Rob Pike

Got this every time @Mercury

Hey @mercury I am trying to get a start up off the ground and your app won’t accept my customer’s check I am trying to deposit. I spent hours 2 weeks ago trying to deposit a check but kept getting the message “We are having trouble with your images…” I thought it was…

can look at my clear check images and accept my deposit. I love everything else about Mercury but now I need to go open another bank account if I can’t deposit this check. My customer is a large school district and they cannot pay vendors via direct deposit — checks only.

request another check or deposit the check at another institution. I already received a new check from my customer and this is a startup — we don’t have two banks! I am amazed that you invested the time and resources for 4 people to chat with me yet don’t have one human that

with no reflections. Tried multiple times on your app and web. Rejected every time. Spent 45 mins chatting with 4 different customer service reps. Uploaded the images to them. They are clear as day. They can’t help me. If the system doesn’t accept them they told me to…

that my signature or your special endorsement was too sloppy so I had to ask my customer to send me a new check. This time I followed every instruction perfectly. Clear signature, clear endorsement, photos that are clear, show all four corners clearly on a black background…

@mikefutia CONTENT

I just built a content engine in Claude Code that writes blog posts in your brand's exact voice 🤯 One Claude plugin runs the whole content workflow: brand voice, research, writing, AI-slop scoring, and repurposing into social. It writes in YOUR voice, refuses to fabricate stats, and scores every draft 0-100. All inside Claude Code. So I pointed it at Grüns, one of the sharpest DTC brands out there. I fed it their homepage. In seconds it built a brand-voice profile, their playful anti-hype tone, the "Rip. Tip. Enjoy." cadence, the AG1-switcher audience, the 4.8★/100k-review proof. Then I asked for one post: "why your gut health controls your skin, hair, and energy." It came back publish-ready and scored 89/100 on the first pass: → Answer-first, with question headings AI engines can quote → Zero AI-slop phrases (no "unlock," no "in today's fast-paced world") → And it refused to invent a single stat, the fastest way to get a supplement brand demoted It sounded like Grüns wrote it, not ChatGPT. Perfect for e-comm operators and agencies who are sick of AI tools that all sound identical, $300 freelance posts that still need a rewrite, and content that reads like the slop Google now punishes. So I put together the full playbook to build your own. The complete guide to building this content engine in Claude Code: branded to you, tuned to your voice, repeatable across every client. The kind of post you'd pay a freelancer $300 for, written in minutes, in the brand's actual voice. What's inside: → The architecture (orchestrator + writer/editor/researcher agents) → How to capture any brand's voice into a reusable profile → The 0-100 scoring + AI-slop detection framework → The one-post-to-a-week-of-social repurposing loop → The full build, start to finish Want the playbook for free? > Like this post > Comment "CONTENT" And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)

@nicktheriot_ DESIRE

I'm going to disable this post in 48 hrs... Because I just dropped the #1 strategy to take any ecom brand to $30,000+ days with the SAME product. This is the exact DESIRE framework we use to scale multiple brands from $1,000/day to $30,000/day and onwards. We charge $10,000/mo to do this for our clients… But today, I'm giving it away 100% FREE. Like + Comment "DESIRE" and I'll send it to you.

@mikefutia Slides

I just built a branded IG carousel generator in Claude Code 🤯 One brand URL + one product name = 6 finished carousel slides. The kind an agency charges $2K to produce. All inside Claude Code. Perfect for DTC brands, agencies, and mobile app operators who need on-brand social content without briefing a designer or waiting a week for revisions. If you're building IG carousels manually — writing copy in Notion, designing in Canva, exporting slides one by one, going back and forth with your creative team for days... This tool eliminates the entire loop: → Drop in a brand URL and product name → Claude scrapes the site and extracts colors, fonts, voice, and positioning → Generates 6 slide concepts across proven carousel frameworks → Writes a detailed image prompt for each slide → Fires all 6 to ChatGPT Images 2.0 via FAL in parallel → Downloads finished slides + opens an HTML gallery No Canva. No designer back-and-forth. No generic AI slop. What you get: -> Finished 1080x1350px slides ready to post directly to Instagram -> Wavy color-blocked backgrounds, bold typography, product hero — all baked into the image -> Brand-accurate colors and copy pulled from the live site automatically -> A reusable pipeline — new brand, new folder, same 3-minute workflow Built 100% in Claude Code. I put together the full step-by-step playbook so you can build this yourself. Want it for free? > Like this post > Comment "SLIDES" And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)

@dickiebush Social

I just packaged 102 viral writing templates into 5 Claude Skills. This is everything you need to: • Write scroll-stopping hooks • Create X content for yourself • Ghostwrite content for high-paying clients Comment "social" and I'll send it across (for free).

A very sad announcement. I have just been convicted a second time for 'hate speech' and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge's frustration. In an ironic turn of events it's actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least. Call me naive but I didn't think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration. In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence. Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.” That's a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth. Even the regime media write: "It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove's main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration." You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible. Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it. The only argument they present is that I created a "hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration. Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail. Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than €420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win. If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM. If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.

The rest of the story explains everything re Bears stadium issue

@spencerpratt 🎯 I hope this catches on everywhere!

Everyone is trying to claim me for their tribe. There’s no R next to my name, there’s no D next to my name. I’m not part of a political party, because I hate politicians. I’m just Spencer, husband to Heidi, father to Ryker and Gunner, and I’m a pissed off Angeleno who loves my city and is fed up with what corrupt politicians have done to her.

Breaking news: A Ford dealership in Kansas can't release a sold F-250 because a robin moved in first. An employee at the dealership located outside Kansas City noticed a robin building a nest on the tire of a brand new F-250 that was already sold. The robin laid four eggs and successfully hatched them. The truck is now stuck on the lot until the chicks fledge, because the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 makes it illegal to disturb an active nest of any native bird in the United States. The buyer has been a good sport. The dealership called it the only F-250 in America currently protected under federal law.

@RealJamesWoods I hope he has good security detail protecting him.

Read this. Spencer Pratt cites a textbook example of how the Democrat NGO fraud laundromat works from beginning to end. Every Democrat politician involved, including his two rivals in the mayor’s race, should be in prison.

We're so back. An entrepreneur is restoring Pizza Huts to their former glory.

@JackOtter @Uber @Uber_Support Happened to me - couldn’t get a replacement Uber fast enough and had to drive to the airport myself and pay $100+ in parking fees so I wouldn’t miss my flight. So frustrating.

Hey @uber: If you are going to give users the ability to reserve cars ahead of time, you have to solve for last-second driver cancellations. My airport ride cancelled at pickup time, and it took 33 minutes for me to get another ride. That is terrible service. @Uber_Support

Hypothetical: You’re the owner of an MLB team. I offer to take $0 salary and sign a minor league contract and go to Low A. If the “he sucks now” crowd is right and I get lit up, you cut me, lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club. If the “clubhouse cancer” crowd is right, you see it immediately at Low A and cut me. You lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club. If there’s massive negative PR, which we already know there won’t be, you just cut me and move on. The story is dead in a couple days, you lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club. But, assuming none of those things happen, which they obviously wouldn’t, if you like what you see, you can promote me to AA and re evaluate me there. Then AAA. Then the big leagues. If I earn it, which you’d be 100% in control of deciding. If you don’t think I’m good enough, you lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club. You could take away my “antics”. You could take away my social media. You could ask anything of me. If I don’t comply, you cut me, lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club. What logical reason is there to not do this? At worst, you cut me and there’s no risk to the big league club. At best, you get a Cy Young winner for $0 who you know can still pitch and could help the big league team if and when you see fit.

Dermatology is wrong about the sun. And it's killing people. I'm a dermatologist. 226 publications. I should know. Avoiding the sun increases the risk of dying as much as being a smoker. We can fix it. For decades, dermatology's message has been simple: avoid the sun. Wear sunscreen. Seek shade. UV causes skin cancer. End of discussion. That message is incomplete and outdated. People are dying because of it. Lots of people. The evidence has gotten strong enough that the field needs to update it.🧵

@mrcauliman Keep building!

House of Cauliman isn’t going anywhere. I’m building systems on the $XRP Ledger to fight back against the noise, rug pulls, fantasy accounts, fake experts, and bad players poisoning this space. My tokens are funded by my own wallets. The largest whale is me. I don’t need the money. That’s why I’m building the way I’m building. This is for the long game. For the world. For my children. One day they’ll take over the House. By then, we’ll be one of the largest ecosystems on the XRPL. We aren’t stopping at 10 projects. Step inside the walls. 🏛️ houseofcauliman.com