Matt Hall

I enjoy reading, storytelling, learning, and solving problems. I write software for a living.
I tricked [@poppytail](https://mastodon.social/@poppytail ) into a life long relationship.
Maryland, US

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2026-07-08 15:45:55 GMT

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At the risk of coming across like a reply guy...
I may be an idiot, it's undecided, but I paid close to $5K for my latest desktop/gaming machine. It still struggles with Ark Ascended (that's a developer problem but mayhaps serves as an example?).
$1,000 is _still_ cheaper than the above.
It's not _affordable_ by any stretch of the imagination but cheaper.

2026-06-01 07:10:13 GMT

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👀
Conditioning is a bitch, no?

2026-06-01 06:45:53 GMT

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My interest is piqued. I dunno where I stand on ability/availability to assist.
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2026-06-01 04:57:33 GMT

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Well, shit... Now I'm gonna cry.
Or worse... I'm gonna _feel_ like I wanna cry but not cry.
This whole thread is just my life. I hope yous all find some peace and rest today. <3

2026-05-24 04:18:41 GMT

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Sorry... Apparently I had some feelings there.

2026-05-24 04:18:23 GMT

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tl;dr
Yes. Every time Trump filed for bankruptcy he left someone else holding the bag of excrement and _he_ made a metric 💩-ton of monies.
This is the same thing.
He knows _one_ game.
It's not complicated and it's been a matter of public record in every way possible for decades.
<shrug>

2026-04-16 04:37:35 GMT

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So much YES.
I am USAian and SO MUCH YES. Just use dates. I know what those are without looking.

2026-03-12 18:24:43 GMT

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This word is delightful even without the rest of the context of the conversation.
What if... We just did workshops on how to build guillotines?
Sorry, I saw the word and got a little excited.

2026-02-24 20:16:38 GMT

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It such a shame we invest in systems meant to predict crime assuming we can calculate primary drivers of criminal behavior (much of which _has_ to be economic)...
Similar systems or tooling (if it ever worked) should be able to point to critical areas needing economic support or community functions and _no one_ has ever invested in technology like this.

2026-02-19 19:34:02 GMT

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There's absolutely no way around these people, these men in particular, simply want to own women, children, property and they want society's endorsement to fuck any of the above on a whim.

2026-02-17 20:04:59 GMT

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I mean... From a practical perspective we _are_ functionally cognitively impaired, right? Certainly collectively.
But if you let some rich folks spend five fucking decades trying to convince the people who already had a shaky relationship with science that, "Science ain't so great. What if I just punched you in the face," is a legitimate rejoinder during a debate...
Well, we wind up _here_.
👀

2026-02-17 19:41:42 GMT

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I don't think that's the _only_ space in which software should exist. I think it's the appropriate space for open-source software.
I make a living selling my services as a developer. I'm not opposed to that.
Everything has _nuance_. No rule is applicable in _every_ situation. I just think that in the matter of social networks we're seeing a significant backlash towards corporate social media. I'm not surprised to see that frustration _shared_ here on a non-corporate platform.

2026-02-17 19:17:37 GMT

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... I don't know how to respond to this. I'm genuinely agog.
You're literally posting from a FOSS-todon.org account and you're talking about monetization.
I think part of the reason you may be catching so much flak right now is that it _seems_ like you're expecting an audience for a technical discussion and what you've found is a social discussion.
These things _are not_ equal.

2026-02-17 19:05:12 GMT

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... What uh... What exactly constitutes extreme ideology in the quoted text?
Acknowledging the existence of Palestinians? Is that all it takes now?
"Anarchist anti-capitalist free culture side of networks" isn't a political ideology... It's protocls like IRC. Usenet.
So... I can only assume we have a problem with other human beings _existing_.
Is... Is my response the type of extreme political ideology you'd like to avoid on the fediverse? 🤨
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2026-02-08 22:12:20 GMT

#bookstodon
Book-peoples, I'm looking for some high-quality wall-mounted shelving because I'm ready to start acquiring books again.
Any recommendations with cause?
Thanks in advance!
<3

2026-01-26 15:18:08 GMT

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... none of these guys has ever sufficiently explained to me why _money_ should require electricity to be valid. That's _insane_, all on it's own.

2026-01-24 23:19:21 GMT

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... She's not said she's running for it has she?

2026-01-23 13:34:40 GMT

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Ah!
I hate it.
I'm ready for web design to get _simple_ again. If all the browsers can't render it without JS maybe we don't need it.

2026-01-06 01:06:21 GMT

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They're not looking to _run_ it... They're looking to sell it off immediately upon 'acquisition'.

2026-01-04 22:38:11 GMT

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"Burn the land, boil the sea. You can't take the sky from me," energy.
<3

2025-12-15 09:06:39 GMT

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Initially I thought I was looking at fiberwork of some kind. Like a sweater or something similar.
<3

2025-11-20 19:35:52 GMT

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Potentially divisive is how we refer to the segmented cubicle walls...
A swastika is a pretty easy pitch to hit... It was yoinked by the bad guys and it's a bad guy symbol. It is _deliberately_ divisive. That's it's literal purpose.
At the bare _minimum_ anybody wearing it or displaying it by choice (other than educational purposes) is a white-supremacist, racist, and all-around lousy person.

2025-11-14 19:24:02 GMT

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"Please do not make me justify middle-management _again_. There is _no_ justification for them. Let them go and we can all have a lil' raise and get more done. Hugs, your least favorite employee."
<3

2025-11-10 17:34:26 GMT

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It do feel relevant.
(And it's just... Lovely story-telling.)

2025-10-22 20:52:09 GMT

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|>The tech CEO who would “eat dog poop if it means winning”
👀
We do _not_ define winning the same way at all. I _strongly_ suspect this CEO doesn't _have_ a definition for winning unless it's drinking mead from the skulls of his enemies.
🙄

2025-10-21 17:40:42 GMT

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Right?
There's a healthy type of weird. Sometimes folks are just slightly askew and that's part of living with people.
The kind weird I'm emphasizing is different. It's the kind of weird that wants you to think it's normal to want to (possibly literally) shit on millions of your countryfolk.
That's "Thanos-snap" territory. "I disagree with these people so much I should be able to snap my fingers and make them go away."
That's juvenile, at best.

2025-10-21 13:49:30 GMT

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I'd like to reiterate how fucking _weird_ this is.
I know it was a thing for awhile for us to point out how _weird_ the Republicans and Trump are. I think it's kind of important for us to come back to this again.
This is just _weird_.
Like so very _weird_.
There's a mind-virus in our country alright and it's not 'wokeness'.
It's not remotely normal for humans to want to shit on other people en masse. It's weird. He's fucking weird. We should be saying it constantly.

2025-10-20 15:20:56 GMT

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I'm OK with being proved wrong. It's a nice surprise from time to time.

2025-10-20 14:02:04 GMT

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Wassat...? The REPUBLICANs are coming to get our guns?
I'll bet those 2nd Amendment folks'll come pouring out of the woodwork now.
...
Any minute.
...
Any time now.
...
Hello?
...

2025-09-26 18:27:21 GMT

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I dunno... I kinda hope they do it.
But they won't. They're bluster. If... and it's a huge if, they seriously considered it what they'd do is split the company up and have an EU compliant company then the rest.
But in their hearts they're cowards. That's why they gave Trump a stupid trophy/plaque while Tim stood there being insulted by Trump of all people.

2025-09-26 16:26:38 GMT

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Fucking cowboys.

2025-09-26 14:46:20 GMT

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Even in active combat folks sleep. It's OK to sleep and let somebody else take watch.
<3

2025-09-25 19:51:08 GMT

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At some point we have to accept, as a society, that the people who pursue _this much wealth_ are _all_ psychopaths.
I don't mean that figuratively. I mean that _literally_. They are psychopaths, they are disconnected from the rest of us at the physical-level in their _brain_.
I'd like to see them get help if they weren't trying to hold our heads under the water until the bubbles stop. So, I'll settle for eating them, I guess.

2025-09-25 16:02:24 GMT

Callbacks suck. The unknowable scope-change that comes with them sucks.
That's it. That's the toot.
#programming

2025-09-23 18:50:32 GMT

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It's an abrogation of responsibility.
It's a willful breaking of the social compact.
They don't have to care. They don't have feel guilty. They don't have to _do_ anything anymore as long as Big Money Jesus takes them 'home'.

2025-09-18 15:59:56 GMT

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*We and our TWO-HUNDRED-TWENTY-SIX organizations that we sell your data to...*
Oh, I got some how-to's for 'em...
How-to take a long walk off a short pier.
How-to pound sand.
How-to kick rocks.
How-to walk on that-a-way for a long-damn-time.
How-to take your last blink.
How-to get outta my face.
How-to fuck right off.
<3

2025-09-17 12:59:55 GMT

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You are _full_ of hot boosts this morning, sir.
🎩

2025-09-15 13:12:41 GMT

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Well, I'm slow and can't see the grift from here but I have high confidence there is, in fact, a significant grift there.

2025-08-26 20:03:52 GMT

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So very much this.
I swear to god, everything we saw happen in Afghanistan for 20 years while saying things like, "Thank goodness that could never happen in a _civilized_ country!"
It's all, every-single-fucking bit of it, happening here. Every day.
Like we're living in the 12th fucking century.

2025-08-22 12:21:34 GMT

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"What about the President, Mr. Director? HE SEEMS TO BE ABOVE THE DAMN LAW."

2025-08-21 18:44:31 GMT

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If you don't know how _anything_ works _everything_ seems like magic.
I mean... Most of us don't know how all the technologies work. Like not _really_.
Yeah, I flip a switch and _LIGHT!_. Power generation, power transmission, stepping up and down of voltage before it enters the consumer location, conversion from AC/DC... Most folks don't know _any_ of that.
They know they flip the switch. If the lights don't come on... They're stumped.
All that to say, I get it. <3

2025-08-21 00:47:04 GMT

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The milquetoast I was referring to was the Democratic National Committee itself and not so much Newsome.
I do take your point.

2025-08-20 22:45:37 GMT

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This is the Democratic National Committee doing what they always do. Picking the most palatable candidate to their _donors_ not their party members.
I'm sick to death of this milquetoast bullshit.

2025-08-17 17:45:14 GMT

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Oh... Shit, is that what these are? I thought I was managing my time.
<sigh>

2025-08-02 16:14:27 GMT

Is it normal to need _days_ to get yourself hyped up to do... I dunno... Anything at all?

2025-07-11 03:53:12 GMT

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Anyone who's ever _been_ to Hooters knows that _no one_ there has an IQ over 180 or the physique of a Greek god.
Someone who reads the Bible would probably know that Greek gods are lowercase "g" and the Christian god gets a capital "g" because that one's _supposed_ to be the _only_ one.
Being pursued by myriads of women is an indicator that you may have wronged _a lot_ of women.
I suspect the only heavy thing this twaffle is lifting is his ego.
I could be wrong but I doubt it.

2025-07-09 05:25:57 GMT

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Same. I'm afraid I need some help parsing this.

2025-06-27 19:08:28 GMT

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Of course Co-Pilot adoption is lagging. It's a moral nightmare. If you want to be entirely pragmatic about it: It sucks.
More code isn't _better_. More features isn't _better_. Nobody wants AI.
It's been a bad bet from the get go and private equity and the VCs just _refuse_ to take the hit.

2025-06-18 19:19:13 GMT

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My churched upbringing might've kept me out of some trouble when I was younger.
I _never_ lacked a desire to _help_ people but the context for what help was and what mattered changed _a lot_.

2025-06-18 19:18:22 GMT

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I was always very impressed with the folks who grew up as humanists. I had to learn it. It wasn't intuitive to _me_.
Lotta time, exposure to the real world. Little bit of travel courtesy of the United States Air Force. Meeting people who weren't from my family or hometown.
Different ideas. Just... Exposure, really. Started me down a path of asking questions, learning about others, and empathy in humanist terms.

2025-06-18 15:23:00 GMT

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Ooooh, story time.
I grew up in a very conservative home. Mom and I churched three times-a-week at a minimum. I was "filled with the fire of the holy ghost!" from a very young age.
It was a long, steady movement towards a more humanistic view and as an adult in my late forties I couldn't be further away from my religious roots.
This has directly impacted my view of politics and people in general. It's been a ride.

2025-05-15 14:43:34 GMT

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So... The plan is to _cause_ a mid-air collision so they can justify private/corporate replacement of the FAA?
Is... Is that too conspiracy-theory-ie?
It seems _exactly_ on-brand for this administration.

2025-05-08 02:40:50 GMT

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This is the part where we all agree to sacrifice the 10% to the ecosphere and promise to never set the planet on fire again, right?

2025-04-25 02:40:59 GMT

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Oh, thank God.
I thought no one was going to say this. <3

2025-04-01 12:45:00 GMT

@npub16el…n8vf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE
It's about 8:45am and just wanted to share that Cory Booker has been holding the Senate floor for almost 14 hours. Speaking about the abuse to Social Security and calling out the Trump administration and it's minions for the damage they're creating by their reckless behavior.
Senate Democrats, this is the opposition many of us have been asking for. Stand up. Oppose. Support people like Cory Booker while they stand.
<3

2025-03-26 11:46:13 GMT

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Not only do the previous set of rules not apply it's likely there are no rules, at all.
It's not peace-time.
We need war-time consigliere.

2025-03-26 11:45:35 GMT

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Most of the people in positions of trust and authority are decent-ish people.
I guess to maintain the theme I'd say the people in those positions of trust/authority are 'peace-time' consigliere. They believe in the rules and usually that's to everyone's benefit.
In peace-time they do well enough but they are literally unequipped to recognize or respond to the extensional threat Trump, and fascism represent.

2025-03-26 11:35:05 GMT

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If this isn't pure pantomime then I cannot grasp the depth of this naivete.
We _cannot_ shame the Right into doing right. They lack the requisite psychology to _be_ shamed.
--
Trump doesn't think in terms of _national_ security. He thinks in terms of personal security and _leverage_. Choose any stereotypical mobster you want. Now imagine that mobster and Donald Trump are the same person.
Trump's actions aren't even remotely confusing given the proper perspective.

2025-03-17 18:45:45 GMT

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The hand-sign these idjits are holding up is _soooo_ close to the American Sign Language for asshole.
I gotta be honest, I don't think that's irony.

2025-03-11 18:17:35 GMT

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Putin doesn't view a ceasefire as a cessation of hostilities. It's an opportunity to reorganize his resources. Troops, equipment, ammunition, etc.
It's a pause that lasts exactly as long a Putin wants it to.
I want Ukraine to have the equipment they need and the support from Europe to make this conflict so painful for Putin that he's pushed out of power.

2025-02-14 20:13:58 GMT

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So... Many way... To say mean things...
I gotta stand up so I can sit down.
Wow.

2025-02-12 13:23:24 GMT

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Oh, thank you so much for writing this.
This is a powerful, and well thought out response.
<3

2025-02-12 12:20:18 GMT

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I love this.
For the better part of the last year I've had
*Resist Entropy*
written on my whiteboard where it's always in my peripheral vision.

2025-01-29 17:49:41 GMT

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Who the fuck likes private insurance?
I pay almost $800 a month for private insurance for myself and my spouse. A trip to the ER still costs us $400 just to get in the door. This doesn't touch the facility fees and the individuals doctors who'll need to be paid for whatever we're there for. Usually in the area of $500 - $1000.
We frequent the ER about 4 times a year.
You want me to believe that subsidized government insurance would cost us more than that?
Pffft.

2024-12-27 17:39:06 GMT

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Anyway, I'm happy to make efforts to reduce my demand on the group and to contribute to the group.
I'm not willing to feed middlemen who's _only_ function is to skim from the efforts of others.
Those folks can go kick rocks.
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2024-12-27 17:35:39 GMT

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So, when I say I don't want to work. It might mean that I don't want to take out the trash, carry heavy things, or give up my finite life moments in exchange for a fiat currency.
This overloaded word allows for the contortion of my intent and that's to the employers advantage. It's easier to cast my words as sloth in this muddied environment.
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2024-12-27 17:31:59 GMT

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Part of the social stigma with not wanting to work is that the word 'work' is overloaded.
From a physics context work means to move something.
From a economic context work means to trade bits of one's life for a little money.
From a homemaker's context work means to do the things that make existing with other people bearable.
@npub165c…tdlq

2024-12-27 17:22:24 GMT

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Oh, absolutely.
I'm not interested in absolute idleness. I am a fan of simply being present and that can be perceived as idleness but that perception is still based in the belief that work is holy.
I love to work on things that feel meaningful. I love to work on things that make other people's lives better. I love learning. I love sharing what I've learned with others.
These things aren't an option as a focus in the current construct.
@npub165c…tdlq

2024-12-27 16:43:54 GMT

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I've often flabbergasted other folks by telling them that I don't want to work. It's not a point of pride to give my effort and energy to someone else in exchange for being able to live.
I'm not earning my keep. I'm getting the most someone else is willing to give for my knowledge, energy, experience, and effort. It's almost certainly not a fair trade.
If I was able to live comfortably without doing this 'work' I would. You can't make me feel shame for that.

2024-12-15 06:54:30 GMT

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I bet one wooden nickel that the cool cats are in there.

2024-12-12 17:48:25 GMT

Ya'll... The mute function works. It's lovely. I can even choose how long I just need a break from someone I otherwise enjoy.
I dunno if we're talking about this enough.

2024-12-03 19:37:50 GMT

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And just like that you're back in the game!
@npub1qva…ywuh

2024-12-03 19:08:11 GMT

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"It's an older pun but it checks out."
https://6-28.mastodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/113/590/456/712/341/868/original/1caf39f74d79439d.png

2024-12-02 21:59:09 GMT

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ZING!
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2024-12-02 12:53:54 GMT

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Yeah, I pretty sure I've dealt with that before... I don't feel like it was ever permanent and eventually I just kinda of 'reset' and was able to use the word again.
I don't know if that makes any sense.
[@Sable_Shade](https://mastodon.social/@Sable_Shade ) @npub1r04…dlsg

2024-12-02 11:49:55 GMT

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In-vul-id?
[@Sable_Shade](https://mastodon.social/@Sable_Shade ) @npub1r04…dlsg

2024-12-01 23:41:23 GMT

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Ah! This is one always bouncing around in my head.
I never got the wordplay in Adam Ant as a kid and at some point I just got it.
"Oh... He's adamant... Like in general he's just adamant... He's Adam Ant.

2024-12-01 23:16:24 GMT

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I _love_ doing this. My favorite is 'apparently'.
App-aR-ANT-lee.
App-aR-ANT-lee you don't get the joke.

2024-12-01 22:38:23 GMT

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See... This runs into some continuity issues for me... I distinctly remember Worf saying, "I am not a merry man!"
@npub1r04…dlsg [@Sable_Shade](https://mastodon.social/@Sable_Shade )

2024-11-23 23:55:03 GMT

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We should eat them now before they have time to prepare.

2024-11-06 11:26:21 GMT

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So are we. There's no way we're not exporting this shit.

2024-10-31 16:30:15 GMT

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Sometimes, just sometimes, "No Spoilers, please!" means no-fucking-spoilers-or-I'll-fucking-stab-you-m'kay?

2024-10-30 19:48:21 GMT

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"I'll swear all I want!"
Context: Parents tell kids they'll wash their mouths out with soap if they swear because it's filthy.

2024-10-30 18:52:53 GMT

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I mean obviously we explain how the ringlets that her chain mail is made from are entirely insufficient to deflect a blow from most weapons and if she's down we're going to the local hackerspace to 3D print her something some tighter ringlets.
👀
Ya'll like it when we tell you you're wrong, right?

2024-09-30 14:52:59 GMT

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I like that the editorial board of the Times has said this. I kinda wish the rest of the reporting at the Times _reflected_ this.

2024-09-24 21:15:13 GMT

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The glue that holds my world together...

2024-09-12 01:23:39 GMT

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Undecided voters are the same assholes that walk into a car dealership and have a salesperson talk to them about 4 different models/makes of vehicle on a Saturday afternoon just to pass the time.

2024-09-11 19:49:36 GMT

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Only the best, the finest legal entities designed with the sole purpose of extracting "value" from someone not themselves and turning that "value" into cash for themselves.

2024-09-11 18:21:46 GMT

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"... part of a planned mission which we planned when we realized they would be in danger if they were to return on our very expensive but poorly made spaceboat. Assuming the other guy's spaceboat works better than our we'll be paying him a metric shit tonne of money to bring home the people we put in danger who are not in danger."
--Boeing PR rough draft

2024-08-24 21:21:36 GMT

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I loved the show.
Cried _way_ more than I expected.
Enjoyed the characters immensely.
I dunno if it needs a 4th season. I thought they wrapped everything very nicely.
Am I the jerk?

2024-08-22 22:02:53 GMT

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THANK YOU. Every time this is brought up far too many people _accept_ the premise.
That's insane.
A not-for-profit government service CANNOT by definition _lose_ money.

2024-08-21 23:57:29 GMT

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Good luck ladies! I hope it's amazing and creates an overwhelming emotional bond!
<3

2024-08-20 17:59:18 GMT

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How can he not bring up Explorers? He was the male alien in Explorers!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089114/

2024-08-14 13:48:55 GMT

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"Obviously some people won't understand how good I am at the economics. They'll say my economic isn't the best but it is. Nobody has a bigger economic than I do. Nobody."

2024-08-13 02:33:19 GMT

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I'm sure all the other geniuses agree.
🙄
How does this guy not drown in the shower?

2024-08-13 01:55:02 GMT

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Who fell over?

2024-08-12 20:23:14 GMT

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I've never heard of this before today.
I'm reading about it and I _cannot_ figure out who thought this was valuable.
This just looks like another way for someone to skim money, time, and effort from a project that probably can't afford any additional of the above.

2024-08-02 03:15:15 GMT

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<3
Lemme know if you can explain, "Lost your sense of direction? Have you tried Hari Krishna?"

2024-08-02 01:31:38 GMT

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I desperately wanna pass someone on the street or overhear in a random conversation, "Ah. A bear in his natural habitat. A Studebaker."

2024-08-02 01:30:22 GMT

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Seriously, I love the idea that someone is watching the Muppet Movie, right now. <3