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Randy Hall
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Grew up in Silicon Valley, did the big corporate technology thing, then moved to wine country, produced Wine Biz Radio (RIP), then making films and video as an […]

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@pluralistic your #enshittification book just arrived yesterday. What a an unapologetic dust cover!
The new hardcover printing of Cory Doctorow's new book, the dust cover is Stark black with strong white type on the cover and spine with the title "Enshittification" while the front cover also has the subtitle "Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" along with a poop emoji with a string of symbols &$!#% covering the emoji's usually smiling mouth to depict that even a shit emoji is swearing up a storm about #enshittification
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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@chrisjrn when someone you know is a featured speaker at a Python conference and provides a shockingly on-brand headshot for the conference to post.

I particularly liked writing the alt text for this screenshot.
A promo post from Reddit for PyBay 2025 with the text "Last Day For Tickets: Guido van Rossum, Jim Baker, Pamela Fox, Lisa Roach and Christopher Neugebauer" and a image with text lockup of PyBay 2025 and the title "Guardrails: An alternative view of safely working in Python" alongside a "headshot" photo of Chris mentioning his featured speaker status and showing him with an inflatable unicorn(?), complete with rainbow mane and tail, perched upon his shoulders as if it has mounted him, and a remarkably typical Chris Neugebauer facial expression.
October 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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This one is easy: it ends when you die, or when we muster the collective will to tax the fucking rich people. #eattherich #BillionairesShouldntExist
A Facebook comment (anonymized) about restaurants listing additional fees, employee healthcare surcharges and autocalculated tips, stating "Yep, vicious cycle, can't afford to go out, less customers, try and raise prices, even less customers, out of business, less taxes, got to raise taxes, when's it going to end?"
May 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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[Political art in the wild]

From Reddit: someone took this photo on the way to their workplace in Arlington, Virginia.
A pole in Arlington, Virginia has a pair of handmade/photoshopped posters, the top one a hand drawn rendition of Elon Musk from he pre hairplug Ebay/PayPal days with the caption above "being mean to my cars is terrowism[sic]" while the one underneath is styled as a Rene Magritte surrealist pastiche of Musk throwing his Nazi salute while his head is replaced with a green apple and the presidential seal replaced with a drawing of a Roman citizen in toga skewering a man in a suit with the words "mundus sine caesarius", and the caption on that poster reads "c'est définitivement un salut nazi"
March 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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@annecavicchi
Our family's frenchie, named Gigi
A photo of the family's black French Bulldog, Gigi, paws up on an armrest of an upholstered chair, her chin resting on the armrest as well. She's wearing a magenta fleece.
March 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Nah, I'm good. Should have done it sooner. #cancel #amazon #cancelprime
A screenshot of my phone showing a cencelation message from Amazon indicating my Prime membership will end on March 18, 2025.
March 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Sure, I'm probably compartmentalizing everything going on right now, but accomplishments are accomplishments.
A Duolingo badge declaring that "I'm on a 1,000 day learning streak"
January 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM