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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 1d

If my fast research is correct, there are at least as many *coffee shops* in the USA as coal miners.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 4d

I've a niece in Detroit, and I'm debating how chill I should be tomorrow.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 4d

I have something like this. It's to snake wires through walls.

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 5d

Ume, the Malayan tapir calf, isn’t exactly dainty when it comes to eating her salad behind the scenes. 🥬 Now, 8 months old and 400 pounds, she’s growing fast, and those loud crunches mean she’s getting all the greens she needs to thrive. 💗

📹: Keeper Katie

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 6d

All my allies, unlikely.

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 6d

Yes

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 8d

The plotter knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective

Kate @katef.bsky.social · 8d

how fucked do we think this is?

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 8d

anchovy paste

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 8d

One of the closing lines is this: "...being smart will count for nothing if you don't make the world better. You have to use your smarts to count for something, to serve life, not death."

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 8d

But, the recurring theme in the story is that many individual people make enormous personal sacrifices for people they will never meet, and for a world they'll never see.

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 8d

It's hard to talk about any of the game with any substance without spoiling it.

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 8d

I finished 'Horizon: Zero Dawn' for the first time last night. What a game. No notes.

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André Arko @indirect.io · 9d

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 22d

i like this

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 25d

indeed baby

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 25d

Someone doesn't like the sound of a nail gun.

My dog under my desk resting her gray muzzle on my knee.

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 27d

If you're looking for alternative entertainment sources, the folks over at @dropout.tv have been producing great stuff and they have a ton of content already.

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · Sep 15

This is Boop. They had to do some yelling.

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · Sep 15

Big pumpkin. John for scale.

Me standing in front of the 800lb pumpkin.

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · Sep 15

Who needs mint?

I love the Washington State Fair.

A large drum of mint oil with a sign indicating it's valued at $10,000.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Sep 14

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · Sep 14

Had their hazy tonight. Really impressive.

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · Sep 14

N/A beers have come a really long way.

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · Sep 13

I can carry a whole bag of groceries without my arm shaking.

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