Shirtless Jay

I'm Jay. I'm gay. I'm shirtless every day.

I work in and around #tech and play with #geek-y #gadgets

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😈 He/himbo/daddy. Sometimes #NSFW so be 18+

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Website: https://shirtlessjay.com
Partner: ☰ (npub18zh…jkrf)
Location: 🌞 Diego

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2025-04-04 19:00:21 UTC

I work with someone who, where us goofy Americans would probably use the phrase "you guys" or "you all," instead uses the phrase "you people." And while that's perfectly fine and obvs more inclusive than "you guys," it always sounds vaguely threatening when he says something like "you people are going to do this..." But he's like the least threatening person you could know, so it's like COMICALLY threatening when he says it 😄

2025-04-03 17:41:24 UTC

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Anyway, new rear fender flares should be here Saturday but I need to replace the fender flare liners first and those won't be here until Sunday. So can't wait until Sunday to see what else can go wrong 😁

2025-04-03 17:39:54 UTC

Well, the Jeep passenger tail light assembly has been swapped out, which is phase 1 of 3 for Jeep fixes. Here's me thinking "this will take 5 minutes, there's only 2 screws to remove and then swap out the blind spot sensor which is only a few more screws" but of course the damaged tail light assembly didn't want to let go of the blind spot sensor and then when I finally was able to break it free and mount the new assembly, one of the factory screws wouldn't fit and had to dig out a replacement.

2025-04-02 04:37:13 UTC

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I see you got some other recommendations for RØDE, and I am also a fan of their mics. While I don't have this particular model myself, I would look at their NT-USB+ mic that can plug directly into a phone for recording as long as your phone has a USB C port. If you have an older iPhone with Lightning, you'll need a different cable than what's included. The RØDE brand cable is model SC19.

2025-04-01 22:46:09 UTC

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It's ridiculous and amazing and ahead of its time. Probably because Ryan Murphy tried to do every idea in one show, lol. It ended too soon after only 2 seasons ☹️

2025-04-01 22:23:21 UTC

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This was his very first, and his BEST show. Like, every show he's done since has just been a show based on something he did in this show.

2025-04-01 16:58:54 UTC

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Takes one to know one.

2025-04-01 16:42:57 UTC

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Himbo.

2025-03-31 23:18:28 UTC

My Jeep was hit while I was driving to work last July by a commercial box truck (his fault) and it entirely ripped off my passenger side rear fender flare and inner fender liner, plus cracked the side of the tail light (in addition to some body damage to the rear, but nothing that impacts any functionality). Anyway, I am just now getting around to ordering parts to fix shit so I won't be driving around with a missing fender flare if that tells you how life has been going, lol.

2025-03-31 19:53:04 UTC

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Eli will be along shortly to have your head

2025-03-31 19:24:43 UTC

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How long do you wait for it to cool because @npub18zh…jkrf makes us wait, I swear, a week*
* +/- 6 days

2025-03-31 02:08:52 UTC

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Eh, just the usual throwing of panties at guys over on the skeet site.

2025-03-31 02:07:44 UTC

I see y'all talking about the inaccuracy of the size of plane that would be flying into Palm Springs, but @npub18zh…jkrf over here just recovered from a minor stroke after them having the same persimmons sitting on the dining room table for seven episodes.

2025-03-31 01:58:16 UTC

As a self-proclaimed basic white gay, it still amazes me how much other white gays will absolutely lose their shit for the most basic ever of the basic white gays.

2025-03-31 00:56:46 UTC

I don't remember hearing/seeing "disappeared" being used as a transitive verb until the last, I dunno, few years or so? Maybe it's been a bit longer because our timeline hasn't really seemed since pre-2016. But even though I know it's not incorrect, it still just short circuits my brain a little ("they disappeared her...").

2025-03-29 23:36:19 UTC

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2025-03-29 18:31:28 UTC

Sigh... It bothers me that these X-Sense smoke detectors that seem like they would be a good fit for what I want are neither UL listed or ETL approved, so they haven't been tested by an independent third party. I would much rather spend more $$ to go with a brand that is ETL approved, so I guess I'm going to pre-order one of the First Alert Nest Protect replacements and see how that works. My current Nest Protects start expiring in August, the last of the five I have in use going out in October.

2025-03-29 14:42:45 UTC

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I don't see anything here about pancakes or waffles so I assume you must be against both.

2025-03-29 00:52:07 UTC

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Those are the Seagate Exos, right? Mine don't have a lot of space in my rack mount Synology to be able to echo, but I do hear them thunking away when I'm sitting at my desk and the nas is busy doing nas things, since it's right next to me. I actually like the sound though, so it's a bonus feature for me 😁 Reminds me a little of my first computer that had a 40 meg Seagate MFM drive. Talk about thunking!! 🤣

2025-03-29 00:43:30 UTC

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Seriously tho, since it's hard to tell from a recording, is it that loud just coming out of the case? Or does it being on a wood floor amplify it?

2025-03-29 00:38:56 UTC

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No, no. That's just...
https://shirtlessgay001.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/242/927/193/007/630/original/cf5fe5a93ad7fb19.mp4

2025-03-29 00:15:06 UTC

I know given the current state of things getting worse throughout the world that we are all riddled with anxiety and generally on edge, but fuck... the fedi has just felt extra condescending, dismissive and/or insulting lately.

2025-03-28 23:56:25 UTC

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Yeah, I'm trying to confirm that this specific model is UL listed or ETL approved. All I am finding is their individual smoke alarms and CO alarms are, not the combination ones. So that's concerning...

2025-03-28 23:47:10 UTC

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I have seen those, but have not found them for sale in the US. I'm not sure if they are approved here?

2025-03-28 23:34:10 UTC

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Oh damn, I just noticed that bundle is sold out on the X-Sense site. Amazon has them for $169 right now. Booooo. But, yeah, they are battery operated and still waaaaaaay cheaper than others.

2025-03-28 23:32:34 UTC

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I have this Ecolink firefighter Zigbee thing that listens for a smoke detector and CO alarm and will give me alerts through Hubitat for that, but it has to be within a few inches of a detector to work. That's part of why I want to have interconnected ones, so they all go off and the Ecolink gets triggered. That's my worst case scenario for smart integrations.

2025-03-28 23:16:06 UTC

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X-Sense ones seem to be a popular brand of smart ones, but theirs are weird because they have all these different models. They have ones that are WiFi and don't require a hub, but they aren't interconnected at all. If you want ones that are interconnected (one goes off, they all go off, they have a voice that announces location), then they require a hub. The FirstAlert ones replacing Nest Protect don't need a hub, but they're also $129 each and X-Sense sells 3+the hub for that price

2025-03-28 22:03:13 UTC

Ugh. I don't want WiFi smoke detectors. I don't want smoke detectors that require a separate hub. I want Zigbee or Z-Wave smoke detectors that can talk to each other and that also don't false alarm or generally act stupid as fuck. Such a thing does not seem to exist. So am I going to be stuck with these new First Alert overpriced WiFi ones, or the cheaper X-Sense that do WiFi but through their own hub? Each of which will require me to have another app on my phone. So stupid.

2025-03-28 15:56:38 UTC

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Still not as bad as back in the day when I worked at a place that allowed expense reports to be submitted on a spreadsheet, except for charges that had been billed directly to the company, which we had to itemize on a separate report even though we weren't being reimbursed for them, and that report had to be PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER and submitted via interoffice mail, lol.

2025-03-28 15:51:21 UTC

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My last company once hassled me about a $4 bottle of water I purchased at my hotel. Not because it cost $4--and that was actually the ONLY food expense I was submitting for that trip (we were allowed $75 per day for food)--but because the itemized receipt I had for it was my hotel bill since it was charged to my room. It was itemized on the hotel bill as a $4 bottle of water, but they insisted I needed to have a SEPARATE itemized receipt from my hotel bill for it to be correct.

2025-03-28 15:48:08 UTC

My current company is extremely good at approving and paying expense reports very quickly--the one I submitted at the end of the day Wednesday was already deposited in my account this morning. But I still get such anxiety any time I have to submit one because of prior companies that were just awful about nitpicking things that were submitted fully in accordance with policy and procedure but would say shit like "that's not really how it should be done / the policy doesn't actually mean that."

2025-03-28 15:05:15 UTC

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You'll end us all.

2025-03-27 02:56:04 UTC

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I'm liking this for the 🏳️‍🌈 not the 🔥

2025-03-26 01:44:50 UTC

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2025-03-26 01:23:35 UTC

There's an "accent challenge" going around Bluesky, I'm sure this is being used to train an AI somewhere on impersonating my voice. But I used to do a podcast and my voice is prob also everywhere from random videos so whatevs 😁
Aunt, route, wash, oil, theater, iron, salmon, caramel, fire, water, sure, data, ruin, crayon, toilet, New Orleans, pecan, both, again, probably, spitting image, Alabama, lawyer, coupon, mayonnaise, syrup, pajamas, caught.
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2025-03-25 21:51:04 UTC

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I can play washboard (abs)

2025-03-25 20:38:36 UTC

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And not just a Big Boi, but a Big Boi with gay disco lighting!!
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2025-03-25 18:33:18 UTC

From bsky: "A himbo wearing glasses is called artificial intelligence."
Me: <checks notes> Accurate.
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2025-03-24 19:24:31 UTC

So many selfies to take, so little time.

2025-03-21 19:33:58 UTC

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah I have loved Chris Gorham since I first saw him in Ryan Murphy's first show Popular, and also how did I not know that Becky Newton is married to Chris Diamantopoulos who played my favorite character on Silcon Valley?!?!
https://youtu.be/CkGsUXa1zTc?si=bOc6ulBAL3aAWbTe

2025-03-19 02:55:21 UTC

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I love you to hate me

2025-03-19 02:23:13 UTC

When your 🧠 has just given up, but, protein, so this is dinner
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2025-03-19 01:29:14 UTC

Oh, shit, right... #TittyTuesday
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2025-03-15 04:38:36 UTC

Jfc do comedians not realize when it comes to making a trans joke they could just... not?

2025-03-14 01:28:36 UTC

Okay I'll stop now and just take off my pants or something.

2025-03-11 17:56:42 UTC

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Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyoufuckyoufuckyou errrr, I mean, sounds delicious but I'm totally fine over here with my tasty carbless protein shakes and air.

2025-03-11 16:03:28 UTC

iPhone users... need some help. I am not an iOS guy at all.
On Android, with Google Photos, there is an option to "free up space on this device" that will delete any photos & videos from your device that are backed up to Google Photos (cloud).
Does iOS not have a similar thing? All I'm finding is that if you delete photos from your device, they also delete from iCloud. There isn't a "keep in iCloud not on device" option?

2025-03-11 01:48:41 UTC

Everyone likes a good 🍄, right?
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2025-03-10 16:46:01 UTC

Ugh. Forgot I have to talk to people in 15 minutes.

2025-03-03 19:02:35 UTC

Ffs I am so sick of the words "falsehood" and "gaslighting"

2025-03-03 18:04:09 UTC

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Yeah, so she is whomst, then? @npub1dwy…wjdu

2025-03-02 18:38:13 UTC

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Ahhhhhh TikTok won't let him do live video (audio only) because he needs to have 1000 followers to do video, even as a guest on someone else's live. That's stupid.

2025-03-02 18:31:44 UTC

A certain baker that you may recognize ( @npub18zh…jkrf ) is doing a TikTok live with a fellow baker 😁
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT29eYPFX/

2025-02-28 18:47:34 UTC

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You still get points for correctly referring to it as an initialism and not an acronym 😁

2025-02-28 01:04:11 UTC

This show Running P🏀int on Netflix is kinda okay because it's got some really good actors but uuuuuuuugghhhhhhh why Chet fucking Hanks 🤮

2025-02-27 19:36:06 UTC

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Lol, yeah, the first pair I looked at that were $6 I said to Eli "yeah, except my prescription prob won't fit in these" and sure as shit they would not. I just need a cheap af pair to wear mainly when I'm at my computer at home and the contacts are giving me a headache from switching eyes going between sides of my huge monitor, and then the smaller ones. I do monovision contacts, left eye for near, right for distance. Can be headache-inducing when at my multitude of screens.

2025-02-27 19:23:46 UTC

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Wow, really? I legit found a $6 pair of frames there that I like, but with my -4.25/-5.75 single-vision, basic, no-add-ons lenses, they are $115.95. There was a $20 off coupon, plus $7 shipping, so still a little pricier than Warby Parker's flat $95.

2025-02-27 19:02:53 UTC

Alright, well, across the three sites I checked, prices all seemed to be roughly the same at about $95 for the general style of glasses I was looking for. So I went with Warby Parker and what I believe are these same ones that I tried on from them 8 years ago, so I already have a pic 😁 Sorry for the shirtedness, tho.
https://shirtlessgay001.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/077/382/345/044/137/original/23cdfd833d90d251.jpg

2025-02-27 18:55:46 UTC

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The was actually the first site I was looking at.

2025-02-27 18:40:46 UTC

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🤣 I do like how I look in glasses, I just hate wearing them most of the time because I'm always so oily and/or sweaty so I'm constantly having to clean the frames and lenses. Granted, contacts are almost as awful but at least I can just throw them away at the end of every day 😁

2025-02-27 16:52:32 UTC

Me in glasses for reference 🤓
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2025-02-27 16:36:15 UTC

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I mean, they're *all* fucking Luxottica at this point, right?

2025-02-27 16:35:13 UTC

Where do you all buy glasses from online? As much as I love my eye doc, the last time I bought glasses from his shop, the optician who so politely told me I had selected a pair of frames from a "more economical line" still ended up having me walk out of there spending over $800. I just need cheap and fast, really, since I'm majority contact lens wearer.

2025-02-25 21:21:12 UTC

I got one of these. I have no idea what I'm going to use it for. But it seemed like a nifty idea at the time when I clicked the buy button 😁
It's open source and you can host your own server to run it from, so there's that. For now I guess it'll show my Google calendar. Or grayscale dick pics. Ya know, whichever.
https://usetrmnl.com/

2025-02-25 20:53:19 UTC

Let's be honest, the real benefit of working from home is being able to scream I HATE YOU ALL several times a day without getting called into HR.
Well, that and the no pants thing.

2025-02-25 20:05:01 UTC

Saw on Reddit kid asking why their teacher had them take an envelope with a blank paper on a "special mission" to another teacher... consensus was prob the kid needed a little time-out away from the teacher/class...
Anyway, reminded me of in jr high my Spanish teacher once handed me a 60 watt light bulb and asked me to take it to the German teacher, who had me take it to the French teacher, then back to Spanish. That was their signal that Ms. Watt, their dept head, was seen in the building 🤣

2025-02-23 22:33:11 UTC

🎶 Protein in the morning, protein in the evenin', protein at suppertime! When protein's all you eat, you can eat protein anytime!" 🎶

2025-02-23 18:25:52 UTC

I haven't shopped at Target in months and don't have any plans to, but I haven't bothered closing my Target card account, and I just got this fascinating email that says...
"The Target Circle™ Card account management system will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance period from March 11 at 11:00pm CT to March 18 at 12:00am CT."
They are taking the website down for an ENTIRE WEEK lol lolololol. Like what in the actual fuck?? And "you can call us for critical things but expect to wait..."

2025-02-23 18:11:06 UTC

Beat the absolute everfucking shit out of my chest and abs to where there's not even anything left to take a pic of.

2025-02-18 22:23:25 UTC

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write smaller

2025-02-17 16:57:34 UTC

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hmmmm, stuff's still working, guess I better try harder next time.
Have to regenerate my DigitalOcean Spaces storage access keys. I was looking at them and trying to understand why I would have created keys for each of my fediverse apps, but then given all the keys access to all of the storage buckets instead of just their own bucket. Until I just found out that DigitalOcean didn't allow per bucket access keys until last month, lol. And you can't just edit existing keys that have all access.

2025-02-17 16:50:22 UTC

brb, gotta go break some stuff

2025-02-17 04:49:17 UTC

But was it a prosthetic?

2025-02-16 22:00:53 UTC

I'm so confused by this movie The Gorge because there are parts where I think it's the actual actors but they look like CGI versions of the actors. Is this a movie or a collection of video game cut scenes?
To be fair, I haven't been watching the whole thing tho, just jumping in and out as Eli has been watching it.

2025-02-15 21:00:31 UTC

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The reason I don't run on a treadmill at all anymore is because of the way my knees sound going down stairs, which is...
https://shirtlessgay001.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/009/909/109/769/152/original/a09087717d886cff.mp4

2025-02-15 18:52:02 UTC

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I highly doubt you are anywhere near the level of stomping this small woman is capable of. It defies the laws of physics.

2025-02-15 18:21:30 UTC

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Only if @npub18zh…jkrf accompanies on the piano. And does the singing 🤣

2025-02-15 18:17:25 UTC

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(be glad I didn't sing this in a video like I was originally going to)

2025-02-15 18:16:51 UTC

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🎶 Happy, happy birthday, from Shirtless Jay to you! Happy, happy birthday, now you get shirtless, too! 🎶

2025-02-15 16:54:01 UTC

Ugh, treadmill stomper just arrived at the gym.

2025-02-15 02:43:18 UTC

People on Reddit losing their shit 'cause Navy Fed was having issues this afternoon and when they called they were told "we are doing a system update" and they think a system update should have been better planned and kids... I have news for you: it's NEVER a "system update." That's always customer service speak for "our shit's down and we don't know why or when or even if it will be fixed."

2025-02-13 23:17:28 UTC

I bought this duct fan with a WiFi controller to help with a solution for us to get outside air circulating thru our place, and I plugged in the controller and was like WTF is the "AI" looking indicator in the corner, and then realized, oh it's probably just for "AC Infinity," the brand of this thing.
And then I realized this is actually an upgraded controller from what was pictured in what I ordered, and found out that the "AI" looking thing actually DOES mean "AI" and I can't even anymore...
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2025-02-11 18:51:54 UTC

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It's a good thing I'm never thinking these days.

2025-02-11 05:10:35 UTC

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No, just our phalluses.

2025-02-09 00:17:37 UTC

Say hi to the cutest lil fediverse server 😁
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2025-02-08 22:40:19 UTC

Did you miss me?

2025-02-08 14:10:01 UTC

Currently debating whether I want to keep Pixelfed and PeerTube....

2025-02-08 13:29:18 UTC

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Thanks for sharing. Yeah, I've actually been running WordPress with activitypub for a couple of years now, not that I'm really actively using it. WordPress--which I've used off and on for stuff for, ya know, ever--has always felt overkill and kinda bloated for what I probably need. And Matt Mullenweg at Automattic has seemingly gone off the deep end, which has left kind of a bad taste. So I've been thinking about another option, hopefully to get myself to use it more 😁

2025-02-08 02:21:39 UTC

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd now I'm down the rabbit hole of just moving our Mastodon instance from DigitalOcean to my own locally hosted box...

2025-02-07 23:00:07 UTC

I want to try out Ghost CMS but I'm struggling to see if they actually have any ActivityPub integration right now. It seems like it's still not a released thing? But maybe my search abilities are failing me.
Or maybe it doesn't even matter and I should just post links to blog posts here and not worry about a separate fediverse/activitypub address for the blog?
I'm looking to simplify/consolidate what I'm hosting for my "social media" / web presence. Ghost seems maybe better than WordPress.

2025-02-07 22:53:04 UTC

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Before he retired from it some years ago, my dad worked in radio, at stations across a number of different formats. But the oldies station was the longest, so, yeah, lots of 60s and 70s stuff, specifically 😁

2025-02-07 22:21:19 UTC

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We have a couple of Citizen Echo Wall Clocks that use Bluetooth to connect to an Amazon Echo device and they are nice, but I hate that they don't have second hands and require Bluetooth vs WiFi, even tho I understand why from a power usage perspective since they sync with the Echo for timers and notifications. I also wish they were bigger. But, yeah, a standalone WiFi clock that syncs time a couple of times a day seems like a no-brainer.

2025-02-07 21:38:52 UTC

Every time I see a mention of Abracadabra, this gets stuck in my head...
https://youtu.be/tY8B0uQpwZs?si=vOahurMNzv6GGTbi

2025-02-07 20:23:27 UTC

We need a much bigger selection of WiFi-connected analog clocks in the world.

2025-02-03 23:04:53 UTC

There are just so many wonderful things to be annoyed by anymore I don't even know where to begin being annoyed.
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2025-02-03 22:51:49 UTC

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Look at those doughnussies!!

2025-01-26 20:17:37 UTC

Anyway, I mention this really only as a PSA to anyone else who might think they can still keep their same pricing if they are getting a workplace discount.
https://shirtless.gay/@jay/113896348989657846

2025-01-25 01:30:32 UTC

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The ones I think are really stupid are the ones that come across as mildly threatening like "Look, Jay, we need to make this meeting happen. What's stopping you from taking action now? You don't want this to be my last email."

2025-01-23 22:27:30 UTC

Was looking into using rss-bridge as a way to bring Instagram feeds of businesses I'd like to keep up with into something like FreshRSS, but realized that's not gonna work because some of those businesses have 18+ pages that require you to be logged in to view. Boo.

2025-01-20 00:54:28 UTC

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Ooooooof. Here's hoping you're feeling better soon