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it *is* perfect
searching “44 nz dollars to us” on Kagi returns “= 1 New Zealand dollar and microsecond are not compatible” a section in the “Bloopers” page on the Kagi help site. this page showcases funny Kagi results. the section includes a screenshot showing two discord messages. Graydon says, “Please never fix this behavior it is very funny kagi” with an image similar to the first image attached in this post limbraturi says, “its so perfect”
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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results of the Your Political Tribe quiz (link: https://yourpoliticaltribe.com/) Your Political Tribe: Electability Democrats Left-leaning on most issues but diverge from unpopular left-wing positions like defunding the police and trans athletes in sports. Your Quadrant: Progressive You hold liberal views on both economic and social issues, supporting progressive policies across the board. Your Party in a Multiparty America: Green Party Pass a Green New Deal to build a carbon-free economy with jobs for all, break up big corporations, end systemic inequality, and promote social and economic justice
November 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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@nonfedimemes.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy
Nathan W. Pyle posts an edited screenshot of a (probably fake) post by himself which says “if i ever own a business, we will write on napkins only. Each time a plan succeeds we will say ‘we wrote that plan on a napkin’” and then in smaller text, “the twist is we are a napkin company so everyone will buy our napkins for multiple reasons”
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
cookierambless.bsky.social
this is very cool. i didn’t know oysters were so good for the ocean!
Spotlight Bivalves: Trees of the ocean? Bivalves are organisms living between two hinged shells that open and close like a compact mirror. (A GIF of a smooth scallop opening and closing its shell) • As filter feeders, they use their gills to pull in water and separate plankton for food. • A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. • Their shells consist of layers, each showing the characteristics of the water they lived in, similar to rings on a tree. • Scientists study the layers of fossilized shells to reconstruct ocean changes over
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
cookierambless.bsky.social
Spark - Nov 13
FOR THE SHELL OF IT 🐚

Chrono
🥇 - 100%

this app is pretty neat! every day there’s a different theme and you get to play little puzzles and learn stuff related to that theme

great for trivia lovers, definitely a more meaningful pastime than doomscrolling on social media
a screenshot of the app. a card titled “Spotlight” describes the Ama, Japan’s legendary female free divers. full text is as follows: Real-life mermaids Meet the Ama, Japan's legendary female free divers. (An image of Ama diving in Toba, Japan, in 1972) • Ama means "woman of the sea." • They don't use wetsuits or oxygen, just incredible breath control and an iron will. • They can dive 30-50 feet deep to harvest pearls, seaweed, and shellfish. • Many Ama swim in icy waters well into their 70s. another screenshot of the app. a card is in the spotlight while the background is blurred. on the card is a fun fact about the rock band Blue Oyster Cult, with an umlaut on the letter “O”. full text is as follows: 1967 Blue Oyster Cult (with an umlaut, an accent symbol that looks like two dots, on top of the letter “O”) formed. Originally called "Soft White Underbelly," the rock band will eventually adopt a new name and add what's now called a "heavy metal umlaut" to the O.
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
cookierambless.bsky.social
wrote a brief summary for this article packed with sound advice!
- the rule of three: generalize/abstract a functionality only when you have had to repeat the code three times. - firstly: you write some code. - secondly: you realize you need to reuse the same code in another place. don’t generalize yet. just copy-paste your code over. it’s fine. generalizing a functionality that’s only reused twice is over-engineering. - thirdly: now it’s time to generalize. this is also likely the point where you have a clearer idea how best to abstract the functionality for three different use cases. - make it work, make it right, make it fast, in that order. - write idempotent functions, which are functions that always return the same output given the same input. deterministic, i suppose? - single responsibility principle. - try to describe a function in english. if you catch yourself saying “and”, it probably violates this principle. - maintain a single level of abstraction/detail in each function. don’t mix high-level business logic with database access.
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
cookierambless.bsky.social
i need help i’m stuck what am i missing

cluesbysam.com/s/help/9e692...
a screenshot of the puzzle game of cluesbysam
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
cookierambless.bsky.social
need to figure out how to add favicon to bluesky-social/atproto-website cuz this is bugging me
five pinned shortcuts on the firefox landing page: bluesky, leaflet, tangled, PDSls, and lastly the atproto documentation website. the atproto website is the only one without a favicon, severely ruining the vibe
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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and this is a screenshot quote post
Daniel Morrisey (@madebydan…) posts “And this is a quote”, quoting a post by Jolly Nyx (@nyxt.dev) that says “This is a reply”
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM
cookierambless.bsky.social
using an image of adenosine triphosphate is so clever lol!!
Cover slide of the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) BoF in IETF124. An image of adenosine triphosphate (which shares the abbreviation of "ATP") is shown above the title.
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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i…… i didn’t know we could search like this
i was gonna post a screenshot of this with the text “i wish i could search like this”, not expecting that i _could_ indeed search like that

(head explodes)
screenshot of a search results page on bluesky. the search query is “from:dame.is technology”. results show only posts from dame.is that contain the word “technology”
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
cookierambless.bsky.social
btw, never heard of or seen 「わたしはわたしがアメリカ人です」 used anywhere……

not a native myself, so i turned to chatgpt and this is what it said:
A ChatGPT conversation. My question was: “Can I say watashi wa watashi ga amerika-jin desu” to mean “As for me, I’m an American.” ChatGPT’s response was: Nope — that sentence doesn’t quite work in Japanese. You can’t stack “wa” and “ga” like that in a single clause. “Watashi wa watashi ga amerika-jin desu” sounds ungrammatical. Here’s how it actually works. Correct and natural: “Watashi wa amerika-jin desu.” Meaning: “As for me, I’m an American.” That’s all you need. “Wa” already marks the topic “as for me,” so you don’t need to say “I” again with “ga.” ChatGPT’s response, continued from the previous image: If you really wanted to emphasise “I, not someone else, am an American,” you could say: “Watashi ga amerika-jin desu.” Meaning: “I am the American.” This sounds like you’re correcting or clarifying, for example when someone asked “Who’s the American here?” So: - “Watashi wa amerika-jin desu.” means neutral and natural. - “Watashi ga amerika-jin desu.” means emphasis, it’s me who’s American. - “Watashi wa watashi ga amerika-jin desu.” is unnatural and redundant. You only use both “wa” and “ga” in nested clauses, for example: “As for me, what I like is coffee.” “Watashi wa koohii ga suki desu.” But not when they both refer to the same subject.
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
cookierambless.bsky.social
yeah right…
an app dialogue that says “Our app wants to stay free for you. This app displays advertisements. By allowing tracking on the next screen, you can reduce irrelevant ads. Rest assured, selecting "Allow" will not give us access to your personal information,” with a “Continue” button
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
cookierambless.bsky.social
i’m loving carrot weather already
A screenshot of the app “Carrot Weather”. It’s an onboarding page, with the following text: “Greetings, meetbag. I, CARROT, am your new weather overlord. Please note that any f---ed up weather you experience after downloading me is not at all coincidental.” There’s a “Continue” button at the bottom of the page.
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
cookierambless.bsky.social
sums up my thoughts about s3 of mr robot pretty nicely
a reddit post user “burrito__supreme” says this about the finale of mr robot s3: [begin post] me, four minutes before the end of the episode: “i have experienced the full range of human emotion, i have been moved, this show is so complex and deserves accolades” me at the end of the episode: “wat” [end post] 1.5k votes
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
cookierambless.bsky.social
good ol’ ios 17
storage usage of iOS iOS (17.7.1) - 11.29 GB System data - 12.12 GB
November 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
cookierambless.bsky.social
terminal session showing various commands: - man man - which which (outputs the path of the "which" binary) - apropos apropos (searches the manual page names and descriptions for the string "apropos") - whatis whatis (displays a one-line manual page description for the entry "whatis")
November 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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still a greenie (bluey?) :3
git contribution graph but for bluseky posts. between july and sep posts are few and far in between, but starting from october this user posts almost everyday
November 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
cookierambless.bsky.social
silly little exchange that made me chuckle

bsky.app/profile/anas...
b: robot slurs are stupid a: most slurs are stupid b: true! b: wait b: most????
November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
cookierambless.bsky.social
wrote a little script that makes working with windows files from wsl easier

also, my first @tangled.org string!

tangled.org/strings/did:...
screenshot of the terminal, showcasing the usage of a custom lp (linuxize path) command that converts Windows file paths to Linux paths (technically, i suppose, POSIX paths). i can write to and print the contents of a file using a filepath copied from Windows file explorer a la: $ cat $(lp "C:\Users\User\some\rly\long\path\you\copied\from\windows\hello.txt") wsl is pretty cool :)
November 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
cookierambless.bsky.social
@bsky.app hmmmm trying to use your public APIs (public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsk...) but getting a 502. curiously this doesn't happen and i'm able to receive responses just fine when i use opera with their free VPN enabled.
A webpage showing the 502 Bad Gateway error. What happened? There was a problem that occured while connecting to public.api.bsky.app origin server. The server hosting the website might be unavailable. What can I do? If you are a visitor, please try again in a few minutes. If you are the administrator, please check your origin server status.
November 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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should NOT have left an app that listens to the atproto firehose running for hours on a limited data plan
Data usage statistics for the last 7 days. The process named "node.exe" has consumed a whopping 22.18 GB
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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atproto devs have gotten to me after all

i am fully embracing the all-small-caps style. even on mobile
screenshot of a phone settings page. “auto-capitalization” is toggled off
October 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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went through some trouble to add a custom note to my ubuntu motd
a shell command lists all files under the directory "/etc/update-motd.d" one file path is highlighted: "100-custom-home-windows" a shell command outputs the contents of the file named "100-custom-home-windows", showing that it's a shell script, specifically a custom script written as part of the MOTD outputs a shell command runs all scripts located in the directory "/etc/update-motd.d", which together output a complete MOTD. as intended, the custom reminder is also printed as part of the MOTD.
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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i have never seen "Unix" treated like a dirty word lmfao

this is from /etc/pam.d/login in Ubuntu. it does several things but one of them is executing the scripts in /etc/update-motd.d which print out parts of the MOTD (Message Of The Day), shown when you start Ubuntu for the first time every day
a shell command prints out the last 10 lines of the contents of a script named "/etc/pam.d/login" in one line, the word "Unix" appears but the letter "i" is replaced by an asterisk a la censoring a dirty word
October 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM