the case.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I do low-key hope there's some kind of NOT WORTH IT note attached to my plate now

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"This" being the Occam's Razor possibility that Ellison is not tanking CBS on purpose, but truly believes Weiss will make him buckets of money Real Soon.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

one of my favorite posters is missing and I hope it's for lucrative job reasons or fabulous international travel reasons

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

RTing to branch this, because it's wandering off topic. One time I prepaid a HH provider. They "can't bill until insurance goes through," and I was tired of going to collections 12 days after waiting months for a bill. They put the credit balance into a special ledger and sent me to collections.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

my correlation's! causation! cor-cor-relation!

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I can't overstate how much I hate using 2FAs, plural, on my phone. I want to be able to get the distraction box away from my body. And every! damn! time! I put it in another room, my sessions time out. Do I have a better idea? No. Well, a work phone would help. But that's differently awful.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

l miss dropping in on Dragon Con unticketed and somehow, amidst 25000 people, running into every little arms-length acquaintance and ex-coworker I ever had, getting lots of unexpected hugs, then spending four hours at Trader Vic's catching up with somebody cool from college.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Look at this sunny 1953 gem-- oh. Oh god. There really is only one thing realtors hate more than trees. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

A long greenish ranch house, with a light brown roof and generous partially screened deck, sprawls behind a flat manicured yard and small

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just found out that the boomer lawyer for boomers sent me a list of required documents by postal mail. Not sensitive PII. Not pro forma boilerplate. A list of items without which my appointment will be meaningless. I don't need our bureaucratic death doula to be hopecore, thanks. Email is fine.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I went to the emergency room the day my family moved to Atlanta. The kind but stuffy doctor gave my parents directions that repeatedly referenced "the poor folks on the corner." I was 8, a yankee, and thought he was being a little rude about somebody's shack.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh hell, I almost bought a pen lathe and my google feed has lost its damn mind.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am only a (level) (workplace) (title) when I need to reassure someone that nobody knows how to make a printer act right

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Everybody was 🎶 vibes-based modding 🎶

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wait, so who's the plagiarist and why were they caught?

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

every time I open the fridge I see this thing and think, "YOGURT is for CLOSERS"

A little pot of yogurt in a blue crock. Its cardboard sleeve is marked "La Fermière", which I know perfectly well is "The lady farmer," but which sounds like "one who closes something."

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Also, tech companies give us "a day without data centers" once or twice a year by, idk, misleading themselves and others about distributed networks and not funding the tiny OSS toothpicks holding up their skyscrapers

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Emily Dare @strangetree.maenad.club · 20/08/2026

There was a joke going around at Google right on the cusp of the big AI push: What the difference between ML and AI? ML is written in Python and AI is written in PowerPoint.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Cat's apparently learned to make Teams meetings. I assume this decodes to "feed me you give snack feed 2:05pm food now."

A redneck screenshot of a meeting slot for 2:05 today. The title is a bunch of zeroes and pluses.

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SCARE In The World Is Mamiya Takako? @lionofjudah613.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Axelrod is to politics as Cramer is to finance

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

absolutely understandable if you need to misspell diorama, but maybe don't change all the vowels to A if you think the R requires an H

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My question, and I'm being an uninformed jaqoff here, is whether this "rising moral panic" is just a reflection of Boomer self-regard, or if it's groundwork for enforcing filial duty laws.

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Joseph Lewczak (Truth Seeker) @truthseeker59.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This artwork, Henfriend (2021), is an oil painting on canvas by Swedish artist and illustrator Anna Ileby.

Anna Ileby (born 1984) is a Swedish painter known for her large-scale oil paintings that capture quiet, overlooked moments and quirky scenes. The piece humorously depicts a woman in dark sunglasses and a bright red jumpsuit walking casually along a path next to a giant white chicken. It features bold color blocking, strong use of shadow, and a contrasting background of birch trees and colorful Nordic-style houses.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Y'ever think about how most of the early Pixar features served as tech demos? Monsters Inc - hair Finding Nemo - hydrodynamics Toy Story 2 - patina Cars - dust

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So, several months ago my dad told me I was lying about my job. He has dementia, but he really is a misogynist pig, so like what the fuck, asshole. Since then, all his shirts have had something to do with my workplace. And they just put out a "Y-M-C-A" themed one. Bhahaha.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Curious about other cat folks' experiences with social yawning. I used to make my first cat yawn if I wanted to go to bed when he was clamoring for attention. He understood a lot of English, but yawning worked better when he was in party mode. I've never thought to do it with the current crowd.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The WSJ article on tech demand for low tech cars, in short:

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I currently have a policy of stopping and supporting my local Yemeni coffee shop *every single time* I drive by. They're open until 11 every day, pull actual shots, and have both sweet and savory food. And they're open until 11. Like, 23:00. Every day. Everyone else is a coffee culture traitor.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is even more interesting than the Reaganite country club suburb that recently elected a D mayor. The longtime US Rep for both of these cities is a notable dumpster fire.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

is it the digestive system? I never trusted those jerks

Aggregated headline from various crank YouTube news sources including APT: "HHS decertifies organ group over various safety failures."

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"g-h-o-u-l" has five letters "g-r-i-f-t-e-r" seven "c-o-p-r-o-g-l-o-t" nine "k-l-e-p-t-o-c-r-a-t" ten What's four letters? "j-e-r-k"? It's okay to say "jerk." You said you're not reprehensible, so surely you aren't obliquely referring to a sexist slur. Or -- oh, must be "l-i-a-r"

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Can you even imagine how much nicer life would be if the Google Maps code had to be rolled back to 2022?

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

this exhausting person just said "hey fun fact" to a room full of people, then claimed the element symbol Na comes from the Greek root "nautikos" and not even because the sea is salty, no

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I know a guy who says "hey fun fact" out of the blue, and the fun fact will be objectively, provably wrong. If you show him, he goes "no, I don't think so" or "I guess it's two ways." He did this with the spelling and etymology of a word the first time I met him in 2016. Fuckit. Give him a podcast.

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