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The Current Situation

“Sir, this is a Wendy’s.”

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Geek Stranger than Fiction

I’ll admit it; I laughed.

Tweet: In 1920 we took children out of the coal mines. In 2020, the most popular video game is Minecraft. The children yearn for the mines.
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America The Good Fight

If pulling down a slave trader’s statue “ruins your way of life…”

Sign that reads: “If pulling down a statue of a slave trader ‘ruins your way of life,’ you are either (a) a racist (b) a pigeon.”
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Stranger than Fiction The Current Situation

The “Gen Z” version of “Harry Potter” seems lowkey sus

Here’s the text with link annotations for the Zoomer blabber…

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, liked flexing that they very basic, thank u. Tbh they were the last people you’d think would be sus, but they were all fax no printer.

Mr. Dursley was adulting at a firm called Grunnings, which made drills.

He was a dummy thiccc (w/ three Cs) man with hardly any neck, although he had an absolute unit of a mustache. Mrs. Dursley was a total Karen with zero chill and had hella neck, which came in very useful when she was stalking her neighbours and not minding her own.

The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley who they thought was the main character. The Dursleys were mostly thriving, but they also had lowkey tea which didn’t pass the vibe check and their greatest fear was to get called out and cancelled. They were girlbossing too close to the sun and didn’t think they could…

Don’t drag Gen Z kids for using the word “unalive.” As un-erudite as it sounds, it has a clever origin: it was coined to get around automated social media filters that block words like kill, death, and similar terms, yet doesn’t its meaning is easily grasped by people who’ve never encountered the word before.

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The More You Know...

Helpful hints for a possible “Terminator” future

I’m sharing this image in the hope that it won’t be useful information.

Diagram showing the weak points on a Boston Dynamics robot “dog:” battery and CPU in its “belly”, limb actuators where its legs meet its body, and visual and audio sensors in its “head.”

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It Happened to Me Slice of Life Work

Office scene: Monday, January 9, 2023

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This is a still from a Zoom chat I had earlier this morning. I rearranged my home office over the holidays, and it’s looking pretty sharp!

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America

Two years ago today…

Editorial cartoon by Mike Luckovich featuring the January 6th crowd gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol Building and Donald Trump in a director’s chair yelling “Action!”
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