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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 7h

I don’t have imposter syndrome, I have “I’m in the subset of people who have imposter syndrome who are actually imposters” syndrome

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 1d

Often my fast food place of choice in college, too. But a few years after you went there.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1d

We have to eliminate "Well, he's the [insert important job here] so what he says is news," from the TV news production equation. You can cover the things liars say without having them live on your show where you can't keep up with the lies.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 1d

Also, like, there was already an RFK, and a JFK Jr. RFK Jr is the Waluigi to JFK's Mario and thus conceptually highly suss

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 1d

hey two thoughts

1) RFK Jr. looks pretty messed up for a 71 year old
2) we don't really know what a 108-year-old Kennedy family member, certain of his own greatness, totally sex crazed, and living on a cocktail of exotic government research drugs would look like. but it's probably not normal

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 1d

“I don’t see the problem I just really like Leer Jets”

A Lotus, an expensive sports car, with the custom license plate L33RER

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 1d

Saw a red jeep with the number plate “K8 ALY,” presumably the number one fan of

Kate & Allie - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 1d

I walked past this on the capital ring walk last week. It’s a stunning building in a stunning location. It’s quite high up and I bet the views are fabulous.

ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 1d

Severndroog Castle, a tall folly in southeast London that offers clear views across the city, is going to trial an evening opening of its rooftop viewing platform.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tic...

Tickets Alert: Evening opening of Severndroog Castle

Severndroog Castle, a tall folly in southeast London that offers clear views across the city, is going to trial an evening opening of its rooftop viewing platform.

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

That link had a lot of build-up for a disappointing conclusion.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3d

one single step that would do a lot to improve reputation of LLMs would be for Google to abandon AI Mode like they do with all of their other products

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

Someone needs to get him to play JRPGs from the height of the “the Catholic Church is the real villain” trend. Especially Xenogears. It can’t make him any more crazy but should keep him busy for a while.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

And yet we let Japan invent kaiju

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

I’ve seen a degree of this in London and it always weirds me out. With a bit of “am I wrong or are the kids.” Cabela’s would be new to me, though.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 3d

Christ’s true resurrected form looking suspiciously like just being 20 years older

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 3d

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

bit.ly

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 3d

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 3d

Could’ve just been a London ophthalmologist

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 3d

Is it normal to have triumphal archs with no paths through them?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s Albert Speer-style German Arch of Triumph now planned for DC.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 3d

Was a poorly phrased joke

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 4d

Regime change where

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 4d

And all the tatty tourist places on the high streets only sell one tartan

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 5d

Biden seems like the kind of guy who would really like Jimmy Buffett’s chain restaurant but would really not like Henry Kissinger’s

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 5d

I hope you’re right, that it’s time passing and not that there’s a Covid cohort like there was a lead gas cohort.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 5d

I play Mario on my Temple of Free Hanafuda

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 5d

Huh, weirdly consistent with a certain kind of bad US conservatism.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 5d

This is a common feeling while programming; my read is that if you look at old stuff and think “who’s the idiot who wrote this,” it means you’re growing; it’s when you start thinking “wow, this is genius, I wish I could write like this” that you need to worry

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