cherdt

@cherdt.bsky.social

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Hello stranger. I live in the Twin Cities, which is how you pronounce Saint Paul. I spend too much time in front of the computer when I should be on my bicycle. I work in infosec.

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Don't bother sending me an email, by the time I get through responding to my unread Slack messages it will be Friday

If you see something on social media that you don't like and you share it, that's amplification You don't have to amplify fringe messages that you disagree with

I suspect the author intended to say that it is an inexpensive place to visit? Instead it sounds like a very gritty place to holiday. "Life is cheap on Boracay Island in the Philippines." That's what I get for reading clickbait: www.islands.com/1498796/most...

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It’s finally time to release my newest project: FollowTheCrypto.org. This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States.

It just took me nine minutes to locate the documentation indicating that staff cannot take their personal holiday in half-day increments, something the online form does not prevent them from requesting. And two extra minutes to complain about it.

Universities ranked by number of appearances in my spam folder (1031 total spam messages in the past 30 days): 1. Harvard 50+ 2. Yale 21 2. Stanford 21 4. Cambridge 7 5. Johns Hopkins 6 5. Oxford 6 6. Northwestern 4 7. MIT 3 8. Columbia 2 8. UCLA 2 10. Michigan 1 10. Princeton 1 10. UC Davis 1

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Hello world! It's my birthday and I'm fundraising for the port-a-potties at George Floyd Square! Because everyone needs a place to go 💛🤎 CA: $ iancoldwater V: @ Ian-Coldwater PP dot me /coldwater Please help support if you can and boost for reach! Thank you! 🤗

Did the author do this? A copy editor? "...set aside his idyllic vision of Paris...." (I'd link it, but the Strib app is crap.) And yet! Merriam-Webster includes this 2024 example: "...this restaurant checked off all the boxes—incredible Eiffel Tower views, an idyllic Parisienne setting...."

I can get Centro crunch wraps delivered via DoorDash, I may not leave the house again

"No one ever checks the source of a quote so long as they believe the sentiment expressed." - Voltaire

Neighbor: sorry to bother you while you're reading Me, scrolling thru a clickbait collection of LotR memes: oh, it's no problem at all

What if there was a way to reject the status quo without embracing fascism?

Anyone who has done any relief printing can empathize with how I feel about this stock image. www.alamy.com/stock-photo-...

empathy word abstract in letterpress wood type blocks stained by color inks Stock Photo - Alamywww.alamy.com Download this stock image: empathy word abstract in letterpress wood type blocks stained by color inks - M18J2T from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vect...

Is everyone trolling me today with how wrong they are

I'd never heard of Terrible Comic Day before

I just saw an article/post where the first comment was just "first" and I didn't realize people were still doing that

Sure sure, Terry Pratchett's boots theory, but I just dropped off a pair of boots and a pair of shoes for soles, heels, and restitching and it was not cheap. Still cheaper than buying new shoes and boots though.

Buncha nimrods in my neighborhood for a classic car show. I don't see a single 1985 Plymouth Voyager. Cowards.

Google Drive is a joke as an enterprise file sharing/file management tool. An absolute shambles. But I'm still glad I'm not using Sharepoint.

For a long time I thought that Skibidi Toilet was something that @tonyzaret.bsky.social had made up as a joke to show how niche and bizarre fandom can be Can you imagine how I felt when I found out it was real

One thing I still have not adjusted to: people will wait until the bus comes to a complete stop before getting out of their seat and heading to the door. What kind of Midwest bullshit is this.

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If you're looking for a bike in Minneapolis, the UMN Bike Sale is tomorrow! 9 am, 883 29th Ave SE, Minneapolis MN

I just read an article that said, paraphrased: Don't let the perfect [thing that actually used to exist] be the enemy of the good [kind of meh thing that exists now]. That's a wild misunderstanding of that expression.

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Kinda crazy that artificial intelligence needs the entire output of a nuclear reactor but actual intelligence can run on Twix bars and cocaine, for example.

I know people are sharing this for other reasons, but can we talk about how this person doesn't know what "quixotic" means? "I always found it very quixotic... that we had all this trouble in 1917, and then in the 1940s...they gave us a prisoner of war camp." www.startribune.com/german-cultu...

Why did Minnesota erase much of its German culture?www.startribune.com Despite its "uff da" reputation, the state has more German than Scandinavian ancestry.

I asked my sommelier* for a "pizza wine" and she recommended a Barbera that is her "sadghetti wine." You know, when you're sad. And eating spaghetti. * person who happened to be working at the wine shop

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If the dry eraser marker doesn’t work for you, and you put it back, it won’t work for the next professor, either. Which is my way of paying it forward.

A beautiful Catalpa tree in bloom situated between two empty parking lots

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Atypical photos of the Statue of Liberty.

I lost Cyberstruck already. Approximately 8:27 P.M., Como Ave. and Lexington Parkway, Saint Paul, Minn. I thought it would be...shinier?

everyone is the world is playing CYBERSTRUCK, the fun new mandatory game in which you are eliminated when you see your first cybertruck in the wild rules are similar to whamageddon, but with no end date: • the cybertruck must be real, in the wild • as soon as you notice the cybertruck, you are out