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petabites.bsky.social
Houston Do'ug
@petabites.bsky.social
160 followers 420 following 310 posts
X-free since 2022/11/02

* the profile pic is from my background photo ... which is from some fifty year old album art (that I can't name one song from)
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petabites.bsky.social
yes Walmart low-fat milk, someday... you'll be mine.
Walmart Black Friday notifications blow up thumbnail pic of a gallon of milk with caption: "WE NOTICED YOU NOTICING THIS. Shop Now And Make It Yours."
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
petabites.bsky.social
and there's a Colonel of truth about no General accountability anymore...
Col. (Bat) Guano with 2 grenades and a rifle, about to shoot open a vending machine to retrieve a dime for Peter Sellers to use in a payphone to reach someone outside the facilities, after getting nowhere with (PoE) Brig. General Jack Ripper CAPTION: You're Gonna Have To Answer To The Coca Cola Company"
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
petabites.bsky.social
GoogleAI: the portmanteau for KenWay is very confusing

(tbh, RichBro would've been better)
The company was originally founded in the 1960s as "Kenway" by two University of Utah engineering graduates, KEN Richins and Wayne BROWN
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
petabites.bsky.social
1985: school calculators are smarter than a fifth grader!
a basic calculator that (incorrectly) stating: 2 PLUS 3 TIMES 4 EQUALS 20 algebraic operation calculator (correctly) stating: 2 PLUS 3 TIMES 4 EQUALS 14 [as thirteen year olds in most countries know without using the wrong tools]
October 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
petabites.bsky.social
since the "kidney grills" somehow became fashionable on BMWs after 2018 ... I'm waiting to see when they match 1960 Mercedes and eventually, a Hitler mustache

* my money is on Tesla doing that Hitler face while "German engineering" goes full Ford Edsel
a sixty year old Mercedes Benz 300 sedan with the extreme decorative front grill that is so narrow as to resemble the squared Charlie Chaplin (or Adolf Hitler) mustache
October 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
petabites.bsky.social
so did 20% of commercial jets fall from the sky today?

Rapture, Jan 🙄
September 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
petabites.bsky.social
maybe that Texas Navy will sail the "Gulf of America" and fight Mexico 🙄
t-shirt with Texas Lone Star State flag "SECEDE? Y'all are lucky we don't INVADE!"
July 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
petabites.bsky.social
there are more CyberTrucks off site in Houston, than at the dealership (2 miles away, also a couple blocks off the same six lane road)

* hundreds of Tesla vehicles, total
standing in the same spot -- looking East -- as the other photo of dozens of unsold CyberTrucks ($4M plus) standing in the same spot -- looking West -- as the other photo of dozens of CyberTruck unsold inventory ($4,000,000+)
July 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
petabites.bsky.social
__www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/23/can-iran-really-shut-down-the-strait-of-hormuz

ATTACK-of-the-SHARPIE !

watch out, or Donald Trump will take out map and pen, and rename these bodies of water to "US Gulf" and the "Gulf of Melania" … and GOOGLE will make it so
map from the linked Al Jazeera article, showing the narrow bend of water between UAE and OMAN on one side and IRAN on the other side. map divisions of territorial waters are shown with dotted lines for the respective countries; the larger waters to the left have "THE GULF" highlighted, and the larger waters to the right of the Strait of Hormuz have "GULF OF OMAN" highlighted
June 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
petabites.bsky.social
Nacho, nachos man.
I gotta be, a TACO man.
01/19/2025 AP photo of Village People rehearsing on a red stage (weekend before inauguration) all in a line at 4 mics with POTUS-elect attempting an in-place dance shuffle move without moving
June 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
petabites.bsky.social
Quizno's 2003 commercial with (pre-Sheldon Cooper) Jim Parsons "raised by wolves"
Jim Parsons doing something you "probably" should not do with wolf cubs and their mom (Quiznos tv commercial)
May 22, 2025 at 4:22 AM
petabites.bsky.social
Liverpool Football Club?
Houston Texans Football?

yes
back view of a huge Texas truck with personalized license plate LFC (plate holder has Houston Texans logo; bumper has the mandatory trailer hitch) front view of a huge Texas truck with personalized license plate LFC plate holder says "Liverpool FC" on top; "You'll Never Walk Alone" on bottom
May 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
petabites.bsky.social
ICYMI ...
The image features a red baseball cap held in a hand. The cap has white text embroidered on the front that reads "MAKE AMERICA GO AWAY." On the side of the cap, there is a white logo consisting of a red circle with a white horizontal line through it. The background is a wooden surface, likely a floor, with a warm, natural tone. The hand holding the cap is visible, with fingers gripping the brim. Above the cap, there is a social media post in Greenlandic and Danish, discussing a message related to the cap. The post is attributed to Aannnguaq Reimer-Johansen and is dated 3 days ago. Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.184 Wh
March 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
petabites.bsky.social
when a President disqualifies 100% of the available labor pool by requiring Loyalty Tests over experience and other time-tested job qualifications ... you end up hiring candidates with no discernable talents.

new sign: NOW HIRING SMILING FÆCES
Typo on fast food sign at Popeyes "NOW HIRING SMILING FECES"
March 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
petabites.bsky.social
waiting for the other shoe to drop after this guy's PRN-newswire press release (about being fired by the Goya board of directors)
HOUSTON, Feb. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Robert "Bob" Unanue, with over 20 years as President & CEO of Goya Foods, is releasing a statement about his status with the organization as well as his plans for the future." (his PR article continues into his involvement with fighting child trafficking -- where things don't always end well for activists in that field and law enforcement)
March 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
petabites.bsky.social
Canadians mock Apple Pie!
the world-famous American box of Ritz Crackers from the National Biscuit Company (NaBisCo) with the ever-preaent box recipe to make their Mock Apple Pie -- with no fruit needed
February 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
petabites.bsky.social
KABC in the Big Apple as an affiliate of the Alberta Broadcasting Company.

* as American as apple pie.
the small round logo of the American Broadcasting Company with the ABC (eyewitness logo, also for 60+ years) channel 7 logo, also round
February 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
petabites.bsky.social
Kentucky Fried Chicken becomes KFU

Church's Texas Chicken becomes Secular Fried Chicken
latest logo as Church's Fried Chicken lost the 'F' word and now adds Texas
February 3, 2025 at 5:39 AM
petabites.bsky.social
I am partial to Leatherman multi-tools (Wingman "sidekick" package ripper)
replacement tool on eBay for Leatherman 'swiss army knife" products ...
February 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
petabites.bsky.social
"Tank Man" during pro-democracy protests against authoritarian rule at Tiananmen Square in 1989.

* China scrubs any and all mention, because that's what autocrats do
a Chinese citizen standing directly in front of columns of tanks that stopped because of his stance in the 10+ lane road. not pictured: a dozen more tanks not in the cropped photo due to the scale at which 1 man already appears as a speck during his display of defiance
February 2, 2025 at 5:48 AM
petabites.bsky.social
¿es tú?
Nighthawks by Hopper (unmodified) view from outside a downtown 1940s corner diner -- 4 people seated at the counter #TinyArtwork
January 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
petabites.bsky.social
"Better living through chemistry."
beakers in a lab -- DuPont Chemicals ad campaign: "better things for better living ... through Chemistry."
January 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
petabites.bsky.social
21° North Pole, NY 25° Bethlehem, PA 21° Santa Claus, IN 52° Donner Lake, CA 46° Christmas, FL screen cap of Bobby Lewis: "Donner Lake is uhhhhh not named after Santa's reindeer"
December 25, 2024 at 7:12 PM
petabites.bsky.social
Google News and BBC thinks Texans can read pidgin english

__bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cj6z1j63xlzo

* and they're right!
BBC article: "About five pipo don die for di shooting way happun for one school for Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Di shooting leave multiple pipo wit serious injury, according to di police. Also, di Madison police chief say officers for di scene bin "locate a juvenile wey dem tok say fit dey responsible" for di shooting. According to di police, di attack take place only 3 miles (4.8km) from a police training centre. Di police chief, Shon Barnes, say dem find di pipo wey die inside di school building. Wen dem find dose wey don dey injured, officers immediately begin to administer "life-saving efforts" for di wounded, according to di police chief. "Dem leave di training centre and begin to do real-time wetin dem don actually practise."" a web browser with two open tabs -- first is Google News with a breaking story and three links ... one being BBC with a headline of "5 injure" (sic) the other tab is the BBC article in the background tab.
December 16, 2024 at 7:41 PM
petabites.bsky.social
I liked the man with abs on his back, posted earlier this week by Ed Zitron.

* and those back pecs!
December 16, 2024 at 3:13 AM