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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 3h

Waitress: did you want a beer and wine menu? Me: resisting asking if a lot of beer and wine gets ordered at 11am Some questions better unanswered I imagine

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 15h

This isn't, really, but I like to reference it and it does slap youtu.be/bYMZGamPMNM?...

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Who's Behind the Door

YouTube video by Zebra - Topic

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 15h

When I have trouble getting to sleep, sometimes I try naming Legionnaires with their real names, powers and planets of origin

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 22h

Bearing in mind that I'm in somewhat of a middle ground about LLMs: if you call it Super Intelligence I will never respect you again and likely will block you on the spot.

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 29/09/2026

I remember when I was a student and my C programs would go rogue and access uninitialized memory.

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 28/09/2026

I've been married so long that I got away with saying "I'm basically aware you wear clothes" when my spouse was showing off her purchases. (In fairness, this was shortly after I had to point out that I had shaved and she said "look I don't stare at you" so it's all fair.)

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 28/09/2026

Subway (I don't know if it's really my favorite, but it rules)

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 27/09/2026

Oura ring: you slept well but whoa dude your temperature and heart rate what's up Me: huh I dunno Me: ... Me: oh hey I had dead virus and wacky mRNA injected into me Friday afternoon does that count

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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 @swelljoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not gonna give his thread oxygen, but I'll assume he's reading this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hskk...

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Mind Your Business Challenge!

YouTube video by Prince Tai

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 26/09/2026

I think my eventual retirement project will be convincing the entire Internet to stop calling it a "Balbo beard"

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 26/09/2026

Okay I'm tired of posting Grease gifs so I'm going to post one I've watched part or all of enough times it should qualify

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Ricardo Montalban as Khan in Star Trek

ALT: Ricardo Montalban as Khan in Star Trek

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In 2016, the cable news networks all cut into their regular programming to air Trump’s campaign stump speeches live, something never done before or since. I’m fine with there being no press pool coverage of him. Get out and do some actual reporting instead of “Trump said this, Trump said that” 24/7.

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 26/09/2026

I'll name two: Robin Hood (animated) and Short Circuit. I named two beause they're the only two. Oh well.

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howl’s it going @mrblue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I went in a 7-11 yesterday to break a 20 (really needed a ten) and tried to buy a fountain drink. The clerk insisted on giving me the drink for free, refused to take my money. I asked why and she shrugged her shoulders and said "because of God. "

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 25/09/2026

I see "everyone should be outraged by this" frequently these days AS YOU CAN IMAGINE and I don't dispute that but it would be a great convenience to me if we could just assume that I am at all times outraged thanks

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The Barbarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Dolly Parton Day to all who celebrate! (And if you don't celebrate, what is WRONG with you? "We don't write our dates that way" is not an excuse.)

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Dolly Parton: 'I'm Proud Of You'

Alt: Dolly Parton wearing a hot pink suit and a necklace of stars. "No matter what you do this year, you're going to be you, and I'm going to be proud of you."

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 23/09/2026

"Democrats can't win in Texas" okay but I remember Anne Richards being governor "Democrats can't win in Oklahoma" Brad Henry and a fair few before him in my lifetime Can we please stop confusing "haven't been winning" with "it's impossible" and make things happen kthx

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 21/09/2026

I laugh at everyone commenting, because I was never good at anything athletic and so I spent my life preparing for being in my late 50s basically

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 21/09/2026

Hey so we're going to see a lot more of these polls. They have a chilling effect on voting bc we think someone else will do the work. If we've learned ANYTHING over the last ten years, it's that we cannot count on anyone else doing the work. WE have to do the work. Voting is work.

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 20/09/2026

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social For what it's worth, I use the things you mention in a strip that I believe is too new to talk openly about, using my own resources as much as possible, which is often, and I agree with everything in the strip (and was amused by it, of course!) so there's that.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am a cis, white, straight woman who was born and raised on a remote dairy farm, raised around no diversity at all. Virtually everything I know about people unlike that narrow group came from meeting people at cons first. Embarrassing but true.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 19/09/2026

Watching some (white, male) comic writers abruptly decide they have discovered the new phenomenon of being dogpiled online is... a thing

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 19/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EH0... Shared for Nine Fingered Frodo, but feel free to keep listening

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Lords of the Rhymes Compilation

YouTube video by Brubrukk

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 18/09/2026

On this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it, but holy crap if someday a multi-Oscar-winning actress voices a lion that's sort of meant to represent me then wow i don't even know Peter

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Cyndi Munson @cyndimunsonok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oklahoma doesn’t need another millionaire insider. It needs a governor who’s actually lived what you’re living. That’s me.

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 18/09/2026

My historically accurate version of the Odyssey did not dominate the box office as I hoped.

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I'M On A Boat

ALT: I'M On A Boat

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.

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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted

A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Watching tech people tremble before the awesome power of AI feels like when an actor is “attacked” by a wild animal in a movie but they are just holding a raccoon pelt to their neck and pretending to wrestle with it

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 17/09/2026

I read this whole thread and now so must you, I cannot bear this occult knowledge alone, or rather, misery loves company

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 17/09/2026

Welp, now rfrancissmith.com mail (which I've never used, and I only ever used the website to set up my Bsky account, for that matter) now goes to a trial fastmail.com account. Let's see how it goes!

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...

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Flock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of Secrets

Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track bo...

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 17/09/2026

Out on the screened patio with phone, laptop, electric fan and adult bev. Let's do this.

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R Francis Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 16/09/2026

trying to figure out what to do with my new protonmail addy

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