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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 23h

Oh god this.

Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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farqfox.bsky.social @farqfox.bsky.social · 3d

Comic dog saying:

Pls rewards of being loved??
NO mortifying ordeal of being known
ONLY rewards of being loved

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 3d

Fuuuuuuck. Good luck and hope things improve quickly.

HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 3d

To quote that guy at Foundation: HELLO FELLOW VAULT DWELLER!

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 4d

It really does.

HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 4d

[chef-kiss.gif]

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 5d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 4d

That's ... uh... yeah, that's not good.

HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 4d

Oh yeah. It's definitely up there.

Whelan is both prolific and really good. I liked his cover of The Integral Trees enough to pick up an artist's proof of it way back at a mid-80's Boskone. www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/in...

INTEGRAL TREES

Being suspended in space, floating unencumbered yet in control of one’s flight, is as close to pure freedom as I can imagine. I knew I would enjoy reading Larry Niven’s manuscript and a…

www.michaelwhelan.com

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Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 5d

Last night it said 100+ bought in the past month. Tonight, 200+. The legion grows.

screenshot of amazon page that says Inflatable Frog Costume for Adults - Blow up Halloween Costume. 200 plus bought in past month

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 4d

Cool (short) thread.

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 4d

So there's this Vietnamese logger named Ho Khanh. One day he's out searching for agarwood (aka eaglewood aka Wood of the Gods), a fragrant, resinous wood used in incense & perfume.

Ho Khanh is out in the jungle and finds what seems to be an entrance into an undiscovered cave.

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rico. @whoisrico.bsky.social · 9d

Getting ready for Halloween
#KLF

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 5d

Whoah

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 5d

"We all have the same 24 hours in a day" is such bullshit. Yeah, sure,
but some of us get out outsource stuff.

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 5d

99% uptime over what length of time? "Hey boss, we've been up for a year, so we can totally take shit down for a couple of days with no uptime hit..."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

I was recently scuba diving in Indonesia and I can 100% confirm that the dick starfish are real and they actually look like this:

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 7d

I started watching "They Cloned Tyrone" and partway through had to check that I wasn't watching some other not-sf thing instead and then, uh, boy howdy. (I do love the ranting from the woman about crypto vs blockchain, though).

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 7d

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH"

Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 9d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 7d

I love this video so much. It lives rent free in my head and occasionally comes out for visits.

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 9d

Yikes.

HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 9d

… that sounds like it may not be the hobby for you?

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 12d

Pretty much.

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 20d

Engraving two bullets with "this bullet only lies" and "this bullet only tells the truth" to really stump the FBI

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 12d

Wait, it's the same family? Whoah.

HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 12d

I think Seattle might've been a candidate in the past but not these days.

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HTTP 1.1/418 Have you ever retired a teapot by mistake? @rmd1023.bsky.social · 12d

Unfortunately accurate.