happy 40th fellow paradox day havers
posts from 2019
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two for one 🍒 folks, but did he eat the last one? nope! (draft)
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(draft)
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opinion is boomer for troll
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fwiw i endorses bernie sanders for president, hth
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hanging with the everloving wife and child in the South Park playground near 21st amendment trying to guess what percentage of the bathrooms in these first-tech-boom houses have black porcelain toilets in em
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every city agency should be renamed to the municipal equivalent, replace the awful eagle flag with the worm logo, rename the city, organize municipal worker parties, blah, blah, blah, and stuff, then the revolution
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ugh, tourist, how long have you even lived here? locals say it out, it’s [with emphasis] “municipal transportation authority”, not muni, jeeze
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first as cheers, then as theft (draft)
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the two dance moves, the boop, followed by the walker (draft)
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well shit, the hair-line in my ten year old lodge ten inch popped on medium low flame while i was making quesadillas, it sounded like someone hit my stove with a hammer
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rip the 16 & mission walgreens
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vaccines cause goofy stance (draft)
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an entire phd thesis in the year 2314 about why we call it the peter principle and not the pete principle when nobody even remembers the failed potus candidate or ever called ‘em peter
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“e-maps”
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hey nyquil voter / it’s nyquil voting time
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(draft)
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whenever i buy a new box of spaghetti i take one out and put it back in upside down, that’s my lucky noodle
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y’all ever been to Weird Stuff on Valencia? they sell all kinds of trash that nobody wants
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haven’t finished my first drink yet and someone guessed my costume as mr. rogers
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my cat just peered too far into the abyss
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after getting paged at 4 am because someone can’t log in (not my problem): mad
after my reply is auto-responded to with an “I’m on maternity leave” out of office message: not mad
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etc, etc
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the only time of year i feel
bad shutting this old half siamese loudmouth in the kitchen (where his food, bed, and box are) for the night
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roygbiv: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, ivurple
the power of mnemonics!
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nietzsche’s hokey edgelord “the living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one." but about neoliberalism being a species of sovereign citizen derivative classical liberalism
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i celebrate this thing’s death even though i know it’ll live again
i can’t kill it yet, my kid stood up in the bathtub to dance to the music when i edited the damned clip
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🎼 “The wheels on the bus go round and round.”
“The wheels on the bus”
“The wheels on”
“The wheels
“The”
“The”
“The”
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finally made a contact on my phone for @SF_emergency@twitter.com’s sms short number, idk what took me so long
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if i ever type more than three sentences without a typo or misspelling know that I’m dead and have been replaced by a sinister force (T-1000, Agent Smith, etc) and you should try to find what can stop me immediately
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if mcdonalds workers were police, I could have unholstered my service weapon and pumped a few rounds into the guy, the person entering the store behind him, whatever
working at mcdonalds is hard, my mission was to sell cheeseburgers and this guy was throwing em back!
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he leaves the store, i take another order or two, he comes bag into the store, and from the door, throws the cheeseburger at me, it bounces off my chest and hits the floor
“What the hell is this? I ordered a plain cheeseburger!”
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guy in a US Army dress officer’s uniform with two kids under 10 ordered a bunch of stuff to go including “just a plain cheeseburger,” which was my order as a kid, so I definitely smashed that PLAIN touchscreen button
I give him his drinks and bag and he splits
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one time like 15 years ago I asked the noc operator who operated hp openview to help me install and configure openview on my linux servers and they inter-officed me half a ream of paper of openview documentation, printed, and closed my ticket having done nothing else
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some cops are ok with the basic apple or dell keyboards they are issued at the academy, the r and m keys work fine on them, but more often they buy their own buckling spring keyboards like the Model M
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it’s the second week of rookie school, and all the recruits are practicing on paper computers with real keyboards so that they don’t typo rm in an computer emergency situation
they have to re-certify every year
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cops carry sudo rm -fr / to every call because hackers have sudo rm -fr /
the thin phosphor line
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well, their in their linkedin photo they are smiling so that means they are still liking the job there
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if i were leaving SFO i would have simply taken a taxi from the taxi stand
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they call me the ‘tot lot tagger’
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what?
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being up at 5 and having a kid who must be held to the window to watch and wave at the @RecologySF@twitter.com workers emptying the bins on our one way street means I also get to watch people in cars behind the truck select honk from the list of things they could do while behind said truck
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i keep calling this suck wire “pick up”, like i’m working with rubber sement and as if “suck wire” wasn’t a great name
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it finally happened, I’m emptying my pockets to camp out at work only to find that I accidentally brought one of my kid’s pacifiers to work
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MUTES, a novel with an appendix of omitted words themselves assembled into nonsensical but grotesque phrases, which are only ever represented as empty spaces in the text itself
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it’ll be fun in 30 years when period pieces about the late 2010s are careful to capture how drab everything is; buildings painted gray, vehicles gray, black, red, or blue exclusively
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ty kevin for the physical graffiti wake up side (draft)
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as a kid haver with nearly enough capital to buy in san francisco, I would vaaaaaaaaaastly prefer living in a 3 bed 2 bath public housing unit to having to sink my money into dirt and market risk, and think people who prefer the dirt and risk are fools
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my kitchen window overlooks a row of sidewalk coffee shop tables and every time someone at one casually smokes a cigarette at one in 2019 i assume they are a time traveling prisoner on a mission to their past, before things all went sideways
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“9 1 1, what is your emergency?”
“”Hi, how are you, I’d like to order the special weapons and tactics? Can I get that with extra special weapons?”
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also, all of his toy car gifts have come in sets that include a police car, like this S.W.A.T. thing he just got, big yikes, a 9-1-1 sticker?
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my kid’s baby babble book, not a fan of trains, which are toys for baby’s, apparently
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Historical Buttigiegism
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I’t probably never happen again because of open office floor plans, but I had one chance to leave something behind in a desk for my successor and I went with a carton of camel filters in return for all those I’d bummed while stressed over the job.
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you’re telling me a plan improved this performance?
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i call upon the author to explain trolling us with a character named “Deval” smdh that is some shoddy ass writing workshop character naming
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(draft)
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first haircut! (draft)
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I snagged the fash forum dox and opened my editor to read the README in it and had to double take at the last unsaved thing I had in my editor that I had for a previous gag.
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Welcome Mr. Gates, we’ve caught you at last and can reveal our our evil plan. Sally Sitlord, strap Mr. Gates into the tax-o-chair at once. Mr. Gates you are about to be taxed! Ah-ha-ha-ha! Ah, I see. Alas.
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spoopy vote counting music https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TkZoB0e6mR0
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prematurely putting a Dean button up on the victory ledge cause I’ve got a good feeling about this one
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it absolutely sucks having to be so liberal at work! http://www.theleaguesf.org/ vote the guide, leave the no-endorsements blank, your blank mayoral ballot even makes ballot props easier to get!
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cw: sf pol GOTV
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“They turn this shit into computers! We have to stop then! Why aren’t you eating any?!” (draft)
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sssssswwwwwiiiiinnnnggggg bbbbaaaasssssttttiiiaaaaannnnn (draft)
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“Honey I put some clothes out for you to wear, with one of your DSA shirts.”
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work makes a lot more sense if you mentally swap “leader” for “bureaucrat” the same way you swap “meritocracy” for “bull shit”, myself included, and I wish I’d started doing it years ago
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@twindigo@twitter.com @sirjoancornella@twitter.com
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ty @twindigo@twitter.com for remixing this @sirjoancornella@twitter.com Booty Boop for my holiday warrior avatar
“I hate it, so I must be doing something right”
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ty @twindigo@twitter.com for remixing this @sirjoancornella@twitter.com booty bop for my holiday warrior avatar
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dropped off my ballot this morning, voting @TheLeagueSF@twitter.com’s picks, for @chesaboudin@twitter.com, no on C, yes on the rest, abstain on the (remaining) cops
here is what our cool ranked choice ballot for mayor looks like after I filled mine out:
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as a voter my top three single-issues are:
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the national debt
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fare evasion
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voter fraud
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the hit on Jeffy E
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should my neighbor partially blocked by the fire truck just drive their brand new Jeep Wrangler on the sidewalk or try to get a worker to move the truck?
Looks like they’re gonna try to get a worker to move the truck. I can’t watch this.
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the wind just broke a tree limb onto San Carlos Street, ladder 7 is working it with a chainsaw
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yo, that mist work in discord?
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the boomer white guys with 23 followers from across the country constantly in @DSA_SF@twitter.com’s mentions and otherwise only yelling at brands™ on this hell site are what clay shi rky meant by ‘cognitive surplus’
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Bash and The Boy (draft)
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tfw yer at the phó shop having your usual coward’s phó tai and another fella comes in and out basics you and orders “chicken noodle soup”
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breve lucky charms send toot
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All conference room AV systems should have little rubber prime buttons, chokes, pull starts, and run on 2-cycle fuel.
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I turn over my MACHINE OF DEATH card and it says, “Cat whisker foot splinter.”
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(draft)
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had to swap out the old rack though ☹️☹️☹️
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dad-bike craigslist bonus: the old CoPilots match my bike and the kid’s red helmet
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good advice at the dmv yesterday
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I’m sorry but if you wear a math hat you are a nerd i don’t make up the rules and anyway you should know better
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quake postin
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this thief stole a leftover brat off the kitchen table while I was cleaning his high chair (draft)
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My stars! Such an interesting monster. (draft)
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I’ve got the solution to San Francisco’s housing crisis, the ACME ARTIFICIAL ROCK. “Have fun, be popular, be a rock!”
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H1BD B! (draft)
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this is what real opsec guidance looks like
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no don’t platform the fash u r so sexy haha 😂
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fuck prop c how are cotton candy grapes a thing and why aren’t there more things like ‘em??? i just had one for the first time, wild
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At the Discovery Museum tot lot, which was pretty fun! (draft)
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Disapprove of what the enemy says, but defend to the death their right say it, so that you can catch them doing a hypocrisy, and you can say to your base, “Got em!”, and you can print bulk mail showing you saying it, the ultimate victory. - Voltaire Tzu (D), CA
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Almost 1! (draft)
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fianne deinstein
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I haven’t done any research and I don’t get it
[computer reads back ’You said, “I haven’t done any research and I don’t get it.” Send message?’]
Send
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Man, idk if it’s my kid’s cold or allergies but I want something darker tonight [opens something from the back of the fridge] oops there goes my last 2015 Anchor Christmas
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bash maybe thinks blikenlights are where tunes come from, baby toys have one or two, adult music has lots more (draft)
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the hip new sound all the kids are making now, hopped up on goofballs (draft)
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The realtor showing a ($1.8MM 2x1) flat a few blocks from our apartment that we were gawking in, to us: “How did you hear about the property?”
“” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” to a boomer who followed us up the stairs: “Welcome! Are you in the market for a pied-à-terre? A view condo?”
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“While you were fighting hackers, I studied the boss.”
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with the sad decline of actual clowning, tags are how clown-name energy now enters the world
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friday night throwback to b falling asleep in the jump-a-roo way back in early june (draft)
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ATTN service operators: TLS stands for TabLe Stakes, stop bargaining to avoid it.
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we can’t watch the recology collector out the window all day... but what if??? (draft)
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Started The Dispossessed before our kid was born. Finished it yesterday after 11 months of catching a few pages at a time. Awful way to read a book with so many jumps in time, but I… didn’t really like it?
Computer, divert all power to the cancelation shields.
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(draft)
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tried the custom team options in overwatch because i really wanted to make my team pink (and the enemy team lime green) because i make all computer things pink all the time and it was hilariously unplayable for me. red vs blue is hardwired in my noggin
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My landlord separated the compost from the other bins because people kept putting trash in it (wtf?) and Recology put us on notice. Now it’s under my apartment’s back door and we constantly have fruit flies.
Fuck!
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dang the onion is trollin the dsa https://www.breadandroses.us/read-me
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postin’
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it is probably not reaching to assert that everyone should include their security, IT, and every other service team in every product launch “thanks” list by default even if they weren’t directly engaged
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a return to the bi-metallic silver/gold standard in the U.S. except back the currency with desert eagles and AR-15s
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prisoners dilemma except all prisoners have to simply block/mute all 2016 relitigators
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nice
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Finally found myself stuck in the crosswalk on Kearney at Market to ask the photographer who has taken pictures of me and other cyclists most mornings for the past few months, he’s working on a book, neat stuff! https://instagram.com/dee.rock?igshid=1myqeydiabduf 🚲
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4 RED RABBITS
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quote tweets: wack!
screenshot tweets: wack!
hate-reads: wack!
editorials: wack!
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🐈 🐦 👶🏼 (draft)
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so proud (draft)
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the important thing about libertarians being absurdly wrong about everything all the time isn’t that they don’t understand liberty, because they absolutely do, it’s that liberty is an absurdly wrong goal
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Portland DSA has a god damned Waluigi in their contingent today, I love it!
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(draft)
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what’s third way? well, you know what number one and number two are, right? it’s number three
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what the blunge is this?
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your (candidate for president) of (the united) states (is a) piece of shit
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hadn’t gotten out of SF to the east coast burbs in a few years and forgot the entire colonial style house decorative shutters gimmick, now i’m picturing it continuing throughout the house on every conceivable windowish thing; tv shutters, picture frame shutters, doorway shutters, bathtub shutters, toilet shutters, etc
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yglesias is solidarity mumbled backwards send tweet
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[three seconds of internet detective sleuthing, velma and/or fred unmasking a villain.png] “got em, why it’s old man ‘_an_archie’ alan carter, the philosopher at the university of glasgow amusement park!” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Carter_(philosopher)
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So @Target@twitter.com is selling a Monopoly “Socialism” edition now? https://www.target.com/p/parody-monopoly-socialism-board-game/-/A-76151691
A short, fun letter from Marx regarding the political economist Henry George, who inspired Lizzie Maggie to invent The Landlord’s Game, the precursor to Monopoly: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/letters/81_06_20.htm
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opsec is when you skip threat model investigation and proceed directly to prioritizing information compartmentalization, misdirection, and eradication
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you love to see it https://www.facebook.com/recruiting/unsubscribe
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“caring what liberals think is for fascists”
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🛁 (draft)
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The cat has a full trash can of catnip toys but usually plays with boxes and trash. Bash has a full play mat of baby toys but usually plays with catnip toys. (draft)
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tryna watch the baseball game (draft)
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Every time a taxi is in the bike lane I take a car lane for the full block, and every second time it happens I never use that bike lane on that block again, I take the car lane. Riders in those high frequency pick-up & drop-off bike lanes are playing with fire.
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got em
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Do I know anyone tangential to or working on the Google Password Checkup extension? How do I report false positives?
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repeat after yourself scolding poors: “I am not entitled to a return on my investment. I am not entitled to a return on my investment. I am not entitled to a return on my investment. I am not entitled to a return on my investment. I am not entitled to a return on my investment.”
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a pox on journalists letting restaurateurs include minimum wage in the list of reasons why their business failed
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[muting infosec intensifies]
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under my american communism, pizza slow will replace the pledge of allegiance but kids can remain seated or tap out mid-way through or whatever if they don’t wanna sing along, it won’t be forced on anyone
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i keep forgetting to post stills, here’s the last month or so (draft)
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Homunculus or dentist?
“Keeping up with everything OK?”
“I think?”
“Anything bothering you? Anything hurt?”
“No?”
“Right. So let’s dig up all the damage you did in your teens and twenties. Ah, yeah this sucks, look at this, here, hold this mirror.”
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“That’s a hell of a act, what do you call it?”
“The Zenocrats!”
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first tortilla chip (draft)
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On a 12h flight home to SF from Munich last week, someone on the row in front of mine paused Vice (2018) on a shot of a TV showing one of the World Trade Center towers smoking—for six hours—to work on a business presentation.
Folks, that’s World Trade.
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1️⃣ Security Emergency always.
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might fuck around and scroll all the way down to find my name on the wikipedia page for “List of People who Have Noticed That You Can Jokingly Say ‘Verizon DBNR’”
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100% of U.S. presidential candidate debates should be done on purpose-built recreations of You Can’t Do That on Television sets and moderated exclusively by Les Lye personas Barth, Ross, Mr. Shidler, and The Executioner.
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learning to stand, last week (to adam ant) (draft)
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show me yer war face (draft)
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dsa sf ONE 👏BIG 👏 SIGNAL topic changes be like
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welp, we’re standing kinda (draft)
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This feels a little like an empty gesture seeing as I’ve gotta keep a google account to use docs, the only google service I actually use (h/t @FastMail@twitter.com), but it is possible to mash that delete button folks: https://www.wikihow.com/Delete-a-YouTube-Account #DeleteYoutube
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draw me like one of your french girls (draft)
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don’t scold people who define words wrong, that just means that they learned it by triangulating
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Which English language translation of Candide should I put on the pile of books I haven’t read or even shuffled around since my kid was born? I do not know a lick of french or care about authenticity.
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(draft)
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KEP
CALM
and the
SUNSHINE
BAND
dbnr
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purrs and raspberries and headbutts (draft)
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why don’t kraftwerk have any songs about pizza
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grifters get got
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A few months ago I paired with a comrade to write a “guide” for facilitators to read before every section of @DSA_SF@twitter.com general meetings, and hearing our words read back verbatim at the past three or four generals is absolutely weird as fuck y’all!
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how plumbing work?
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we could also make it illegal to have customer-only bathrooms
I’ve been the worker that cleaned customer only bathrooms before; customers poop and pee all over the damned place just like everybody else
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lazy as heck math but a tiny business tax increase or a <$400MM bond would be enough to pay for cool public restrooms at such density that we could have one every two blocks in every direction in San Francisco https://portlandloo.com/
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After years of dunking on the same paper-of-record op-ed dipshits, this is the slam dunk, the glass breaker, the buzzer beating immutable screenshot that will finally end their godawful beshitted careers. No? Alas.
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short hair: very funny stuff (draft)
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The story ends OK, it’ll eventually be 40 units of below market rate housing https://sf.curbed.com/2017/12/20/16802350/housing-building-18th-street-mission-affordable
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NB in that old photo, the fence put up by the city to keep people from sleeping on the sidewalk, which would be heck of blight, unlike “the fence put up by the city to keep people from sleeping on the sidewalk.”
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Neato! Local realtor hell-site says that area shitlord, Owen Van Natta, who squatted this cool derelict building down the street for me for a few years and turned a profit, is selling his mansion. https://socketsite.com/archives/2019/05/former-facebook-coo-lists-palo-alto-home-for-40m.html
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The SFPUC Preliminary Public Power Options Report just dropped:
https://sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=13736
Option 3 is hell of attractive in addition to being the right thing to do. SF can afford to buy out for-profit power distribution and retain union workers.
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Redwood Regional in the East Bay, v nice (h/t @orion_pics for the snazzy pack!) (draft)
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What the hell is this mushroom doing in my house plant pot? I have never grown mushrooms. Is it gonna hurt the plant? (The succulent next to it fell from a pot that used to hang over this one.)
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mmmhmm, beans.
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If it wasn’t for zoning, this children’s play tower and slide could be ten or eleven stories y’all.
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Initial thought, cute but weird. Second thought, better ask the building group chat if anybody noticed a unit might be on Air-b-n-fuckin-b.
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ow (draft)
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Again! I just biked past someone who said “That doesn’t make you rad!”
I had my jacket zipped up, so it wasn’t a NASA nerd. I think it was because I was riding no-handed?
Pal, riding no-handed is well known to be rad as hell.
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I biked past someone as they noticed my PIZZA shirt and they said “That should say NASA, not PIZZA.” Pal, you are so, so wrong.
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the tooth haver has logged on (draft)
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🚨COLLECTIVE🚨ACTION🚨ALERT🚨
UBER/LYFT drivers are STRIKING 🎳 on Wednesday to protest poverty wages while investors and executives CA$H OUT.
DON’T🙅♂️CROSS🚧THAT➡️PICKET📣LINE🛑
🚍Use public transit
🚲Ride your bike
🚖Take a taxi
🚶♂️Walk to work
🏇Get creative
Just DON’T👎SCAB🤡
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normal b, magnified b x 3, playing in the sink (draft)
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portrait mode for dinner mess, lol (draft)
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💦 (draft)
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yimbyism is a splinter-ideology of libertarianism and equally unserious
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handing out newspapers? consider standing around in a logo t-shirt, it is much easier.
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boomers giving out socialist newspapers at actions: what are you doing
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so close
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rockin and slappin the gd washing machine in my building like a pinball game so that it’ll take my quarters because the company that manages it hasn’t come to empty the hopper in so long that it’s full, only for it to eat my buck seventy-five is an extremely dumb problem to have
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oh no, a robot TP’d my apartment
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carb loading for the big day today
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me: “I’m thinking of taking myself out of the rotation, I never get paged anyway.”
my team, terrified of what unspeakable evil I just provoked: “don’t say that!”
me: “oh, I’m on call right now so it’s fine.”
[90 minutes later]
Gets paged
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big mood: when Big Homelessness and Big Renter non-profits confuse the mechanics of the market
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Seven months! (draft)
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A fun mnemonic you can use to help remember if the client IP is first or last in the list of X-Forwarded-For logs is:
Are you logging X-Forwarded-For logs when you need them? No, yes, yes, yes, yes
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This for five minutes. “Boo!” (draft)
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I’m in parks all weekend lately with the kid and San Francisco park benches are so uncomfortable I just sit on the ground. They’r sister benches to Baltimore’s “The City that Reads” benches, which are merely uncomfortable to look at. http://site-furnishings.columbia-cascade.com/?PageData=baseproductsdetails&catid=1&catid2=21
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The great synecdoche: tents and needles and poop. Where do they come from? No one knows.
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I’m gonna completely ignore the report from the FBI jacket haver (like on TV!) and still reach the same conclusion everyone in the hegemony, the left, and the fash reach: this is good for bitcoin.
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The old white guy gets on stack to participate in the discussion. He says “Is this on?”
He looks at the microphone.
“Ah, yes, thank you. I just wanted to say—.“ He continues talking, but all anyone can hear is white noise, the lights flicker.
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Do you care about the wrestling? No. Do you care about the script? Not as such. Do you care about the numbers? Means to an end. Do you care about the eval? Only if it gets me a raise. Why all of this then? To prove that I’m a dramatist! I’m a serious person!
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I do fuck-all, relatively, but a lot of seemingly well-meaning political pragmatist centrists come off like a pro-wrestling script-writer’s middle-management, specifically focused on the Nielsen numbers in a quarterly self-eval, hoping to impress a writer of another genre.
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(draft)
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LC-1, LC-2, LC-4, Fischer-Price Rainforest Jumperoo, Baby Einstein ??, Fischer-Price 1186MJ
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Drove up to the top of Mt Diablo yesterday to take in the north bay before all the green we have this year turns brown. 🌱 (draft)
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pancy nelosi
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(draft)
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Exploding brain, Exploding brain
Exploding brain hates Expanding brain
They have a fight
Exploding wins
Exploding brain
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TERMINAL spray painted on garbage behind the Duc Loi.
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Oh fuck, I thought this was iTerm2 turf.
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Gotta read this one in Mickey Mouse voice I think.
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tfw you raspberry so hard you black out a little bit (draft)
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also our jade pots have little babies on the far side of the roof growing in about half an inch of moss and trash. life finds a way or whatever
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my five foot tall star jasmine in a two foot by two foot container with a few inches of growth all around thanks to lots of rain in the bay area
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my container jasmine is popping off, no idea how to keep it contained now that it’s overgrown the tomato plant style supports
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howard jarvis trash association send tweet
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[American AnCap goes to Greece, tries to convince anarchists the wonders of the NAP and specifically how Patagonia violates it for checks notes refusing to co-branded with fintech, gets beat up]
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leachine maarning
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Oh, your team has a ‘war room ‘? Cute, if war is your thing, I guess.
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Getting rid of stuff is anarchivism.
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Imagine if Bernie Sanders won the presidency and issued an executive order to clear all of the samples on 3 Feet High and Rising.
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I know this is old but I’m occasionally still just suddenly aware of these bizarre plans to rename the Fort Winfield Scott in the Presidio to the Campus for Onanism: https://www.presidio.gov/presidio-trust/press/nine-concept-proposals-received-to-create-a-campus-for-change-at-fort-winfield-scott-in-the-presidio-of-san-francisco
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New tricks! (draft)
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The ratio of homeless complaint 311 calls per day to homeless people is about 1:70.
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The ratio of vacant properties to homeless people in San Francisco is about 40:1.
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The ratio of billionaires to homeless people in San Francisco is about 1:100.
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Nice halo rainbow over San Francisco today!
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(draft)
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first swing (draft)
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Dolores Park Fun Supervisor doing the work. (draft)
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Happy Friday! (draft)
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National Lawn Dart Association
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Threat modeling is the practice of estimating what you do and don’t intend to attempt to control for, given specific ever-occurring priors.
expertise is when you skimp and use someone else’s similar threat model.
opsec is when you go wild and use everyone else’s theat models.
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When you let it stand, that’s obelism.
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I’ve bound Tweetbot’s Reply keyboard shortcut, ⌘-r, to User -> Mute -> Forever so that I can safely interact with random boomers and yimbys in my ‘dsa sf’ saved search column.
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(draft)
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union beer time!
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Cats are so funny! (draft)
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My hyacinth and jade are both flowering!
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Not sure the cans even helped, he did great the entire five hours! (draft)
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Ready to turn 100% of in-flight announcements into mmmm mmmm mm mmmm mm-mmm mmmm 💤 tomorrow 🤞 (draft)
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Waimea Canyon Overlook (draft)
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Sleeping Giant Trail (draft)
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Crossing over my two favorite toxic discourses by reply-guying bouncing-ball videos of me highlighting words in a tweet and then writing “see?” in notepad in order to disclose to posters how bad their posts are in exchange for a slot in their hall of fame (block list).
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🚁 tour of Kauai (draft)
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Aloha (draft)
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“cat peed on the bed” difficulty level: discover pee by getting into bed to go to sleep
difficulty multiplier: baby already sleeping right next to the bed
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“The Emporer’s New Boots.”
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people who reason about things using quadrant charts
x-axis: insightful / not insightful
y-axis: selling you something / doing a meme
z-axis: whoa there’s a z-axis on this one i am so confused / if doing a matrix chart is good, more permutations is gooder, lets get a w-axis
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excellent news, this just in, breaking, the epicenter of the bed bug infestation in our building that we’ve been spared from so far turns out to be in the apartment ours shares a bedroom wall with, this is fun to know and think about from time to time, to me, pause not
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finally picked up a frame for this masterpiece that is absolutely going over the commode
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David Boogie, STARMAN
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I went to a DSA meeting about DSA meetings today. Yike.
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lol every time i put this guy into his new sleep suit (draft)
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Bash only speaks “channel 3” so far. (draft)
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Reminder to go ahead and take off May Day y’all.
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I always feel bad interrupting him but worse watching, which is probably my problem, idk
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Life is full of ups and downs, like just now I successfully dislodged half a szechuan peppercorn that had suction-cupped itself to the very very back of my tongue the last time I made king pow chicken, while reading about when how landlord is gonna treat our building for bedbugs.
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In this paper, we investigate footage used in Rage Against The Machine’s “Sleep Now in the Fire (from The Battle Of Mexico City)” ¹ video for evidence that the man pictured below is in fact a time traveler².
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w211KOQ5BMI ³
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I won another term as tech committee co-chair again the other week on the strength of my candidate speech shaming my comrades’s answers to the “how many unread emails are in your inbox right now?” icebreaker at a previous meeting and also because my co-chair and I ran unopposed.
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“OK, how about wallionaires?”
“What wall? Wall Street?”
“No, not that wall. You’ll see.”
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Tax returns are many American’s biggest check of the year; a bonus they count on but can’t pin to their own performance. In this essay I will explain how “National Lampoon’s Christmas (1989)” fails to get to the root of this issue due to Clark’s short sighted pool obsession, as well as,
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big friday mood
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[a gently smiling centrist republican and/or democrat congressional angel beams down at me, nodding slowly as I patiently read all applicable federal, state, and city tax codes so as to optimally structure the $40 savings I keep in drawer of the side-table in case of emergencies]
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MUNI (draft)
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Realized this morning that there is going to be a whole online thing where people insist on flying 50 star flags after DC and/or PR become states and how we’ll hear from them in the discourse because well, it’s a side to something (?), and now I’m against states entirely.
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thinking about becoming one of those people that mostly posts other people’s posts that compliment me or even just say that they just saw me doing my usual
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Facilitator: so how about that 69% top marginal tax rate?
Dell, smugly: I shit donations bigger than that, you idiot, you fool
Us: OK, so, you’re saying that you can afford it, also I said 69% marginal?
Dell: [loosening collar] nnnn-n-nice
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listening to some Tom Verlaine I’m reminded of my favorite Bowie anecdote from the excellent Pushing Ahead of the Dame: https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/tag/tom-verlaine/, which also aligns with lots of my experience playing music, and people in general
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wearing a t-shirt with FEDERAL EMPLOYEE written on it like I’m a character in a political cartoon so’s that I can start having all the shops and stores I go to put it on my tab, which they of course totally do, no questions asked, on account of my not getting paid anymore
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SF Bicycle Coalition members, it is time to do a democracy! You have until February 5th.
I suggest you specifically do a Momentum Slate democracy, check this out y’all: https://sfbcmomentum.org/candidates/.
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it is good as hell that marginalized people in the information security community are being heard and the lurkers in that awful facebook group are braver than any troops
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Neat, a red-tailed hawk stopped by to use the rainwater on the garage roof outside our living room window as a bird bath while generally terrorizing The Mission’s pigeon population.
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Icebreaker from the meeting last week was “How many unread emails do you have right now?” and non-zero people had non-zero responses?!
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I climbed all day yesterday playing Mercy and heck if some jerk who turned out to be @blinky_plz@twitter.com on a gold alt was on my team and auto-locked Mercy before me. gg!
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So, what you’re saying is that Bakunin thought he was Hari Seldon. Got it.
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Once Disney’s copyright to it expires, we’ll all be able to exclaim “Oh boy!”, and then laugh a little again when the situation demands, without fear of being sued. Then, naturally, the revolution.
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every phone and ipad might have someone who wants to smile at Bash on it and so they all demand constant attention (draft)
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P is not stored in the OOL, which we welcome you to
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2009 was boring ima go with 2008
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I’ve extruded.
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(draft)
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“Socialist Forum” ( https://socialistforum.dsausa.org)? It’s not even a forum.
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I’ve cookies
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Every two hours or so, we get 30 minutes of this, then 30m looking around, then 15-30m of confusion or fussing, then 30m napping, repeat, 6:00AM to 7:00PM (draft)
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Steely Dan - TV Show Themes - 01 - Cheers.mp3
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Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
R | 1h 53min | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 2 November 1990 (USA)
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I’m reading “Society of the Spectacle.” Lotta chiasmus!
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“As soon as one discovers guy debord, in fact, one necessarily, in turn discovers a bored guy.”
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I am always immediately replacing cited tech core values with the live más mentality in my head.
You, a pro: Let’s “own our outcomes” here.
Me, a child swinging their feet under the chair because they don’t reach the floor, bobble heading: Ah, yes, living más. Go on.
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OK, so why would a developer keep building market rate as margins drop? Why would buyers not immediately align with the rest of the owners in opposing more construction? Why conflate property-value motivated “no” with displacement-aversion motivated “no”?
Lazy, selfish analysis.
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cursed image
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Left: 2 and 4 weeks, right: 14 weeks (draft)
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