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another day, another writing a letter to the CEO of my health insurance asking why it's taken them 695 days to pay for a claim

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Docker: what if every utensil in your kitchen was locked inside a different, tiny steel box, and also all the boxes hated you

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a C witch taught me how to do some very basic gdb and valgrind today and WOW debuggers are cool

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Drag concept: a giant furry man in a propeller beanie named Bear Lingus.

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You ever get a phone call from (e.g.) the heating company and the service tech is obviously hangs wrist and think "OH THANK GOD I'm in good hands 😅"

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Fires are time reversed 3D printers

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Cursed question (hi @dkub): does anyone have feelings about cleaning out and linear drains. Yay? Nay?

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Worked out all the trig (I hope) for the new cross today. Gosh that took forever. Still not sure about the cross-bar height. This is patterned on the Canadian cross at CHC, but I honestly can't remember if I like having the bar at chin height or if I'd prefer […] [Original post on woof.group]

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Oh my god it still works

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Submitted a comment to the State Department on the proposal to require Trump's weird-ass sex rules for US passport applicants: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/18/2025-02696/30-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-application-for-a-us-passport-for-eligible#open-comment […]

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mousse https://mastodon.social/@apmasell/114043645327571575

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On the flip side of the #OnlineSafetyAct, my personal blog gets waaaay more traffic than woof.group. I've opted to geoblock the UK there. Quick implementation notes: https://aphyr.com/posts/379-geoblocking-the-uk-with-debian-nginx

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

It has been zero (0) days since I've sat down on a public toilet and heard "dink... dink dink plop" as the little ball from my P.A., having painstakingly unscrewed itself, takes a high dive towards freedom.

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if I ever become a music video director I'm putting all my bombshell babes in skimpy outfits next to tricked-out bicycles

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I switched to @kagihq a couple months ago and haven't once felt the need to use Google Search since. I feel like there's significantly less LLM slop in their results, and it is so refreshing not to fight through AI summaries and ads. Entirely worth the $10/mo.

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I feel like adulthood is an endless series of apparently simple "how am I going to make this happen" problems that take years to resolve. Like I need a curtain for a door. Off the rack curtains at (e.g.) Target are all going to be the wrong size. Online curtains are an unpredictable disaster […]

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Jeez Trupanion pet insurance costs are nuts. My bill for one dog with no health issues tripled in the last year--from $68.81/mo to $209.94/mo. 😭

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Have just been informed by @HairyHypnotist that Darklands includes a kinky Eurovision: https://youtu.be/p0r3m-SnTrA

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Keep thinking about River's side quest in Cyberpunk 2077. It's grim and horrifying but also, like... it's absolutely a pastiche of a half dozen nifty.org stories.

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Cake for breakfast? In THIS economy!?

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Had a great night out at the bar tonight. Miguel and Willi set up a cross on the stage and I got to flog a couple people, including a long overdue scene with a good friend. He's an incredible bottom--one of the toughest men I know. For maybe 30 or 40 minutes up there we had this fantastic […]

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Mentally I am here:

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it has been zero (0) days since systemd inexplicably and without warning fucked with my DNS, making it impossible to do my job

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Man, one of the most frustrating mod experiences is when someone new joins, does something a little bit off, and we get an irate mod report about it. It's... not a policy violation exactly, but it is the sort of thing that you'd rather not see become a norm. I generally try to reach out […]

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submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Man that flu kicked my ass. Been struggling to get minimal lifts in this week. But I'm here!

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once again thinking about the little roly-poly weighted magazines from equilibrium (2002)

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Getting started with Promising Trouble's discussion with Ofcom regarding the #OnlineSafetyAct and small, "low-risk" community forums. Organizing is Rachel Coldicutt! Gonna set replies to lower-visibility to cut down on feed noise. See also Neil's thread here […]

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shout out to the lovely woman I met on the street today who engaged me in a very nice Spanish conversation (and put up with my horribly mangled 200-word vocab), was shocked, SHOCKED that I did not have children, and then tried to get my number so she could make me ceviche I panicked and did […]

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Superbowl LIX is named after what I should be doing to the Eagles' 350 lb behemoths

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"The notion that it could be an appropriate function of the federal bureaucracy to enforce the majority's conventional codes of conduct in the private lives of its employees is at war with elementary concepts of liberty, privacy, and diversity" Judge David Bazelon, in Norton v Macy (1969) […]

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The man in charge of the Bear Holes problem is Ryan Poles and I for one would like to see how he trains his O-line.

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Cheese and CRACKERS, Aja's MIND in this "Give-me Tonight" performance. The breakdown at 3:30. the TONGUE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68FKbqOla3s

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Doing a single-tail whip demo at the Chicago Hellfire Club this Saturday at 7 pm. I'll bring a few whips and a heavy sjambok made of exotic leather: a special piece I got from the legendary whipper Peter Fiske. #KinkyChicago #whipping #BDSM #ImpactPlay #kink

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