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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 3h

We won't tell our actual founders, Andrew Bell and Colin Macfarquhar, about Joan and Brian.

Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 15h

One of the games my two cats (~8+ years old) both love to play is something I just named, 'Attention (liar)'. If you live with cats this should make sense completely. I love this game. Puts the whole 'aloof' myth in the spotlight. They're just on a different timescale than us humans.

Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 16h

Watching the opening scene of SE01 EP01 and this is intense.

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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 16h

Season 5! Wow.... I'm way behind but I think I'm going to dig in soon. Just looked it up. At least it goes by the British series of 6 episodes. So it's not as daunting a task to catch up.

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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 17h

The Bruins were down all game. Finally tied the game at 3-3 with a few minutes left in the 3rd. Potential for at least a point against a team they were undermatched.

Within a minute of tying the game, a fluky Panther approach on net - Swayman blows it. Florida up 4-3, wins the game. Useless.

Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 17h

I've heard good things. Is it worth going back and starting a watch from season one? I think it's in season three now?

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 19h

The President took a shit on Americans, then demolished the White House in the span of less than a week and the talking head establishment just shrugs like this is a normal state of affairs.

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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 17h

In my time as a Boston Bruins fan I've seen a lot of dumb contracts signed by this organization. Like, absolute dogshit contracts. The contract they agreed to last season with Jeremy Swayman is rapidly rising in the ranks of the most stupid. It's gotta be top 10-20 dumbest. He had ONE decent season.

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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 19h

That tribute to Brad Marchand in the Bruins - Panthers game in Boston was tremendous. True emotion from Marchand. That was the good stuff, right there. Feeling a bit weepy myself.

Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 21h

Is this in the Settings somewhere and were these defaulted to On? This my explain why my other Google stuff isn't 100% smooth.

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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever he's looking to do, I would not rely on him nor his new group to deliver a 0% failure rate. On anything.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

Once you realize the NYT is trying to help him you can’t stop seeing it

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

It was an unrealistic promise, not a lie!

Facade of White House's East Wing Is Torn Down to Make Way for Trump's
Ballroom
President Trump had pledged that construction wouldn't "interfere with the current building," a promise that seemed unrealistic given the scale of the plans.
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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely! It was in the Drive settings, so I have no idea what it was even doing (if anything). But screw that shit.

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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 1d

You're welcome. I was stunned at how much better it was working after I turned it off. Good luck.

I think my laptop is having issues overall, still. Pages still laggy, some functions don't load, icons out of place, etc. I'm not sure what else to do. I'm afraid to uninstall/re-install Chrome.

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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 1d

I may have spoken too soon. It's not working perfectly but it's 90% better than it was. Google overall is still acting wonky on my laptop. It's fine on my phone and work laptop (I think). So, there's probably something else going on. But turning off Gemini in Drive definitely improved things a ton.

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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 1d

I am so pissed off. Just shoving AI into everything, regardless of whether it is wanted. Or if it will make all other products unusable. It fucking sucks. I can't wait until the whole thing implodes and disappears.

AI is a menace.
3/end

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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 1d

I relaunched Chrome, loaded up Google Drive and you'll never guess what happened.

Everything works fine again. Pages load relatively quickly and completely. Fonts that were missing have returned. It just works again.

I never turned Gemini on! THEY did it automatically! And it broke everything.
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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 1d

For the past two weeks or so, my Google Drive has been super sloggy. Docs, spreadsheets, etc. not fully loading; errors popping up suggesting clearing browser cache and cookies, etc.

Tonight, I finally found in Settings > Manage Apps that Gemini was checked "use as default" so unchecked it.
1/con't

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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 1d

It sucks that this series was against Seattle. I'd have loved for the Mariners to get to the World Series.

HOWEVER, now that Toronto has won you've got be be rooting for them against the Dodgers - Ohtani notwithstanding. Having a Canadian team win the World Series this year would be awesome.

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Ed Sweeney (d.b.a. Knobby Burton) @knobbyburton.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, Canada!!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 2d

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 2d

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

They are illiterate swine, encouraged and enabled by apocalyptic nihilists

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 3d

Cross dangling from the rearview

Truck nuts dangling from the hitch

Kathy Byrne @kab-fair.bsky.social · 3d

they’re claiming she violated the public display of genitalia law, but the law pertains to actual flesh and not latex, they were getting phone calls from ‘offended christians’

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

i would hope you hear more and more elected officials pointing out that "trump has obviously diminished capacity and the people around him are taking advantage of him" because trump has obviously diminished capacity and the people around him are taking advantage of him

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