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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 7h

wow. very wow. www.hardyboys.us/hbultrathril...

The Hardy Boys Ultra Thriller Series

The Hardy Boys-Tom Swift Ultra Thriller book series. Title List, Plot Summaries, Cover Art, Author, Artists, Sales.

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 7h

No..?! I mean, they'd be disastrous, but sometimes I do love a good cultural train wreck. Had no idea this existed.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 17h

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 11h

I have been rewarded for my loyalty by the McDonalds Corporation. I have been awarded a biscuit, it is amazingly heavy in my hands. The air between me and the biscuit seems to swim with strange energies. The cameras click amidst total silence as i raise it to my open mouth.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 9h

davidgraeber.org/articles/on-...

David Graeber
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as suffused with the sacred. What anarchists regularly try to do is to level a systematic and continual challenge to the right of the police, and the authorities in general, to define the situation. They do it by proposing endless alternative frameworks - or, more precisely, by insisting on the power to switch frameworks whenever they like.
Puppets are the very embodiment of this power.
What this means in the streets is that activists are trying to effectively collapse the political, negotiating process into the structure of the action itself. To win the contest, as it were, by con-tinually changing the definition of what is the field, what are the rules, what are the stakes - and to do so on the field itself.
139] A situation that is sort of like nonviolent warfare becomes a situation that is sort of like a circus, or a theatrical performance, or a religious ritual, and might equally well slip back at any time.

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 22h

American dude just got mad at me on Reverb because I can't be arsed to wade through new cross-border shipping regulations to sell my Canadian goods in Florida

idk man maybe the problem is your president not me

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 1d

If I claimed to be a music writer you could not torture the confession out of me that I was a grown adult before I clued in that Johnny Cash was an absolute fucking badass.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 1d

The kid who tells me "this class is fucking stupid" and then goes to sleep stayed late today to tell me he's stoked to go to Boston this weekend for a drag race / bang-up competition so of course I chucked his current assignment and talked him into being my race journalist. #CRP #TeacherWin

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 1d

So looking forward to the next step: developing treatment strategies!

Elizabeth @elizajody.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists may have discovered what’s behind long COVID-related brain fog

FREE gift article

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Scientists may have discovered what’s behind long COVID-related brain fog

The researchers believe their findings could pave the way to therapeutics treating brain fog in long COVID.

www.thestar.com

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 2d

I am not optimistic about Spadafora's ability or willingness to hold the budget line against the HPS.

Graham Crawford @grahamcrawford.bsky.social · 2d

Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 2d

Habeas Corpus is on first.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 2d

Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 2d

side note: i still have not recovered from the mortification of being a young hitch-hiker in England 30 years ago and asking a local how to get to Gloucestershire, which apparently is pronounced "GLAWSTAH" not glow-chester-shyer

Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 2d

Toronto

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 2d

Every 80s metal drum solo ever recorded:

he's doing the "speed up my paradiddles" thing sigh
his paradiddles are very fast
now he's slowing them down again
they are very slow
he's speeding up again and people are cheering because woo fast

Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favourite things about Facebook is that once you leave Facebook it is startlingly easy to forget that Facebook ever even existed.

One of my least favourite things about Facebook is that it still exists even if you've forgotten it.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 2d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 2d

...apply it in novel ways in constantly changing contexts while "listening" to, predicting, and responding to the conversational patterns of your partner / opponent.

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 2d

...which got me to thinking (and I stand by this thought) that these sorts of real-time pvp combat games are in fact a form of conversational jazz improvisation.

They have a syntaxes and a rhythm, and they require you to first memorize and master a vocabulary, then...

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 2d

...and then I thought to map the ASDF and arrow keys to a piano keyboard and learn them as scale patterns / note combos instead.

It worked. I could translate the melodic cells back to the keyboard waayyy more efficiently than just memorizing letters....

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 2d

My kid B was trying to teach me how to play Guilty Gear Strive a couple months back. I was really struggling to remember keystroke combos and to catch the rhythm required to input complex moves consistently.

So we got to talking about how I can remember complex combos and rhythms on guitar....

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWRj...

Oh my god someone did it, dark souls controlled via a program capturing trumpet notes and mapping them to key presses

Defeating Taurus Demon with a Trumpet

YouTube video by Challenger Andy Clips

www.youtube.com

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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AGTMADCAT 🇺🇳 @agtmadcat.bsky.social · 3d

Love when @hankgreen.bsky.social makes a video screaming what I have screaming in my head. It's good to not feel so alone.

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

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