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    I guarantee the state of Georgia:

    • ain’t about to spend $ texting us about overdue tickets when they can get more with a bench warrant and a GSP arrest!
    • has no such office as DMV. It’s MVD and they don’t deal with tickets.
    • wouldn’t be texting me from PHILLIPINES. (+63)

    #UnitedScamsOfAmerica

    A notification indicates a fast rise in the VIX by 13.17% from a previous closing price of 17.24.

    …everytime this goes up, I know he had something to do with it…

    And you already know who I’m talking about, which is equally bad.

    A person walks past the historical Centennial Christian Church, characterized by its tall bell tower and brick facade.

    It only took a few minutes of tornadic wind and rain to turn my childhood neighborhood landmark into ruins, taking a life along with it.

    Michelle Higgins, left, and Andrew Gibson embrace outside Centennial Christian Church in the Fountain Park neighborhood on Friday, May 16, 2025. Storms badly damaged the church and one person inside was killed.

    Project #homelab for today: Authentik vs Pocket ID

    I want to passkey all the things, but which one is best? Also can I use with Tailscale as well as some of the external things I run with my bastion jumpbox/Pangolin setup?

    My very infrequent plea to micro.blog iOS app steward @manton to please add the ability to paste pictures and videos into the text entry box just like we can on the web.

    🙇‍♂️

    So he folded and dropped those tariffs down to 10% huh… except 125% on China huh… Market back up 2000 point instantly though huh

    🤔

    This doesn’t smell right at all. Someone really close to these decisions gotta be plundering and swashbuckling 🏴‍☠️💸😑

    Using ChatGPT to virtually cosplay as a character from my favorite manga, Bleach

    Remember, every point in time is as bad as the technology will ever be. 2 years from now, it will be cosplaying as me 😬

    Auto-generated description: A diagram shows the percentage of cars sold in America made in the U.S., Canada & Mexico, and other countries for various automotive brands, featuring in order from most to least domestic: Tesla, Ford, Stellantis, Nissan, GM, Hyundai-Kia, and Volkswagen.

    🤔 At first glance, seems like these new tarriffs are gonna be more beneficial to one automaker in particular… coincidence?

    Well… I’m certainly not gonna tell him he’s doing chairs wrong. Are you? 🐶 🪑

    A voicemail transcription displays a scam message about overdue back tax filings with two highlighted phone numbers.

    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?!

    A statement from the Associated Press addresses restricted Oval Office access due to editorial disagreements with the Trump administration.

    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?

    Stranded vehicles and people attempting to push cars are seen on a snow-covered ramp leading to a busy highway at night. ) …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…

    A man with glasses is seated in the front of a vehicle, with a black dog peeking over the seat.

    “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.

    loops.video/v/5eRcXgt…

    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!

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