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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 4h

Arguably the only accurate word here is “woman”

Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 5h

"Firm views"

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 5h

Caraca meio que foda-se o robô (com todo respeito), mas essa linhazinha eletrônica do começo da música goes hard demais

☭ Robson Freire ☭ @robsongfreire.bsky.social · 7d

Lembram desse robozão bailando no torneio de robótica que rolou lá no Norte do país?

Então….

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 5h

I’m old enough to remember the HS-14 🥹

Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 6h

N. Korea unveils new Hwasong-20 ICBM at military parade | Yonhap News Agency en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...

(3rd LD) N. Korea unveils new Hwasong-20 ICBM at military parade | Yonhap News Agency

(ATTN: ADDS photos)By Kim Soo-yeon and Park Boram SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Yonhap) -- North Kore...

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 5h

No, just bigger missiles on bigger TELs, forever. Eventually a missile whose TEL cab is in the United States while the back wheels are in Sunan

Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 13h

I went to the Apple Store and complained about my battery life on iOS 26 to an apple genius. She said she turned off all the special iOS effects on her phone and turned them all off for me too. The phone is genuinely better but this feels a little dumb…

Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks! Quite a bit of chatter I see. Still not sure what to make of it

Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 14h

Where is it from, on X?

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 19h

Desde o governo passado, eu defendo que, se a direita quer indicar alguém “terrivelmente evangélico”, o tit-for-tat da esquerda seria indicar para o STF a Pabllo Vittar

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 22h

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

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o chamado da tchutchuca e outros contos @prettygirlhi.bsky.social · 23h

painel do mangá uzumaki mostrando duas pessoas olhando para um bolo de rolo com expressões horrorizadas

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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 21h

1. Social media is now 5% following friends and 95% watching videos made by strangers.
2. Every podcast is turning into a YouTube show.
3. AI companies can't stop building TikTok clones.

Everything is becoming television.

I wrote about why that matters.

www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

Everything Is Television

A theory of culture and attention

www.derekthompson.org

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 20h

to be fair, it seems like that part wasn't the problem for the committee!

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado welcomed the US strike, describing it as legitimate pressure. She interpreted it as a direct attack on the government, which she said would be overthrown before long.

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 20h

Q q rolouuuu

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

Really happy with these photos I took on a random night stroll around Bushwick/Williamsburg

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

Ume psicopate*

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

A indicação certa pro STF neste momento é um psicopata que vai tocar o terror no André Mendonça até ele renunciar

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

Abundance

Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 1d

N. Korea's Kim pledges to build 'affluent paradise' on 80th anniv. of party founding | Yonhap News Agency en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...

N. Korea's Kim pledges to build 'affluent paradise' on 80th anniv. of party founding | Yonhap News Agency

By Park Boram SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has pledged to ...

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

All taken on CineStill 800T, likely my favorite film stock, on a Canon AE-1 camera

Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

Really happy with these photos I took on a random night stroll around Bushwick/Williamsburg

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

This is honestly such a good album

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 1d

A new album from the pioneer of alternative Arab music tempers pain and disappointment with the experimental grooviness she’s known for

#YasmineHamdan - I remember I forget

buff.ly/oEy7Yjn

Yasmine Hamdan - I remember I forget album cover. Photograph of a young girl with painting added on top of the image, including a yellow background.

Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

Really good piece. I have long held that Anathem, the book about monks in space, was Neal Stephenson’s most prescient work (more prescient than the one in which he coined the the term “cyberspace”), precisely because he anticipated this kind of nonliterate or post-literate society

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

rising above the mediocre haters like

A scene from the Kasuga gongen scrolls of a woman (deity) rising above a room full of people gazing up at her in amazement. To the left are four monks and to the right are six women and children, hands clasped together as they look up.

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

My food hot take is that every food tastes better with a little egg on top. And the best foods already have a little egg tacked on. Ramen? Has a little egg. Bife a cavalo? Egg. Lu rou fan? Egg. You gotta add an egg.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing title slide I have to share before even watching @scriptingjapan.bsky.social

youtu.be/TElWjeFmtl4?...

X the Ancient Japanese Art of Y: The Mobilization of Linguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Books

YouTube video by Scripting Japan

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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