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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Halloween merchandise going on display in late July.

Halloween merchandise on shelves in a shop.

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Fox buying Roku. Time for to retire the Roku stick and switch to Apple TV instead.

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

When Clarín (online news site from Argentina) calls Farage an “ultraderichista” - extreme right winger, you know the world is paying attention. If you are extreme to a country where Milei is in charge, you’ve lost the plot.

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Insurance (home auto, medical) up 20% on last year, groceries up 25-30%, gas up 20-25%. Still checking to see if my income has increased by 20-30%.

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Anthem BCBS falling to new lows. Denying claims from my doctor because they are in a different state, even though that is 4 miles from where I live and my nearest town. Also told me he was in network before purchasing the plan. Sounds like breach of contract to me.

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Boston Logan airport terminal E ( the “new” one) showing its best face to all the international visitors. No soap in any dispenser in the bathroom. No paper towels in either dispenser, one hand dryer out of 3 working. Are we great again?

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I have an ex who lives in a literal Central American military dictatorship (El Salvador) and another who lives in the Twin Cities. Guess which one is in actual serious danger of violence and abduction on a daily basis right now?

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Someone in my small town traded his mint 5 year old 200 series Land Cruiser for a new 250 series hybrid. I wonder how many times a day he regrets that choice?

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Isn’t it weird that when interest rates fall it takes approximately 3 minutes for that cut to be made to anything paying me interest? But it takes weeks, months or never for that cut in rates to affect accounts where I’m paying interest.

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

dan bongino and kash patel lying unconscious on the ground after bonking their heads together as they both bent down to examine what is later determined to be their own footprints

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I feel like Webster Bank needs to keep searching for a director of solution architecture for another 18 months and then I’m sure they’ll find a person with all the shopping list of skills, willingness to drive to an office and accept 50% below market rate. Job’s been open since December 2023!

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Texas Roadhouse is now apparently the #1 restaurant chain in the US (taking over from Olive Garden). Checking the menu there are precisely zero vegetarian options for entrees (side salad doesn’t count). So that’s awesome…. 😑

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Might frame this quote from this wonderful thread: "Most (good) solutions are proposed not by newcomers, but by people who understand an issue deeply. There are exceptions, of course, but generally, if a solution seems "obvious", it's because you don't understand the problem as well as you think"

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

In the latest version of enshittification of apps, the almost 1GB Samsung “smart things” app fails to function at all if you have any kind of privacy protection on your devices or network. Recent reviews are universally 1 and 2 stars but the average is still showing as 4.6.

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Living in an old house is the gift that keeps on giving. After specially ordering 27” wide appliances to fit through our 27.25” wide doorways I find that they are in fact 26.8” wide at the bottom. Lovely.

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Almost funny to read this. Most of the people I know who have retired early (including me) have done so because ageism in industry makes us unemployable. I’d love to work for a few more years but employers bin my CV immediately when they work out my age. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Get early retirees off the golf course and back to work – why early retirement isn’t good for UK plc

Giving up work in your 50s is a wealthy indulgence that should be discouraged – the new pension commission needs to widen its remit

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David Gogo @davidgogoblues.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Good call, Lemmy. Good call…

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

As the world burns around us, here’s a picture of a street dog sleeping peacefully

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Today I learned that the Great Wall Tank 300 SUV has the same 8spd ZF transmission as my Land Rover Defender. Just in case you were wondering how quickly Chinese vehicles are catching up to the rest of the world.

Great Wall tank 300 suv parked on a street in Puerto Natales, Chile

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

HMRC in the UK currently taking 2+ months (???) to respond to letters. 3+ hours to talk to someone on the phone, which is *always* the wrong department. No way to contact them online. Maybe I should send a telegram or carrier pigeon? Is this really 2025?

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Maybe electing / appointing people who are really conservatives to be the leader of the Labour Party is not a great idea after all. And the ratchet of the Overton Window moves ever further rightward…

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 09/05/2025

"our bodies know what to do" yes that's right. life expectancy has indeed been the same throughout human history.

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Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D. @dberkholz.com · 03/05/2025

“The people who are the strongest written communicators” are also the best engineers at using AI-enabled dev tools like Windsurf & Cursor. Similar goes for engineers who see the big picture (architecture, product mgmt etc). -Bryan Pitts #minnebar

Bryan Pitts and Hayley Brooks presenting at MinneBar

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Ordering my fourth different size shape of cabinet hinges for the kitchen because apparently whoever built the cabinets just used whatever came to hand. Joys of an old house.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Rug Pull administration. Your panic is their profit.

@bccoregon
1. Short everything
2. Announce tariffs
3. Close out short positions
4. Buy the dip
5. Call off the tariffs
6. Sell the spike
7. Repeat
Is there any reason to believe
Trump's entire inner circle isn't doing this?

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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 29/03/2025

COBOL is like Asbestos: it’s more work taking it out sometimes so it’s best just to seal it in place for everyone’s safety.

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Minerva P Kelley @doubleca5t.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Calling machine learning algorithms "artificial intelligence" has to be the greatest rebranding effort in history. The amount of people who legitimately think these things are some kind of futuristic new technology is incredibly depressing

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Since people with green cards are being disappeared for expressing unpopular opinions, I’m going to be read-only for the foreseeable future.

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I struggle to understand how people go to the trouble of posting things for sale on Craigslist or Facebook marketplace and then just never respond to offers to buy. How do they expect such a transaction to work?

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Just deleted both of my twitter accounts. Didn’t bother to download the data, just torched them. I’ve no doubt USCIS can still search them but I have no access to them, so they must belong to the guy in Florida with same name who doesn’t pay his bills

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/02/2025

One annoying thing about the "run the government like a business" guys is that they also are terrible at running businesses. I run my podcast "like a business" in the sense that things are made to a high quality and shipped on time, but it seems their only version of "good business" is "layoffs"

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Just come back from 2x monthly regular grocery shopping. Almost everything I bought has substantially increased in price since last month. Eggs are double the cost from late last year. Almost everything else increased by 10-20% overnight. Next inflation figures are going to be brutal.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A lot of people on here keep fantasizing about the moment Trump "fires" Elon Musk because Musk has stepped out too far in front of him and I'm sure that feels good, but after watching the last Musk/Trump presser I think it's worth considering that we are essentially watching a coup via elder abuse.

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I just saw the DOGE ghouls referred to as the Incel Clown Posse and I wish I had thought of it.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Land for peace. Works every time ... 🙄

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Today I learned that the “singer” of a shitty 80s hair metal band has enough money for a Lear jet. SMH

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Not that they will see this, but a reminder to Elon’s lackeys that they can and will go to jail for a long time. Legal counsel will cost $1000 an hour and if you think Donald or Elon will support you, search “Rudy Giuliani” or “Twitter severance”.

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RB @rbisrb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Scientific Fact of the Day...

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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

January 24, 2006, died #OTD British geologist & paleoclimatologist Nicholas Shackleton, who studied the role of climate-driving greenhouse gases & used oxygen isotopes trapped in forams to reconstruct ice sheets variations over time theguardian.com/environment/...

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Nuno Sarnadas @darkdesign.pt · 24/01/2025

Well... there it is.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

they never could have foreseen that he would do the thing he said many times that he would do

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Congrats @boingboing.bsky.social you’ve made your site completely unusable. I’m not going to change my browser settings just for your site. So goodbye and thank you for the good stuff I saw in the past.

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Qiviut @raoulmiller.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Fifty years ago my Boy Scout leader was a nuclear physicist by training. He said fusion reactors are always twenty years in the future. And he’s still right today www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Nuclear fusion: it’s time for a reality check | Letters

Letters: Significant obstacles lie ahead in the quest for commercially viable nuclear fusion, writes Luca Garzotti

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