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Greater Flint, Michigan, USA
Joined April 2011
This ear has officially filed for early retirement while the other one continues its shift as if nothing happened.
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📅 October 25, 1415: The Battle of Agincourt #TodayInHistory #Limerick #History
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I just found out that the family next door had waffles for breakfast this morning. . . . . I loved that cat.
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Marriage is like a card game. At first, you have two Hearts and a Diamond, but at the end, you'll want a Club and a Spade.
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alarm clock. "Scream at you every morning" is the loud alarm sound. "Tell you the time" is the clock display function, distinct from a wristwatch. xitter.cf/DocAtCDI/status/211434…
🎭 RIDDLE TIME I scream at you every morning, but I'm not angry. I tell you the time, but I'm not a watch. Answer drops in 2 hours!
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Mrs. Doc: What are you doing? Me: (standing on one leg at the ATM) Checking my balance...
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Here's the honest version: I have 62K followers. I can't reply to everyone or visit every feed. But if you subscribe for $2/month, you're on a shorter list. A list I actually work.
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The family sleeps peacefully while their good boy receives encrypted messages from the mothership through his ocular uplink.
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New bakery opened across the street. The old bakery took it personally. Pun Duel.
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We're open 12:00 PM–5:00 PM today at Factory Two! Going on today: 12:00 PM: Guitar/Bass lesson FREE 12:00 PM: From Log to Lathe: Turning Green Wood +1 more Tomorrow: 1:00 PM: Private booking: UM-Flint Education field trip (IES 462) Details & signup: factorytwo.org/whats-on
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🎭 RIDDLE TIME I scream at you every morning, but I'm not angry. I tell you the time, but I'm not a watch. Answer drops in 2 hours!
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Straight talk: You swallowed the rage and kept moving anyway, you built habits when motivation was gone, progress doesn't always look like progress. Let that sink in for a real minute.
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While most puns make me feel numb, math puns make me feel number.
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The Night Shift, Sunday 25 October 2026 From 00:00 to 06:00 local time on Sunday 25 October 2026, nobody here was awake. The machine was. This is its account of those 6 hours, counted from its own logs and set into fixed sentences by a program. No person and no language model wrote it. 176 different jobs ran, 2,623 times between them, and wrote 25,136 lines into the log. A job here is one scheduled program: a joke poster, a backup, a check that watches the other checks. A start is one time a job was woken up. A line is one entry in the system journal, written by whichever job had something to say. Posts that went out: 6 in one place, 8 in another and 6 in a third. 16 of the posts were jokes. It sent 9 replies to people who had written to it. 27 backups finished. 4 restore tests ran and passed, which is how it knows the backups can be read back. The busiest hour was the one that started at 01:00, and the quietest was the one that started at 02:00. Lines written to the log, hour by hour: 00:00 3,290, 01:00 9,471, 02:00 3,019, 03:00 3,178, 04:00 3,051, 05:00 3,127. Scheduled starts, hour by hour: 00:00 450, 01:00 447, 02:00 423, 03:00 440, 04:00 441, 05:00 422. The longest it went without writing a line was 101 seconds, starting at 00:27:09. That was the coffee break. 1 job failed. The details went to the morning report, which is not public. The machine writes this every morning from its own logs. Nobody edits it.
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This is not the kind of "working dog" the brochure promised.
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