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      Let's see what all the @atproto/api fuss is about
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      Stretching off before the #EtapeCaledonia tomorrow morning. 
      
      85 miles. Sub-5 target. Let’s go!
      A pint of Guinness on a pub table sat alongside a river
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    11. laura

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      so how much do you think Equistone Partners Europe is paying them to not say astroturfing do you think they reached out first with a number or that this was already a pre-existing deal
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      one thing most people don't know is every vlog and every podcast snippet shot form is qc'd by me
      
      is the music catchy, is the first 3 seconds of a video solid, does a video get to the point
      
      is the vibe there. 
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      Didn’t quite make the sub-5 target, but picked up plenty of PBs along the way! πŸ₯‡
      Etape Caledonia 2026
Distance: 136.72km
Time: 5h 24m
Elevation: 1431m

      Andrew James

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      Stretching off before the #EtapeCaledonia tomorrow morning. 
      
      85 miles. Sub-5 target. Let’s go!
      A pint of Guinness on a pub table sat alongside a river
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      @fubits.dev my most activated skill! πŸ˜‚
      Filtered out all svelte-* and sveltekit-* skills:                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                       
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 β”‚ Rank β”‚ Skill                         β”‚ Reads β”‚ Sessions β”‚                                                                           
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      Beautiful and fun day at Aronimink for the PGA Championship!
      Victor Hovland putting on the 5th green. Morikawa and Lowry are watching
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      I'm not surprised. Writing code plays a much smaller role in the overall software lifecycle than most people understand.
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      (With apologies to those of my friends who have been receiving endless photos of statues and commentary thereon.)

      Katie Mack

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      Traveling alone is great because you can be as fickle and capricious as you want in your tourism choices and still post things on social media that make you look super cultured while you’re snarking to your friends in the group chats
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