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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 05/09/2025

Is it my imagination, or is the quality of output from the major AI chat bots becoming actively, dramatically worse?

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 27/07/2025

2 Chainz sampled Tom Lehrer's The Old Dope Peddler 60 years after it had been recorded. Lehrer's response to the license request: "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?" RIP TOM

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 27/07/2025

One of the true greats. If you’re unfamiliar with his work, do yourself a favor.

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Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

my gf can speak french and my new bit is i keep saying 'Je m'appelle' in different tones and to mean anything. she'll be like 'do you want a coffee' and i say 'Je m'appelle :)' so far she hasnt really called it out, probably hoping i stop. Je m'appelle unfortunately for her

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DAPPER DON DHARSHI @dapperdondharshi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This is awesome😂🤩

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Colbert is dominant in late night, which is why the CBS claim that it was acting for financial reasons is bullish*t

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

chris farley in famous works of art: thread

Chris Farley in The Scream by Edvard Munch.

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I understand that the couple has prepared their own prompts that resulted in vows?

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Venn diagram

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 19/06/2025

In the early 1980s, meteorologist Gary England convinced his bosses to invest in a Doppler radar—thought to be the first time the technology was used to warn the public of weather.

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Gary England, Meteorologist Who Brought Doppler to Tornado Alley, Dies at 85

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 11/06/2025

Wild to me that this made it through design review at Apple. Poor legibility, grimy highlighting, bad taste. I'm sure it will improve before release, but this is on apple.com right now.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 10/06/2025

TextSniper is one of my favorite utilities for Mac, and it's on sale for $8 right now. It's a simple screengrab-style OCR tool to extract text from anything on your screen. I use it often, and it works better than any similar app I've tried. textsniper.app

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TextSniper - Capture and extract any text from your Mac's screen | images

MacOS productivity app that allows quickly capture and recognize text from your screen. Easiest to use mac OCR software for extracting text from images, PDFs, presentations, online meetings and even v...

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 07/06/2025

PSA: If you're part of the CenturyLink outage in the Portland, it's apparently a DNS problem. I changed my DNS to Google's (8.8.8.8) and internet access is back.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 03/06/2025

Up there they call it Eh&W

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Can't think of a single time the MGM lion advanced the plot of the movie in any way. Just needless jump scare

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 22/05/2025

"I'm being completely honest, this is the only thing that's ever made sense to me."

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How to Fix Grocery Stores | Smartypants Presentation

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 21/05/2025

Describe LinkedIn in 7 words.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/05/2025

Plan To Straighten Out Entire Life During Weeklong Vacation Yields Mixed Results theonion.com/plan-to...

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N² @antire.al · 15/05/2025

the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Le Blanc de Blanc, by Georges Mathieu, 1987, 📸 by @catocataldo

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Your pissed off grandma @anomaly100.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This is incredible. Wait about 20 seconds into this clip. 🙃

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 04/04/2025

So much worse than I thought.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 10/03/2025

A brand new, excellent episode of one of my very favorite podcasts. You’ll never hear these songs the same way again. overcast.fm/+AAujCFI8orQ

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“Where The Streets Have No Name” and “With Or Without You” by U2 — Strong Songs

Season seven kicks off with two of the most famous songs ever recorded.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 07/03/2025

I just binned the words that were scary. Connections Puzzle #635 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Billhelm @kaiserbillhelm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In breaking news, Rick Astley has done the unthinkable for Lent

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 03/03/2025

If I ever get home invaded by a UPS driver, my dog is going to be very I told you so about it

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I’m gonna say this one time: Quentin Tarantino didn’t discover Mikey Madison. Pamela Adlon did.

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

In advance of the Oscars tonight: a lot of comedy heroes let you down. They become unfunny/bitter/closed minded. Conan is the exception. He has grown & evolved & is funnier than he’s ever been. He’s also an extremely kind and lovely human. Just a sincere post to say: Conan rules.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

i’ll never understand people who get in the fast lane just to drive the speed limit. this lane is for CRIME

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

my best guess is a vampire fell asleep on it last night

Water evaporating from a park bench in sunlight.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I am- and I cannot stress this enough- stressed enough

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 04/01/2025

Still writing 2024 on all of my cover letters.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 20/12/2024

Based on the icon, I’m guessing Claude wasn’t trained on a lot of Vonnegut novels.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

i'm no stephen hawking but i think what happens is that they cancel each other out

Empty food tray with a label reading "Antipasta Pasta Salad, $7.99 /lb" next to trays with food at a self-service counter.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Restarting the song because I wasn't listening hard enough

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Soren Iverson @soren.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Workday advent calendar lays off a new employee every day

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatt.com · 02/12/2024

"The Coca-Cola Company has celebrated a long history of capturing the magic of the holidays in content, film, events and retail activations for decades around the globe." Whoa! Content AND retail activations? Never mind, The Coca-Cola Company, you haven't lost your human voice to AI slop at all.

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Coca-Cola’s Holiday Ads Trade the ‘Real Thing’ for Generative A.I.

The company’s nostalgia-filled commercials are a holiday tradition, but this year’s ads are facing backlash for dipping into the uncanny valley.

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Jimmer Cork-Bottle @jimmerthatisall.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Before social media I wrote my thoughts on recipe cards and tossed them out my office window.

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

counting is easy once you realize the numbers are in the same order every time

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fusipon @fusipon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it the Rite of the Knife • LG calls it Lacrimation • Sony calls it Infloresence of the Soul • Roku calls it Abstract Chiaroscuro • Google TV calls it Ego Concretion • Vizio calls it 'smoothing'

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Elizabeth Smith @instantsunrise.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

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