ChanceNCounter

@chancencounter.bsky.social

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Seattle-based systems programmer and onetime pet care expert. Ostensibly pretty good at some things and alright at others.

Seattle Times headline reads, "Washington households can't afford basics, even if they're not poor, report says." Inability to afford the basics is the most popular definition of poverty.
a google search for "ceo who destroyed sears" immediately returns a great deal of information about Eddie Lampert, the CEO who drove Sears into the ground
screenshot of two of the skeets this person insists do not exist
a whole bunch more thirst trap accounts have followed me, again with some duplicate names and pfps, all in the span of a few minutes
grey socks with black toes and ankle, featuring a tiled drawing of edgar allan poe's face
six fake thirst trap accounts follow me at the same time, four of them with variations of the same display name, three of them with profile pictures of the same woman's torso in what looks like a sports bra (not sure, I'd have to click on the thirst trap to verify)
A rubber hair tie holder, resembling a reusable zip tie, carrying perhaps two dozen elastic hair ties and a tag that reads "hair tie holder," hanging from a backpack strap
screenshot of several skeets from user dov.bsky.social attempting to insult me. Relates me to a dog, suggests that having an honest conversation about the new Syrian regime would be akin to teaching a dog to read. Nice guy.
Monkeyuser's Focus, a five-panel comic that's repeatedly gone viral, depicting how a momentary distraction can destroy a knowledge worker's flow. https://www.monkeyuser.com/2018/focus/
screenshot of a racist account's original post, listing what they term "fundamentally fascist genotypes" (fucked up in general, but with the cherry on top that he uses a couple old racist terms, and also gets really specific like 'western ukrainian' or 'peninsular arab (except yemen)' or 'white latino'. the account is a single purpose hate account who will jump in anyone's replies to harass them until blocked
A screenshot of Bibliocommons' "suggest a purchase" feature, which I've used to suggest that my library obtain a few copies of one of the books plugged above
a screenshot of Chad Max's current top posts, which are this same content, but with the corollary that the fake account is a white Ukrainian man. He follows up, "There is just no depth Westerners won't plumb to pretend they are in an enlightened world lmao"
The album cover from Dave Matthews Band's debut, Under the Table and Dreaming
an annotated screenshot demonstrating the order in which this bizarre exchange took place
My digital media library playing Dave Matthews Band's debut album. The last track is called #34. At some point in the late '90s, my album ripper numbered it Track 34, and I only noticed today.
An Apple Macintosh Plus, the third major iteration, and the last to employ the Mac's original form factor. The machine is on display in a museum, complete with its original mouse and keyboard, alongside a floppy disk which probably contains the operating system. Photo credit: user Mark Gasoline via Wikimedia Commons