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Colin Quinn (old school standup goat) doing almost an hour of therapy-related comedy jokes at a psychiatrist conference is one of the best things I didn’t know I needed.

https://youtu.be/e-PGVxGEpA0

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I was watching Instagram reels and there was one on how to enjoy disneyworld with no lines and it began by saying get up at 4:30am to workout while booking fast passes then get to the park 90min before opening and I thought it was a parody of Disney advice videos but I kept watching and it wasn’t comedy they were dead serious through the end.

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It’s remarkable how fast I went from occasionally playing a couple games on my phone to please don’t bother me while I’m doing my morning rounds of mini crosswords, sudoku, solitaire, and connections.

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Testing out the Bluesky bridge, which should appear at https://bsky.app/profile/mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy
https://mastodon.africa/@GrahamDowns/112576282254803245

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I moved to a plan at Moda health and when signing up my new account on their website, the date picker has amazing first iPhone vibes.

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What if we made capitalism even worse for literally everyone?

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Sharks, I’m here today to pitch my new movie streaming service that is going to revolutionize film by adding A.I. to all your favorites. Imagine seeing movies you love but made even better.

Today I’m asking for $200M to help launch and for that you’ll get one percent of the company.

The Godfather, now with AI
Barbie, with added AI

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I watched this guy’s YouTube channel occasionally over a couple years until he released a bunch of “Karens yelling at my car” videos, after he put a $18,000 straight pipe unmuffled exhaust system on his doucebag Lambo. Video after video of people asking him to please stop revving a 120dB car inside a parking garage that amplifies it and him laughing in their faces.

Eat crow, Alex Choi, eat crow.

https://www.courtwatch.news/p/influencers-helicopter-firework-lamborghini

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I rewatched The Glass Onion this week and the way Rian Johnson absolutely nailed his parody of Elon Musk from way back in 2022 is astounding. When it came out, it was a funny story about a rich idiot that seemed amped up 200% over reality.

Two years later, the pomposity of Ed Norton’s character no longer seems outlandish. It’s like Musk viewed The Glass Onion as a documentary and has steered directly into his skids ever since.

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Checked out the scotusblog livestream of Supreme Court opinions where lawyers explain decisions as they come out in realtime and it reminded me of 20 years ago, loading up MacRumors every January to read what was being said in untelevised apple keynotes, but instead of a new PowerBook or iMac, the stream is about which of our fundamental rights just got curtailed.

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Holy crap, congrats @ami on being nominated! https://www.dianajonesaward.org/

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I haven’t seen my nephew in a couple years but just got his high school graduation announcement. It’s 2024, so of course his hair looks like an alpaca.

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mathowie,
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2024 is every teen has Alpaca hair just like fall of 2014 was all college women dress like Han Solo. Those are just the rules, I don’t make them.

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A fresh, and rather boring, . So boring that I might not even have a preference?! Maybe I prefer the old one because the grungy type and bar is so corny. What do you think?

mathowie,
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@cabel the new one uses tactical DIN condensed all caps to let us know it’s ok for men to drink?

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I'm one of those Caitlin Clark bandwagon jumpers on watching all the WNBA for the first time this year.

Amongst all the hand-wringing about Clark, the way commentators talk about the players and even the players themselves about how "every new player is supposed to be hazed, I was beat down hard my first year, it was part of my coming up in the WNBA"

and I'm like, uh, that's language abusers use to justify their mistreatment?

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I'm used to other women's sports leagues that were organized and run by women and there's so much more mutual respect for athletes on other teams. The vibe is more like "we need to go out and put our bodies on the line every week for a year, so we don't get into petty fights or disagreements"

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I honestly haven't seen this much justification for mean-spirited hazing since I watched a show that followed people going into WWE pro wrestling. It was a toxic culture where they beat the shit out of new wrestlers to "show them the ropes" and so they could "learn to work while hurt" instead of the more obvious approach which is "how do we make these moves look great without hurting each other because we're both pro athletes trying to make a living day in and day out?"

mathowie,
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I know the WNBA is part of the NBA so a lot of culture and rules come down from the men's side of the sport, and I honestly wonder if that's the reason for the completely different experience of rookie women pro soccer players in their own leagues versus rookie pro women basketball players in the US.

mathowie,
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honestly, I enjoy watching WNBA games because like women's pro soccer, it's more just straightforward gameplay. Games run faster, less breaks, less fouls, less bullshit personalities working the refs and making a 48min game clock last four hours (cough, LeBron, cough). You can watch a whole game in less than 2hrs and many of them are tense and tight. It's just plain great sports without as many time-outs and ad breaks.

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NYC canceling their congestion pricing plan just before launch is absurd. Each time I go to NYC it seems crazier to me that any public cars are allowed in Manhattan at all. It worked in London, it works all over Europe.

Big trucks bring in morning supplies. Taxis help people around. But privately owned cars? Pay $20 for the one day you must drive around but otherwise? Subways and buses can take you everywhere.

mathowie,
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Manhattan would be so utterly transformed in multiple good ways by cutting car traffic in half, I think everyone in NYC govt over the age of 40 is terrified of how great the change would be and are kneeling to old business owners to never even test it out.

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Ouch. Two friends on opposite coasts that are the most covid safe/avoidant people I know both caught their first covid this week. Be safe out there folks.

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