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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Well, I mean that's a pretty specific scenario
According to Marsden, *highlighted* the trouble started after she fell headfirst into a wheelbarrow filled with dirt and water while cleaning out horse stables. *End highlight* Covered in mud, she scrambled to wash herself and her face with tap water but neglected to remove her contacts until later that evening.
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Screenshot from Simpsons Episode "Crepes of Wrath" where an Albanian exchange student is standing on the Springfield Elementary stage with Principal Skinner. Behind and above them in front of the closed purple curtain are an American flag and an Albanian flag and a banner saying "Welcome Adil Hoxha"
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Jeffery Epstein Meme of Jim Downey on Conan O'Brien's podcast with altered text saying "Michael Jordan? The NASCAR owner?"
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
It's Toonces! (The cat who could drive a car)
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
His obvious skill lends me to believe that this is an intentional design and messaging, however subtle.
Image from the Time article "about the covers" showing the time cover in progress provided by the artist. The heads have been painted but the bodies have not yet and only have rough sketches representing the final layout.
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
An elder impersonation account with a good Reply gag!
Screenshot of fake Jarry Chen account on Bluesky with the BlueSky Elder labeller active showing the account was created before August 2023
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
In the same satellite view the rose garden isn't paved yet so this may have been prep work or something unrelated, but not yet tearing down the building.
Same satellite view but zoomed out showing that the rose garden still has grass and so the photo had to have been taken before July 2025
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Phil Spencer in 2023 wearing a black Hexen t-shirt under a lightweight green jacket during an Xbox Games Showcase stream.
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Screenshot for posterity. Lol
Screen shot of Bluesky post and reply:

Post:
Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online

Everyone loves the Philly Phanatic but ESPN doing an "interview" with him during a whole half inning is going way too far

Reply:
The American Way Initiative

@jrw1987.bsky.social

A Constitutional Convention to restore the balance of power in the United States. The 28th Amendment: the Right to Vote. The 29th Amendment: abolish the Electoral College. The 30th Amendment: abolish the political chokehold of the Supreme Court. An illusion of waiting for the next election is a lie.

July 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I'm just reminded of the Futurama don't date robots warning episode, seems like cross purposes.
Image from Futurama episode "I Dated a Robot" in which Fry is told to watch a 1950's style educational video imploring teens not to date robots with the meme caption of "But in a world where teens can date robots, why should he bother?"
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Still from The Simpsons episode of a very wrinkly Troy McClure emphasizing his age with Bart asking "Why'd they make that one muppet out of leather?" And Marge replying "That's not a muppet. That's Troy McClure."
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Welp, that's what I get for not reading the source article first still think 100m is lofty.
It was thought that if Glacier did the same, it could achieve comparable numbers, so a free-to-play Battle Royale mode was made a core offering for the title, alongside a six-hour single-player campaign, traditional Battlefield multiplayer modes like Conquest and Rush, a new free-to-play mode called Gauntlet, and a community content mode called Portal.
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Interestingly that website appears to be a Chinese reseller (domain registered in China via Alibaba) or could be dropshipper based elsewhere using Alibaba domain hosting too? Why not profit via political instability - two birds and all.
Screenshot of who.is registration page showing the domain jujumini is registered with name servers ".hichina" and also the Registrar is Alibaba Cloud Computing
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Interesting choice of voice here. www.kansan.com/news/we-re-n...
"I would consider myself a Christian nationalist. I believe that the founding fathers believed that this was a Christian nation," Thompson said. "The thing I'm most invested in is Trump protecting Christians."
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Woah, woah, woah. Figurehead of the First Crew is the only answer to this. How could Rare argue otherwise!?
Screenshot of the Figurehead of the First Crew showing painted barrel-based facsimiles of the old Unity "jellybean" models used in proof of concept testing the game, prior to switching engines to Unreal and modelling out the actual pirates.
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Here is the relevant part for anyone interested
Screenshot from Larry King interview, clip with Busey: GARY BUSEY, SURVIVED NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE: Because I didn't think I needed one. It was my ego. And it was feeling the wind in high hair. I was wrong. Arnold -- my friend Arnold, "Gary, you need to wear your helmet." I said my son Jake, dad, you've got to wear that helmet. And I'd say OK, it will be there when I need it. But God had a way of teaching me the lesson and making a humanitarian out of me, by slamming me against that curb at 75 miles an hour, splitting my skull open. Having brain surgery, dying on the table after the brain surgery, having an experience out of body. I got

some messages, Larry.

KING: You had an out of body experience?

BUSEY: Yes.

KING: Saw God?

BUSEY: I saw angels. I was surrounded by angels. And they don't look like what they look like onlike on Christmas cards. They're big balls of light

that float and carry nothing but love and
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
List of US State tax burdens from WalletHub Overall Rank* 	State	Total Tax Burden
(%) 	Property Tax Burden
(%) 	Individual Income Tax Burden
(%) 	Total Sales & Excise Tax Burden
(%) 
1	Hawaii	13.92%	2.57%
(31)	4.18%
(5)	7.17%
(1)
2	New York	13.56%	4.28%
(4)	5.76%
(1)	3.52%
(22)
3	Vermont	11.53%	5.00%
(1)	3.08%
(15)	3.45%
(25)
4	California	11.00%	2.78%
(21)	4.87%
(2)	3.35%
(29)
5	Maine	10.64%	4.14%
(5)	3.02%
(16)	3.48%
(23)
6	New Jersey	10.30%	4.67%
(3)	2.87%
(18)	2.76%
(42)
7	Illinois	10.22%	3.81%
(8)	2.63%
(24)	3.78%
(18)
8	Rhode Island	10.08%	3.93%
(7)	2.75%
(21)	3.40%
(26)
9	Maryland	10.04%	2.63%
(26)	4.47%
(3)	2.94%
(38)
10	Connecticut	9.90%	3.96%
(6)	3.22%
(13)	2.72%
(43)
11	Minnesota	9.72%	2.74%
(24)
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Meme of Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused where he traditionally says "Alright, Alright, Alright" but replaced with "AI, AI, AI" as the AAA in 'AAA writers' from the quote from Valnet.
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Inside of you there are two wolves
Bluesky screenshot of Niki Grayson challenging the reader to a fight at the VGBees mixer and John Warren saying let's party dude. Both are re-skeeting the same VGBees post creating a fun juxtaposition.
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This 2021 NPR article has maps of where cases were found and the distance from the lab vs the markets. I'm no expert, but just another point to back your actual points Outbreak Expert Points To Huanan Market Origin For Pandemic, Citing New Data : Goats and Soda www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Maps showing cases near markets and miles away from the virology lab in Wuhan China in late 2019 from NPR article Outbreak Expert Points To Huanan Market Origin For Pandemic, Citing New Data : Goats and Soda  https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/19/1016005828/new-data-leads-to-rethinking-once-more-where-the-pandemic-actually-began
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
www.klarna.com/us/payments/... they say that if your payment is unsuccessful you get a late fee added to the next payment (up to 25% of total initial purchase). I'd be willing to bet this is a large revenue stream.
What happens if I miss a payment? We'll email you if your payment is unsuccessful. We'll also try one more time to collect it. If we can't collect it a second time, it will be added to your next payment along with a late fee of up to $7.00. The aggregate sum of your late fees will never exceed 25% of your order value at the time of purchase
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Jerry, I legitimately thought this was an AI hallucination, but no. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerman also the Critical Reception section is a bit harsh!
Screenshot of Wikipedia entry for Hammerman, Critical Reception section saying "Entertainment Weekly journalist Dalton Ross listed Hammerman at the top of his list "Top 5 Most Ridiculous Things to Be Turned Into a Saturday Morning Cartoon", and described the show as "idiotic" "
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I'm not a subscriber so all I could do was screenshot the headline image but here is the whole US for those interested in a rough idea
Image of United States covered in red and blue squares of proportional size to the number of federal workers in their corresponding metro areas
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Had no idea what this picture was and had my first useful AI search results without additional information provided, just using circle to search.
Google Gemini search results just from searching the image producing the result "The image shows the entrance hall of Balamb Garden from the game Final Fantasy VIII..."
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Screenshot of notification inside Google Play Store saying "Looking for a Bytedance App? Downloads for this app are paused due to current US legal requirements"
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Huh, that's a legit curious question. Is it because it supercedes other platform chats thus resolving the discord of different services? Wikipedia quotes because it "sounds cool and has to do with talking" (!?):
The name Discord was chosen because it "sounds cool and has to do with talking", was easy to say, spell, remember, and was available for trademark and website. In addition, "Discord in the gaming community" was the problem they wished to solve.
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Huh Wikipedia says it was altered to circumvent German laws but then just kept the name for future entries. Fascinating, TIL! Thanks!
Probotector is a modified version of the NES Contra that was released for the PAL region and France on December 28, 1990. This version redesigns the human protagonists and some of the enemy characters to give them a robotic appearance.[3][4][14] This was done to circumvent the BPjM's censorship laws in Germany, which prohibits the sales of violent video games to minors. Subsequent Contra games for home consoles followed suit, all being released in the PAL region under the Probotector title and featuring similar modifications. Beginning with Contra: Legacy of War, Konami abandoned the Probotector title and localized most of the further games with minimal changes
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Does iOS have granular notification settings per app like Android?
Screenshot of Android notifications settings with on/off toggles for Bluesky showing three options, Chat, Chat-muted, and Miscellaneous.
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Ned Flanders on the Simpsons explaining the difference between apple juice and apple cider - "IF IT'S CLEAR AND YELLA, YOU'VE GOT JUICE THERE, FELLA.

IF IT'S TANGY AND BROWN, YOU'RE IN CIDER TOWN.

NOW, THERE'S TWO EXCEPTIONS, AND IT GETS TRICKY HERE..."
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Your work is all about connection, so I'm wondering first, can you describe your own social life? What clubs are you in? That's a really embarrassing question. [Laughs] I write about and talk about the importance of connections, but my wife actually does it. She is actually the one who joins everything, who has been a tutor and a teacher and a terrific mother and an even better grandmother. In the long run, her work is going to have a longer half-life than mine, because those kids are going to be around long after people have forgotten anything about this Putnam
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
This kid knows.
Distressed toddler wearing business casual being held by thumbs-up-giving mom in Trump photo on far left of original posts photo (cropped to emphasize distressed face).
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 03/08/2024
Lol whaaaaat?
Screenshot of original screenshot but with Google Translate translating the Chinese characters to the words "Poop in his ear"
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
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Jacob @ucfjake.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
Looks like it happened between 10:30am and 5:14pm yesterday. The game is afoot!
Screenshot of posts from Camera-on-Hudson showing the correct horizon at 10:38am and the tilted horizon at 5:14pm on February 3.
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