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@queerbuccaneer.gay Resolve is fantastic. I’ve been editing in it for the past 4 years. It really feels robust, like a central hub for my video projects.

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@berncomar.bsky.social The other day I walked clear back to the produce section to put back some mushrooms because the chicken I needed them for was too expensive 🥺

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@liss.bsky.social Oooo, neat! And my ancient 2018 iPad Pro is on the list! (A2013) I haven’t had the cellular plan active on it for years. This will be great for vacation, which is pretty much the only time I take my iPad anywhere.

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@ashleylynch.bsky.social Sometimes the scales glitch out and only register the first tiny touch, so I get whatever I’m ringing up for 2¢. Not my problem when their shit breaks. They should pay someone to make sure it rings up correctly 🙃

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@ashleylynch.bsky.social I wonder how much our local Walmart wasted by replacing almost everything with self-checkouts, and then like 6 months later ripping it all out again and reinstalling a bunch of regular checkouts. How many stores did that?

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@xanthicirs.bsky.social I did look that up but I thought “Grogu and and Babu’s” sounded cuter 😝

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@xanthicirs.bsky.social I need an ongoing series of Grogu & The Babu’s.

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@jenktn.bsky.social Seriously one of my favorite scenes of anything ever.

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@rotomonkey.bsky.social The passport not being good enough is also insane. What do they thing she presented to get THAT document?

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@rotomonkey.bsky.social “ID you can’t get without this number” is also why voter ID is a crock of shit.

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“We need to make sure you’re eligible to vote.”

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“Yes, they already determined that when I REGISTERED. That’s what the voter roll IS. It’s a list of ELIGIBLE voters. That part has already been done.”

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Today, Claude Code uttered this nugget:

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“Yeah, Google’s button-design results are mostly LLM-slop now.”

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@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social I came across a little goose family on a walk a few weeks ago :)

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@tvaziri.com The credit situation with TV saddens me. I’m very used to just seeing our studio name and maybe our VFX supervisor. Rarely ever lists of artists :(

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@crippledgiraff.bsky.social He should look like The Man in the Iron Mask when they finally remove the mask. Full beard, long hair matted to his face.

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@rotomonkey.bsky.social WTF 😳

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Create your own little rodent Auschwitz.

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@spencerdjblake.bsky.social Even if he hadn’t figured out a bread he liked, I can fully respect the bagel preference.

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Sourdough is a hell of an entry into the world of bread. Godspeed to this little connaisseur de pain 👨‍🍳

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@drharmony.net I feel like USAID alone will take a generation to rebuild our reputation in the world. Why would anyone trust us when our government could just swing way to the far right in any given 4-year cycle?

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@brianphillips.lol Dude passkeys will go down in history as one of the worst tech fumbles. Like I know they’re superior but they’re so utterly confusing to actually use. And I have Apple AND 1Password nagging me every time.

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@brianphillips.lol Apps whose websites loudly proclaim “free download” and then after getting all the way through onboarding, throw up a subscription page, leaving me feeling like an idiot.

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“Well, the download part was indeed free.”

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@tvaziri.com I was doing compositing for VR recently, which was heavily degrained and delivered as such. I never appreciated how much I count on grain to really tie the comp together 🫣

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@gdeejay.bsky.social #winning

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@prolost.com I frequently use the phrase “Claude made this for me” because that in itself is really neat to me. At least for the random little HTML dashboards I have it spit out to make my daily life a little easier.

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@hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social I consider our Great Plains label a poodle situation. All Plains states are Midwest but not all Midwest states are Plains.

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@hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social I think if we overlap the Chicago and Des Moines maps, everyone would be satisfied. As an eastern Nebraskan, I would be okay with Ohio claiming to be the Midwest as long as they return the favor.

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@altnoaa.bsky.social Ah, the part of the Canon I don’t keep up on. Carry on :)

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@altnoaa.bsky.social Can someone explain when Sidious supposedly overpowered Vader?

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I used to be all about clean, neutral UI’s; black & grey everything. Now if I find a bold colorful theme in an app, I’m like.. why not? Embrace the whimsy. Wallpaper also changes color 😊

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Yeah, you can just call me any form of “Cow.”

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😑

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Well that tracks, I guess.

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Found this really cool little site that shows off all the versions of Mac OS X, from the Cats to California. Check it out!

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I’ve come to the realization that my Mac Studio’s password prompt taking almost 5 seconds to appear is due to it waiting for my Apple Watch, which I’m not currently wearing. Turning off Watch unlock makes it pop up instantly. So now I’m deciding if I’d like to give up other watch auth for this 🤔

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Well that’s a new one, but totally on brand for the dumpster fire that is LinkedIn.

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I’ve basically concluded that having any Mac on Sequoia while the rest of your devices are on some 26 OS renders Airdrop useless, at least going from the Sequoia system. I’m at least nearing the end of a project, at which time it should be safe to upgrade my Mac Studio to Tahoe.

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I have this delightful little app on my Mac called Sip that lets me quickly sample colors. What has amused me lately is that 2-factor codes I copy from my iPhone get picked up as a color. So I get this little chirp and the icon changes.

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sipapp.io

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Bruce the Wonder Yak: blog.natecow.com

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Why yes, Audible, this is precisely the behavior I want when trying to AirPlay audio to my Mac. Just take over both screens with no option to hide.

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I Didn't Think the Server Would Eat MY Face. blog.natecow.com

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I just tried Malört for the first time and honestly, everyone else is such a wuss. This is like if you removed the flavor from Campari. It’s just bitter water.

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El Capitan Lives! blog.natecow.com

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When it’s painfully obvious that you’re just using a web app in a trench coat.. For a brief moment, my messages in Microslop Teams messages were surrounded by <div> tags.

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I think the biggest Liquid Glass crime on Tahoe has to be QuickTime. The blue is all wrong.

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I love this.

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youtube.com/...

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Having seen two total solar eclipses myself, it’s depressing knowing how no image will come close to conveying what the Artemis II crew is witnessing right now.

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Unbelievable how many fake image I see being posted claiming to be from the Artemis II mission. And then on the flip side, how many people claiming the real photos are fake.

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I hate this timeline.

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I’m a lefty, and the hotkeys in Silhouette are mostly concentrated on the left end of the keyboard, which as resulted in this layout for me when doing roto.

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Finally picked up a Wacom remote so I can be more comfortable. But trying to retrain 20+ years of muscle memory is a challenge 😬

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My biggest worry as the Artemis program started sending people into space was how these moon missions will be talked about in the age of social media and… boy howdy is it going to be rough. I truly detest what this shit has done to our collective intelligence.

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No, I’m not going to upgrade my Mac Studio to Tahoe just to fix AirDrops to my MacBook Neo and better SMB reliability. I’m going to complain that Apple won’t deploy those fixes to Sequoia because THAT’S WHAT I DO HERE.

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Earth from Artemis II! blog.natecow.com

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These are the mission updates I’m here for. I’m curious how often the word ‘toilet’ appears in NASA URLs 🤔

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www.nasa.gov/blogs/mis…

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