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Dad, husband, ultrarunner, Chief Technical Evangelist at @backblaze.bsky.social. Previously Citrix, StreamSets, Salesforce, Huawei, Sun Microsystems. Old tweets archived at @metadaddy-archive.bsky.social

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Fargo (1996) - TruCoat Scene (2/12) | Movieclips
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“But that TruCoat…”

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02.05.2025 00:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One way to read stories based on leaked docs: look at time from being circulated to docs getting published — bc that’s the amount of time it took to a) get someone pissed enough to agree to leak and b) get enough also-pissed people to confirm.

These are slides dated April 29-30, published May 1.

02.05.2025 00:13 👍 2263 🔁 706 💬 122 📌 25

Hsad, rather than hangry?

02.05.2025 00:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lots of accounts say they reached rate limit with an AI service

Lots of accounts say they reached rate limit with an AI service

tfw your AI bot ran out of AI juice

01.05.2025 02:19 👍 1033 🔁 190 💬 27 📌 13

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

30.04.2025 14:31 👍 20315 🔁 3906 💬 587 📌 278
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28.04.2025 01:44 👍 9892 🔁 2429 💬 97 📌 90
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

25.04.2025 15:32 👍 60144 🔁 20581 💬 592 📌 831
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Let’s start with the basics.

26.04.2025 01:35 👍 19635 🔁 3556 💬 301 📌 82
The Romeo Cleaners Greatest Moments | Eurotrash
The Romeo Cleaners Greatest Moments | Eurotrash YouTube video by Eurotrash

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24.04.2025 21:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man in a dark room says fewer Alt: Stannis Baratheon saying “Fewer”

Agreed

24.04.2025 21:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Judge Orders MyPillow Attys To Explain AI Use, Fake Citations - Law360 A Colorado federal judge on Wednesday ordered two attorneys for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to explain why she shouldn't refer them for discipline for a brief full of misquotes, miscited cases and refer...

"A Colorado federal judge on Wednesday ordered two attorneys for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to explain why she shouldn't refer them for discipline for a brief full of misquotes, miscited cases and references to cases that 'do not exist'...."

24.04.2025 12:20 👍 757 🔁 192 💬 31 📌 52

Drift happens. Deal with it.

24.04.2025 15:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

it’s not an important point at all, but I just can’t get over the fact that these people apparently believe they’d do well in a “meritocracy” after failing upwards their entire lives

24.04.2025 14:54 👍 1971 🔁 262 💬 53 📌 27

RFK Jr thinks autistic people are second class citizens who “never pay taxes”, “never hold a job”, are a burden on society and that vaccines cause autism so they should be banned.

Incredibly destructive ideas for anyone to have, let alone the secretary of health and human services.

Crazy times.

23.04.2025 19:46 👍 145 🔁 14 💬 7 📌 1
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MAGA complaining abt undocumented workers in US lying they only cared that ppl "entered legally." This is a native-born citizen & not the only one swept up by the ICE Gestapo. Finally released, but US citizen kept in jail for literally nothing wrong is the America they voted for

23.04.2025 04:25 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I saw someone pointing out that the left wants to feed a 100 children just so one child doesn’t go hungry and republicans don’t want to feed a hundred children in case one of them don’t deserve it.

22.04.2025 21:35 👍 51 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

"The internet is now optimised for metrics that have nothing to do with human enjoyment, or convenience, or the profits of anyone except the platform overseers. And it’s only getting worse, as our dependence on these flawed tools grows daily." – @jacobsilverman.com

(Archive link below)

19.04.2025 13:12 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

14.04.2025 02:24 👍 38500 🔁 8613 💬 429 📌 222
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Oil prices are an interesting proxy for economic expectations and for some reason I find them more trustworthy than Wall Street. Oil traders really do not expect May to be a good month for the global economy

09.04.2025 13:47 👍 80 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 2

GENERAL LEE AND HIS ARMY
HAVE SURRENDERED!

SLAVERY AND TREASON
BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE!

America by the grace of God free and independent 

Dawning of the day of peace

All honor to the gallant brave

GENERAL LEE AND HIS ARMY HAVE SURRENDERED! SLAVERY AND TREASON BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE! America by the grace of God free and independent Dawning of the day of peace All honor to the gallant brave

SLAVERY AND TREASON BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE

09.04.2025 12:47 👍 393 🔁 113 💬 5 📌 6

No - they’ll blame someone else (“deep state!”) because it’s easier than admitting they were wrong.

09.04.2025 05:58 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OK, non-finance people: crash course in bonds. Connery is decent but overrated and his movies haven’t aged well. everyone thinks Moore is lame but his movies are by far the most fun. don’t watch the Dalton ones. Pierce Brosnan is Irish not English. two of Craig’s five are classics the others are eh.

09.04.2025 05:00 👍 33 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Yes, it’s a bit hard to see now, but allowing the president to become a king who can kidnap citizens while also demolishing the global financial system is a small price to pay for getting to keeping 23 trans women from playing college sports.

09.04.2025 04:43 👍 4203 🔁 1074 💬 35 📌 15

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

07.04.2025 20:30 👍 42358 🔁 12636 💬 510 📌 287

“People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.”

1984, Orwell

09.04.2025 02:13 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

What are you talking about?

Why, just the other day I went to the dealership and told them I wouldn't buy their $50,000 car until they'd bought 100,000 apples at $0.50/apple from my yard. Otherwise, they'd just be ripping me off.

Then, everyone cheered.

03.04.2025 14:52 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2