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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>Coffee fiend, X-Twitter refugee, Unix geek, and reluctant suburbanite.</description><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social</link><title>@coffeetwitch.bsky.social - Gregory Pratt</title><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mqzalwp7c22a</link><description>“It is better to shit in the sink than to sink in the shit.”</description><pubDate>19 Jul 2026 16:54 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzalwp7c22a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mqsflb3sqc2e</link><description>I&#39;d like to apologize to the Newark field office of the FBI.  This restaurant in EWR Terminal C insisted on a phone number for the order, and their number seemed handy.  Perhaps the FBI should investigate the personal data mining markets that have metastasized throughout the U.S. in the past decade.</description><pubDate>16 Jul 2026 23:34 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqsflb3sqc2e</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mq3ih2butc2z</link><description>The NYC building which used to be Pfizer’s headquarters is having trouble staying erect.</description><pubDate>07 Jul 2026 20:54 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq3ih2butc2z</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mpryvjs27s2t</link><description>Burlington, Vermont&#39;s police department must be very proud of themselves.  They&#39;ve completely isolated Main Street for the fireworks display, yet made no allowance for people living on that road trying to get home.  Obsessive idiocy.</description><pubDate>04 Jul 2026 02:22 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpryvjs27s2t</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mplvqowui22x</link><description>Instead of heading into NYP for my Amtrak train one hour early, I&#39;m going in TWO hours ahead of departure.  That&#39;s how little I trust NJ Transit to get me to the station on time.</description><pubDate>01 Jul 2026 16:10 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplvqowui22x</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3moelujcnqk22</link><description>“I won’t be part of the problem.  I’ll be the whole fucking problem.”</description><pubDate>16 Jun 2026 00:59 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3moelujcnqk22</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mnb5hivexs2v</link><description>I just realized that saying “I am Groot” is amazingly close to “I am root”.</description><pubDate>01 Jun 2026 22:38 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnb5hivexs2v</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mmplijr4dc2d</link><description>85% of my domestic flights in the past decade are on United, with the remaining 15% on American.   But almost all my messed up flights are on American.</description><pubDate>25 May 2026 23:01 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmplijr4dc2d</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mmoyiaqnjk2d</link><description>The Android 16 upgrade reset my phone preferences for the power button, changing it from “power menu” back to “Digital Assistant”.  Because who wouldn&#39;t want to change a power button from its obvious function to a Google AI slop integration?</description><pubDate>25 May 2026 17:21 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmoyiaqnjk2d</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mmeznuwqz22t</link><description>An airplane passenger shouldn&#39;t have to buy a business or first-class ticket just to have their coffee served in a proper cup.</description><pubDate>21 May 2026 18:16 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmeznuwqz22t</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mjn4iv2ryc2s</link><description>Instagram’s “community standards” *are* the scam.</description><pubDate>16 Apr 2026 19:12 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjn4iv2ryc2s</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mjfxbw2hf22h</link><description>The fact that Trump absolutely LOVES using AI to create pictures of himself should be the most compelling reason to stay the hell away from this tech on social media.</description><pubDate>13 Apr 2026 22:50 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfxbw2hf22h</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3miwtjvxxns2y</link><description>“If you’re doing nothing wrong, what is there to fear?”&#xA;&#xA;“I’m fearing your definition of ‘wrong’.”</description><pubDate>07 Apr 2026 22:33 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwtjvxxns2y</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3min7bps7rk2x</link><description>Florida legislators have approved a law allowing them to rename Palm Beach Internation Airport to Donald J. Trump Airport.  Does this mean the IATA airport code will change from PBI to PDO?</description><pubDate>04 Apr 2026 02:37 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3min7bps7rk2x</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mi55tzykvk2e</link><description>It&#39;s telling that my “smart” phone tries to predict that “crypto” in text input probably refers to “cryptocurrency”, and doesn’t even offer “cryptography” as an option until I’ve nearly typed out the entire word.</description><pubDate>28 Mar 2026 17:29 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi55tzykvk2e</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mfwdmgnpfc2o</link><description>You break it, you buy it.</description><pubDate>28 Feb 2026 13:33 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfwdmgnpfc2o</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mfjmtllaqk2a</link><description>“Company culture is not words on a wall.  It’s how people feel on a Sunday night.”</description><pubDate>23 Feb 2026 12:13 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjmtllaqk2a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mf3ziu4stk2a</link><description>“your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping.”&#xA;https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1r6olcv/an_ai_ceo_finally_said_something_honest/</description><pubDate>18 Feb 2026 02:22 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3ziu4stk2a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mefj6xzlmc2t</link><description>Irony?  I don&#39;t even know where to start.&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>09 Feb 2026 03:32 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mefj6xzlmc2t</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mee7cnx5522n</link><description>The people who need a separate halftime show are the same ones who needed separate drinking fountains.</description><pubDate>08 Feb 2026 15:02 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mee7cnx5522n</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mdxqlko6ms2w</link><description>Social media influencers are nothing new.  We just used to call them “posers”.</description><pubDate>03 Feb 2026 16:07 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdxqlko6ms2w</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mdobrli2tc2v</link><description>Getting a crazy number of spam calls from numbers in US area code 609 for the past two weeks.  Reported and blocked them all, but they&#39;re all random and likely forged.  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