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@ Doug @piefed.social

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average man by day, average man by night. / you get more points using the fediverse than you do from reddit / movie enthusiast / formerly /u/doug on reddit

  • Announcing the Threadiverse Vibrancy Challenge (Sep 1-30, 2026)

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  • My checklist, please ignore:

    • __ (Freebie) Make a shitpost.
    • __ Make a post about something other than technology or politics or a shitpost.
    • __ Make a post showcasing a thing or topic you find interesting.
    • __ Make a post to a community with fewer than 100 subscribers.
    • ✅ Make a post to a community in a small instance.
    • ✅ Make a post featuring a human-made piece of art.
    • ✅ Make an on-topic comment to a post in a small community.
    • __ Make a comment or post sharing news about a location relevant to you.
    • __ Make a high-quality long form text post or comment.
    • ✅ Post or comment a link from another part of the Fediverse.

  • My body is a machine that turns fuel into green house gases

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  • Existing is punk rock.

    Why should Mitch McConnell get to live longer than me?

    These are some reasons I decide to keep going.

  • Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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  • yeah no you’re still not worth my time. time to block your little wet fart of an existence. byeeeeeeeee

  • Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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  • 3 days later and that’s all you’ve got? No wit in that staircase. The only time you’re worth is the catharsis in telling you to kick rocks; so kick rocks.

  • Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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  • complaints not parsed into action items aren’t worth anyone’s time.

  • Trump’s DOJ could be held in contempt over unredacted Epstein files, judge says

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  • “The wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine.”

    Yeah? Is that how they got the Zodiac? Is that why Mitch McConnell died with dignity?

    Fuckin’ grease ‘em with whatever lubricants you can find, you peanut buttered snails.

  • Reading All-Star

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  • I was just competing with my friend who was way smarter than me. I plateaued once he moved away.

  • Great job 👏 [Twonks]

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  • And here’s the thing

  • Just look at em go.

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  • Yeah I learned from experience 😔

    And I only say to use the clear stuff because it makes cleaning much easier. I’m sure it’s perfectly fine otherwise. edit: this is wrong, apparently; the red dye is in fact bad for them.

    But yeah it really needs regular cleaning. It may look OK on the outside, but those holes fill up quick.

    I use an app called Sweepy to help me stay on track with what needs cleaning and when it needs it, otherwise I’d totally space it.

  • Just look at em go.

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  • As someone who grew up with elders telling him time speeds up as you get older, I spent a year or so researching with anxiety what I could do to mitigate this feeling.

    The first thing to do is refuse to indulge this idea that one day being an elder just happens: as they say, if you declare it’s a bad day in the morning, you’re conditioning yourself to look for confirmations that the day is indeed going to be bad, while potentially overlooking the good.

    Time, objectively, goes at the same speed your entire life— for most people, sans astronauts or regular mountain climbers. It’s your perception of it that changes, thanks to your memory. The theory is memory is a survival mechanism: it really only commits things to memory that it deems a potential threat. If your day is routine, you are safe, there is no need for your mind to automatically record it.

    So instead you need to manually record it. At the end of the day, journal either physically or mentally what you did today.

    I personally use Daylio (which records data points) and BeReal (forces you to take a pic at a random time of day of yourself and whatever is in front of you), and every now and again I get to look back and say “wow, it really has been an entire month, eh?”

    The other thing to do to combat it is make new memories/avoid routine, but sadly many of us are not in a position to afford this one.

    For me it helps I am really into movies; I can’t really afford to travel, but movies are new experiences to me in and of themselves, and are a hacky way for me to make new memories in an otherwise routine life.

  • Just look at em go.

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  • If it’s a hummingbird feeder, make sure you clean it weekly/regularly, otherwise it can spread disease.

    Don’t get that red dyed nectar either, get the clear stuff; don’t fill the entire feeder; get a straw scrubber for the holes; make sure the feeder has those anti bee things, otherwise it can attract wasps. I don’t have to deal with squirrels, but good luck if you do.

  • Questions mount after Mitch McConnell CPR reports emerge

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  • My retirement plan/my plan for if I ever get a life-threatening illness and a timeline on my mortality is to pretty much be that harbinger on any McConnell-equivalent beings within my resources (in Minecraft of course).

  • Questions mount after Mitch McConnell CPR reports emerge

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  • Right? He and others like him is all the proof I need there is no cosmic karma system.

    …I’m not saying such a system should’ve killed him by now, but he at least shouldn’t be dying with this much dignity.

  • Trying to create warriors

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  • You know what’s really weird about nostalgia now, and is only gonna get weirder for future generations? Video games are these entire worlds preserved, where everything is exactly as it was, so you can experience a moment in time (sans your peripheral environment) exactly as it was years ago when you first had it.

    Unlike real life where a house is demolished or a new development gets put in where a field was, it’s every single thing right where it was, sounding as it did.

    To me that’s a crazy thing to think about, and how it accesses and fills every crevice of a memory you had about it, no matter how buried.

  • Trying to create warriors

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  • nostalgia is such an odd feeling for me; it can come up for things like Trapper Keepers or 90s pastels, but then also come up for the smell of cigarettes, or the soundblasted screams from video games.

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  • I’m on the sea food diet: I see food, I eat it— which doesn’t help restrict myself to the sea food diet.

  • Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems

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  • That’s such a dumb fucking quote. Imagine being a stockholder and reading that sentence spouted from someone at the helm of the company.

    Kick rocks, wet socks.

  • Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

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  • The Obamas produced an apocalypse movie wherein a guy gives a monologue that there isn’t actually a global cabal in charge and that is scarier than if there was a cabal ‘cause it means nobody has a plan now nor when the world goes to shit.

    So it seems there is a cabal, but they’re not that deep or mysterious and are just male selfishness distilled.

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  • Leaves of two, whoop dee doo!