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Thought yesterday was today. Rolled out the recycling early to get a jump on garbage day. Then like 5 min later went out in that to pick up said bin & the portion that had fallen out. I was absolutely drenched in under a minute.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 20h

1. Sounds a lot like malware/virus. Maybe stop. 2. Who is programming your program to do this? Maybe you know, don't. 3. "Our shit is so powerful it takes a gazillion energies to do it's awesomeness, but also it is so small it'll just do it's thing on your interactive teletubby"

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🚨No less than Jody Freeman, Professor of Law at Harvard, warns that BAAJA is: "structurally designed to lock in and subsidize natural gas & other fossil projects over cleaner renewables for years to come." 1/n @volts.wtf @ghgpolicy.org @kevinjkircher.com

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Letus see how long that lasts I guess.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

That's a special kind of way to say "we want you to be the go-to on something we are going to make obsolete so we won't need you anymore."

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So weird most people could figure out the end of that headline before reading it.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Tell that to "Julie". If you can find her. She suddenly disappeared.

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

....that so many people are normally at their jobs and not at the bank so Fuck Yeah, Sweet Sweet Parking Spot Bitches!!! #FollowedByTheWalkOfShameBackToYoSweetSweetSpot

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I wonder if they are just as furious at whomever called their pac a "non-maga" pac but still puts $ into collins.

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(jeff)isageek @jeffisageek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

recently I was laid off from Oracle and am in the market for a new job.. so if you got something in the KC area you are aware of, have a company I should check out, or a good resource for job hunting I would love to hear it.. Hit me up.. lets chat!

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Old: "I'm not mad, just disappointed" New: "I'm am mad, and I'm just beyond disappointed."

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sounds like these things going offline frees up 50MW to consumers on the same grid. ---Assuming they are grid connected and not producing their own.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Free Crime Novel Plot Sunday" I see.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think we can all see what's gonna happen here right? Ai DC bubble is going to burst and all the bag holders are going to sell out to Russia ("definitely not Russia, just some random mega shell company, what do you mean..") & they'll put their botnets back up to feed the x/meta/other platforms.

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

*Ahem.. excusez-moi* <in the tiniest of cute voices> 💛🐧😄😍 When you're too nervous to say excuse me and there is traffic in the way.. Captured on the Antarctic Peninsula while on an expedition with @quarkexpeditions - by @ciera.ybarra #penguin #nature #naturephotography #antarctica

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"US lifts sanctions on Russian diesel." Weird. Nobody could have seen this coming.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Acting on their own" is total BS. A program was run. A person did a prompt. If neither the program nor the prompt happens, the machine doesn't do anything. I'd bet a good 1 USD that this was the answer provided by Anth. which is as good as the billion examples of authority figures flat out lying.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Looks like President Zelensky had the same Julie problem many of us had seen over the last month & had enough.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Last night I took this photo through the rain-splattered bathroom window 🥹

A silhouette of a teeny tiny snail through a rain splattered window. It is back light by a white ball of light

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is this a product or something you created? Asking for my legs as there is some sort of cold air void that the house foundation creates all year round but gets particularly irksome come winter.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Free invention that would get at least 1 sale if priced right: 1/2 size belts. Regular belts, but instead of the holes being at some sort of standard "size 34, 36, 38..." It would be for folks who's waist fits in the middle and Hole 1 is too tight but Hole 2 is too loose. Call them #GoldieBelts

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

2. He means the re-creation? Not sure the token expense for something like this would be anywhere close to able to "sell it on ebay". No parameters on assumption of how many units sold to price to achieve the $$ to spend on "new game". This is the stupid shit people do w/ unlimited resources.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I read the last line as very confusing. 1. "Sell all my video games on ebay" - does he mean actual physical copies of PS1 games or Nintendo 64? Cause sorry bud but the market just isn't there. Or does he mean existing other games including assuming he "bought" GTA6. Digital are resellable AFAIK.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What could possibly cause a revolt against the machine that will "allow a 3 day work week" that can "do anything you want"? Surely people would flock to all answers machine in a catastrophic event.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lol I've seen that sign so many times. Recognized it right away. Asked my dad what it was one time & he said "oh they stock fish in a lake for folks who enjoy fishing but don't enjoy not catching anything."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Biggest problem with this specific gas price is there is no out. No Dem president is going to be able to unwind this cluster.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Both of what you described were what was going through my head. Specifically the rural/Seattle thing as being a very key item & agree the remote work abilities are way under utilized.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I would wager that just being in that environment has put most of that admin in a freeze state. They lose most of their ability to reason out things as there is a constant expectation of abuse if they say/do anything the president doesn't like.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is a fascinating question/concept that I certainly don't have the right answer to, but I'd be very curious to know if there is a lack of ability, motivation, willingness to retrain and if so, what portion of the folks getting laid off could be viably retrained.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hot take: That is a fucking BIZARRE definition. FWIW: This guy has a law degree from Yale. Just in case you don't think you are good enough in any thing you've put your mind to.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will look through some of the estate sale / garage sale listings just to see the types of prices folks put on their old crap. Its always amazing to see a cereal bowl or something marked at like $50.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why the tape measures? Is there specifications / ideal setup type things?

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Watching on replay to see how sneaky Debinha is. Fades out a smidge and the second the defender turns her back Debinha's making a bee-line.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chips are looking better w finishing touches. #Chocolate #Poker

Poker chips made out of chocolate. 8 are colored blue with white stripes and 4 are red with white stripes. They all have a gold letter C in the middle. A plastic template for the C is also on the board and some small rectangles w practice Cs on them.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I famously got my first mortgage from meta and my second from google. They used to just be out there giving everyone mortgages under their chairs for crying out loud.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#IANAL but I think you can just sit by a super loud speaker & it'll break up those stones w/ ultrasonic techonology.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On the rare occasion I'm on the FB I had been blocking every "For You" / Suggested / Random BS they threw my way. Some days this was 20 out of 22 posts (ads not included). It cleared my feed quite well. Now that option is gone. I can only choose "not interested" or report.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"With mortgage rates 1% higher & climbing, the housing market continues to be supported by favorable economic conditions." WHAT??? The good news is prices for houses have doubled since 2020, the other good news is the interest rates are now over 7.25% for those overpriced houses. #Winning

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We desparately need more of ID's $$!! Are we going to use it for ads? No, we need to pay for Cox books & keep T out of the WH & on the road. Also going to just horde the rest to use as leverage to any R running.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 01/10/2026

Leaving this up to gas utilities to implement is recipe for failure. Gas utilities replace things on fast schedules today because every $ they spend on pipes is a $ they can rate-base and earn shareholder profits on. If forced to give $ to households for electrification instead, I imagine they'll...

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tourist: "Oh, do you guys do running of the bulls?" Cab Driver: "We are more of a walking with fancy cows kinda crowd."

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The guy came out and lied that the Charlie Kirk shooter was "indoctrinated with leftist idealogy" so he could get some play on Fox News.

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Step 1: GOP Gov "writes" book Step 2: GOP pre-buys tons of copies with donations providing $$$ to publisher to pay advance & get on "best selling list" Step 3: "Give" that book to GOP donors who donate $XXX Step 4: free publicity by writing/sending PBS/other news the PR Bonus: wash actions/policy

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Mark @johnnyoptimist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are several utilities here that won't allow the DC's to pay or build bc then it isn't in the utility company's rate base which means they can't earn a return on it. They require pre-pay for energy, but if DC goes belly up the remaining consumers are on the hook for the billions of excess cap.

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