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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 13h

An aide whispers to the President, "Sir, another inflatable frog has been spotted in Portland".

The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 16h

China's internet policy makes excessive use of the word "harmony" and man, if what you post doesn't Spark Joy, if it doesn't Promote Harmony, brother: it fuckin' gets baleeted.

The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, ugh, facepalm, sry. No, yes, of course that's what they meant. And yes, I crave that robot. I would trade a million sassy emoji-riddled robot-written articles or sonnets for ONE robot that could do that task for me. Ideally it could fold up and store itself in my dishwasher when it was done...!

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 18h

I don't think I understand the premise? We definitely automate dishwashing. There's a necessary amount of hand-dishwashing that occurs in home and restaurant scenarios, but dishwashing has been solved for well over 40 years.

Photograph of the interior of an automatic home dishwashing machine, opened to reveal the racks of dishes inside

Marketing photograph of a restaurant-grade tunnel-style commercial dishwasher. A human operator on the left performs loading and pre-rinse, and a human operator on the right unloads and returns the dishes to the cooking and cold service areas of the kitchen.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, I am baffled at that part. Like... it's *ballistic*, coasting in a parabola predictable by high school physics for 20+ minutes of its 30-minute trajectory. If we can tell it's coming at us, then we can *by definition* back-propagate and infer its launch point.

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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 1d

Cam Skattebo run like a balled up fist

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

Cam Skattebo runs like you're going to let him taste the secret ninth crayon color once he gets a first down

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

A print advertisement for the "EGGCUBER" ("makes a square egg") which seems to be just an egg-sized square jar with a screw top. You put a warm peeled hard boiled egg inside, screw the top on, and wait until the egg is a cube instead of egg-shaped.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

"So you want to start ... with a roux."

Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 2d

This is an okra stan account now.

Detail photo of lots of chopped pieces of green okra floating in a red soup of tomato and other things.

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Stuart Webb @inflatabledalek.bsky.social · 2d

#Halloweenathon Day 9, it's The Creature!

They must have spent a whole 30 seconds naming him.

Again, feels a bit of an odd fit with the other Universal Monsters (it's a decade later than the Wolf Man, original monster, very different style), but unlike Phantom, it's a classic.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon title card.

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Ilya Sergey @ilyasergey.bsky.social · 2d

I am thrilled to announce Velvet: a new foundational multi-modal verifier for imperative programs in Lean.

Velvet unifies execution, testing, automated and interactive proofs; and is itself proven sound.

💻 github.com/verse-lab/loom
📄 verse-lab.github.io/papers/loom-...

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

Aim seems off on those timing routes, too. Who the hell taught him basic algebra??

The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

Eddie George has:
1) Almost certainly run a lateral play called "razzle dazzle"
2) Learned to give a boardroom pitch that downplays the weaknesses of the material
3) Sung "Give 'em the Old Razzle Dazzle" to a full house

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

How many people have

(1) An NFL rushing touchdown,
(2) An MBA, and
(3) A Broadway Playbill with their name in it?

Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 2d

damn eddie george really just did a bunch of fucking sidequests before getting back into football huh

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if I'm missing a famous-in-Nashville name who is to modern country pop what Jim Steinman was to chart-topping pop ballads. Like, you and I would never know their name but they co-write for several country stars AND are part of Taylor's creative team.

The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

Feels to me like the actual "best living lyricist" probably comes from hip-hop or Broadway. Pop's great but the format doesn't reward great lyrics! Even (late 20th-century) country was more appreciative of good lyrics than any chart-topping pop from the last 10 years or so.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

Running through names and saying "nope" comparing everyone to her... Joni makes my top five no matter what, and Taylor probably doesn't make my top 20. Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Dr. Dre, Eminem, freaking Lynn-Manuel Miranda and Andrew Lloyd Webber are all still alive.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

CISSP: I hope you taught them how to stay safe from the new QUISHING attack

ME: <vaccuum cleaner "THE WHAT" lady face>

The

WHAT

The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

Good day to listen to "Absolute Lithops Effect" by @themountaingoats.bsky.social

The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

My '01 Corolla had its oil plug fall out after a bad Jiffy Lube tech didn't put it in right, so it ran dry for a couple highway miles before I realized... it was never quite the same, and then the pistons seized around 200k. So mad because it absolutely held together like it was gonna be immortal.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 5d

Taurus: Give yourself a little credit. Not everyone could screw up so badly in such a variety of ways.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

A roadside advertisement for a moving company has lost a few panels and now reads "UH"

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

LEFT LANE
MUST
LEFT LANE

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

The advisor from SimCity hollers at the player, "YOU CAN'T LET A FROG DANCE EROTICALLY AT YOUR SWAT TEAM! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" The typeface is Chicago but the city is Portland.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 2d

Latest pet theory is "Reverse Truman Show". Nobody wants to tell Trump 'no', so they stage PR events or LARP on these weird one-off fascist spectacles (fast-roping to an apartment?!) so he can see them on TV. DOJ don't have to convict Comey, but they *definitely* were ordered to perp-walk him on TV.

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