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The Mountain Goats ft. Lin Manuel Miranda @micolithe.us · Aug 24

This website is long dead but I often think "Why are cats immune to chemtrails? Five possible answers from science" could beat out Cellar Door or Phoebe Bridgers Punisher as most beautiful phrase in the english language.

Why Are Cats Immune to Chemtrails? 5 Possible Answers From Science
Posted on Aug 15, 2014 - 4:00pm by Henricus Institor

Why do cats seem uniquely Chemtrail-aware?

The early 21st-century has seen a remarkable intensification in feline ownership. These animals are no longer casual bystanders in our eco-systems. They have passed that tipping point to become a global environmental phenomenon. Crossing boundaries of class, race and geography, it could be said that the cat population now has the entire planet under its ever-watchful gaze. This surge has a peculiar overlap with the introduction of Chemtrails in our skies, which has also occurred in the last 16 to 20 years.

While there is much debate about the intention of Chemtrails — with hypotheses ranging from aerial defense and depopulation to a broad plot to cripple Christianity — it’s clear that these dangerous pollutants are causing countless health problems for everyday people. In turn, these biological problems (including fatigue, asthma, skin rashes, hemorrhagic fever and immune system failure) have been witnessed in various animal populations, including domesticated dogs.

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The Mountain Goats ft. Lin Manuel Miranda @micolithe.us · 9m

The Great Outdoor Fight story arc started in january 2006. For nearly 20 years "our every move is the new tradition" has been echoing in every part of my brain.

Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 19m

I've thought about these two Achewood panels a lot over the last year

Two panels from Achewood. In the first, Ray is riding in a motorcycle sidecar. He is looking at Roast Beef and saying, "Damn. This is a thing, isn't it?"

In the second panel, Roast Beef is driving the motorcycle, looking ahead. He is saying, "This is completely a thing. Our every move is the new tradition."

The Mountain Goats ft. Lin Manuel Miranda @micolithe.us · 53m

i'm having the worst IBS episode I can remember in a while, i don't even want to try to sleep until it's over

The Mountain Goats ft. Lin Manuel Miranda @micolithe.us · 1h

Alert: Due to budgetary constraints SEPTA has discontinued The Bang Bus

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Cats 'n' Briefs 😼🩲🔞 @catsnbriefs.me · May 7

The East Side Rats have caught their cat, and now they are getting ready to have their way with him~ 🐀🐱🩲

A scene set in an alleyway at night, featuring seven characters (1 cat and 6 rats). All of the rats are staring down the confused tourist cat in the center of the picture, who's a bit nervous since they obviously took the wrong path to the destination he wanted to go to.

The rats, starting from the left, are as follows:

• The white beatnik rat
• The brown jock rat
• The brown 90s hip hop era rat
• The gray greaser rat
• The brown hobo rat
• The green punk rock era rat

in the middle is the yellow tourist cat.

This version of the picture has all the visible characters sporting a bulge as they look enticingly at the cat in the middle.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10h

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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Tredain, fluffy one @tredain.bsky.social · 21d

www.furaffinity.net/view/62349872/
A request from @spooktoons.bsky.social of my hunky doberman Lance, he's all geared up and ready to play

If you'd like to support the artist consider a tip on ko-fi!
ko-fi.com/spooktoons

Digital Color Pin up by Spooktoons. An anthro doberman in a harness and muircap wieling a riding crop and ready to play

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 8h

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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The Mountain Goats ft. Lin Manuel Miranda @micolithe.us · 4h

what's a boy to do if he'll never be a gangsta?

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Raven Paine @ravenpaine.bsky.social · 7h

my friend just shared this with me

Dr Eggman Robotnic drawn in two images, Designed with Gamers in mind: Caked up Robotnic, Designed with activists in mind: no ass Robotnic looks sad

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 6h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 6h

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Ticky🏳️‍🌈 @drac.at · 11h

everything reminds me of her

Glass Palette Bot @bullseyepalettebot.bsky.social · Jun 24

A Split Complimentary palette with
001332 Fuchsia Trans,
000420 Cream Opal,
and 001867 Olive Smoke Tint

A circle split into three pie slices making a Split Complimentary palette with the colors: 001332 Fuchsia Trans, 000420 Cream Opal, and 001867 Olive Smoke Tint

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 15h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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AXEL LYCAN @axellycan.bsky.social · 7h

I think one of the strongest motivators of furries that lust after characters from mainstream releases (despite having plenty of personalized & community-created material available) is that there is something inherent to perverting something that wasn’t designed with that kind of gaze in mind.

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antlers @cervine.online · 7h

Tamagotchi paradise with prompt that says "BREED? Yes or No"

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isaacyote @isaacyote.bsky.social · 10h

yeag 🐦🌸kass

kind of a redraw of an older one i felt like doing

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🔞ПАН ЯРИ 🧊🧊🧊 @jariloxe.bsky.social · 7h

🤠✨😵‍💫

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The Mountain Goats ft. Lin Manuel Miranda @micolithe.us · 9h

doggy time

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 12h

I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.

"I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat," he wrote in an followup blog post. "In total, l've spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations: no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living."
Kupperman's original skepticism was built on a guess that the components in an average Al data center would take ten years to depreciate, requiring costly replacements. That was bad enough: "I don't see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math," he wrote at the time.
But ten years, he now understands, is way too generous.
" had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which Al datacenter technology is advancing," Kupperman wrote. "Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most."
In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that's assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin - not to mention the fact that the industry's actual Al revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog.

"In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year," Kupperman posited in his updated essay. "No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden - heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth."
Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 "astonishing."
However, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up?
"Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you'd need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend," he writes.
"If the economics don't work, doing it at massive scale doesn't make the economics work any better
- it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis," he concludes.
Overall, the pessimists broadly agree: it's no longer a matter of if Al is massively overhyped, but when the whole thing comes crashing down.
More on Al hype: Data Shows That Al Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

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The Mountain Goats ft. Lin Manuel Miranda @micolithe.us · 10h

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

The Mountain Goats ft. Lin Manuel Miranda @micolithe.us · 10h

seems like a trick

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Shiro Sirius @shirosiri.us · 1d

⚠️ End of the Free Raccoon
The free raccoon is turning into a tool of control.

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The Mountain Goats ft. Lin Manuel Miranda @micolithe.us · 10h

Can we get someone like you down here in Philly?

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The Mountain Goats ft. Lin Manuel Miranda @micolithe.us · 10h

Wow it's almost like being in touch with the people you're trying to represent is a winning strategy?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Pat Casey @patcasey.bsky.social · 13h

Danny Devito holding up an egg. Text says “May I offer you a military coup in these trying times?”

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