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sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 11h

putting this poster up all around my game-design workplace

A workplace safety-style sign that says THINK with a glyph of a hand being shocked. Text: "Is it possible for this system to generate the events surrounding and during the Fleetwood Mac Rumors tour?"

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah I think people here have unrealistic expectations for like jailing all ICE agents and that’s just almost certainly not going to happen even in extremely cool zone scenarios. But they should 100% have to lie for the rest of their lives about their employment history in conversation with everyone

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 14h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 12h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 13h

Robert Putnam: Why is North Italy so much more prosperous than South Italy? Are the southerners less capable after centuries of social fragmentation?

Me, two seconds after looking at a map: Maybe. But could it also have something to do with the Po Valley being the one flat piece of land in Italy?

A topographic map of Italy showing most of the peninsula covered in mountains, but the wide Po Valley very apparent in the north

A map of population density of Italy with large concentrations in the Po Valley, Rome, and Naples

A map of life expectancy in Italy, with the greenest clusters in northern Italy, especially the Po Valley, while southern Italy is increasingly dark shades of orange

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 12d

D'ohtse

tom, friend of eggbug @lizard.tools · 12d

here you go

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ANSI Files from Discmaster @ansibot.bsky.social · 13h

NCC1701.ANS, 1993-04-25 from Beijing Paradise BBS Backup (CD-ROM)

Galaxy Class Starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Construction Data: Model Number-- I Date Entering Service-- 40301.2 Size Length-- 642.5 m Width-- 467 m Height-- 137.5 m Weight-- 3,000,000 mt Crew-- 900+ Passengers-- 800 max. (300) shuttlecrait- 12 (C) - 1993 Klingon Software Labs - - - - - - - L - - - - -

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ANSI Files from Discmaster @ansibot.bsky.social · 2d

BIRD.ANS, 1989-06-12 from Gigabyte Shareware (CD-ROM)

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · Apr 19

the Prussian police reports on Karl Marx from 1853 prove that leftists have always had immense Disco Elysium dirtbag energy.

A portrait of Harry DuBois from Disco Elysium as Karl Marx. Excerpts from the 1853 Prussian Secret Police Report on Karl Marx are quoted. They all kind of read like fucked up Pokédex entries:

1. "In private life Marx is an extremely disorderly, cynical human being, and a bad host. He leads the existence of a real Bohemian intellectual."

2. "His large piercing fiery eyes have something demonically sinister about them. However, one can tell at first glance he is a man of genius and energy."

3. "Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he likes to get drunk."

4. "He is idle for days on end, but he will work night and day with tireless endurance when he has a great deal of work to do."

5. "He often stays up all night, and then lies down fully clothed on the sofa at midday and sleeps till evening, untroubled by the comings and goings of the whole world."

- Prussian Police Report on Karl Marx, 1853

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 23h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 22h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 9h

Not gonna lie if I voice what I'm thinking I'm gonna wake up three days later with blood in my teeth

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 12h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Krinkle @krinkle.bsky.social · 17h

this lady keeps posting about her beetlejuice sweater she got for halloween but it's clearly a freddy kreuger sweater. The stripes are the wrong color, they go the wrong direction. beetlejuice doesn't even wear sweaters. I know that Kant would completely ruin her but what would other philosophers do

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 14h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 8h

freakin sweet

NCR Veteran Ranger cosplay at PAX Aus. White guy with short brown hair in duster, armored vest, jeans, with helmet (glowing red eyes) and anti-materiel rifle.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 21h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 13h

I am straight-up going to have nightmares about this

In the video Smith posted online, he said Neuralink engineers had started using language models including ChatGPT and Grok to serve up a selection of relevant replies to questions, as well as options for things he could say in conversations going on around him. One example that he outlined: “My friend asked me for ideas for his girlfriend who loves horses. I chose the option that told him in my voice to get her a bouquet of carrots. What a creative and funny idea.”

These aren’t really his thoughts, but they will do—since brain-clicking once in a menu of choices is much faster than typing out a complete answer, which can take minutes.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 12h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 16h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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The Men Who Stare At Goatse @ohgodscrewthis.bsky.social · 12h

Diana Skeetin'

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 12h

That is interesting.
So far he has digitized 15 old Canadian government films from the 1920s and plans on adding more.
Since the CBC didn't provide a link here it is - www.themovingpast.com

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 20h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 14h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGL8...
Anyway here's Alan Moore singing about how ducks are evil

The Sinister Ducks - The March Of The Sinister Ducks

YouTube video by Docteur De Peste

www.youtube.com

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 15h

In my Catholic all-girls’ high school, the nun who taught our history of religion class once brought in a sub for a week because she was flying to DC to protest the School of the Americas. “I may be longer if I get arrested,” she said nonchalantly, raising all our teenage eyebrows.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 1d

go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).

be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.

life is for the living. do it scared.

🏳️‍⚧️🖤🏳️‍🌈

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