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Coinneach Fitzpatrick

@coinfitz.bsky.social

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Tangerine Nightmare despiser. Airplanes and cats and books lover. PA-28 pilot and Kawasaki rider. I am large, I contain multitudes. For more fascinating details, see my pinned post. No lists/packs. Signal: flyingfitz412.08

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · Nov 8

Little about me, not that any of yez care:

GenX. Atheist. USAF veteran. Pilot (obv, and yes that is my plane). Cat dad. Token CSWM in my social circle and violently protective of my people.

Books: Pratchett, Banks, Scalzi, Stephenson.
Music: Everything but gospel and bro country.
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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 13h

Yeeeah, that description is pretty generic, innit.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 14h

Broken for us. Functioning as intended for them.
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The Coup - "The Guillotine"

YouTube video by ANTI- Records

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 14h

Starting with that smarmy, smirking little shitweasel.

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 14h

Y'all.

I just made the most unbelievable beef shawarma, tzatziki and saffron rice. The hummus is from Haji Baba and the lavash is from Safeway.

Who's coming for supper?

A black dinner plate containing homemade beef shawarma wrapped in lavash, saffron rice, tzatziki, hummus and another hunk of lavash.

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 16h

Usually we have to rely on Faux Noise to ignore actual events in favor of inconsequential minutiae.

Also, it seems their motto turned out to be aspirational.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 17h

Suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the sort of people who follow a Shakespeare account would all make exactly the same joke in response to [Exit king].

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 18h

...pursued by an inflatable bear.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 18h

ERMAGERD TEH VIOLINS

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 18h

It's pretty simple. If your net worth isn't at least 8 figures, you simply don't matter to them.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 21h

Or Viagra.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 21h

That heinous cunt would be the first to tell me "thank you for your service" too.

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Eric Badofsky @ebadofsky.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like we’ve got some new, uninvited visitors in the neighborhood. You might want to shut the blinds and bolt the door, just to be safe.

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Tommy Lasagna!

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Season, or series?

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

"For most people, social media gives you this sense that unless you care about everything, you care about nothing. You must try to swallow the world while it’s on fire."

HEARD.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Nice work if you can get it. I'mma tell my boss that he has to keep paying me while I take off 22 days per month, and while I'm actually in the office I'm destroying our IT infrastructure.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta admit, "Tekeli-li" is a slogan I can really relate to.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking of Sims:

There's a challenge starting in, IIRC, Sims 2, called "Asylum." You start a household with eight fresh Sims and you can only control one. The rest go on their merry. It usually devolves into chaos by the end of day 2 because Sims are stupid.

*looks around*

Yup.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Fetterman goes fash while Empty Gee sounds like the grown-up in the room.

I humbly request that whomstever is running this sim stop mashing the "Fuck With Them LOL" button plzkthx.

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Yup, when you turn a spy to your side, you never trust them with anything classified higher than "Confidential," and that only rarely.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

"If you don't 'upgrade' your Windows 10 PC to 11, you won't receive critical security updates!"

You know how many times I've been h4x0r3d?

0.

You know how many patches have broken my systems?

A lot.

A WHOLE GODDAMN LOT.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, fuck that guy. Not just over this, but the deliberate bus-under-throwing of the homeless and LGBTQ communities.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

DO YOU WANT SHOGGOTHS
BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET SHOGGOTHS

Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole.

arstechnica.com

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

They'll be deployed tomorrow. Call it a hunch.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

My boss is one of those "they're being paid by Soros" nutbags. When he starts ranting I just walk away.

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