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AKA Brian. Middle aged he/him geek in Tucson. Not tall. Now works as low-level cog in prison-industrial complex.

Blogs: https://randomgeekery.org
Toots: https://masto.hackers.town/@randomgeek
Married to https://bsky.app/profile/iammrsgeek.bsky.social
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Change one letter, ruin a candy:

Gummi Beers
Change one letter, ruin a candy:

MILKY WAX
Change one letter, ruin a candy

Bitterfinger
October 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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🚗 Jim's on the road and the last and final stop for XO Ruby is Austin!

Are you along our route? If you're in or near any of the following cities along the way, reach out to us to meet up.
📍 Tucson, AZ (10/20–10/21)
📍 El Paso, TX (10/22)
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Applied for a job online. This one shared an AI Resume Summary of the CV I uploaded and—just complete gibberish. More in common with a William S Burroughs novel than anything I wrote.

If that’s what HR is relying on then no wonder none of us are getting hired.
October 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Why do I understand this, everything is the worst
anthropic releasing wet claude before openai can ship sextgpt is an amazing move
October 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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As technologists, it has never been more important to hold this feeling and focus our efforts on recapturing what’s been lost.

Acknowledge that this is a labor issue. AI is capital’s organized effort to wrest all remaining power from our hands. Educate yourself, get organized, and go build.
I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
October 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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"I'm enjoying this!"

"Do you recommend it?"

"Honestly, I'm terrified to recommend it. You can tell when it was written, and I feel like I need to give several 'yes, various parts are bullcarp and/or shockingly offensive' warnings."
October 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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fewer than 1% of the human population will ever get to type a comeback as contextually devastating as this
September 30, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Free PR tip: your fancy email backgrounds may look cool, but they can often end up like this.

Stick to plain colours. Save the flashy stuff for including in the main body of the email, not the background.
September 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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This is the greatest
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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It's 2000, & wreck diver Rod Macdonald has discovered something terrifying:

"Dave and I couldn’t resist the temptation to fin over to the edge of the pinnacle & look over the side, down into the 200-metre deep abyss.

[Then] I became aware that my exhaled bubbles had stopped rising upwards..."

1/
September 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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lot of people been posting this one but here’s my post of it with my name correct. okie doke
posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch
September 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Girl, I am losing my mind
September 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic.

Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
September 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Brush theory, but it’s the same brush, same size.
September 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive this week is Competence. Sometimes known as competence porn, it’s just work that has people doing a good job of whatever they’re doing.

Suggestions for competence in Science Fiction or Fantasy? Give them to me!
September 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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ALSO on South Park and Charlie Kirk.

There's a danger in 'mocking' evil, in that you can promote it.

Mel Brooks is a master extraordinare of mocking evil in a way that doesn't make it cool to embrace.

Charlie Kirk embraced being on South Park, and launched the tour he died on.
September 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Trying to ask Julia Roberts and bypass Ayo Edibiri on a question about the “ending” of the Me Too & BLM movements is wild for many reasons.

But they must not know THE MLK Jr and Coretta Scott paid Julia Roberts’s parents hospital bills for her birth. You playing with the wrong white lady
September 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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🚨EXTREME CHILL ALERT KLAXON🚨

Dorfromantik by @toukana.bsky.social is currently on sale on Steam. It is the ultra-chill game you (I) knew you (I) needed but couldn't find. Enjoy!

store.steampowered.com/app/1455840/...
Save 60% on Dorfromantik on Steam
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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It's my birthday! 🍰
May I ask for art shares on this fine day 💜✨

As a bonus, I've been wondering, is there any particular character or theme you'd like to see me draw in the future? If so, let me know!

#art | #hades | #baldursgate3 | #dragonage
September 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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in 2010 my ex husband worked at the odeon in manchester and it wasn’t a word I think I had heard before then (midwest, middle class, middling education) and just yesterday realized that nickelodeon is a compound word
September 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
“And beyond” indeed!
September 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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The Rapture but only crappy people vanish
September 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The user testimonials posted on the website for this streaming music app are phenomenal

nuclearplayer.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM