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Guess I’m gonna have to make a “scam-of-the-day” section in my “shit I don’t like about living in the States” category of the blog.
✔️ calling from Belgium (?) ✔️ goofy ass AI voice. ✔️ I am literally a licensed tax pro. My shit is always on time.
They got the wrong one today! Don’t fall for this!
Car tags my uncle has had on his cars over the years. (And one of the reasons I wanted a garage; I’ve got a slew of these myself I wanted to show off)
This smells like some Nazi/Bolshevik/Orwellian type shit right here. Why does it seem like nobody else is giving the slightest damn about this?!
Archiving a bunch of stuff on the NAS and came across the instructions for one of my many “smartphones-when-they-were-nerd-bricks” I used to lug around.
I swear what Dylan has written here is on the minds of pretty much every expat in Japan.
Read: 📰 Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
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…and this is why I can’t live in St Louis anymore. I love my hometown but nawl, I’ll stay in the A until we can figure out some other spot.
Automation and distance working… the laboratory is Japan, believe me when I say I have seen the future.
Japan convenience store hires remote worker in Sweden for night shift - Nikkei Asia
End of the year family RV trip down to Tallahassee to see some friends from Japan we haven’t seen since we moved back Stateside…
“America is like a smoke & vape shop with all the bright ass LED lit bongs, some incense, and artisanal kettle fried potato chips for sale. Interesting at first but you wonder how that place is still in business”
— me discussing how we probably look to other countries with my mom just now.
Messing with Loops, a soon-to-be federated short video posting app by @dansup@pixelfed.social.
やっとこの俺が俺のフレームワークノットに日本語入力はできる。ウィンドウズじゃなくてArch Linux OSは使用、ハイパーランドと言うデスクトップを使うから強いけど時々めんどくさいコンビねww。簡単に設定はなく、スクリプトチングは必要。お疲れ様！
Best thing about newish web browsers and smartphones: The ability to turn long articles and blog posts into a voiceover/podcast/audiobook on the spot.
Definitely helping me digest @cwebber@social.coop’s article How decentralized is Bluesky really? which you should definitely read/listen to.
Since everyone has a hot take on Bluesky vs Threads vs Mastodon vs Xitter and everyone else, it’s time for me to reheat my long ass post I made about this 10 months ago:
💁🏾♂️ On the subject of Connecting Federated Social Media Networks
Again, 何ぜ両方もう出来ないの？
Dog without context.
Hell is freezing over if this is true.
Tonight’s [Des Moines Register](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2024/11/02/iowa-poll-kamala-harris-leads-donald-trump-2024-presidential-race/75354033007/) last poll shows Harris **AHEAD +2** over Trump. Is there a 🌊?
The good thing about Georgia’s record breaking early voting is that my canvassing list is shorter now. Some of y’all still haven’t done it though, so please vote so I don’t have to knock on your door! ✊🏾🚪😉🗳️
Oh yeah, forgot to say we have a cat now too. Meet Marcy! 🐈
Engagement bait: Pet Bands Overexposed Doggo f/ Floofcat
RIParadise John Amos.
Really glad to see Shōgun win some Emmy hardware last night. I need to go back and rewatch it now. (And also complete it as I think I only got through 4 episodes)