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transguy writer. yr producer pal Matty on Tired: The Car Podcast For People Who Understand That Cars Are Bad w/ autojourno hosts Peter Hughes (ex-Mountain Goats) & Rory Carroll https://linktr.ee/tiredpod (i am also DIY music archivist claremontcometh.net)
got an in-person interview & tour scheduled for 1pm please god a job that involves a desk and computer please please please please
wizard on computer dot jpg@tieadullknot.bsky.social · 17h agogot a Teams interview scheduled on genuinely the worst cover letter of my life (tldr "hey i went to school just now & i've seen a lot of manufacturing environments as a temp, but they keep telling me i'm overqualified now, soooo you seem like you want a Computer and Forms guy") but sure let's chat
one cultural difference thats universally very funny is when zoomers/alphas see a website that has most of its navigation/links/etc displayed as text instead of a bar of symbols, and they get So Mad. "this is bad design!" "this is so annoying!" from streamers etc... but obvi this is the best example
no one called it 'cutting off family' when these same parents threw their gay kids out of the house. wild how that works.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23h agolol come the fuck on
Air to Ground Message: ANY THOUGHTS SHARED ARM US AGAINST THE MIRROR OF NARCISSUS. ANY IDEA HAS VALUE EVEN WHEN SUCH IS TO ILLUSTRATE A LACK. HOPE YOU ALL ARE HAVING AN EASY SHIFT. Area: New York City, NY, USA A: #aedd4132079 F: #f001ae4ad50 #acars #vdlm2
Let's do more bicycle discourse. I think cyclists should be allowed to carry firearms and shoot them at cars.
This is a sad spectacle, but one that is inevitable in a petty-bourgeois country in the epoch of bourgeois-democratic transformations.
everybodys like oh we need speed cameras oh we need protected bike lanes sure sure ok i agree but that's not enough. after one year living in west philly i understood we have to ban personal vehicles in the city of philadelphia immediately and then the program can grow from there
finally enjoying .hack//G.U. after 20 yrs thanks to the last recode compilation port and helloooo BBS user writing self insert fanfic about the arena champion player character. this is STILL every Original Character/Driver fic on motorsports AO3 twenty years later
following up on this point from a few weeks ago: now that you can't google phone numbers anymore, the unscheduled call is Literally over. also the last legislation to even Try do anything was in 2019 and it has never collected a single fine for violations. lol. lmao en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRACED_...
TRACED Act - Wikipedia
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wizard on computer dot jpg@tieadullknot.bsky.social · 3w agodo you know how fast my voicemail fills up with robocall shit. it takes like 48 hours. i just leave it full. do not call is dead, caller ID doesnt work. spam risk spam risk spam risk all day. it's over man
Come for the discussion of the Ferrari ladder system; stay for Rory's correct amount of vitriol for both the iPhone (evil) and for Silicon Valley guys and their "uncanny talent for battering the cool out of everything they touch." (true)
@alloymag.bsky.social · 17h agoSomeone spent $40M this weekend to claim the very first Ferrari Luce: alloymag.com/fast-luce/
got a Teams interview scheduled on genuinely the worst cover letter of my life (tldr "hey i went to school just now & i've seen a lot of manufacturing environments as a temp, but they keep telling me i'm overqualified now, soooo you seem like you want a Computer and Forms guy") but sure let's chat
the current transpanic can literally only properly be described as fabricated mass hysteria at this point
was reading a post on how it's going for recruitment software in the AI boom and found out how other job seekers are doing, broadly
who is vibecoding at Indeed i swear to god
ICYMI: unearthed an essay from a year ago on a Peter Peter Hughes one-off song about Maserati that never actually mentions Maserati. And as long as it's all negative space being filled in around the figure, we may as well follow it outward, and outward...
claremont cometh dot net@claremontcometh.bsky.social · 3d agoHello! Peter Hughes has a new vinyl release of last year's 'Half-Staff Blues,' but I love to find inopportune times to talk about his older work. I wrote this essay about his digital one-off single "Three Weeks In Sicily" (2017) last year, but put it in a drawer. claremontcometh.net/essays/orany...
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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me when im doing some magnetic data storage with the homies
last minute on kid sister's bday, just pulled a hail mary by going to Target after bday dinner & showing up at home with the stuffed animal she wanted that's been out of stock at ALL the local targets for a whole week. W on the board for dirtbag failson who came thru w the stuffed tardigrade baybee
i would have an easier time inviting friends to this website if it didn't break roughly once a month
we will require qr codes on the torture gloves
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoJeffries stop short of committing to holding a vote to abolish ICE is he's House Speaker next January, but says he's "committed to dramatically reforming ICE ... the masks should come off, body cameras should come on, judicial warrants should be required."
I had talked to people about Putting this essay somewhere, but it ended up staying in the drawer for a year, so please enjoy reading it for free on my DIY tape archival website!
claremont cometh dot net@claremontcometh.bsky.social · 3d agoHello! Peter Hughes has a new vinyl release of last year's 'Half-Staff Blues,' but I love to find inopportune times to talk about his older work. I wrote this essay about his digital one-off single "Three Weeks In Sicily" (2017) last year, but put it in a drawer. claremontcometh.net/essays/orany...
Tired is the kind of podcast where we record for 90 minutes and this is one of our topics, before we get into Rory seeing 20ft tall tractor engines, and Peter gets into geopolitics until I'm looking at the flag of the MPLA on Wikipedia.
wizard on computer dot jpg@tieadullknot.bsky.social · 3d agoQUICK addition
pod recording and i was listening to rory describe the woodward dream cruise so while he's been talking about monterey instead i went into flow state
what was going on with me mentally where i was able to make a funny MS Paint drawn animatic in a week with clips from the podcast back in 2024. while i was working full time. how do i go crazy like this specifically again www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyE0...
[Trailer Animatic] Tired: The Car Podcast For People Who Understand That Cars Are Bad (And Funny)
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my latest dispatch from motorsport fanfic world is i got somebody to read lady chatterly's lover
I wrote about New York’s Delivery Protection Act, which would require companies like Amazon to directly employ their delivery drivers. Amazon has spent more than $5 million fighting it.
Amazon Is Spending Big Against NYC’s Delivery Protection Act
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is backing the Delivery Protection Act, a piece of local legislation which would require Amazon to directly employ their drivers. It could open a lane for drivers to unionize — an...
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local idiot submits novel query for the first time in his stupid life
The best philosophy with time travel narratives is “don’t worry about it sweetie”
