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Cybersecurity. Discovered Northwest Pole. Making stuff.
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December 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Any artists out there got an available (non AI) picture of what could be a bioengineered seal/aquatic human?
December 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Oak Lawn Methodist Church Nativity in Dallas, TX
December 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I am not a Christian of course but like all Americans I have spent my life marinating in Christian mythography, and so around this time of year I have a lot of thoughts about the Nativity and the part where the innkeeper says there's no room in the inn.
December 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Sorry, clarification - I have an immediate need for an
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
Any artists out there got an available (non AI) picture of what could be a bioengineered seal/aquatic human?
December 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Here's Cernunnos, wishing you all a merry Yuletide, however you celebrate!
The name Cernunnos appears in an inscription on a first-century CE Roman pillar from Gaul, associated with a horned figure.
December 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Ten years ago I posted on Republican obsessions re naval ships, especially naming them in ways that carry out immature grudges. And that was back when GOP insanity was merely Neocon warmongering and cheating, before the present era of volcanically-open-evil.

davidbrin.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-...
The Politics of Naming Aircraft Carriers: a flat-out rant
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December 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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I’m back after a 3 day suspension for sharing a link to publicly available police reports exposing Blood Tribe nazis. They also removed the post. Bluesky evidently prioritizes the protection of literal, active nazis over community safety. Unfortunately for BT, they’re already in the sunlight now :)
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Daily bunny no.3169 gazes into the abyss
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Daily bunny no.3170 was not the first one here
December 16, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Daily bunny no.3178 got their tree late
December 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Daily bunny no.3179 wants to sing along
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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The German "Our Glorious Teutonic Prussian Aryan Master Race War Machine"/Japanese "Our Glorious Warrior Tradition" versus the American "The Liberal Scientific Community Figured Out How To Make Proximity Fuses and A Throwable Sun and All The Drafted Teachers and Lawyers Have M1s and Air Support"
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods
December 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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my point is not to dunk on the alpha podcast bros.

I say it to the nerds out there who may feel self doubt, or the urge cower

Never forget: You aren’t descended from the fearful or losers. You stand on the shoulders of intellectual giants who also found the fight in themselves when they had to
December 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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what the nerds seem to always have, that the warrior culture doesn't, is a willingness to look at what is actually decisive in conflict, rather than what makes them feel like they have a bigger penis than they actually do, or what they think will make their wives finally look at them like a man
December 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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every time I can recall from history that a group has centered a culture of martial virtue to the point of conflict,

the "soft intellectuals" the warriors distinguish themselves from have learned war real quick, dominate because they pay attention to details, and then go back to art and nerdy stuff
December 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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The racist disbelief that Black people can be worthy of coveted opportunities leads to all sorts of resentments. People cloak their resentments in a variety of talking points. This guy is recycling the current talking point of resentful White people by cloaking his resentment in “discrimination.”
December 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"Autoerotic transubstantiation"
December 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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December uploads on my new Substack page:

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December 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a right and moral cause, then it is not a political party, but a conspiracy to seize power.”

~President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956.

Image: Eisenhower Presidential Library.
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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24 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- For 2 months the FL state Atty Genl has tried to cancel “anti-Christian” Pensacola stop on Ru Paul's Drag Queen Christmas tour Pensacola officials have resolutely refused and 1600 seat theater is sold out. ("We are family/I got all my sisters..")
A Florida official wants to cancel a sold-out Christmas drag show. The queens are performing anyway
A Drag Queen Christmas, featuring artists from RuPaul’s Drag Race, will stop in Pensacola despite the state attorney general’s efforts to stop it
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December 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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AI advocates: you really need to learn to stop coming off to subject matter experts in other fields as if you’re Kool-Aid manning into the room and going “you’re dumb not to use these tools for your trivially easy jobs”

you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
You absolutely will not convince a bunch of historians and sociologists and whoever else is in this thread that you know more than we do about this and we should use it. I wish you AI enthusiasts would stop wading into our conversations. You have nothing helpful to contribute and are snarky.
December 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM