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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

  • Try YouTube Premium? Yes | Maybe Later

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  • The only interruption I’m experiencing is your asking me if I’m experiencing interruptions!

  • Pictures for Sad Children (Simone Veil)

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  • The original ghost (Paul) died in a car accident. Iirc yes, one of them killed themselves to be with the other one.

  • Pictures for Sad Children (Simone Veil)

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  • They had a successful Kickstarter to fund a book of their comics.

    They kinda dragged their feet on getting the books out by their backers’ standards/kinda ghosted updates.

    Then posted a video of themselves burning the completed books, telling everyone to fuck off.

    Then deleted as much of their comics from the web as they could.

  • Pictures for Sad Children (Simone Veil)

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  • I miss their comics.

    I know they burned their bridges, but I still miss 'em.

  • 'Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

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  • You’re absolutely right— and here’s the thing— it happened! Bots get it done 😎

    (/s I don’t know what other tells bots have)

  • What a silly monkey

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  • I belt that tune out at least once a year

  • check mate

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  • 2nd place is the first loser.

  • Introverts vs Extroverts [Sarah’s Scribbles]

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  • gd murderous extroverts.

  • Road rage

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  • my metronome take is: everyone should have a livable wage / bigots deserve to be houseless

  • Charlotte the box enjoyer

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  • Boxing Champion of the World

  • Artists vs “Creators”

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  • When I did webcomics I was worried nobody would think they were funny or had some reservations about public opinions.

    Then I watched some documentary on comic artists, including Calvin & Hobbe’s Bill Watterson, and he said something like “I just make something I think is funny, and if my wife also thinks it’s funny that’s a bonus, and everyone else can think whatever they want to think, but I’m happy with it, and that’s all I really cared about.”

    And that was enough for me to get into it.

    Make it for you first. Everyone else is a bonus.

  • Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad

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  • ditto.

    I have the Projectivity launcher on my Bravia; greatest thing I’ve ever done to my TV. But it’s still a Google TV first, and I doubt they’ll allow launchers for much longer. I feel like my time is limited with the setup I enjoy; and seeing ads get more invasive elsewhere paired with clamping down on VPNs, it just makes me think it’s just gonna get worse

  • Pam Bondi’s Secret Health Battle Is Revealed

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  • Doesn’t alcohol consumption have a direct link to heart disease and cancer? If so, it’s the only modicum of hope I have whenever I see them drinking as much as they do.

    Then again there was George Burns, who proved you can still win the gamble ‘till you’re 100+

  • Did Donald Trump Just Hand Texas to Democrats?

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  • Did we write an article that may convince people everything will be OK without them needing to do anything?

  • California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

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  • Hm? Did you say something? Sorry, I was distracted.

  • Go ahead and reward yourself with a very small cookie, or maybe a string cheese.

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  • b-but my time is valuable! I need to rewatch movies I’ve seen a dozen times already and play a dumb merging game on my phone!

  • Useful Life Skills [extra fabulous]

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  • And then I’ll remind you that it’s well within most governments’ capabilities to do their citizens taxes for them. Also any for-profit service you use to do your taxes uses the money you give them to lobby the government to keep the tax system this way. Also your taxes are getting used for unfathomable crimes, and there’s no paper trail or audit done to them to prove your tax dollars are going where you’d like them to.

  • Go ahead and reward yourself with a very small cookie, or maybe a string cheese.

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  • I tried to up the effectiveness of my walks with a weighted vest, but my god do those things make you look like a douchebag.

    Plus I’m a white guy with transition lenses who doesn’t like getting a sunburn on my neck, and appreciate the utility of cargo shorts.

    So I’m a white guy, in sunglasses, a backwards hat, and cargo short; that, to me, just screams ICE agent, which I do not want to be associated with.

    I need to zhuzh up my wardrobe with bright colors or something.

  • They always get me with the impulse buys

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  • I have to admit I appreciate the behavioral psychology behind Costco’s layout.

    They put the expensive things first and up front so that, on your way into the store, you’ve been mentally anchored to high prices (even if they’re prices for things you’d never buy). If you even considered or said to yourself “well, maybe someday” about their TVs, computers, or pianos, you are spending the rest of your time in Costco seeing prices for everything else and saying to yourself “hm, this might be a little expensive (even if it’s not), but at least it’s not the price of those grand pianos/TVs/computers in the entrance. Sold!”

    Iirc they also purposely don’t label what foods or items are down which aisles so you have to go down them and, on the way, perhaps see something you hadn’t thought you needed before.

    Pretty sneaky but effective stuff.