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nyquildotorg

@nyquildotorg@fedia.social

Mobile-addicted. Web-dependent. Digital Plumber. Nerd. He/him. No-coiner.

Citizen of various fediverses over the years, this one since my first Mastodon account in January 2017. Alt-text enthusiast, lover of having his mind changed.

If you engage to disagree with something I've posted, it probably increases the likelihood of a follow. (But chances are pretty good, anyway.)

Boosts and quote-boosts welcome.

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Lol at Dave Winer discovering "a whole industry revolving around 1/6 scale Scarlett Johansson heads and bodies to stick them on."

(1/6 scale is "Barbie-sized," and people have been doing custom "head-sculpts" of celebrities for decades and decades.)

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I recall marvelling at the level of detail people were putting into clothing and shoes and stuff to dress up their Vin Diesel head-sculpt dolls in 1999.

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10,000 hours
10,000 steps
10,000 maniacs

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Considering the idea of plucking all my beard hairs that aren't white.

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Skynet apparently went with "liquid metal" for the T-1000 instead of "liquid concrete" because humans dunking Terminators into molten steel would inadvertently make better steel and safer concrete.

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By subverting expectations and defamiliarizing common sense understandings, Spoonerisms open space for radical imagination to unsettle closely held beliefs and ideologies. In this essay I will...

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@redoak this is why I use "in this Substack" in my bits. Not reading enough of anything makes them more lifelike!

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I will happily play along with your insistence that certain types of pizza aren't actually pizza, but doing so requires asking you a lot of irritating questions to get you to define "pizza."

I'm fine with pineapple on a pizza making it "no longer pizza," but you gotta do the work to describe how and why it's not.

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Misread "UK election date" as "UK deletion date."

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Buffalo Bill on the red carpet, reporters afraid to ask who he's wearing.

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Maybe in the grand tradition of Kenny Rogers' Roasters, and Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville, Tyler Perry can buy Red Lobster on the cheap and turn it into a Tyler Perry's Black Lobster.

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@middleclasstool ok, that's a much better idea

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@middleclasstool "one Tin Roof Sundae, make it Rusty!"

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Losing my mind at people upset that the move from search engines to answer engines is "making SEO work pointless."

SEO work's point was always to manipulate Google's algorithm to get content that isn't a good relevant search result to look enough like a good relevant search result to appear there. Good riddance.

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@tekhedd I don't count "making your web page into a web page" as SEO, but I'm a biased dick.

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Our favorite local pizza place, Thirsty Sasquatch (it's also a pub), makes really great pizza. However, they insist on putting the toppings on after the cheese, which means every goddamn topping falls off the pizza on its way to your mouth.

I don't condone putting Elmer's glue on pizza, but if you move the cheese to above the toppings it will "glue" them in place quite effectively.

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My objection to Elmer's glue may or may not revolve around the insistence that "white sauce" pizza isn't pizza at all.

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This is exactly what it felt like watching the exodus from Twitter with so many people demanding that things work like they do on Twitter.

Everyone thinks the fediverse is meant to replicate every problematic thing they were used to on Twitter. But they are wrong, lol.

RE: woem.men/notes/9t1qtnq18gal01qm

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Ooh! I have a LiveNation story.

A couple years ago one of my clients moved their ticketing to LiveNation, and now get materials for announcements at the last possible second. They've actually started doing announces with placeholder "concert-looking" artwork because the actual official approved artwork doesn't show up in time.

Great company.

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LiveNation
LaughNation
LoveNation

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A fleet of airplanes has been found to have a potential electrical flaw near a fuel tank that aviation regulators fear could cause an explosion.

Boeing 777 liners are at risk of “electrostatic discharge” near its center-wing fuel tank, which could possibly cause it to catch fire and explode, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/boeing-planes-fuel-tank-explosion-b2550223.html

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@lykso @yogthos don't worry, they made the pipe the same way.

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@rayckeith alt text:

A still from Star Trek the Original Series, depicting a bunch of crew members in a hallway looking at a spot on the floor. Bugs Bunny has been inserted into the still, popping up through a hole in the floor, holding a map and scratching his head because he must've taken a wrong turn back in Albuquerque.

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Bird flu from a dairy cow infected one farm worker through their eye.

Me: the vector is flies.

Bird flu from another dairy cow infects another farm worker through their eye.

Me: the vector is flies!

Also me: does it count as airborne when the droplets are attached to flying insects?

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Laughing out loud at people considering moving from PC to Mac because of vendor overreach

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@rockerest but also, every day I read another story about Apple's pending deal with Open AI, so their operating systems probably shouldn't be considered the last bastion of AI-free computing.

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In MacOS, I often take a screenshot, right-click on the thumbnail that pops up, then select "Save to Clipboard." I've been doing this for years but still have to parse the words carefully. Why oh why doesn't it just say "Copy"? So much easier at least for my brain to grok. #UI

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@stshank that should have been Paste with Formatting 🤷

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@stshank huh, this was threaded weirdly in my mentions. Thought to was in reply to my bitching about pasting

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