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does “both innocents above xia are connected” mean there can’t be more than two innocents connected? no right? it should mean that two are connected but there can also be three that are connected, right?

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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

cluesbysam.com

November 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM

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i want to see all of them genuinely happy…

November 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM

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same… i think the flat matte design was perfect

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h

now iPhone aesthetic fucking sucks. the flat matte design language was good and worked. what's with making everything look embossed and slippery like it's 2012 again?

November 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM

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Will Lowe

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So, this character just turns up in my building, jet black and rhythmically rocking the bird over our mailboxes. Sometimes I wish Berlin could stop being quite so Berlin for a moment.

I have so many questions, but is it weird that "how does a cat have a finger like this" is top of the list?

November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM

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now that i know everything… i think rewatching s1 might be interesting

November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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what the fuck how do i not know that season 2 of FnC has come out

ayla computer @aylac.top · 19h

hehe i do that

November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM

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came for the hacking scenes, stayed for the feelz

November 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM

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this thread has provided solace
(spoiler alert for mr robot)
www.reddit.com/r/MrRobot/co...

cookie @cookierambless.bsky.social · 1d

NO GET ON THE FUCKING PLANE DARLENE GET ON THE FUCKING PLANE

November 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM

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@nonfedimemes.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy

Nathan W. Pyle posts an edited screenshot of a (probably fake) post by himself which says “if i ever own a business, we will write on napkins only. Each time a plan succeeds we will say ‘we wrote that plan on a napkin’” and then in smaller text, “the twist is we are a napkin company so everyone will buy our napkins for multiple reasons”

November 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM

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ivy sly

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computing really changed for the worse when we scaled up from gigglebytes to terrorbytes

November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM

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amazing what you can do with a bunch of squares of different colors arranged in a specific way

SPiNDLE but extra Spicy @noctsilk.bsky.social · 23h

one whole week now no smoking 🎉

A pixel art of Medea celebrating, arms up, legs spread. She has green hair, purple eyes, black shirt and purple underwear

I have a cold so I couldn't get up from bed to draw so I just made a quick pixel art of Medea instead on my phone

November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM

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never played portal but have seen gameplay clips of it here and there, enough to know that this is soooo cool

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

Dbrand announces Companion Cube for Steam Machine, coming in 2026 buff.ly/vPuJr5E

November 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM

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i wish it was actually somewhat possible to typeset music in unicode so i could do fucked up things on here

November 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM

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this is very cool. i didn’t know oysters were so good for the ocean!

Spotlight

Bivalves: Trees of the ocean?

Bivalves are organisms living between two hinged shells that open and close like a compact mirror.

(A GIF of a smooth scallop opening and closing its shell)

• As filter feeders, they use their gills to pull in water and separate plankton for food.
• A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day.
• Their shells consist of layers, each showing the characteristics of the water they lived in, similar to rings on a tree.
• Scientists study the layers of fossilized shells to reconstruct ocean changes over

November 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM

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Spark - Nov 13
FOR THE SHELL OF IT 🐚

Chrono
🥇 - 100%

this app is pretty neat! every day there’s a different theme and you get to play little puzzles and learn stuff related to that theme

great for trivia lovers, definitely a more meaningful pastime than doomscrolling on social media

a screenshot of the app. a card titled “Spotlight” describes the Ama, Japan’s legendary female free divers. full text is as follows:

Real-life mermaids

Meet the Ama, Japan's legendary female free divers.

(An image of Ama diving in Toba, Japan, in 1972)

• Ama means "woman of the sea."
• They don't use wetsuits or oxygen, just incredible breath control and an iron will.
• They can dive 30-50 feet deep to harvest pearls, seaweed, and shellfish.
• Many Ama swim in icy waters well into their 70s.

another screenshot of the app. a card is in the spotlight while the background is blurred. on the card is a fun fact about the rock band Blue Oyster Cult, with an umlaut on the letter “O”.

full text is as follows:

1967

Blue Oyster Cult (with an umlaut, an accent symbol that looks like two dots, on top of the letter “O”) formed.

Originally called "Soft White
Underbelly," the rock band will eventually adopt a new name and add what's now called a "heavy metal umlaut" to the O.

November 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM

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動画も音楽もすごく素敵です！

アソビヅクリ @asobizukuri.bsky.social · 5d

少年たちの探検

November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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NO GET ON THE FUCKING PLANE DARLENE GET ON THE FUCKING PLANE

November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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“assemble with care” (video game) is so pretty! which tracks given it was made by the same studio that gave us monument valley — @ustwogames.co.uk! i was so pleasantly surprised when i found out :))

November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM

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I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 12th 2025) in less than 14 minutes
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November 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM

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making the accessibility text box accessible 💯

xan surnamehere @xan.lol · 1d

Bitchsky.app now has the promised alt-text input-box height-adjuster! This makes writing a lot of accessibility text accessible for those who are actually writing it!

Alt text input at it's regular small height with some text inside

A lot taller alt text input with the following contents:
"Android Studio tiled windows with a phone screen and additional buttons floating on top
imagine that I wanted to write a LOT more alt text here" then "alt text alt text" is repeated a bunch. "ALT TEXT FTW!!!!" followed by many tada party confetti emojis.
"(never use alt text in this way, this is just for the image) also I'm planning to maybe publish bitchsky on app stores and while this feature doesn't affect the apps, it's still very welcome for me on the keyboard here!)"

November 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM

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github1s.com but for @tangled.org

November 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM

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wrote a brief summary for this article packed with sound advice!

- the rule of three: generalize/abstract a functionality only when you have had to repeat the code three times.
- firstly: you write some code.
- secondly: you realize you need to reuse the same code in another place. don’t generalize yet. just copy-paste your code over. it’s fine. generalizing a functionality that’s only reused twice is over-engineering.
- thirdly: now it’s time to generalize. this is also likely the point where you have a clearer idea how best to abstract the functionality for three different use cases.
- make it work, make it right, make it fast, in that order.
- write idempotent functions, which are functions that always return the same output given the same input. deterministic, i suppose?
- single responsibility principle.
- try to describe a function in english. if you catch yourself saying “and”, it probably violates this principle.
- maintain a single level of abstraction/detail in each function. don’t mix high-level business logic with database access.

November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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Piccalilli

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The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are missing with the aim to improve your code in the long term.

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