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I complain a lot about Ruby being a language which makes meaning and context difficult to discover but Cucumber uh, really takes the damn cake and smothers it in a language entirely defined at runtime using regexes??????

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Trying to figure out if PC motherboards equipped with Thunderbolt 3 ports are capable of outputting video over it from a discrete, internal GPU, because this is both an ungoogleable question, and nobody else seems to have ever wanted an answer to it

I really love how Rubocop is happy with one unreadable 134-character line, but will yell at you for a very clear 23-line method

You’re invited to my new speedrunning event, Games Done Privately and Rapidly

damn it I should’ve said “despite all my games I’m still just a dave in a cage”

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2021’s most anticipated PS5 exclusive, David and the Cage of Hubris

additionally: never ever ever fucking call me, ever

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to whoever is calling me from a silent number and then leaving a message of “hello?” in my voicemail: show your number or tell me who you are and why you’re calling, coward

ally: definitely lgbt
gay: not lgbt
lesbian: lgbt but you have to pick either butch or femme

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why’s almost every sci fi product these days either set either in a distant, imagined part of space, or some extremely well-media-trod city in the United States?

g’day mahyte, wanna get a gobfull a some sohda cahndeey?

the thing where Telegram doesn’t put your typed message into the image caption box when you paste an image into it is an incredibly frustrating UI oversight for a messenger which seems to mostly differentiate itself on letting you send messages with context

I submitted another report explicitly calling attention to the fact they’d cloned my profile info and were clearly trying to scam people using my identity, and uh, yeah good work Twitter you’re doing great and this rule is *definitely* not being violated

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relatedly; do you ever find a *really* weird Easter egg left by your past self?

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[very dj mike llama’s llama whippin’ intro voice] gdpr compliant

for your consideration: Soupe Opéra, a bizarre French children’s television programme which was inexplicably broadcast in Australia from the 1990s youtu.be/Uv5lRAwXqug

hahahahahahah never mind Twitter is completely and utterly fucking useless and, again, has no report category for “this account is attempting to run a scam”

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