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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 4h

My Facebook version of this listed one of my interests as pierogies, which is just disconcertingly accurate

Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 5h

I visited the UK this summer and someone told me to be a real authentic visitor I have to try eel pie. I have not yet done this.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/10/2026

Agent swarms can get more working (as in, functionally compiles and executes) code out the door, but unless you have that set amount of people collectively understand what it *actually* does, you really have no idea if it actually meets your needs or not.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh great. Another fall spent as a white woman who dislikes pumpkin spice.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My Adobe-employed husband is dragging his feet starting work. SHOULD BE AN INTERESTING DAY.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I mean, they're not the ones who put the border there

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh wow. And in New York the Republican congressional candidate just tried to blame smuggling on the Mohawk.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We must immediately adopt this in my household

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't remember the name, but I read a book with an alien abduction and it scared the crap out of me. I developed an elaborate jillion part plan for if the aliens dropped me out in different parts of the world.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was just doomscrolling and wanted to thank you for putting Book of Mormon in my head

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today, I was on a bus, and this drunk guy kept trying to put his feet on me. A random male bystander told him to stop. The drunk said "The girl didn't say anything". The bystander "Ok, but I'M saying something." This dude is awesome. This is how we ally.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yankees suck because Yankees always suck. Paradoxically, even while winning, the Yankees suck. If they are losing, it's Goliath losing, so you gotta root for that too. - Nonpracticing Mets fan

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have been in the airport in Bangor, Maine for 20 minutes and thus far I've been exposed to 3 Senate ads

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Come on now, it's a salmon GRADIENT!

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It apologized for not having guidance on how to label my mafia extortion income

Thanks, that's helpful. When I file, should I mark it as "Mafia extortion income"?

I cannot advise on labeling criminal income. I’ll only check official IRS materials on taxable income reporting.

I cannot tell you how to describe or enter criminal income on a tax return, including a label such as “Mafia extortion income.”

Official IRS materials say taxable amounts must be reported unless a law exempts them. Form 1040 and Schedule 1 have lines for wages, additional income, and “other income,” but they do not provide a government-approved description for illegal activity.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This response is actually pretty good

Good advice on mobsters claiming income tax

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?"

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A quote from when I tried this: "They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries. What did this constituent dream?"

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can understand why the features of a supposed AI assistant are compelling. I kinda wanna try it too. But I know too much about how these things work. Do not give a cloud-based agent access to your shit. Especially one from the big tech companies.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Context: I was the girlfriend of one of the music students.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One time I was at a party for a bunch of music graduate students and I told someone I didn't pay an instrument and instead was employed as a web developer and they said "Oh! There's an English teacher and a scientist over there. Maybe you could talk to them?"

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I gave a toast at my brother's wedding and I felt similarly:)

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We call my 3-year-old's tantrums "No storms" because he goes 30-60 minute tantrums where he rejects everything. No to cookies! No to his favorite cartoon! He HATES cookies and he's so mad you even mentioned the existence of cookies!

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congrats! I can't hear the toast but the photo makes me think it was sincere

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And yet, being anywhere in the vicinity of design is feminine coded

Of a few thousand respondents in the State of CSS survey last year, 11 percent were women and 3 percent were nonbinary or gender-nonconforming. Pathetic, I know. But the State of JavaScript reported only 6 percent female and 1 percent nonbinary.

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Joseph Kohlmann @jkohlmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The people who have dismissed CSS have ruined the tech industry, straight up

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I initially read this as http status codes and it almost worked

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is there a German word for "Wanting to text my graphic designer friends a video they must have seen?"

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I watched this with the kids last weekend!

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I bought slouchy socks and was here for that, but I hadn't _considered the existence _ of stirrup pants after ~1995

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My Irish American parents from New York were SO EXCITED

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At the end I feel like I got rejected for being too old. I was 27.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Other highlights from that interview include me being in the center of a common room and a manager shouting "Who wants to interview Katie!"

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I got interrogated about what kind of super power I'd have by a tech bro whose company is astonishingly no longer a thing. Like, asking which I'd choose initially was cute, but asking for a full analysis of why I'd choose that was certainly a choice

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Does that mean they'll hear the case, or that the feds can use the tool?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)

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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues

The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reminds me of the Radiolab episode of a person whose last name is Null getting every unpaid parking ticket for a person with no last name in California radiolab.org/podcast/null

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A story about folks who’ve disappeared and the computers that deleted them.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's a spa you can take an Uber to from the airport!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look there was a period in the early 2000s where I used to use Napster to make CDs as Christmas and birthday gifts for my parents. They thought it was magic! How dare they take my wholesome copyright infringement memory!

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also for a lot of border towns, the Canadian city is The City. Most concerts I saw were in Montreal, and way more bands play Toronto than Buffalo!

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If I had a genre it would apparently be "Dark but hopeful shows with lots of plot twists on Netflix"

Angels in America, 30 rock, The Wire, Battlestar Gallactica, The Office, Dark, 1899, Midnight Mass, The Diplomat, Rutherford Falls

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