Mike Bottini

Software engineer, big blue semiconductor company. Former crayon-eater. Mediocre randonneur, terrible chess player. Wretched homebrewer.

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@BasinTheo Reader, they sold the debt to someone else

Time to send more letters!

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

A wild debt collector appeared, holding a debt for a state that we've never lived in!

Many thanks to @patio11 for his very helpful outline of how to respond. We'll see how it goes! https://t.co/TUtpaGnuyJ

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@BasinTheo The big thrust of that letter is "You shall not sell this debt to someone else." They are complying with the law by not contacting me, but they could very easily sell to Other Collections, Ltd, who will start this whole process again.

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@BasinTheo We're doing well!

I have, regrettably, mostly moved over to BlueSky for shitposting, grumble grumble grumble. I finally got fed up with the bluecheck bile. It was a ghost town (with weirdo ghosts!) a year ago, but it's picked up considerably since.

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

Kiddo's lesson for today: Do not lie about things that can be trivially checked, like "did you brush your teeth this morning"

Better to learn this lesson when you're 5 and not, say, the president of a college

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@CarlosAurelius @CartoonsHateHer No, we're specifically talking about a subculture of angry men who mainline "feminists getting owned" Youtube videos and are two /pol/ threads away from committing a school shooting.

Almost by definition, just liking Trump is not extreme. He won an election!

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@bdquinn I have no doubt that they are going to try, though, and they are going to do a lot of long-term damage in the attempt.

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@bdquinn Project 2025 is going to require a drastic reorganization of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of employees in the federal government. Anyone who thinks that's going to be straightforward has never been through a large reorg at their office.

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@WildBillWellman @reputationfan13 @fakegreekgrill

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@ProbablyMaybe4 @RightWingCope @ArmandDoma Any romantic notions about small local businesses are immediately dispelled by talking to small business owners

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@BasinTheo @constans Another reliable stereotype is "If the classmate has a sticker with some kind of stylized lambda on their laptop, you want to be in a group project with them, but only if you can put them in a little dog kennel, feed them raw meat, and never ever read any of their code."

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@Cincinnatus56 I'm married to a nurse. Nurses are interesting people.

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@nobodyknows2322 And even then - I'm a Heinz-57 American Shelter Dog of a human being, and I still say "I'm Italian" because I tan really dark and have an Italian last name. I'm sure other families will do the same

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@nobodyknows2322 I'm sure that it will emerge in another century or so once everyone intermarries to the point where they're like European-Americans, ("I'm 1/4 German, 1/8 Swiss, and of course the 1/64 Cherokee Princess") but it sure as hell isn't right now

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@fakegreekgrill My wife is going to divorce me if I eat any more beans

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@BasinTheo They traced like $30 million of Trump bets on one of those shyster offshore prediction markets to a single French guy who basically bet his entire net worth on Trump winning

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

That insane french whale on Polymarket has got to be whooping and hollering right now

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@nobodyknows2322 @fakegreekgrill PDT has always been good for election watching. I don't end up in bed at a reasonable hour, but it's more reasonable than the East Coast shmucks!

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@zippkode @RJamieLanga @SwannMarcus89 We shall make one

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@watn_tarnation Remembering the half-ogre they shoved into a Tulsa riot control uniform

[Mike Bottini @pogtastic1]

@charlove @shirashiranai You are classist unless your ballot rides public transit (the USPS truck)