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The Essence of Woerm Sin @mxwoermsin.gothgeek.org · 17m

When we had a round of redundancies back in the dot com crash one of the directors emailed round a spreadsheet listing times for people to talk to their manager and find out if they were going

but

he forgot to remove the sheet listing everyone getting canned.

The Essence of Woerm Sin @mxwoermsin.gothgeek.org · 2h

Dredd is fantastic, but it's comic based.

The Essence of Woerm Sin @mxwoermsin.gothgeek.org · 2h

Came here to say that, one of my favourite films.

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The Essence of Woerm Sin @mxwoermsin.gothgeek.org · 2h

Definite +1 for this

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Criag @craigpsutton.bsky.social · 1d

My baby had a severe allergic reaction to playing peekaboo. I had to take her to the ICU.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13h

Excuse me: bb turtles

A human hand, presumably regular sized, as in not some inhuman giant hand or anything, just a regular normal hand, and in it is held three baby turtles OMG they are so cute they aren't even as wide as a single finger! Just tiny little guys! Can you believe it??? They look very sincere and polite I wish I could feed them little leaves or other turtle food. They are adorable and you love them. 🔫👀 Say you love them. Say it.

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 2d

My friend’s neighbor’s house fell off its foundation (old steel structure collapsed), and they just did the funniest thing.

Giant skeleton looking like it’s tipping over a house.

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 1d

oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 1d

There was a 'womp' sound from the yard. I looked out the window.

Where the large pile of leaves had been, a dragon sat.

"Oi!" I called.

"The hoard was unguarded," the dragon said. "I claim it."

Every damn year. It'll leave once the leaves lose their golden hue. Meanwhile, I can't order takeaway.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2d

Attention UK readers: Waterstones is giving folks 25% off the preorder for the WEARING THE LION paperback!

Just use the code OCTOBER25 at checkout.

Wearing The Lion by John Wiswell | Waterstones

Buy Wearing The Lion by John Wiswell from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

www.waterstones.com

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All Hallows' Leask (Hallowle'ask) @leask.bsky.social · 1d

branson reese teen comix strip
first panel: teen wears a shirt that says "no kings"
second panel: king charles, real sexy, just like you asked, boss
third panel: teen wears a shirt that says "one king"

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Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton.bsky.social · 2d

Haven't noticed this before! "it's missing accessibility features that I need" given as an option on Steam's refund reason dropdown
#gamedev #indiedev #accessibility

'choose refund reason' dropdown with 'it's missing accessibility features that I need' highlighted

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The Essence of Woerm Sin @mxwoermsin.gothgeek.org · 2d

Not me, I block like I care about it.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"

The Instagram account Saint featured me. The first slide says: "Derek Guy - Dieworkwear. Derek Guy is a menswear writer who has written for The New York Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. He also runs a menswear blog called Die, Workwear"

One of the slides showing my favorite products. It's it's a big bag of Hagen pigeon food. The food is fortified with the vitamins and nutrients pigeons need.

Instagram user writes: "Why tf do i need pigeon food for my outfit." I replied: "this is what i can afford to eat after spending all my money on clothes ::sad face::"

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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 3d

I saw this Ernie and Bert on an Istanbul street last year.

A 3D Ernie and Bert projecting out from a building wall in Istanbul, Turkiye. Lots of graffiti below.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 2d

Physics Insight

xkcd.com/3154/

Comic. PERSON: Sure, when *Einstein* suggests using the Lorentz transform to explain the connection between velocity and time, people call him a genius. But when *I* suggest it, it’s “basic physics” and “undergraduate stuff.” PERSON 2 with white hat: Such a double standard!

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The Essence of Woerm Sin @mxwoermsin.gothgeek.org · 2d

I get mine free (yay immunosuppression) but my partner doesn't. Last year only Boots seemed to be doing them, for about £98, this year it looks like more places are offering them - Tesco is £90 iirc, and there's a pharmacy near us (Edinburgh) that charges £85. Still a lot but worth a search.

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The Essence of Woerm Sin @mxwoermsin.gothgeek.org · 3d

Thank you for your service. 🫡

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 3d

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

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The Essence of Woerm Sin @mxwoermsin.gothgeek.org · 3d

I know which is the tech one but only because my partner was talking about it recently.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 3d

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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AI @al--s.bsky.social · 3d

finally he does something other than punch people

text header and headline. This reads:
"Light Rail and Tram
Batman to build light rail line"

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Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 3d

does your presentation make people think, gosh, that's an individual of mysterious and indistinct gender?

we have a shirt for that

A Mysterious Individual - Failbetter Games T - Shirt

Unisex Cotton T-Shirt

gametee.co.uk

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 3d

An argument I've heard a bunch is "in a few years you'll ~have~ to use it but by then you'll be so far behind there's no catching up" which is fucking hilarious

My dude, I have spent my life learning how to ~do~ things, and all of those were a lot harder than "put a coin in the slop machine"

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 12d

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 12d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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