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when your high standards include a standard transmission

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everytime i actually walk into a fast food place i get blasted with a full THE FUTURE IS NOW OLD MAN between the kiosks, the digital status board, and the third-party window full of delivery orders and they keep asking for my email and rewards account

parking lots that require you register/pay through a website should be required to provide an internet connection

Quavo & Takeoff - HOTEL LOBBY | A COLORS SHOW

because we're cursed with inverse frequency for the foreseeable future i'll just state it plainly: nathan fielder, elizabeth holmes, generated video, orange background, rap duet, quavo and takeoff it's "videoprint", sort of like how ThereIRuinedIt does voiceprinting youtu.be/x9yop0nYR9g?...

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YouTube video by COLORS

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what i wouldn't give for ai-assisted search on atproto, this old school inverse frequency keyword situation feels so clunky now what do you mean i need to remember the exact words people used before i can find old threads and memes?

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trimet express headways so bad the due bus is gonna get lapped by the twenty minutes delayed bus

sludgy shoegaze at the basement show having me miss the days of being in a band, you know?

st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 25/09/2026

man we're really in the opening montage, aren't we?

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 25/09/2026

like some kind of on-line guitar archive

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 25/09/2026

i asked opus for a quick walkthrough to teardown a git repo and start from scratch with jj. it thought for about 2 solid minutes, which is forever in LLM terms, but it drafted a thorough game plan and some good advice for a git user making the jump

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 24/09/2026

no, it's called existential dread at the decline of your usefulness and pertinence in the modern world masquerading as prescriptivism, but i guess that's par for the course for a stylebook

st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 24/09/2026

opus 5.5 making both heads and tails of the utter insanity that is scribus xml is commendable, but it also feels a little like LLM-abuse. what kind of madness leads you to an un-nested markup language?

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 24/09/2026

scribus you're killing me. linked text frames are great, but the hard requirement to separate styles with paragraph tags has so many flaws and bugs and unintended consequences it's not even funny

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 22/09/2026

inbox-zero has taken me to some strange places. did you know there was a #WeThePeopleVax social media campaign from MyIR.net the summer *before* COVID? the writers really were cooking in those early seasons

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 22/09/2026

i feel like we're *this* close to transplant discourse eliminating land acknowledgements

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 22/09/2026

writing my cover letter in scribus like an absolute nerd

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i have to remind myself that there really are people out there who can write pithy, high-impact, short-form corporate copy like their lives depend on it, and not everything is machine-generated

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there are only three different flavors of CRUD app: spreadsheets, todo lists, and streaming services

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whenever someone says "portland native" i have to ask "what tribe?"

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patiently waiting for the "transplants aren't immigrants" discourse to collide with "paradox of tolerance" discourse

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video clips getting a subtle like 10% speed increase is disorienting, how do people watch stuff like that? it's just pure dread and anxiety. a lecture should be relaxed, not pressured

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the "quality" of the reporting (copy-paste the cop's press release) on these kind of "investigations" (we collected some overtime while filling out a standard form) make me think drivers just get away with murder from time to time www.kgw.com/article/traf...

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 20/09/2026

deducing that a prolific tagger must be a city employee or contractor based on a couple key bits of evidence but maintaining an "everybody be cool" about it

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four places i knew about already and one good guess and i finally get a score worth sharing: www.maptap.gg September 19 100🎯 93🏆 100🎯 98🎯 100🎯 Final score: 987

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 20/09/2026

my favorite is when drivers get mad at other drivers for taking too long making a right turn and then gun down division trying to hit 40mph next to the church really cool totally pro-social behavior there

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 19/09/2026

using ingress to remember the name of the café's previous iteration it was The Pied Cow

st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 19/09/2026

belmont street fair without rain is kind of nice actually

st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 19/09/2026

i'm always open to new flavors and cuisines, i say, eyeing the half empty cup of fry sauce perilously close to my mocha-pumpkin-spice cortado

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 18/09/2026

infp: i'm not fully present

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 18/09/2026

living in portland is periodically embarrassing. i mean, it starts with anti-vax, anti-fluoride crunchy granola types and ends in measles outbreaks and bans on computer servers www.kgw.com/article/news...

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 17/09/2026

noodles are the boring introverts that have to be introduced to all the fun flavors at the end

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 17/09/2026

anyways, leftover shaksouka and red rice on beef tallow toasted corn tortillas is pretty good

st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 17/09/2026

bizarre health and diet fads always make it awkward to be an ingredient household no, the beer tallow isn't a capitulation to maha, i just wanted to up the fat on some home-ground beef and now it's a nice change of pace in our regular rotation of various cooking fats (yes, even seed oils)

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 16/09/2026

maybe i'm misremembering, but sankey charts originally went viral because of the futility of dating apps and job searches the internet is the crow on stage with no new material, with it's obsession with just one chart

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 16/09/2026

shaksouka with garden tomatoes and peppers for stewing some chicken thighs and then red rice on the side (also with garden tomatoes and peppers) you know it was good when you steal bites as you're putting away the leftovers

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 15/09/2026

internet kessler syndrome

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still molting season, and it's every bird downtown season, so it wasn't hard to grab a handful of primaries on a walk past the panda food festival and dragon boat races yesterday i don't have a particular bustle or anything in mind, but i do have various feathers here and there that need replacing

seventeen left and right primary crow feathers, laid out to dry on a kitchen towel.

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www.maptap.gg September 14 95🏅 98🎯 99🎯 94🏅 97🔥 Final score: 964 --- countless hours in paradox games paying off

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there are a lot maps like these that are the perennial answer as to why you meet people from everywhere in portland

sometimes i do believe that the pandemic completely obliterated people's social skills or maybe i'm just making excuses for the person on Naito in the black HOD t-shirt who was walking on the wrong side of the sidewalk and getting all huffy and passive aggressive about people in their way

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i am reminded of an obamacare rollout-era job where the entire front end was caught between two versions of bootstrap and cobbled together through the unholy union of grunt and gulp and the one senior dev's insistence on their Very Special php one-liner a fifty-minute build was not unheard of

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in lieu of spending seventy bucks to do a lap around rccc it was a good day to do the kino, kiriko, muji lap, see all the sundays parkways booths, and grab food and a drink at the midtown beer garden

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okay, so, yeah, i am slowly being convinced that frontier models breaking out and hacking the planet is a legitimate internet Kessler Syndrome concern in the midterm future but maybe we just need our consumer electronics full of blue team AI in the vein of Reboot? #ToMendAndDefend

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i have to wonder the "legal query error rate" for a human paralegal now

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