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   jacobian (jacob@social.jacobian.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 12:48:33 JST jacobian

   I keep seeing this joke and it’s quite funny but it elides the fact that Firefox has a long and glorious history of dick-hammering! Every time over the last at least decade they’ve been offfered anything hammer-shaped they’ve gleefully used it to pound wood. Despite many leadership changes whoever’s in charge has been quite consistent about a commitment to chase down new shiny hammers. https://mastodon.social/@TheZeldaZone/114082180124431864

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     jacobian (jacob@social.jacobian.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 12:49:03 JST jacobian

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     • Reginald

     @raganwald “I know the last CEO was fired after he smashed his knob with the crypto hammer, but, man, this AI hammer looks so soft and inviting, surely THIS hammer will feel great when I yard it into my Johnson”

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     Reginald (raganwald@social.bau-ha.us)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 12:49:05 JST Reginald

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     @jacob "When you're a CEO holding an AI hammer, every problem looks like your wedding tackle."

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     Vyvyan Basterd (neurobashing@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 12:49:26 JST Vyvyan Basterd

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     • jwz

     @jacob i found a blog post from 13 years ago that was "well, Mozilla just hammered itself in the dick, AGAIN". Wild to imagine, but if you think about it @jwz's "diary" of the early netscape days was the original introduction to the hammer