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We need to ditch these computerized ticket sale systems and return to our cultural roots: A violent mob charging the door at Walmart the way god intended.

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Hahahahaha. I finally got through to the "You are now in line" page at 12:11, so an hour and 11 minutes of server errors. It says there are 33,127 users in line ahead of me. Hmmm. Something tells me this isn't going to work.

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Oh boy, the site is still spitting 504 errors an hour after tickets went on sale. Scalper bots are nothing new, of course, but I wonder if people are sicking their "AI agents" on the poor Benaroya site. Torturing the poor web admins like a temple full of keese.

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"You see, honey, a ticket bot is like a ReDead but for website-hosting computers. It screams really loud and makes everything else stop moving. And unfortunately, Banaroya Hall did not learn the Sun's Song."

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Modern day parenting means having to explain to your child who is learning how to play Zelda songs on her ocarina that we couldn't get tickets to the Zelda symphony because bots crashed the Benaroya website.

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Gotta add jalapeños to half my next batch of cookies.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Before becoming a parent, I liked Jalapeño flavored Tim’s Chips because they tasted good. But now that I have a kid I know the real benefit is that I get to eat the whole bag.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I spilled my very blood for this cause.

A t-shirt for the Pucks and Pints blood donation drive.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Remember when Altman said he couldn’t imagine parenting without AI? I feel that way but about fruit leathers.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I had a dream last night that someone found and posted a video of a younger me drunk and riding a bike that was on fire through a field. I did not remember doing this, but everyone on the internet was really mad at me for being irresponsible about fire safety. “This is how brush fires start!”

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My phone decided to show me a photo memory from this day three years ago when I took a photo of my positive covid test. Ah yes, good times. Thanks for the trip through memory lane, phone.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If we were really mean parents, we’d pack her leftovers in her lunch for tomorrow.

Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Scientists discover the smallest known mass in the universe after studying the bite my child just took from the home cooked dinner @kellireef.bsky.social made her.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sending a follow-up email confirming that I unsubscribed from your email list is a form of violence.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“No results from your search” is itself very valuable information.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I refuse to surrender the em dash to the bots. They seek to denude us of our typeset belt—our longest, most confusing, and third-most useful dash—and we must fight to hold up the trousers of literature.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

They dropped their protest when shakira appeared.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The kids are demanding that they bring back the muppets.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I can’t wait watch these two face each other in the World Cup final.

The remarkable story of Lionel Messi’s meeting with a baby Lamine Yamal. Photo shows a hound Messi helping a baby take a bath. It’s a real photo.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I think people should have to go somewhere to gamble.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I’m not sure it was worth it to reorganize the entire economy, evaporate desert lakes, poison the air, strain local power grids and violate the copyrights of every person who has ever created anything just to make web search worse.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

All they needed to do to keep me as a paying customer until the end of time was to not make gmail worse, but they just couldn’t help themselves. I guess I’m glad they did me a favor since I’ll save a bunch of money this way.

Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

For real, though, I was paying $15/mo for my business suite stuff plus $20/year for extra gmail storage and would probably have continued doing so forever. I cancelled the business suite already (don’t miss it at all) and am archiving old emails on my pc so I can get back to the free tier.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The Google None plan sounds awesome! For just $5/mo and they will stop forcing AI slop into your gmail.

Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I think it matters if something is true or not.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

News site: A businesses that people love is closing (but you have to click to find out which one) Fine, I’ll click. News site: Ad. Ad. Loading… Video ad. Loading… Ad. Ad. Loading… Ah, I see, it must be the news site that’s dying.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

What’s funny is my beer league team just did the same thing, so my teammate and I were joke that it would happen …

Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

That was brutal. Pretty rare to score and empty netter and then lose.

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The Catholic Church is fucking wild. They should not have kicked this hornet’s nest. Hegseth wouldn’t last 5 minutes in a room of nuns enforcing the virtue of repentance.

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They gave me wine during school in 2nd grade. Maybe the Education Secretary can weigh in on that. (I had to look it up because I somehow forgot that it’s Linda McMahon from the WWE because sure why not?)

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RFK needs to issue a strong statement about how the multiplying of the loaves is making our bodies weak with gluten.

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I look forward to them accusing the Pope of giving handouts. “There’s no free lunch!”

It’s so funny. How am I finding myself standing up for the pope?!? How did this happen? But, like, the Pope is VERY good at theology.

Make Heaven Great Again! All this forgiveness stuff is weak. When I was a kid, we had the God of Job, and it built character. The kids these days with their reconciliation and whatnot…

You’ll finger those beads until you bleed.

“Under a Vance Papacy, we’ll require mandatory Hail Mary minimums for reconciliation. No more of this soft on crime nonsense!”

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It’s just so fucking funny. Like, I’m sure non-Catholics can see how it’s a little funny. But Catholics believe the Pope is literally God’s messenger on Earth. He can absolve the repentant of sin and welcome them to the kingdom of heaven. Weak on crime! Jesus Christ, man.

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Tom Fucoloro @tfooq.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

These fucking guys are really going to make me, a survivor of 14 years of Catholic school, stand up for the Catholic Church. I never thought I’d see the day. But man, “The Pope is soft on crime” is absolutely killing me.

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There’s a type of anti-Trump person who always thinks he is playing 4D chess rather than being a narcissistic fool. I look forward to takes like, “Trump sent Melania to shift everyone’s focus to Epstein and away from the unpopular war in Iran, which Trump started to shift focus away from Epstein.”