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Digital Iron
@gallironink.bsky.social
Admiral of a Ship Armada, she/her, 30s, neurodivergent, writer when the mood strikes me but enables everyone else. Loves Pokemon, One Piece, DnD, JTMusic and whatever strikes me.
Current Fixation: Batfam and Jason Todd.
FlightRising: IronPen #138161
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My favorite lately is the "wander this unknown neighborhood by taking lefts and rights with stop signs on every corner to save 1 minute" Google map. I'd rather spend that minute on a main road, thanks 🙄
google maps (punching me in the stomach): fastest route is uber

me: but i want to take the subway

google maps (throwing me across the room): 2 buses and a transfer would save 4 minutes

me: i like subway

google maps (kicking me in the head): biking is 45 seconds faster

me: underground choo-choo
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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y’all all i am really saying is google and spotify cannot stop you* from getting all the necessary equipment to burn cds and dvds for around $50 anymore, maybe slightly under depending where you look.

*with a vpn for the media part. pirate responsibly.
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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radical orgs will literally transfer all their google docs to cryptpad but will still have instagram be the only place anyone can contact them or get info about upcoming actions or events. absolutely baffling.

also: linktr.ee sucks for privacy, stop using them!!
December 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The EU wants to know if Google used YouTube content to train its AI models and I believe we can all save the EU some time. www.ft.com/content/598a...
EU opens probe into Google’s use of online content for AI models
Investigation is bloc’s latest challenge to US big tech companies
www.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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If you don't want all that AI garbage at the top of your google search results, you can stick -ai at the end of your search term and you'll get just the list of links to websites like in the good old days. Yesterday I learned. #GoogleAI #Google #AI #Google AI
December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Awesome wow thank you Google for your important work
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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i know the sexy and fun thing to do is say you'll punch anyone you see wearing google glasses but even if it's more boring i'd rather people talk more broadly about how to set meaningful expectations of privacy e.g. japan's regulations requiring cell phones make a loud snap when taking a photo
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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CINCINNATI: “ICE agent arrested on domestic violence charges for for alleged assault, strangulation”

www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Waste. Fraud. Abuse.
December 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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New research found that Instacart is charging shoppers different prices — despite ordering the same items from the same store at the same time.

The price differences could amount to an extra $1,200 a year for the average household of four.

Corporate greed is out of control.
Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.
www.consumerreports.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Waking up with a song in your head that you realize doesn’t exist and the Universe in this moment has given you the task of finishing it. Better strike while the iron is hot.
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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IMPORTANT PSA: MAGA isn't banning books to protect children.
They are banning books to protect ignorance.
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The authoritarian whiner in chief is already unhappy that Bari Weiss hasn’t stopped any criticism of him from airing on CBS and demanding an apology for the Marge interview
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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If Donald Trump is the greatest president in the history of ever, why are twenty house republicans about to resign? This is why participation trophies like the one from FIFA are that much more cringe and embarrassing.
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.

Enough to power 23 million homes!

U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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I believe strongly anymore that it is the responsibility of every denizen of the Internet to keep it cool, human, and to make it weird wherever possible. The past days of the computer being cool might be behind us, but that doesn't mean that we can't carve out cool niches today, imo
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett is running for US Senate.
youtu.be/W-Pe1GifYLs?...
FULL: Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett announces run for Texas Senate
YouTube video by FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Last month, Denny's was bought out by private equity in a $620 million deal.

Now the company is closing 150 locations.

It's the latest chain to be swallowed by private equity and see numerous workers lose their jobs.
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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All of these new rulings don’t just affect today, they rewrite precedent. Trump still has three years left, and whatever expanded powers the Court hands him now will automatically pass to the next president as well.
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'm still not over the agender dragon wound-fucking forced feminization and sometimes when I get reminded I just question everything.
a cartoon character laying on the floor with a record player in the background
Alt: Lilo laying on the floor listening to her record player while staring listlessly up at the ceiling.
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
ZA why the hell is the Eviolite so late game, I hate that actually. Out of everything I love and don't love, it's the one thing I down right hate. Let my Doublade be a tank!!!
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Skarmory rapidly approaching my most disliked flying type pokemon because what do you mean i kill an entire pride of lions to get a shot at you AND YOU BREAK OUT OF THE ULTRA BALL
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
QTP with your favorite flying type pokemon!
Didn't think much of him for ages but they've grown so much to me!
December 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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We don't need massive SCOTUS reform in the abstract. Fixed terms, some small things. But the problem isn't the Court. It's the justices. These six people are so bad, such enemies of the Constitution, they must be removed or otherwise disempowered even if it means things I'd generally rather not do.
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM