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Stephen Gadsby
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Soon, soon my entire org will join me in the 'tism!
screenshot of an item with Roadmap ID 529865 on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap website: Microsoft 365 admin center: New Admin Control for Turning off People Skills This is a new control that tenant admins may use to turn off People Skills User Experiences for the entire organization, user group subsets, or individual users. This control can also be used to selectively deploy People Skills to a small group of pilot users before broader deployment to the rest of the tenant. In Development Rollout Start: December 2025
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The feral cat family enjoys a midday sleep.
a feral, tortoiseshell mother cat and her tan kitten sleep snuggled together in the bed of dry needles under a scruffy evergreen conifer a feral, tortoiseshell mother cat and two of her kittens—one tan and one tortoiseshell like mom—sleep snuggled together in the bed of dry needles under a scruffy evergreen conifer
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Some go their entire lives questioning place and purpose. Others are born in certainty: Find a larger species; nap on it.
The white face and paws of an orange cat tightly curled on blue jeans.
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Number nine know their target audience.
A cropped screenshot of a "Top Advertisers by Estimated Ad Spend" table (last updated on September 16, 2025) from Podscribe.com listing ten companies: 1. BetterHelp, $7.3M, up 3% month over month 2. Amazon, $6.6M, down 30% 3. Shopify, $5.3M, up 11% 4. Toyota, $5.2M, up 6% 5. Progressive Insurance, $4.4M, up 32% 6. Mint Mobile, $4.4M, down 4% 7. Quince, $3.7M, down 18% 8. DraftKings, $3.5M, up 81% 9. Washable Sofas, $3.3M, up 18% 10. Squarespace, $3.2M, down 21%
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Entirely beside the point, but: why does the top tube pass through the shopping bag's handle?
A red bicycle leans against a parking meter. A purple shopping bag hangs from both. One handle of the shopping bag passes above the bike's top tube, around the parking meter, and back under the top tube. The bag's handle must have been attached around the bike, like a lock?
August 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Troudle season!
A cropped view of the instruction sheet for the Install Bay IBR65 Bluetooth audio receiver by Metra Electronics. Centered in the image is a bold heading, "Troudle Shooting Guide".
August 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Milkweed tiger moth caterpillars have particularly Jim Henson Creature Shop looks.
Photograph of a milkweed tiger moth caterpillar curling itself in an arch around the upper edge of the hole it is munching in a strongly veined milkweed leaf. The caterpillar is all tufts of black, white, and orangy-brown bristles, like a hirsute Hynerian turned insect.
August 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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In a just world, Steam would have awarded you a "First Purchase Unplayed for a Decade" badge, sort of Stanley Parable-style. It's an accomplishment, and you deserve recognition.

It took me five whole purchases to reach exchanging good money for games I'll get around to playing Real Soon Now.
screenshot of a five item list of earliest Steam purchases: Jun 5, 2025 OddBoxx Feb 19, 2015 Terraria 4-Pack Aug 6, 2012 Commander Keen Complete Pack March 26, 2010 Torchlight March 26, 2010 Torchlight
August 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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quick and easy Flout-dredged Fried Fish Fillets recipe
Photo of a recipe for "Fried Pollock Fillets" from the back of a packet of frozen fish. The ingredients list includes a typo: "flout" instead of "flour". Fried Pollock Fillets * 1 lb. pollock fillets * oil for deep frying * 1/2 cup flout * salt and pepper Heat 1 inch of oil in skillet to approximately 375 degrees. Combine flour with salt and pepper. Dip and fully cover each fillet with flour mixture. Fry fish for 5 minutes on each side. Remove fully cooked fish fillets to a platter.
August 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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sunflower dawn
A photo of a sunflower in the process of blooming. The left side of the flower is open, with typically bright, yellow petals spread wide, while the right remains closed, still covered by the curvy, spiky, green "bud" material that, in a film, would telegraph imminent facehugging.
August 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The storm felled the large asparagus.
An open left hand, palm up, supports the muddy bottom ends of two asparagus stalks, each several centimeters in diameter. Though mostly green, the stalks show hints of the purply color they exhibited when small.
July 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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If this was kerned knowingly, for the ironic lolz, would that make it okay? Or even worse?
signmission.com/products/os-...
a stark, OSHA-ish, bold text on white, "NOTICE: REJECTED" sign wherein the "E" and "J" have, by surrendering unto one another their independence, created an unsettling, new glyph, one in appearance less alphabet and more outline of the business end of an old timey key
June 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Not normally a sports jersey person, but...
the back of a mocked-up, baseball-style sports jersey, solid black with white collar, sleeve accents, and text, with the "player name" of "Footnote" arced above the large number "12"
June 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Don't miss the T1 Phone 8002 (Gold Edition) with 50MP main camera and 5000mAh long life camera. Coming soon!
Screenshot of "The T1 Phone" page on the Trump Mobile website: https://www.trumpmobile.com/t1-phone. The page contains an image showing the very golden front and back of a rounded rectangle mobile phone. The page lists key features of the phone, including: "50MP Main Camera" and "5000mAh long life camera".
June 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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It's spring.
a mass of maple tree seeds piled at the end of a concrete downspout splash block by rainwater
May 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Please dance as if no one is watching.
Within a small, rounded-square dialog box labeled "Alert", Microsoft Excel suggests, "Please save as if problem persists."
April 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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The LED "laser" in this Detective Conan wristwatch utilizes a positive battery connector that's simultaneously clever, disappointing, and Saint Patrick's Day appropriate.
A novelty, Detective Conan wristwatch with its back removed to reveal one layer of its interior. Dead center is a shallow, circular holder, in black plastic, for a coin cell battery. A loop of thin, red, stranded, hookup wire runs into battery holder from an LED module on the right. Within the battery holder the red wire ends in a bare, clover-shaped twist of uninsulated wire. This end of the wire shows clear signs of having been squashed by the coin cell battery.
March 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Maple the aged chaos goblin reclines while waiting for the spinner in her head to settle on "affectionate licks", "grumbling indifference", or "savage bites".
an elderly, tortoiseshell cat reclines on a bed
March 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I ruined my kid's lunch.
cropped screenshot of an RCS message with the text "I cant eat this now" below a photo of a hand holding a mandarin orange with a markered-on, friendly, "owo" face
March 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I placed a note next to the small, mostly empty bottle of honey my partner left lying on its side on the kitchen counter.
a Post-It note, "Darn it, RFK Jr.! No more of this!", is affixed to a kitchen countertop next to a small, nearly empty, bear-shaped bottle of raw honey lying on its side
February 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I've been using it for a while, and I heartily recommend @brianfit.bsky.social's Woke = Respect browser extension. I particularly enjoy the way the extension's effects surface even outside the Chrome browser proper.
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A screenshot of the Netflix show Arkane demonstrating the wonderful, far-reaching quality of life improvements brought by the Woke = Respect web browser extension. Woke = Respect has automatically revised the show's captioning to read, "I feel like I respect for other people up in the wrong universe."
November 23, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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Cisco Webex
Top portion: A screenshot of the Cisco Webex application on macOS, specifically the Calling tab. This calling tab includes a simple and stylized line drawing of two, upwardly angled trumpets, each with a banner hanging from it. Middle portion: The same trumpet line drawing, now pulled out on its own and larger. Bottom portion: A screenshot from a video game wherein the main character, Aloy, approaches a towering, giraffe-like robot, called a "tallneck", which to some degree the trumpet drawing resembles. Or at least, that's the intended implication.
November 14, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Clearly: Retire and celebrate with a lovely snack.
photo of a box of Lotte Binch chocolate biscuits
October 8, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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a screenshot of a web browser window displaying the warning: "The connection to www.softwaresecure.com is not secure. You are seeing this warning because this site does not support HTTPS."
September 25, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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Checks out. Good, upstanding, conservative, Americans have never policed conformity.
Still from the 1981 film, "The Great Muppet Caper", showing Sam the Eagle leaning out through a partially open hotel room door to admonish the other Muppets derisively, "You are all WEIRDOS!" a photo of J. Edgar Hoover, a man famous for not policing conformity
July 29, 2024 at 8:39 PM