Joel A. Machiela
@machiela.bsky.social
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Library dude. Rock star. Dog, two kids, a wife. Abolish ICE
https://wywolf.bandcamp.com
Tech bros are severed from reality. While in Seattle cafe a few years ago, I listened as two men excitedly talked about the different ads they appreciated in search results. Excited about ad insertion. These folks need human intervention.
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A couple weeks ago I had a bad stomach virus. That wouldnāt have happened if I had a ballroom.
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Raffi_RC
2 days ago
CBS canceled Colbert. join meācancel CBS!
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Naomi Klein
2 days ago
$9-billion taxpayer transfer to a $5 trillion company for US spy agencies to go all in on AI. NYT doesn't include a single critical word from a privacy or civil liberties expert. Just a don't-worry-about-it assurance at the end. Also: Anthropic is not our friend.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...
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White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/spy-agencies-ai-chips-shortage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kVA.W3Ge.WvM4g_g7Veql&smid=url-share
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Interviewer: Whatās in your immediate future? Rob Base: I want to rock right now. Interviewer: Can you remind the audience what youāre all about? Rob Base: Iām Rob Base, and I came to get down.
2 days ago
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I like how, in the Transformers cartoons, giant robots who all have lasers are continually fist-fighting each other.
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made this during the first season.
3 days ago
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Iāve been designing the bags for the adult summer reading giveaways at our library for the last 5 or so years. Before that I designed the teen bags. I only do the program to get one of my bags, lol.
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3 days ago
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Iāll grant you that some media piracy can be considered protest. Iād venture the guess, though, that a lot of it is just entitlement.
3 days ago
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Norm Charlatan
4 days ago
Every time someone tries to drag some weird regional pizza, I am like, I would eat the shit out of that, I do not care, it is some combination of bread, molten cheese, sauce, and meat. It is all good as hell.
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scottland - a proto-social media game thing from Kids In The Hallās Scott Thompson. Skinnybitch dot com (donāt search for it now, pornified) was an early blog where you asked a question and the guy who ran the site would have to answer itāno matter how awful the question wasāhis own rule.
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4 days ago
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I canāt tell if the actor playing Maddy on Euphoria is just terrible or if sheās being directed to play the character as a dead-inside Kim Kardashian clone.
4 days ago
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Ten bands: The Laās Cracker Dinosaur Jr Duran Duran Breeders Spoon Nirvana Pavement/Malkmus Pixies/Frank Black Beastie Boys
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Seeing the āyeah, you can save money by making food at homeā argument being taken to extremes and people being shitty to each other over it. Good job, Internet.
4 days ago
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The tooth fairy had to reluctantly pillage her coin collection this evening to make up for a lack of paper money.
4 days ago
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I wish Duck Duck Go were better. It seems to assume every search I make is in pursuit of a product to buy.
5 days ago
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I have full faith that every Jan 6 rioter who receives a large chunk of $ will blow through that $ on lifted trucks and ATVs.
5 days ago
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A villain is someone who lives āinā a āvillaā
#WordFacts
5 days ago
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The Dungeon Crawler Carl books are a lot of fun, but the author writes āutilizeā and āresiliency,ā and I hate it.
6 days ago
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George Wallace
6 days ago
It all was so much more fragile than we realized and whatnot.
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4fuxake
7 days ago
Also fuck Mike Johnson for saying politicians can't survive off $175k salaries but they expect citizens to live off $40k or $7.25 an hour. Fuck all the way off
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A lot of folks focus on āI hate that apple got rid of headphone jacks on phones,ā and theyāre not reserving enough hatred for Steve Jobsā insistence that we shouldnāt have optical drives in our laptops.
8 days ago
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Salem and Salem adjacent people, go to this show. No, not that Salem, the other one.
8 days ago
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This song is the shit. You will love it.
thekingdot.bandcamp.com/track/cat-wi...
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Cat Window, by The King Dot
track by The King Dot
https://thekingdot.bandcamp.com/track/cat-window
9 days ago
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9 days ago
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The best part of Hype! is when that one dude takes a power chord up a half step and says āthatās punkā then takes a power chord down a half step and says āthatās grunge.ā
9 days ago
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Watching Daredevil. The gandolfini kid is not good at this.
9 days ago
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Past me is such a dick for thinking I should eat better and not buying good snacks.
9 days ago
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Still mad at my parents for not making me a nepo baby.
10 days ago
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Look, the answer is simple: really long extension cords to the other side of the earth, so we can all share when the sun is out.
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10 days ago
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Itās the law here in Oregon, though a lot of folks think it only applies to marked crosswalks.
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10 days ago
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jacki
10 days ago
Good morning. The Chicago White Sox have a winning record. Go have a Friday.
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You have too many guitar pedals on your board.
10 days ago
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I only learned about him recently thanks to
@theauthorguy.bsky.social
ās latest, Anima Rising. Itās about art and psychology and Inuit mythology and raising the dead and a good dog.
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10 days ago
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This is the weirdest Dungeon Crawler Carl book yet.
10 days ago
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WTTW - Chicago PBS
11 days ago
Any verdict or settlement in this case would be paid by Chicago taxpayers, who will also foot the bill to defend the two-term Far Northwest Side alderperson's claims.
https://to.wttw.com/493goJr
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Ald. Jim Gardiner Sues City After He Was Accused by Inspector General of Slapping Critic With Unfounded Tickets
Any verdict or settlement in the case would be paid by Chicago taxpayers, who will also foot the bill to defend Ald. Jim Gardinerās claims.
https://to.wttw.com/493goJr
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I continue to be impressed with the way WTTW frames these headlinesāthe stark reality that taxpayers are always on the hook when the law screws up.
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10 days ago
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In honor of George Lucasās birthday,
open.spotify.com/track/4OXBvp...
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Disney is the Best Thing (That's Ever Happened to Star Wars)
https://open.spotify.com/track/4OXBvpRLkiGEdgN1k35oON?si=WwmzoOk9Ska__prYqeNuhA
11 days ago
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Iām glad that Foxit (pdf editor) exists because Acrobat made their menus so bonkers that itās not worth my time to figure out how to do basic tasks. If I can ever find a substitute for Audition, Iāll ditch Adobe altogether. But, Auditionās wav editor is crucial to how I work.
11 days ago
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You second place White Sox.
11 days ago
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Patrick Chovanec
11 days ago
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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George Wallace
12 days ago
Well, at least the next elections will be clear as hell. Has your ass embraced white supremacy or hasn't it?
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I am pleased that they got so many of the original actors to do voices for the Lego Star Wars rebuild the galaxy show.
12 days ago
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Adapt or die
13 days ago
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Wait, we had a guy named Squirrel White on the team?
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13 days ago
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Weāre going to be super close to this painting on our vacationātempting to take a detourā¦.
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14 days ago
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My wife is a pretty good mom.
15 days ago
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Hereās my mom interrupting Steve Stoneās poolside reading.
#HappyMothersDay
15 days ago
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It kinda seems like humans, as a rule, donāt learn lessons.
16 days ago
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Patrick Ness
16 days ago
Jeesh, never underestimate how much white people donāt want to share, I guess.
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