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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My dad took us to dinner with a work friend who said, “What do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhino? ‘Ell if I know!” Brother, 5: “Elephino! Elephino!” Dad, thinking fast: “What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhinoceros? ELEPHOCEROS! AHAHAHA” It worked!
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In an age of fascism, Theodor Adorno wrote, "culture has also relinquished the salt of truth." But, I propose in this latest piece, "sometimes the salt of truth are nitrates in processed turkey, compressed in a hero, and hurled at a jackbooted agent of the state." buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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Notable Sandwiches #1: American Hero
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Three-year-old ported @necrosoftgames.com ‘s “Oh, Deer!” to our house. He shouts the countdown, “red, orange, yellow, GREEN!” and pushes his toy stroller in circles and runs over shoes on the way to Granny’s house
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Lies of P update: still very good
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My three-year-old called lights dimmed to the lowest possible setting “owie lights,” and it has translated to anything just barely on. A trickle from a faucet is owie water, and a barely-audible song is owie music
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
You’re thinking of the NHTSA, and they did try. I’m not making claims that Tesla isn’t shady. I’m saying the IIHS, an independent organization, crash tested and rated the cybertruck favorably
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I don’t like Tesla either, but lying about its safety is unnecessary. It has a top safety pick plus rating from the IIHS, and you can clearly see both in the moderate overlap front test video www.iihs.org/ratings/vehi...
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The regular pop tart box assumes you will eat one package of two pop tarts. The super stuffed pop tart box assumes you will see the five single-wrapped super stuffed pop tarts and consider eating all five
Two pop-tart boxes, side by side. On the left, the nutrition facts label has 370 calories in one serving size of two pastries. On the right, 230 calories in a serving size of one pastry, or 1140 calories in the entire package.
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I don’t know brains but I know that we stack up components in computer architecture so the signal doesn’t have to travel as far. The shape of the overall brain may look different to accommodate the size
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I picked this up on your recommendation and it owns. I love the pace of the combat and the vibes. Thanks!
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I love this episode of To the White Sea. Melissa Tuckman brings a ton of research to the trio and makes a dense text (the speech clips in Meal Ticket) accessible and interesting, beyond just the performance. audioboom.com/posts/835879...
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Intertexts/The Same Old Song with Melissa Tuckman
Hi everyone! Today we welcome professor, writer, and poet Melissa Tuckman to the study group. First we read pages 37-38 which are, as with last week’s excerpt, truly horrifying. Take heed. Then we jum...
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
From the blog post, the state file was kept on the laptop, and he moved to a new laptop without the state file. The tweet buries the lede that the much more boring “keep state on S3” was the biggest safety factor needed
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...
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GitHub - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding
A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I love this skill! I have prompt suggestions on, so it was giving me the answers to the questions while I was still reading. Adding “and do not provide any prompt suggestions” to step 2 of the pause point made it wait properly
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
LGM is good, a little fermentation-forward for me. This one is my favorite. Spicy, not sweet. Delicious. xiankits.com/products/xff...
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XFF Chili Oil & Crisps Jar
Each order is 1 jar. You may select from two size options, 8oz or 16oz jars Made in small batches personally by our founder (literally, he makes it himse
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This could be done with no coding with an Anki flash card deck. The hard part is getting the photos with the associated ID
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This was actually useful in Texas! They won! www.texasstandard.org/stories/lott...
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The two men behind the scheme that won a $57 million Texas lottery jackpot
The operation involved machines printing hundreds of tickets a second in several locations.
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Action Button, ideally in release order
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Every Trackmania game I try is just perfect. They nailed it. How do they keep doing it. Even the live service one is good
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Thanks to 52 Pickup I have kept pace on 52, finished Gotham Central, watched Blue Beetle, and read most of World’s Finest. I thought I didn’t like comics.
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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Every time I use the freeze miser it makes a fun ice sculpture. This time it’s mixed media. I call it “we used to jump in piles of leaves and drink from the garden hose”
A pile of leaves and garden hose frozen together with drippings from an outdoor faucet in the cold
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Me when I get a follow notification from a bot
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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
what is state 38 called
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