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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
In parts of the world not in the news:
I saw a young mother trying, frustrated, to unlock a pram, and two burly construction workers immediately jumped to help, pointing at the right latch. One explained in broken Swedish he got the same model second hand during his parental leave and it was great.
I saw a young mother trying, frustrated, to unlock a pram, and two burly construction workers immediately jumped to help, pointing at the right latch. One explained in broken Swedish he got the same model second hand during his parental leave and it was great.
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In parts of the world not in the news:
I saw a young mother trying, frustrated, to unlock a pram, and two burly construction workers immediately jumped to help, pointing at the right latch. One explained in broken Swedish he got the same model second hand during his parental leave and it was great.
I saw a young mother trying, frustrated, to unlock a pram, and two burly construction workers immediately jumped to help, pointing at the right latch. One explained in broken Swedish he got the same model second hand during his parental leave and it was great.
All washing machines mention how this program can take that much weight of clothes, which is cool, but… How do you tell how much you’ve put and if it’s too much?! Do you have a scale in your laundry and weigh your bags?
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
All washing machines mention how this program can take that much weight of clothes, which is cool, but… How do you tell how much you’ve put and if it’s too much?! Do you have a scale in your laundry and weigh your bags?
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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Living in the Future benefit: the combination of Google Maps public transit directions and phone-tap onboard payment makes it SO EASY to take public trams/buses/metros when traveling now. It’s fantastic not to have to resort to taxis just for lack of easy access to the local transit ticketing system
October 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Living in the Future benefit: the combination of Google Maps public transit directions and phone-tap onboard payment makes it SO EASY to take public trams/buses/metros when traveling now. It’s fantastic not to have to resort to taxis just for lack of easy access to the local transit ticketing system
This is wonderful news, but waiting for the day after the Nobel Prize is announced to mention it is a class act.
youtu.be/bhExSMZt1zs
youtu.be/bhExSMZt1zs
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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October 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is wonderful news, but waiting for the day after the Nobel Prize is announced to mention it is a class act.
youtu.be/bhExSMZt1zs
youtu.be/bhExSMZt1zs
Learning about customer support principles from my local soup dealer
October 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Learning about customer support principles from my local soup dealer
I have complained here that YouTube ads were really irrelevant. They aren’t getting much better (who wants to buy a university-lab grade microscope?) but they occasionally…
Look, I know I should be unloading the dishwasher and not watching Chandrila Niamos remixes, but trying to sell me tablets…
Look, I know I should be unloading the dishwasher and not watching Chandrila Niamos remixes, but trying to sell me tablets…
September 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I have complained here that YouTube ads were really irrelevant. They aren’t getting much better (who wants to buy a university-lab grade microscope?) but they occasionally…
Look, I know I should be unloading the dishwasher and not watching Chandrila Niamos remixes, but trying to sell me tablets…
Look, I know I should be unloading the dishwasher and not watching Chandrila Niamos remixes, but trying to sell me tablets…
I can’t believe that Apple didn’t provide all those people whose lives were saved by Apple Watch with a webcam from this century.
I mean it would be rude to ask for more, but…
I mean it would be rude to ask for more, but…
September 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I can’t believe that Apple didn’t provide all those people whose lives were saved by Apple Watch with a webcam from this century.
I mean it would be rude to ask for more, but…
I mean it would be rude to ask for more, but…
Sometimes, genius doesn’t need good lighting.
Irish pubs vs Scottish pubs with Craig the tourguide #eleanormorton
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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September 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sometimes, genius doesn’t need good lighting.
In the SciFi novel The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson imagines a city dying because of a heatwave, and survivors radicalizing. International action follows in the shadow of their terrorist threats. It couldn’t imagine the incident to be widely ignored. And yet…
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN
Never ending scorcher in Japan, nothing like this had ever seen anywhere in the world outside the tropics:
Records every single day for months .
Today's September new records:
35.6 Taketa
35.2 Miyakonojo
35.2 Kaseda
34.6 Amagi
33.4 Kasari
Never ending scorcher in Japan, nothing like this had ever seen anywhere in the world outside the tropics:
Records every single day for months .
Today's September new records:
35.6 Taketa
35.2 Miyakonojo
35.2 Kaseda
34.6 Amagi
33.4 Kasari
September 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
In the SciFi novel The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson imagines a city dying because of a heatwave, and survivors radicalizing. International action follows in the shadow of their terrorist threats. It couldn’t imagine the incident to be widely ignored. And yet…
Fox News couldn’t stop talking about the mass shooter more. I guess that’s what counts as Swan Lake in the US? That’s grim.
Newsmax isn’t particularly focused.
Newsmax isn’t particularly focused.
August 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Fox News couldn’t stop talking about the mass shooter more. I guess that’s what counts as Swan Lake in the US? That’s grim.
Newsmax isn’t particularly focused.
Newsmax isn’t particularly focused.
For people at the back: this week, or maybe next year, millions will die, some survivors will be radicalized and attack carbon-intensive infrastructure or decision-makers. Mass migration in the billions will flee the hottest area.
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT WAVES
Dozens of thousands are falling ijn over 150+ countries from Oceania hroughout the whole Asia (from East Asia to Middle East) to the Arctc to Europe (west to east) and Africa
We are witnessing the most extreme days in world climatic history
Stay tuned with many updates later
Dozens of thousands are falling ijn over 150+ countries from Oceania hroughout the whole Asia (from East Asia to Middle East) to the Arctc to Europe (west to east) and Africa
We are witnessing the most extreme days in world climatic history
Stay tuned with many updates later
August 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
For people at the back: this week, or maybe next year, millions will die, some survivors will be radicalized and attack carbon-intensive infrastructure or decision-makers. Mass migration in the billions will flee the hottest area.
You know how some ads have to add caveats at the end because they are promoting a regulated service? And how are always read way too fast to not eat into the ad time budget?
I just heard one of those in Polish. Eminem *wished* he had a flow that quick and that smooth.
I just heard one of those in Polish. Eminem *wished* he had a flow that quick and that smooth.
July 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
You know how some ads have to add caveats at the end because they are promoting a regulated service? And how are always read way too fast to not eat into the ad time budget?
I just heard one of those in Polish. Eminem *wished* he had a flow that quick and that smooth.
I just heard one of those in Polish. Eminem *wished* he had a flow that quick and that smooth.
I lived in touristy Paris too long: I notice lost tourists. Last night, step into Stockholm town hall. A guy was looking around, maybe lost? Then his wife pulls a camera, and he pulls a large golden medal from his pocket & a big smile.
I guess he’s been here before. Looks different in winter.
I guess he’s been here before. Looks different in winter.
June 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I lived in touristy Paris too long: I notice lost tourists. Last night, step into Stockholm town hall. A guy was looking around, maybe lost? Then his wife pulls a camera, and he pulls a large golden medal from his pocket & a big smile.
I guess he’s been here before. Looks different in winter.
I guess he’s been here before. Looks different in winter.
My bus driver just put on some racing gloves. We are about to Harry-Potter-Night-bus this traffic jam…
June 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
My bus driver just put on some racing gloves. We are about to Harry-Potter-Night-bus this traffic jam…
My job is made a little bit harder by having to explain that a lot of very smart people, using enormous computers, have decided that about 30% of my time should be spent watching ads for the same video game, that, inexplicably, is nothing like those ads.
June 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
My job is made a little bit harder by having to explain that a lot of very smart people, using enormous computers, have decided that about 30% of my time should be spent watching ads for the same video game, that, inexplicably, is nothing like those ads.
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"First the leader removes those with expertise and independent thinking from the government and replaces them with leaders who are arrogant, ignorant, and extremely loyal. Next he takes steps to centralize his power and claim unprecedented authority."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
April 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"First the leader removes those with expertise and independent thinking from the government and replaces them with leaders who are arrogant, ignorant, and extremely loyal. Next he takes steps to centralize his power and claim unprecedented authority."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Today, I saw more than 25 ads encouraging me to:
- sell my car;
- get a new car;
- get new tires for my car;
- fix the windshield of my car;
- effortlessly change tires of my car;
- buy a much better car than the one I have.
If you work with cars, you ad agency is stealing from you.
- sell my car;
- get a new car;
- get new tires for my car;
- fix the windshield of my car;
- effortlessly change tires of my car;
- buy a much better car than the one I have.
If you work with cars, you ad agency is stealing from you.
April 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Today, I saw more than 25 ads encouraging me to:
- sell my car;
- get a new car;
- get new tires for my car;
- fix the windshield of my car;
- effortlessly change tires of my car;
- buy a much better car than the one I have.
If you work with cars, you ad agency is stealing from you.
- sell my car;
- get a new car;
- get new tires for my car;
- fix the windshield of my car;
- effortlessly change tires of my car;
- buy a much better car than the one I have.
If you work with cars, you ad agency is stealing from you.
Black Mirror Season 7.
No, really, they can somehow think of something worse.
I’ll be hiding under my bed.
No, really, they can somehow think of something worse.
I’ll be hiding under my bed.
March 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Black Mirror Season 7.
No, really, they can somehow think of something worse.
I’ll be hiding under my bed.
No, really, they can somehow think of something worse.
I’ll be hiding under my bed.
It might not be a top priority for everyone but I think we can all agree “Don’t make Steve Rosenberg concerned” should be a rule for a lot of people.
March 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It might not be a top priority for everyone but I think we can all agree “Don’t make Steve Rosenberg concerned” should be a rule for a lot of people.
Here’s how I think about global warming (and a couple other things)
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Here’s how I think about global warming (and a couple other things)