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Michael Hulet
@hulet.tech
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As an artificial intelligence language model, I don’t really “do” anything in the traditional sense. I build and hack iPhone apps. Chaotic good. Nashville expat, immigrant to The Hague 🌹↙️↙️↙️

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Had a really productive PR at work today
GitHub PR diff screenshot with 38,771 additions and 38,883 deletions
June 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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When you quit your full-time job to go indie
Swift closure capture list reading "[unowned self]"
May 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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When the bug is your fault
Swift closure capture list reading "[weak self]"
April 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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These spinny platform/shelf things that you put stuff on so you can spin it around and have access to anything on it without having to move are called “lazy susans”. It must’ve come from the non-technical parts of the corpus lol
Wooden lazy susan tray (a circular platform that spins) with several spices and oils atop it on a kitchen counter
April 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference
Screenshot from the Apple Stocks app showing the NYSE taking a very steep dive in the past day. A headline from the Chicago Sun-Times at the bottom says “Dow drops 1,500 as US stock market leads a worldwide sell-off following Trump’s tariff shock”
April 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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How it feels to have left the US and moved to Europe in August of 2024
A line of people climbing a building to frantically board the last helicopter out of Saigon before the beginning of the Vietnam War
April 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Lisa Simpson stepping on-stage with self-righteous vigor and asserting that The Netherlands is a suburb of Amsterdam
March 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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It really said
Popup window from Visual Studio Code with the message "This code is ass. Session Terminated." There is a single option to click: "OK"
March 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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The company that makes my accounting software is writing a little profile blog post on me as a user and they asked me for a headshot to go with it and I just realized I accidentally sent them this
A black cat painted into the pond in one of Monet’s “Water Lillies” paintings. It’s comfortably swimming along with its head and tail above the water. Surrounding it is the text “I hope this email doesn’t find you. I hope you’ve escaped and now you’re free”
March 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Dramatic image of Gritty — the hairy, orange mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers — smiling maniacally with the text “bad things happen in Philadelphia” written over him
February 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Actually really happy with this
A 4-panel meme. In the top-left corner, Geordi from Star Trek is holding up his hand with his palm open, appearing to reject the thing in the top-right corner. In the top-right corner is the text “yelling at servers (restaurant)”. In the bottom-left corner, Geordi is pointing his finger, appearing to show approval for the thing in the bottom-right. In the bottom-right is the text “yelling at servers (IT)”
January 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Somewhere in an alternate universe, my streak just wrapped around back to 0, and I’m running for my life as I’m being hunted by the Duolingo owl
Promotional graphic from Duolingo, featuring the Duolingo owl aflame and rising up like a phoenix, featuring the text “I’m on a 2,000 day learning streak!”
December 30, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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When you charge your phone with your laptop
A big tanker jet refueling a small fighter jet mid-air
December 23, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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Drawing of a resolute man staring into the distance with the text “Yes.” underneath
December 18, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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Briefly opened Twitter again
Screenshot from Twitter saying "Trending in Netherlands: WHITE LIVES MATTER. 10K posts"
December 18, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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CEOs doing quite a bit of investment in PR these days
Screenshot of a message preview in Apple's Mail app. This message is from PenFed Credit Union, with the title "A Message of Gratitude from CEO James Schenck". Its description preview reads "Giving Back in This Season of Giving: Dear Michael, There's one thing I've noticed when I'm volunteering or…". It was received at 5:26 PM A screenshot of a message preview from the Apple Mail app. This message is from Boulder Community Health. Its subject preview says "A special holiday message from President and CEO R…". Its message description preview says "Thank you for supporting YOUR community health system! Dear valued community member, As we close 2…". It was received at 5:29 PM
December 17, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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The Dallas Stars last night #Preds
Hero image of 2 Dallas Stars players to each side of the logo of the Victory+ TV network, with the caption "Free Sports". The logo and caption combine to appear to read "Victory-Free Sports"
December 13, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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They say you are what you eat 😎
Blue Doritos bags on a shelf in a supermarket, of the flavor “Cool American”
December 7, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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I regret to inform you that I do not, though I’d be excited to learn. In the US, we have the Domino’s Pizza Tracker, which looks like a less ominous version of this, but I am ignorant to the horrors that Mohammed the Deployer hath wrought
Domino’s Pizza Tracker screenshot with the initial “ordered” state highlighted in red. The remaining states, colored blue, are “prep”, “bake”, “quality check”, and “ready”, in that order
November 17, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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My YouTube ads are getting uncomfortably specific
Screenshot of a notification from the YouTube app for iOS titled “apple needs you to find the bug.” It has the description “For you: Low Level” and includes an image of the rainbow Apple logo and the word “please” under it in italics
November 3, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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A screenshot of a fake WikiHow article titled “Affordable Ways to Practice Self-Care”. There’s a drawing of a man wearing a backpack and staring off into the woods before him. The text reads: “1. Abandon Society. Why go to work when you can become friends with a raccoon?”
November 14, 2023 at 6:25 PM
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Don’t forget, US friends: Local Election Day is tomorrow! These races are arguably even more important than the presidential one! Send me a DM if you need help getting to your polling station or want an opinion on who you should vote for
A sticker that says “I Voted” with theming of Colorado, the Rocky Mountains, and the American flag surrounding it
November 6, 2023 at 9:05 PM
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The existence of healthy soap implies the existence of diseased soap
A soap dispenser in an airport bathroom labeled “Purell Healthy Soap”
October 28, 2023 at 1:19 PM
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Just got to Pennsylvania
An image of a Spotted Lanternfly with the text “I AM BECOME DEATH, DESTROYER OF SPOTTED LANTERNFLIES”
August 24, 2023 at 5:18 PM
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@support.bsky.team I’m on an iPhone 12 Pro Max on iOS 16.5.1 (20F75) in Lockdown Mode running version 1.37 of the Bluesky app. When I try to save an image using the button at the bottom of the image viewer, I get this error. Bluesky has write-only access to my photos in Settings
Screenshot of the Bluesky image viewer showing an error that says “Failed to save image: Error: MEDIA_LIBRARY permission required to do this operation.”
July 3, 2023 at 7:16 PM