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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 1d

Right. No that’s true thank you

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E = mily² @emily.news · 2d

Meme image in which Princess Daisy says, "Are you tired of going apeshit? Don't you just want to be nice?" Her face looks softly dejected.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 5d

me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis

my brain: not u though

me: not me though

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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 8d

I burst into tears at this.

Even after 5 1/2 years with it, positive scientific confirmation of what I knew - this is real, I’m not imagining it, it’s not ageing, it’s not depression or anxiety, it’s that my brain *does not function properly* - means so much.

And a big step towards treatment too.

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 9d

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog.

Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog

Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scien...

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Chris Roberts @rickzarber.bsky.social · 17d

Lapis Bob GIF

Alt: GIF of Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe giving an expressionless thumbs up. She's in a baseball uniform and has a bat (as part of her disguise as human "Bob"), and while that's not particularly relevant here, it has an air of preparedness that seems fitting.

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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 18d

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 18d

Autism does not need to be cured! It's the rest of society that needs to be more accommodating!! Neurodivergence and disabilities cause suffering only because we have so little understanding or support. Treating it as something "broken" or "wrong" only enforces that, please just help people instead.

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Chris Roberts @rickzarber.bsky.social · 18d

You can copy the pencil layer into an alpha channel, which would allow you to basically treat them as inked lines. Or just set your pencils to the top layer and screen blend.

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 28d

we're on the precipice of a universal antiviral medication, mRNA technology is out here curing cancers every other month, HIV is cureable AND preventable, renewables generate more energy now than fossil fuels worldwide and and more cost-effective, coral reefs are growing back all over the world rn

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 29d

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

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Chris Roberts @rickzarber.bsky.social · Sep 10

Commiserations. It has been a decade since I worked my decade of retail, and the trauma from the misery is real. I still have nightmares of being back working there again several times a week. Even now, impoverished from the disability that forced me to quit, I'm still happier on a day-to-day basis.

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Chris Roberts @rickzarber.bsky.social · Sep 7

Alarming!

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · Sep 5

losing my shit at tom clancy's daughter immediately setting this to her banner after seeing it

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(2/5) Comms OPEN ☀️ !!! EfraArt_Mix! @efraartmix.bsky.social · Jan 31

Please spread this information people, don't let Pay Pal dox you.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Aug 26

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

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Catgirl Martlet 🐦🐈‍⬛🌊💙 @zenithmartlet.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hey Firefox users.

Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out

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Chris Roberts @rickzarber.bsky.social · Aug 30

Ya-ha-ha!

A photo of a set of bocce balls in a field, but there's a makeshift flag in the middle made from a stick and a leaf. It looks vaguely Korok-y.

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Chris Roberts @rickzarber.bsky.social · Aug 26

Who could possibly take that risk?

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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · Aug 22

This is the best movie I've ever seen

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Chris Roberts @rickzarber.bsky.social · Aug 22

@hatebunny.bsky.social Happy (many days belated) birthday!

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Chris Roberts @rickzarber.bsky.social · Aug 12

The new 4K remaster of Dark City that came out earlier this year from Arrow looks freaking gorgeous. I skipped like a week of meals to afford that disc and it was Worth It.

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