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@penryu.bsky.social

Rust aficionado. Functional programming advocate. Final Fantasy collector. Vim fanboi. Oxford comma proponent. Armchair etymologist and reluctant descriptivist. No shilling.

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When IRC dies a thousand people will gather on IRC to pay respects. at least 200 will forget to close their screen sessions and it'll live for another decade.
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The manager of a nazi-tolerating social media company is found on stage with a slashed throat. Suspicion falls on Nob End’s political elite, obsessed that bad takes by Quillette might threaten to end the price fixing scheme of the local florists.
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Alien vs Jurassic Park.
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It'll be some time before I want to sacrifice another monkey. We said we wouldn't talk about Canada!
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Every time I flip through an outdoor furniture catalog, the only thing I can think of is “that’s a nice chair for mosquitos to feed from”
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you call yourself a true radiohead fan? do you even have this album?
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Figured out why my USB trackpad wasn't sitting flat on my desk.
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We cannot rely on CEOs or religious leaders or politicians to act in our best interests. They each have their own agendas, and will not hesitate to exploit our ignorance and inaction to further their own goals.
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BBC Model Linear B
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I enjoyed the movie "Saltburn" for one very specific reason, and it's entirely due to my familiarity with Pet Shop Boys lyrics. AMA.
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Candid photo of JD Vance outside a local clinic, protecting the sanctity of life if he has to kill every pregnant woman to do it.
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Best metaphor for the Dem campaign
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For some reason I want this as a t-shirt slogan.
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AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech. CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
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Former President Donald Trump narrowly avoided death after being shot in the ear during a campaign rally, with one spectator killed and two critically injured. What do you think? www.theonion.com/nation-rocke...
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Candid photo of JD Vance outside a local clinic, protecting the sanctity of life if he has to kill every pregnant woman to do it.
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You'll never look this cool in a cyber truck
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me: "you don't know how good you have it. when I was your age we had to tether our laptops to tin cans with string" also me: "gawd this VM image that saves me thousands of dollars in hardware took almost A MINUTE to copy! fml"
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"You are receiving this email because Apple $thing is included for 3 months with your recent Apple purchase." - how Apple gets out of the basic human decency of "Unsubscribe" links
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It's not "larnyx" for the same reason it's not "larnygitis."
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nailed it
AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech. CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”
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OH 'how about a #programming text just titled, "How to think about the goddamn problem for a few minutes before writing 1000 LOC (or making Copilot write it for you)'
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Imagine if arrays were indexed like browser tabs. most_recent_foo = all_foos[9]
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Find yourself a coding typeface you love as much as @penryu.bsky.social loves Monaspace Argon
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