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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 5h

I don't remember. Their crime has been consigned to oblivion along with the rest of their being. I will use the freed-up brain capacity to remember something infinitely more important, like the names of Pokémon.

Clitasaurus Rex 🦖 @naiijah.bsky.social · 9h

what did the last person you blocked say to get blocked?

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 6h

Never had a trans student disrupt my class in even the smallest way. Had plenty of very-gender-conforming Overly-Assertive-Main-Character students be disruptive - monopolizing discussion, talking out of turn, that sort of thing.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

My understanding is that you now just submerge the entire fucking rig into an aquarium full of mineral oil

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

It's a good one for sure!

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

Hahaha Melmoth is such a fool to keep looking at all those cursed paintings. I would never make that mistake, personally

*doomscrolls for 8 hours*

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 17h

this entire book is gonna be me yelling at our tender hero to stop looking at cursed paintings and shit

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Cam @camconut-tree.bsky.social · 1d

where does Mamdani stand on making this city more equinable?

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Emma Roller @emmaroller.bsky.social · 1d

The ruling class has correctly assessed public schools as a threat to them. Two reasons:
1. An educated working class is their worst nightmare
2. Public schools are one of the last places where working-class families mix across racial and ethnic lines

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

The Eel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Designer: *through tears* please just tell me what you want, you can even ask to make it pop, I'll do anything

Me: It's too Mycenaean, redo it

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16h

Not that light! Brewers replicating the recorded Egyptian methods have come up with ABVs around the 5% mark.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16h

The answer is, five liters of beer per person per day

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

(don’t know who made this)

A painting of the building of the pyramids

How tf did they build this without Teams calls, pitch decks, or Al powered workflow optimization programs

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 1d

I once asked a very skilled and experienced rower how people who make every boat they are in better do it. He said that he'd known two people like that, and they weren't the fastest or stronger rowers, but their superpower was adding stability where the boat needed it. Not something you'd see ...

Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 2d

New blog post: The illegible nature of software development talent

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t...

The illegible nature of software development talent

Here’s another blog post on gathering some common threads from reading recent posts. Today’s topic is about the unassuming nature of talented software engineers. The first thread was a …

surfingcomplexity.blog

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

We could have replaced actual football games with AI players on a simulated field a LONG time ago - we could have pulled this off by simply televising people playing Madden even before that.

Imagine the money executives would save!

How mysterious that this never took off.

Peace, Truth, Science @mrchompchomp.bsky.social · 1d

Analogy: Imagine a robot could play really good golf. Would you watch? Maybe as a curiosity. Would you want it competing against humans? Ofc not. Now imagine the robot played good golf sometimes but sometimes threw all its clubs off a cliff. That’s gen AI doing art. Misses the point & also sucks.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Dr Kawashima from the Brain Age games looking nervous.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Another one to add to the list (I've relented and expanded it beyond languages, due to pressure from the comments)

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27d

Is this the only cocktail bar named after a programming language?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

First Dems weren't the ones in disarray and now this? Remarkable

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 1d

Currently leading CNN homepage:

DOJ indicts NY attorney general who defeated Trump in court

Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference in New York, on February 16, 2024, following a verdict against Donald Trump in his civil fraud trial.

She is the second Trump foe to be indicted in two weeks as the president continues to pursue charges against his opponents

Trump-loyalist brought charges after other attorneys voiced concerns

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

or the other way around, I don't mind really

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Blue Eyes White Macron @antitractionist.bsky.social · 1d

not a lot of moments where Medieval Christendom went "you know what, fair enough!"

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Branson! You have a lot to answer for! For example: swanboy dot com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

anecdote, pronounced like synecdoche

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

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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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

The trouble with the wine is if you screw up enough times, the onions just taste like wine

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Also I like things a bit salty so I'd add more salt than I did. But something like parmesan cheese would be a perfectly fine salt substitute!

The spice in the sauce adds a lot of flavor to the dish that would have been missing from the base recipe. I would honestly just use a pasta sauce tbh.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

I think I should have boiled the cabbage for substantially longer - the recipe says 5-7 minutes but the Savoy is quite crunchy so maybe even more than that! And the lemon zest would have added some much needed acidity.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Drake lost so bad that everything that was called Drake now has to be renamed Kendrick, out of shame.

MtG card of Wind Drake poorly edited to say Wind Kendrick.

The Drake Hotel poorly edited to say the Kendrick Hotel.

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