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maya "break" breakbeat @heyitsbreak.bsky.social · Sep 1

guy on camera saying “thing bad. look how bad thing is.” Like, I knew that. I’m not gonna watch a 20 minute video of a guy saying “thing bad” in 10 different ways.

maya "break" breakbeat @heyitsbreak.bsky.social · Sep 1

generative ai art and books and video etc obviously is bad but the youtube commentary videos about it just aren’t fun to watch

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maya "break" breakbeat @heyitsbreak.bsky.social · Aug 12

this is my MET gala

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Katie, world's scariest Little Lady @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · Aug 10

YouTuber apology video title: "we need to talk about the plums"

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Aug 8

Snake-in-the-Box Problem

xkcd.com/3125/

Comic. A snake slithers around a hypercube. No two non-consecutive parts of its coils can be on adjacent corners. [Three small 4-dimensional hypercubes showing disallowed options with one large cube with snake wrapped around it. Dimensions = 4. Max Length - 7.] Snake(N) = Longest snake that can fit in an n-dimensional hypercube. Snake(N=1, 2, 3…8) = 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 26, 50, 98. Snake(N>8) = UNSOLVED. [caption] It turns out every scientific field has a key thought experiment that involves putting a cute animal in a weird box for no reason. So far, quantum mechanics and graph theory have found theirs, but most other fields are still working on it.

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Jubilee ❣️ @16pxl.bsky.social · Aug 5

inspired by hiking thru wildflowers 🌷🌾🌻🌼✨

#pixelart

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Aug 1

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

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Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social · Jul 31

*gently holds the baby bird*

Screenshot of a tiny pidgey being held with both hands in the Pokémon anime

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RTGame 👑 @rtgame.bsky.social · Jul 25

"I asked Chat GPT" well I asked RTGame and he said they used to call him The Drift King back in college. Share to save a life

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maya "break" breakbeat @heyitsbreak.bsky.social · Jul 22

one of the og pals, please give them a hand if you’re able

Celeste @celestepastore.bsky.social · Jul 22

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maya "break" breakbeat @heyitsbreak.bsky.social · Jul 5

Fiber arts is no longer a hobby for me. I’ve edited a wikipedia page 3 times in the course of making one pattern because the links were well over a decade out of date. I just wanted to know if the map colors were arbitrary. I still don’t know.

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · May 16

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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maya "break" breakbeat @heyitsbreak.bsky.social · May 11

This is the best youtube video I’ve seen in a really long time. I had to go outside after watching it. A work of art, a testament to our humanity, and a hug from your favorite English teacher rolled in to one. youtu.be/V5wLQ-8eyQI

incredible work by @joshwithparenthes.es

You are a better writer than AI. (Yes, you.)

YouTube video by josh (with parentheses)

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · May 9

The existence of a Chicago Pope implies the existence of APA Pope and MLA Pope

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · May 6

“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment

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Hillelogram @hillelwayne.com · Apr 24

If you call yourself a "software engineer" you better be able to:

1. Flip a linked list
2. Flip it again
3. Bop it
4. Twist it
5. Twist it
6. Pull it
7. Bop it

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maya "break" breakbeat @heyitsbreak.bsky.social · Apr 23

Been thinking a lot about the Lorenz attractor and came across @threadedtheorems.bsky.social’s work and had to give it a shot.

Embroidery in a hoop depicting a Lorenz system

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maya "break" breakbeat @heyitsbreak.bsky.social · Apr 23

down so bad I poured my heart out and submitted it to @tacobellquarterly.org. I’m a real artist, I say, muttering to myself while rocking in the corner.