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Identity engineer. Reader. Interested in way too many things.
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The Economist sure makes it a pain in the ass to cancel your subscription. I will probably want to pick it up again later this year but the hassle in canceling will be my biggest barrier to signing up again.

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You ever have one of those hobbies where you can only work on it when you're feeling really good about yourself because you are going to make a lot of mistakes? That's me and machining.

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#swasticar Totally innocent that is just how some people talk: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking... 😂

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Are they still called skinny jeans if they are regular size jeans and you just managed to fill them out? Asking for a friend 😅

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George MacDonald is an underrated author. I love his take on Christian Universalism in Lilith with this exchange between Lilith and Adam. I hope it still makes some sense out of context: (1/3)

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

In today’s Bad Electrical Work…apparently this passes for bonding the copper plumbing to the electrical service. It’s ok…it had electrical tape over it for extra clamping power. /s

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I was re-reading The Fellowship of the Ring last year and thought the meter of the Sam’s song about the stone trolls seemed really familiar (“Troll sat alone on his seat of stone”). Finally realized it is the folk song “The fox went out on a chilly night” (Roud 131).

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Random Star Trek trivia: Dathon, the Tamarian captain in the TNG episode “Darmok,” was played by Paul Winfield, who played Captain Terrell in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. And Patrick Stewart’s abbreviated version of the Gilgamesh epic is 🔥

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for the identity nerds: this is how I imagine a properly configured application responds when it receives an unsolicited (idp-initiated) login response: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1u4o...

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