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so, the x-axis is showing that the search terms were somewhere between their peak popularity and not? cool. super useful. totally valid and useful trends there

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except when 100 is "less" than 0 in a ranking system, which would completely invert whatever correlation you think you're seeing.

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then what exactly is the correlation? that you people are utterly gullible to a chart that reinforces your prior beliefs?

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that's exactly the problem though. with a completely meaningless x-axis, you have to assume false or fabricated correlations

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going from hand sewing to using a machine and breaking a couple needles off some very dumb mistakes but the potential labor savings here means a ton of simple tasks, like new throw pillow cases, are well within reach (aka deskilling my hand sewing and this old kenmore is merely mimicking a stitch)

A throw pillow with blue, white and purple native geometric design propped up on a green couch

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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?...

youtu.be

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?

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

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this feels like watching a once-thought-extinct species get reintroduced into the wild

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like some kind of on-line guitar archive

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text elementals are rad

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like, it's constantly uncanny how well it calibrates on what you're asking for. "oh, a long-time poweruser of git is trying to make heads or tails of what jj is and what it's doing, cool, here's our 4-point plan that gets you fully up to speed, just ask if you get stuck or something doesn't click"

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 24/09/2026

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

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writing my cover letter in scribus like an absolute nerd

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feels like a mitchell and webb bit, do they take suggestions?

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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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census numbers filtered through a vibe-coded website chock full of claudisms. i'm no luddite, but running with a random screengrab off a random LLM-generated website is kind of wild when the official census website is right there

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i was pointing out the erasure in your chart, which is kind of ironic given the topic.

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is that what i was arguing?

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but before they get too flustered i will confide that even natives are transplants, what else do you call moving down from the okanogons or up from the mesas?

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

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that chart doesn't seem right. how do you fit both pacific islanders (0.6%) and native americans (0.8%) into that last category? www.census.gov/quickfacts/f...

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the headline for sure. the article itself seems kind of innocuous, just late to the party. the gendering that can happen in programming and especially front-end roles feels like old news and well hashed out: yes it sucks, we have to keep fixing it, CSS is a real programming language

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...

kgw.com

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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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it's funny how stable those old personality tests are, but i still don't quite trust them, you know? they feel too much like astrology, even if they return stable results OCEAN is probably fine though

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infp: i'm not fully present

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post-apocalyptic but a dash of pre-clovis? i do always wonder what it must've been like to have the glaciers right there in the sound or what it was like to see the missoula floods firsthand

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