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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 2h

My posting to followee ratio is a lot like my FPS game accuracy rating: lots of shots, very few hits

Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 2h

The largest data center in the entire world has a power draw of around 150 megawatts. I'm not very smart but I'm pretty confident none of the MULTIPLE gigawatt -sized DCs are getting built anytime soon, and certainly not to service a technology that isn't profitable.

Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 2h

I pledge to live in a mansion worth eleventy gorillion dollars on the moon in the next five years, as long as we're pledging things that will never happen

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4h

OpenAI has pledged to spend $1 trillion in the next five years.

Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 2h

But first they need to raise one trillion dollars because they're nowhere near profitable

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 2h

A Maybach with duct tape over the gas tank? What in tarnation

Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone lives close enough to a buddy with a Plex server though

Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 2h

Holy shit ABSOLUTELY not unless you are paying ME

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 4h

With legacy pay TV providers already dealing with dwindling subscriptions, the introduction of new types of ads risks making DirecTV less appealing as well—and it’s likely that things won’t end there.

DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more.

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 4h

And of course these perverts name it after yet another LOTR reference

Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

What's your favorite dish?

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly EXACTLY

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

Listening and learning

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

Every year my white AF family does a different cuisine for Xmas dinner, where we all bring homemade food from that cuisine. Some examples:
Southeast Asia
West African
French
Korean
Japan
Tapas
eastern Europe
lebanese
cuban
Italian
Dickens Christmas
Creole
German
Jamaican
indian

I love it

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

Duck fat is the cooking grease of the gods

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

We have a trained chef who married into the family so everyone has to bring their A game. Everybody wins every year and we're always so painfully full lol

Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

We looked up victorian London recipes so it was various puddings, and I believe my uncle roasted a goose and some ducks. Figgy pudding was a highlight

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

I strongly recommend every family do this, it's way better than ham and turkey every year

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

SO HANDSOME

Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this handsome boi

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this handsome boi

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

Every year my white AF family does a different cuisine for Xmas dinner, where we all bring homemade food from that cuisine. Some examples:
Southeast Asia
West African
French
Korean
Japan
Tapas
eastern Europe
lebanese
cuban
Italian
Dickens Christmas
Creole
German
Jamaican
indian

I love it

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

I hope covid robs him of his sense of taste

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

Stephen miller apparently has a favorite sushi restaurant and that fact bothers me to no end

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 5h

Needs 👏more👏clap👏emojis👏

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 15h

You guys... Maybe we're in The Bad Place

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 15h

Wh.... What. I've never heard of this

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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 15h

Is this a different soda than Surge??

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