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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 1h

So pumpkin spiced beer/cider/kombucha?

Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 9h

I get that I'm getting paid to sit in the middle of people arguing about deck chairs on the Titanic when half of the damn thing is already underwater, but here we are.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 9h

I'm sure in no small part the manic shitposting is coming from having spent the entire weekend doing fun family things away from large swaths of the internet and and coming back to my day job where the everyone is still chugging along when it's been this for the last few months, err decade.

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

Alt: A cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee. The dog is surrounded by a burning room and states "This is fine."

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 9h

I'm not sure if I need more coffee today (I already drank the entire small pot), less coffee, or should have spiked my coffee.

I am clearly in a mood that is not aligned well with what my workday looks like.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 9h

🎶
This is the meeting that never ends
It just goes on and on my friend
Some people started it without knowing no one cared
And they'll continue presenting just because
This is the meeting that never ends....
🎶

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 9h

Ok someone mentioned a roll out and I think at this point I just need this meeting to end so I can list load up an generation spanning hip hop playlist to get this out of my system.

Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 9h

Oh god I forgot that someone on one of the teams is named "Ludmila" but the leader of that team always calls them "Luda" and they demo often.

And my brain has moved on to Ludacris lyrics and that one insurance company commercial.

Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 9h

So Grateful I'm still mostly remote for work, because when things happen like when I'm in a meeting I don't care about and in my detached state hear someone talking about the software tool Anaconda... I can just bust out verbally "My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hon".

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 9h

Oh god I forgot that someone on one of the teams is named "Ludmila" but the leader of that team always calls them "Luda" and they demo often.

And my brain has moved on to Ludacris lyrics and that one insurance company commercial.

Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 9h

So Grateful I'm still mostly remote for work, because when things happen like when I'm in a meeting I don't care about and in my detached state hear someone talking about the software tool Anaconda... I can just bust out verbally "My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hon".

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 9h

I busted out (possibly wrong but nobody heard to tell me) the rest of the lyrics from there up to the chorus.

It's my Monday. I don't care about this required but useless to me 9 am meeting. I've earned this.

Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 9h

So Grateful I'm still mostly remote for work, because when things happen like when I'm in a meeting I don't care about and in my detached state hear someone talking about the software tool Anaconda... I can just bust out verbally "My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hon".

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 10h

To be fair, everything is trying to kill you in Australia

Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 12h

ZONING FOR MILKSHAKE HOUSING!

MISSING MILKSHAKE MIDDLE!

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 1d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 2d

Dumb* fantasy RPG idea

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 2d

Dump fantasy RPG idea…

You receive a message in your head in a familiar voice “Send solicitors, crossbows, and gold.”

It’s a plot based entirely on the Warren Zevon song “Lawyers, Guns, and Money” and you have to track down your friend who got drunk and fell in with the wrong crowd in a tavern.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 2d

It’s about to be after the next water slide.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 2d

Also me when they suggest some insane water slide.

a group of cartoon girls are standing next to each other with their arms in the air .

Alt: Rumi from KPop Demon Hunters joins the other two girls who are screaming, and pauses with a serious look causing the girls to pause. She then also raises her hands and screams “Yeah!” while the other two girls start screaming again.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 2d

At a water park with my daughter and her friend, both 4th graders.

They have been like this much of the day

a woman with pink hair is wearing a teddy bear sweater and making a funny face

Alt: Zoey and Mira from KPop Demon Hunters raiding their fists and screaming “Yeah!”

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 2d

Brb, writing a short story about a succubus named Sofia stalking South Street on a Saturday night.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 3d

The Dance Battle Over Innsmouth

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 3d

Kanoya Kanpachirou (PR chief of Kanoya City) is a skilled dancer with the head of an amberjack.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d

It’s amazing that Antifa was able to hire this many protesters. Their back-office payroll processing and HR pipeline is just first-class; just imagine the tax paperwork to hire up across all 50 states, not to mention all the rounds of Zoom interviews for prospective protesters….

OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 3d

#NoKings Miami!

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 3d

Back in my grocery store employee days, anyone with a clipboard and remotely professional dress was scary and you gave them access to everything.

I like this variant too.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 3d

First panel is “Me in my 20s” and the guy is talking to friends about RATM and noting things about the music itself more “Good riffs and they’re ok I guess”.

Next label he’s in his 40s at a cocktail party, dead serious. “Some of those who work forces are indeed the ones who burn crosses.”

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 3d

Saw a guy about my age with a protest sign quoting “Killing in the Name Of” and I am angry I can no longer find that “Me in my 20s” vs “Me in my 40s” comic about Rage Against the Machine.

Because that sign was literally that.

Also I reference that comic frequently because it me.

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 17d

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

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🎃Jesse Lu🦇 @aphoenixinflames.bsky.social · 4d

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