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@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz why is gemini doing so much here

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@proptermalone.bsky.social marrying for mild infatuation of a person you foresee yourself tolerating in a few years

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@aselrod.bsky.social sorry your will to live just sounds like more scapegoating the leftists who want you to die

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@peark.es I think this is more a consequence of how our society is (was) organized and not some inherent fact about the sociality of 40-year-olds, so this could be something we change while tackling the issue (which hopefully we do)

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@proptermalone.bsky.social George Lucas is such a weird guy

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@walmsley.bsky.social Wow that post history is really all Woody Allen all the time!

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The guy is also Dutch, I’m not sure why but that makes this weirder for me

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He also dropped “Ronan Farrow might not be Woody Allen‘s son, bet you didn’t know that!!!!!” on somebody the other day, very funny

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@neonchinchilla.bsky.social I went and found the offending take and it’s so mild

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@db-user.bsky.social SO close it defies reason really

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@sameoldstory.co I miss the back of the book being a summary of its content and one of the first few pages being a snippet of some interesting upcoming scene

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@sameoldstory.co Curse whatever recent trend that convinced people “deep”, an almost meaningless word when it comes to writing, is in fact the highest praise

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@sameoldstory.co Another thing that is annoying is the back of every book is like this now. I believe this is a quality book but all the books have these blurbs so this really doesn’t indicate that, or anything else about the book! I find this review style v annoying too (not LLM-generated but slop nonetheless)

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@sameoldstory.co I also extremely suck at taking books back to the library which can’t happen with my ebooks on Libby (which represents pretty much all my reading this year)

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@thewanderingjew.bsky.social allegedly, I never got that far

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@sameoldstory.co “where did I leave off again?”

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“ugh now it’s dark!!!!”

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“i wish the font was larger….”

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@sameoldstory.co I have three different Casio watches and pay a thousand dollars to drop my camera film off at a shop like it’s 1996 but I pick up a hardcover book and am all “wow this is so heavy???”

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@thewanderingjew.bsky.social these books in particular are shockingly bad tbh

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@segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz A lot of people seem shocked it’s legal, which doesn’t make sense at all, you aren’t legally bound to keep and preserve a book you bought because how would that work

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@segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz I prefer to do nothing and let Father Time do the dirty book-destroying work for me

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@thewanderingjew.bsky.social that block list does not seem to be very coherent!

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@sameoldstory.co I feel like it’s hard for Democrats to break through saying ANYTHING in this media environment because they’ll just bury and ignore you so when it works you’ve gotta lean hard on it

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@sameoldstory.co hope Ossoff knows there’s no such thing as a bad headline in this era and keeps on saying it

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@golikehellmachine.com that one didn’t require explanation, either! this one seems weird. i mean these same allegations were going around re: loomer and it wasn’t that big a deal to anybody

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@sameoldstory.co It’s hard to judge though because their outrage machine is always ready to go and they won’t always fire it judiciously

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@laurasaurus.bsky.social It’s almost weirder to me when it stops, like my older kid just woke up one day and started acting like a human being and not a dog

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@sameoldstory.co Yeah absolutely, a lot of people are concerned about AI but when you talk to people that concern doesn’t look like people on Bluesky might expect (e.g. a lot of it will come from people who nevertheless use AI for various things)

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I'm feeling some pressure to optimize™ my social media presence. sameold.blog

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God I hate the word “bokeh”. I hate a lot of photography words in fact. Photography is possibly the most irritating lingo-laden hobby I’ve ever encountered

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A week long illness (!!!) has set me back on my posting less goals. But I’m not really against posting (most especially when I really can’t do much else) just a lot of stuff that often goes along with posting, which I do think I’ve cut back on. You can post and remain sane, I’m sure of it!

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The more my daughter ages into acting out Bluey episode (and not the fun games, the behavior that’s intended to be a lesson for the parents) the more I come to honestly despise that show. I’m a parenting pariah!! But fuck Ticklecrabs. And Chinese Takeout and Movies and Rug Island and and and

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My daughter is not amused by my speculation that Gabby must be some kind of prisoner of the Dollhouse

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Currently reading: The Clan of the Cave Bear Earth’s Children, Book One by Jean M. Auel 📚 I’m enjoying this for what it is, but after what feels like a dozen grave violations, all death penalty ones too, even I am wondering why Ayla can’t just respect the ways of the Clan? Is she stupid??

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Our new classroom’s parent group chat is on Signal, the PTA said they’d switched a couple of years ago for the privacy features. The iMessage stranglehold weakens, maybe

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Finished reading: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan 📚 The conceit of this book is really my jam; however, the academic recursion was almost too much for even me, and there was a major plot point involving a grad student revolt against… a class they signed up for?! Confused about that one still. ★★★☆☆

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These are the photos I liked from my first roll of Ultramax shot on my Canon Rebel 2000

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We had a new HVAC installed are so we are living one glorious month where we set the temperature based on personal preferences only! To set a baseline from which we can start to make some cost saving decisions

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Parents are commonly asked to provide shared school supplies for the classroom (e.g. paper, pencils) and hooboy do people have opinions about Not Their Kids using the supplies THEY bought. Of course it’s all downstream of people not wanting to fund their local schools through taxes, either!

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More half-frame pictures I liked; pictures of me were taken by my daughter

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My MIL found out about my new interest in film cameras so now I’ve got two. I actually maybe should’ve mentioned it to her before going to eBay but I had no idea she’d taken a photography class in 1981!

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What smartphones replaced: sameold.blog

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Scaling back on social media has made me feel worse about society, because I don’t know what anybody around me is talking about anymore and when I go look it up it’s awful. I plan to continue this since social media is clearly bad for me but don’t worry I’m not basking in the magic of IRL connection

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I’m keeping this photo handy for every time I start feeling bad about what the skin of my stomach looks like now

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Watched: Obsession 🎬 I liked this! I enjoy most stories with this kind of villain, really.

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Today I’m attending SEIU’s Strike School, and getting one step closer to living my childhood dream of reenacting the movie Newsies

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Finished reading: Kin by Tayari Jones 📚I was surprised to find myself pretty unhappy at the end. We don’t see the consequences of either storylines’ conclusions, and it didn’t feel “that’s life” it felt like a cop out and a little pretentious, especially since we spent so much time in the middle.

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I love how these half-frame photos on the beach turned out

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Watched (about eight times): Kindergarten Cop 🎬 My daughter loves this movie, which came out more than 30 years before she was born. The kindergartners are my age now.

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♟️ My brother and I have been playing Chess960 lately, it makes me feel like I have a bit more of a chance against him (I’ve still only lost, though).

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The Mudita Kompakt doesn’t have a great camera but I do like how they turn out in the right lighting

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📷 I’m trying to get into film photography but it’s been so long since I took my photos and I still haven’t seen any of them. Four weeks! I was alive in the analog era but I’m still not used to this because we had one hour photo shops everywhere back then.

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It’s pretty shocking how many children’s toys that are being sold in normal stores are just loot boxes now, basically. I don’t want my kids to start gambling before they start elementary school.

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