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@tonionei.bsky.social

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a marketing geek who went into nonprofit. snarky oddball. side quests include vintage kitsch, books, queer and culture studies, collage art, jam bands, and commentary on current events.

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Hubs really likes festive fall centerpieces:

Text conversation: "I should have bargained for a cornucopia." Followed by: "That would have necessitated additional gourds."

September 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM

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I get razzed for sticking w old things: my phone's from 2018, my "computer monitor" is a 15 yo TV, my car could legally drink & my house is full of 1950s & 60s furniture. Here's the thing: older shit was built better & I don't worry that it's going to self destruct or steal my peace w an "upgrade."

Meme with a picture of an old yellow refrigerator, reading: "2021 appliances: breaks within 2 years. 1970s refrigerator: I will outlive you and everyone you love. I am eternal. I am time itself."

September 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM

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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

Meme of woman thinking through equations with the text: "that feeling when you're smart enough to know how awkward you are, but not smart enough to know how to not be awkward."

September 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM

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Turns out when you ask the robots how hungry they are, they'll attempt to justify why the entire ecosystem should continue to be fed. Note I didn't ask why the money was being spent, just how much.

Screenshot of Gemini via Google search answering the question "how much does anthropic burn per month?" with roughly 1/3 of the answer dedicated to why the spend is justified.

September 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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Very large slug with mini lighter for scale.

(That's it, that's the skeet.)

A photo of an enormous slug climbing a wall with a pink mini lighter held up for scale.

August 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM

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Wanted to get more context on the current vibe with tech stocks, so I searched news on "magnificent 7 stocks" in the past week. I thought it was weird that I wasn't seeing anything... then I realized my last phone scrub reset my search to Google.

Screen shots for the same params on Google and DDG.

First four results on search engine Duck Duck Go when searching for news on magnificent seven stocks in the past week.

Results 5-10 on search engine Duck Duck Go when searching for news on magnificent seven stocks in the past week.

First five results on Google search engine when searching for news on magnificent seven stocks in the past week.

Results 6-10 on Google search engine when searching for news on magnificent seven stocks in the past week.

August 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM

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Love abounds in my front yard as Fester (a cardinal who's experienced "catastrophic molting") feeds his new lady friend. Just goes to show ya that personality trumps looks (if you know where the best seeds are, anyway).

July 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM

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Cat scratch fever dream. Analog collage with magazine of various decades, fabric trim, and other ephemera bits.

Collage of geometric shapes, cats, and a woman with a telephone.

July 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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Oh hey right there with ya. Just a baby hole but both unexpected and incredibly lucky to have nipped it before we encountered excessive water damage. Also I still have useable wall and ceiling paint since we just moved in a few months ago.

Picture of a hole in the ceiling with a new PVC pipe showing.

July 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM

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AltNOAA is not a verified alt gov account. I followed them accidentally and then realized something was off when they said back in April that they thought it was a good thing that CECOT exists...

Screenshot from altNOAA account reading in part "I think the process of which the Salvadorian Gov arrested and imprisoned people is wrong. I however view the CECOT prison itself as a step in the right direction."

July 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM

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Popped on Pee Wee's Playhouse for some fun background television and definitely never picked up on Bob Dobbs in the intro sequence when I was in pre-K. #boblovesyou

Screenshot from the introductory sequence from Pee Wee's Playhouse with Pee Wee Herman in foreground, tongue sticking out, in front of a photo wall which includes an image of Bob Dobbs at bottom right.

July 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM

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I can see it already... 🫡🇺🇸

Scene from The Simpsons where male members of the Simpsons extended family gather in a circle to watch two members slam together while wearing cooking pots on their heads.

July 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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Yeah, this.

Post from David Sirota reading "The collapse of the Roman Empire is a few pages in your high school history book, but took like 250 years. Generations lived whole lives inside the collapse. Sorta feel like that's what's going on now -- that our whole lives will be lived inside a few pages called 'collapse.'"

July 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM

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My zucchini plant on June 3rd and June 20th.

June 21, 2025 at 5:49 AM

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More like this (credit to Overheard in NY)

Woman with her head turned away from the camera carries a tote bag with text which reads "please don't call me an American, I'm a New Yorker."

June 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM

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And finally, we have the gentleman who inspired this entire journey. He has not a single thought, yet the existential crisis persists from every angle.