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Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules. I don't speak for my employer. most normal Normal Man

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Ed @ed3d.net · Sep 5

why can’t I pin other people’s posts

George Pearkes @peark.es · Sep 5

NORMAL MEN HOUSEKEEPING NOTE

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Ed @ed3d.net · 45m

“they’re all just dick jokes”

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Ed @ed3d.net · 48m

VERY bad wifi

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Ed @ed3d.net · 59m

at every remote gig I’ve had, yeah. most say that they do location adjustments but in practice that’s a negotiating tactic

my current gig is technically “hybrid” but my salary doesn’t change if I am retagged remote

Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

more please

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Reposted by Ed

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Debating whether this is worth investigating further with my burner

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 5h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 5h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

my house has appreciated enough to pay cash elsewhere and I am staring down a HELOC to build my workshop, so

Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

I’ve genuinely wanted to start a…not makerspace, but a private shop with a buy-in. People are flaky though

Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

oh yeah I am talking the non-acquisition route. I can’t tell if they’re willing to settle for the metaphorical eating of ramen given all the stuff they’ve said out loud

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

renaming Catholic edicts Papal Bobs

Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

believe me, the temptation remains to sell here, move out there, and buy a shack with an adjoining hangar to turn into a wood shop

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

also my mortgage rate starts with a two

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

I like Milwaukee a lot, but as mentioned, my basically-remote job is inexplicably geographically constrained

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

BIO LETTERS?

Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

Look. Ohio? I can fix her.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

Need to stay within about sixty miles of Boston, in case the RTO engine picks back up again

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

I grew up in Maine

Prices are…bad

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

people here are going to be so mad that they will be expected to find solidarity with David Brooks

and to be fair, me, I’m people

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2h

let me put it this way: it is a sign of something changing when someone like David Brooks says something like this. it means that people who read David Brooks on purpose will read it.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 2h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

instead I am considering paying over a third of its asking price to build a 24x32 garage

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

@swolecialism.bsky.social posted a place that was, to be clear, cursed. But i could fix it and that was like seven wood shops worth of space

and by selling my place I could pay cash, fk

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

I’ve worked remote for almost my entire career, I bring my salary with me

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

I like your weather just fine tbh. Unfortunately I also like where I live. And despite being de facto remote, I can’t move while keeping my job

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

accidentally looked at house prices away from the coasts and now I’m staring into the middle distance and sighing

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

those kinds of ligatures hurt my brain even more. I sighed in relief when I figured out the “disable ligatures” thing and the triple equals with a slash turned back into !==

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

retvrn to wingdings

Ed @ed3d.net · 2h

built in a lab, the diet main character, same great taste without the, yknow, bad parts