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Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 21h

No costume but we did what we could. #NoKings #Malmö #Sweden

2 year old at the No Kings protest holding a poster in Malmö with a collage of a frog and it says RESIST

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

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Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 21h

No costume but we did what we could. #NoKings #Malmö #Sweden

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Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 1d

TFW you can’t remember your own phone number. The worst part is that I actually got more sleep than usual last night.

Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 2d

I agree with all of this and it's very well said. The only surprising thing to me was that his main problem is the same as mine: I miss great Mexican food
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

www.youtube.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 3d

I can't be the first to have this idea (the meme not the worktrees)

The "two chicks at the same time" screengrab from Office Space but the text says "Four git worktrees at the same time"

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 4d

I'm a bit pleased to learn that Cloudflare found SvelteKit to be nearly an order of magnitude faster than Next.js. We've invested in Svelte's speed, but not SvelteKit's, so I suspect there's still much more room for improvement.

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 4d

Oh... what's this, you ask? Just a benchmark that coincidentally shows how fast SvelteKit is compared to Next.js 🤷‍♂️

How fast, you ask? Just 7-10x. No biggie.

Svelte ❤️

A bar chart showing CPU benchmarks. SvelteKit is showing a 7-10x speed up compared to Next.js.

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matia 🇭🇷 @joyofcode.xyz · 4d

Svelte added a new type-safe utility for working with context 🔥

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Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 5d

I still think about this scene all the time #MVEMSNUP

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpGv...

Saved by the Bell - 04x15 - The Teachers Strike - Funny

YouTube video by Ashley Kissane

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 5d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 5d

On AI & water usage, it looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation, to 50M for cooling alone.

So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf courses.

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Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 6d

You know what you should do with this

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 8d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 11d

Needless to say I think this is brilliant.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13d

We’ve gone from DEI is bad to being upset that the #3 most streamed artist on Spotify in 2024 will be performing at the Super Bowl because he’s Latino.

This isn’t just white identity politics or institutional racism, this is racism as official government policy.

thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 14d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 15d

hakeem jeffries could fucking never. fuck literally anyone who claims to represent americans who *isn’t* out there saying this shit.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 15d

i feel like the journalism industry needs to invent a category for this post and give a prize to it in perpetuity

Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 15d

probably the most fun i've had reading something online in weeks

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Name A 28-Year-Old | Defector

Here is the challenge before you: Name a famous person who is 28 years old. Go ahead. No cheating, no looking it up. Off the dome. Pure, uncut 28-year-old naming. I bet you can’t do it. Zendaya? 29. ...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20d

watch this.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 20d

So exhausting..

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 20d

A friend writes:

I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."

Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."

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jin @ghangaji.bsky.social · 21d

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

tweet that reads:
Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 20d

More evidence that biking is really good for you:

After reviewing 23 studies, researchers concluded that there a "positive association between cycling and cognition" in adults 45+.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 23d

it's literally happening

"one day, everyone will have always been against this" book cover by Omar El Akkad. the cover image is a little girl with a bouquet of flowers in one hand, reaching up for help with the other, as a missile dives toward her.

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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 23d

NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters:

• Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

• Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023

• 60% oppose more military aid to Israel

• 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state

www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

Support for Israel in U.S. drops sharply, Netanyahu unpopular, new poll shows

Quinnipiac Survey Finds Only 47% of Americans See Backing Israel as a U.S. Interest, Down From 69% in 2023. Half of Voters Believe Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, While Just 31% Approve of Trum...

www.haaretz.com

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