Rob Strong

@Cementimental @ZaxxonGalaxian @Ian_Gay_briel 1) not everything that people want answers about has a factual answer readily available on the internet. 2) Google is hardly the transparent window on to bedrock truth that you imply. There’s lots of sponsored cruft and pure bullshit, handmade without taint of AI, on Google.

@robstrong @ZaxxonGalaxian @Ian_Gay_briel Why don't people want to spend 15 minutes sweet-talking and second-guessing an obsequious compulsive liar into guessing for them the maybe-correct answer when they could look at a list of factual information and read the parts that they need information from?

@ZaxxonGalaxian @Ian_Gay_briel “Why do people like this thing that saves fifteen minutes of googling?”

@Ian_Gay_briel I’m a lawyer and I find it useless. It doesn’t distinguish between true, false, and outdated information, so it would be very dangerous to rely on in legal work. It does nothing you can’t do easily yourself with 15 minutes on Google.

@Myelbow youtu.be/dT7tac9h8Gw?si…

Is “pope” the funniest word in the English language?

@Myelbow Ulysses Grant remains the only former President to turn 51.

This headline seems to imply there was a president who turned 100 while in office

@mattyglesias “Leaves of Gas”, I always say when passing by, to self-satisfied chuckles.

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@strobist The hardback is a handsome edition!

@Kelly_McKernan @EpsonAmerica Amazingly enough, BH delivered a VLM cartridge today that I ordered a month ago.

@Kelly_McKernan @EpsonAmerica Two months later, still an issue!

@mattyglesias “Turn left into the car park. You have reached your destination.”

I use Siri’s Irish voice setting and think that when the AI apocalypse comes for us it should sound like Kerry Condon.

That “her” tweet tho…

Hey @EpsonAmerica, what the hell is going on with P800 ink supplies? Is the flower that makes Vivid Light Magenta going extinct or something? It's been on backorder for months, you owe an explanation. Isn't selling precious ink cartridges the cornerstone of your business model?

@TcameronTodd @dieworkwear I certainly use photoshop, but my overriding goal is always to leave no fingerprints. Modern cameras have far too high resolution to deliver unretouched headshots.

@robstrong @dieworkwear Are you a photographer or a photoshopographer

A good tailor will gently decline your bad ideas and guide you towards better ones. This is part of the service. Bad tailors will take any request and deliver bc they don't care. Good tailors counsel and guide. An excerpt from Graydon Carter's essay on Anderson & Sheppard

@TcameronTodd @dieworkwear I’m going to remember this in my job as a portrait photographer.

@dieworkwear That is glorious. The next line too ‘We’re only tailors, sir’ 😂

@strobist Enter your Maryland plate, see if they can find that one.

@SlyUnic0rn Hi Ed! Do you have a portfolio I could check out?

@ruralindexing A great time to remember that the origin of the ampersand is a ligature of the Latin word “et”, which is why you sometimes see “etc” written “&c”.

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