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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 3h

It’s not just you. My wife bought this and my first thought when she handed it to me was definitely not ‘use this on your keyboard.’ 😂

A jar of ColorCoral Universal Dust Cleaner at the edge of a laptop keyboard; @janeespenson’s original post is visible on the screen in the background.

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 3h

IHOP?

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 3h

@javapeg.bsky.social Hope your birthday is delightful, and is filled with good food, good wine, and good company!

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 3h

Last week I opened a bottle that Phaedra found in her uncle’s closet while cleaning out the ranch.

It smelled uniquely nasty. Not, ‘oh this is turning to vinegar.’

More like, ‘after millions of years of tremendous heat and pressure, biological material begins its transformation to petroleum.’

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 17d

By ‘too many times,’ you mean more than once, yes?

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 18d

Hey kids — if your local Costco has these, they are the bizness. Enthusiastically endorsed!

An example cookie held above a package of St Michel “Le Grand Galette” French butter cookies with sea salt.

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 20d

Don't trust anything that old saguaro tells you.

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 23d

My fancy-shmancy Apple card doesn’t even have any visible numbers on it.

Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 23d

Well that was a disturbing Google for some of us.

Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 24d

🤞🤞🤞

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 24d

😬 My sincere sympathies.

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 24d

I would like to unsee this post.

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 25d

🤞🤞🤞

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 25d

💯

Corporations are driven by greed and fear. They will do the greedy thing unless they are forced to do the safe thing.

Disney thought that giving in to government and affiliate pressure was the safe thing. We as fans and consumers must convince them that it is not, or they will keep doing it.

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 25d

I’m not letting Disney off the hook yet, because that statement didn’t have any admission that they made a bad decision.

This is bigger than Kimmel.

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 25d

Yeah, that statement from Disney ain't gonna cut it.

Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 25d

I’m glad Jimmy’s back.

But Brendan Carr still needs to resign.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

Jimmy Kimmel to Return to ABC on Tuesday After Show’s Controversial Suspension

The Walt Disney company in a new statement says the move was made "to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 25d

I'd like to see some solid indications that Disney's not going to cave again the next time they get pressured by fascists. Up to and including booting Craig Erwitch, Dana Walden, and Bob Iger.

Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 25d

Just putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air is not enough.
The decision makers at Disney and these giant media corporations need to be more concerned about their customers and shareholders than corrupt regulators.
Keep up the boycott until we see Disney's lawyers fighting back, at the very least.

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 26d

Ooooo. Gonna buy that shirt for one of my kiddos.

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 26d

Same. No TRON:Ares for me, either.

I’m choosing to see this as an opportunity to watch older movies I’ve been meaning to see for years.

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 27d

Do you remember what day it is?

Maurice White from Earth, Wind & Fire asks, “Do you remember?” in a clip from the video for “September.”

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 28d

Right there with her. It's grotesque.

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · 28d

That post is getting ratioed to fuck, and rightfully so.

Guess I won’t ever bother to attend @comicconla.bsky.social now.

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · Sep 18

Cancelled Disney+ and Hulu, and sold all my DIS shares at a loss. Won't renew our Magic Keys next year.

Disney's lawyers have plenty of experience fighting and winning against First Amendment violations. Siding with fascism is a choice, and I won't reward it with my money.

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned;they therefore do as they like.

Edward, First Baron Thurlow 1731-1806

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Chuck Cook @bitspitter.bsky.social · Aug 19

Bottle Rocket Bar & Grill.

805 16th Street at F, in East Village, San Diego.

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