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󺷭 Collecting and dispensing entropy. Profile picture is not me. All my followers are bots until proven otherwise.

created March 5, 2024

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They're limited to certain restaurants, but any franchisee under MCD Germany will do them all year round. They eat so much pork there that one company is not going to move the needle much.

2/9/2025, 12:09:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I avoid pretty much anything that's not on f-droid at this point. "relies on nonfree network services" is a tagged anti-feature on apps that require them.

1/9/2025, 11:14:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So much proof it becomes evidence.

1/9/2025, 10:55:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ideally someone else would make it, and since it's atproto the same accounts work on it.

1/9/2025, 9:26:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I usually rely on power cuts longer than my UPS can handle to do that for me.

1/9/2025, 7:52:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You can do that IRL too, at least once.

1/9/2025, 7:50:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or that Alberto fella.

1/9/2025, 7:48:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Humans get used to danger if they're exposed to it enough. It's one of the more frightening things about us. Also, polarised sunglasses are what you want to block most of that glare off the road.

1/9/2025, 3:41:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Separately, about a decade ago there was this youtuber I watched who'd cook a Glock 17 into various foods and see if it still worked after leaving it in the fridge overnight and puling it out. Incredibly hard to break those things.

1/9/2025, 2:52:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Glockamole.

1/9/2025, 2:50:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You build tolerance pretty quickly.

31/8/2025, 7:23:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A lot of people lean heavily on the German constitution not allowing extradition outside the EU.

30/8/2025, 1:14:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Grandfathered in at 2019 prices.

30/8/2025, 1:08:36 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*shakes fist* "Curse you, metric system!"

30/8/2025, 1:00:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bud, you'll be lucky if you can even find tacos over here.

30/8/2025, 12:47:12 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Notably, the lady on the harp has tits. Far too many flagmakers leave that out.

30/8/2025, 12:38:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone check that log of edits from people in the capitol complex's IP range.

30/8/2025, 12:36:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beats netcat and typing it by hand. I think the syntax is a little mangled though.

30/8/2025, 12:33:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In the words of Mitt Romney: "Hot dog is my favourite meat"

30/8/2025, 12:27:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is it dressed up to match the season? I hear a lot of people with the 12 foot home depot skeleton do that. Incredibly versatile decoration.

30/8/2025, 12:08:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wish there was a standardised format for those magnetic USB adapters for power delivery.

29/8/2025, 5:32:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Land-port.

29/8/2025, 5:19:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's a tiny wheel of Edam. They apparently make other ones from different cheeses. I'm surprised every time I re-learn it's a French product.

29/8/2025, 5:09:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 5:06:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"culture war" brainworms.

29/8/2025, 5:04:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The other kind of pink salt shaker.

29/8/2025, 4:58:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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css in the pds.

29/8/2025, 4:52:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All their specs are published. The harder part is getting GPU makers on board for this specific part. Supposedly, that's why they only had AMD modules when they first launched it. Kinda surprised they got nvidia to agree to it.

29/8/2025, 4:51:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Copper thieves work tirelessly, for fairly obvious reasons. They will also not read a "Fiber Optic! NO COPPER!" sign for similar reasons.

29/8/2025, 4:36:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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People not knowing you can just stick it on a USB stick and try it out is another one.

29/8/2025, 4:19:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sloppy is a nickname he got in the Navy.

29/8/2025, 4:13:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sysadmin-St-Patrick in the IRC channel explaining the holy trinity.

29/8/2025, 3:44:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've long wondered how much of the count of firearms in the US is from people buying a ton of AR-15 lower receivers and nothing else any time Obama made the news.

29/8/2025, 3:40:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have you seen how fucked up their coins are? 2p coins are wider than £1. Big fan of their system of notes with different issuing banks though. Having half your fivers say "Danske Bank" on them is funny to me, as well as the Bank of Ireland notes not having a monarch on them anywhere.

29/8/2025, 3:35:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've seen him in a few interviews/podcasts and it's pretty clear he only cares about youtube. He says so explicitly. All other media is outside of his sphere.

29/8/2025, 3:23:48 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It wouldn't help for schools, but I've long thought you'd get more buy-in on this if it let you bypass some other law. I've been in indoor smoking rooms that felt better ventilated than the street outside. It was uncanny.

29/8/2025, 3:19:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Disk encryption stops tools like kon-boot from working. Key escrow is an entirely separate issue.

29/8/2025, 3:14:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It says "labelled by the author", so you might have had that box checked from earlier posts. I usually see people use that as a sort of spoiler tag on here though.

29/8/2025, 3:01:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think the default before that was most drives not having any encryption on them, and windows logins being trivial to bypass. Really not a fan of microsoft, but it's a perfect is the enemy of the good situation.

29/8/2025, 2:54:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I need to pay attention next time I see a 40 foot one. Mass is one thing, but that's a shitload of torque.

29/8/2025, 2:27:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, both halves blew up after hitting the water (intentional), and the bottom skirt of the 2nd stage blew up while it was in space. I think the benchmark is they put it down where they'd planned to, next to a camera in the ocean.

29/8/2025, 2:07:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is a thing? I wonder why they went with a red X instead of doing a roundel.

29/8/2025, 1:42:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I make damn sure to read multiple answers/comments to figure out what's right. Partly because the answers span years, and the "right" thing to do changed over time.

29/8/2025, 1:38:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"We're all trying to find the guy who did this"

29/8/2025, 1:33:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's just like one of my Japanese animes.

29/8/2025, 2:09:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They were the money cops first, then Lincoln got shot while they were around so now they're president cops too.

29/8/2025, 1:46:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or, 20.0612 fl oz (imperial).

29/8/2025, 1:38:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I look forward to someone randomly finding a truly dumb thing that adds ~2fps in about a year's time.

29/8/2025, 1:34:34 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yay, imperial pints! (+-2ml)

29/8/2025, 1:29:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's that, 27 more states to go? My country's constitution sets limits at between 20K and 30K per seat, and as even as practically possible per seat nationwide.

29/8/2025, 1:18:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think that "double ratchet" thing signal invented for doing ephemeral keys is what you want for keeping e2ee with unpowered devices.

29/8/2025, 12:57:24 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Probably not. Unless they mentioned the other ones we know are spending a shitload on GPUs and ruled them out.

29/8/2025, 12:35:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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English adjective order is another mindfuck. Try stacking a few adjectives in a sentence, and then saying them in a different order.

29/8/2025, 12:29:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You say that like he hasn't been to 500+ places. (I did forget about dollywood though)

29/8/2025, 12:28:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The part of the stream where that bit of skirt exploded on camera was interesting. Gave me "surprise car through the drywall" vibes.

29/8/2025, 12:17:42 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dummy chest, person laying underneath it sunk down into the table/floor.

28/8/2025, 11:52:08 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Going full circle on those energy drink flavoured vapes.

28/8/2025, 9:53:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty much every modern installer will let you run it as normal off a USB stick. Stuff will load slow, but you can see what it's like before doing anything.

28/8/2025, 8:24:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Faulty GEOIP database put you in Rome?

28/8/2025, 8:00:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That guy who has a whole monologue about speeding.

28/8/2025, 7:58:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Poyo!

28/8/2025, 7:16:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This might throw a wrench in your maths, but that's only the "international" piss tank. The Russian segment has its own one.

28/8/2025, 6:50:41 PM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Droste in the sauce.

28/8/2025, 6:41:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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xbox 360 controller for submarine periscope.

28/8/2025, 5:14:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've had this in my .shellfunctions file for years now. git-get () {git clone $@ && cd "$(basename -s .git -- $@ | grep -vP "^-" )"} If it were possible to have a shell script cd the shell that runs it, I'd have done that instead.

28/8/2025, 4:45:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's worse is every kindle has a dictionary included on it for free. You can move the little cursor thing before a word and have a definition pop up below. I used that a lot and it rarely missed.

28/8/2025, 12:56:11 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's pretty much the only way I eat corn flakes.

28/8/2025, 12:50:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think that would be the technical name for anyone kicked out of their upper house of parliament.

28/8/2025, 12:27:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@profile-labels.bossett.social is great for these.

28/8/2025, 2:04:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beef collagen is the 3rd ingredient (after whey protein), so you're not too far off. "Protein Bovril" sounds interesting.

28/8/2025, 1:37:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At the very least, the nutcase who created soylent almost died a bunch of times trying to figure out the recipe.

28/8/2025, 1:33:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everclear. You'll dilute it too much with normal vodka.

28/8/2025, 1:23:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's not that bad, since it's under a glaze. Uranium paint in vintage plates (fiestaware) is another one. One that surprised me is that crystal glassware is lead glass. More or less fine, unless you leave something acidic in them for days at a time.

28/8/2025, 12:37:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've long said Steam is the most anti-piracy thing out there. Piracy is when you play games you didn't buy, Steam is where you buy games you never play.

28/8/2025, 12:31:14 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Two of them in fact.

28/8/2025, 12:24:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would have said I'm surprised they left it in there but, knowing windows, removing it would have broken dozens of seemingly unrelated things and caused millions in financial damage worldwide.

28/8/2025, 12:23:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean, they did quite famously try to do something about it that one time.

28/8/2025, 12:08:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nice. 15 f keys. I miss my sun keyboard that went up to f24 and had a large "Help" button on it.

28/8/2025, 12:03:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Inconvenience store. For the finest in B2B roller hot dogs.

28/8/2025, 12:01:32 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bug for bug compatibility, yo.

27/8/2025, 11:57:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why? They don't even do that anymore.

27/8/2025, 9:58:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We do, it's called "Mozilla/5.0" and it's what everybody uses.

27/8/2025, 9:56:25 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Intel has been making moves on the low/mid end for a while. Hopefully they don't give up on it with their current financial issues.

27/8/2025, 9:50:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Re code is speech: anyone who doesn't know should look up what the PGP developers did when it was illegal to export strong encryption. Published a book where the back half was a scannable copy of the full source code.

27/8/2025, 8:40:40 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Probably would. Firefox's built in local translation is working great for me so far though.

27/8/2025, 7:53:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gauge block level finish on the inside.

27/8/2025, 6:26:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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From looking at my browser dev tools, looks like the client gets a json object that's a list of everyone who's live whenever you load a page. (auth failure when loading it individually) I'm sure someone can do something interesting with it.

27/8/2025, 6:17:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The first few accounts to get it way back were for twitch/youtube/espn streams. Really hope it gets more widespread.

27/8/2025, 6:15:34 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There was one yesterday. I think they're region-specific a lot of the time. doodles.google/

27/8/2025, 6:09:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good biopsy.

27/8/2025, 6:00:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No divorce either.

27/8/2025, 5:59:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just the short. Even if I put the name of the channel in there. Logged out, en-ie region.

27/8/2025, 5:48:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't know if they have a specific name, but the team who did odyssey and this go so absurdly hard with this stuff.

27/8/2025, 4:59:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You got a source on that? Sounds interesting.

27/8/2025, 4:50:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think they're the same, physically. Like GD-roms (dreamcast) being CDs. I got a spindle of BD-Rs around that time that were identical to WiiU discs other than having nothing printed on. Rounded edges were nice.

27/8/2025, 4:50:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Almost all the content on Ireland's website is a carbon copy of the UK one. They don't hide that fact either. It's great.

27/8/2025, 3:10:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Haboob, Habibi!

27/8/2025, 3:06:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can't wait to hit the feedback buttons on feeds where it makes absolutely no sense.

27/8/2025, 12:31:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If it goes supercritical, you'll make culinary history. Unfortunately, it stops being a dip at that point.

26/8/2025, 10:37:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you do a youtube ad buy, you can put whatever youtube video you want in there. They want you to do one you uploaded yourself, but it doesn't stop you. Saw a video explaining it as a PvP mechanism to tank a competing channel's engagement metrics when targetted right.

26/8/2025, 10:11:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view