daniel from work

@danmcgrath.bsky.social

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just a regular sized drink of water

#1 bluesky trending topic: "VAR Controversy"
An incoming text message saying "Bombers inbound to you"
A video panning along a table in an office. It moves between a series of cookies with post-it notes explaining their contents before ending on a McDonald’s burger
A street sign showing one direction being “Christopher Ave” and the other direction being “Lost Knife Rd”
A combo pack of Vick's "VapoCOOL" NyQuil & DayQuil, which are both the same color
A picture of Jesse and James from the Pokemon anime, presumably in the middle of their lengthy intro they do every time
A truly poor quality edit of the cover of the movie “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids” that (badly) superimposes Shrek it and changes the word “shrunk” to the Shrek logo
A screenshot of an ad for Meta Rayban glasses. It shows a close up of the inside of a pair of glasses, with the inside of the lens showing a series of text messages overlaying what the wearer would be seeing through the glasses.
A screenshot of the New York Times website, showing a graphic of purported smuggling routes from south america into the US. Oceanic routes through the Carribean are labeled "smaller" and land routes through America and Mexico are labeled "largest". A headline reads "Why blowing up Venezuelan boats won't stop the flow of drugs", and the text explains that despite the president claiming they are preventing drugs from reaching the US, these smuggling routes are small and won't make a difference.
A screenshot of a seat upgrade prompt for American Airlines. It shows "Exit Row Seat" with an upcharge cost, and a bulleted list of features including extra legroom, preferred boarding, and "complimentary beer, wine, and spirits"
The members of PUP, Jeff Rosenstock, and Ekko Astral on stage mid-song
A stock photo of a man wearing dress clothes and a tie riding an elephants through a seemingly post-apocalyptic sandscape
A TV with the PlayStation account setup screen showing an error saying “you can’t use the date of birth you entered”
Marge from the simpsons hold a bumper sticker saying: “Yes No 242”. The closed caption reads: AND THE BUMPER STICKERS MISSPELLED '"ON." THEY ALL SAY "YES NO 242" AND IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION
A 2016 tweet from Jon Bois showing a fake twitter update, featuring things like “Direct messages are now *Places*. Start a conversation by starting a new *Place*” immediately followed by “Places are now rolled into Timeline Product”
Bluesky trending topics: Nintendo, Tariffs, Ted Cruz
A screenshot of an article explaining Apple's new terms in the EU. Highlighted is that there's now a lower tier of store services fee, which if chosen by the developer disables things like automatic app updates.
A push notification from Google Maps inviting me to “eat like a local” by checking out spots near me
An atlas moth perched on a branch
A close-up of a bright orange butterfly
A screenshot of the Apple messages app, showing an AI-generated summary of a scam text that says “$6.99 toll due April 26, 2025; pay now to avoid DMV suspension”
A screenshot of the iOS messages app. I sent a photo of a new flavor of La croix, and the messages “something terrible has happened” and “it’s breached the homestead”
A screenshot from the Wikipedia entry for Suhr guitars. Highlighted is the text “was founded in 1997 by John Suhr, who "has a reputation for building exquisitely crafted guitars"[1] and Steve Smith.[2]”
A screenshot of a notification, showing an email from Sentry (an error monitoring tool for software engineers) with the subject line “start shipping better code”
A photo of a black and white cat looking mad at the world but also v cute
An ad on Reddit advertising knob creek whiskey, labeled “Eli manning x Knob Creek”. It shows Eli Manning holding a glass of whiskey in an empty cask room awkwardly smiling.
a screenshot of a datadog graph showing the 90th percentile response times for a nodejs service. at 3pm, the graph drops sharply from a baseline around 300ms to around 200ms.
A screenshot of my tab bar in Chrome showing the same Datadog dashboard, titled "System Health", open 5 times
A screenshot of LinkedIn's "post a message" box, which now invites the user to "draft with AI"
A text conversation where I tell my sister about my cool ranch Frappuccino idea, and she replies that she doesn’t want to think about it because she’s already nauseous
A screenshot from makelikeskatelife.org’s about page, showing one of their leaders holding a really cool title: “Director of skateboard operations”
A screenshot of a google search for "40 bushels of corn". The top of the results are an AI explanation of how much a "bushel" converts to in pounds.
Tommy from Rugrats imagined as an adult drinking a cup of mud and pretending it is coffee
A screenshot of the Google search results for “skeeter” from the TV series “Doug”. An excerpt from Wikipedia highlights that Skeeter is a nickname based on his first name, “Mosquito”