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Andy 🏔️
@ammartin.bsky.social
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I own a computer.

Mechanical Engineer
OH ➡️ WA
Mostly dumb jokes about tech or current events
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Cat
Dog
December 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Simpsons meme Lisa: "Mom! Dad! Trump is declaring war! Bart: "That's right! We're going to war with Joe Biden's economy!"
December 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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A bunch of racoons hiding, eating berries in a tree in my yard, politely asking me to please not let my dogs eat them
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The funny thing about this clip is that Ken has maximized liberal infighting by cutting out the part where she says, ”and that's not good enough and we should be pissed off about it."

Don't pay attention to clowns like this whose agenda is apparently just making people mad.
Quote from the Pocket Casts transcript: "And I'm not advocating incrementalism, but until we win back majorities in the Senate and the House and take the White House, that may just be where we are. And it's not where we should be. And it should not satisfy us that we have accomplished incremental change. We should be completely pissed off about that."
November 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Parks and Recreation still. Man on news broadcast, head in hands. Chyron modified to say: "Andrew Cuomo, Human Disaster"
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Walter White: "Jesse what are you talking about" meme, presented as image with no text.
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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First time the Pixel 10's 100x "zoom" impressed me: dogs chased a squirrel to the top of this telephone pole and it hunkered down.
Zoomed-in shot of a squirrel at the top of a wooden pole, lying as flat as possible. Clear blue sky in the background.
October 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Google claims that sideloading is "fundamental to Android". But let's be honest, if the Trump admin requests an app takedown, will Google comply? And if they do, do they "un-verify" the developer?

android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets...
From Android developers blog post on the topic Does this mean sideloading is going away on Android? Absolutely not. Sideloading is fundamental to Android and it is not going away. Our new developer identity requirements are designed to protect users and developers from bad actors, not to limit choice. We want to make sure that if you download an app, it’s truly from the developer it claims to be published from, regardless of where you get the app. Verified developers will have the same freedom to distribute their apps directly to users through sideloading or through any app store they prefer. From Android developers blog post on the topic Do I still need to register my apps if I’m only distributing to a limited number of users? We recommend you register. It's a simple, one-time process that will allow anyone to download and install your app. However, if you prefer not to, we are also introducing a free developer account type that will allow teachers, students, and hobbyists to distribute apps to a limited number of devices without needing to provide a government ID.
October 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Anytime I look at the sky, really.
Two of Mayor Quimby's bodyguards relaxing, looking up at the sky 1: "Is there anything fluffier than a cloud?" 2: "If there is, I don't wanna know about it."
October 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I don't remember the prototype of this super well but I vividly remember enjoying it enough to post about it on threads dot net.
A post on threads from last year asking for a show like this
September 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Got my Cambridge analytica settlement!
September 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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A third dog.
Black German shepherd Astro lying on the couch. He is sitting up and alert, watching his little brother Zuko and sister Nova chase each other outside.
September 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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A different dog.
Nova, a black and white border Collie, is very tired. She just got home from a 4-mile walk and is still wearing her purple and gray harness.
September 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Dog (and sun)
Black German shepherd Zuko lies on the couch. A beam of sunlight lights up his face.
September 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Gluing up that bottom tier #woodworking
I could probably find a few more clamps somewhere around here.
September 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Building a couple tables.
Rough sketches of a side table for my living room. Trying to keep it simple. I've only completed a couple furniture projects in the past and this is already the most complicated. I'm dadoing the legs for a smaller lower tier for stuff like remotes and game controllers. Every individual piece is cut to size (a little over length so I have room for mistakes). I need to get the rabbet/dado cut in each leg and decide how I'm going to fasten the top to the two leg assemblies. This will also be my first project with the very old table saw I got from a buddy's garage. My Bosch jobsite saw is good for rough shit but this old as dirt saw cuts straight and true. I should make it a little safer though!
September 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Here's a tired dog
Close portrait shot of very tired black German shepherd Astro's face, lying on a light blue/teal couch. His ears are up and listening but he's not looking at me. Slowly falling asleep.
August 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Qwikster: A Netflix Company
August 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I finished the new KOTH season and went back to read this interview I had bookmarked. I have high hopes for another season; the new showrunner seems to really get what's great about King of the Hill
Sepinwall (interviewer): The central conflict of the original show was Hank's discomfort with the kind of kid Bobby was versus the kind of kid Hank had expected to raise. Bobby's an adult now. He lives in Dallas with Joseph. He runs a business. Hank respects his work ethic. They still disagree in some episodes, but it's not the main thing anymore. How did you want to approach that relationship? Patterson: "Everyone knows the "That boy ain't right" quote. When we began this, we wondered if the version now is "That man ain't right." We decided it's not the way it was, where Hank was questioning the kind of person Bobby's going to be, and worried about how Bobby is going to grow up. We wanted to show that Bobby in terms of his work ethic clearly took from Hank what Hank wanted him to. It now comes to that phase of life where seeing your kid as a full whole adult is still hard when you're a parent, because a part of you needs him to need you. We wrote a lot about how difficult it is for Hank to accept that he can't tell Bobby what's right or wrong. Sometimes, what's right for Bobby isn't what Hank thinks is right. We did an episode where we find out that Bobby uses charcoal at his restaurant instead of propane. That's a silly kind of thing, but it represents a lot in terms of what a father has to do when he recognizes his son as his own man. That's how we deal with them butting heads now. It's about the fact that young adults still need and can benefit from their parents, but they learn more from their parents sharing the mistakes they've made than telling them what to do or what not to do.
August 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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These arches better be space gray next time we see em.
Tim Cook standing under rainbow colored arches in Apple Park, where he always stands during Apple's infomercial-style product launch videos.
August 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Not for nothing, mark cuban stole my idea
me in a discord server 4.5 years ago: 2/25/21, 4:51 PM: "Y'know what could actually, maybe pass through budget reconciliation? A higher payroll tax on companies paying wages below local cost of living. Make it more expensive to hire people at starvation wages so the federal govt can give that money back in welfare. It's a tax so it would be kosher for broken ass budget reconciliation"
August 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I asked AI for help with this one
My prompt to Google's AI mode: in one word, please answer the following question: do people want more political campaign fundraising emails or less? Google says "less"
August 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Yes, but
American Eagle Outfitters stock is performing horribly, down 50% year over year. This "soaring meme stock" has regained a tiny fraction of the value it's lost since even just January. Stories that treat this like a real phenomenon are not serious, and are likely very popular for the same reasons the ad initially got attention (hot lady).
July 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM