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Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 5h

Me, yelling at a podcast:

“They can’t be mermaids if they live in a river! Mer means sea! It’s a nixie!”

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BethRHylton @bethrhylton.bsky.social · 4h

Hockey rinks, watching lax games with snow still on the ground.... yep

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BethRHylton @bethrhylton.bsky.social · 4h

I have one in my car. It fantastic for my old bones/bum

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Count Coachula @coachmark25.bsky.social · 4h

They have bun warmers, do they have bum warmers?

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BethRHylton @bethrhylton.bsky.social · 4h

Riley finished 4th at Petit Le Mans

Lamborghini race car and team. Car is green, white and red. Crew members are dressed in black

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, I’m cranky, a storm is coming, but Jesus Christ why do I have to click “reader mode” to even have a hope of reading anything online these days? If you publish something you want people to read, why do you also cover it with 25 ads so they can’t actually read it?

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Beth @thisbethlife.bsky.social · 6h

That American urge to move to another country just for the healthcare

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 8h

Oh god, new type of douchebro dropped

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 12h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 22h

MMWR published a report in 1981 about five men with unusual cases of pneumonia in Los Angeles. In retrospect, it was the first publication to detect and inform the wider scientific community of the presence of HIV.

Last night, everyone working on MMWR was fired.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 1d

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Tusk Jenkins @tuskjenkins.bsky.social · 15h

People say mucking foron like it's not how you harvest some extremely rare element from a swamp

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 17h

I dunno, seems okay.

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BethRHylton @bethrhylton.bsky.social · 6h

www.timesunion.com/history/arti...

The Erie Canal built New York. But it came with a cost.

Two centuries on, the Erie Canal’s legacy — engineering marvel, economic catalyst and instrument of displacement — still flows through New York’s history.

www.timesunion.com

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Coral King @rocketcoral.bsky.social · 7h

The loveliest shade of iris I saw this year. Definitely my fave 😍🌼
#flower

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 7h

Oh myyy 😳

Alexander Skarsgård Just Wore A Super NSFW Shirt To A Film Festival—And Fans Are Here For It

www.comicsands.com

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Marc @runoldman.bsky.social · 7h

Autocorrect automatically adds imaginary when I type "friend."

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Nick @nick-biondi.bsky.social · 7h

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Dig It Dan @digitdan.bsky.social · 7h

Maine Central Railroad was chartered in 1856 and began operations in 1862. By 1884, it was the longest railroad in New England. It was the merger of the Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad and the Penobscot and Kennebec Railroad, resulting in a line from Danville (now Auburn) to Bangor.