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November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Old screenshot of tweet from @mikantheorange. Top FIVE THINGS you should NEVER do in Japan: 1 - Murder. Murder is actually very illegal in Japan. It goes against the traditional Japanese concept of " ikiru", in which they believe human beings should live. It is a beautiful belief you should respect when you come to Japan.
December 21, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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Also not sorry.
Picture of a barbarian-looking fellow with a round shield and a spear but also a yellow high visibility reflective jacket.
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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dougsaunders.bsky.social
Two years ago I had lunch with the dean of a department at one of Toronto’s major universities and she told me she had instructed all her profs teaching first-year classes to do exactly this. It sounded sensible and I wonder if it’s now more widely applied
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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I completely fail to understand the rationale behind when they use Avenir and when they use Frutiger on this sign.

*This* is the kind of sign issue we need an executive order to fix.

#nps #nationalparks #typography #rosietheriveterwwiihomefrontnationalhistoricalpark #RichmondCA #sfba
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I keep typing "xyxzy" into my Zoom chats but I never get transported anywhere...
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Full transit wayfinding standard document based on the subway entrance shown in that DS9 episode with the Bell riots
foundepisodes.bsky.social Found Star Trek Episodes @foundepisodes.bsky.social · 8d
What is your Star Trek project that only you would love?

All of the TOS episodes rewritten in the Mirror Universe. 79 episodes of pure uncut goateed chaos.
a man with a beard is standing with his arms crossed in a room .
ALT: a man with a beard is standing with his arms crossed in a room .
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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This is why I’m glad I don’t work for The Onion. I could never top this.
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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andylevy.net
they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Hal’s Office has really upped its outdoor furniture game. #albanyca #solanoave #coffeehouse
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The TX ruling would *not* invalidate CA's new districts. The amendment passed by Prop 50 mentions Texas, but there's no trigger provision. It's just an explanatory reference. ballotpedia.org/California_P...
SEC. 4. (a) It is the policy of the State of California to support the use of fair, independent, and nonpartisan redistricting commissions nationwide. The people of the State of California call on the Congress of the United States to pass federal legislation and propose an amendment of the United States Constitution to require the use of fair, independent, and nonpartisan redistricting commissions nationwide. (b) In response to the congressional redistricting in Texas in 2025, and notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution or existing law, the single-member districts for Congress reflected in Assembly Bill 604 of the 2025–26 Regular Session pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 21400) of Division 21 of the Elections Code shall temporarily be used for every congressional election for a term of office commencing on or after the date this subdivision becomes operative and before the certification of new congressional boundary lines drawn by the Citizens Redistricting Commission pursuant to subdivision (d). (c) (1) The Attorney General has the sole legal standing to defend any action regarding a congressional district map adopted pursuant to subdivision (b). (2) The California Supreme Court has original and exclusive jurisdiction in all proceedings in which a congressional district map adopted pursuant to subdivision (b) is challenged. (d) The Citizens Redistricting Commission established pursuant to Section 1 shall continue to adjust the boundary lines of the congressional, State Senatorial, Assembly, and Board of Equalization districts in conformance with the standards and process set forth in Section 2 in 2031, and every 10 years thereafter as provided in Section 1.[43]
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Old man yells at cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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nanoraptor.danamania.com
Truly smart devices would choose not to connect to the internet.
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
Every year, in honor of the anniversary of Sherman's march to the sea, I share this article in which Gary Brecher eviscerates the New York Times and celebrates one of the most inspired campaigns in United States history

Happy 161st, you glorious bastard
The War Nerd: Why Sherman was right to burn Atlanta
KUWAIT CITY — There are times when the sheer ignorance and ingratitude of the American public makes you sick. This week marks the 150th anniversary of Sherman’s March from Atlanta to the Sea, which...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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yonahfreemark.com
Major announcement in just-posted board documents: DC's Metro is moving fast toward automation.

Over 15 years, Metro plans full automation & platform screen doors, which the agency says will improve safety, reliability, & travel times—at reduced costs.
www.wmata.com/about/board/...
Building blocks of modernization and automation Modernization allows Metro to deliver more service at lower cost Roadmap to modernize Metro How rail modernization increases capacity
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Deporting millions of undocumented immigrants who have built lives in America (a) is morally indefensible, and (b) will probably make the housing shortage *worse* because so much of the construction workforce is undocumented.
utopia-defer.red utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 13d
everyone keeps dancing around it but JD Vance keeps trotting out the “immigrants are taking our housing“ because it’s a nativist blood libel he’s engineering alongside eg “they eat our pets” but, more specifically, it is to legitimize the dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population.
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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rideact.bsky.social
The rider experience starts before you hop on the bus. Our team develops the signs, maps, and at-stop information. David Rossman-Robinson has made it a career.

Today is @apta-info.bsky.social National Transit Career Day, where we highlight the careers beyond our frontline staff.

#TransitCareers
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The new SF supervisor is the former owner of Animal Crossing. I lived across the street from what is now Animal Crossing in the 1980s. At the time it was Bucks Market, a small convenience store but with a full butcher shop.

Animal Crossing moved there from a storefront on Judah at 31st. In the […]
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November 13, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Is it just me, or do the Muni trolleybuses in San Francisco look like they have cat ears? 🐱🚎
A 1-California trolley bus on a city street corner. The top of the bus has some streamlined design features that look like cat ears
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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mezentine.bsky.social
And I still think that you can't really understand the explosion in popularity of LLMs without reckoning with the reckless, wholesale strip mining of internet search that precedes them.
Hallucinations as compression artifacts is, I think, basically correct, and it just gets obscured because the affordances of interacting with the system and the process of generating output obscures how these things are built and what they actually contain.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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A planet-eating alien comes across the Earth and is about to eat it but first asks its parents to cut the crust off.
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Whoever did this may know a lot about display typefaces but they are clueless about bagels https://typo.social/@Keltroughton/115528301828696606
Kel Troughton (@[email protected])
Attached: 3 images Branding a bagel shop using SMOR by Nina Stössinger to illustrate how cute, fluffy and lightly toasted this typeface is. Check it out on our website for more info: https://store.overlaptype.com/fonts/smor #graphicdesign #branding #typeface
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November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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I need an adapter to convert my pulse oximeter to Touch-Tone
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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My new proposal: Suisun City - Half Moon Bay ferry route
November 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM