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Skeletor says, "Nothing is normal and no one is okay. You're doing great."
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Skeletor says, "Nothing is normal and no one is okay. You're doing great."
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dphiffer

redirects cheat sheet

cmd > file.txt
cmd >> file.txt
cmd < file.txt
cmd 2> file.txt
cmd > file.txt 2>&1
cmd1 | cmd2
cmd1 2>&1 | cmd2

three gotchas:

1. cmd file.txt > file.txt  will delete the contents of file.txt

some people use set -o noclobber (in bash/zsh) to avoid this

But I just have "never read from and redirect to the same file" seared into my memory.

2. sudo echo blah > /root/file.txt doesn't write to /root/file.txt as root. Instead, do:

echo blah | sudo tee /root/file.txt

or

sudo sh -c 'echo blah > /root/file.txt'

3. cmd 2>&1 > file.txt  doesn't write both stdout and stderr to file.txt. Instead, do:

cmd > file.txt 2>&1

panel 3: cat vs <

I almost always prefer to do:

cat file.txt | cmd

instead of

cmd < file.txt

it usually works fine & it feels better to me

using cat can be slower if it's a GIANT file though

panel 4: &> and &|

some shells support &> and &| to redirect/pipe both stdout and stderr

(also some shells use |& instead of &|)
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cmd > file.txt
cmd >> file.txt
cmd < file.txt
cmd 2> file.txt
cmd > file.txt 2>&1
cmd1 | cmd2
cmd1 2>&1 | cmd2

three gotchas:

1. cmd file.txt > file.txt will delete the contents of file.txt

some people use set -o noclobber (in bash/zsh) to avoid this

But I just have "never read from and redirect to the same file" seared into my memory.

2. sudo echo blah > /root/file.txt doesn't write to /root/file.txt as root. Instead, do:

echo blah | sudo tee /root/file.txt

or

sudo sh -c 'echo blah > /root/file.txt'

3. cmd 2>&1 > file.txt doesn't write both stdout and stderr to file.txt. Instead, do:

cmd > file.txt 2>&1

panel 3: cat vs <

I almost always prefer to do:

cat file.txt | cmd

instead of

cmd < file.txt

it usually works fine & it feels better to me

using cat can be slower if it's a GIANT file though

panel 4: &> and &|

some shells support &> and &| to redirect/pipe both stdout and stderr

(also some shells use |& instead of &|)
source: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk...
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cmayes 2 hours ago
Julia's cheat sheets are excellent.
bezt pro 2 hours ago
yay new b0rk!
jennifer13

Chain mail coat and gloves, 19th c Japan

Not all samurai during the Edo period (1603–1868) wore suits of armor. Some, like rōnin who were not in the employment of a lord or samurai police officials in the large cities like Edo, today’s Tokyo, wore chain mail (kusari) for protection. This is a matching set of chain mail jacket (kusari katabira) and gloves (kusari han kote). The linked chain is attached on layers of indigo dyed cloth, decorated with family crests in gold. The collar was once furnished with hexagon shaped iron plates (kikkō) that are now lost.
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Not all samurai during the Edo period (1603–1868) wore suits of armor. Some, like rōnin who were not in the employment of a lord or samurai police officials in the large cities like Edo, today’s Tokyo, wore chain mail (kusari) for protection. This is a matching set of chain mail jacket (kusari katabira) and gloves (kusari han kote). The linked chain is attached on layers of indigo dyed cloth, decorated with family crests in gold. The collar was once furnished with hexagon shaped iron plates (kikkō) that are now lost.
source: https://collections.artsmia.org/art...

Iron, cloth, leather
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frothywalrus 6 hours ago
That man is ready to handle a baked potato
cottenwess 4 hours ago
@frothywalrus or bathe a cat
joffaboy

Lynda

Trump quoted - we have planes that are undetectable flying around.
Quoted by Lynda Carter - I assure you, none of them are mine
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Trump quoted - we have planes that are undetectable flying around.
Quoted by Lynda Carter - I assure you, none of them are mine
https://bsky.app/profile...
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cwhartman

Hanging out with The Autopian

Nissan NV200 van that has seen many better days in NYC taxi livery, complete with dents and multiple improvised repairs.
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Nissan NV200 van that has seen many better days in NYC taxi livery, complete with dents and multiple improvised repairs.
Not sure if there are any fans here of The Autopian, but a dozen or so of us readers got to hang out will Jason, Matt, and Griffin yesterday evening as they drive their $800, 375,000 mile salvage ex-NYC cab project car across the country. I’ve been following the disaster of a project for months as they resurrected it from dead. The cab was absolutely as janky as expected, and the Autopian crew were great.

https://www.theautopian.com/tag...

(Side note - the taxi had a working meter programmed with current rates. A cab ride from NYC to Columbus would run you roughly $2880.)

Update: I'm (kind of) on The Autopian! https://www.theautopian.com/taxi-tre...
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jive_t pro 8 hours ago
Cool, I wasn’t aware of this and will enjoy catching up. Jason and I live in the same town and have crossed paths a few times. No surprise he’s a really nice person.
cwhartman pro 8 hours ago
@jive_t He really was. It's nice when the people whose work you've been reading for years turn out to be exactly like you expected.
MackReed pro 8 hours ago
Longtime fan. They’re my kind of car nerds.
cwhartman pro 7 hours ago
@MackReed It's pretty amazing what they've built with that site, but they have definitely put in the work. Independent journalism in the internet age at its finest!
bug138 7 hours ago
I’m a sucker for a fix-it story
ardgedee pro 6 hours ago
@jive_t Oh wild, where in NC? I'm always impressed by the famous people who live in Durham that I've never, ever crossed paths with. That I know of. I'm pretty nearly celebrity-blind. Despite being a fan of Superchunk for decades, my wife had to point Mac McCaughan out to me when we attended one of the Mergefests. He was working the gate and took our tickets. He's also, like, 6'4".
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MackReed

bob?

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ardgedee pro 3 hours ago
Missing: DC
me3dia pro 3 hours ago
Californian, Mississippian and Missourian are both labeled "an," against all evidence. I'd also argue that New Jerseyan is phonetically an "ian."
jpoulos pro 3 hours ago
Hawaiian is an ethnicity, then? So we don't use it for residents?
travis pro 3 hours ago
Illinois is quite the outlier
poorusher an hour ago
Hoozhurr
m3moellering an hour ago
@travis But I’ve never heard the ess pronounced.
@poorusher Them’s fightin’ words in Missouri
homerj an hour ago
I agree, DC should be a state by now.
kokogiak 37 minutes ago
I do think that "Masshole" is more apt than "Massachusettsan"... said as a proud Masshole.
0y3ahSansAcut3 11 minutes ago
It's Utahan.
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LocalStain

And my axe...

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joffaboy

Sunspots and ISS

Very detailed image of the Sun's surface showing sunspots and Space Station silhouetted
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Very detailed image of the Sun's surface showing sunspots and Space Station silhouetted
Andrew McCarthy captured the moment the International Space Station passed across our sun.

https://bsky.app/profile...

See also https://mltshp.com/p/1R3QW
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Kevin

48 Bomba

1948 Chevy Stylemaster coupe, white body with baby blue roof & trim. The car has a sun shield that slides forward off the roof acting like a baseball cap.
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1948 Chevy Stylemaster coupe, white body with baby blue roof & trim. The car has a sun shield that slides forward off the roof acting like a baseball cap.
Source: https://www.kansascity.com/news...

1948 Chevy Stylemaster coupe, owned by Monica Pena, first female president of the KC Estilo Car Club.

I’m not good at describing cars so if anyone has a better alt text I’ll add it.
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MackReed pro 8 hours ago
¡Que guapo!
carnivorouskale

Cracked Glass & Old Radio Sermons is one of my favorite Tom Waits songs

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ba pro 4 hours ago
Nope, that's perfect!
MackReed pro 3 hours ago
Saved to /ai because, well, I mean
bencmeissner pro 3 hours ago
When your boss is the AI agent that replaced much of the staff, this tracks.
snarkout

Vinyl Ink

Newspaper ad for Silver Spring, MD's "Vinyl Ink: The Record Store! Specializing in New & Used LP's & 45's". Its logo is an LP dripping, inkblot-like, from a fountain pen. A person with spiky hair in black shirt and patched jeans is dancing to music on their turntable, surrounded by LPs from Siouxie and the Banshees, the Beatles, the Damned, Springsteen, Joy Division, Madness, and the Cure.
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Newspaper ad for Silver Spring, MD's "Vinyl Ink: The Record Store! Specializing in New & Used LP's & 45's". Its logo is an LP dripping, inkblot-like, from a fountain pen. A person with spiky hair in black shirt and patched jeans is dancing to music on their turntable, surrounded by LPs from Siouxie and the Banshees, the Beatles, the Damned, Springsteen, Joy Division, Madness, and the Cure.
source: https://www.vinylworld.org/record-s...

The go-to record store of my youth, just minutes away from the Red Line.
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homerj 6 hours ago
"imports, wink wink"
meatadelic pro 5 hours ago
I was living in Virginia, but would drive to there and Yesterday & Today in Rockville all the time. There a so many records that I passed on that I *wish* I had bought at this time.
snarkout pro 4 hours ago
@meatadelic There was Go! in Arlington that I sometimes went to as well if I was kicking around DC.
joffaboy

Astronaut Eileen Collins by Annie Leibowitz (1995)

r/OldSchoolCool - Astronaut Eileen Collins (first woman to command the Space Shuttle)photographed by Annie Leibowitz (1995)
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r/OldSchoolCool - Astronaut Eileen Collins (first woman to command the Space Shuttle)photographed by Annie Leibowitz (1995)
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
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O_C

walkway

a storage space walkway adjacent to a gigantic tree, at night
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a storage space walkway adjacent to a gigantic tree, at night
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
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MackReed pro 8 hours ago
This is so great.
kokogiak 7 hours ago
Wow
idogcow 6 hours ago
A "Mister Treebeard" here to see you, sir
LocalStain

🎈

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joffaboy

For constant use

Dana Scully (X Files)
Mulder, the truth is out there,
but so are lies.
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Dana Scully (X Files)
Mulder, the truth is out there,
but so are lies.
source: https://www.tumblr.com/theweird...
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caitlinburke

Duolingo escalated quickly

Two message notifications on a mobile lock screen, both timestamped 8:11

Duolingo
Looks like you forgot your Spanish lessons again. You know what happens now!

Red Alert
Rocket Attacks: Jerusalen, Tel Aviv, Ashkelon, Ashdod
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Two message notifications on a mobile lock screen, both timestamped 8:11

Duolingo
Looks like you forgot your Spanish lessons again. You know what happens now!

Red Alert
Rocket Attacks: Jerusalen, Tel Aviv, Ashkelon, Ashdod
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caitlinburke

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang but with horses

Picture of a group of lovely horses cloned from the same mare, and text reading 

'Inside the pasture were seven clones of the same mare, all two years old or younger and being kept for a polo client. The chocolate-brown fillies looked so similar, it felt like a trick of the eye, although it was their behavior that caught me off guard. Instead of scattering around the meadow, they all grazed in a clump, and when they saw us walking through the pasture, they trotted over, moving in unison like a murmuration of starlings. Each one explored me in the same affable way as they took turns sniffing my sneakers, notebook, and hair. All seven trailed us back to the car.

'To many of ViaGen’s clients, cloning is appealing because of the potential they see to replicate an animal’s physical and mental makeup. ViaGen’s website assures customers that a clone can share the original’s temperament and intelligence. But some people have come to believe that clones get even more from the founder animal than that: They theorize that past experiences can be recorded in an organism’s cells through a process they refer to as “cellular memory,” and transmitted just like eye color. “There’s not a scientist in the world who will agree with me, except that I’ve seen it,” Veneklasen said.'
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Picture of a group of lovely horses cloned from the same mare, and text reading

'Inside the pasture were seven clones of the same mare, all two years old or younger and being kept for a polo client. The chocolate-brown fillies looked so similar, it felt like a trick of the eye, although it was their behavior that caught me off guard. Instead of scattering around the meadow, they all grazed in a clump, and when they saw us walking through the pasture, they trotted over, moving in unison like a murmuration of starlings. Each one explored me in the same affable way as they took turns sniffing my sneakers, notebook, and hair. All seven trailed us back to the car.

'To many of ViaGen’s clients, cloning is appealing because of the potential they see to replicate an animal’s physical and mental makeup. ViaGen’s website assures customers that a clone can share the original’s temperament and intelligence. But some people have come to believe that clones get even more from the founder animal than that: They theorize that past experiences can be recorded in an organism’s cells through a process they refer to as “cellular memory,” and transmitted just like eye color. “There’s not a scientist in the world who will agree with me, except that I’ve seen it,” Veneklasen said.'
From https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine... "INSIDE THE CREEPY, SURPRISINGLY ROUTINE BUSINESS OF ANIMAL CLONING"

Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...


Every clone requires a surrogate to gestate it. This article contains a LOT of passages that are bone-chilling in light of the recent attacks on women's bodily autonomy.
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Kevin pro 6 hours ago
Bet Musk is working on a clone
ardgedee pro 5 hours ago
@Kevin He literally has a business subsidiary that exists solely to insemnate surrogate mothers with his sperm and manage their monthly stipends. I could believe that he's got people working on cloning him but the known reality is already pretty bad.
0y3ahSansAcut3 3 minutes ago
I read an article recently about genetic transfer between mother and offspring post conception, and a lot of interchange happens. So the surrogate mother adds to the mix, in the case of cloned creatures.
me3dia

How your email finds me

illustration of a knight in armor with an arrow protruding through the eye slit in his helmet. Above is the phrase "How your email finds me"
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illustration of a knight in armor with an arrow protruding through the eye slit in his helmet. Above is the phrase "How your email finds me"
Illustration by Foie Graphics

source: https://www.instagram.com/p...
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joffaboy

Miles of style, 1986

r/OldSchoolCool - Miles Davis, press interview, 1986
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r/OldSchoolCool - Miles Davis, press interview, 1986
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
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BennyTheIcepick pro 7 hours ago
The internet has ruined me. I can’t see a photo of him anymore without my brain adding the caption “Miles Davis. From Jazz.”
joffaboy

Stellan Skarsgård, 1983

Stellan Skarsgård in a denim jacket
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Stellan Skarsgård in a denim jacket
Looking very Cobainish

source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
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jpoulos pro 12 hours ago
As was the style at the time
foist pro 5 hours ago
He looks like he'd have friends everywhere.
jgs pro 24 minutes ago
Reader, he made his mind a sunless space.
joffaboy

Woman smiling, 1880

A young woman in a dark long-sleeved dress smiles at the camera
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A young woman in a dark long-sleeved dress smiles at the camera
source: https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysi...
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williwaw

FFU & excellent!

red background with white text that reads, "Normalize asking 'is that a furry thing' whenever a guy say's they're an alpha"
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red background with white text that reads, "Normalize asking 'is that a furry thing' whenever a guy say's they're an alpha"
#FFU

source: https://www.tumblr.com/login_re...
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idogcow Yesterday
Don't underestimate Mean Girls/ highschool power, look at how much Gretta has accomplished in her young life!
0y3ahSansAcut3 Yesterday
Don't guys usually say they're an alfa, because they aren't?
Xedrik Yesterday
I interpret that as in alpha software versions: unstable, barely functional, will probably break stuff, and definitely not intended for the general public.
Mozai 9 hours ago
"Being a leader is like being a lady: if you have to go around telling
people you are one, you aren't." -- Margret Thatcher
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m3moellering

It me.

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bencmeissner pro Yesterday
To paraphrase Wil Wheaton: One of the great things about getting older is not caring what young people (or anyone really) think about you.
urlnotfound pro Yesterday
@bencmeissner +++
m3moellering an hour ago
@bencmeissner +++
joffaboy

Anyhow, here's Wonderwall

Leonard Nimoy plays guitar between takes of a Star Trek episode
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Leonard Nimoy plays guitar between takes of a Star Trek episode
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joffaboy

Springsteen, 1970

r/OldSchoolCool - Bruce Springsteen in 1970 at 20 years old, unaware that one day he'd sell 164 million records and win 20 Grammys.
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r/OldSchoolCool - Bruce Springsteen in 1970 at 20 years old, unaware that one day he'd sell 164 million records and win 20 Grammys.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
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Argie pro 9 hours ago
Dreamboat
MackReed pro 8 hours ago
Would.
idogcow 6 hours ago
Definitely cooler than me at that age but then I was four
Mozai

bed of lettuce

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by Paul Octavious
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minimumsafedistance Yesterday
if a bed wore a cabbage, would it wear it like THIIIIIIS, or thiIiIisssss?
1f2frfbf pro Yesterday
"And here I am... with Cabbage for a bed!" - alternate universe Kids in the Hall
markhurst Yesterday
"Why are you undressing? I said I want DRESSING!"
otaman pro Yesterday
"... mon petit chou!"
me3dia pro Yesterday
Leaf me be, I need rest
roonie pro 22 hours ago
Cos I'm tired.
pk pro 5 hours ago
"stop romaine around the room and get in bed!"
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artwells

"We're on 12th, right between..."

a store called "The Paint Store" but the "P" is a paint roller looking more like a "T"
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a store called "The Paint Store" but the "P" is a paint roller looking more like a "T"
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1f2frfbf pro Yesterday
Used to be a Pizza Hut!
bubbalumpkis pro Yesterday
You can find it down the way, just behind the ol waterin hole
Mr_Encyclopedia pro Yesterday
If it ain't a store, what is it?
0y3ahSansAcut3 23 hours ago
'taint nothin' to worry 'bout. But is that a capital apostrophe?
idogcow 23 hours ago
U.T.B.A.P.H
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode...
homerj 22 hours ago
Pigment Hut
spingo pro 15 hours ago
title!
samh pro 8 hours ago
Can't miss it. Pole in the front yard and a pothole in the back lot.
tonyb pro 3 hours ago
"What do you call the thing between the Dick and the Asshole?"
"The coffee table"

- my favorite line from WEEDS
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Argie

Weekend Plans

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artist: Janet Elizabeth Aulisio
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tonyb pro 4 hours ago
Culture intensifies
devilsrancher

Where is vacation?

A sarcastic chart called “how to be an adult.” It includes “feel owie,” be excited for bedtime,” “existential dread,” etc.

None of it seems fun.
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A sarcastic chart called “how to be an adult.” It includes “feel owie,” be excited for bedtime,” “existential dread,” etc.

None of it seems fun.
My daughter called me the other day and hollered “I didn’t even ask to be here and I owe taxes!” I’m sorry she had to grow up.
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williwaw pro Yesterday
jokes on them I refuse phone calls and I love mac n cheese!!! I love bedtime! Sleep time is great time!

also I just don't get what broom and trench coat means? Like is that for shooing off racoons or black bears? I love racoons! I love bears! so muahahahaha, even better (don't tell me)
williwaw pro Yesterday
seriously though the existential dread at this moment in time in particular suuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkks
devilsrancher pro Yesterday
@williwaw I am almost middle class now that I have this new soul-sucking job, so it’s deluxe velveeta shells and cheese around this fine palace. No more of that powdered… cheese… food… process… substance…
samh pro Yesterday
Iron, lol.
0y3ahSansAcut3 Yesterday
I have an iron and a full sized, and mini, ironing board, which I haven't used in a decade, here. I ironed my besties, daughter's wedding gown, 20 years ago, that is the last time I ironed anything. No commas were falsely incarcerated, starved, beaten, deprived of their rights, or deported in this post.
urlnotfound pro Yesterday
I ironed a shirt this morning. I am traveling to meet with the rest of our team in person and I like to look as professional as I am able for a fat guy with a handlebar moustache.
dad Yesterday
I usually toss a shirt in the dryer in "touch up" mode or whatever it's called instead of ironing. I think last time I ironed was for a funeral.
roonie pro 22 hours ago
I iron my handkerchiefs and mrs roonie's.
That's right. I own handkerchiefs. It can still be a thing.
I have everyday hankies and special, going out hankies! So there!
tonyb pro 3 hours ago
Vincent Adultman to the rescue!
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infini

or, why I learnt to freeze

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bencmeissner pro Yesterday
It me
samh pro 8 hours ago
SAME!

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