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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 5h

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 2h

Daily bunny no.3104 does not have a map

An intrepid bunny creeps through a labyrinth or dungeon, arranged in a grid like an old videogame. There is a snake and a skull in the bunny's path, as well as a spike pit. The bunny has a small sword.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 2h

Also Venezuela is a major oil producer and a war with them will likely raise prices and American firms might figure it is a great chance for them to gain control over Venezuelan oil production. Because that went so well last time.

Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 2h

This is sort of true, but indirectly. The US is a net exporter of oil and looks likely to remain one. But stopping rolling out renewables and low carbon tech in the biggest consumer will keep demand high for the Gulf states as well as our producers, who are all bribing him like crazy.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 3h

😢 open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 5h

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Life's A Funny Proposition - Eddie Cantor [HD]

YouTube video by Mrs Natari

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 17h

Wishing our problems away turned out not to work. It feels like it came tantalizingly close though. But I'm pretty sure that's a bit of a mirage. The roaring 20s prosperity was more than a bit of a mirage too though.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 17h

Wow, I'm watching Boardwalk Empire and Warren Harding just won. His speech: "we need not nostrums but a return to normalcy." Hits really differently after the Biden presidency and how disastrously that ended up going. That was Biden's core idea too.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 18h

🫂 I'm sorry you didn't get the chance to keep it properly. It's really hard when you can't really use a language enough to keep it up.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 19h

Yes terrified seeming nearly unintelligible man in the fin.ai commercial, I'm totally convinced your chat bot is going to safeguard my business. 🙄

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 1d

Daily bunny no.3103 wants to show off their collection

A bunny with thick glasses shows another bunny their room, which is full of colorful mushrooms being cultivated both around the room and in a drawer. The other bunny looks mildly grossed out. There is also a poster showing different mushroom species on the wall

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 20h

But it does seem he had a preference for the linguistic world as it was then. Our linguistic world is immensely poorer than it was and getting even poorer extremely rapidly.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 20h

He said he "wanted the curse of babel to strike all tongues." I don't know if he was aware of the anthropological research on languages that suggests languages didn't have that many speakers each until well after the invention of agriculture and that essentially everyone was multilingual.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 20h

Apparently Tolkien was very upset about language diversity declining, particularly English being spoken everywhere. It got to the point where he jokingly but with a hint of seriousness threatened to refuse to speak English and only talk to people in Old Mercian.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 1d

But I'll probably literally eyeball it because you can use black body emission color to gauge the temperature at that heat. Maybe I'll come up with something else clever, but that seems like the way to go.

Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of was concerned maybe I needed a higher temp type s thermocouple but they're both expensive and quite fragile so I think I'm just going to have to eyeball anything I need to take over 1300°C. Or use some other methods of determining temperature like the melting point of different materials.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I need to get a type k thermocouple. Or maybe several depending on the price.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 1d

Just last week when I posted about how I hated Ohio's new verification laws (requiring I upload my ID to Bluesky and other sites) people acted like the risk wasn't a big deal.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

There’s no such thing as “Antifa,” at least not as an actual organized institution, but repressive measures of the kind the regime is doing will certainly create one

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 2d

This is a really good discussion by a couple of people who dealt with releasing a book through Unbound as it collapsed. @alicefraser.bsky.social and @chrisskinner.bsky.social are great, Alice's book is fantastic, and it's really unfair this happened to so many great people. youtu.be/8l73x6t27U4?...

We made a hit book, and saw none of the money! Chris and Alice Unleashed!!! B'Ankruptcy Edition

YouTube video by The Bugle

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2d

so smol 🥹 #sqrlpix

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