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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 6h

Guess which newspapers I will *not* support

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Friiiidaaaayyyy!!!! Let's all take the next 2 days off lol.

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Support these folks if you can (404meda, not the AI). AI scraping feels like someone pissing in the information pool

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

... crazy, but I have a phone *and* a computer. #NYT is becoming an annoyance as it asks me to verify it's me when I go one to the other. #NYT articles are good, but I also value less hassle in my life

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(should I be relieved or alarmed that any works of mine are from pre-millenia and likely not in the LLM databases?! 🙃

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I always wonder what would happen if calamityware.com ceramics and @effinbirds.com got together. "It Could Be Worse" meets "J#$(U(#@".

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Naively relying on AI sources is as useful as learning sex ed from that kid in the grade up. Some of the info may be right, but it's more likely what someone overheard someone else saying their cousin told them

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Tom Chapin @tomchapinmusic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My next streaming show will be on Tuesday, September 29th at 7:00 PM Eastern. Free - courtesy of The Folk Project. No tickets required, but you do need to register to get the link. See you there! Photo by Judy Beisler www.facebook.com/events/10864...

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Picked up a paperback of The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherry. The cover touts it as a "Science Fiction Book Club Selection". In the postal mail days I was a subscriber. Nice lists, and in those infrequent episodes where I forgot to send in the Do Not Buy postcard the novel was still passably good.

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

(... not validating "dobro" in today's #NYTSpellingBee felt off-key for me)

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

(figured on the #wordle today in 2 guesses - feeling pretty good, eh!)

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

(Morgan Wallen concerts in Ann Arbor spiked hotel rates by double/triple the usual rates. So many other ways those $ could be spent...)

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

when Wordle makes me guess an Estonian word in order to luck into the final result one step later, it's a tough puzzle. And disagree with the Wordle solution today, not a word. Hrrmph.

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

off one letter on the Wordle today and it made a monkey out of my guess

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Seems like new homes cannot design a bedroom on the ground floor!

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Dude decided to pose the geese by throwing his fast food on the ground... right under the "DO NOT FEED The Geese" sign 🙄

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

wow - great episode. If Colbert wants to rotate Community access, this format would be great as "Ferndale Tonight". Alas, no Martin Mull to co-host

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Things I don't understand: 1. Govt and financial institutions still requiring faxes. 2. Lego movies.

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Retro twist this morning: yes, I put ketchup on my egg whites today. Nostalgia trip back to being a kid 😊

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

(... nice thing about physical books: they don't fade to blank if you take too long to read a page or put it down for a minute 📖)

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Let's not worry about AI until AI can fully get "I don't know what it is, but it is what it is, isn't it?"

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

... today's Bluesky experience feels like a Star Trek transporter that keeps fading innnn, and outtttt ... need "mooore powerrrr!" 😜

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

wanted to be an active Participator in today's NYTSpellingBee, but alas...

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Can you dig it? "Digged" not cool in today's NTYSpellingBee

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

When Amazon has an ebook on sale for $0.99, how much trickles back to the publisher? to the author? Feels more like the old LPs in the cutout bin (who gets "cut out")

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

oh, whatever will I do with myself? no college football bowl game today....

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

only a 1-pt word, but I think "pion" is not so small it should be overlooked in the NYTSpellingBee today...

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

awesome experiment, do not use Claudius to do your taxes this year

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Today's rabbit hole: the Golden Record on Voyager spacecrafts, and EMI was so miserly they wanted to charge for sending Here Comes the Sun into the universe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager....

en.wikipedia.org

Voyager Golden Record - Wikipedia

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Grabbed one of these for a friend... and why the effin' not?!

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Spinning some LPs today... and wondering why some call it Side A / Side B, and others Side 1 / Side 2, and yet others Side I / Side II. Is there an ISO Standard being violated here?

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Why do I find it unsettling that Google's Holiday calendar considers Black Friday as an Observance?

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Listening to Yes albums today, realize I'd rather have Roger Dean posters in the Lincoln bathroom

Roger Dean album cover art Tales From Topographic Oceans (Yes album). source - wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Topographic_Oceans#/media/File:Tales_from_Topographic_Oceans_(Yes_album).jpg

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Looking to subscribe to "neutral" news source that also supports indep journalists. Kinda looking for not just U.S. so that makes it a harder task. ("neutral" doesn't mean both-sideism)

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Why I resist AI agents: there's no escalation of any problem-solving. If you start with g_d who do you appeal to? And if you do, it's just Agent_AI_PlusOne.

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Again, no way that many people "guessed" today's #wordle on the first try. Are these the same folks that cheat at solitaire?

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

No, I do not believe ~5,000 entries "guessed" today's #wordle solution on the first try. No.

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

"AI Overview" on Google search is just getting creepy. Ask for sites with fill-in-the-blank and the response is "yes there are sites for fill-in-the-blank, blah blah blah..." Just give me the damn sites instead of making me scroll below the garbage response

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

No, I do not believe 0.4%, or over 7,000 people guessed the opening #wordle answer today. Not credible.

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I love Facebook: "People you may know" 《Pope Francis XIV》

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

(went for a walk, they paved the park's lot with new tar and new mix. All I could see was "asphalt rice cakes"!)

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Hey #NYTCrossword, if today's puzzle wasn't titled Fill In The Blanc, shame on you!

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Kroger is so cheap they played a *cover* of the Eagles! Really?! Eagles didn't do a good job? Original copy was worn out? What?

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Suspension of *belief* in Wordle today, as 0.3%, or ~5300 people guessed the word on the first attempt. No.

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The Travelling Wilburys are setting the right vibe going into the weekend 😎

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obb-brad.bsky.social @obb-brad.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

NYTSpellingBee was a toughie for me today! I'll be curious to see if there was a pangram (I didn't find it). That pesky "J"

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