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I didn't even remember who was QB with Mayfield out!

I have a petty list: - SF->Boston transplant: “why would anyone go to Kentucky” - VP who “solved” my complex issue with AI (he didn’t) - Recruiter who threw me under the bus saying that I as a new manager promised him 25% vs the contractually agreed to 20%. - etc…

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Sacks are 2 pts in our league and Dallas D/ST still got -2 last night.

Cowboys D/ST in my fantasy league scoring -2 last night.

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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 08/10/2026

Jim Cantore, mister lean into hurricane force winds and jump up and down in thundersnow, surprised a mainland side resident at Miramar Beach wearing an OU hat would be looking forward to landfall.

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Uncle Lewis and Aunt Bethany in the waiting room except that Uncle Lewis can only whisper yell.

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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 08/10/2026

This sticker but also the “Jesus Christ Superstar” performance with Sara Bareilles in it came to mind (was listening to it last night)

“You don’t need to worry; everything’s already alright”
*Sara Bareilles*

Sticker with lyrics from “Home” from the “Good Grief” album

Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 08/10/2026

Ok, has anyone read “A Canticle for Lebowitz”? Think Mrs. Grales/Rachel.

Biden next to Trump but it kinda looks like Trump is growing out of Biden?

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We are going to erase the national debt by selling chances to destroy Trump shit with a sledgehammer

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lower half of "overweight", that is

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I was running 80+ miles per week and down to the lowest weight of my adult life in 2009 at 33 and was ::almost:: in the lower half of BMI.

My cousins with me in the middle after the Memphis Marathon

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Happy to announce my developing headache from not sleeping.

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Yes, Teams, my microphone is muted. I'm allergic to b̶u̶l̶l̶s̶mornings.

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This mandatory training could have been an email. Yes, it's 3AM here.

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A Google sign-in notification for Auto-Latex Equations feels like it really could use the proper orthography for LaTeX

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we have a couple 4 inch foam mattresses and vacuum bags but... it's not the most practical option.

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gddmt this was my favorite part of rivalrying... fans and boosters shooting the program in the foot with unreasonable expectations. Of course it would come home at some point.

Also the touchscreens do _not_ like Florida sun.

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also wife and I have our second Tempurpedic of our marriage and it's about toast but still easily beats most hotel beds and 99% of AirBnB beds.

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omg i totally forgot about Hotel Indigo (IHG) across from the Fox Theatre in Atlanta... A/C was by default "eco" mode but you could contact the front desk for "VIP" control of the A/C... but the big issue was that the sheers blocked the airflow from the A/C so it was 74ºF the first night. 🥵

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It's amazing that someone who was seemingly outspoken about 2016 Trump is now kissing the ass of a shared community leader (DHH) who has devolved into *phobia and racism. As a former Louisville Twitter person said: "make it through a post without glazing DHH challenge"

LinkedIn post: People have been begging David to loosen his grip on Rails or even to walk away entirely for 20 years. Now that he's signaling interest in walking away, the same people are pissed as hell. Smart.

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Salem’s Lot (1979) Pretty sure I buried myself under the covers for years after seeing it on HBO and probably is part of the reason I started sleeping face down.

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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 04/10/2026

I grumble 8-9AM *meetings* on Monday

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Feels like the original instant replay was not as horrible as the current iterations, but I was a kid who also used to cheer on lots of extra innings in MLB postseason back then.

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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 04/10/2026

Ok, who regularly does adolescent/amateurish parodies of songs in stressful situations? For example, my “lab mix” 25 years ago had intestinal issues in her crate for the 😱 time and I just blurted out, “Poops, I did it again…”

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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 04/10/2026

Why in the bloody hell is someone shooting mortar shells off in Largo, Florida on October 3rd?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026

The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

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“I forget you have a 502 number” says my son whose phone number is tied to Pensacola.

🤔 move the girl to Louisville to be an in-state student for Kent School of Social Work (living with SIL and paying her own way). Seems a stretch still for many reasons.

If it does my dishes, laundry, and all the yard work, I might see it worth ~$20k per year to me on the high side. And I can get a competent robomower for <$2k, so that seems a bit high.

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When bigotry is the only way to make your platform implicitly popular, idk if drawing the line at “extra dumb bigotry” can avoid being a net negative in terms of support.

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I torment former coworkers on Discord with these

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Not sure if lack of using an internal or nonexistent letter is made up for padding/picking insignificant words or not.

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Sara Bareilles — Just A Kid [Live @ SiriusXM]

I found a recording of the "Good Grief" tour stop on 2026-09-19 and "Just a Kid" is still getting to me. (It's about her friend and former manager, Chad Joseph, who died from lung cancer in 2020) [Live @ SiriusXM] performance www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvBj...

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YouTube video by SiriusXM

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I’d happily buy a ticket irrespective of actual attendance just dig the psychic damage a little deeper on 🐀

Oh shit I was in Atlanta too does that mean I get a free trip to DC?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t know, Sara… I’m having trouble feeling it…

Sara Bareilles quote from “Home”: “You don’t need to worry everything’s already alright”

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Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 29/09/2026

Wife at the "Good Grief" concert: [Sara] has a set of lungs (particularly "Still Crying" and "Gravity") Me (internally): www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN8x... and also "...an E3 and an A5 in the same set?" (No, she didn't do "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", because the audience would have been a puddle.)

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Vocal ANALYSIS of my FAVORITE YOUTUBE VIDEO! Sara Bareilles singing "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"

YouTube video by The Charismatic Voice

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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 27/09/2026

After only knowing the songs on WDJX or WAMZ until junior year in HS, I became algorithmically locked in before algos: cast recordings for musicals, oratorio recordings, LFPL sourced library books, then an mp3 CD of my 150 favorite songs/artists. Unaware by habit for 30+ years.

Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 26/09/2026

Is ordering a pizza so complicated that we need a fucjing AI interface for jt?

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Stringsn88keys @thomaspowell.com · 26/09/2026

Sorry apparently my son and I hacked your Kroger account.