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engineering (devrel and partnerships) in crypto. multi-time founder who loves helping first-timers

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2009
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Jonathan Howard
3 years
it is once again time to clarify my username šŸ˜‚ . marcel duchamp said something like ā€œanything becomes art if you look at it long enoughā€. staring at people: bad. staring at peopleā€™s art/websites/creations: good!.
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Jonathan Howard
3 years
whats causing all these logos to look the same?
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Jonathan Howard
3 years
itā€™s finally live! this touch typography tool by @schultzschultz_ is magical.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
intellectual men only want one thing and itā€™s fucking discussing.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
@Fly_Sistah @JenniferJJacobs @KingJames @politico I'd actually bet he knows this. Kushner's goal isn't to "move to concrete solutions", it's to delegitimize the NBA's strike in the eyes of his supporters.
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Jonathan Howard
2 years
@cachedeposits oops all twists TM.
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
@CaseyNewton What have I done
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
Fun fact for your Monday: If you use the wrong ear, you can wear AirPods like antennas. Fashion!
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Jonathan Howard
3 years
checkmate, nerds
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
@poormanswife @Kodyakk Oooof tough way to find out she was cheating on him.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
weā€™re not the only ones excited for crypto x entertainment šŸ‘€
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Jonathan Howard
1 year
hereā€™s what they would look like if they were frying rice
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1 year
hereā€™s what they would look like if they were burnt or cooked
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
Do people network consistently without drinking? Whatā€™s the trick?. Iā€™m on three days in a row of meeting great people, but Iā€™d like to not become an alcoholic.
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Jonathan Howard
4 months
starting to think this would actually be a valuable talk
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Jonathan Howard
2 years
yearly reminder that you can just have affogato for breakfast & no one can stop you
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
Fun fact for your Monday: If you use the wrong ear, you can wear AirPods like antennas. Fashion!
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Jonathan Howard
3 years
iā€™m disappointed by 1Passwordā€™s leadership and i hope my friends at 1Password are too. in 2022, there is no excuse for having only 1 password. experts say you should have at least 2. that is especially true when securing cryptocurrencies, which I fully support.
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Jonathan Howard
2 years
@Popehat ā€œthe antisemitism does not reflect our views. our views mainly concern *disseminating* the antisemitism and profiting from itā€.
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
Just rediscovered a tiny Google Chrome "hack" I love: making your own shortcuts with the "search engines" feature . (I'll explain) 1/.
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@mpschauster84 @CNN The problem with taxing religious organizations is it erodes separation of church and state. We donā€™t want the govā€™t getting money from religion. That tends to go. badly.
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
@Mimirocah1 @JoyceWhiteVance @PeterAlexander @GOP Good time to remember he kept calling for the Central Park Fiveā€™s deaths *after* they were exonerated.
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Jonathan Howard
6 months
a long time ago, @yishan gave me a killer pro-tip:. pick your favorite meal, and get so good at cooking it that you even prefer it to even nice restaurants. so anyway happy birthday to me šŸ„³
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Jonathan Howard
1 year
@sterlingcrispin I wouldnā€™t trust my mission-critical infra with a company LARPing that a ship out at sea is a nation state šŸ˜¬
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
@DevinCow @pnjaban @esqonfire @GOP @realDonaldTrump Obstruction of justice is expensive.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
an underrated thing about admitting you were wrong is you immediately become right.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
@Popehat @SpaceForceDoD Ah, the symbolism of them celebrating a name while behind them is an asteroid impact so large itā€™s visible from space šŸ˜Š
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Jonathan Howard
1 year
hahahahaha vegetarian thanksgiving is saved! šŸ„³
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Jonathan Howard
2 years
guy walks in to an ad agencyā€™s office. he tells the agency ā€œiā€™ve got a new platform for you, youā€™re gonna love it. itā€™s a little unorthodox thoughā€. so the agency says, ā€œalright letā€™s see it!ā€.
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Jonathan Howard
10 months
@seyitaylor @MKBHD every five minutes, this man went out of his way to be SO nice. @MKBHD (explaining how the Ai pin drained an entire battery during 8 seconds of lag to get him the wrong answer): maybe you want to use this time to, you know, meditate!.
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Jonathan Howard
9 years
CSS = Corgi Style Sheets.h/t @jackiekircher http://t.co/PXnociwlDH.
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Jonathan Howard
3 years
this has got to be the best feature apple has ever made
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Jonathan Howard
7 months
@AnnaBower guess weā€™re getting that replacement judge!.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
@Popehat Iā€™ve lost the ability to tell when youā€™re joking about something stupid, and when something stupid happened that youā€™re joking about.
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@AaronBlake @qjurecic seems like something a chief of fraud and public corruption might resign over.
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
@soledadobrien @NYT ā€œAccused ofā€ is a nice linguistic twist to get around their rules on the subject. I look forward to every future Trump story including ā€œaccused of lyingā€.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
@hemiiiiis Wonder if he uses an old version of Tweetdeck that uses an old version of the API?
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Jonathan Howard
8 years
@yolidevushka @charliespiering Translation: "Tech creates jobs; immigration is important; I'm being very careful to flatter you, word this simply, and it was your idea".
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
@blader This is great!. Thereā€™s a ~1px border that lags/leads the dominant color, in the direction of ā€œmovementā€
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Jonathan Howard
7 years
@memeprovider @ReneeDarthMaul I regret to inform you it appears someone stole your image and replaced it with an image of why you definitely should put lights on Christmas trees.
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Jonathan Howard
2 years
@0xgaut liquidity though.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
If I'm understanding this right, the app. - Scans a random pile of LEGOs.- Computes everything you could build.- Pulls up step by step instructions.- Shows you where in the pile each brick is.šŸ¤Æ.
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Jonathan Howard
3 years
keep thinking about how someone called kids ā€œtime billionairesā€.
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Jonathan Howard
2 years
@Chad_Hurley @iankar_ I wonder if there are any differences between CL and Twitter that might make this a not very useful comparison šŸ™ƒ.
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Jonathan Howard
3 years
Excited and beyond honored that the @SushiSwap team is nominating me as Head Chef For those who don't know me, I thought Iā€™d share a bit of my personal story:.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
@BudrykZack @Popehat And the denial gets her sued by Kermit the Frog
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Jonathan Howard
10 months
@GritGrowthCap a true make or break moment
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Jonathan Howard
2 years
@rachelmillman @oneunderscore__ lol, just realized thatā€™s a fake twitter announcement account, seemingly in violation of twitter policy .
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Jonathan Howard
2 years
twitter blue people now:. margot robbie is mid. this is the best feature appleā€™s ever made. yum yum yum! pineapple pizza. NO CAPITALISM. oooh! should designers learn to code? youā€™re telling me a shrimp fried this rice? the dress is blue yes yes yes! yes yes yes! ten ways AI canā€”
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@djnavarro @alexpghayes @WIRED ā€œIn doing so, Lana used a concept that particle physicists refer to as ā€œelectronsā€ to send information-carrying signals to a computer server many miles awayā€.
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
@hdot42 @Mimirocah1 @JoyceWhiteVance @PeterAlexander @GOP The shame here is not on the reporter. That was a warning that shouldā€™ve made it *harder* to make that mistake (if it were one)ā€¦. It was ā€œRemember what youā€™re saying when you say treason, Mr President. It means the death penaltyā€ and Trump doubles down. He has a history of this.
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Jonathan Howard
9 years
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Jonathan Howard
3 years
web2 me vs web3 me
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
how it started vs how itā€™s going
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@sam_vinograd @AshaRangappa_ @BrookeBCNN was this sad photobomb intentional? bc if so, A+ šŸ˜‚
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
āœØMORE PERSONAL NEWS āœØ. I canā€™t believe I get to say this: Iā€™m starting a company with @MackFlavelle, cofounder of CryptoKitties and Dapper Labs (makers of NBA Top Shot)!.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
@EastBayBeast2 @ZTPetrizzo The last webpage your ISP records you accessing is this video telling you to destroy your phone. Thoughts?.
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Jonathan Howard
2 years
the four of them get down in one knee in front of his desk, and out their hands out in a big ā€œtada!!ā€ pose, faces excited and expectant. ad agency guy is stunned for a minute. all he can get out is ā€œthis plan, what do you call it?ā€. in unison, they say proudly.āœØā€œBrand Safety!ā€āœØ.
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@cspamus1 @kyledcheney To be fair, if youā€™re going to say ridiculous things like ā€œalleged impeachment inquiryā€ and ā€œalleged whistleblowerā€, you canā€™t exactly use a serious font.
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
Itā€™s happening! ./cc @juliettekayyem
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Jonathan Howard
7 years
@sarahkendzior Oh this starting off so good
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Jonathan Howard
2 years
hallelujah He is rizzinā€™
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
Does anyone else avoid searching for emojis by remembering what iOS will autosuggest? eg. hi šŸ‘‹šŸ¼.ok šŸ‘šŸ¼.lol šŸ˜‚.hm šŸ˜’.cry šŸ˜­.fist šŸ‘ŠšŸ¼.eek šŸ˜¬.huh šŸ¤”.sad šŸ˜”.uhh šŸ™„.hug šŸ¤—.love ā¤ļø.kiss šŸ˜˜.cool šŸ˜Ž.eyes šŸ‘€.wink šŸ˜‰.angry šŸ˜¤.love it šŸ˜.i hope šŸ¤žšŸ¼.joking šŸ™ƒ.cheers šŸ„‚/šŸ».glasses šŸ¤“.point up šŸ‘†šŸ¼.
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
@austinthesing @ShawnFetta @MKBHD Iā€™m long on tesla, but come on. Those risks normally donā€™t include outright lies.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
8 years ago today I went to Alaska with my family, andā€¦ well
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
@rrhoover One underlying ā€œproductivity hackā€ I donā€™t see cited often is just really *really* giving a shit. Knowing your ā€œwhyā€™sā€ and intensely caring your goal succeeds. A lot of the other advice follows from this, or rings hollow without it.
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@joshtpm @npfandos @Susan_Hennessey The second prongā€”that ā€œthere is no valid impeachment proceedingā€ā€”was probably laughed at by her lawyers. Interestingly, their response implies her lawyers claimed deliberative process privilege ā€œdisappears altogetherā€ in impeachment/suspected wrong-doing.
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
Area Man Demands Platform Retract Terms He Agreed To.
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Wow. I'm literally stunned. Apple just doubled down on their rejection of HEY's ability to provide bug fixes and new features, unless we submit to their outrageous demand of 15-30% of our revenue. Even worse: We're told that unless we comply, they'll REMOVE THE APP.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
Every time I see a prominent tech person opine on ethics in journalism, I look for past tweets about Uber, WeWork, Zenefits, etc. Itā€™s been weeks and I havenā€™t found a single tweet.
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Jonathan Howard
10 months
A dating app for people who are nice to each other called Tender.
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the darkest bobby šŸ‡µšŸ‡ø
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A dating app for people who suck at flirting called Fumble.
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Jonathan Howard
7 years
@memeprovider @ReneeDarthMaul *on palm trees šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø . edit buttonnnn! *shakes fist at cloud*.
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Jonathan Howard
2 years
@DryerCombo @rachelmillman @oneunderscore__ that just increases the irony, since he apparently DGAF about his own rules.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
@Yascha_Mounk @Susan_Hennessey This deserves to be looked, but ALSO. - The data after that jump was done by a completely different poll. Might explain some or all the difference. - They combine all the way down to ā€œa littleā€ justified. ā€œA littleā€ might include, eg ā€œif last resort to prevent theft of electionā€.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
you DMā€™d ā€œweā€™re hiring!ā€œ. @mikedemarais bribed their whole family. you are not the same
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@Popehat @Susan_Hennessey "There's always a tweet", Scott Walker/Facebook edition
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Jonathan Howard
7 years
Me: well thatā€™s dumb, those have been around forā€“ šŸ˜Æ .*suddenly Bladerunner*
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New type of display seen in Hong Kong
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@4everNeverTrump @charlesornstein @Fightkidscancer Lots of reports that this fact alone has often not been enough for many regular people.
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
imagine being this confident in your code.
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@fran_adkins @SteveScalise If there were really exculpatory evidence Schiff is withholding. do we really believe Republicans wouldnā€™t be leaking it?.
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Jonathan Howard
1 year
for future reference
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Jonathan Howard
5 months
no idea what this image means, but every time anyone posts it, it goes viral
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@bb8fanclub IS BB-8 LEADING THE SPACE HORSES
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
Some personal news: after much soul searching, Iā€™ve decided to move out of my apartment in SF. No Medium post, but if youā€™re still here, letā€™s catch up before I move!. After next week, Iā€™ll be starting a new chapter in a different part of SF. Let me know anyone I should meet!! šŸ„°.
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Jonathan Howard
2 years
how to tweet based on where you are
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How to dress based on where you are
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
i accidentally have great news for anyone wondering whether you can wash airpods in the washing machine.
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Jonathan Howard
4 years
2,000 years ago this wouldā€™ve become such epic mythology
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Jonathan Howard
3 years
@JessieMorii I apologize in advance šŸ˜‚
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Jonathan Howard
7 months
@sandiechill @AnnaBower the argument is that jack smith wasnā€™t properly appointed (which he was) based on the idea that he doesnā€™t report to the attorney general (which he does) and therefore needed to be confirmed by the senate (which he didnā€™t). sheā€™ll get reversed and maybe even thrown off the case.
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@mccaffreyr3 Male teenagers and white nationalism have significant overlap. Glad it was found to be a game, however. Perhaps they could play a different game thatā€™s not visually identical to white nationalism symbols, at least while in dress blues.
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@bigbridontknock @BadLegalTakes Thereā€™s a lot to unpack there.
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Jonathan Howard
7 years
@JenAshleyWright This thread is so good, Twitter looped it so I could read it twice :)
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5 years
@MStenfeldt @Reuters Man, Trump Tower Moscow is gonna be huge.
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Jonathan Howard
8 years
7/ So, hereā€™s a thread on concrete things men can do to support women against sexism and harassment šŸ‘‡šŸ½.
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Jonathan Howard
5 years
@bengold anti-.software .software . club.
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
I was not told how much of adulting would revolve around using what's in the refrigerator before it goes bad.
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Jonathan Howard
8 years
Going for walk when owner suddenly disappeared. Presumed dead bc no object permanence. Good boy 11/10 would head pat. /cc @dog_rates
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Jonathan Howard
3 years
*hyper-ventilating* I got a handmade 1/1 from @fvckrender's @lvcidia!! Shoutout @smeccea šŸ¤© tysm
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Jonathan Howard
6 years
@SarahBCalif @neeratanden McConnell has an election coming up. Would be a shame if he lost because everyone whoā€™s currently mad at Pelosi donated to his Democratic opponent @AmyMcGrathKY šŸ˜
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8 years
@deray Her reactions šŸ˜‚ I had to go back and screenshot that split-second
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4 years
how do I invest in aviator sunglasses.
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