CodeMonkey

CodeMonkey

@code-monkey.finagle.org

Hacker, drummer, primate Seattle, WA

594 followers187 following797 posts

Sorry ladies, he's taken

Micah@rincewind.run

told this story before but the very best time I ever got my credit card declined was the day I bought my wedding suit and then went to the lego store and bought the lego death star set the store employees were cracking up as I called the bank to explain that, yes, both of those were me

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Octopus is the easiest thing to cut out of your diet on moral grounds because it’s basically never around, probably has dreams and emotions and tastes like a tire.

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The moral is, if you’re appointed Ambassador to Greece as an unqualified nepo hire, don’t try to do bonus grifts. The grift is being Ambassador to Greece. You are being paid to hang out in Greece for 4 years. Grift accomplished

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listen everyone, i’m getting sick of all the criticism. this is my first blender project. i’m still figuring out how pivot points work. i am also aware that at frame 860 he teleports to fairfax along the x-axis. i’m working on it

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

"Look, honey: a new shibboleth just dropped"

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social

United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."

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Woman accuses Idaho drag performer of exposing himself, uploads edited version of his act blurring out what she claims are his private parts. After he sues her for defamation, her appellate filings misstate and hallucinate Idaho law. Idaho Supreme Court upholds $1.1 million verdict in his favor.

reason.com$1.1M Libel Award to Drag Performer Who Had Been Accused of Exposing Himself UpheldIdaho Supreme Court finds false caselaw quotations, after jury found false factual assertions.

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Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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this Kraft dude most of us had never heard of 24 hours ago is a real contender for the new Streisand Effect world champion

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:

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yeah so we need to talk about how "screentime is bad for kids" is not really true, but "short form video on algorithm-based platforms is bad for everyone" IS true

escapedexplorer.bsky.social@escapedexplorer.bsky.social

incredibly concerning that not one but TWO close friends, both progressive-lib-left, whom I've known for 15+ years both independently and separately said they believe Israel was behind 9/11 in the last two days the information space out there is BAD, folks. get your friends off tiktok.

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There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

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TIL: A recording of Tim Curry as Mozart in Amadeus exists, but the only way to watch it is to go to the New York Public Library in person. I sort of love this.

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Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

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Replying to @pfrazee.com

It's both useful and shocking that we discarded the Turing Test without much further consideration of what it meant. Useful because it stopped being a useful interrogation of the agents capabilities, but shocking in how blasé we've been about hurdling over it

Orphan farm boy meets family friend, becomes radicalized by anti-government extremists

Dan Hon@danhon.com

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

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"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"