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NO DICTATORS
NO SLAVES
NO NAZIS
NO EXCEPTIONS

Seek facts. Use data. Challenge yourself.
It's giving World War Z.
Elementary school macaroni fungus sculpture is cracking me up.
December 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"The number of months of a project depends upon its sequential constraints. The maximum number of [people] depends upon the number of independent subtasks. From these two quantities one can derive schedules using fewer [people] and more months."

The Mythical Man Month
December 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
When Christ is truly in a church, they start whipping the moneychangers.
This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.

📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I'm wearing earplugs today to help with my abnormally tinnitus. Surprise side effect: a LOT of youtube content is helped by sounding like it's coming from the deepest, most cotton-filled well in history.
December 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The changed code is a small fraction of an open source contribution. Your commitment to understand the issue, how your proposed solution fits with the project, and be ready to own and push the review process forward is the biggest chunk of the work. Your effort is the contribution, not the code.
December 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The award for the nerdiest thing I've said this year goes to

"I've recently become interested in the physical properties of powdered coffee creamer."
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
As a buddhist, I struggle to have compassion for web devs who make users pick their birthdate from a calendar widget.
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Being a Type 1 on Constant Glucose Monitoring and a pump you work out which foods are shit real fast, and which companies are equally full of shit

Ironically it is not McDonalds and the Quarter Pounder

It is Sanitarium and Weetbix
fry from futurama is shown with a very serious look on his face
Alt: fry from futurama is shown with a very serious look on his face
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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My favorite Lovecraft quote:

"There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other."

Just brilliant 🤌

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #Lovecraft
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I mean isn't this final exhibit 1 in his war crimes case in The Hague?
I can't wait until this chest-beating imbecile is brought up on murder charges.
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Love everything about this video including the muted homage to The Kinks
THE ARDELLS - Stronger Than Dirt
youtu.be/TpbI-NwUPc0
"A great instrumental version of STRONGER THAN DIRT (based on the old AJAX detergent commercial from the 60s). It appeared as a b side to Midnight Train."
THE ARDELLS - Stronger Than Dirt
YouTube video by Bloozmonkey
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Is AI the ultra-processed food of computer science?
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I'm talking with a friend about the history of white supremacy. We got into the "lineage of supremacy". I'm slowly starting to think the problem isn't a pan-caucasian problem. Seems to me the Saxons inherited their lineage from the Vikings. Discussion paused for research but it's interesting.
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I think we should lean hard into the Pareto principle. Let's all of us sit back and not work while the billionaires and their sycophants do all the work.
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
All cruelty springs from weakness - Seneca
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Can we please stop using the word "sideloading"? It makes it sound like hacking a device. Sideloading is not a term with real meaning other than "not bought in an app store". Sideloading is normal usage of browsers, phones and ebook readers. But using that word makes normies think it's illegal
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Amtrak's annual ridership was up 5%, hitting an all-time record high of 34.5 million rides nationwide over the last year. Amtrak Cascades also hit a record high, reporting 1.4% growth and coming in just short of crossing the million-ride mark for the year.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
Amtrak Breaks Ridership Records Nationally and in Pacific Northwest » The Urbanist
# Amtrak's annual ridership was up 5%, hitting an all-time record high of 34.5 million rides nationwide over the last year. Amtrak Cascades also hit a record high, reporting 1.4% growth and coming in ...
www.theurbanist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Sharing from Author's Publish: These free books for the writer in your family or friend group might make good stocking stuffers.
authorspublish.com/books/#booksky #authors #writers #amwriting
» Books
authorspublish.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I'm about to eat Fudge Stripe cookies, take a 5 hour EXTRA strength (tropical burst flavor) and drink an electrolyte replacement drink. Over/under on me:
1. Having a stroke
2. Having a heart attack
3. Becoming enlightened
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Don't you hate it when you go to the grocery store and then the next day you realize you didn't get any fucking candy and you already hit your limit for times to leave the house this week ?
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM