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Software engineer from #Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Opinions are my own, not those of my spouse, employer, child, or pets. In fact there are few areas in which we agree.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984): End Credits All films should end with the characters walking together. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

The end of dine-in Pizza Hut tracks closely to a decline in youth literacy rates. In this essay

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Exciting: The Ghost team has just released the beta version of its ActivityPub support for people using their hosted service activitypub.ghost.org/social-web-b...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I ran Draw Steel for some folks over the weekend and holy cow was it a good time! By the fourth round of combat in their first encounter the players were doing such epic shit that they were starting to imagine the long-term psychological effects on the goblins who survived.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I know how much Irish people hate when people in the US, UK, or Canada talk about how they are 12% Irish, or whatever. But everybody having some Irish heritage means one thing: Irish people have a reputation as the most prolific shaggers in history. Happy St. Patrick’s Day, you rides. 😘

submitted 3 days ago • 624 comments

I’m crying, this is so funny WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

Mark is beloved by millions of kids, which makes it particularly great that he’s teaching them how to inform their parents that Tesla is a danger to children. This is another one of those “we don’t need a ‘Rogan of the left’, we need normal men” examples.

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

Kinda scary that Chuck Schumer might get ousted as minority leader. I don’t want to live in a country where men are at risk of losing their jobs just because they’re bad at them

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

brb, updating my away message

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Some very chatty folks in the Bowser Subaru service waiting room today.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Nice to see the #WaPo slowly getting more desperate since I cancelled my subscription.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

DO NOT TURN OFF THE BUS

submitted 7 days ago • 73 comments

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

submitted 10 days ago • 170 comments

The daylight really should be pulling itself up by its own bootstraps and not relying on the government to 'save' it with these annual handouts.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Remember, if someone tells you that garlic is “an overrated seasoning”, it’s a reflection upon them, not you.

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

A thing about a lot of the algorithm pics I've seen that are trying to mimic illustration is this quality of like "technical skill that would take years to accrue but w/ little else that would have developed in that time" which is an uncommon thing to see otherwise.

submitted 12 days ago • 48 comments

I found where they’re conserving you

submitted 13 days ago • 66 comments

Unparalleled line reading #Psych

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Maurice Sendak knew what was up

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Meme in real life

submitted 15 days ago • 66 comments

My friend Larry from high school would use "fuckin'" in those pauses where someone might use "um" or "uh", and he was about as solid a dude as you could ask for.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

We all do, baby. We all do.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

This is me. I'm a digital packrat. I save everything I can get my hands on when it comes to certain things. www.404media.co/the-digital-...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

my son and i just laughed at this together

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

a dark day for ska

submitted 18 days ago • 123 comments

Basically this is the whole problem. We have a lot of selfish people who don't care about the greater good despite the fact that it impacts them too. Not just vaccines, everything.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

some folks seem to be looking to get the No Politics feed going again so let's give it another shot. use 💩📮 to have any post that's not about (any of the) the current political dumpster fire(s) included in the feed, and find the feed here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

What radicalized me? Mister Rogers. Star Trek. Reading Rainbow.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

blood and the sun, together at last in one single comic! no other comic you read today can make this claim www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

there are 2 kinds of ppl in this world: ones who can infer from context

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.

submitted 22 days ago • 50 comments

For the longest time I couldn’t find a meme that represented my mental state… until:

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Just a reminder that the City of Pittsburgh has been standing up for queer folks for years. If you need somewhere safe to wait out these next four, please consider us. 💕

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Is there anything better for productivity at work than #Slack being down? If there is I haven't seen it.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

damn, can't believe I left this setting on all this time

submitted 23 days ago • 35 comments

This is what you get when Pizza Hut stops giving Americans pizza to read books

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

Bad Bosses are not beloved www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Mom look, I'm on the @frame.work desktop!

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

benoit b. mandelbrot's middle name is benoit b. mandelbrot

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

john mastodon lives

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

This clip from The Good Place sums up the current state of the Democratic Party quite well and we’re all Michael.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

THE APRIL OF ANDOR BAYBEEEEEE LET'S GOOOOOOOOO www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE4w...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

The heaviest of sighs here. The most begrudging of respect.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

What's the most ominous shopkeeper encounter you've had in a game? #ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments