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Geopolitics 

The world is celebrating the election of a regular pile of trash to head France because the only alternative was a fascist pile of trash.

Remember in the 90s, when teens were more tech savvy than adults, and everyone assumed that the savviest would just keep getting younger? Now it's 2017, and the people who were teens in the 90s are the most tech savvy generation and probably will be until they die.

Kids don't grow up with computers any more, they grow up with iPhones. If it's possible to learn to code on an iPhone, it's despite Apple's best efforts.

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Strong picture bot opinion 

Picture bots that cite their sources are good. Those that link directly to the artists' posts are better. Those that obtain explicit consent as well, such as Creative Commons licensing, are the best.

I won't follow or boost picture bots that don't cite sources, not without VERY good reason.

Picture bots that don't even say what they scraped their pictures from should be shut down and sold for scrap.

Is Burgertime the first video game about a sandwich?

Would an Asteroids arcade cabinet between two Burgertime arcade cabinets be a universe sandwich?

$ ft=first-toot.sh; touch $ft && chmod u+x $ft && ed $ft && ./$ft > \
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#!/bin/sh

echo "I finally got on board one of these things. Hello, world!"

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wq

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