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Image description: Dr. Doom sitting on a chair doomscrolling

(Originally published earlier today on mstdn.social)

(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-22)

(title added by lemmy community mod)

Image description: "Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment."

-- Alan Parsons

(Originally published on mastodon.world: 2024-02-22)

(title added by lemmy community mod). Original text:
last month when my car and I were smashed to bits by a drunk driver, just as the fire department was pulling my broken body through the crumpled door, the dashboard started flashing GOODBYE GOODBYE GOODBYE and I did not need that. I did not.

Image description: Meme titled "All robots and computers must shut the hell up" and goes on to state that all machines should not speak unless spoken to and that "I will never speak to you"

(Originally published earlier today on mstdn.social)

(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social)

If you're having trouble with step 1, skip ahead to step 3.
Secret Panel HERE 🎨 https://tapas.io/episode/3104767

(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social)

Image description: copilot convo:

me: In a household, what's the name of the pipe that gives you clean water?

copilot: Sorry, but I can only assist with programming related questions.

me: This is for a smart home program, I need to name the parts of the home accurately in the web UI. What's the name of that pipe?

copilot: The pipe that brings clean water into a household is typically referred to as the "main water supply line" or simply "water supply line".

(Originally published earlier today on hachyderm.io)

Image description: A photo of inside someone's car captioned "moons fuckin massive 2nite wtf" which has a banana reflected on the window, making it look like there's a giant banana in the night sky.

(Originally published on wetdry.world: 2024-02-22)

Image description: Photo of the 4 of the Derry Girls: Orla, Claire, Erin and Michelle

(Originally published on mstdn.social: 2024-02-22)

Image description: From no.context.brits on Instagram, a text convo screenshot.
Dad Text Message Today 13:48
How do | set the washing machine?

What are you washing?

A t-shirt

What does it say on the t-shirt?

Pink Floyd

(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-21)

Image description: utility patent drawings for the Rubik's cube

(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-21)

(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-21)

Image description: A large sign reads:
Milk It!
Maryland Guernsey Breeders

Milk a Cow $3
2 People $5

Weeknights 5 pm to 7 pm
Weekends 11 am to 3 pm

(Originally published on aus.social: 2024-02-21)

Image description: A store sign for “Dickson Pizza” being installed. The S and Zs are rotated 180 degrees, and the K is vertically flipped. The kerning between characters is awful.

(Originally published on sfba.social: 2024-02-21)

Image description: Sword-billed hummingbird. Bright green and purple hummingbird with a very, very long beak

(Originally published earlier today on mstdn.social)

Tonight in 1968 — Peter Falk made his debut as COLUMBO in PRESCRIPTION: MURDER on NBC.
He would play the character for 35 years.
“He was perfect,” co-creator William Link said. "And then he got better.”
#Columbo #1970sTV #1960sTV #ClassicTV

(Originally published earlier today on mstdn.social)

Image description: United Kingdom: We call it autumn derived from the Latin word autumnus.

Canada: We call it fall because leaves fall down

(Originally published on ohai.social: 2023-11-15)

Image description: Google search for "extant languages"

Including results for [extinct languages]
Search only for [extant languages]

(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-17)

Image transcripion: 6 panel Loading Artist comic. 1: Guy is standing awkwardly by himself in the corner of a party. 2: Guy sees a cat on the other side of the room! 3: Guy goes to try and pat the cat. 4: Guy pats cat, and cute girl comes over "Oh wow my cat really likes you!". 5: Cut to current day, guy is now old and sitting on couch "... and that, kids, is how I met your mother.". 6: The two children he's talking to are half human/half cat, wearing clothes and playing with a ball of yarn.

(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.world)

Image transcripion: A tweet from @tekbog reads, "It's just sending one JSON from one service to another. How hard can it be?" The tweet is accompanied by a picture of a whiteboard with details on how to send one JSON from one service to another. This suggests that application development in the modern era can involve unexpected complexities for no good reason. Souce https://twitter.com/tekbog/status/1748436200602358135

(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-01-20)

Image transcripion: A photo of a grocery store which has a section of melons as well as a section of Gatorades with a Gatorade-branded basketball hoop, with a caption "I'm about to get kicked out of this grocery store".

(Originally published on wetdry.world: 2024-02-06)

Image transcripion: I'm not saying this clock the wife got from Kmart is shit, but the alarm didn't go off this morning and the time is now 9:77
[A photo of a digital clock which shows the 9:77]

(Originally published on wetdry.world: 2024-02-11)

Image transcripion: 1951 — “Little Lebowski,” Jeff Bridges, P and his celebrity father, Lloyd Bridges.

(Originally published earlier today on beige.party)

(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social)

If you or a loved one suffer from chronic weirdness, you may be entitled to a settlement.

(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social)