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Cis/Gay/GreyAce Programmer & Broadcast Engineer

“It was capitalism all along.”

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macOS Tahoe's going great.
Screenshot of Apple Music on macOS Tahoe showing unreadable text randomly overlapping other text, appearing on top of album art, bottom half of album art getting cut off by the background.
January 21, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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You can’t even turn them off. That notification switch is fake and just redirects you to the notification settings in the Settings app. So your only options are all notifications or no notifications.
Settings page in Dunkin Donuts app on iOS showing “Notification Settings” as an on/off switch that is turned on.
January 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Why is Dunkin advertising this like an ad for a strip club? And why are they even advertising at all in a notification. I’m pretty sure that’s against Apples guidelines.
Notification from the Dunkin Donuts app titled Hot Girls Hurry and advertising a collectible cup give away.
January 16, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Red and pink sunrise looking down along a street with Christmas decorations in front of the houses and trees silhouetted against the sky.
December 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I literally pay for Discord and yet I'm still getting ads. I don't even know what orbs are.

mIRC would never.
Amazon ad within Discord asking me to watch a video to win 700 orbs.
December 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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As a normal adult I definitely do not know the ramifications and complexities of owning an enchanted scorpion.
Screenshot of a message from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. A glowing purple scorpion wearing a Santa hat jumping out of a present box. The text reads: Surprise! The enchanted scorpion of your dreams! It's the perfect gift for you - a normal person who understands the ramifications and complexities of owning an enchanted scorpion. Adults can make informed decisions about the things they own. Kids need help. Only buy safe gifts for kids this holiday season.
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Firefox Developer Edition is apparently not allowed to login to Twitch.
Screenshot of Twitch login screen with the error "Your browser is not currently supported".
October 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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I wonder if these are meant to be marketed towards kids or nostalgic adults given these are all first gen. If the latter, mission accomplished.
Stacked cans of Campbell's chicken noodle soup with Pokemon shaped noodles and Mew, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Eevee on the labels.
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Vaccines came with a free bag of popcorn this year.
A 28g bag of Well Market white cheddar popcorn from CVS.
September 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Why don’t these UI elements figure out what color to be before the animation happens instead of doing this flicker? We’re on beta 8 and this still happens all over the UI.
August 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Slack always insists on leaving one message unread no matter what I do and it drives me nuts.
A screenshot of the Slack Activity button showing one unread message.
June 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I have just learned of existence of the abomination known as a "pie barm".
A pie inside of a hamburger bun.
May 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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@hankgreen.bsky.social If you haven't read the actual tz database files you should. It's part configuration but it's mostly lots of interesting comments about the history of every timezone like this.
On 1921-03-04 federal law placed all of Texas into the central time zone. However, El Paso ignored the law for decades and continued to observe mountain time, on the grounds that that's what they had always done and they weren't about to let the federal government tell them what to do. Eventually the federal government gave in and changed the law on 1970-04-10 to match what El Paso was actually doing.
May 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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I just want to see him run.
March 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I may have slightly underestimated how large the 5080 is.
Me holding up a gargantuan RTX 5080 GPU next to my old RTX 3090. The 5080 is about an inch longer than the interior of my PC case and looks comically large next to the 3090.
March 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Like a cross between @atnathanyaffe.bsky.social and the Heat Miser.
Picture of the Heat Miser. A stop motion character with a red glittery shirt and fire for hair from the Rankin/Bass film The Year Without a Santa Claus.
March 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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My appallingly flat Todd and Jacob Horse from @drawfeeshow.com have arrived 😀
An appallingly flat Todd and Jacob Horse still vacuum sealed for our protection. An inflated Todd and Jacob Horse sitting on a white couch.
March 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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A Tandy 1000 PC on a table in a forest
February 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Screenshot of Apple Maps “Name is wrong” report reporting “Gulf of America” as an incorrect name.
February 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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WTF is this? Now we have to solve captchas by vibe? What do AI generated mutant cows, starfish, and asparagus have to do with a library?
Screenshot of a captcha where you must "click the images that best match the theme of the sample images". The sample image appears to be a library of some sort and the choices are AI generated images of starfish, cows, or asparagus.
February 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Surprising considering whenever I visit a news site without ad block the pages are at best 10% news to 90% ads.
Screenshot of CBS News site on mobile. There are 5 ads and one sentence of news and one of the ads appears directly on top of the news story.
January 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I never noticed until watching it in slow motion that Super Mario Wonder's running animation is actually animated with smear frames and speed lines like a cartoon.

From: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4dB...
Screenshot of Luigi running from Super Mario Bros Wonder showing a smear frame with a third partial foot and speed lines between his feet.
December 29, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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Am I the only one who finds it really irritating when game YouTubers don't include any information about the game they're playing in the thumbnail or title?

You might as well just use a blank thumbnail and "I played a game" as the title.
Screenshot of a playlist of Real Civil Engineer videos with thumbnails that are all 3 fake Steam reviews next to his face logo with laser eyes and titles like "I couldn't stop playing" or "I played the weirdest game"
December 29, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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Fun how the ad in an article about misleading products is itself a misleading product advertising by comparing itself to another scam product.

www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/s/FCk...

youtu.be/Ppobi8VhWwo?...
December 24, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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I feel like this is slightly skewed by the fact that I listened to the Illinoise soundtrack like 300 times.
Spotify wrapped. Top Artists 1 Elijah Lyons 2 Original Cast of... 3 My Brightest... 4 Little Simz 5 Tasha Minutes Listened 4,002 Top Songs 1 The Tallest Man, the... 2 Epilogue 3 Chicago 4 The Predatory Wasp... 5 Come On! Feel the...
December 16, 2024 at 2:28 AM