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pfp @skullbunnygalaxy.bsky.social boring cis dude he/him
That time Missouri tried to carefully gerrymander a district with 0 registered voters so they could impose a 0.5% tax on a certain set of businesses, but fucked up and left the whole things in the hands of a 23 year old college student. web.archive.org/web/20200804...
College student would be sole voter in CID sales tax decision
A mistake by representatives of the Business Loop 70 Community Improvement District means a sales tax increase the district needs to thrive will require
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If you want transphobes to block and report the #wnba feed is full of em tonight
Underboss silent on associate who barged into the restaurant and demanded to be made a capo
WNBA silent on Clay Travis offer to pay Las Vegas Aces $10 million to beat high school boys team https://www.rawchili.com/5063963/ The WNBA has once again found itself embroiled in controversy, thanks in large part to the reaction from…
We finally have a type of guy willing to answer "do you still beat your wife?" in the affirmative.
Max Miller: When I was reported for child abuse, for my daughter, for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days, and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan
Is there a german compound word for a problem that doesn't actually exist but people will go out of their way to be an asshole about it?
Did we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?
Today is the day of There Will Come Soft Rains. Read by Leonard Nimoy, this recording scared me to death as a child because it was so unsettling hearing a voice I associated with good things read of death so matter of factly. youtu.be/nmcURKn2sf8?...
August 4, 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains | Ray Bradbury & Leonard Nimoy | OEW Institute
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@bsky.app "compressing" videos client-side is dumb for these reasons: 1) you're not doing hardware offload so it takes fucking forever 2) clients don't always support offload, so fuck them? 3) the majority of people are reuploading stuff from socials which has already been aggressively compressed
The next time you consider making a flier with AI, please also consider that the most intriguing ad I’ve seen this week is a garage sale sign made of particle board with spray painted writing that reads, “GOOD SHIT —>”
i was born to lay in bed surrounded by cats and various electronics
Winamp has met the same end as napster: a trademark applied to a whitelabel streaming service techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/w...
Winamp aims for a comeback with a new music player powered by Deezer | TechCrunch
Winamp is preparing to relaunch with a Deezer-powered premium music service, betting its nostalgic brand and a new all-in-one music player can stand out in today’s crowded streaming market.
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Youtube next. Also why can't I block channels in Youtube?
LinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
Holy shit HAMSTER did it again, this game never got ported out of the arcade and has been the domain of giant three screen arcade cabinets and MAME since 1983 youtu.be/hSHNzQAcSis?...
Arcade Archives TX-1
YouTube video by HAMSTER Corporation
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i found an ancient phone backup the other day and here are some photos i took of the old somethingawful office in lees summit around 2011 or 2012. and a couple never before seen pics of smash mouth eat the eggs . and some discount ed hardy beer that made me VERY sick
[0009371] The Human Pikeman Necromancer drinks the «≡steel toy hammer≡».
Rainbow Six 2, everything after it is an imposter
what's everyone else's fab examples of once massively popular and influential landmark titles in especially western games from back in the day that have just been forgotten and abandoned completely now. mine is black and white
finished the Resident Evil series today, everybody had a joyous time
There's a legendary donut place in santa clara called Stan's Donut Shop. Been in the same place since 1955. My grandpa got coffee and donuts there for 20 years straight. Randy's Donuts from LA is opening across the street. I don't think they understand the amount of hostility they unleashed.
"Calculator, what do Asian people look like" Calculator: [bong rip]
What level of racist is "ask chatpgt what Asian people look like"
I dont know if this is brazen or it has just become so normalized that people who use the stuff don't see it anymore but the text that opens the final paragraph on the right on the big slides for your sdcc presentation is WILD