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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · Aug 10

Is it piano or man or a monument
To our hubris our malice our sin
And it sits at the bar still stinking of tar
My god what the hell next will walk in

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 13h

ask not for whom the milkshake ducks: the milkshake ducks for thee

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 1d

why is it considered acceptable UX in windows-land for random apps to play their own custom bleep-bloop noises at any time while backgrounded

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 1d

there are like, 3 inventions of modernity that no can argue about: antibiotics, running water, and vaccines, and somehow a gigantic movement has emerged that’s polarized against one of them

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 1d

this is about that ai post isn’t it

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 1d

3.5 stars is the sweet spot, all yelp-heads know this

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 1d

rarely-seen photo of the last tivo employee:

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 1d

“the devil’s advocate (1997)” dares to ask brave questions, unthinkable today, like what if there were lawyers who didn’t work for satan

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 1d

well, son, the thing about heroes is that sometimes they get busted by bored cops who saw them peeing in an alley

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 2d

six word horror story

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 2d

It’s fucking insane that this is still going on in the middle of a gov shutdown

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 2d

I cancelled my NYT sub when they refused to treat Scott Alexander as pseudonymous

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 2d

Dog, but evil. Basically a Mirror Universe Mr Peanutbutter. Mr Beast tells everyone they’re related, Mr Peanutbutter says it’s just a coincidence that they have the same first name.

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 2d

one of those kid’s pizza rolls that makes your eyes spin like a slot machine would fix me

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 3d

hail

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 3d

Good serious answer 👍

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 3d

one day, you’ll be able to buy pieces of this thing’s rubble, like the berlin wall

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3d

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 3d

Fun fact: Guy Fieri is not just the mayor: he is also an ordained minister of Flavortown

Mel, AnarcHochulist 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 3d

my favorite one is. guy fieri. officiating 101 gay weddings. on the day it was legalized in florida

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 3d

not just the chief executive, but also an ordained minister of Flavortown

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 3d

Yes, in the sense that we need a trap/neuter/return program for them

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 3d

It’s the flip side of DOGE: you can’t really save any money getting rid of people (all the money is spent on Doing Stuff), so paying everyone a lot more doesn’t cost much more

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 3d

My least-popular opinion is that all US elected positions, local to federal, should pay at least twice as much

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 3d

Dude’s rock

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 3d

facts facts facts

Zohran Mamdani campaigning in NYC, sporting a Casio A1000MA-7VT

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 3d

I would argue that reporting like the politico piece actually accelerates the race to the bottom by showing everyone there are no consequences to this anymore

austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 3d

cant decide which portrayal of debilitating mental illness has aged worse: brad pitt in "12 monkeys (1995)" or lin-manuel miranda in "house md - broken (2009)"