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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 12h
Sailboat.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 12h
I appreciate your love of argument but reread this lol
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 16h
There have been a few high points, and Chloe is wonderfully enthusiastic, but yeah, not the best overall.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 16h
There are many different international versions, but I suspect that ”series“ as used here = ”season” in American lingo.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Our recent trip there was genuinely pretty enlightening in how I think about colonial America.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Jets whip the shit out of first gen airplanes in Civilization.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Doesn’t even have the typical nostalgia turn of “my hometown when I was 10” or some shit. Literally just an electric version of outside his house.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Probably the only place it’s remembered outside of Oklahoma is within the federal workforce.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s like asking for a haircut. You just have to learn the words for one you don’t hate and leave it at that.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That’s almost sit and watch worthy.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I agree with you more than them, but this is just another version of the alignment problem that they claim to be panicked about solving.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It feels like bait to me. But also, if having a device “read” to your child was desirable, this was solved with the invention of the phonograph?
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I guess? The point is that you don’t really have to care about or enjoy spreadsheet sports to continue to be in a league. Using an LLM to do this is silly for a bunch of reasons - much easier to just sort of forget their team exists after losing a few games.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nah, fantasy football as a social obligation is pretty normal. You and your friends join a league when you’re 20. You are now 45 and don’t see them enough. You don’t really watch football anymore, but it’s nice to see everyone at the draft.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Texture was all wrong for a cookie but i wanted one of those jaggery caramel things.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have to say Nigella described the crispy/chewy texture they should be going for pretty perfectly.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He’s a fighter alright. Just not on our side.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can’t look at Stephen Gammell’s illustrations from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark without a chill even today. I checked them out in the third grade. Insane.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Truly jealous of that bird. Can you imagine.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We saw you living it up on the side stage during Cypress Hill. What a night.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is how I found out John Crowley died. Loved Little, Big so much.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t see a clean line between excess/indulgence and the self-destructive urge. Eating one chocolate is just pleasurable. Eating the whole box at once is self-destructive excess. “Guilty pleasures” are controlled excesses to satiate an urge that would be damaging if fully embraced.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i think the point being made is that feeling “guilty” is part of liking it
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s hard to decide what the worst part of his face is but I think it’s the mustache. Why does it look like that.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He doesn’t look old or aged, he just looks gross.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Probably been lurking on the r/bald subreddit for a while, finally pulled the trigger
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I enjoy them but decline narratives are tough in games.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I feel like one of the nicest things about being mega rich would be handing out stupid big tips everywhere you go.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ok but the first time you get hit with that slightly patronizing ”sir” it balances out.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I just want to see the step between intelligence and extinction.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This passage works ok if you read the “represents” and “symbolizes” as something occurring in the minds of typical suburban country fans.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This might be a dumb question but I just don’t know how the industry works - how worthwhile is this sort of signing for you?
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Never thought I’d be a scab.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What is it if you include local minimum wage?
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It sounds much more unbelievable to me to say “every randomly shuffled deck is unique in the history of the universe.”
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
it sounds like you’ve gone beyond saying that a majority should equal NG to even 1-11? This takes the “let’s go home now” issue that i was talking about and puts it in every juror’s pocket.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The question is between a hung jury and an acquittal, guilty doesn’t come into it.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I think a 7 vote “let’s go home” coalition might be too easy to build.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
better than the ”oops I’m shopping thirsty and solid food seems gross” conundrum.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Arguing that people simply shouldn’t care about sports is tough, though.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The last time I went to karaoke we had to leave because people wanted to fight us because my buddy was so bad.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A fun thing to do for big anniversaries is to describe the length of the relationship as a percentage of the history of the United States.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My physique is also genetic
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
There is exactly one article left to write about this guy.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is true - his thing does get old eventually, but that’s true for every creative talent. The only really negative association I have with him is that his 2016 SNL appearance (“never gonna be president now”) is forever tied in my mind to the current situation.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
it just slips away. 6th and 9th for us. Treasure those double elementary years.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I had even more fun with worse games. BattleTanx on N64 was so stupid and so perfect.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Given the recent bull market, it’s hard to think that people “investing” in sports betting are acting rationally at all.
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This bit on the Wikipedia page is good: “Also, there is no formal religion and nothing like the Medieval Church, the closest equivalent being in fact the Dragonriders, who have a planet-wide organization and to whom a tithe is due, although they are in no way sworn to celibacy (rather the reverse).”
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miketan.bsky.social @miketan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We are just now leaving living memory of widespread childhood mortality in the USA. My grandmother’s extremely privileged childhood was largely defined by the death of her baby brother.
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