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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 55m

640 KB ought to be enough for anybody

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2h

so here's a fun question:

how many bits of a standalone minimum stand-alone self-extracting archive of you do you think there are?

how many bits if you can assume that ~100 other people are already available and you don't need any redundant information they have?

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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 2h

October is the month to reflect on the gaping voids in the human object, we call them monsters

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Kristi j @kristij7gohawks.bsky.social · 4h

This was the Unicorn of Seattle Sports weekends

a unicorn is running in a field with the words heute show on the bottom right

ALT: a unicorn is running in a field with the words heute show on the bottom right

media.tenor.com

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Circling Seattle Sports @circlingseasports.bsky.social · 4h

Staff at T-Mobile Park just added the fourth trident here after the watch party here in Seattle.

#TridentsUp #SeizeTheMoment #Postseason

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StarCatcher 🇨🇦 @starcatcherjohn.bsky.social · 6h

The Pleiades (M45) AKA the Seven Sisters, in the northwest constellation Taurus. It is also the inspiration for the Subaru logo.

Shot taken on 2025-10-11 from my backyard.

🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111
📷 ZWO ASI 2600
Total exposure: 45 x 120s (1h30)

#Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

The Pleiades also known as Seven Sisters and Messier 45 (M45), is an asterism of an open star cluster containing young B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus. At a distance of about 444 light-years, it is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and the nearest Messier object to Earth, being the most obvious star cluster to the naked eye in the night sky. It contains the reflection nebulae NGC 1432, an HII region, and NGC 1435, known as the Merope Nebula. Around 2330 BC the Pleiades marked the vernal point. Due to the brightness of its stars, the Pleiades is viewable from most areas on Earth, even in locations with significant light pollution.

The cluster is dominated by hot blue luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. Reflection nebulae around the brightest stars were once thought to be leftover material from their formation, but are now considered likely to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium through which the stars are currently passing. This dust cloud is estimated to be moving at a speed of approximately 18 km/s relative to the stars in the cluster.

Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades were probably formed from a compact configuration that once resembled the Orion Nebula. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for approximately another 250 million years, after which the clustering will be lost due to gravitational interactions with the galactic neighbourhood.

Together with the open star cluster of the Hyades, the Pleiades form the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic. The Pleiades have been said to "resemble a tiny dipper," and should not be confused with the "Little Dipper," or Ursa Minor.

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 5h

the Cal Raleigh extension is the Mariners transaction I feel the best about since the Felix Hernandez extension

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 5h

all the sweeter when they win it all

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ian @ahandleforian.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah the Mariners have the lowest batting average with runners in scoring position but they have the highest percentage in shut the hell up John Smoltz

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Jeff Passan @jeffpasan.bsky.social · 5h

The Mariners take relentless at-bats. They're the best kinds of pests. Jorge Polanco, the walk-off hero of Game 5 of the ALDS, just knocked in his second run of the night. It's the eighth, Seattle leads 3-1 and the Mariners continue to threaten in Game 1 of the ALCS.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 5h

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

CB⚾️ Baseball Highlights @badgerbaseball.bsky.social · 6h

….is that

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 5h

Find someone who wants you as much as national broadcasters want the Mariners to bunt.

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MarinerMatt01 🇺🇦 @marinermatt01.bsky.social · 5h

Base hit, Mariners take the lead. #SEAvsTOR #MLBPlayoffs #Mariners

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867-5309 @jennbrown.bsky.social · 6h

Cal, you beautiful son of a bitch

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Marielle ⚓️🔱 @marielle922.bsky.social · 6h

TORONTO, DADDYS HOME!

a man in a green shirt with the number 082 on the sleeve

ALT: a man in a green shirt with the number 082 on the sleeve

media.tenor.com

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 6h

I’m so proud of Bryce right now.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 8h

capitalizing "internet" is some of the weirdest shit u can do with the written word. why r u doing that. it's just the internet. it's not the Internet. it's just the fuckin internet be normal about it

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 9h

we let these babies save the world, simple

Rat Squinks 🐀 @ratsquinks.bsky.social · 11h

the nefarious skink

ponzu the black rat standing on her hind legs with her front paws dangling awkwardly

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dame @dame.is · 10h

“what do you wanna be when you grow up?”

an enigma

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 11h

it’s gonna be really funny when it turns out that this guy uses gcc

(licensed under the famously pro-capitalism GNU GPL)

screenshot of a very stupid tweet: “My stance on Rust is that it's an activist language used to push communism. But I understand if people like it. I personally do not.”

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Marielle ⚓️🔱 @marielle922.bsky.social · 11h

Seahawks win! Mariners, it’s your turn (I’m already nervous)

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Art by Veya @artbyveya.bsky.social · 4d

If anyone's illegal, you can be, too. 🐈 ❤️

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 12h

hey everybody, the Pope only wants you to believe true things, now

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 14h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14h

The Senate Intelligence Authorization Act contains a major change that would allow the CIA’s top lawyer to avoid the Senate confirmation process. In an era of creeping authoritarianism this could hasten the Intelligence Community’s use as a tool of political espionage. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF and Other Organizations: Keep Key Intelligence Positions Senate

In a joint letter to the ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, EFF has joined with 20 other organizations, including the ACLU, Brennan Center, CDT, Asian Americans

www.eff.org

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 14h

I don't think the authoritarianism is really creeping anymore, guys

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14h

The Senate Intelligence Authorization Act contains a major change that would allow the CIA’s top lawyer to avoid the Senate confirmation process. In an era of creeping authoritarianism this could hasten the Intelligence Community’s use as a tool of political espionage. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF and Other Organizations: Keep Key Intelligence Positions Senate

In a joint letter to the ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, EFF has joined with 20 other organizations, including the ACLU, Brennan Center, CDT, Asian Americans

www.eff.org

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