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@karlieincali.bsky.social Clarence Thomas too.

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@manton Death by a thousand paper cuts.

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@predict-addict.bsky.social Of course the highest honor bestowed on him was the Tom Lehrer song.

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@sbsaustralia.nzcow.com Královec je český!

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@chariselee.bsky.social Putting the fun back in funeral!

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@angryblacklady.blacksky.app “Amiable”? Somebody’s never had a job where they had to stand all day, and has never spent time around people who do.

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@propcazhpm.bsky.social Outrageous. I am ashamed of my alma mater.

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@canadajim.bsky.social He just wants everyone to know he’s not woke.

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@jessicavalenti.bsky.social Why does this make me think of Dred Scott?

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@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social Maybe they should invest in that retooling instead.

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@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social Why is anyone still investing in obsolete energy systems?

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@atrupar.com Damn, how drunk was Erika that night?

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@mitch There are still a few words I think I now the meaning of but am not quite certain. Like, what exactly is the difference between sarcastic and sardonic?

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@patrickrhone Happy birthday, youg’un!

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@brnidgirl.bsky.social One? We had at least half a dozen in different sizes.

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@ektaka.bsky.social Better than drinking someone else’s urine, I guess.

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@electproject.bsky.social And us old farts remember Bush v Gore and a margin of a few hundred votes in Florida!

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@thetnholler.bsky.social (Or is it slander, I always forget which is which.)

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@thetnholler.bsky.social INAL but it seems to me that publicly stating “he’s perjured himself before” is libel.

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@never-say-die.bsky.social Seems a little unfair.

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@michaelemann.bsky.social 🤣🤣🤣

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@michaelemann.bsky.social Did they ever catch him?

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@johnerock.bsky.social Every day can be National Coffee Day if we all pull together.

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@mbkplus.bsky.social I am still seeking.
\nThat I haven’t found what I’m seeking follows logically; stating it explicitly is redundant and needlessly wordy.

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@macfarlanenews.bsky.social Disagree — fanfare and gloating (I prefer to think of it as celebration) will definitely be called for when we finally get rid of him. We celebrated when we beat the Nazis last time, too.

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I just had Claude Code build me a Mac app to open individual markdown files in Obsidian by registering their enclosing folder as a vault (if it wasn’t already one). Took about 20 minutes including a couple of changes and testing.

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This makes me sad.\nxkcd: Aerospace Flowchart

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Photogs: check your horizon and keep it straight (unless you consciously don’t want it to be straight).

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Guess I’ll give Widow’s Bay another shot. Couldn’t get into it after the first 2-3 episodes.

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So, any tech support chatbot programmers on here? Make a note: the bot telling me it “understands my frustration” doesn’t help. On the contrary.

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I don’t mean to startle anyone, but in barely over a month it will be October.

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None of the lifelong experts in the field are doing this simple thing I just thought of. It must be because I am brilliant and they are stupid.

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The Texas STEP Deadline That Actually Matters Isn’t September 10: swift-passage.com

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The English-speaking world is sometimes called the anglosphere. For French it’s la francophonie. Is there an analogous expression for Spanish?

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In the rush to block / mute / filter out slop, let’s not inadvertently cancel people who aren’t native English speakers and are using AI translation to help communicate with you or the world at large.

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daringfireball.net/linked/20…

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Apple should merge the new improved Golden Gate Siri with Terminal. Siri should be smart enough to distinguish among chat prompts, searches, and CLI commands, or ask the user if there’s an ambiguity.

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Vive la France!

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www.lemonde.fr/en/france…

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Accidentally discovered a pretty great local singer this evening at a place I wasn’t even expecting to be a music venue.

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music.apple.com/us/album/…

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Inchoate thought: the way I’ve been using Claude Cowork with various MCPs makes me wonder how much longer “applications” as we know them will remain a useful concept. We still need visual representations of our data, but LLM harnesses will keep getting better at generating those on the fly.

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We don’t have a social media age verification requirement in Texas, do we? Bluesky being weird.

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Mary Heimann’s Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed is like the Fox News version of history and the Czechs are the Democrats.

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Inside the Gulliver

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Rawr!

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Steve Jobs might have been the boss from hell, but “If you can’t get this together, you will not have descendants” is a great line.

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geoffreycain.net/steve-job…

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Neighbor

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Spirits Industry Faces Legislative Shifts and Market Headwinds in 2026 \"Assorted : swift-passage.com

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P. Terry’s should have a mascot. Pterry the Pterodactyl.

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David says the Roadrunner movie will be released after all. Beep beep!

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www.macsparky.com/blog/2026…

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“Default Global”: Thinking Big from Day One: swift-passage.com

","summary":"In the traditional business roadmap, international expansion was often viewed as the “final frontier” — a move reserved for established companies that had already saturated their domestic markets. However, a new generation of “global native” companies is flipping this script. … Continue reading →","url":"https://swift-passage.com/2026/05/default-global-thinking-big-from-day-one/","date_published":"2026-05-11T14:41:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Michael Grant","url":"https://eurobubba.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F7858.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eurobubba"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-11 14:41","date_timestamp":1778510501,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}