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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 02/10/2026

I'm either impressed that they would even reply to me a second time given what I sent... Or disappointed to find out that I have been conversing with a bot, who doesn't know any better.

AI company trying to recruit me.
I reply telling them to destroy their algorithms.

Response by the company, still trying to recruit me.

I tell them to burn in Hell. They say they won't bother me again, but hope I change my mind.

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 04/09/2026

Dad's from Charlotte. Mom's from DC. I was born and raised in Baltimore. This mix makes sense. mydialect.us

A dialect map with heavy blues in Montana and the Dakotas (meaning least like me) and heavy reds in Maryland, eastern Virginia, and eastern North Carolina (meaning most like me), with yellows and greens everywhere else.

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 06/07/2026

So... I had an annoying afternoon. Started out fine with getting free lunch with my mom. Fixed my aunt's printer in like 2 minutes. Then, as we left my aunt's house, there was a loud BANG. Well, the transformer blew and took out the power to the neighborhood […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Picture of the corner of Harford Road and White Avenue at about 2 PM, July 6, 2026

The view is from Davita Dialysis looking catty-corner across Harford Road. The traffic light poles have been knocked into the street by a car that did a hit and run. There's a firetruck, a City Works truck, and an ambulance parked. A City Worker is talking with 2 police officers in the middle of the frame, while a paramedic is next to the ambulance. 2 pedestrians, a black man and a black woman, are on the near sidewalk surveying the scene.

Another angle of the same scene as before, looking south down the road instead of across it. The people are still in the middle of the street, but the fire truck and the pedestrians are gone, and there's a police car blocking the road where the fire truck was.

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 24/06/2026

I've never watched this show. I have no idea what this means. www.idrlabs.com/amazing-digital-cir…

55% Gangle
75% Zooble
25% Caine
100% Kinger
70% Pomni
50% Jax
20% Ragatha

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 06/03/2026

The 9 games that make me who I am 1. Scarab of Ra 2. Half-Life 3. Sid Meier's Civilization 4. SimCity 5. Star Trek Online 6. PC Building Simulator 7. Magic: The Gathering Arena 8. Super Mario Bros. 3 9. Dark Chambers my9games.com/s/af01df81fd824a39 #My9Games

9 games in a grid, going left to right, top to bottom:
Blank image for Scarab of Ra
Half-Life
Sid Meier's Civilization
SimCity
Star Trek Online
PC Building Simulator
Magic: the Gathering Arena
Super Mario Bros. 3
Dark Chambers

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 24/02/2026

TIL: Hayley Scamurra from the gold-medal-winning US Women's Hockey Team is my second cousin. Neat! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayley_Scamur…

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 22/12/2025

Is anyone else that I know playing Pokémon Sleep? 5996-6036-8023

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 06/11/2025

Oh my goodness. I only NOW just understand why a LOT (and I do mean a LOT) of people I follow have some random robot gibberish in their messages: It's emojis that aren't being rendered correctly. nolanlawson.com/2022/04/08/the-stru…

A picture that is 6 rows and 8 columns of various classic yellow-face emojis. However, Row 2 Column 3, Row 4 Column 8, Row 5 Column 1, Row 5 Column 4, and Row 6 Column 2 all have rendering errors and display black and white boxes with seemingly-random text in them.

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 27/07/2025

When you find out that music legend Kevin MacLeod stopped actually composing music about a year ago and went into using "AI" for it:

Wesley Snipes crying as he points a gun, ready to fire

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 22/06/2025

What I said: What is the connection between trans people and tech jobs? What Google heard: What is the connection between France people and tech jobs? Me:

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 05/06/2025

Guy I was giving a ride to: "You like Star Trek? Tell me. Do you think R2D2 and C3P0 were good villains?" Me:

Stick man puts up an index finger to object, but then reconsiders

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 02/06/2025

Jonathan Joss (voice of John Redcorn on King of the Hill) was murdered by his neighbor today, for the "crime" of being gay. RIP man

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 30/05/2025

I just found out Peter David passed away. I enjoyed interacting with him at Shore Leave Convention. I believe I have one of the most unique pieces of memorabilia of him: a box of his daughter's Girl Scout cookies, signed by both him and Keith R. A. DeCandido.

Box of Samoa Girl Scout cookies, bought from Caroline David, signed by both Peter David and Keith R. A. DeCandido

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 14/11/2024

This makes me not only sad, but angry. 1 in 5 can't read at all. HALF are below 6th grade level. Illiteracy costs us $20,000,000,000 a year! Some states project their future prison population based on the test scores of elementary schools?! LEARN TO READ, PEOPLE!

Literacy Data and its impact on the Nation

Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022

54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level

45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level

44% of the American adults do not read a book in a year

Literacy Data and its impact on Society

3 out of 5 people in American prisons can't read

To determine how many prison beds will be needed in future years, some states actually base part of their projection on how well current elementary students are performing on reading tests

85% of juvenile offenders have problems reading

Approximately 50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels

Literacy Data and its impact on the Economy

3 out of 4 people on welfare can't read

20% of Americans read below the level needed to earn a living wage

50% of the unemployed between the ages of 16 and 21 cannot read well enough to be considered functionally literate

Between 46% and 51% of American adults have an income well below the poverty level because of their inability to read

Illiteracy costs American taxpayers an estimated $20 billion each year

School dropouts cost our nation $240 billion in social service expenditures and lost tax revenues

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Admiral Memo @mastodon.admiralmemo.com · 14/11/2024

If you don't have your own website to verify on BlueSky and you have an itch.io account, you can use that account to verify your username. itch.io/t/4291217/user-profile-link…

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