Archer
@400trix.bsky.social
Fiddler. Programmer in Recovery. Free-range Nerd. e/lud
Compared to Bach, we all suck.
Pat Metheny
Never trust anyone who has a gibbon as their avatar.
Compared to Bach, we all suck.
Pat Metheny
Never trust anyone who has a gibbon as their avatar.
This is in Colorado.
“The super flu strain is called subclade K. Early sampling of flu cases show that 90% of influenza A viruses were positive for the strain. The flu shot does not cover this strain of influenza A this year…”
Wash your hands, cover your cough!
Wash your hands, cover your cough!
Hospitalization rates went up by 14.3% nationwide as of Friday.
December 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is in Colorado.
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I’ve watched at least two dozen reels, showing the terrible snow conditions in Colorado and Europe right now.
Guess how many of those videos mentioned climate change? And how many mentioned chemtrails?
The same number. ONE. 😱
Guess how many of those videos mentioned climate change? And how many mentioned chemtrails?
The same number. ONE. 😱
The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it
How do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In this inspiring, ...
www.ted.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I’ve watched at least two dozen reels, showing the terrible snow conditions in Colorado and Europe right now.
Guess how many of those videos mentioned climate change? And how many mentioned chemtrails?
The same number. ONE. 😱
Guess how many of those videos mentioned climate change? And how many mentioned chemtrails?
The same number. ONE. 😱
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Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
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Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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Liberals are complaining that the Justice Department has left in the faces of the little girls being abused while blacking out the photos of the rich, powerful men abusing them. But the rich, powerful men are the real victims of this investigation.
December 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Liberals are complaining that the Justice Department has left in the faces of the little girls being abused while blacking out the photos of the rich, powerful men abusing them. But the rich, powerful men are the real victims of this investigation.
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"Talking to them is like talking at a chatbot: whether they're friendly to you or outright rude, there is no hope in the world of actually influencing or engaging with them in a meaningful way, and they will mostly say the same thing regardless of environment."
My last long-form essay of the year (there will be a few more book chapters and probably a retrospective article, but this is the last of the heavy analysis). It's about why bad politics is tedious politics, tedious politics is bad politics and how we can insulate ourselves against both:
The politics of tedium | deadSimpleTech
All of these species of people, despite their wildly diverging politics, have one thing in common: they trigger the "my God, you're saying this again? You're full of shit" response. It's not that they...
deadsimpletech.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
"Talking to them is like talking at a chatbot: whether they're friendly to you or outright rude, there is no hope in the world of actually influencing or engaging with them in a meaningful way, and they will mostly say the same thing regardless of environment."
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Geese napping like snowy mountains and foothills in the winter sun. #ArtAdventCalendar Day 20.
#birds 🌿
#birds 🌿
December 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Geese napping like snowy mountains and foothills in the winter sun. #ArtAdventCalendar Day 20.
#birds 🌿
#birds 🌿
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If we are taking ai media enthusiasts at face value, that they genuinely believe what they’re doing is revolutionary, visionary work, I think it needs to be considered a manifestation of AI psychosis, the same phenomenon where the obsequious bots convince someone they’ve invented new math
December 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
If we are taking ai media enthusiasts at face value, that they genuinely believe what they’re doing is revolutionary, visionary work, I think it needs to be considered a manifestation of AI psychosis, the same phenomenon where the obsequious bots convince someone they’ve invented new math
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Pam Bondi is now facing the first bipartisan impeachment effort in Congress.
No member of Congress is going to protect her while she hides the Epstein files.
No member of Congress is going to protect her while she hides the Epstein files.
December 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Pam Bondi is now facing the first bipartisan impeachment effort in Congress.
No member of Congress is going to protect her while she hides the Epstein files.
No member of Congress is going to protect her while she hides the Epstein files.
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Your TL has been blessed by the triangular Tinkerbell of winter.
RT for 7 winters good luck.
RT for 7 winters good luck.
December 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Your TL has been blessed by the triangular Tinkerbell of winter.
RT for 7 winters good luck.
RT for 7 winters good luck.
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"A zebra is just a redacted horse"
-Kyle The Intern
-Kyle The Intern
December 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"A zebra is just a redacted horse"
-Kyle The Intern
-Kyle The Intern
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Here’s something beautiful for your Friday morning.
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
youtu.be/k_LmRcr8Mm4
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
youtu.be/k_LmRcr8Mm4
Redemption Song (Arr. Kanneh-Mason)
YouTube video by ShekuKannehMasonVEVO
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Here’s something beautiful for your Friday morning.
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
youtu.be/k_LmRcr8Mm4
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
youtu.be/k_LmRcr8Mm4
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If you are posting AI images - and especially if you're posting them without noting that they are - you are actively shitting on the world, making it a worse place, and harming all of us. Don't be a bad person, don't be an asshole, don't post AI crap.
December 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
If you are posting AI images - and especially if you're posting them without noting that they are - you are actively shitting on the world, making it a worse place, and harming all of us. Don't be a bad person, don't be an asshole, don't post AI crap.
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Author of Great Eggspectations, Chickolas Chickleby, and Beak House:
Charles Chickens
England and Wales, Census, 1881
Charles Chickens
England and Wales, Census, 1881
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Author of Great Eggspectations, Chickolas Chickleby, and Beak House:
Charles Chickens
England and Wales, Census, 1881
Charles Chickens
England and Wales, Census, 1881
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AI slop has made it to the deep sea.
That’s not a blobfish: Deep Sea Social Media is Flooded by AI Slop
www.southernfriedscience.com/thats-not-a-...
That’s not a blobfish: Deep Sea Social Media is Flooded by AI Slop
www.southernfriedscience.com/thats-not-a-...
That’s not a blobfish: Deep Sea Social Media is Flooded by AI Slop
Well, it finally happened. Over the last two week, my usually well-curated feeds of videos from the deep sea have been overrun with AI slop masquerading as authentic images of strange and delightfu…
www.southernfriedscience.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
AI slop has made it to the deep sea.
That’s not a blobfish: Deep Sea Social Media is Flooded by AI Slop
www.southernfriedscience.com/thats-not-a-...
That’s not a blobfish: Deep Sea Social Media is Flooded by AI Slop
www.southernfriedscience.com/thats-not-a-...
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📢 PROTECT TRANS KIDS 📢
December 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
📢 PROTECT TRANS KIDS 📢
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I've mostly been talking about the Trump regime's plan to dismantle NCAR, but you might be asking yourself, wtf is NCAR and why should I care? @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has got you covered here.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
December 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I've mostly been talking about the Trump regime's plan to dismantle NCAR, but you might be asking yourself, wtf is NCAR and why should I care? @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has got you covered here.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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IT'S TIME FOLKS!
SOLSTICE IS ALMOST HERE!
EVERYONE is invited to our annual Solstice Toast:
Dec. 21, 2025 - 10 am PST
Toast on the dot - then post a pic of you & your beverage OR just your beverage OR just post a hearty "Sláinte " as we wave buhbye! to the ever darkening days! #SolsticeToast
SOLSTICE IS ALMOST HERE!
EVERYONE is invited to our annual Solstice Toast:
Dec. 21, 2025 - 10 am PST
Toast on the dot - then post a pic of you & your beverage OR just your beverage OR just post a hearty "Sláinte " as we wave buhbye! to the ever darkening days! #SolsticeToast
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
IT'S TIME FOLKS!
SOLSTICE IS ALMOST HERE!
EVERYONE is invited to our annual Solstice Toast:
Dec. 21, 2025 - 10 am PST
Toast on the dot - then post a pic of you & your beverage OR just your beverage OR just post a hearty "Sláinte " as we wave buhbye! to the ever darkening days! #SolsticeToast
SOLSTICE IS ALMOST HERE!
EVERYONE is invited to our annual Solstice Toast:
Dec. 21, 2025 - 10 am PST
Toast on the dot - then post a pic of you & your beverage OR just your beverage OR just post a hearty "Sláinte " as we wave buhbye! to the ever darkening days! #SolsticeToast
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New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
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A phrase about daydreaming that I learnt in Mexico is pensando en la inmortalidad del cangrejo. It means “thinking about the immortality of the crab.”
* read on for more international phrases for being in a reverie (a thread)…
* read on for more international phrases for being in a reverie (a thread)…
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A phrase about daydreaming that I learnt in Mexico is pensando en la inmortalidad del cangrejo. It means “thinking about the immortality of the crab.”
* read on for more international phrases for being in a reverie (a thread)…
* read on for more international phrases for being in a reverie (a thread)…
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People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind
Actual academics:
Actual academics:
I have a weird question for the #bird people on here. Do you think someone could tell that a book was pooped on specifically by a sparrowhawk (or perhaps hawks generally) just from the feces? I'm looking at a 16th c. case where witnesses claim books were pooped on specifically by sparrowhawks!
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind
Actual academics:
Actual academics:
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UPDATE: This is the view from Yuma, CO about 25 miles west of Wray. You can see the glow from nearby fires and the wind rocking the camera.
December 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
UPDATE: This is the view from Yuma, CO about 25 miles west of Wray. You can see the glow from nearby fires and the wind rocking the camera.
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Photo from my collection, no date and the only info is that “Frances’ cat” is written on it. ☺️
December 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Photo from my collection, no date and the only info is that “Frances’ cat” is written on it. ☺️
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Gazing at the layers of time in the cliff side in Redstone Colorado.
#rockintuesday #photography #redstone #Colorado #cliff #geology
#rockintuesday #photography #redstone #Colorado #cliff #geology
December 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Gazing at the layers of time in the cliff side in Redstone Colorado.
#rockintuesday #photography #redstone #Colorado #cliff #geology
#rockintuesday #photography #redstone #Colorado #cliff #geology
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