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An Eldritch Abomination • Gentleman Hacker • Artifex • Opifex • Artificer • Digressive Anecdotalist • Rhyparographer • Raconteur • Acerbic Fabulist • Inventor of the Pocket Sandwich

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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 39m
My bank shows a list of notifications, most recent first (so sorted in reverse order). Click on one and Next goes to the older one, not the next newest one. Why can't this match? Top posting is a fucking scourge.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 1h
Mel Brooks & Buck Henry: "Our show Get Smart was written as parody of the secret agent genre." Tech Companies: "At long last, we have created the excessive multilayered authentication gauntlet that must be navigated to login online from the intro to the classic secret agent show Get Smart."
youtube.com
Get Smart opening
YouTube video by 777CARL777
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 18h
Early 80s Carol Leifer standup at 1.5× speed gives Robin Williams vibes.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aliasing "git pull" to "git merge" so that GitHub's concept of "pull request" makes sense when applied to a single, shared repo.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've watched Mad Men S3E13 "Shut the Door. Have a Seat" a few dozen times and I just now realized the relevance of the flashbacks to Dick's father.
Don Draper saying "Who the hell is in charge? A bunch of accountants trying to turn a $1 into a $1.10?"Roger Sterling saying "Christ. From one John's bed to the next. What a joke."
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look, it doesn't work if you don't use this text in your skeets. These games posts gum up the smooth processing of skeets. You can post it, just use the obvious word in your skeet or alt-text so this muting takes effect.
Screenshot showing that I've muted something
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rolling Stone, one of the most famous periodicals about music, media, and culture, is now writing about music that people don't listen to and the people who don't listen to it.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two years in the bag, three years in the can.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
You wanna sit on the memorial park bench in honor of Cobain's memory. I wanna shoot the gun. We are not the same.
Map view of the Kurt Cobain Memorial Bench.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Recruiting for a heist. It's going to take a particular kind of team to steal The Gun that Killed Kurt Cobain. Only the best need apply.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Agentic coding can help start & finish the customer-of-one personal projects that there was never time for. I wonder how many of those things will still be getting use weeks, months, or years later.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's well established that Seinfeld and Mad About You are in the same universe—Kramer sublets from Paul—and in Seinfeld S7E1 George and Susan are shown watching Mad About You, which means that in that universe Mad About You is a documentary.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pete Campbell responding to if his balls dropped with "absolutely".
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thiel hastily scribbling on a napkin trying to explain how he's uncovered additional alignment chart dimensions they've been hiding from us.
Pepe Silvia conspiracy board, Charlie Day waving a cigarette around because he's cracked it wide open.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A new "at least Mussolini made the trains run on time" just dropped.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thiel is so dumb he thinks the commutative property applies to Hanlon's razor.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is like a reverse meme template madlib, guess the template based on the substitutions.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's well established that Seinfeld and Mad About You are in the same universe—Kramer sublets from Paul—and in Seinfeld S7E1 George and Susan are shown watching Mad About You, which means that in that universe Mad About You is a documentary.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sloppy Nub
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
wtf is this shit?
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Pete Campbell wants only one thing, and it's disgusting.
NUDI-FAX magazine 
The factual story of contemporary nudism.ING International Nudistour GuideUS News and World Report, early 60s, cover story is "The True Story of Pearl Harbor".Pete Campbell about to shoot ropes into a cup to prove that his balls dropped "absolutely".
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How far away are we from "I'm getting injected with a MAGA super serum that will make me strong enough to eat the Trump mystery meat" ?
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Equine Helper
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What's with some commercials being all low resolution pixelated. I don't think you can buy a camera anymore that emits this resolution.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh man, here we go!
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sooner or later, everybody goes to the zoo.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CHEESE OUT IN THE WIND!
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Shermer HS principals on where they draw the line with respect to "punks". "I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind." "I make $31,000 a year and I have a home and I'm not about to throw it all away on some punk like you."
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Imagine all the bullshit" ~ John Lennon, probably
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When the fourth wall is behind you.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
slop-goggles
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You bring iced coffee to an in-person job interview, I'm nursing three fingers of Johnnie Walker during a video interview, we are not the same.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elrond Hubbard
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All systems NO!
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 11/08/2024
Hilo Beckworthy is my spirit animal.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Me, reading your mind so I can know your skeets before you skeet them.
A man with a white beard sits, grey shirt, and gold tie, sits in the foreground. On his head is some kind of device attached to an arm that presumably is attached to some kind of computer behind him. He does not look like he's enjoying himself.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
The Wagon Queen Family Cyber Truckster: You think you hate it now, wait till you see it self-driving.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The lament about engineers at places like Google being incentivized to make arbitrary changes to their public facing products because that's where they get recognition I suspect may have tremendous value internally to reduce the tendency to bikeshed and churn on internal things.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 28/04/2024
Classic movie scene.
Mad Men scene with Peggy complaining that Don wins the awards, but it's steamed hams, I mean the courtroom scene from A Few Good Men "did you order the code red?"
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The nasty women of Mad Men.
Sally's momHenry's momMegan's momPeggy's mom
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Me, reading your skeets.
Scene from Mad Men with the subtitle "that's when you really want to blow your brains out"
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
A Mad Men spinoff, set twenty years later, about Tammy Campbell finding out she has a half-brother.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not to throw shade on shoe makers, but "cobbling together" doesn't make one think of a high level of robustness, precision, or completeness that is really what the engineers should be concentrating on, even if it is at a higher level of abstraction.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A friend of mine says that if he were to eat one of these he would die.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
PIZZA PUFF IN DA HOUSE!
Iltaco "Pizza Puff", box of four.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Time-shifting is legal, so should space-shifting.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We had a vision of the future, one where we'd all be visibly wearing prosthetic enhancement technology, but we weren't advanced enough to apply it to anything other than machines.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A CD-ROM caddy is one of those odd things where you need to put something into a container in order to use it.
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thwarted 🍌 @thwarted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1x speed, the base unit all later CD-ROM performance is compared to and based on. This is like looking at the platinum-iridium alloy cylinder International Prototype of the Kilogram.
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