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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 5h

why not merge the English Department and the Classics Department into a new Department of Percy Jackson while you're at it

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 12h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 7h

Passion 2: Ascension Boogaloo
TPTC II: The Secret of the Cruz
Too Passionate, Too Christ
The Passion of the Christ: The Legend of Paulie's Gold
A Very Jesus Sequel
Passion 2: Cruz Control

Page Six @pagesix.com · 1d

Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ sequel to star new Jesus, cast

Gibson's long-gestating sequel will start shooting in Rome, but with a completely new cast, an insider told Page Six.

pagesix.com

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16h

So, this week has been hard. Very hard. On Monday we found out that my kind, gentle, perfect little man Fergus had diffuse, fast-moving cancer throughout his body. So we had to make the awful decision to say goodbye to him yesterday.

Closeup portrait of my handsome brown tuxedo tabby Fergus looking upward.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 8h

I'm so sorry, but also so glad that you were able to say goodbye at home. When my wonderful Knute had to go, our vet made a house call, and it made all the difference.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 9h

#MSH45 | Richard Lasher
You've been at a job long enough to know a decent colleague to chat with.

The more you get to know them, the more they share. What's fact or fiction? You don't know, but you listen.

Then there's one story that's so over the top—a bona fide lie. But then, a photo appears.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 9h

it took less time for the wall street journal to realize johnny cash was cool than it's taking them to figure out trump is a fascist

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 12h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 1d

Meowlignant (2021)

A woman with long brown hair and a vest seen from behind and the cat is being carried in the vest with only its face showing at the back of the woman’s head, reminiscent of Gabriel in Malignant (2021)

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 13h

the Colossus of Chodes

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 14h

i'd assumed "Colossus" was just a reference to the ancient wonder but it can never be that normal w/ Elon www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

"Musk decided to name the data center Colossus—a reference to a popular trilogy of sci-fi novels from the 1960s by D.F. Jones, in which scientists built a supercomputer named Colossus that gained autonomy and plunged the world into war and chaos."

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 17h

some folk say that at midnight, if you stand on the banks and listen real close, you can still hear the DJ of the River dropping sick beats

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 23h

I mean, fair question, though.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

sounds like a HIPAA violation, tbh

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

this announcement is making me a bit uncomfortable

BmoreCityDOT @bmorecitydot.bsky.social · 1d

🚧 Charles & Pleasant Manhole Rebuild 🚧

We’re rebuilding the manhole at Charles and Pleasant Streets to reinforce its roof, walls, and floor—making sure this underground structure stays strong and reliable for years to come.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

Leo Ribuffo always referred to "the socio-cultural sixties" in his lectures, and they did not run from 1960 to 1969

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

i fully endorse long decades

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

The arc of metal holding the pencil folds down so the pencil touches the paper on the typewriter roller. You can then advance the carriage and draw straight lines on the page.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

Baltimore

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

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

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

"Sir, a second plane hit the towers. There were two of them...yes, two planes and two towers. ... In New York, sir. Back in 2001. ... I'm sure you remember this, sir. Are you even lis—you're looking at a bug on the wall, aren't you, sir? I know you recall 9/11, you had the tallest building again."

Marco Rubio leaning over and whispering into trump's ear while covering his mouth like they're in Casino and hiding their words from the lip-reading feds

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

hey man, i loved The Middleman!

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

Jane Goodall's final wish was to launch the B Ark

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

i was just happy that i did not embarrass myself carrying my end of the very heavy load.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

the driver—having just driven from montana in two days!—offered to help uncrate and carry the stove inside. after a lot of "are you *sure*?" we got to it. this beefy trucker with "LOST" and "LOVE" tattooed across his knuckles uncrated the cast iron and enameled steel stove and we carried it inside.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

a nice thing happened this morning:

we took delivery of my wife's great-grandmother's cookstove from their homestead farm in montana. the truck driver managed to get the truck into a narrow driveway and offload right where we wanted it. we tipped generously, the job done as contracted. but then...

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

trump saying "we took the freedom of speech away" needs to be in every single democrat ad and repeated every time a camera is pointed at a democrat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely--as a fact checker, it's almost always a trivial task to verify a quotation in a script i'm checking, but i can spend way too much time digging into a statement of fact in the voice of the script's author

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

a real Tim Broglio brewing in the Conference of Bishops

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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