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sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 53m

I took my pool down over the weekend and found a worm about ten inches long under it.

...what, I thought we were sharing bait?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

The antidote to our polarized politics “is a creative, re-energized political center,” the Times editorial board writes.

Opinion | America Still Has a Political Center, and It’s the Key to Winning

The antidote to our polarized politics is a creative, re-energized political center.

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sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 55m

"They're not worth fixing, they're cheap crap." Okay, they're $150 crap I got on sale for $89, which isn't cheap to me, and I hadn't even worn them before the cat peed on them and put a big-ass bleached out spot in the leather. So yeah, a brand new shoe I can't replace is kind of worth fixing.

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krazykitkat.bsky.social @krazykitkat.bsky.social · 7h

Stop calling them AI, call them what they are: large language models. They are fancy word prediction. They don't do well with numbers.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

AI 'often gets figures wrong', financial adviser warns

When Georgina Doll was looking to buy a home, generative artificial intelligence was one of the sources she turned to for advice.

www.abc.net.au

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sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 3h

I have this $10/lb special cat food for my regurgitator and a week or so ago, Felix got into a pile of it that I had put out for her. Now he comes in at 4:00pm and 4:00am and throws a tantrum if there isn't a pile in that spot for him.

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 3h

I can't believe stand-up comedians are still wasting my time with "getting canceled" jokes.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 11h

You gotta imagine how weird it felt to drive that backhoe today just looking back at everybody going “you sure about this everybody’s sure about this?”

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 12h

Behold: Republican permitting reform.

The White House photographed from the driveway between it and the Treasury building, with the facade of the East Wing gutted. I don’t think the caretakers of the property pulled all the proper permits before starting work!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13h

I love that little chat button in the bottom of every screen that obscures UI elements you actually need and allows you to not talk to an actual person

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sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 13h

"Commitment to," even.

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sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 13h

It's not about the building. It's about the conviction to fixing *everything* he's fucked up, big and small.

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sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 13h

Every day I grow firmer in my conviction that any serious Democratic presidential candidate needs to include undoing Trump's White House construction work in their platform (albeit as a minor point).

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sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 13h

I've seen two people so far stop in the middle of the sidewalk to take a picture of the sunset.

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