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There are warnings of gales in Trafalgar.
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social 5 item lists. 7 song play lists. You are a very odd man
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@agiletortoise@mastodon.social Greg, prime numbers made my career. I knew the most interesting number of folders plus some very compelling ordered lists of surprising hacks.
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social I guess zero is even. So you’ve got that.
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I had not thought of this!
I should get an actual job probably.
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Greg, prime numbers made my career.
I knew the most interesting number of folders plus some very compelling ordered lists of surprising hacks.
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Feb 25, 2026
J.D. Vance looks like an elderly pug struggling to remember whether it recently ate a washcloth.
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Feb 21, 2026
Childhood is complicated and very important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Hd3uWKFKY
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Fun Fact: There’s a “Paris, Texas” and they just pronounce it normally. There’s also an “Italy, Texas” which they choose to pronounce “it-lee”
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Feb 07, 2026
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If memory serves, that's also how Sgt. Hulka said it.
"Welcome to IT-lee, gentlemen."
(Sgt. Hulka was their "Big Toe")
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Feb 01, 2026
If you zoom way in, you can see my wife in the "H."
She's very cool, and I like her.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-protest-ice-human-banner-ocean-beach/
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social At the record store I worked at in HS we wrote out everything the person bought on a receipt pad with a carbon copy, added it up on and calculated tax on a ten key, and
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@agiletortoise@mastodon.social Oh, Greg. He had "A System" didn't he? I'll bet he had a system, and I'll bet his name was either Randy or Todd or Tyler or some shit like 'Antioch.' In ways those peopl
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social I don’t feel like there’s ever a single owner of these systems. They are living, breathing things that propagate themselves. But I blame James Brown. Legend has it he wa
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Feb 01, 2026
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Greg, the terrible thing in life is that everybody has their reasons for their system. (The Rules of the Game, 1939)
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social I’m old enough to remember working at places with very analog systems and sometimes I miss them.
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@agiletortoise@mastodon.social The couples, Greg. The couples.
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Jan 31, 2026
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Oh, Greg. He had "A System" didn't he?
I'll bet he had a system, and I'll bet his name was either Randy or Todd or Tyler or some shit like 'Antioch.'
In ways those people can definitionally never understand, whenever normal people hear "My System," they can safely assume it's made of utterly random and confident hillbilly cocaine.
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social I’m old enough to remember working at places with very analog systems and sometimes I miss them.
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The couples, Greg. The couples.
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Jan 31, 2026
Although, this one also fucked up me and two of my friends super bad ca. 1984.
In-Joke Catchphrase: "Antelope. Gorn."
Good, woody words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-51DhOzHE
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social “Dear Claude, wouldn’t it be cool if we were also the first pull request?”
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Jan 27, 2026
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"Tell the anecdote about how we love Drafts and the MCP is already working great but then you prompted me to be Greg's First Issue. 100 words please."
#GregsFirstIssue
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"Can I get a Siracusa wobble?"
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social i remember when life was full of mysteries
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Jan 22, 2026
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And this gem just came up in my recommendations
https://youtu.be/nlaoR5m4L80?si=2ID5kmrK5pTYn8U6
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social I don’t even charge for the rabbit holes. I just give them away
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@agiletortoise@mastodon.social Money on the table.
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social Was that just stock Claude Code, or did you install one of the AppleScript MCPs?
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Jan 20, 2026
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I don't think I did.
But as Simon W recently pointed out, oh boy does this thing ever get into the good stuff.
AMA
https://gist.github.com/merlinmann/e3895000d9f6787a517fd128cf08e21a
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Jan 20, 2026
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Money on the table.
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I just conquered the worst escape room ever! Er, I mean I actually navigated through the Amazon customer service labyrinth to get to an actual chat with a person.
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I had one these drum machines in the 80s. The flap with the instructions was so cool.
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Jan 12, 2026
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This is weirdly moving, Greg.
I swear to God, it is.
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I feel like if Nathan Fielder and Tim Robinson ever did a show together it would create some sort of potentially deadly singularity.
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Dec 28, 2025
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Oh man. We should hold off on this happening until we're ready – I mean really ready – to know the truth.
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social my elementary school bought a VCR none of the adults knew what to do with ~78. My friends and I recorded Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica on it and watched them in t
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social ain’t no party like a Gen X party
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…because a Gen X party is all, "Whatever."
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social my elementary school bought a VCR none of the adults knew what to do with ~78. My friends and I recorded Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica on it and watched them in t
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@agiletortoise@mastodon.social That must have felt incredible.
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social If you don’t actually talk about Buck Rogers in this episode, I’m going to be sad.
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And yet merely a vessel for the doctor.
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It goes several places. As usual.
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