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Nate Vack 🍴

@njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy

Dad. Husband. Probably not undead! Co-founder of Gimlet (not that one), data wrangler at the Center for Healthy Minds. [bridged from ruby.social/@njvack on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

@mwichary I saw this yesterday and thought of you -- these are full-frame LED matrices -- there are LEDs in between those characters! But the typeface _suggests_ segmented displays. ... just newer tech emulating older tech for Reasons

A gas station price display with a segmented-looking typeface

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

"The beverage to enjoy when you are Enjoying Yourself"

A box of sparkling water called "PEACH VIBE"

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2025

Fuck lakes

MOST POPULAR

1 Man found dead in Lake Mendota

2 Woman found dead in Lake Delton home

3 Texas man found dead in Delavan Lake

4 Man in custody after fleeing into Lake Monona

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2025

Gotta hand it to Gretchen; she actually made it happen

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2025

It's like 10,000 knives, when all you need is a fork Like meeting the man of you dreams and finding out he's a dork

The silverware drawer at work, which contains dozens and dozens of knives of varying sizes and shapes, including a lone cheese knife, but no spoons or forks

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2025

50 yards away is an Apple store

A storefront of EVEREVE, with the address "666"

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025

It’s worth tuna bush

A sign on a building reading “Doudna Hall”

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025

sick burn from this self-help book

A book with the title "The Toolbox is You"

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2024

Northern lights last night. Pretty good!

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2024

Excuse me?

A package of tomatoes at the grocery store, labeled "KUMATO"

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2024

Lest you think this is just a curse of the online world, let me present:

Headline: "Chipotle opens in Monona"

Photo is of an empty lot from a year before the article was published

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2024

here's what happens when the paper requires an image for every article

Headline reading "Three rescued after boat overturns on Lake Mendota" paired with an image of water with nothing in it

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2024

If you ever needed more evidence that peoples' view on the economy is basically a presidential approval rating, here you go Hint: Harris's economic policies are broadly very similar to Biden's

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2024

I have questions about how big ghouls normally are

A price sign reading "12FT LIFESIZED GHOUL" for $329.99

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2024

I don’t think I will ever get used to a Honda CRX being a vintage race car

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