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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 2h

Chaucer is incredibly entertaining. And it would be great for an English class that wanted to dip into the history of English, and why it works the way it does (instead of simply saying “English is so weird and hard, amiright!”) But I’m assuming state testing doesn’t allow time for cool stuff.

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 2h

The takeaway from these kinds of statements is always not that they expect you to believe it, but that they got away with it and want to rub it in your face.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 2h

Your feedback will be sent directly to the shift manager, thank you.

SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 2h

It’s like a nanny cam that tells you when your dog is pooping on the floor

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe someone can make an AI version of Obama saying it and send it to Fox News

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 3h

This quote would be quite the blunder in an administration that wasn’t committing civic and humanitarian atrocities on the daily

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 3h

Boss: wow, you’ve really picked up your productivity metrics.

You (with a knowing grin): this isn’t even my final form

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 3h

Netflix for the dogs while I’m gone: $15
Hulu for the dogs while I’m gone: $8
Furbo for the dogs while I’m gone: $10
Food to survive: $300
Oreo cookies but made for dogs: $9

Someone good at the economy please help I’m dying

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 3h

Damn, who knew making things cost more would make things cost more?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 4h

“You need to click the X at the top to close it”

“Wow?? You should abandon your entire career and do computers for a living”

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 4h

We’re using tons of energy and other resources, primarily for AI to write articles for itself.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 15h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 17h

It’s really the elites’ fault for alienating them that they had to turn to endless stereotypes and slurs. Everyone knows that the natural response to feeling unrepresented in Disney feature films is starting a slur-based group chat with the boys.

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 17h

Increasingly envious of other countries’ politics. Lots of bad things, of course, but there’s something nice and quaint about their politicians mainly just being Some Person instead of a National Celebrity Made of Shit. Why do I even know who the congress members from Georgia are?

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godslayer @bitdizzy.bsky.social · 22h

microsoft teams was designed by slime molds extruded into collared shirts

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of those discourses that I’m so far out of the loop on I can’t even be annoyed, because I’m not really sure what they’re saying or who they’re saying it to.

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 1d

(Jigsaw voice) You spend your whole life in a hurry; now is your chance to loosen up. You have 45 minutes to get 6” of slack in one of these things or your head will be chopped off

A diagram showing how to adjust a “Tri-glide” nylon strap adjuster

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 1d

If I was your FBI agent, I’d press “like” on all your little posts to give you a boost, even though interacting with your own subject’s posts is defined as a conflict of interest in the 2024-25 employee conduct manual.

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 1d

The implication

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 1d

(5 seconds later) “Yeah, that’s what I fuckin thought!” he shouts over a stranger’s arm, on the verge of tears

SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 1d

(Jigsaw voice) You spend your whole life in a hurry; now is your chance to loosen up. You have 45 minutes to get 6” of slack in one of these things or your head will be chopped off

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 1d

Buy them at the gas station in front of someone who seems visibly impatient

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 1d

Also, there are a wild amount of people posting real phone numbers in that thread lol

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 1d

We remembered everything—numbers, addresses, facts about the world—then cell phones came out and my hippocampus atrophied into a crusty little toenail clipping from disuse.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 2d

If I was remotely popular online, especially for feeding polarizing political takes to toxic man children, I probably wouldn’t cop to getting concussed by a dildo, but then again, maybe that’s how you make it in this biz?

ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 2d

Andy Ngo is a performative crisis actor.
#ChangeMyMind

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 2d

Where is all the Kohlabri? Was that one bad?

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