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Bisho

@angbisho.bsky.social

Our new tv arrives today, and folks, I'm excited

December 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM

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Kimmy W

@ghostynewt.bsky.social

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

Screenshot of an email:

Subject: [PIPEXP-1192] Login Access Request
To: me

Good morning Kimberly! =^uwu^=;;

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble logging into Jellyfin! It looks like your SSO account was indeed deactivated on 2025 Dec 15.

According to our records,

1. On or about 2025 Nov 15, you were broken up with by ___, who noted this as a “final break” on vis event report sheet. I’m also seeing that Ve ticked the “Unilateral” box, meaning it isn’t contestable.
2. Our Salesforce shows you aren’t close to any other polycule members

Unfortunately, our solo-poly access policy doesn’t allow us to extend resources to unpartnered members after the 30 day grace period following your break. This includes entertainment resources (Jellyfin / *darr / nzbget / Pornhub for Enterprise™ seat), as well as O365™, Adobe CC™, and shell access on the Nix clusters. We’re so sorry for your loss, cutie!! 😭💜

If you have any questions, you can reply to this email to generate another ticket, or you can contact zzzoeee@ from our Partner Infra team (note: three Zs and three Es in their LDAP, we have a lot of Zoes here!)

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Regards,
___ (🏳️‍⚧️she/her, UTC -5)
Partner Infra Platform Experiences team

As a courtesy, a copy of this email has been sent to your manager listed in Workday™

New name or pronouns? Dating someone new? Just visit go/update-me to update your account!

Include this line in your email to comment on the ticket: 250e084a-b937-47a6-948d-b519112ad35a

December 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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Brutalismbot

@brutalismbot.com

Hardest fucking brutalist church!? (St. Paulus Church (St. Paul's Church) located in Neuss, Germany.) r/brutalism

December 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

(putting a microwave in a porta potty) My startup will transform affordable housing

December 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM

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Riker Googling

@rikergoogling.bsky.social

what caused the bell riots

December 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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Discontinued Foods!

@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social

Bookmarked with the greatest of haste

December 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM

Bisho

@angbisho.bsky.social

I foraged some puhutakawa blossoms and my hands got covered in sticky nectar. Next is syrup for Xmas!

December 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM

Bisho

@angbisho.bsky.social

How I feel when I say there should be a lot less cars

ceej @ceej.online · 4d

I promise I will eventually stop posting about speeding but it’s so rare that an opportunity exists to argue a position that is as controversial as it is irrefutable. It’s like walking in to a dog torturer convention and saying you think it’s wrong to torture dogs

December 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM

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LFCNev

@thenorthsace.bsky.social

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM

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Paul Brislen

@brislen.nz

OK, Tāmaki Makaurau, the hornet army is on the march. Time to saddle up, cut up some bottles and trap the little bastards before they do any more damage.

MPI has bumped up the zone so if you're inside that purple line it's time to get busy.

More info here: www.mpi.govt.nz/news/media-r...

Screenshot of the MPI map for where hornet sightings have been made and where MPI would like us all to focus our efforts.

December 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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Scissors

@rningscissors.bsky.social

I hate how much I enjoyed this

BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM

Bisho

@angbisho.bsky.social

Walking into 2026 like

December 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM

Bisho

@angbisho.bsky.social

Karaoke gives me 🎶liiiiiiiiiife!🎶

December 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM

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DaWeekendStreamr twitch.tv/lord_googoo

@lordgoogoo.bsky.social

December 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM

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Bad Medical Takes

@badmedicaltakes.bsky.social

Twitter user MonaBellt: often it´s a developing phase where children develop their ego. Most children are different after having measles. More concentrated, stronger, especially mentally.

Maybe measles are not allowed any more because somebody up there doesn´t like strong focussed people?

December 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM

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Brutalismbot

@brutalismbot.com

[OC] Tourism Board Building - Baghdad r/brutalism

December 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM

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Ketan Joshi

@ketanjoshi.co

It is intensely funny to me that tech bro CEOs on an annual salary of 15 petabillion dollars think data centres can go in space because it's very cold but actually they would get obscenely hot because heat won't radiate into the vacuum of space

taranis.ie/datacenters-...

cold coolant returned to the loop. Typically the coolant is cooled via convective cooling to the air, so one way or another this is how things work on Earth.

In space, there is no air. The environment is close enough to a hard, total vacuum as makes no practical difference, so convection just doesn't happen. On the space engineering side, we typically think about thermal management, not just cooling. Thing is, space doesn't really have a temperature as-such. Only materials have a temperature. It may come as a surprise, but in the Earth-Moon system the average temperature of pretty much anything is basically the same as the average temperature of Earth, because this is why Earth has that particular temperature. If a satellite is rotating, a bit like a chicken on a rotisserie, it will tend toward having a consistent temperature that's roughly similar to that of the Earth surface. If it isn't rotating, the side pointing away from the sun will tend to get progressively colder, with a limit due to the cosmic microwave background, around 4 Kelvin, just a little bit above absolute zero. On the sunward side, things can get a bit cooked, hitting hundreds of centigrade. Thermal management therefore requires very careful design, making sure that heat is carefully directed where it needs to go. Because there is no convection in a vacuum, this can only be achieved by conduction, or via some kind of heat pump.

I've designed space hardware that has flown in space. In one particular case, I designed a camera system that needed to be very small and lightweight, whilst still providing science-grade imaging capabilities. Thermal management was front and centre in the design process – it had to be, because power is scarce in small spacecraft, and thermal management has to be achieved whilst keeping mass to a minimum. So no heat pumps or fancy stuff for me – I went in the other direction, designing the system to draw a maximum of about 1 watt at peak, dropping to around 10% of that wh…

Cooling even a single H200 will be an absolute nightmare. Clearly a heatsink and fan won't do anything at all, but there is a liquid cooled H200 variant. Let's say this was used. This heat would need to be transferred to a radiator panel – this isn't like the radiator in your car, no convection, remember? – which needs to radiate heat into space. Let's assume that we can point this away from the sun.

The Active Thermal Control System (ATCS) on the ISS is an example of such a thermal control system. This is a very complex system, using an ammonia cooling loop and a large thermal radiator panel system. It has a dissipation limit of 16kW, so roughly 16 H200 GPUs, a bit over the equivalent to a quarter of a ground-based rack. The thermal radiator panel system measures 13.6m x 3.12 m, i.e., roughly 42.5 square metres. If we use 200kW as a baseline and assume all of that power will be fed to GPUs, we'd need a system 12.5 times bigger, i.e., roughly 531 square metres, or about 2.6 times the size of the relevant solar array. This is now going to be a very large satellite, dwarfing the ISS in area, all for the equivalent of three standard server racks on Earth.

December 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM

Bisho

@angbisho.bsky.social

First person. Sorry, I just think it's ugly.

Best Indie Games @clemmygames.bsky.social · 19d

December 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM

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Kate Aronoff

@katearonoff.bsky.social

Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj