Charles Miller
@carl.fish
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COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
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sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣
![Screenshot of an email:
Subject: [PIPEXP-1192] Login Access Request
To: me
Good morning Kimberly! =^uwu^=;;
I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble logging into Jellyfin! It looks like your SSO account was indeed deactivated on 2025 Dec 15.
According to our records,
1. On or about 2025 Nov 15, you were broken up with by ___, who noted this as a “final break” on vis event report sheet. I’m also seeing that Ve ticked the “Unilateral” box, meaning it isn’t contestable.
2. Our Salesforce shows you aren’t close to any other polycule members
Unfortunately, our solo-poly access policy doesn’t allow us to extend resources to unpartnered members after the 30 day grace period following your break. This includes entertainment resources (Jellyfin / *darr / nzbget / Pornhub for Enterprise™ seat), as well as O365™, Adobe CC™, and shell access on the Nix clusters. We’re so sorry for your loss, cutie!! 😭💜
If you have any questions, you can reply to this email to generate another ticket, or you can contact zzzoeee@ from our Partner Infra team (note: three Zs and three Es in their LDAP, we have a lot of Zoes here!)
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Regards,
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Partner Infra Platform Experiences team
As a courtesy, a copy of this email has been sent to your manager listed in Workday™
New name or pronouns? Dating someone new? Just visit go/update-me to update your account!
Include this line in your email to comment on the ticket: 250e084a-b937-47a6-948d-b519112ad35a](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rhtazgvloflondzburvubdft/bafkreids254lgwtdyd62paodq5ynb5tatkemp5l77ynw6udhshedj6pab4@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣
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An illustration of the 'commission-based' theory of evolution.
The Pilot Whale
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
The Pilot Whale
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
December 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
An illustration of the 'commission-based' theory of evolution.
The Pilot Whale
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
The Pilot Whale
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
Every quarter, you should be allowed to select one Product Manager who decided that mobile push notifications are an acceptable way to send you advertising, and punch them in the face.
December 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Every quarter, you should be allowed to select one Product Manager who decided that mobile push notifications are an acceptable way to send you advertising, and punch them in the face.
In the aftermath of the Bondi shooting I almost posted “this is the one time it’s acceptable to wheel out John Howard for an opinion” but didn’t because I (it turns out, justifiably) didn’t trust him to have a good opinion.
Opinion | John Howard's reemergence after the Bondi Beach shooting should have been comforting for gun control advocates. Instead, the former PM risks tarnishing his own legacy.
The living ghost of John Howard: Pain hits, then opportunism strikes
www.crikey.com.au
December 17, 2025 at 5:20 AM
In the aftermath of the Bondi shooting I almost posted “this is the one time it’s acceptable to wheel out John Howard for an opinion” but didn’t because I (it turns out, justifiably) didn’t trust him to have a good opinion.
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You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.
December 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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This is just one example, but this story is the perfect example of why mediocre white guys are against DEI and this is the “American Dream” they’re trying to preserve. This is the “western culture” they want to protect, and anti-discrimination laws and policies destroy that.
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is just one example, but this story is the perfect example of why mediocre white guys are against DEI and this is the “American Dream” they’re trying to preserve. This is the “western culture” they want to protect, and anti-discrimination laws and policies destroy that.
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On this day in 1994, Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released.
December 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
On this day in 1994, Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released.
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I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
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Today's newsletter: The same machine that destroyed 600 lives over Charlie Kirk has nothing to say about Trump mocking Rob Reiner. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...
The Rules of Grief
The post-Kirk purge was never about decency. Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder proves it.
www.readtpa.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Today's newsletter: The same machine that destroyed 600 lives over Charlie Kirk has nothing to say about Trump mocking Rob Reiner. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...
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“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw
December 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw
I’d actually be interested in the results of a Turing test where you took a bunch of people with little to no exposure to chatbots, ran the test, then did it again a week later after making them talk to a (different than in the test) chatbot for half an hour a day.
December 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I’d actually be interested in the results of a Turing test where you took a bunch of people with little to no exposure to chatbots, ran the test, then did it again a week later after making them talk to a (different than in the test) chatbot for half an hour a day.
US insurers are almost certainly slavering over the idea they can declare having ever had Covid a pre-existing condition and make customers prove that whatever they have now wasn't in some way caused and/or exacerbated by it.
December 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
US insurers are almost certainly slavering over the idea they can declare having ever had Covid a pre-existing condition and make customers prove that whatever they have now wasn't in some way caused and/or exacerbated by it.
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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Most videos promoting an actual gambling site or app are NOT gonna use the word gambling. Going after videos with the word in the title is so utterly fucking stupid and useless.
You’re pretty much guaranteed to *only* hit videos criticizing this shit.
You’re pretty much guaranteed to *only* hit videos criticizing this shit.
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Most videos promoting an actual gambling site or app are NOT gonna use the word gambling. Going after videos with the word in the title is so utterly fucking stupid and useless.
You’re pretty much guaranteed to *only* hit videos criticizing this shit.
You’re pretty much guaranteed to *only* hit videos criticizing this shit.
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Update: YouTube straight up removed another video about loot boxes. They’re just hitting anything that mentions gambling regardless of context.
What a ridiculous platform.
What a ridiculous platform.
YouTube restricted an old video about loot boxes being restricted by gambling laws under the “sale of regulated goods policy.”
Yes YouTube, my vids famously “depict or promote” gambling. Those years of anti-loot box videos were secretly pro-loot box the entire time, you ridiculous dumbfuck site 😂.
Yes YouTube, my vids famously “depict or promote” gambling. Those years of anti-loot box videos were secretly pro-loot box the entire time, you ridiculous dumbfuck site 😂.
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Update: YouTube straight up removed another video about loot boxes. They’re just hitting anything that mentions gambling regardless of context.
What a ridiculous platform.
What a ridiculous platform.
Got to say, the @stechlab-labels.bsky.social tagger adds some useful context when browsing the replies.
December 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Got to say, the @stechlab-labels.bsky.social tagger adds some useful context when browsing the replies.
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The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff
It’s just the little things, but apparently the line of people lining up near Town Hall to donate blood is so long they’re moving the O- donors to the front of the queue.
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It’s just the little things, but apparently the line of people lining up near Town Hall to donate blood is so long they’re moving the O- donors to the front of the queue.
/r/programming is getting dystopian on us. Also, I feel that for practical reasons, an execution can only hope for "at-most-once".
December 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
/r/programming is getting dystopian on us. Also, I feel that for practical reasons, an execution can only hope for "at-most-once".
I was once at an annual off-site for a previous employer. Everyone in Product/Engineering bemoaned that year’s terrible, user-hostile decision to implement auto-play video ads, then the finance guy went over the numbers and explained how if we hadn’t, none of us would still have jobs.
It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
December 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I was once at an annual off-site for a previous employer. Everyone in Product/Engineering bemoaned that year’s terrible, user-hostile decision to implement auto-play video ads, then the finance guy went over the numbers and explained how if we hadn’t, none of us would still have jobs.
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Working on my thumbnail game
December 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Working on my thumbnail game
The transphobic grift is so much like creationists saying “if we evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys” secure in the knowledge they’ll never have to hear, or acknowledge, the obvious answer.
Ana Kasparian claims the left turned on her over her opposition to being called a "birthing person".
Ana Kasparian: "I don't have kids, I don't want to have kids, and I don't want to be called a 'birthing person', I find it super insulting."
Ana Kasparian: "I don't have kids, I don't want to have kids, and I don't want to be called a 'birthing person', I find it super insulting."
December 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The transphobic grift is so much like creationists saying “if we evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys” secure in the knowledge they’ll never have to hear, or acknowledge, the obvious answer.