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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 20/03/2026

I see a lot of posts on "how to circumvent AI in my web searches" and nobody goes with the obvious.

Screenshot of a DuckDuckGo search: "how do you screenshot on a fucking iphone"

Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 01/12/2025

I take pictures like this because I like to imagine people watching from outside CONUS, mouths agape with horror, counting their blessings and national investments in education and a social safety net. Kudos to all of you: Please send help.

A recession indicator in two parts: The first: $13 frozen pizza.

A recession indicator in two parts: The second, a warning (presumably a theft deterrent) about store surveillance in the $13 frozen pizza section.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 29/11/2025

It was this Wawa and I feel this is important information for the record and anyone in U City selecting a Wawa: Chestnut Street is up. Booo Market Street Wawa. Booo.

I walked a whole three extra blocks to go to this Wawa. I regret nothing. Well that isn't entirely true: I have regrets, sure. Related to Wawa? Not yet. Not a one. That says something.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 28/11/2025

I walked past a Wawa to get to a better Wawa and now I have come here to the most Philly-coded of all the platforms to share my enthusiasm. ...oh "Go Birds" or whatever. Also.

A veritable cornucopia of mid-Atlantic delights. Wawa: There's another one up the block.

Editor's note: Not actually the Wawa slogan. It should be though.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 24/11/2025

BlueSky giving me these two posts back to back is the best thing that's happened to me today.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 23/11/2025

This reminds me to talk about my dissertation here and not on Threads because shit like this isn't great for my mental health ijs www.threads.com/@jasonrashaa...

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 18/11/2025

My prayer for you this holiday season, Beloved: May you know the joy I felt in discovering $60 I had hidden from myself in a disused bottle of Viagra. Amen.

We must be thankful for all blessings, Beloved, and recognize them when they are found.

Picture contains I shit you not three crisp twenty dollar bills rolled neatly in a prescription bottle of probably expired dick pills. Probably expired in that the holder of said bottle has not been laid in a year and properly in longer than that. There's other stuff in the picture but that's the focal point plus if you're reading this far either your software or your eyes can work out the rest. ~ Jason Rashaad

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 12/11/2025

I bet the answer is "racism." Ah ha.

Later, in 2021, after agents aggressively responded to Haitian migrants crossing the border near Del Rio, Texas—including a now-infamous image of an agent on horseback appearing to strike a migrant with his reins—a 511-page federal investigation concluded that while agents had not struck migrants, there were “failures at multiple levels,” including inappropriate language and lack of supervision. In response, Judd said the investigation was flawed because Biden administration officials had spoken out against the abuse. “Those investigators have no choice but to find wrongdoing,” he told NPR. (source: Mother Jones)

As the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants ramped up, an embarrassing scandal put the agency and the union on the defensive. When ProPublica reported in 2019 that agents were posting racist and sexually offensive comments to a secret Facebook group, Judd minimized the story by saying “it was a very small number of people” and “those individuals must be held accountable.” (In the end, most of the agents involved received only light penalties and were allowed to remain in their posts, according to a congressional investigation.) (source: Mother Jones)

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 11/11/2025

Yo, at least tomorrow is a Federal holiday though, right? Hey, what's this one for again? Ohhhh yeah. Huh.

New York Times front page, November 11th, 1918.

By Charles Ransom Miller - The New York Times;Version 3 downloaded from https://newspaperarchive.com/new-york-times-nov-11-1918-p-1/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38072749

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 08/11/2025

My last job I was told that I needed to have all of my emails to the customer "reviewed" because there were concerns about my "ability to communicate." I don't know what made me think of that. www.rawstory.com/trump-thanks...

The President of the United States is a moron.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 03/11/2025

I just had a conversation about balancing security with usability. Huh. www.unionesarda.it/en/world/lou...

A "weak" password could become one of the symbols of the Louvre's security flaws. According to 2014 documents obtained by Libération, accessing the museum's video surveillance server required typing the all-too-obvious word: LOUVRE . And, back in the day, a report from the National Cybersecurity Agency warned ten years ago that "whoever controls the Louvre's network can facilitate the theft of artworks."

Now, after the sensational heist worth nearly €90 million , Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau speculates that the culprits aren't criminal masterminds, but rather simple thieves, perhaps without any internal accomplices. Culture Minister Rachida Dati also acknowledged the serious shortcomings, speaking of "a chronic and structural underestimation of the risk of theft."

~ L'Union Sarde - https://www.unionesarda.it/en/world/louvre-robbery-security-flaws-the-obviously-password-was-quot-louvrequot-ft1kkp6c?amp=1&ICID=ref_fark

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 02/11/2025

A can of no salt black beans is $3 vice $.89 for "regular" 400mg per serving "enjoy dialysis, poor" beans. Sorry just chiming in because this was my internal monologue all of yesterday. The chips were my "luxury purchase."

Grocery haul for some broke ass dude idk.

$4 for Greek Yogurt "you could have bought a forty, homie"

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 28/10/2025

That's fucking stupid. I look away for twenty years, look back and you people have gotten capitalism all over everything.

(response to a question generated from Claude)

Actually, both UPS and USPS use dimensional weight now. UPS uses dimensional weight (Length × Width × Height ÷ 139) for bulky but lightweight luggage Luggage To Ship

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 23/10/2025

New ICE recruits not super familiar with the 4th Amendment: Bug or feature?*

* It's a feature.

Picture highlights an excerpt from linked article detailing "The academic requirement..." with reference to ICE recruits inability to pass a written exam.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 15/10/2025

It's fun watching this knowing this is a person with Hollaback Girl on a playlist called "Galentines" I don't have a larger point just sharing carry on panamaplaylists.com

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 19/09/2025

It's in full on the site: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Front page of the Chicago Tribute featuring photograph taken by Stacey Wescott titled

"Curtis Evans, of Evanston, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. Evans said he was a Marine during President Ronald Reagan’s term. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)"

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 12/09/2025

I hate that replies are limited because Deflation of the Fascists is such a fire band name @prisonculture.bsky.social

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 31/08/2025

What are you suggesting, BlueSky algorithm?

Back to back posts of big back nonsense.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 29/08/2025

I don't have a comment I just want to thank you for this and I will not rest until I find some excuse to use it in casual conversation. "In what sorts of casual conversation would one use such a term?" the very best kinds I would imagine.

Definition of "butcher's apron" as (chiefly Ireland, derogatory) The Union Jack, as a symbol of oppressive British nationalism.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 27/07/2025

I like that the counter-argument is "right but I want to fuck Sydney Sweeney real real bad so this is fine" Meanwhile actual Nazis are all "right on!"

Headline banner from tabloid magazine "The U.S. Sun" titled "ZIP IT, WOKIES" and a bunch of folderol about woke advertising and liberals and blah blah blah

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 19/07/2025

I just like this and want to put it somewhere to remind myself not to be such a fucking bummer all the time.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 12/07/2025

This story needs a Calvin "NO GIRLS ALLOWED" sign.

Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Calvin won't let Susie up in the treehouse as girls are not allowed. Susie wasn't interested in the first place, leaving Calvin pensive.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 07/07/2025

This article is much more horrifying than I planned on it being. I do not understand how you humans manage to collide long enough to make other humans. And this? Is HILARIOUS.

Text from Washingtonpost.com -- If AI suggestions have a cooling effect on some dating app conversations, that’s not always a bad thing, according to Yoel Roth, Match Group’s head of trust and safety. Match uses AI to read users’ messages and prompt them if they’re about to send something potentially offensive, abusive or weird. Senders are asked, “Are you sure?” and given an opportunity to rephrase their message. About 20 percent of people who get this prompt choose not to send the original chat, Roth said onstage at an AI conference in June. Recipients might also get a “Does this bother you?” prompt if Match’s AI perceives a message to be potentially harmful, Roth said.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 04/07/2025

Sometimes you have a brand and you stick with it and I almost respect it www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 20/06/2025

Specialist Johnson then proceeded to destroy the enemy with insults and other harsh language.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 20/06/2025

Dear @busboysandpoets.bsky.social - I love you. Do you love me? Yes [ ] No [ ] Maybe [ ]

Menu from Busboys and Poets, Washington DC. Andy Shallal, proprietor and solid dude.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 04/06/2025

If anyone speaks with @katiephang.bsky.social tell her I love her glasses. Seriously solid choice. 10/10 no notes.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 30/05/2025

I don't have time to explain why but apparently there are no pictures of me just out there hither and yon. I checked. Old headshots and some mugshots of a dude who isn't me. Huh. Anywho.

Jason Rashaad in a What Comes Next? hoodie in a car going who knows where and for what.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 29/05/2025

Don't mind me, just posting images I find amusing, as is the purported best use case for the Internet.

A sneak diss is a bitch move. A sneak diss is when someone makes a rather vague post describing a certain individual in a derogatory way or a situation that multiple people know about, but while describing the person they refrain from using the person's name as to not directly make a connection between the post and the individual. This is a way to keep from being confronted by the post

Dissed Person: Wow, Harold just sneak dissed me on his Snapchat story.

Other Person: Damn, Harold's such a little bitch. Why wouldn't he just say it to your face?

by NHxTALL May 31, 2018 ~ urbandictionary.com

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 27/05/2025

Uh, excuse me no this is not a "fanny pack" how dare you this is completely different for reasons and therefore whereby such as

A middle aged man in a Man City shirt and jeans taking what he hopes is a flattering picture of himself and a recently purchased Patagonia Atom Sling Bag. He definitely seems charming and personable, and someone with whom you could share a laugh and engaging discussion. He also definitely just realized the character limit for Alt Text is ridiculous so while we're on the subject let's talk about human authenticity. I think in today's "attention economy" widely available technology that creates realistic content will cause an overall desensitization of the zeitgeist sensorium: We will begin to crave true, authentic connections with real people who have flaws and make mistakes over ersatz perfection available a dime a dozen. In this new reality I hope to be a thought leader and educator while also getting into the occasional madcap adventure. Seriously whose idea was it to set the character limit for these so high what is this adding to the datagram for every image load or am I old and washed and that's not how we count web metrics anymore? Speaking of, edge servers: What a good idea "Hey everyone we built this global content network to push images and now it's just sitting here why don't we idk deploy DNS servers?" And to think I just grinded away Federal side going slowly insane while technology is making literal quantum leaps...ok so I was trying to pack all of this to prove a point but I'm running out of any sort of cohesive thought so I guess that's all. This has been fun and my apologies to whoever's screenreader just shit its pants. Love, luck, and lollipops, Jason Rashaad

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 24/05/2025

"don’t drink from a straw (it makes your lips purse in an “effeminate” manner, don’t drink milkshakes and “don’t wave simultaneously with two hands”)." Have they seen their guy?

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 24/05/2025

In SimCity with all the sliders set probably. I'm a little rusty admittedly...

SimCity PC game. "Electronics" HQ upgrade shown.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 23/05/2025

I searched "core biopsy gun" for those of you ain't got the stones you're welcome if you don't know what "priapism" is really that one is on you

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 23/05/2025

Taken to provide a sense of scale. I am not an athlete. This is not cute. That said @newbalance.bsky.social comes through with the trainers for people with Sasquatch feet and it is appreciated.

Great big enormous shoe new in shoebox next to recovery coins and race medals and an artwork titled "What Are You Going To Tell Them?" from the collection of Dr. Haki Madhubuti.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 23/05/2025

Let's look on the bright side - now we all have a reason to work "aperçu" into our daily lexicon.

American Heritage Dictionary definition of "aperçu"

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 12/05/2025

Sometimes I want to pose for a selfie in the history books of the future, knowing they won't be written in English.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 02/05/2025

CUDA optimization being a thing means I'm installing a refurbished RTX2060 on a headless Linux server and why I'm posting that here instead of Threads who knows what does anything mean anymore anyway.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 14/04/2025

Market open. Good luck, rich people. Sorry, everyone else.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 13/04/2025

Just trying to think if BlueSky works for multiple image sharing better than Threads...though anything is better than IG which has become TikTok and I can't. 👴🏾

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 28/03/2025

There's a scene in one of the later Friday the 13th movies, I can't remember which one, where the kids are hiding under a bunk bed. One turns to the other and says, "What did you want to be when you grew up?" ...anyway I don't know what made me think of that.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 16/02/2025

Also Reddit goes from zero to white supremacy in a heartbeat and I don't have the energy. This could be because I've had my Reddit handle for *checks* huh. That is legitimately upsetting. Maybe I'll start a "professional" Reddit account because everything is ridiculous now.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 13/02/2025

30 days? I'm so old. Anyway. Yes I will rewire it to clean it up. Also the fan controller is on the wrong header I think.

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Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 03/02/2025

I don't like that I have to spend any mental bandwidth on the concept of a war being fought where I live. Michiganders: The President of the United States is openly threatening Canada with annexation. You may be familiar with the US-Canada border, pictured here.

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