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POGtastic

@pogtastic.bsky.social
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Software engineer, big blue semiconductor company. POG = Personnel Other than Grunt. Wife guy. Dog guy. Terrible chess player.

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 23h
bought Tin Cup Rye ($25) for the purposes of making into Manhattans and, frankly, this is not good at all. I usually get ~$50 bottles and thought myself a non-discerning consumer of spirits and, well, this stuff is proving me wrong.
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I... AM... IRON... MAN (guitar riff) iron infusion is done and hopefully I am no longer anemic
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After a very quiet summer, tensions between the dogs and skunks erupted this morning in suburban Oregon. Local sources claim one canine casualty, who is receiving treatment. A spokesskunk refused to comment at this time. You're listening to NPR.
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
drake maye what why dawwggg
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The tester frowned. "You got 35% right." Julie blanched. "So that means I failed?" She had impostor syndrome even on the best of days. "That's the highest score we've ever seen. I- I- I need to call my supervisor. I don't remember if p needs to be less than 0.05 or 0.01. It's never come up before"
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Patriots made Aaron Rodgers extremely sad It's a nice day Kiddo and I did a Big Bike Ride to the library Climbing gym after we get back Fellas we can't stop taking Ws
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Doubs has had a fantastic game so I'm not mad but man that would've been great if he'd caught it
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
BORREGALES NOOOO
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
4th & 43 and other similar yardage situations are very funny when they happen
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Get this Fanduel shit off of my football broadcast
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wife has offered the kiddo $1 per 100 pages read from library books. The child has spent the last 3 hours reading with no breaks. This is what desperation and precarity do to our children in late stage capitalist amerikkka
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kiddo's back tire on her bike was flat, so I bought a new tube. Also figured out that the wheel was poorly aligned in the slot (common with single-speed bikes where you have to position the rear wheel to put tension on the chain). She's now going way faster and loves hills. I regret everything
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Can I marvel about libraries some more? I just came across a newly published book on here. I went to my county's library system and placed a hold on the book (which the system currently has on order). In a couple weeks the book will be delivered to my local library and reserved specifically for me
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
doctor says I need an iron infusion because I'm still not absorbing iron well enough. I am curious how many times people going to the clinic say "inject this shit directly into my veins" very likely that because I, a spectacularly unoriginal person, have thought of this, many other people also have
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
good gravy the Browns are doodoo
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
adopting a dog today. please clap I would also like to restate my restatement. The no-kill shelter wanted $600 for a pit mix puppy who had all kinds of things messed up with her I am not picky in the slightest (as to be shown by the dog when we pick him up) but that's a racket
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am Back On My Bullshit in a second, even more annoying way than reseasoning my cast iron. This is the Zymurgy Thread, this time gluten-free. Will it be good? Will it be sheep urine? Stay tuned to find out!
A bunch of beer brewing equipment and ingredients, tastefully arranged on a countertop
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I am stripping and reseasoning all of the cast iron pans and have discovered that my wife needs to rewatch WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988). She didn't laugh at me saying "This is how we handle things down in Toon Town" as I put on heavy rubber gloves and goggles and prepared The Dip
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My mother is making apple crisp and Richard is intruding upon the kitchen
A border collie mix is lying down just over the threshold between the hallway and the kitchen
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have Thoughts about this because this guy is getting shrieked at by a bunch of weirdos.
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
dawwwwggggg my dietitian says I need to toss out all of my cast iron pans
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Made wheat-free cornbread for the first time. Wife was not amused by me singing Tom Lehrer's "I Wanna Go Back To Dixie" while making it I wanna go back to Dixie I wanna be a Dixie pixie! And eat cornpone 'til it's comin' outta my ears
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Neato, Mastodon just released a new album
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
there is a Great Pyr mix who is available for adoption up in Rainier and I am trying to convince my wife that she needs a gargantuan foot-warmer in the wintertime
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My inlaws have revealed another TV show to my daughter - "Grizzly and the Lemmings." As always, a six-year-old simply has no natural defenses to even the poorest slapstick comedy we will not be allowing it in our house
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
At my inlaws' house. Due to my new celiac diagnosis my mother-in-law is pawning off a large collection of mead bottles from some Poway farmer's market subscription package that she stupidly signed up for. I am going to die
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The difference here is so straightforward. When somebody does something dumb on a bike, my reaction is "you're going to get yourself killed." When somebody does something dumb in a car, my reaction is "you're going to kill somebody." Everybody is dumb, but drivers are dumb with heavy machinery!
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
dudley annoyed that my daughter is messing with him, circa 1890
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I walked this poor dog too far
Richard the border collie mix is very tired and is lying on the bed
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mrsomerton @mrsomerton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I ran a 10k because my coworker is a sadist. I actually feel great, but I am incredibly tired and a little sunburned
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
dawggg I have jury duty
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
my post about "not recommending the Marine Corps to anybody" made me remember the one case that I did recommend military service. he's not having Fun right now in corpsman school but he's doing a lot better than he was in san diego
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I put up a bathroom light fixture and tightened every toilet trap chain in the house, and my wife is squeezing my biceps and telling me that I'm so handy
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
stuff is on fire
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is actually one thing that I did shell the heck out for in my house. We actually spend a TON of time at the dinner table, and I'm going to keep it for the rest of my life. It's the only piece of furniture that I actually care about in my house!
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
getting back into chess lichess.org/w8GY0MIWZdZV
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Blitz Chess • POGtastic vs Durden2010
POGtastic (1676?) played Durden2010 (1678) in a rated Blitz (5+0) game of chess. Durden2010 resigned after 27 moves. Click to replay, analyse, and discuss the game!
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The wretched sushi place near me has closed and has been replaced with a pho joint. The invisible hand of the market wins again
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
apropos of some stuff surrounding Catcher in the Rye, I am taking this opportunity to read a book that I utterly despised in high school and to see if reading it in my mid-30s is different from reading it at age 17 Mrs. Courchesne, I am giving Mrs. Dalloway another try
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
unfortunately all of the people who can do this compellingly are explaining arbitrary code execution techniques for N64 games
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Well, that's a first. I exhausted a free Claude session. (Generating GNOME screencast bindings in OCaml so that I can process game screenshots. Extremely silly!)
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Drove through Aberdeen on our way to Olympic National Park and dawwwgggggg what on earth is going on there
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I forgot that I got a picture of my friend's other livestock dog. This is Ollie, a 150-pound creature who is a mutt of various stegosaurus-shaped breeds but is primarily Akbash. His favorite things are sleeping, tummy rubs, and barking at the cows in the next field over
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
nothing good happens in a Circle K parking lot
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My new debit card doesn't have embossed numbers on it. It's the end of an era!
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
with the GLP-1 discourse going on I'd like to say that I've been working very hard. In the last year, I have been climbing 6+ days a week and have gotten a couple of (soft) V5 climbs. I've gotten my 5k time down from "cannot run a 5k" to 26:45. My resting HR is now 51. I have lost exactly 0 pounds
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It is very funny that he's been trying very hard to clean up his image and throws it all away on pathetic displays like this. He just can't help himself
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
the fact that I have to keep reposting this is really unpleasant
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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It's layoff season again! Round #7 in 6 years. I am so sick of this
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