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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d

Men Unlikely to Benefit Are Getting PSA Testing Anyhow www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...

Men Unlikely to Benefit Are Getting PSA Testing Anyhow

Study from across the pond reflects a common U.S. problem

www.medpagetoday.com

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brettrickman.bsky.social @brettrickman.bsky.social · 2d

If "ain't that some bullshit" was a painting

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 3d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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Glonzo Journalism, But Scary 👻 @scriban.bsky.social · 2d

A robot that can fold fitted sheets is my singularity.

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brettrickman.bsky.social @brettrickman.bsky.social · 2d

DO NOT CONGRATULATE

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3d

farmers are probably generationally fucked. medicaid recipients are fucked barring some fix in the next budget round. rural health care systems are toast. employment is looking *very* wobbly.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I think Paul, of blessed posting memory, is entirely right here, and I say this *even though* the young people I know remain highly literate and engaged, because I think his sample is way more representative than mine.

musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d

If you think I'm not alarmed, read this.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

www.theatlantic.com

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 5d

Window Screen

xkcd.com/3151/

4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

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rico. @whoisrico.bsky.social · 6d

I love how you can find people who share your dumb sense of humor on the here. My silly version of this from 2017

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 8d

If you can hear this image, it's probably time to schedule your colonoscopy. If you can sing the whole song, it's also time to get your shingles vaccine.

Time for Timer on a red background. Next to him, the phrase "When my get-up-and-go has got up and went, I hanker for a Hunk O' Cheese!"

He looks at you with this blank stare, daring you to tell him you tried to make sunshine on a stick in the freezer but the toothpicks never stayed up straight. He knows you won't say anything because you're embarrassed. You know he knows. He knows that you know that he knows. And yet, he just stands there, hankering for a hunk o' cheese like it isn't fucking impossible to get plastic wrap to stay taught on an ice cube tray.

You want to ask him for a wagon wheel, from his stacks of snacks, but you can't bring yourself to say the words, because now you, too, are hankering, hankering for the last hunk-o-cheese, and you both know you'll have to fight for it.

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brettrickman.bsky.social @brettrickman.bsky.social · 11d

My feed exactly

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 11d

Bluesky feed is like

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brettrickman.bsky.social @brettrickman.bsky.social · 11d

There was an optics festival and I wasn't informed?

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Jess Horror-ssette @decafjedi.com · Nov 11

The box art for Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative is ridiculously classy for a game released in 1987.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12d

Moreover, if your plan is to convince an army of conscripts to march into and occupy major American cities, you are Looney Tunes Napoleon hat level insane