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Sam Goff
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Connecter of dots. Performance optimization is my jam. I obsess over how to optimize systems. Formerly at HPE & now building crucible.energy where our mission is to make it fast, easy & affordable to use 100% clean resilient energy – 24/7/365
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Love the decoder ring for my front yard
Northern Lights in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area Northern Lights in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area Northern Lights in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area Northern Lights in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Oh, the HughManatee!
HughManatee: an image of a manatee whose face looks like Hugh Jackman
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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October 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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A skunk smoking “skunk”
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature?

Dune (2021) & Dune 2 (2024)
Dune (2021) movie poster with all of the main characters in a blossoming array. It reads “It begins” followed by a stylizes logo treatment that looks like “DUNC” Dune 2 (2024) movie poster featuring the main characters fanned out in a blossom above a giant sand worm. It reads “DUNE: Part Two”
July 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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MightyPaw not so mighty 😞
A MightyPaw seatbelt harness for dogs that has been chewed through in multiple places & lays on a granite countertop in a tattered mosaic
June 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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JavaScript will happily hand you enough rope to hang yourself with & ask if you need a ball gag, too. One point of React is to limit options in order to make it easier to reason about state. Once you grok it, you realize those rakes exist to prevent you from stepping off a cliff 🧘🏻‍♀️
Boromir from “The Fellowship of the Ring” explaining to the Council of Elrond that “One does not simply mutate this.state directly”
May 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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This is a flat-style, infographic-inspired illustration featuring a central avatar and a handful of thematic icons: • Central Figure • A stylized portrait of a bearded man with dark hair and glasses • Wearing an orange shirt • Seated behind a partially visible laptop screen showing lines of color-coded code • Background & Layout • Deep blue grid backdrop, giving a technical or “blueprint” feel • A cream-colored footer with the (intentionally misspelled) caption: A styliafed infograatic porttatt ar • Surrounding Icons (clockwise from top left): 1. Transmission Towers — three high-voltage pylons with stylized power lines, suggesting energy or grid infrastructure 2. Globe — a circular Earth showing continents, evoking global scope or sustainability 3. Data Dashboard — computer monitor displaying pie charts, bar graphs, and line plots, hinting at analytics or monitoring 4. Gears — two interlocking cogwheels, symbolizing engineering, mechanics, or system design 5. Code Symbol — a “</>” icon in a dark square, representing programming or software development 6. Dog Silhouette — profile of a dog’s head in a rounded square, perhaps nodding to a pet or mascot Overall, it reads as a visual résumé or persona card for someone who blends software development, data analysis, and energy/engineering interests—with a dash of personal flair (the dog icon).
May 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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You can bludgeon iOS into recognizing terms, names, etc you use frequently by adding them yourself. Just go to Settings & search for “Text Replacement”. For example, in your case you can include “horser -> horserace”, then stand back & watch the magic happen 🧘🏻‍♀️
To add custom terms to the iOS autocorrect and autocomplete suggestions, follow these steps: 1. Add Custom Words to the Keyboard Dictionary: • Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement. • Tap the "+" button in the top-right corner to create a new entry. • In the Phrase field, enter the word or phrase you want to add. • In the Shortcut field, enter a unique shortcut (you can leave this blank if you don't want to trigger the term through a shortcut). • Tap Save to add the custom term.
May 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Spock in Star Trek uniform holding up the 🖖🏼 gesture with the text below him stating “May the 4th be with you!”
May 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Say it after me: ChatGPT is now a search engine. It does scan the web for information, if you’re using any of the modern models (4o, o3, o4-mini-high, etc) & often does a great job of summarizing search results – but ALWAYS click through to verify that sources agree with the LLM’s characterization.
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again. April 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM Replies disabled
May 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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A photo of a smiling Marie Kondo with a quote to her right, reading: “Discard every line of code that does not spark joy.”
May 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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A brown Newfie mix with heterochromia laying on a couch surrounded by blankets & toys A brown Newfie mix with heterochromia looking upward expectantly & a reddish collar laying on the carpet floor in front of a patio door, next to an end table
April 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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13 in the cap. If you include the opening to body of the shaker (visible through the holes of the outer hexagon), that makes 14.
A salt shaker viewed from above with two concentric hexagons & a single dot overlaid in red-orange
April 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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I don’t know you, but for me it’s a bit disconcerting for any beverage to call me “Bro”
A closeup of a case of Diet Coke that focuses on an illustration of a can that reads “Bro”
April 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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After many years of being petless, I now have a puppy. He’s a Newfie mix of some sort, a rescue from Alabama. At 15 weeks, he weighs 50 pounds. Rumor has it he may get a little bigger over time. Oh, also he has heterochromia, scary smart & the sweetest disposition of any dog I’ve met in my life 🫶🏼
A brown Newfie mix puppy with heterochromia at 15 weeks.
March 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Dogspreading
A boy dog laying on his back with legs splayed wide open photographed from below
March 31, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Or play Unstable Unicorns with ALL the expansion packs 🦄 🫶🏼
A rainbow-lettered box for Unstable Unicorns card game. The description reads: Build a unicorn army. Betray your friends. Unicorns are your friends now.
March 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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If you’ve haven’t seen “The Eagle” (2011), you’re missing out. Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland & Mark Strong (et al) are all ridiculously talented 🫶🏼
CHANNING TATUM JAMIE BELL THE EAGLE Movie poster
March 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Reposted with alt text. Please, for the love of all that is holy, learn to OCR text in screengrabs so you can meaningfully populate alt text for images so they are accessible to everyone.
Twitter/X screengrab of a tweet by Brian Allen @allenanalysis “BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel Just Kneecapped the ATF-1,000 Agents Gone Call it what it is: a slow-motion execution of federal gun enforcement. Kash Patel, now pulling double duty as FBI Director and acting ATF chief, just fired off a grenade— ripping 1,000 agents out of the ATF and shipping them over to the FBI. That's nearly 40% of the agency, gone.” 5:36 PM • 3/23/25 • 50K Views
March 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Enjoy the nightmare fuel 🙏🏼
Prompt: “full body shot of a businessman laying sideways tied up in red tape. his hands & feet are tied with the red tape. photorealistic.” Result: nightmare fuel of 2 attached legs going in opposite directions with no human body attached to them & the legs are wearing business attire while the entire monstrosity is wrapped in red tape. Prompt: “full body shot of a beautiful business woman laying sideways tied up in red tape. her hands & feet are tied with the red tape. This is a professional photograph with color grading, soft shadows, and minimal contrast, resulting in a clean, sharp focus digital image” Result: two crossed women’s legs bent at the knees viewed from the bottom, wearing black or dark gray leather skin-tight pants & red ribbons around her legs. The torso, arms & head of the woman’s body is buried in a background of swirling red tape Prompt: “full body shot of a beautiful business woman laying sideways tied up in red tape. her hands & feet are tied with the red tape. photorealistic.” Result: a beautiful blonde young woman with no hands & wrists joined into a single contiguous loop, wrapped only in red tape & laying down in a bed made of swirling red tape Prompt: “full body shot of a business woman laying sideways tied up in red tape. her hands & feet are tied with the red tape. photorealistic.” Result: genuine nightmare fuel of a woman whose body is wrapped in red tape & contorted into unnatural positions with legs that bend at impossible angles
March 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Great prompt! 🙏🏼
A stunning hyper-realistic digital painting capturing a Polynesian woman emerging from the crystal-clear waters of Bora Bora. She wears a traditional-inspired swimsuit adorned with intricate tapa cloth patterns, and her wet hair clings to her face as droplets cascade from her form. The golden afternoon light creates a radiant glow on her skin as she walks towards the shore. In the background, the majestic Mount Otemanu stands tall, casting a shadow over the scene, while the water's surface shimmers with refraction and light play. A stunning hyper-realistic digital painting capturing a Polynesian woman emerging from the crystal-clear waters of Bora Bora. She wears a traditional-inspired swimsuit adorned with intricate tapa cloth patterns, and her wet hair clings to her face as droplets cascade from her form. The golden afternoon light creates a radiant glow on her skin as she walks towards the shore. In the background, the majestic Mount Otemanu stands tall, casting a shadow over the scene, while the water's surface shimmers with refraction and light play. A stunning hyper-realistic digital painting capturing a Polynesian woman emerging from the crystal-clear waters of Bora Bora. She wears a traditional-inspired swimsuit adorned with intricate tapa cloth patterns, and her wet hair clings to her face as droplets cascade from her form. The golden afternoon light creates a radiant glow on her skin as she walks towards the shore. In the background, the majestic Mount Otemanu stands tall, casting a shadow over the scene, while the water's surface shimmers with refraction and light play. A stunning hyper-realistic digital painting capturing a Polynesian woman emerging from the crystal-clear waters of Bora Bora. She wears a traditional-inspired swimsuit adorned with intricate tapa cloth patterns, and her wet hair clings to her face as droplets cascade from her form. The golden afternoon light creates a radiant glow on her skin as she walks towards the shore. In the background, the majestic Mount Otemanu stands tall, casting a shadow over the scene, while the water's surface shimmers with refraction and light play.
March 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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A fantasy, hyper-detailed digital painting of a woman with porcelain skin wearing a vibrant red lipstick and dark, soulful eyes. She is dressed in opulent Venetian carnival attire – a richly embroidered velvet gown and a dramatic, feathered Columbina mask (small, three-cornered hat) with elaborate gold leaf accents. The background is a blurred, romantic scene of a Venetian canal at dusk. The style is baroque lighting with dramatic chiaroscuro (strong contrasts between light and dark), and the color palette is rich jewel tones with intricate detail.
March 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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I just finished rebinging “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” featuring the insanely talented featuring Summer Glau, Lena Headey & Thomas Dekker. Absolutely worth buying a second time
TV series cover image for “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” featuring Summer Glau, Lena Headey & Thomas Dekker
March 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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That’s great advice! I already do that with my code
Marie Kondo on the left, next to a quote attributed to her: “Discard every line of code that does not spark joy.”
March 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM