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Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 12h

insane to me that I was plateau'd at a 365lb leg press for like three months this year and now I'm at 410lb??

Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 19h

I have felt like I'm being slowly tricked into seeing Ares but the idea of looking at it while being in an altered state might get me to actually so it

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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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Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 1d

had a single 8.8% beer and starting thinking "man, I could go for some Chili's rn"

Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 1d

the only thing I learned by the time I got to grad school was to start earlier in the day, but probably 95% of my papers throughout under grad and in grad, I ruthlessly researched for weeks and then wrote the day before it was due.

Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 1d

the only all-nighter I ever pulled, my dad came back from his girlfriend's house at 5am only to find me at the dining room hunched over the laptop having written a 20-page essay on The Wizard of Oz for my film class between 8pm the night before and then (A on the paper and the class, natch)

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes I think I love building furniture and then inevitably I assemble something backwards and crash out at 9pm (then as if I have no long-term memory I get excited to build furniture again)

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 1d

From the great novelist Sherwood Anderson, a letter to his son.

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Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 1d

garage (it's a one syllable word, two syllables = you're not a local)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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KarrahE @karrahe.bsky.social · 5d

Best sleuthing trio completed! 🕵🏻‍♂️

#fanart #Columbo #MurderSheWrote #Poirot

Stylised painting of Peter Falk as Columbo. He's in his mac and holding his trademark cigar. He looks go the viewer with a twinkle in his eye and knowing smile

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Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 2d

as someone from the Rochester area, Great Lakes needs to extend over there imho

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 3d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 3d

I love to listen to that game yappin'

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 3d

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Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so ambiently pissed off today that I just looked at a picture of baby yoda snd thought "man, baby yoda is fucking STUPID"

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elf yaoi @deniweenie.bsky.social · Jan 4

he came to me in a dream.....

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Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 4d

tryna find a nice, relaxing nature show and the diabolical algorithm offers up a doc on the yellowstone supervolcano, something I am trying actively not to think about, ever!

Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 4d

most of the "rules" about how to be an adult that don't involve making your life easier or more joyful are entirely NOT mandatory - experiment! find the way to live that makes you happy and fulfilled even if it means you're not living up to the expectations for "adulthood"!

Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 4d

if you're not strength training - start. also please for pete's sake have fun every week - I mostly don't think that you're doing to have fun matters all that much, but you need to have a blast as often as you can.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 7d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 4d

didn't realize this was a video at first and thought it was one of those screen brightness tests they make you do when you start a triple a rpg

Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 5d

someone just described a child with autism as "could read at 3 but struggled with social skills" and uh oh where did this mirror come from?

Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 5d

just remembered that a week ago today I got diagnosed with Long Arms (I knew it already but I didn't think anyone else noticed 😭)

Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 5d

fuck yeah

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harp @haaarpb.bsky.social · 6d

seignfelt

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Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 6d

that is such a fuckin MOVIE (I got lucky and caught it in a theater earlier this year, and hot damn!)

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Lo and Behold @lololo.bsky.social · 6d

the entire left side of my body from neck to foot is sore and I have absolutely no idea why - the right side is totally fine??