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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 07/10/2026

For anyone that watched & had a chuckle at Cocaine Bear a few years ago, I'd be remiss if I didn't share that these movies also exist for some reason: CrackCoon Attack of the Meth Gator Cocaine Werewolf Cocaine Crabs from Outer Space Ebola Rex Cocaine Roach Cocaine Shark Killer Sofa Velocipastor

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 29/09/2026

So it doesn't get lost in the obvious, let it be known that the source that broke the news about Dennis Haskins' death (Mr. Belding from Head of the Class) was... Dimple's Karoke Bar in Burbank, CA.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 30/07/2026

The BLT at Crown Candy in St. Louis...

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 23/07/2026

I don't know that I've ever seen it's full government name spelled out like that.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 08/06/2026

The texture and visual of the filling in these is 🤢

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 25/01/2026

I don't think I've ever seen a more unbelievable physical performance. I'm so glad I got to see that. #skyscraper

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 25/01/2026

I shouldn't even be allowed to exist in the same world as this dude on the #skyscraper.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 25/01/2026

Given the state of affairs in the US, why am I choosing to spend my Saturday night making myself MORE ANXIOUS ON PURPOSE by watching this dude climb up the outside of a #skyscraper on #Netflix? I'm a moron, right?

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 27/10/2025

A screenshot I took 13 years ago. A Facebook Sponsored Post that is simply sharing another identical Sponsored Post. Way to go Microsoft! I feel this was a bad sign of things to come for Windows 8.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 18/10/2025

Right into the wood chipper.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 17/10/2025

I've gotten where I can't tell real from parody anymore.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 06/10/2025

Some cities in China aren't that far off. The US just can't get its sh*t together.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 26/09/2025

Arizona Cardinals’ uniforms tonight are outstanding and that should be their full time helmet.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 17/09/2025

This is a question for a criminal attorney - if you aren't one, you can keep scrolling... Is it normal to release something like this to the public while there is still an open investigation? Feels odd.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 06/09/2025

Good luck! What is it called? I don’t think we have a competition like this in the US for concert band. Closest we have is this for marching band.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 23/08/2025

In my NCAA Women’s Volleyball Era. Let’s go #huskers! #gobigred

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 05/08/2025

Reminds me of a side profile of Jimi Hendrix.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 31/07/2025

Can anyone tell me what this is? I don't even have a *guess*

I would like to describe this but I don't know what it is. It looks like a very high temperature oven next to a tiny tile dance floor. Sorry, that's the best I can do.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 21/07/2025

Still have a bottle that I could not be paid enough to drink. 😄

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 17/07/2025

Last “first drive” with my youngest.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 12/07/2025

Wake Up, Bitches (Morning Sounds of Tamarindo)

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 24/06/2025

Of all the AI agents that have been built in the last 2 years, why hasn’t anyone built anything that can figure out that these are spam? It’s 2025 - how do these still get to my inbox?? #ai

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 22/05/2025

Facebook Marketplace is so wild. But if anyone in #stl is looking for a good deal (or a good time) on a recliner loveseat, I think this one is still out there.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 26/04/2025

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LoTR)

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 10/04/2025

Go to Philly, you cowards.

The Canadian hitchhiking robot successfully trekked across Canada, Germany, and Holland before meeting, its demise in the City of Brotherly Love.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 09/04/2025

Many years ago, I was under consideration for a scholarship to art school and a $25 cash prize. My life could have been so different.

Tippy the turtle. A model that used to appear in magazines to draw.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 12/03/2025

As a marketing person, it was pretty cool to see everyone simultaneously learn today that a brand is more than just a logo.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 04/03/2025

I'd be way more impressed if he'd done this...

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 15/02/2025

If you see this, post something red

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 07/02/2025

I wonder if Elon forgave and brought back Yang Tang, a Twitter engineer that was fired on the spot for suggesting that maybe Elon’s decrease engagement was caused by there being less interest in him instead of a bug in Twitter’s algo?

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On Tuesday, February 7, Musk's anger would come to a head. He had called another meeting to deal with the subject of his engagement, calling the situation "ridiculous," as Davis backed him up by pulling up old tweets and comparing their stats with newer ones to sycophantically drill home the point. "Somebody tell me what's going on," Musk said, growing more and more upset.
While the employees in the room still didn't have a reason, they put forward Yang Tang, a machine-learning engineer with almost a decade of experience at the company. Tang, an expert on the artificial intelligence used to drive the social network's personalized feeds, had little experience in talking to Musk. Those who had survived the billionaire's blast radius knew never to speak out of turn or offer guesses. They also learned to create presentations that Musk could easily digest from his phone-as he rarely, if ever, used a computer. No one told Tang.
Standing up, the engineer began riffing with a presentation from his laptop. Instead of saying he didn't know the cause of the issue, he pointed to other trends. Likes on the platform were decreasing overall, he said, before Musk cut him off.
"I'm not talking about likes," he growled. "I'm talking about view
counts."
Tang pushed on, citing external factors. There were decreases in Google searches for Musk's name and he correlated that with internal engagement data. Perhaps the answer was simply that people were less interested in Twitter's new owner now that the deal had concluded. Maybe it had nothing to do with Twitter's algorithm.
Musk snapped. "You're fired! You're fired!" he bellowed at the engineer.
Tang closed his laptop and walked out of the room. Silence descended across the room, as the rest of his now former colleagues shifted their eyes away from Twitter's owner hoping they wouldn't be called on.
Eventually, after an awkward silence, a senior manager spok…

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 04/02/2025

Oh I doubt Musk and his minions would do anything to break anything. Wait - nevermind.

That night, Musk's plane had already taken off from the private jet tarmac at Oakland International Airport with the billionaire, Davis, Andrew and James Musk, and their families in tow. Austin, who had been working all week to ready the data center transition for after the holidays, was in the middle of preparing for a celebration of two of his children's birthdays when he got a surprising call from James Musk.
The plane had been turned around, he told Austin as others laughed in the background. On the flight, Musk had become fixated on SMF and the time it would take to transition out, leading the cousins to suggest they could start removing servers themselves. Musk agreed and told his pilot to turn the plane around near Las Vegas. The SMF shutdown would begin tonight.
At Twitter, few employees knew about what was happening. Austin, who had pleaded with Musk to reconsider, with no success, informed some engineers there was an ongoing "issue," but didn't provide details about what his boss was preparing to do. As Musk, his cousins, and Davis arrived at SMF after midnight on Christmas Eve and began walking the floors of the data center, Austin logged on from home to monitor Twitter's systems and take note of any potential damage. At one point, Musk used a pocketknife to unplug one server, around the time a number of Agent Tools, or services that were used to monitor abuse, hate, or illegal activity, also went down.
The failure was enough to lead Musk to stop pulling out cords.
On Twitter, however, Musk pretended that everything was going smoothly.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 30/01/2025

I really think when anyone retires - even if it’s from some random desk job at a bank - they should get a cool ass graphic like this to post on their socials.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 29/01/2025

Just to be clear - this person in the middle of the SLU / VCU melee last night is NOT me.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 28/01/2025

Severance gets all of the attention but Apple TV has another sci-fi show that you should add to your list. Go check out Silo - two seasons are ready to watch right now and two more coming.

A resident of the silo walks up the ramp to the exit.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 15/01/2025

It actively facilitates responses to phishing attempts.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 13/01/2025

Diet Coke with a shot of Stok. Life changing.

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Chris Kirk @imchriskirk.com · 11/01/2025

Trying to do our part at City Foundry!

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