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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They're called corduroy potato chips and I will hear no other name for them.

Len @lendot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ever just, you know, wake up and remember that time you made a goth Christmas tree and decorated it with cock rings? Er...uh...me neither. I never did that. Who would even do such a thing.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Apple cider. Ginger juice. Caramel syrup. Lemon juice.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

tfw you think you landed on one of those wiki things for TV shows with all that obsessively detailed info you're looking for and instead you're like "uh....why is this talking about incest? Why is this talking about incest again? And again? And again? Whumping? what in the fuck is that? ..."

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unsurprisingly, there really isn't data out there to answer my "which band fathered the most kids" curiosity, but I did find that the Hanson brothers collectively have 15 kids. Also apparently one of them is so problematic his problematic behavior paragraph is in 2 parts of the Hanson wiki verbatim.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This prog rock opera on ice could have been a meeting.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Growing up with a father who yelled and screamed and threw shit and broke shit constantly and on many occasions had guys who didn't know him convinced he was going to beat the living shit out of them, I learned to just tune out that kind of shit as background noise. So for yelling to concern me,

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For folks interested in the more academic aspects of AI, Letitia makes great videos. This is about a paper she coauthored about reducing RAG document hallucination using dynamic (per iteration) adversarial fine-tuning.

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Reducing Hallucinations: Merlin-Arthur Training and Evaluation EXPLAINED

YouTube video by AI Coffee Break with Letitia

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No, self, You can't make a Simon & Simon compilation of all the times when AJ got all pretentious about food in order to get laid.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A) How on earth did I forget about this? It's a bit...unconventional, but it's straight off the tape so it's one more thing I can use as reference B) This vocal performance is so hilarious. Sans music it's very "sir, this is an Arby's."

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david lee roth running with the devil (vocals only) 1978

YouTube video by jimhip

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Crowdsource time. I need help locating songs where the singer is singing completely solo for at least a part of the song. I need something with some intensity to it, so rock or other powerful delivery genres. Ideally a woman singer but not required. This intro's an example of what I need.

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Dead & Bloated (2017 Remaster)

YouTube video by Stone Temple Pilots - Topic

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As a man of a certain aged, I've already given my "in my day what you kids call liminal spaces we just called spaces" rant. Let me share what we had instead of liminal spaces: customized van interiors! Creepy as fuck.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is. The most. Badass-looking. Tool. I have ever bought. Straight up sexy cold war looking shit. I even accidentally poked my hand while grabbing a photo. What makes this funny is this thing is so mundane--it just cuts 60° chamfers into PTFE.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's a trash guy out back sitting with our trash. Ours specifically. As if he's babysitting it. No garbage truck in sight.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A) Bekah's great and a very unique and odd (in a good way) kind of art historian B) This was the best video for her cats to decide to keep hogging the camera C) This is the second tier list I've seen with a pervert tier

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Ranking Horribly Cursed Medieval Cats.

YouTube video by A Brush with Bekah

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Help. I hatched the idea of creating a video to explain the DX7 architecture in the way I think it should be explained and now I can't talk myself out of it.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

youtube on my google-anonymous browser keeps recommending this band called Anime Titties. It also recommends a bajillion shorts of half-naked women doing stupid things, so I've just ignored them. But I finally clicked on one of their vids and...wow. They have an insanely good 90s sound going on.

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Anime Titties - Live at Jake's Parent's House

YouTube video by Anime Titties

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For years I've suspected that murder mystery boxes like this could be good cognitive practice for me, and I'm glad to finally confirm that. Essential to this particular type of box is the fact that it isn't the "mystery on rails" narrative type. It's just a box of evidence with no direction at all.

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Winery Murder Mystery

This vineyard themed murder mystery has no digital components, making it the perfect game to bring along on vacation.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You know you're a yinzer when you're trying to think of how to communicate a logistical thing about your colon to the GI folks before a procedure and realize that "it's all Squirrel Hill tunnel in there" is the most succinct, accurate, detailed, and clear explanation there is.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

After the Rain. I have performed an exegesis on it and I think I can fix it. I may or may not take a nonzero amount of inspiration from Stray Kids along the way. For first time ever I'm thinking "what if rap for the bridge."

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Colonoscopy eve prep: I should listen to a bunch of bad songs and see which ones make me run to the bathroom ... Actually, I need to cover this Nelson song. ... I need to cover 2 Nelson songs. ... Ok, confessing that to y'all is what finally moved the train to the end of the line. Ciao.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New guitar! (cat for scale) This is my first step in replacing all my Fender gear with gear less litigious. It's from the PRS guitar line they sent a C&D to. Fun fact: Their law firm is Bird & Bird, so I've ditched Bird & Bird for Bird & Bird & Bird & Bird & Bird & Bird & Bird & Bird & Bird!

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've long been annoyed at the "comic sans is bad and people who use it should feel bad and I'm so edgy for saying that" crowd. Calling it "good" or "bad" is just…weird. This video does a great job of articulating my own take on it.

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The Most Hated Typeface is Misunderstood | Comic Sans

YouTube video by Design Docs

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yay! New guitar en route. And my sales rep just sent me a "professional-quality photo shoot" of my guitar specifically. I've never had a guitar that had a photo shoot done! Also, look at the birbs!

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Me: Let me check the web and see where things are currently with Fender and all their fucking bird-brained cease and desist bullshit The Web: In May 2026, it was reported that Fender had, via its legal counsel Bird & Bird, started sending cease and desist letters... Me: ...really. Bird & Bird.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Internet: OMG deadly playground photos from the 70s! Me: those look like a soft mattress compared to the decaying playgrounds *I* remember from 70s/80s. Lemme find a photo of the one I played at when I was like 3-5. Newspaper from when I was 1: For Your Child: A List Of 10 Best Playgrounds...

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

diet coke. cinnamon syrup.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Achievement Unlocked: Received a fundraising text from a Democrat whose name I recognize and who represents the area I reside in

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've never seen more than like a third of a Bond film. I was trying to remember the names of some of the Bond girls and could only come up with Titty Sprinkles. I hereby declare that canon.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm trying to play my murder mystery, but Officer Gremlinsky, always a stickler for procedure, is sitting on the evidence and won't let me access it without the proper paperwork.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You know how some kitchen sinks have a hole for a sprayer or soap pump? What if instead an outdoor spigot and valve with ~12" of garden hose?

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

GLM-5.3-Flash's reasoning does tend to end up in a good place once the dust settles, but boy does it take a looong and circuitous route, and the very start can be absolutely bonkers. I keep cracking up about this query I did last night.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Better: use a nut-holding jig (like StewMac's nut holding system) or a small vise with light pressure." Why are guitars like this. I'm just trying to get my strings to sit a little higher at the nut so they don't buzz, not do CBT. I'm just an EADGBE kinda guy.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sooo...I installed audacity 4 since it dropped like a week or two ago. It's great. They did a really good job totally overhauling the UI/UX and making it more like other modern audio software. It's very close to how I expect an audio editor to be. ... But they also did a REALLY fantasic job...

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For Reasons our convenience store has had a bait fridge (the same bait fridge?) for at least the 20 years that we've lived here. I just noticed today that the supplier/pricing label on the front has a "Like us on Facebook" icon. That is the most blatant use of click bait I've ever seen.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm trying to go through this murder mystery case file to orient myself with everything, but Gremlin has decided to camp out in the evidence box with the autopsy report. He's made himself evidence.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

An email from S landed in my spam folder. In one room, she was thinking about how if this were the 80s this could be a sitcom episode with a husband marking his wife's emails as spam. Completely independently in another room I was imagining an 80s standup dude doing some wife/pms/spam folder routine

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My mouthwash's type is listed as "Intense Mint." That sounds like a legal term when you say it out loud. "The building lease has an intense mint clause, so we can't build a helipad on the roof."

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One of our cats dropped a turd on the way out of my room (which is right by a litter box), preventing Floorence from entering my room. S was able to do forensics with our litter robot to find out whose poop was interfering with our floor robot. THE FUTURE!

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I keep thinking about something I saw earlier about The Poseidon Adventure. Part of the text was obscured so it looked like "The Poseidon Advent". Now I want to make that calendar. You open a day and water comes rushing out.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I can't speak for the mystery itself yet, but the presentation of the materials is *superb*. Really good, convincing graphic design work right down to using cheap, thin paper for certain things, thick, textured stock for others, etc. I'll just say I speak from experience on some of these materials.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I miss Louis Sr., but I love how well Louis Jr. and Leon are taking to the kayak! Leon only very recently had his first real kayak trip.

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Leon Followed Us to the Island! But we weren’t Alone! 👀

YouTube video by louiswildlife

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I was telling S how marriage still feels like roleplay to me. Then I was like, we've been together 26 years total, so our roleplay could be called d26. Then I remembered we went out together over the weekend, so we've already had d26 on a bus!

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've done it. I've finally done it. I used a treadmill (legitimately) while also using a vacuum cleaner (legitimately). I climbed my Mt. Everest. I've done all I needed to do in my life.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I started playing around with GLM-5.3-Flash since that's the new kid on the block and should have a significantly lower compute cost than GLM-5.x models while still giving really good results. I'm trying to switch to lower-energy LLMs, so this sounds really good. But here's the thing...

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Def. Leppard. Truck. Stop. Review. Def. Leppard. Truck. Stop. Review. I couldn't help but notice that only Joe, Phil, and Vivian took part in this.

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Def Leppard Presents: Truck Stop Review

YouTube video by DEF LEPPARD

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

kill kill fun fact: I unpacked these while watching true crime.

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Len @lendot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Natalie Gray and team doing a Taskmaster task around a kitchen table feels, intentionally or not, like a nice fuck-you to this season's transphobia.

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Taskmaster sent us a task. Our time starts now.

YouTube video by The Technical Difficulties

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