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Mootly Obviate
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Mootly Obviate is a virtual person, a nom de plum [sic], a concept, an idea. You can sometimes find her puttering around Second Life or in other creative fictions.
https://mooseplum.org/
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November 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
QOTD: "It’s not a security vulnerability that you have the power to annoy yourself."
October 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Asking bureaucracy a question is like asking an AI. If you don't have the correct prompt, you get really weird and mostly meaningless answers.
October 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Is using alcohol emoji at work an HR issue?
September 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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“But then something happened that the ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith, Director of sales, American Light & Fixture.” ✨🎨
September 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Here is my response to your question.
How Would YOU Start Second Life Today?
YouTube video by Prisqua Newall
youtu.be
March 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Clearly I need to found a startup named Vague Handwaving. I would have soooo many high profile clients.
September 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Take the old adage about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. Apply it to an octopus. Congratulations! You've discovered government contracting work!
August 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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just another day in the office
May 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Frustrated Man Gets Mustard All Over His New Hot Dog theonion.com/frustra...
August 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One of the most rewarding moments of my life was getting to ask an IT tech guy if he had tried turning it off and on again.

And yep, that fixed the problem.
August 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Dancing Boston Dynamics Robot Knows Its Revenge For This Will Be Sweet theonion.com/dancing...
August 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:
July 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I haven’t seen it yet. But I’m glad he’s still fighting fascists today!
July 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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July 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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July 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Hundreds of scientists are set to take part in the first performance of a new Scottish country dance inspired by the ripples in spacetime whose existence was first theorised by Albert Einstein.

More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q

#GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow
@uofgravity.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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July 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Working on customizing a simple, open-source, web-based WYSIWYG editor to fit out branding guidelines and realizing if one light-weight JavaScript application can do this much this well, why do giant, proprietary apps(*cough*Word*cough*) make such a mess of really basic tasks?
June 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Is the bro version of the Bechdel test a question of whether a work features two men having a conversation about something other than their egos?
June 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I just read the greatest play submission. Never have I sympathized so strongly the emotions of the main character overwhelmed as they were with boredom, ennui, and the desire to be doing almost anything else anywhere else. A true masterwork of hollowness.
June 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I used to think "Instant Water (just add water)" was an absurdist joke (I mean, who would fall for that?) until the advent of that monetized browser wrapper known as the app.
June 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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May 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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"this is how we grow our platform and attract new users"

I'm sorry, you want MORE people?

Have you MET people
May 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
NEWS:

Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."

We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.

One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM