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I saw a good conference talk like a year and a half ago about how SpriteKit has been dead for a while 😕 The whole talk was about designing games with SwiftUI

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 25/09/2026

The secret to being an American abroad nowadays is to apologize so often that people think you’re Canadian

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 12/09/2026

I saw someone mention that the iPhone X was announced 9 years ago today and what do you mean the home button is nearly a decade obsolete???

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 11/09/2026

It just occurred to me that they chose to do this on 9/11

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 11/09/2026

Very happy to see that the board of commissioners voted to officially rename Nashville International Airport to “Dolly Parton International Airport” for many reasons, among which is that I can now tell people with a heavy southern drawl that I’m “dee-partin’ from D. Parton”

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 06/09/2026

I hate how the world we’ve constructed forces everything to justify its own existence. It’s so exhausting when you can’t just simply be

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 06/09/2026

The accent finder thing thinks I’m from Nevada 🤮

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 03/09/2026

Lefty types often say that there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, but it’s less-often talked-about that there isn’t really ethical production under capitalism, either

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 21/08/2026

Lol I’m afraid that’s too much credit for me, too 😅

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 21/08/2026

Perhaps so, but even if there really is only sound we can distinguish in dog/cat languages, I wouldn’t think that would rule out standardized meaning based on intonation and context, no? Like Mandarin is famously difficult to learn because every word has a thousand different meanings based on tone

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 21/08/2026

I wonder if animals have different languages the same way humans do

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 17/08/2026

Altoona is pure evil. They ratted out Luigi and their pizza looks like this

A square slice of “pizza” (if you can call it that) with a fluffy, bread-like crust topped with pizza sauce, a slice of salami, a slice of green bell pepper, and a slice of processed cheddar cheese (such as a Kraft single) in that order from the bottom up

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 09/08/2026

Wearing a “back the blue” shirt to a baseball game to support the umpires

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 05/08/2026

I wonder if Israel came to her in her dreams last night

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 25/07/2026

Gonna change my middle name to “Hussein” so that when a republican goes “Barack *Hussein* Obama” I can be like “yeah, that’s my name. Got a problem with it?”

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 23/07/2026

The birth year of the average 20-year-old is too recent nowadays. Don’t like that

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 18/07/2026

I resent the fact that Fetterman turned out to be such an irredeemable chud for numerous reasons, but one of the many is that I do believe you should come as you are to the People’s House, and he ruined that for everybody

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 06/07/2026

I know it's kind of a long shot, but are there gonna be any Americans in Lisbon tonight watching the Belgium game?

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 04/07/2026

Everything is flavored if you’re brave enough to try it

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 01/07/2026

When I die, I don’t want to be buried or cremated. I want my body to be turned into a hamburger

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 25/06/2026

I know I should’ve done it like a month ago, but I finally just dropped my first ballot in the mail as an American abroad 🫡🇺🇸

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 14/06/2026

Excited to see who everyone downtown is pulling for later. We border Germany, but literally the entire Curaçao team except for one was born here. It’s the Netherlands, but every Dutch person in history is a turbo-weeb for some reason. We’re about to see levels of multiculturalism never before seen

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 13/06/2026

Gonna start a blog where I try all the abominable food crimes I find in Europe and judge them and call it Food Court

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 12/06/2026

They should do free refills at the bar

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 08/06/2026

If the primary focus of all the Apple platforms this year is stability and performance, I now get the weird quandary of determining if the public version of last year’s OS or beta 1 of this year’s is better to run

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 07/06/2026

I’m hoping next year’s will be cool. It’ll be the first in the Ternus era. I think I kinda lost that spark under Cook tho. The last few have been disappointing

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 07/06/2026

I think this if the first time I’ve felt absolutely 0 hype for #WWDC. I kinda forgot it’s happening tomorrow tbh

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 31/05/2026

Going to Cardiff to go wale-watching

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 29/05/2026

Part of me wants to fly back and drop it in the ballot dropbox at the DMV behind my old apartment irl, but I’m sorta doing the mental calculus on how much I trust the USPS vs. how much I trust CBP on re-entry 🙃 At least Colorado has a ballot tracker, so I can know if it was counted or not

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 29/05/2026

Of course, I’d never miss an election I’m eligible for! I had the option to vote by email, but ngl I don’t think I’m being unreasonable by having concerns with that nowadays 😬 Ngl I’d consider flying back and voting irl if Colorado wasn’t already a mail-in-only state

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 29/05/2026

Yo @ericmbudd.com who am I voting for? Even if it’s just symbolic 😅

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 29/05/2026

Got my first ballot in the mail as an American abroad 🥲🇺🇸 Hopefully we still have a democracy by the time they count it 🙃

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 26/05/2026

The Mamdate of Heaven, if you will

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 26/05/2026

If the Knicks win the NBA championship, it will really be clear that Zohran truly does have the Mandate of Heaven

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 24/05/2026

Half considering shaving my beard tbh. My autistic stim when I’m thinking is to run my fingers through it, which is making it patchy. I wonder if it’ll grow back evenly if I shave, which will theoretically force me to stop that

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 19/05/2026

Gonna start an Indian fast food restaurant called “Hurry Curry”

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 17/05/2026

I’m not sure that’s the case. A calzone is an Italian empanada

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 16/05/2026

The Netherlands is fun because everyone is roughly the same amount of autistic as I am. It’s just normal here

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 14/05/2026

This would be a loaf of pizza

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 14/05/2026

Crossing a Detroit-style pizza with a deep dish to make an unholy cube of pizza

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 10/05/2026

Lol I meant it as a dumb joke, not a moody statement 😅 Perhaps “possessed” would’ve been better

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 10/05/2026

My body is haunted by the ghost of me

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 06/05/2026

My brain reads “George H.W. Bush” as “George Hardware Bush”

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 04/05/2026

Gonna start referring to Greece as “South Macedonia”

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 02/05/2026

I’m terrified of the day my boss figures out how food-motivated I am lol

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 01/05/2026

I am a fully-automated luxury gay space communist in a manual impoverished straight ground capitalist world

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 01/05/2026

I want to buy my ticket to the Apple Museum with my Apple Card using Apple Pay, but unfortunately Dutch technology hasn't advanced that far yet 😢

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Michael Hulet @hulet.tech · 01/05/2026

My friends and I are going to the new Apple Museum in Utrecht tomorrow and it's extremely funny that their website where you buy tickets doesn't accept Apple Pay

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