Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

Writer, editor, multimediator, bad cartoonist. The chip in my head is BBQ-flavored. who/whom pixel-stained-wretch.com Santa Monica, CA Joined October 2008

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

@mcelhearn Eat the rich? Nah...WAYYYY too fatty, and full of impurities. And have you ever tried to clean one?!

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

@HNTurtledove “Just then, the acid kicked in.”

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

@TidBITS No, I have someone else designated to use them for me.😏

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

@HNTurtledove “Emergency! Paging Dr. Pimple Popper!!!”

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

After 75 years, my mother has canceled her subscription to the L.A. Times. She’s disappointed in the declining quality of its sports coverage.

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Elizabeth Rambo @elrambo

3 years ago

Novelists and other authors fighting AI: npr.org/2023/07/17/118…

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

I hear people touting air fryers ALL the time and I just don’t get the appeal. Have you ever tried to BREATHE fried air?

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

@HNTurtledove “No, I didn’t hear a rattle…”

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

Sometimes when I happen upon the acronym “AI” in print, my inner reader voice at first pronounces it as a cry of panic, as in, “AI!! A balrog!!!”

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

Today’s Specious Truism: If working from home were all that great, every baseball player would want to be a catcher.

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TidBITS @TidBITS

3 years ago

Two-Factor Authentication, Two-Step Verification, and 1Password tidbits.com/2023/07/10/two…

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Victor Laszlo @Impolitics

3 years ago

The Supreme Court is taking the summer off after a series of rulings that repealed the 20th century. It's the legal equivalent of a mass murderer pausing to reload.

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

Revised downward to a 3.8 magnitude quake.

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

Woke me up: a 4.1 temblor off of Malibu. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…

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Total student loan debt that would have been erased for millions of Americans: $400 billion Total cost of the Trump tax cuts that largely benefited the wealthy and corporations: $1.9 trillion This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

One believes that today’s Supreme Court decision about affirmative action will do as much to promote civil amity in the U.S. as did the Dred Scott decision.

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

@jblanton The deal is the site designers not silently prepending the word “good” before the phrase “user experience.”

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3 years ago

I have to say that lately I’ve been enjoying the elephant ancestor site much more than the dinosaur descendant site.

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

@HNTurtledove Fig. A: bird-brain.

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Michael E. Cohen, a pixel-stained wretch🆒 @lymond

3 years ago

Everywhere north of the equator is going to experience continually lessening amounts of daylight every day for the next six months, starting today, because of orbital mechanics and planetary axial tilt. EVERYBODY PANIC!!