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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 22h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 15h

What in the nepo baby is this?

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 1d

I thought at first this was about Framework giving free devices for device compat testing to Omarchy, as they would any other Linux distro.

This appears to go FAR FAR FAR beyond that.

Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 1d

The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation

crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 1d

gnu cowutils

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 1d

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board — the agency that investigates chemical explosions to prevent future disasters — is shut down and may soon be eliminated entirely.

Scientists who study chemical disasters say this dangerous move will save the federal government a mere $14 million.

Refinery fires, other chemical disasters may no longer get safety investigations

Because of the federal government shutdown and proposed budget, key federal investigations may stop, including into what happened at a Chevron refinery in California in October 2025.

buff.ly

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HARUYAMA Seigo @haruyama.bsky.social · 2d

OpenSSH 10.2p1 がリリースされました - www.unixuser.org/~haruyama/bl...

OpenSSH 10.2p1 がリリースされました

2025/10/10, OpenSSH 10.2p1 がリリースされました. OpenSSH 10.2p1 Release Note 中の OpenSSH 10.2 での変更点のまとめこの記事にも添付します. OpenSSH 移植版付属文書の翻訳 # https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#10.0p1 Potentially-incompatible...

www.unixuser.org

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 2d

OpenSSH 10.2 has just been released.

This release contains only non-security bugfixes, most notably for a bad regression that made interactive that used ControlPersist basically unusable

Full release notes at openssh.com/releasenotes...

OpenSSH: Release Notes

OpenSSH release notes

openssh.com

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 3d

Janet Golder Kngwarreye, Anmatyerre, Indigenous Australian (1973- ), Women's Dreaming, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 130 cm

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 2d

I know this is a serious story, but does this pic not make it look like some noir point and click adventure game? Had me questioning my sanity for ages!

KTLA 5 @ktla.com · 2d

At least 1 person shot outside strip club in Los Angeles

Police are investigating after a person was shot not far from a strip club in Atwater Village late Thursday afternoon. Details are limited and it’s unclear exactly what occurred, but officia…

ktla.com

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 2d

Disco Elysium enjoyer?

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André Arko @indirect.io · 2d

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

The RubyGems “security incident”

Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. Fir...

andre.arko.net

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 2d

Don't forget Prince of Darkness; another absolute banger

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2d

NIXON: this, uh, “frog guy”…

EHRLICHMAN: yes

NIXON: it’s all the networks! gyrating like that - in front of kids! despicable, (inaudible) kissinger’s people

HALDEMAN: we’re looking into it, sir

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 2d

That's it, abolish the dictionary

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 3d

Agree except for the Vance couch fucking thing, that one slaps

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 4d

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DilDog 🅅 @dildog.l0pht.com · 4d

that beowulf book is pretty good i tell you hwæt

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 4d

Delete CLAUDE.md?

a cartoon skeletor is wearing a purple hood and a blue shirt .

ALT: a cartoon skeletor is wearing a purple hood and a blue shirt .

media.tenor.com

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 5d

Bari Weiss 'has a cop's heart and a tadpole's brain, which makes her the ideal partner for someone like David Ellison'.

ooft

defector.com/bari-weiss-s...