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@stux I got a 200 dollar Huawei phone for the remainder of the contract and that thing remains one of the best smartphones I ever had. I should have done that first time around, rather than playing the ripoff handset game where you give 1000 dollars to some cunting telco for a service they barely provide

@stux The whole thing is an anti-consumer racket.

@stux So I paid about $200 because that was the deductible and fuck the customer. 2 months later, a framed picture fell of the wall and landed squarely on the phone, puncturing the screen. I could not claim again as 'too many claims' anyway this the story of how AT&T lost a customer

@stux I had a Samsung S3 that died just out of warranty; AT&T asked me to handle it as an insurance claim. I protested this was not an insurance matter but they said it was only way forward.

Our rescue came home a year ago today. He's a crazy little thing

@calculsoberic@mstdn.social Why does the slowly sinking chat window make me laugh so much

@waves@liminalisland.xyz "JOKES I didn't really want you to. I SAID I DIDN'T, JFC ABRAHAM"

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I’m realizing that growing up as a wired magazine-reading cyberpunk believer— a kid who thought adbusters and the internet could save the world— and then watching as every technological miracle was turned not towards revolution or saving humanity but instead more pernicious and intractable methods of exploitation has made me uncomfortable with technological optimism. “assume all new technology will be used against you” —

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On #gravy #trains.

I imagine a 20 tonne side loading coal wagon but filled with delicious gravy. And then I imagine 80 more of them. They come past my door where I have a wall of mashed potato and a giant crane with a gravy bucket on it to pour over my mashed spuds. I also have a ball pool but it’s full of peas instead and my entire front yard is laden with delicious slices of roast NZ lamb.

That’s my idea of a gravy train and nobody gonna stop me.

Givendale Church, in the Yorkshire Wolds. I lived a couple of miles from here as a teenager, and used to bike up here. It was a mean climb. Didn't appreciate it then. Took this on my HTC Desire in May 2011.

The same a year earlier. You can see the work was necessary.

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The GP-9 locomotive that is permanent resident at Horseshoe Curve PA, during restoration and a new coat of paint. The grey primer made me think think of a glitch in reality where it was untextured.

@h_thoreson I thought the name had a Scandinavian ring to it!

@thatbrickster@shitposter.club "Hy lets meme like its 2013!!"

"P.S. you're all fired"

@thatbrickster@shitposter.club It's just sad at this point

@jwildeboer The one thing I really dislike about blogs is the SEO practice of very long preamble, it can be 500 words before you even get into anything.

In the car and Taylor Swift's 'All Too Well' comes on, my son from the back seat murmurs "More like All Too Long".

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