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✦ kresendoe ✦ @kresendoe.bsky.social · 1d

met a cool guy on my walk

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 23h

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jaywallace1.bsky.social @jaywallace1.bsky.social · 21h

Seriously, it's fucking baseball. You should be able to watch it with rabbit ears.

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daryl "treehouse of hormones" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 21h

"separation of powers isn't real", I assure myself as I close my eyes and ram the white house with my shitty excavator

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22h

The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater

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Adem @adem.bsky.social · Jul 9

the hardest problem in computer science: printing an 11x17 document onto 11x17 paper

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jaywallace1.bsky.social @jaywallace1.bsky.social · 21h

That Cruze-based compact they made years ago was actually pretty decent looking and could be had with a manual and a turbo-four. I see one every once and a while and go, "Man..."

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jaywallace1.bsky.social @jaywallace1.bsky.social · 22h

Hell yeah.

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jaywallace1.bsky.social @jaywallace1.bsky.social · 22h

Buick should not be three (four?) lame crossovers, that company needs sedans.

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CC Kirby @cckirby.bsky.social · 1d

A great commercial for The Blair Witch Project's VHS and DVD release, from an October 30th, 1999 airing of Carrie on TNT

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jaywallace1.bsky.social @jaywallace1.bsky.social · 23h

Leto's got to have blackmail material on these people. He should have been Armie Hammered a while ago.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 1d

it turns out that trying to lean on the forest as horror is challenging when you largely find the forest to be a place of belonging and comfort. turns out that what mainly terrifies you about living in the sticks is corrupt cops, lack of social services, and small town hostility. time to lean tf in

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 1d

it's so nice to have good friends [who let you sob on their shoulders about how much your WIP sucks and then ramble on and on about all the reasons why until you stumble across some ways to fix it and leave with renewed vigor to write down all the good stuff you just blurted out off the cuff]

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most amazing kickstarter reward I’ve ever seen

WORF'S NOSES! When Doug Drexler was a makeup artist on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," he often rescued Michael Dorn's prosthetic noses from the trash when they were removed from Dorn at the end of the day. A limited number of these preserved pieces are available as Add-Ons when you back the campaign.

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Daily Squibs @dailysquibs.bsky.social · 1d

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY (Lamont, 1955)

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Mike Barney Lisan al Gaib @officialjplosman.bsky.social · 1d

There’s nobody in China or Russia or Iran or anywhere who wants a worse future for you, personally, than bezos or andreesen or musk or zuckerberg or trump or mark cuban or etc. does

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that Trump is tearing down the WH literally and there's still a massive contingent of Dems obsessed over trying to fight against their own nominee in the NYC mayoral race, including people not even in NYC lol

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 1d

this is in everything! there's no middle anymore so if you're gonna do it you might as well do the Nice Version

Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 1d

on the bright side, everything at the impossibly shitty grocery store costing just as much as farmers market produce means you can just go to the fucking farmer's market now and pay real people for the privilege

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

This is what Leadership Culture gets you: people in charge with no skills, no knowledge of the thing they’re supposedly in charge of, and no incentive to mitigate risk, betting the future of the institution and everyone in it on whatever shiny objects they recognize from skimming Forbes.

The man betting everything on AI and Bill Belichick | TechCrunch

UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts is making big bets on AI and Bill Belichick, and he sounds like a Silicon Valley CEO while doing it.

techcrunch.com

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

At the 12 second mark, that camera operator called an audible and just said "fuck it, the lane is clear, no tripping hazards, I'm winning a Sports Emmy for cinematography right now"

Ian Hunter @bluejayhunter.com · 1d

"I was born ready. I was born ready. And I want it all for this city."

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

it's like 9/11 for the cloud today

This is a screenshot of a Hacker News thread titled "AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1" (linking to amazon.com), posted by user kondro 13 hours ago with 1364 points and 1678 comments. The top-level and nested comments highlight users’ humorous or mildly frustrated experiences caused by the AWS outage:
0x5345414e (3 hours ago):
“This is having a direct impact on my wellbeing. I was at Whole Foods in Hudson Yards NYC and I couldn’t get the prime discount on my chocolate bar because the system isn’t working. Decided not to get the chocolate bar. Now my chocolate levels are way too low.”
tonymet (2 hours ago):
“‘alexa turn on coffee pot’ stopped working this morning, and I'm going bonkers.”
jdlyga (1 hour ago):
“Alexa is super buggy now anyway. I switched my Echo Dot to Alexa+, and it fails turning on and off my Samsung TV all the time now. You usually have to do it twice.”
tonymet (59 minutes ago):
“i agree. the new LLM is better for dialog and Q&A, but they haven’t properly tested intents and IOT integration at all.”
pewpew_ (2 hours ago):
“I was attempting to use self checkout for some lunch I grabbed from the hotbar and couldn’t understand why my whole foods barcode was failing. It took me a full 20 seconds to realize the reason for the failure.”

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to stop the right wing psychos and you can't deal with receiving free healthcare as part of the political projects, your brain is fundamentally mush.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 1d

Like I’m not being comical that used to be part of the economy that hired cameramen and directors and wardrobe departments and script people and caterers and now it’s just fiverr

John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 1d

commericals used to have a budget

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 1d

“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.

Curtis Yarvin & David Starkey - The End of the End of History
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The second Oakeshott Lecture of 2025 - with perennially viral tech philosopher Curtis Yarvin and eminent historian David Starkey

In the second Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) Lecture, Curtis Yarvin will address the End of the End of History in the Post-Cold War Era.

A former software developer, Curtis Yarvin came to international prominence under the pen-name Mencius Moldbug as a critic of contemporary democracy. An avid promoter of technocracy and critic of ‘the Cathedral’, Yarvin has become an influential figure on the American right - a reliably controversial voice and a confidante of JD Vance and Peter Thiel.

Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

our "smart" coffee machine at work is broken today. I made a joke about it being related to the AWS outage but then we looked in the back and it's plugged into ethernet

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 1d

speaking of I actually have a really good idea for how to reinvigorate the post office

oscar wilde women do 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social · 1d

the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change

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