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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 7h

He has become Galactus at least once (non canonically, but still)

Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 7h

lens cap was on

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 7h

sudo gem install nokogiri

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 12h

In 20 years of professionally dealing with overhyped technology, I have never seen shit remotely like this nonsense.

This fuckin bubble's gonna furnish the police state with ungodly amounts of protected data before it gets around to absolutely obliterating what's left of our economy. Oof.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 12h

Film documentaries from a certain time hit similarly.

"So this one time we accidentally did a war crime to Kenny Baker. Anyway let's bet back to the story of the ritualized sexual harassment we did to Carrie Fisher."

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 12h

rm -r -f /

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 16h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 16h

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, they do. The one acquisition I was around for had to try and "unfire" people because they underestimated the impact of their layoffs.

It's why "run the government like a business" has always been stupid.

geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 1d

is this running the government like a business. do businesses do this normally

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 1d

"We are what we pretend to be" cuts both ways.

Who gives a shit if you're virtue signaling? If you're modeling positive behavior, you're modeling positive behavior.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 2d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 1d

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck this.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of scary uses of "AI", but most share a goal: obfuscation of responsibility.

These systems have a huge "mistake" rate, but that's working as designed. Their one and only purpose is to deny coverage and give execs the leeway to say "the computer did it."

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d

Top Democrat demands more detail from Medicare insurers about their use of AI www.statnews.com/2025/10/09/b... via @statnews.com

Top Democrat demands more detail from Medicare insurers about their use of AI

A key Democrat is asking top Medicare Advantage insurers about how they use artificial intelligence in decisions about medical care and coverage.

www.statnews.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 2d

I'M NOT SOME KIND OF MEDIEVAL NIGHTSOILMAN, NATHAN

Baby Steps is more fun than it has any right to be.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 3d

He's Presbyterian, ladies. You gotta shot.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 3d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing