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"A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter all opinions my own but also your cat's

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 2h

“Find me at Whole Foods bitch, I don’t care” is my new autoreply.

Thanks Hayley!

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Hayley Williams confirms Morgan Wallen is the 'racist country singer' mentioned in her new song

While discussing her new solo album, 'Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party,' Hayley Williams confirmed Morgan Wallen is the 'racist country singer' she refers to in the title track.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

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Hampton the Hamster "The Hamsterdance Song"

YouTube video by MNRK Music Group

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

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The Kafka Challenge

The Kafkaesque lends itself to translation.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

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Why is Gen Z Into Horse Racing Now? How Uma Musume Pretty Derby Took Over Twitch

The racetrack once thrilled its attendees with intense, fast-paced competition, betting opportunities and inspiring underdog stories, but in recent years equest

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9h

shitpost aside the world has truly gone spongebob

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9h

[sung in the same register as the version in Zulu]

Men of Harlech, stop your dreaming,
Can't you see their spearpoints gleaming?
See their warrior pennants streaming,
To this battle field!

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 10h

My friend's cat is so cute man

A white cat looking vaguely distraught as she tries to hide under a rug, except she's on managed to get about 2/3rds of herself under it

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 11h

the concept of information that can be viewed by publicly by anyone, but somehow excludes an unknown subset of the public that you do not like is not something that can logically exist

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

something like this is successful if it gives the group more optionality. it has far less than it did before it

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

i'm pretty comfortable calling it a failure

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 10h

The topological anomaly devised by Data and Geordi La Forge in 2368 was designed to be introduced to Hugh as a means to disable the Borg Collective. This was to be accomplished by using a geometric form whose shape is a paradox as "It cannot exist in real space or time." Total systems failure would eventually occur aft the shape goes through several hundred computational cycles.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 19h

My latest book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, is out in paperback today! You can get it wherever you get your books. Ideally at your local indie bookstore www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason...

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 10h

whoreframe

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

so enough about “clanker.” what slurs do you think bots will use on each other?

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

"hand-coded" also prolly works

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

goonsleeve! amazing

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

if you repeat “there is still time to repent” enough times in front of people facing down a hostile crowd and news cameras the message will start to sink in

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

i think there should be christian preachers in front lines of every protest unsubtly doing the “sinners in the hands of an angry god” thing

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 10h

carbon chaser

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

that kind of vibe

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

thinking about how in “dog days” the cat people call the dog people “droopy ears”

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

so enough about “clanker.” what slurs do you think bots will use on each other?

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 10h

"The pornographic is thus the model of a society where sexual difference and the difference between reality and the image both disappear at the same time, and all registers become eroticized as they fall into non-distinction and the confusion of genres."
- The Perfect Crime

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

if this really takes off as a mode of expression, i wonder if you may actually see new platforms where prompt-based multimedia is the default thing you post with

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

with words in posts. and its arrived perfectly in time for the dominance of shotform video platforms

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