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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 24/08/2026

the arepa place near me does this and it always cracks me up the way the top and bottom of the arepa are never the same size

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 05/08/2026

ok so I have one of these and weirdly enough … it’s very beautifully typeset and printed

recipe for microwave stuffed shrimp from Litton’s Microwave Cooking for One & Two, Volume 10

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 21/07/2026

slide 65 say HDRP is supported

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 21/07/2026

movies are back because AI made the internet suck

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 07/06/2026

868-BACK has a difficulty modifier called “Vibe progging!” where it ignores which ability you want to use and picks a move at random from the set of valid moves. Incredible.

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 29/05/2026

I have been blessed by two separate Wienermobile sightings in less than six weeks, one in Salt Lake City and one in Chicago

Wienermobile parked, partially obscured by a bush, with mountains in the background, in Salt Lake City

Wienermobile in traffic, stopped at a traffic light. The foreground is motion-blurred. In Chicago.

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 25/04/2026

I took my first ever milky way pic last night at 3am! I’m very tired but it excited me a lot

night pic of the milky way above above a big ol’ bush. It’s visually ambiguous if it’s a hill or if the camera is tilted wrong but it’s a hill. The stars have some movement trails from the long exposure but you only notice when you zoom in. The milky way is a bit faint but hey it’s my first one.

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 17/03/2026

yep, same one as I got, also in IL-9

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 10/03/2026

GitHub with its one 9 emailing me about the release of the Copilot CLI, lol, rofl even. I don’t want a Copilot CLI I want @github.com actions to not have multiple outages in a 24 hour span. GitHub really seems to be on the path to collapse.

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 14/01/2026

installing ubuntu server in a vm and it's like "do you want us to fetch your ssh keys from microsoft", this is wild lol

screenshot from stalling ubuntu server which asks me to import ssh keys from github using a github username

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 01/01/2026

indeed the inspiration took place in Montauk, which I found out earlier this year when I walked by some signs warning me of unexploded ordinance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk...

A sign that reads “DANGER: stay in marked trail” and warns the reader of unexplored ordinance nearby.

A large and derelict satellite dish tower is seen looming over a misty trail

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 31/12/2025

March of 2025 in Dublin. Eggs were $10 a dozen at home at that time.

a carton of a dozen eggs on a grocery store shelf, priced at €2.15

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 10/12/2025

huh a green cross means something totally different to me

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 10/12/2025

fuck this algorithmic pricing shit

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 26/11/2025

same dude on lobste.rs offering up the helpful point that slavery has produced some neat products. lobste.rs/s/42qb2p/i_a...

post from Mitsuhiko on lobster.rs: Lots of innovation can through non ethical processes and that does not prevent us from using them today. Many products descent from slave labor or human rights abuses. You would have to reject a lot of modern medicine if you want to opt against innovation that at one point in their history did not do horrific things on a scale much worse than abstract IP theft

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 17/11/2025

ok, an update: I made this comment in a thread about this @mcsweeneys.net piece: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w... since then, lobste.rs admins took it down the thread for not relating to computing. You can't make this stuff up!

screenshot from the lobste.rs moderation log showing that the story was deleted from lobste.rs with the reason "Article does not relate to computing".

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 07/11/2025

having grown up around bulldozer and truck drivers and construction workers, I think of this character constantly

the foreman of the miners in the tv miniseries Chernobyl

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 05/11/2025

having a fun day with Python

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 22/10/2025

give us Gwyneth as Siglind from Rivals of Catan

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 27/08/2025

“rain soon, walk now”

a husky standing in a doorway, looking up at you expectantly

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 27/08/2025

this is dumb but I just spotted this display at Staples where they’re advertising a gamer keyboard with a Palia screenshot

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 30/07/2025

am I reading this right? responses sum to 78.5%, so 21.5% of survey respondents did not answer this question? 60% of experienced devs (10+ years experience) that responded indicate they either somewhat or highly distrust the output of AI coding tools? lol survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai#deve...

$StackoverFlow developer survey result. The description reads: More developers actively distrust the accuracy of AI tools (46%) than trust it (33%), and only a fraction (3%) report "highly trusting" the output. Experienced developers are the most cautious, with the lowest "highly trust" rate (2.6%) and the highest "highly distrust" rate (20%), indicating a widespread need for human verification for those in roles with accountability. The raw results for experienced devs show 2.5% of respondents highly trust AI outputs, 28.6% somewhat trust AI outputs, 26.7% somewhat distrust AI outputs, and 20.7% highly distrust AI outputs.$

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 11/07/2025

the one guy that remembers how to code

it's the cover image for The Giver, by Lois Lowry

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 07/07/2025

mine was The Athletic, not sure if it's randomized or personalized or what but it's at least not universally NYT

screenshot from bluesky's announcement of user-level notifications, showing that I can get notifications when The Athletic posts

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 07/07/2025

this is how element renders an animated gif when you put an animated gif in a matrix chat, I am ... beside myself

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 04/07/2025

the thing about huskies is that they are very smart, smart enough that by the fourth day of wearing a cone of shame they have figured out how to aim it well enough to ram you with it when they want something

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 24/06/2025

George Lucas really didn't miss

a frame from THX 1138. The protagonist, THX 1138, is in a phone booth talking to a computer image of Jesus, confessing his sins

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 23/06/2025

noticed for the first time that the top :dead: icon on slackmojis.com is Krillin

screenshot of slackmojis.com, a directory of custom Slack emojis. I've entered "dead" into the search box, and the first image is a little cartoon man in a suit, laying on his back with his arms and legs splayed out, because he is dead.

A still frame from Dragonball showing that the little man from the dead emoji is Krillin.

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 20/03/2025

don’t worry, they’re a No Hype shop

the footer of the CoAI web page, it says “No Hype. No doom.”

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 10/03/2025

“feels by” temps should be location-aware, 63 in March to a Chicagoan feels like 85

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 08/03/2025

just opened a pack in #pokémon tcg pocket that contained all star or two-star rarity cards

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 10/02/2025

graph of my outgoing bandwidth showing when I stopped letting Anthropic repeatedly re-download QMK firmware from me which, and I can't stress this enough, consists almost entirely of data they're already scraped from other people and that's freely available anywhere.

A bar graph of network bandwidth usage over the course of 30 days. The vertical axis range is from 0 to 30GB. Halfway through, the usage goes from about 15GB a day to zero.

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 09/02/2025

second attempt, height is much better, bottoms aren’t as overdone. These seem to be about correct based on my wife describing them as “too British”

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 08/02/2025

people are always talking about Balatro but one thing I have never heard mentioned is it’s one of few games that can be played on Switch entirely on the touchscreen

A Nintendo Switch screen with no attached Joycons, showing a game of Balatro

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 30/01/2025

if you’re tired of all the streaming services’ bullshit you can always rent a digital video disc

a DVD of Welcome to the Dollhouse in a clear case with a Video Vortex sticker on the front

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 21/01/2025

blog is short for “baking log” right

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 19/01/2025

today we cleaned out the drain on our washing machine for the first time

a soaking wet ten dollar bill, dyed dark blue as if it was a piece of denim

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 24/12/2024

give the gift of Balatro addiction to your parents this Christmas

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 23/12/2024

enjoying my hat with my dog

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 23/12/2024

here i am, so happy with my hat

it’s me, wearing a black beanie, smiling, lit warmly by the light of a campfire

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 20/11/2024

not sure why people keep wanting to be game writers when games writing has already been solved

A screenshot of project descriptions from Universal Paperclips, including Curing Cancer, World Peace, Global Warming, and Male Pattern Baldness, with curing Male Pattern Baldness increasing trust in your corporation the most.

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Jordan Orelli @jordan.orel.li · 02/11/2024

having a small campfire, putting one log on the fire every half hour, like each log is an episode of television. “we’re just binge-watching logs, which is better than the last season of Love is Blind”, my wife says

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