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Chris

@kodiak.app

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@kodi I'm told I'll seem more like a real person if I put something here And that will make it less likely that I'll get blocked But then I think about how strong the desire not to be perceived is And I wonder why I'd want to avoid being blocked

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Chris @kodiak.app · 13m

It takes a few scrolls to get past the really short ones, but once you get up to 80+ pages there are a bunch that probably match what you need?

Chris @kodiak.app · 13m

StoryGraph (app.thestorygraph.com/browse) will let you filter to:
Type: Fiction
Genres: Graphic Novel
Original Publication Year: from 2022 to --
and then sort by Pages: Low to High

app.thestorygraph.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 3d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Chris @kodiak.app · 22h

Probably the winner for me is "what an odd thing to say," which I've said so much that I entirely forgot it was from The Simpsons until someone posted a screencap of it recently.

Chris @kodiak.app · 1d

Until just now, I had successfully blocked out from my mind that 18-month period where we all had to pretend that we were getting ready for all new software development to involve "the blockchain" in some way.

evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 1d

Rolled my own crypto.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Chris @kodiak.app · 1d

It is especially wild how she is so exemplary of a person who is hired entirely on the basis of what demographics she belongs to. Her core competency is "identifying viewpoints that people will pay her to endorse" which isn't so much a skill as a moral vacuum.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Chris @kodiak.app · 1d

and each of rapa and oleracea are determined to entirely fill that domain.

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Chris @kodiak.app · 1d

And there's a huge overlap in phenotypes between the two species, as well! Like there are some rapa cultivars that can look and taste very much like broccoli - even though a lot of oleracea cultivars DON'T look or taste like broccoli. It's like there's this giant domain of "what brassica is like"...

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Chris @kodiak.app · 1d

If the screenshot doesn't include alt text with the names of all the people quoted or mentioned in the screenshot so my mute rules will work, Kiefer Sutherland will hunt the offender for sport.

Chris @kodiak.app · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

PKIX path building failed

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Chris @kodiak.app · 1d

Going to go out dressed as Goofy and Pluto just to cause another entire layer of discourse.

Chris @kodiak.app · 1d

I'm pretty sure the discussion was literally just you waving your dick around.

Chris @kodiak.app · 1d

I have this thing where I ask myself "what is the best outcome I can hope for here?" and if it's the same outcome I can obtain by doing nothing, I do nothing.

For example, here the best outcome is "no one dies and I do not go to jail." Easily accomplished without a laser! Done.

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Chris @kodiak.app · 2d

This is awesome, but also I love how it kind of sounds like you were deliberately hiding from them to increase their anticipation.

Chris @kodiak.app · 2d

My understanding growing up was that you could be Jewish, Christian, or Catholic and whichever one you were meant you had to hate the other two. (I had one Christian parent and one Catholic parent, so I assumed there was some sort of Romeo and Juliet thing there. We were not very religious.)

Chris @kodiak.app · 2d

"This evidence is SO GOOD, clearly they'd have found it through legit channels eventually."

Chris @kodiak.app · 2d

I'm so glad that I saw this movie three times before learning about how much some people hate her performance. Her performance feels so real to me, and the movie wouldn't make sense without it.

Chris @kodiak.app · 2d

My Cousin Vinny would read a lot less sympathetic if the person making all the gaffes were a career prosecutor, I'm learning.

Chris @kodiak.app · 2d

At *worst* your response should be "I'm not sure if this is OK but they're not going to lose THEIR law license so I'm going to shut it down while I check."

Chris @kodiak.app · 3d

BUT ALSO when you DO Continue Watching, it must be possible to navigate directly to the previous episode of the show when you realize that you fell asleep and it kept playing, rather than having to back out and go to search.

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Chris @kodiak.app · 3d

(Although they will make it very clear that if you do anything with it, they are definitely entitled to half the revenue.)

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Chris @kodiak.app · 3d

If you write phone apps, you get the same thing only instead of "great life story" it's "idea for an app." Hilariously, it is generally REMARKABLY easy to get these people to spill the beans on their incredibly valuable idea without ever committing to anything.

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Chris @kodiak.app · 3d

Or if you decide you hate it, it shouldn't be hard to unload the A1 and recoup some of the cost.

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