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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 18h

Sixteen year old me is giddy about the fact that that adult me stopped writing code for a second to put "Human Clay" into a brand new CD player. Adult me......

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Turns out I was being generous: It was actually 50%. Literally. Six out of the twelve items when browsing for CDs under "rock" are rock salt or rock polish.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Enshittification du jour: Literally 1/3, 33%, of the rock CDs on Amazon are tumbler grit.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Is it too on-the-nose to put on the Backrooms while working on a resume for a potential lateral-ish move back to a former team?

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My last couple student success jobs drilled into me "Do what's best for the student," so it's amazing how many posts on the state registrars' association message board are like "We're updating our process and debating between adding hot pokers or just lighting the hoops on fire. What do y'all do?"

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As someone who grew up hearing "Lord willin'" a lot, it's kind of funny to me that non-Muslim Gen-Z are starting to use "inshallah" unironically.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If only BlueSky had a setting to hide all Twitter screenshots and white text on black background political images....

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the things I hate worst about "The Cloud" is that every every training resource is also a sales pitch.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love how I pay for ad-free Apple Music, but second playlist on the top row of the home screen is always an obvious ad. Yesterday it was "Songs to Listen to in a Wendy's Parking Lot," created by Wendy's. Today it's that overrated millionaires' daughter whose parents bought her stardom.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is Ted Lasso *actually* #1 on Apple TV, or is it just #1 because they force it on you after everything you watch, no matter how unrelated or how many times you say “recommend less” how often try to stop it from auto-playing?

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a bad habit of never finishing Zelda games. They seem to have a pattern of starting out cute, then getting either super boring or feeling super unfair about 30% in, and then after that hurdle they’re the best game ever. But I’ve only ever gotten over that 30% hurdle for the Wilds era games.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If Copilot answered arithmetic questions like it answers technical questions. 🧑🏻‍💻Hey Copilot, what's 2+3? 🤖[1000 word essay on the history of arithmetic] 🧑🏻‍💻No, what's 2+3? 🤖[2000 words on prime numbers] 🧑🏻‍💻Not what I asked! 🤖[3000 words on Peano arithmetic], but what you're really asking is What's 2+3?

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s a damn good thing Copilot isn’t a living, embodied human being…

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

it is bonkers that everyone pushing the frontiers of computing has forgotten that the most important and useful thing about computers was, up until now, that they always produced the same output from the same inputs. that was the way we could honestly say computers are better than humans!

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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I just noticed something insidious (and pretty obvious, in retrospect) about the Instagram algorithm: It always shows me something I’m going to want to sit with for a few seconds right before “You’ve reached your daily limit.”

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dear every product designer for every company everywhere in the world: IT DOES NOT NEED TO BEEP! I don’t care what it is. It does not need to beep. Ever. Period. No exceptions. It doesn’t need to beep. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Petition to import “childrens” into standard English because it needs that third plural marker. All in favor?

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Um, no, that’s a word for [redacted], not Wordle!

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Trash Randicoot @trashrandicoot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Vibe coders are fake, wannabe, developers. Never forget that, and call them as such.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…

MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I know it’s common practice and tiny in the grand scheme of things, but I unlocked my laptop after lunch to find my login screen and wallpaper had been changed from black and white landscape photographs made myself on infrared film, to the college logo, and now I have lost every ounce of motivation.

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gmokery @gmokery.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As the saying goes, "We buy books as if we were buying the time to read them."

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hey @bsky.app , age is a monotonically increasing function. (That means it only goes up.) There’s no reason to prompt me for it every time. And there’s even less reason to send me to the age verification data broker scam every time when you can already get my age range from my OS.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Why is everyone always adding extra syllables to the names of trans-dimensional beings? Are k͜θu.ɬu and m̩.ɕyz.p͜tl̩k really that hard to pronounce?

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

One of my absolute favorite things about 2026 is paying extra not to see ads and then seeing ads anyway. I just love it. (Obligatory “/s” in case this is the post that gets attention and people can’t tell that obvious sarcasm is obvious sarcasm.)

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Every morning there’s a halo hanging from the corner of my girlfriend’s four post bed. I know it’s not mine but I think I’m gonna sell it and this weekend buy a new nightstand. Or however that song went.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Every time I see the various iterations of the memes equating libraries with data centers, I feel the urge to post the information pyramid, because libraries are *information* centers, not *data* centers.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Growing up Baptist means getting “Blessed Assurance” stuck in your head in the daily stand-up because your coworker said “This is my story” just right.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just saw a listing on LinkedIn that started with “We’re not in the [type of food] business. We’re in the flavor business.” And I cringed at the AI slop, but then I remembered all the companies in 2019-2020 that said “We’re not a X company, we’re a tech company that does X.”

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Some guy on LinkedIn: If you copy-paste code from AI instead of thinking for yourself, you’ll work for someone who didn’t. Bosses: Stop wasting time thinking for yourself. I just pasted this code from Copilot, and you should too.

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It would be awesome if the "light" beverages were just light on sugar and not full of artificial sweeteners. I'd like half-sweet drinks please.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I want to go visit the corner of the multiverse where We Bare Bears is a surprisingly wholesome live-action show about a nudist throuple.

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If the wealthy are "job creators", why are they spending trillions of dollars trying to eliminate as many paying jobs as possible through Al and automation?

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RogerThat 🐕☕🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @rogerthat---ex-x.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We should be all "Frank's Hot Sauce" with solar panels and "put that sh|t on everything."

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I know it doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things and I should eventually stop harping on it, but it's really irksome to see my name misspelled every day on a product that generates billions of dollars produced by a company that's worth trillions.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thank you, ad on Hulu for which I pay not to see ads, for reminding me lunch was supposed to be over ten minutes ago.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It should be considered an ADA violation for department stores to put the perfumes at the entrance.

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claire 🐶 @rainykoishi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

valve could change the world overnight if these pages included a giant blurb at the top that says "this price increase is because of AI causing component shortages" and their intended price next to that

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

No, I most certainly will not click and hold to prove that I'm not a bot.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“That’s awesome! You can put it on your resume!” No it’s not, and if I put it on my resume I’ll have to do it again.”

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I love how stores all have signs everywhere about their lower prices, as if we’re supposed to be grateful to them for lowering prices to 1.8x pre-Pandemic, down from 2x, while they’re making record profits and/or giving their executives record bonuses.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

When your tongue gets mixed up mid-way between saying "theoretically" and "philosophically," and you refer to Haskell as "a very theologically pure programming language"....

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Data engineering is just clerical work with extra steps and crappier manuals. Change my mind.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to make scroll left/right and navigate back/forward the same gesture?

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“Single-player pen-and-paper RPG” is a weird way to say “guided aleatoric writing exercise.”

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I don’t know who needs to read this, but not all words that end in s are plural. I am one person named James. Two of us are Jameses. If we possess something together, it is Jameses’. If only I possess it, it is James’s. Anything that’s James’ is not mine. Find a Jame to give it back to.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Someone please tell me there is a corrected edition of Robert Reed’s Marrow, and if and when I reread it there won’t be any three-day [rocket] bums or thin silvers or pseudoinsect-filled animal riches.

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j-aaaaa.bsky.social @j-aaaaa.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

👦🏻 Mom, how do I do this? 👩🏻 Figure out how to solve your own problems 🧑🏻 Teacher, how do I solve this? 👩🏼‍🏫 Figure out your own homework. 👨🏻 Boss, which way do you want me to do this this time? 👱🏼‍♀️ Figure it out, that’s your job. 🧔🏻‍♂️ I’m still trying to figure out how to do that 👨🏽 Why don’t you just ask?

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