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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Uh oh! Sam & Ben are winning Jet Lag: The Game? Don't get me wrong - I'm rooting for Sam. (Always do.) It's just if this game teaches anything, it's that hubris will always come back to bite you. I just know, Sam & Ben are going to overthink something and have it blow up in their face.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Where has www.funtasywigs.com been all my life? (Well, OK, they're in LA.) So many years I've bought cheap wigs from Amazon - and spending more doesn't buy quality; just profit for the guy who decided to charge more. Not cheap, but not expensive - and the quality is so much better! (YAY! BEEHIVE!)

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why am I posting at 4AM? Perhaps it's because my @sleepnumber.bsky.social mattress feels like I'm sleeping on a rock. Second day in a row where it doesn't recognize me and set the level properly. At least I spent extra to get a squishier mattress!

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here's a business idea - someone please pick it up. Start a business like Amazon, but instead of letting someone dump out a bunch of Scrabble tiles and register a new seller - you actually manage your sellers. Maybe even insist they don't have misleading AI advertisements?

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Im going to be up to date on AI - Once I finish this magazine.

January 1996 edition of PC AI.

Truly a collectors issue!

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yay! Jet Lag: Japanorama finale is in theaters, and near me! Bought the ticket, and believe it or not the 3 showings at the theater are almost sold out. (Transit nerds in Washington DC? Really? I thought transit nerds were few and far between.)

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@nerd4cities.bsky.social - I think one of the best examples of guerilla wayfinding has to be this artist, updating one of the highway signs in L.A. youtu.be/Clgl63CWOkM?...

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Uh oh. I smell hubris with Sam & Ben on the latest episode of Jet Lag. Don't they realize the theme of Jet Lag the Game is that hubris always comes back to bite you!

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#ChickenReport Apparently, with a plunger - you can turn a chicken into a mini T-Rex! *rawr* 🦖🐔 youtube.com/shorts/7l1nr...

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A beautiful example of poultry in motion 🐓 Walking like dinosaurs...

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wonder if the problems with AI behaving badly, is that AI doesn't really have any good roll models? I mean, humans have been fantasizing about AI taking over the world for decades - and now AI has read all that, and assumes it's going to take over the world?

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think @standupmaths.bsky.social is just always on vacation. You would think that if Breaking Maths News is randomly distributed in time - then we would get an episode with him sitting at a desk. It's a great gig you got there.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've been cleaning our basement for several weeks straight now, and I feel like Wilma Flintstone sweeping her dirt floors everyday.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just saw a National Guard commercial- showcasing the gritty lifestyle of Guard work. Don't be fooled. Apparently, the purpose of the job is to hang around Washington DC looking bored. Not gritty at all.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ugg. Are you tired of advertising saying: Last day for BOGO! When you know - yeah, they'll probably extend the sale for another 2 days? And, whoops - I missed it. It's a good thing they'll have another BOGO sale in a week. So much urgency for something that really isn't urgent.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Im currently taping up a third (3!) pants sloper pattern. #2 was almost right, but then I tried to sit down. (If it weren't a mockup, I would be embarrassed. ) Anyways, @freesewing.eu - your paper registration marks for taping are 1st class!

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hey Lowes! How come when I look for medicine cabinets, I have to filter through a million copies of the same thing, with those throw-away brand names used by dropshippers? Even when I take out the "Lowes Marketplace" - there are still these well known brands such as "AAJI". 😡

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I learned something this week - of course SewSky probably knows this. But if you make your mockups with partially full bobbins from previous projects, you run out the thread - and gift yourself a clean bobbin for the next project! (I'm at 3 bobbins - I'm making pants, and fittings a pain.)

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My money is on Sam and Ben for Japanorama! Although, with Sam and Ben together- what does that mean for The SnackZone?

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Played my first game of D&D at @rowhaven.bsky.social in DC for their opening weekend! The store looks great, I'll be definitely buying something there for my birthday.The game spaces looked awesome as well. However, D&D isn't for me. I'd love to try Call of Cthulhu. (And I'm always up for Fiasco.)

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ugg! Taping a sewing pattern together, and lined up two of the wrong marks. Didn't notice the error until I got to the next row. It's only 7mm off, but the next row just won't go in. And it's in a pants pattern, so that 7mm (+ all the error it creates) are probably important. Back to the printer.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Am I the only one who does a double-take when I hear about "French Language Demands" in Canada-US talks? On the one hand - what could the demands possibly be? And on the other hand: WTF?

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Am I the only one fed up with talking heads saying: OMG! Democrats elected a DSA member in the primary. They are going to be too radical to win Florida! I don't think being an avowed Socialist is really the kiss of death they think it is. If anything, they can help bring the fight to MAGA.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Any of the 8224 people out there remember this? Fooblitzky by Infocom only sold a little more than 8k copies... and I have one!

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

BeOS was truly fun... Not very useful though.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hi @sleepnumber.bsky.social ? Can you give me an app that just controls my bed - the sleep reports aren't good enough for me to opt-in for advertising that you think: "I might be interested in."

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So, patches - where you give an organization money so you can advertise on their behalf? If you call them iron-on patches, please make sure they are iron-on. I was sewing an awesome Archaeopteryx patch from the Chicago Field Museum, and the glue nearly gave out. (After what 2 minutes of handling?)

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Watched @cinematherapy.bsky.social live in Chicago last night! I think the #InternetDads should do a sketch on @mst3kofficial.bsky.social . Consoling Crow T Robot after a particularly bad movie.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Rode the loop in Chicago today. Have to say it felt like going in circles.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Bro about to do some serious engineering. IG: @canoe_carrier Algonquin Highlands, Ontario 🇨🇦

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@sluggodoug.bsky.social If you want covers? And its a Tuesday? How about a little Taco Tuesday and play Putting on the Ritz?

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

With this weather, all pizza is wood-fired pizza. *cough* *cough* 😷

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I would say Guy Mont Spelling Bee is a spelling bee that goes off the rails - but I'm not sure there are any rails to begin with.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

And in other news, many people all over the Northern Hemisphere are getting 8 hours of excess heat per day.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Baked a low sugar pound cake today. Although, with low sugar, it tastes more like pound than cake.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I'm currently psyched for Count Binface - Although, as a resident of Maryland in the US; my opinion on the race means just about as much as my vote for President. (i.e. none at all.)

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just got finished shortening a zipper. I tell you, it was like pulling teeth. 😁

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Joe Biden must be spinning in his grave. The Acela livery says: "Delivered by President DJT..." (And before you say anything, I know Biden only looks dead.)

Acela engine, decked out for America's 250th. It says: Delivered by President Donald J Trump and Secretary Sean Duffy.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Why does Huson News sell stuffed airplanes - in a train station?

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

When you order a fascist monument, but settle for the box it came in.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Name a TV show no one remembers? Viva Variety on Comedy Central! Introducing "Baby needs a shave", because what's more ironic than shaving a baby! Viva Variety share.google/xPD65AN6j5QA...

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Yay! @nerd4cities.bsky.social has put up a video on how awesome DC is. (I kept checking to see if he caught me on camera somewhere. ) I think he should do a bit on biggest ripoff for toll roads. (See NOVA HOT-lanes where it costs $50 to escape DC, and you don't have the right EZ Pass)

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So, I don't get this Jiffy Lube ad: - I'm supposed to have a "best car bud" - And we're supposed to get an oil change together at Jiffy Lube? If i were the type of person with a "best car bud" - maybe we would hang out in their garage and change oil.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Yay! Sam and Amy together on Jet Lag! No chance Sam loses now!

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Done voting! Now for a celebratory hot dog.

Maryland I Voted sticker with a Black Eyed Susan in the center, and around the flower: and oriole, a crab and a race horse. (Because for some reason they think we still like racing horses for sport?)

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Just saw Disclosure Day, and there is 0 chance of a highway sign that's 120 miles to Silver Spring, MD.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Watching Primitive Technology on YouTube again... it's serving as a reminder that we all need apocalypse hobbies for when cash fails to work.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Normally - I don't do surveys, they're annoying - and can't you find out if your customers like you some other way? Although, today - I did. Specifically, because the product they were asking about was "shipped" two weeks ago. And by "shipped" I mean the information was sent to the post office.

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Dina of DC @icobbleclogs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ugg. I'm filled with dread. I need to find the right side last for a pair of shoes I'm making . . . And it would be faster to clean everything up! (Not how I want to spend a Friday. I was looking forward to huffing glue.)

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