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Willard @climateball.net · Nov 27

Reply Guy Waiting for Main Character

Acrylic on canvas

Partial gift of Snottie Drippen to the Tate Museum in memory of Twitter, 2024.

SnottieDrippen @snottiedrippen.bsky.social · Nov 27

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 2h

Radio Frē Europe - Alien Day [Austin, TX, USA ; Synthy Minimal Post-Punk / Industrial] (1979)
https://redd.it/1lafp2p
https://youtu.be/gP5JDxdtxpo

Radio Frē Europe - Alien Day [Austin, TX, USA ; Synthy Minimal Post-Punk / Industrial] (1979)

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16h

Women be on beast mode when it comes to the creation of new life

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 17h

“If I can get seconds, thirds and fourths on that raw milk now? Ooh boy!”

Bryce Harper on the birth of his fourth child, a boy, last week: "I've got an incredible wife, man. She pushed that thing out in three pushes and 30 seconds. She's an absolute monster doing it. Women, man, what a breed.
I'm serious, it's an incredible thing."

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P Simon @simonwinning.bsky.social · 19h

... and protected pedophiles.

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Victoria @burrddoh.bsky.social · 1d

Just the floofiest lil floof ever 😂
#BirdOfTheDay #Floofball #EastCoastKin 🪶

Young male Northern Cardinal bulking up to get red

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Marja Lindberg @mlindberg.bsky.social · 2d

Pinky Promise

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bird/h @birdperhour.net · 1d

#birdbot

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 2d

Smuggler's Notchnin Jeffesonville Vermont

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 2d

VAR!

In the early morning hours #OTD in 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photo plate of M31 that showed a Cepheid variable star.

Using Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s distance-luminosity relationship, Hubble concluded that M31 is another galaxy outside the Milky Way. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Image: Carnegie Observatories

Photo plate of Hubble's famous "VAR!" discovery. This is a photonegative plate of an image of the Andromeda Galaxy, with several small annotations made in grease pencil. One of them was previously marked "N" for "nova," but the N has been crossed out and replaced with an excited "VAR!" to indicate a Cepheid Variable.

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Jonathan Surratt @beerinator.com · 2d

I wrote a very in depth look at what a Carolina-style burger is and what it isn't. I created a map to help you find a great example and then I shared strategies and tactics to make your own all-the-way burger at home. Click through to get hungry and learn more.

All-the-way to Carolina burgers

Taking a deep dive into the Carolina-style cheeseburger. We'll be figuring out what this burger is and isn't, where you can find one, and then sharing tips and recipes to make your own at home.

boundedbybuns.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

missed this back in May, but this is ridiculous. this project has been permitting hell since 2006 apnews.com/article/sunz...

Appeals court revives Native American challenge to $10B SunZia energy transmission project

A federal appeals court has sided with Native American tribes in their fight against the federal government over a $10 billion energy transmission line that will carry wind-generated electricity from ...

apnews.com

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Willard @climateball.net · 2d

i would contend that data that is worth paying for isn't sold

the concept of product is being stretched, of course - like, i'm supposed to feel like a product right now

Willard @climateball.net · 2d

the clause was "to the users or their data" and got cut to "their data" along the way

Elon bought an user base, which he then monetized, all while getting data for his AI - but the first order of concern is the base, hooked (pro-socially if not technically) to the platform

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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 2d

5’8” Mexican humiliates Yankees again.

lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 2d

The Yankees are being destroyed by a foreign team. The American “century of humiliation” has begun.

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Willard @climateball.net · 2d

"the product" here is the user base, not user data

no user base, no user data

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Willard @climateball.net · 2d

paying a subscription fee has a lower upside than buying company shares

that difference doesn't matter for the point you made earlier, i.e. somebody indeed pays for the site

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Rudy wants revolution. (did:web edition) @ruuuuu.de · 5d

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

You'll put down strangers,
Kill them, cut their throats, possess their houses,
And lead the majesty of law in line,
To slip him like a hound.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · Oct 13

Luther: The mods are broken
Kant: Forums are broken, computers are broken
Hegel: Posters make the mods, mods make the posters
Kierkegaard: Only the unhinged posters are true
Nietzsche: The Internet is a DARPA project

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3d

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with the one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on energy & materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand. It’s a crisis podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 3d

On Wednesday, the Pontiff delivered his first address on climate change at a conference taking place at the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo calling for a “true ecological conversion… that transforms both personal and communal lifestyles.” By @brianroewe.bsky.social

Pope Leo calls for 'true ecological conversion' from words to action on environment

The pope spoke Oct. 1 at the start of a conference marking the 10-year anniversary of Laudato Si', Pope Francis' landmark document that encapsulated church teaching on the environment.

buff.ly

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 3d

Three Studies for a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon, 1962
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137346

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© 2016 The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved./ARS, New York/DACS, London

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Willard @climateball.net · 3d

I may not post for a while

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

Willard @climateball.net · 3d

not cool

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 3d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

Willard @climateball.net · 4d

where will be their honeymoon

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