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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 11h

@knowtheory.net Do you know of an at:// cron job solution? I'd like to get @noon-awoo.bsky.social running natively, instead of making a cron machine.

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 12h

Google Search would be so good if it were good.
In the meantime, it's ignoring all search terms in my query save one.

Google Search's News tab would be so good if it were good. Unfortunately, it can't find any of the articles that news.google.com does.

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trevin @trevinflickinger.com · 14h

“The crash happened on a highway on-ramp coming into downtown just before 3 a.m.”

The article fails to mention that this is one of the major bike lanes into downtown (and also one of the worst designed bike lane in the city)

myfox28columbus.com/news/local/e...

E-bike accident near downtown Columbus sends 2 to hospital

Two people were taken to a hospital following an e-bike crash near downtown Columbus early Friday morning.The crash happened on a highway on-ramp coming into do

myfox28columbus.com

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

Dismissed, but I haven't paid PACER for the documents to find out why. www.courtlistener.com/docket/68966...

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

If they're running around with tactical vests with "POLICE" on the front or back, surely that counts as a "uniform"?

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

(the floor boss swallows the floor's Gold Key when you walk into the boss arena; it's implied that a fighting protagonist would slice the boss open to get it)
(around Floor 95 it becomes clear that Floor 100 will be defeated by the presence of all the bosses who followed you up to watch your scares)

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

tower-climbing isekai but the protagonist is a fright house worker and horror movie fan. the narratively-convenient way to defeat the tower is by pairing up with the Holmes NPC to deduce each floor boss's phobias and, using materials from the tower, scare the Golden Poop out of the boss.

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

This article is from 2024; was there a follow-up on whether the clinic sued the PD for the damage to the machine and the lost helium?

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

Another local example of how "Home Rule" fails Ohio cities: Cities can set building codes that are more restrictive than state code, but not less restrictive. Ohio bans single-stair apartment buildings above 3 stories, and Columbus can't go around that, but NYC, Seattle, and Honolulu can.

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

Battle Tram!
Battle Train!
Some sort of game-mechanical difference between a standard bike and a cargo bike, which requires you to travel back to the Bike Shop City to swap, like in Emerald.

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

Consider the first commercially-successful cotton-picking machine, introduced in the 1944, which replaced human cotton-pickers.

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

Would it help if they didn't show up in body armor and helmets and balaclavas?

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 2d

go on....

(isn't this just "third places" but for social media?)

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 2d

[Dolly Parton voice] Caffeine, caffeine, caffeine, ca-ffeeeeeeeine

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 2d

The real question is: what happens if they try to turn away a plane they believe is so equipped?

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 2d

How big is your patch? Do you plan to let it take over the entire property?

An office I worked at had a pumpkin patch which started from a single pumpkin. Within 5 years it was encroaching on the parking lot.

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 3d

Some of the ones in the City of Columbus, Ohio, do! But planners are not the only decisionmakers within the government.
I don't think I've ever seen a picture of our mayor on a bike.

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 3d

What would Budd's control system be?

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 3d

I wonder if any of them are going to try to jump a bridge, like the Blues Brothers did.

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Giant Robot FM @giantrobotfm.bsky.social · 3d

You and who?

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 3d

The new Columbus Aviators UFL franchise is using AI-generated video for their sizzle reel. It's not a good look.

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 3d

Nobody told me that getting hit by a car would involve so many phone calls.

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 3d

I was in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 a couple of summers ago, and Glasgow Central Station looks a lot like that (except without aboveground thru-running) — it's a city-defining piece of infrastructure.

I'm knind of amazed they haven't tried to connect it to the Queen Street Station, a few blocks away.

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 3d

We need a good bit more, too. An inch or so so far today, but we were behind by 2-3" www.weather.gov/iln/climate_...

Weather data for calendar year 2025, from NOAA and NWS, showing temperature ranges, inches of precipitation, and inches of snow. In the last month, our temperatures have been high, and apart from one rainfall event about two weeks ago, we haven't had much rain since the end of July. The chart says that 30.84 inches have fallen, against an average of 33-34 inches of rain. 14.10 inches of snow, against an average of 22 inches.

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