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…i don’t bother voting in primary races with only one candidate…

…oh, now i get it…

…one o’clock and three o’clock taste pretty similar and eight o’clock and ten o’clock are close-enough for most uses…

…ye gads, just imagine how bad the mosquito clouds are going to get…

…yeah, last year i was telling everyone to enjoy the hundred-degree weeks while they can because it would be the coolest summer for the rest of their lives, then this year comes along and spoils it…

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…no, i think that was a nipplegate thing…

…hurloon minotaur…

…i try to leave enough space not to touch bumpers when the front car’s suspension rocks back under acceleration…

…i totally thought that was wheat and lentil penne sautéed with crumbled sausage…

…our local grocer stocks vegan gummies; sadly they’re not very good…

…i reset my browser daily, so i only have the past twenty-four hours of browsing history…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Central_Texas_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Altar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate

…that’s really only an hour or so of browsing between returning home last night and this morning, not including the bulk of my time at work yesterday…

…i tried to live with public transit in marin county: just commuting to my job was three hours each way, with a very narrow window of opportunity for walking to a grocer at my transfer hub and no recourse on nights when i had to work late…

…teabagging, of course…

…that’s just a shatner filter…

…that’s the thing with autonomous world-machines: no easy target and their amorality fosters an insidiously pervasive sort of evil…moustache-twirling balls-out cartoon fascists foster the hope that upon their oblivion, good will rightfully inherit the earth, although history seldom supports that thesis…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4svv0lvizXQ

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…at a quick glance-scan, i though that third row under gen X read ‘starfleet’: did a double-take and was disappointed…

…i’ve claimed unemployment benefits a couple of times in the past four decades and the administrative burden was onerous-enough to substantially disrupt my liberty to look for work, the release of benefits delayed until i’d already found work the better part of a year later, and the benefits such a token pittance as to be eclipsed by interest on credit i used to make ends meet in the interim…

…i supect their fraud-prevention programs cost more to administer than the actual benefits they’re supposedly protecting…