iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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

What a beautiful shot. Sunset was very similar here, bright clear tangerine-yellow beneath the clouds. But the Costco parking lot has limited aesthetic potential, so I didn't snap it.

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

I didn't say anything to her, btw. I don't even know if she has a middle name.

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

I had to interrupt my finicky time-sensitive work last night because Dipshit wouldn't stop barking at her plate and my husband was stumped I stopped what I was doing and she instantly started acting right A terrible precedent has been set in Purse Dog Law

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

Love to know that the next time I buy consumer electronics, I will need to desolder things

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

Maybe I should stop "reading women's magazines," which is a medical term for "noticing that something unexpectedly and unambiguously changed under a well defined condition"

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

Nah, it'll keep 'em confused if you simply carry on saying "LLM," "chatbot," and "image generator."

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human scary bean @humanbean.net · 08/10/2026

we should trade sam altman for sam primaryman

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

We've all mastered saying "you fucking clank" in a perfectly flat Ben Stein tone

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

My phone has been marking hospitals, hospice, and the federal government as spam. Whee.

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

Oh yeah, I do fantasize about having a coffee shop that uses my own mugs. People can have wifi, but there's gonna be food, or at least a bowl of boiled eggs, and we're gonna be open until two by-god ante meridiem. But I don't want to manage people So I don't see how that's gonna happen

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

My intended post-tech career path is piling rocks in a ravine until I have something roughly house-shaped. I think I caught a brain fungus in one 'em Appalachian art enclaves, but regardless,

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I picked up a 30 pound suitcase in a completely normal way, and the next day I couldn't move my torso without shrieking. Young people don't usually get opportunities like that, you know?

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm actually very particular about using "LLM" and avoiding the "AI" generalization, but my GOD this person pissed me off. I won't say "conservative" either, 'cause they aren't, but I don't go around saying that the word is "the biggest problem" with the rest of the political spectrum.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's so true! Precise terminology matters when it's my pet topic, not when it's a niche concern like the history of technology.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fair enough, and also, I didn't factor the retirement state angle.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is it good politics to say, even disingenuously, that you'll try to legislatively trample genZ/millennial parents' rights in favor of what sounds like genX butthurt? There are so many more of them than us.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I just don't think that anyone putting _any_ energy into interpretation has had much direct contact with dementia. :/ "Did someone seed that, who, and why" and "how will xyz react" are potentially interesting questions. "What did he really mean" is not.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't remember which TWOPper recapped it, but I do remember the last recap was "Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Nobody cares." ad infinitum.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Didn't they do the exact same thing in The Expanse?

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm glad I was too busy for TV when Heroes went off the rails. I have so much goodwill for that show that I have spillover goodwill toward the Nissan Versa.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"We understand that you may think the US is unsafe, here in Minneapolis, a city that's been overrun by ICE for nearly two years--" honestly wtf Jacob

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No🐾Hide sounds like an anxiety medication.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I showed one (1) of her videos to my husband, btw, and now he greets me "Hallo" and very nearly has opinions about Balenciaga and Prada.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

UV is the newest addition to my odor removal litany: pH down (vinegar), pH up (borax or bleach), Oxiclean, unscented enzyme cleaner (Odormute or Fizzion), and finally, show it to the blazing sun. They have dryers with UV in the UK and I'm so curious whether they have any juice.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(this is all academic for me because I haven't seen a reason to forget the hostile workplace stuff)

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why is it infuriating? I never played a healer because everyone's so unpleasant to healers. Even friends. No, I have no plans to git gud, tyvm. But if I understand the definition of downranking, I used to find downlevel attack spells useful as a solo caster. Is that different?

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I did exactly the same around 9/15ish! The flu one swelled just a little, and that was all.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Skagerak Georg is a statistical error adn should not be counted

Screenshot of a two-legged unfinished ("untreated") oak table on a blank white background. Its dowel-like wooden legs slant outward. A thumbnail depicts it in use as a writing desk.

"Skagerak Georg Console Table
By Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm, From Fritz Hansen"

It's from hive, fwiw, but y'all are too good to spend $1300 on something like this.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Christian school graduate incapable of vetting sources, news at 11

Screenshot from the article:

Black, who is a vice president at a software development company, is aware that chatbots sometimes hallucinate — that's when chatbots respond to prompts with false, misleading or fabricated answers. To overcome that problem, he often checks the information one chatbot has provided him against another.

Batista from JHU said that method of fact checking is better than using the same model twice, but he hasn't seen evidence that it is effective.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Baby broken ducks look just like baby regular ducks???! This is new news to me. We have so many Muscovies around and I've never seen little ones.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have heard this is what it's like to read Dresden as a Chicagoan.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

While it's hypothetically fine for an author to move a major federal agency several miles for some vague narrative convenience, I've walked that hill too many times. DNF. CNF.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's a book, and pardon me for never shutting up about this, where the CDC has a subway stop. People take the subway. To the CDC. Without arranging their entire day around a glacial bus that runs twice a day. Without walking down and up a huge steep hill in oppressive heat or driving wind.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

long blonde hair filler precocious botox mean racist glib zero interest in what's going on in the world When the job posting is basically a mirror, what do you do?

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Love a perfectly civil instablock. May this be the stupidest thing I see today. How the fuck are people getting access to my files if not through malware? Are we still artisan hacking private individuals' machines?

@lacompa.bsky.social says, "You should worry more about people stealing your data files from your data store than them hacking into programs/apps you run."

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And cars have better lighting than closets.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love that Tombstone tries things. I used to be hooked on one that had a cornmeal crust, veggies, and taco sauce instead of tomato. Are you aware that Costco has a solid gluten free pizza game? I think it's like 3 cheese, 2 junk, or 2 veggie pizzas, different brands, for about $12-13.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fully concur. We've made billionaire syndrome available to the masses.

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★ thomas brodie singstar ★ @fritterary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is not. It's IT's job to *recommend* guardrails, to stand down when the business insists that's not wanted, and to snicker into their tea at the appropriate juncture.

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

You've met people who put "ssh" on their resume because they installed puTTY? The amount of SQL that guy knows might be about fifteen minutes of effort.

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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

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

This is a no-headphones level of comportment. We need an etiquette and we need it a year ago.

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

HOW could I raise this fine technical point if I didn't understand the words I used to raise it? WHERE did I ask for six paragraphs of blah blah blah that I have to read because it might, but probably does not, answer my goddamn question?

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★ 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

Meanwhile, my suddenly-husband was in the room using the toilet and wallowing in the twelve-inches-too-short bed, so I wound up letting the scammers charge me full price for a decent suite.

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