Past Me Dev

Past Me Dev

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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Someone hasn't been to Costco recently.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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For the statement “the Democratic Party is more evil than it was in 1996” to be true you have to assume “evil” includes some combination of LGBTQ rights, expanding healthcare, criminal justice reform, abortion, and green energy/climate

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Unfortunately about two dozen people I know are about to go flat dead broke

TrekCore.com 🖖@trekcore.com

NEW! The first big announcement for #StarTrek's 60th anniversary week is here — a new collaboration with luxury cookware company Le Creuset to send your kitchen to the final frontier blog.trekcore.com/2026/09/star...

I only recognize 4 of the 25 as well, and have only seen 2 of their channels.

Chad Orzel@orzelc.bsky.social

I recognize 4 of the 25 names, but I'm fairly certain I've never watched any of the #content they create, just heard about them in other contexts.

Who the fuck is Jack Tindale and why should I care about his grammar prescriptions? Feel free to hate it, Jack, it's still not going to improve your life or dating prospects.

👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞@jacktindale.bsky.social

Minor point but I really hate this performative “y’all” people do to try and appear more folksy. I don’t type in a Yorkshire accent and I did people would rightly tell me to shut up.

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Replying to @asherelbein.bsky.social

As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst

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This is what the Internet promised to be. Watch the YouTube video, it’s totally worth it.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

I know we're supposed to believe the internet is awful & algorithmic recommendations are even worse. But I opened up YouTube and the algo recommended the geoguesser guy somehow using the internet to bring back a memory and, sorry, sorry, there's something in my eye... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lukk...

This tracks with my (non-cryptanalytical) experience with these tools: They are much better than they used to be, and the line where they flip from useful to clueless is still very, very apparent.

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This Is Just To Say I told you so about that thing you disagreed with me about of which irrefutable proof has now emerged Forgive me it is too delicious too sweet not to remind you that you were wrong

Siri, show me someone who doesn't pay for his own travel. I travel not to travel per se - I travel because I *have something to do at my destination* and screwing up that schedule has consequences that range from infuriating to devastating. This take is completely opposite of my experience.

James Ball@jamesrball.com

He was right on this BTW. People get incredibly neurotic about missing flights because they've never missed one. Once it's happened to you (assuming you're not travelling with kids) it's annoying but fine and you start leaving/wasting less time at airports.

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Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

That is kind of an amazing statistic.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social

Mikaela Shiffrin wins the slalom gold medal by 1.50 seconds If you add up the winning margins of the winners at the 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 women's slalom, you get 1.51 seconds

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This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

First FF for me officially? Final Fantasy Adventure on the Game Boy, even if that was truly the start of the Seiken Densetsu series. But it was marketed as Final Fantasy, and I grabbed the other 3 Final Fantasy Game Boy releases as a result - which turned out to be SaGa games.

Will "scifantasy" Frank@scifantasy.bsky.social

Got pointed at this by @heartbreak.one and I'm in. First Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy. On the NES. Not quite at first run (I was 3) but before the SNES for sure. It was interesting but it did not take hold of my brain stem. The next two did.

Day 2: Favorite FF? FFX. FFVI is a very close 2nd, but FFX did it best for me overall. The Sphere Grid, the story, Blitzball, the capture grind ... all of it. Just landed as my perfect FF game. (And I quite liked FFX-2 as well!)

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So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

SFGATE@sfgate.com

An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.

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Delete TikTok. Hot take but it’s cringe if you ever used it. It’s cancerous to your mind and now it’s owned by a MAGA pedophile freak who’s turned it into state media.