Mikell Taylor
@mikell.bsky.social
Boston-based robotics nerd whose strong opinions do not reflect those of her employer. Come for the robots, stay for the gay pirates, Star Wars, and sarcasm. It’s pronounced “Michael”. I am cringe and I am free.
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the food you like? it's bad. the food *i* like? good. checkmate, losers
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
the food you like? it's bad. the food *i* like? good. checkmate, losers
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If you're not using the @oracle.posters.rip labeler you are missing out on a lot of random delight
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If you're not using the @oracle.posters.rip labeler you are missing out on a lot of random delight
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No one likes turkey. It sucks
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Overall, it’s early days, but it’s looking likely it will be a worse than average flu season driven by the more severe form of the virus (H3N2-K) and a milder version that will probably seem like the common cold (FluC).
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November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Overall, it’s early days, but it’s looking likely it will be a worse than average flu season driven by the more severe form of the virus (H3N2-K) and a milder version that will probably seem like the common cold (FluC).
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in which the Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Simplify Asset Management discovers how anachronistic & damaging “the poverty line” metric is in the USA— www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
in which the Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Simplify Asset Management discovers how anachronistic & damaging “the poverty line” metric is in the USA— www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
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Show us the problematic pan you will stand by.
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Show us the problematic pan you will stand by.
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If you're cooking this Thanksgiving, what is your plan for standing by your pan?
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If you're cooking this Thanksgiving, what is your plan for standing by your pan?
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Good on Hegseth for really leaning into the stereotype of That Officer Everyone Hates
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Good on Hegseth for really leaning into the stereotype of That Officer Everyone Hates
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
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It’s pronounced Christmas jifts
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
It’s pronounced Christmas jifts
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Boston Public Schools is the first district in the U.S. to swap out Mercator maps for the Peters projection, a more accurate and equitable depiction of the world that avoids the exaggerated size of Euro-centric countries.
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Boston Public Schools is the first district in the U.S. to swap out Mercator maps for the Peters projection, a more accurate and equitable depiction of the world that avoids the exaggerated size of Euro-centric countries.
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“stop using lithium-ion batteries for Rad Power Bikes e-bikes, model numbers RP-1304 and HL-RP-S1304” ebike peeps heads up
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“stop using lithium-ion batteries for Rad Power Bikes e-bikes, model numbers RP-1304 and HL-RP-S1304” ebike peeps heads up
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
EVs are not in and of themselves a solution but they sure as hell are part of the solution and this is pretty great.
The Whole World Is Switching to EVs Faster Than You:
"BloombergNEF forecasts EVs will be displacing about 5.3 million barrels of oil a day, equivalent to about a 10th of all road fuel consumed globally at present."
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#alwaysbecharging
"BloombergNEF forecasts EVs will be displacing about 5.3 million barrels of oil a day, equivalent to about a 10th of all road fuel consumed globally at present."
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#alwaysbecharging
The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
EVs are not in and of themselves a solution but they sure as hell are part of the solution and this is pretty great.
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I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
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There actually has not been enough reflection in the tech community about DOGE
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
There actually has not been enough reflection in the tech community about DOGE
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this paper goes out of its way to dump innuendo implying that COVID causes immunodeficiency comprable **TO HIV** yet nowhere does it mention that the t-cell depletion [and rebound] is comprable between covid and the flu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?
Immune dysfunction and systemic effects in HIV and SARS-CoV-2 infections are distinct, but share relevant similarities and downstream consequences. We…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
this paper goes out of its way to dump innuendo implying that COVID causes immunodeficiency comprable **TO HIV** yet nowhere does it mention that the t-cell depletion [and rebound] is comprable between covid and the flu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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People who are disbelieving of the fact Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein are so unaware that 12 year old girls become literary geniuses just by obsessively writing fanfics of their fave characters.
By 19, imagine what manner of writing and creativity you will have in an age bereft of smartphones.
By 19, imagine what manner of writing and creativity you will have in an age bereft of smartphones.
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
People who are disbelieving of the fact Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein are so unaware that 12 year old girls become literary geniuses just by obsessively writing fanfics of their fave characters.
By 19, imagine what manner of writing and creativity you will have in an age bereft of smartphones.
By 19, imagine what manner of writing and creativity you will have in an age bereft of smartphones.
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While you do not want the WSJ generally writing that about you, you specifically do not want Jonathan Weil writing that about you.
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
While you do not want the WSJ generally writing that about you, you specifically do not want Jonathan Weil writing that about you.
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Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”
This feels like one of those stories you're going to look at a year from now and say to yourself, "Why didn't I move more of my portfolio into cash?" **
** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
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www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
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www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”
Oooh this but for me it was 121 when they found Tooms under the escalator. I was 9 and stopped watching the x-files for three years, and took a hiatus from escalators at malls for a while too.
Episode 202 of the X-Files is only ep I’ve watched besides Rhys’.
I watched the ep at 9 yrs old & it fucked me up bad enough to just never watch the show again.
I watched other horror as a kid just sometimes the wrong combo…😭
No, I am not sharing a pic to freak myself out all over again…
I watched the ep at 9 yrs old & it fucked me up bad enough to just never watch the show again.
I watched other horror as a kid just sometimes the wrong combo…😭
No, I am not sharing a pic to freak myself out all over again…
What fictional creature/villain traumatized you as a child?
THIS MOTHERFUCKER is the Six Dollar Man, a 'robot' built of junk by a mad scientist who was being interviewed by Kermit in a Sesame Street News Flash episode, I was far too young to understand and it haunted my nightmares
THIS MOTHERFUCKER is the Six Dollar Man, a 'robot' built of junk by a mad scientist who was being interviewed by Kermit in a Sesame Street News Flash episode, I was far too young to understand and it haunted my nightmares
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Oooh this but for me it was 121 when they found Tooms under the escalator. I was 9 and stopped watching the x-files for three years, and took a hiatus from escalators at malls for a while too.
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See you in Whamhalla. #Whamageddon2025
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 AM
See you in Whamhalla. #Whamageddon2025