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guillotine, goblin peasant 🍞🌹 @guillotinegob.bsky.social · 1d

when obvious feds try to bait you

a very old japanese painting of frog-turtle like kappa getting concentrated, defensive (almost laser guided) fart blasted in the face by a fisher they tried to sneak up on.

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

What oily, salty venture is that?

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder:

The world is on fire.

It’s okay to find joy in dumb things.

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

Let's be clear: no bullshit about "keeping calm."

scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

Carry On!

scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

I'm not making this up: the first full song on my 38th birthday! music.apple.com/us/album/car...

Carry On by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on Apple Music

Song · 1970 · Duration 4:27

music.apple.com

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Steven Ray Morris @stevenraymorris.bsky.social · 1d

Inside you are two wolves

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

And they're both saying, "We saw you from across the bar."?

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

To be fair this is the song that was playing at midnight music.apple.com/us/album/sku... (Immediately preceded by "Virtual Insanity" )

Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai on Apple Music

Song · 1996 · Duration 5:40

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

This is the song Apple Music decided to play on the eve of my birthday: music.apple.com/us/album/in-...

In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins on Apple Music

Song · 1981 · Duration 5:35

music.apple.com

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

Given everything I've seen, I find it really hard to think much else besides "Tear down your heroes, so that you may supplant them."

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

I believe everyone can contribute to science. Admins, officer workers, grant writers, janitors, glass blowers, match makers, shit shovelers, everyone! Trump, Johnson, & the whole Republican party wants to make that impossible! If you're feeling hopeless, give someone else hope! It helps!

scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

You have friends who love you but would never kiss you. That means you've got...integrity?

scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

I hate being alone.

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

The problem is the chemistry student who has a Monday night lab that ends at 10:30PM and a Tuesday morning lecture that starts at 7:30AM using AI to do their titration exercise & just copying whatever chatgpt spits and...& then an overworked grad student uses the same LLM to grade it. We're fucked.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

I knew they built an array of cameras; I had no idea how much work went into bullet time: youtu.be/iq5JaG53dho?...

ONE YEAR of Work for TEN SECONDS of Film

YouTube video by Corridor Crew

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

Christian Slop!

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Hellhouse LLM

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

Yes, but also the confounding issue of the Second Amendment makes for so many people who agree on that one thing but somehow never vote a a block!

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

We need to pinpoint when the left versus right framework became obsolete!

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

The Republican platform isn't Project 2025, it's just make everything shitty. People are using Project 2025 as cover. That's how bad The United States of America is. People are using a shitty, authoritarian plan as cover for their shitty, fuck up everything ethos.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

Hey cool the NOAA guy who was found to have violated the agency's code of ethics for his role in Sharpiegate has been confirmed as the head of NOAA.

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

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scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

This is darkest timeline stuff. I say that as a devout believer in there being only one timeline.

scottmacs @scottmacs.com · 1d

Missed opportunity to use the bison emoji @alexschmidty.bsky.social worked hard to get the Unicode consortium to adopt! 🦬

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