Swinby

@swinby

Husband. Dog dad. Employee. Adult son.

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Swinby@swinby· 3d

Timeline serendipity

Hella crops' post appears above a picture of Guy Fieri with garbled text, and it makes it look like it is a caption

Swinby@swinby· 8d

Little Pete gazing at the tattoo on his forearm of Petunia

Swinby@swinby· 12d

Left: Frasiercore, Right: Frasierwave

Hellraiser but it's frasier. "He's listening"

Unknown pleasures tshirt but it's Seattle. And it says "Frasier"

Swinby@swinby· 21d

Swinby@swinby· Jul 13

Haha okay so the mailman definitely knows I'm a dipshit

Four mug sized boxes that all came in the mail today

Swinby@swinby· Jul 8

This extremely sapphic navy recruitment poster

A young, short-haired woman in a navy uniform strikes a rakish pose, almost challenging the viewer. Text reads "I want you" at the top and "for the navy" at the bottom

Swinby@swinby· Jul 7

just bought 6 garfield mugs on ebay. On one of them the joke is that arlene and garfield are in a lavender marriage

garfield in a chair thinking "I need a snack". Arlene, dressed in business attire is holding a briefcase, pooky, and a keychain (maybe a carabiner? it's not clear). She is thinking "I need a wife"

Swinby@swinby· Jul 6

Dr Katz with a post it on his head that says re: fuddy duddy

Swinby@swinby· Jul 3

Little Edie is coming to Fortnite!!

Swinby@swinby· Jun 28

I've been working on a list

Movies with gas station explosions
Dusk til dawn
Rambo
Elvira
Point break (offscreen)
Zoolander
Robocop

Swinby@swinby· Jun 24

Swinby@swinby· Jun 18

I don't think I've ever seen an infinite ratio. Literally zero likes

Swinby@swinby· Jun 18

Swinby@swinby· Jun 18

It's almost every ad now. I'm getting concerned

Shell card for business owners? Something called wex fleet

Still using air tags to track your fleet?

Swinby@swinby· Jun 18

Getting a lot of ads for trucking companies looking for drivers? I've either broken my algorithm or am being hacked

A trucking ad in Russian. Dunno what it says

Swinby@swinby· Jun 18

As a longtime thick frames wearer I'm considering picking up a pair of George Costanzas

Jason Alexander in wireframe glasses posing with his arms crossed awkwardly

Swinby@swinby· Jun 18

I guess I shouldn't be surprised but it's interesting that the algorithm had a rw bias this whole time. And they still cried about it!

An earlier study examined changes in the content of users’ feeds on Twitter, when the platform introduced the feed algorithm in 2016, well before Musk’s takeover, and found that the algorithm already prioritized right-wing content

Swinby@swinby· Jun 4

Our new fridge has an icemaker that can automatically make ice spheres, so NG has named it "Penelope Sphere Ice"

Swinby@swinby· May 20

They're doing the opening cutscene from Streets of Rage 2

A purple face with greedy hands looms over a city skyline

Swinby@swinby· May 9

The line at Costco is longer than it was during Covid. What is going on

Long line. This is the back of the store, the line is wrapping around

Swinby@swinby· May 2

Cut the grass and found a rabbit's nest? In our yard. It's some kind of mammal

Furry little guys in a nest of fur and grass

Swinby@swinby· Apr 17

NG found this sticker on a slipper over a year ago and we don't know what it could be for so we're choosing to believe that something consequential could happen tomorrow

Screenshot of sticker that says "best by" 4/17/26 that was taken January 13 2025. The "best by" font looks bubbly and dated

Calendar reminder to check if this is a meaningful day

Swinby@swinby· Apr 12

if you DO adjust for inflation, there's a gentle slope up with a weird mountain in the middle when covid happened. This broke a lot of people's brains, but it was because of that unemployment spike. Overall it's still higher than in 2019

same chart with unemployment in the mix too. It's a big spike poking the mountain up

Swinby@swinby· Apr 12

You could look at this and conclude that grocery prices went up 31% over 7 years, and that sucks, sure. But wages (not adjusted for inflation) are up at least 38% over that time period. FRED data for this only goes to Q3 2025

chart from FRED of median weekly nominal earnings of workers 16 years and over. It goes from $875 to $1215 in 6.5 years

Swinby@swinby· Apr 12

Our household grocery expenses were remarkably steady from 2018-2024, though the data is noisy. I should do a moving average. Note the spike in March 2020

household grocery expenses, monthly. Honestly pretty steady until 2024

Swinby@swinby· Apr 12

I'm seeing some affordability discourse again so I thought it might be fun to reshare some charts of my expenses since 2018. There's a jump in 2024, which, if representative of others' experience explains why inflation was such a big deal during the election

column chart of my personal monthly food expenses since 2018. It's more steady than you'd think, but is ticking up since 2024

Swinby@swinby· Apr 6

Oh my god this is worse than the stupid paddles

A bunch of dorks in congress holding up little paddles like they're bidding at an auction house. The paddles say things like "false" and "musk steals"

Swinby@swinby· Apr 4

"Description generated by doordash using AI" NO. Just tell me what's in the fucking soup. You expect me to order and eat food that you can't even bother to describe

Sambar: a lentil-based stew with assorted vegetables, tempered with mustard seeds and curry leaves, garnished with dried red chilies. Description generated by DoorDash using AI

Swinby@swinby· Mar 25

1. this is awesome 2. my exported page content is getting stuck in an unclosed style tag

Swinby@swinby· Mar 19

Algorithm update: getting ads now that are just for like, a middle-aged guy playing bass and singing. Or this guy who is clearly unwell