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Software Engineer at Mercedes-Benz R&D NA and maintainer of Get iPlayer Automator. Also a father, fan of euro-style board games, very amateur chef, and, apparently, #NYTXW addict. https://ascoware.github.io/get-iplayer-automator/
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Jasper's first acting job: Playing Spike from Peanuts! #DogsOfBluesky

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Bill Withers releases “Lean On Me” today in ‘72 — a song about his native West Virginia, where folks “would help you out, even across racial lines.” “.. It sounds idealized if you’re from an environment where it's not practical to do that. I'm from an environment where it WAS practical to do that.”

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

She totally did not eat any of the blossoms, either.

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London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

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"One in five respondents said they thought they could beat an Olympic sprinter over a short distance."

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words words words words A MASSIVE TARIFF ON YOU words words words words

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

April 2nd is International Fact-Checking Day.

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

I didn't think I'd get to use this so quickly...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like a good game! Definitely the kind of game where you will eventually get stuck and will need a walkthrough video. Follow her to find out when she releases it.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

What in the absolute hell is going on here?!?!?! My parents paid into Social Security for 50 years. I will NOT stand by while Elon and his cronies fuck around with their monthly benefit! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/21/social-security-benefits-trump-doge/

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I found my wife’s phd research in here. I know no one asked her if it was okay. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/?gift=1kxbmsAP91gOifQgh4o9vjVQxxLL0bPTdBsFR1dNM6U

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Today’s adventures in #alzheimers: I arrived to take my dad to the neurologist and found he was packing up underwear and socks. “Aren’t you taking me to prison after this appointment with the state trooper?” (The neurologist told him he can’t drive anymore for his own safety.)

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

This is how they be talking to you in the pawn shop after offering you $40 for your PS5

submitted 63 days ago • 45 comments

Zelenskyy knows how to deal with hecklers. I couldn’t have come up with a response that fast.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

"Don't just sit there complaining, get out there and do something." OK, on Saturday I picked up a nasty case of norovirus. If someone wants to fly me to DC to meet Elon and DOGE, I could make sure they won't be able to leave the bathroom for a week, and someone else could then fix the damage.

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Renaming the Gulf of Mexico is petty and stupid, but if Mexico wanted to return the favor they could just rename the Gulf of California back to 'Gulf of Mexico' and call it even. I don't think anyone in California would care, TBH.

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I love how all of the replies here are basically "HECK YEAH, LET'S GOOOO!!!" And honestly, I'm right there with them.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

This seems to sum up the BlueSky experience for a lot of people, unfortunately. Things do suck right now, but let people have their genuine moments of happiness.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Agree with this one zillion percent Everything that has made US airline travel the SAFEST TRANSPORT IN HUMAN HISTORY is the opposite of what Musk stands for, and does Move fast and break things? 'Rapid unscheduled disassembly'? 'FSD' Teslas killing people? XItter? YOU DO NOT WANT this at FAA

submitted 86 days ago • 18 comments

This is a small thing, with everything else that's going on in the world, but... if you go to an independent donut shop less than an hour before they close you can get 2 for 1 donuts.* *YMMV. This was at one donut shop in Sunnyvale.

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Can anyone explain to me what happened on my Clipper card today? I was doing a test bike/train trip to work to see how hard it will be to commute by e-bike. CalTrain must think I'm crazy. I think the net result is that I paid $5.45 for a one-way trip?

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

How many lakes were boiled to come up with this piece of utter brilliance? (my daughter reported it as 'not helpful' which feels about as useful as a letter to the editor.)

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

@kairyssdal.bsky.social @kimberlyadams.bsky.social This is how Apple Intelligence summarized Marketplace today. Maybe it's time I turned that off.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I've been a software engineer for over 30 years, but it's still a huge rush to see something you worked on get advertised on national TV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOPR...

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

News from Santa Clara University. I realize students have been pulling pranks probably ever since universities started, but now every student around the world can pull the same prank at once. We've come so far!

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Recently a friend gave me the most incredible gift I have ever received. Would you like to see it? OF COURSE. Here is the tube map... IN CROSS STITCH. It takes my breath away that anyone could create this, let alone create it for me. She's astonishing.

submitted 124 days ago • 179 comments

IT LIVES!!! Soon to be filled with smoked salmon and cucumber…

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Facebook has banned ads for a Kickstarter from Votes for Women publisher Fort Circle Games for the second time this year – this time claiming its game about the history of the US Supreme Court is a “sensitive social issue”: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... @fortcircle.bsky.social

submitted 148 days ago • 14 comments

Happily!!! How abouttt… “cello curb music”

submitted 149 days ago • 1 comment

Me trying to get my wife to play a board game...

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Schulhof's Curve, by Richard Serra, 1984, 📸 by @JeffKolbFOX4

submitted 165 days ago • 14 comments

I'm wondering if there are any parallels to the mass exodus from Twitter that we're seeing now. I have lived long enough to see everyone leave CompuServe for AOL, and then AOL for... the internet? MySpace?

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