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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 25m

2/ POV: and you can't get back to sleep because you feel like a renter in every monetized corner of your own life...

And while you can't sleep, your mattress topper is sending an astonishing 16 gigabytes of data/month to your sleep landlord.

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 8h

One of my go-tos. I just let it pick up in the middle and try to figure out who the current “he” is.

Audiobook cover for The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, edited by Antonia Fraser

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 8h

Your Grace, I was positively scolded for getting too close last time. Security guards do not understand.

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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 11h

In honor of Jerry Orbach's 90th birthday, please enjoy him,along with Angela Lansbury, recording Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 21h

A year of #GoodMorningFromSaskatoon. A photo almost every* work day from Oct ’24 to Oct ‘25. Blue sky and clouds, sunlight and street lights, sea smoke and fire smoke, advance and retreat of the ice, sunrise at 4:45AM to sunrise at 9:15AM… so many things to see from this one spot (*210 pics) 😁📷

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 14h

Point of order: If you are in a position to apologize profusely, do not throw in a "no worries." Not your place. It's my driveway you are parking in and I am worried. And annoyed.

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 18h

Neat little cloud.

Disc-like cloud against very blue sky, with some muted fall color trees on the left. And a stop sign on the bottom of frame

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 19h

The long thread just re-ups the original a bunch of times and I tend to ignore.

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 19h

I do not. This just reminded me of the time I chatted with a guy at a spring training game and when he left he gave me his card, which said he was president of some Joyce Kilmer society.

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 20h

Nah. Common mistake. I only know because my mom was a fan.

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 1d

the AWS outage is affecting Ring doorbells. Sky News says “some users can’t see outside their house, definitely scary”

just look outside your window 😅

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Emilia Kandl @weetarsier.bsky.social · 6d

It’s good that we continued to workshop hats

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 6d

A man's or woman's hat, 1590-1680, English made of felt, with a tall 'steeple' style crown (V&A Museum, London)

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 21h

*his poem

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 1d

Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 1d

Your favorite thing is down because DynamoDB at Amazon's AWS US-EAST-1 Regionwoke up with Main Character Syndrome.

This is the default /legacy backbone for a ton of things.

Including Amazon's own stuff.

Massive outages.

Here's what's going on & what we know 1/

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 1d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Iconic 2015 photo of three French men protesting on a farm, including one wearing only blue underwear and brandishing a shovel

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

via disesdi susanna cox

Flowchart that says, is AI spying on me? It leads to the question, do you use AI? But both yes and no lead to, AI is spying on you.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 1d

The rings of Saturn.

And a tiny bright light in the distance... Venus.

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 1d

Digging the sumo purse.

bundgaardf.bsky.social @bundgaardf.bsky.social · 2d

I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London

Sumo wrestlers having fun posing with Stonehenge

Sumo wrestlers posing like The Beatles on Abbey Road

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 1d

As close as I will get to this: When we Burn Notice super fans toured the studio during their last season and they left us alone in a conference room with the series finale script. Did I steal it? No. Did I read the last two pages? Yes.

Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

This is also why if you have the opportunity to burgle the Louvre you kind of have to right? It’ll be remembered as a “daring heist” through history. You’re like an actual Lupin the Third.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Thieves stole priceless jewels from the world-famous Louvre in Paris in a daring heist early Sunday that forced the museum to close for the day, officials said

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 1d

They're so cute!

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 1d

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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Nan Warshaw @nanwarshaw.bsky.social · 2d

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Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 1d

I went to the library looking for the new Amelia Earhart book and found this right next to it. Fascinating stuff about the aviators trying the transatlantic crossing 8 years before Lindbergh. 📚✈️

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 1d

"But soft! What light through yonder window... BRAKES!"

Sky News @news.sky.com · 2d

Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver

A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.

news.sky.com

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