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Daniel O'Connor
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Software engineer, beer lover, general nerd. (He/Him)
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wench.bsky.social
I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!
johnny rico in starship troopers saying “kill em all!”
December 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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jonrosenberg.bsky.social
My adorable five year old niece calls it "Cake Pop Demon Hunters."
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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mollytaft.com
merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this
An onion in a Christmas box
December 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
When the guy from IT has to come up and talk with accounting. it's Mahna Mahna in the box with Statler and Waldorf
September 26, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
little girl: "for christmas I want a dragon!" Santa: "be realistic" lg: "DDR5 RAM please" S: "what color do you want for your dragon" lg: "red"
December 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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alanbaxter.bsky.social
Got my wife a prosthetic leg for Xmas. Not as her main present, of course, just a stocking filler.
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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alanbaxter.bsky.social
Nativity scene but there's jesus on a crucifix in the background. Text says Spoiler alert.
December 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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ryansimmons.bsky.social
Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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sydneystations.bsky.social
Maybe it's time we talked about congestion pricing for the Sydney CBD
marklevinenyc.bsky.social Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 2d
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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rincewind.run
whether or not you use AI personally, it is making computer Worse and there’s nothing you can do about it
December 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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science.org
Scientists have developed a robotic hand exoskeleton that can passively train expert pianists to play faster keystrokes and overcome the ceiling effect in motor skills.

Read more in #ScienceRobotics: https://scim.ag/3N3bJil
December 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
Donald Trump, or as he’s known these days, ██████ █████
December 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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paulisci.bsky.social
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)
Stranded man airlifted from Mount Fuji — then rescued again days later after he returned to get his phone --CBS, 28 April 2025
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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nutshellgulag.bsky.social
From the 1966 Sunset Magazine “Sunset Cook Book of Breads”
A black and white photo from an old baking cookbook which shows how to shape the dough for a crown brioche. It looks suspiciously like a certain obscene meme picture (goatse) that Bluesky just banned.
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Yes that was entirely the goal of this all, and for some bizarre reason academics were framing this whole thing in the context of rubrics and whether the paper deserved an A or B or whatever.

Congratulations on playing the transphobes’ game so well.
December 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
In Andrew Bolt's infamous 2018 "tidal wave of immigrants column", he specifically singled out Jewish communities as 'part of the problem'

The idea that the far-right, anti-immigration parties and xenophobe media are going to protect the Aus Jewish community is absurd

archive.ph/sDmhO#select...
OM.AU S SAPTELEGRAPH.COM.AU THURSDAY AT 20 The foreign invasion Australia is being swamped by non-English-speaking immigrants who refuse to assimilate and accept our values. In the face of this influx, we're losing our identity T athlal ware of kampuch other 241000 jos lado, not just crowd F206, there wery 1025,000 Chinese-hom there are 526.000. ane 40000 One we mahthave patents lite in the witche Weil still be able to nut sararthing has changed, and no longer can we amume Australians share anything but hery fumigation is becoming colonis athon, tursing the country from a home to a betul We are clustering inte tibes that he apart from each other and aften do not even pak the same language in the Check the new C nese suburbs, such Melbourne's Box Hill where an astonishing two-thirdi nuts were Doen in Chinat nese anontry now spoken by 40 per cent of sidents there and Chinese signs dominate the shp ping streets In Mal bourne's Chartan and Sydney's Campsie three-quar ters of residents speak a langage third speak Chines TIEDEMANN It's not just the Chinese whs Ind Seday's Lakantha anarty be 70ww lon over in Melbame's Sporakone home Anuther 10 per cent ove from Chas Cambodia Canthods ir China In Sydney's Five Dock, kong aher In Melbourne's North Caulfield 4 who have lately bed South Africa Dandenong now hat an fficial Little Indian Cultural Pre regnt with 33 Indian businesses Such clinising will acrossingly be our futare at we gain a critical mas of bom-overseas migrants Like lend to attracte and theme awedes can then morr easy TV. the internet, and cheap travel an "us" to which we owe This would already be a huge challenge to our serse of a canmou our loyalty and mutual support. But the mashe immagrations challenge har been comped on an exactly when We have for decades had activists, academics and politicians pach mati what divides un rather then onteste what That has been made evm wanse by the new politics, and our of being shat tered deliberately What do we today share as Austra ham, when we don't even have a national day or flag we can agree on Even our national bevadcastve, the ABC, has agate against keeping eral Melbourne incis now refuse to celebrate it, claiming Over at governosent building at least three flags are now own including ones for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander "nations" while many activate and republica deride the Australian flag as rachit and colonial The Western civilisation that gave and empecially ita democratic institutions sdamned as oppressive and racist even by our universities, with the aca demici union attacking the alleged superiority of Western culture and civilisation Meanwhile, Christianity is losing its hold as the country's faith, and is fallowesl now by just over half of the population Even the law no longer hinds Aus traliane into an "or". We instead have Aboriginal-only courts, and poltti cians of the Left now want to cre ate an Aboriginal-only advisory council Meanwhile, Muslim ex tremists refuse to stand for our judges, claiming their religion is higher than Aus As I say, there is no us any more. No flag faith, national day, law or civilisation can be said to represent all of us Dow Nor does army. We have so ittle in common today that more Muslim Austra Bans joined the Islamic State than serve with the Austra lian Defence Force that fought it. And so we fragment, more every year. These are just trends for now, ANDREW BOLT What do we today share as Australians, when we don't even have a national day or flag we can agree on any more? In Melbourne’s Springvale, one in four residents speaks Vietnamese at home. Another 10 per cent come from China or Cambodia. In Sydney’s Fairfield, one in four residents were born in Vietnam, Cambodia or China. In Sydney’s Five Dock, long after the heyday of immigration from Europe, one in seven residents still speaks Italian at home. In Melbourne’s North Caulfield, 41 per cent of residents are Jews, including hundreds who have lately fled South Africa. Dandenong now has an official Little Indian Cultural Precinct, with 33 Indian businesses. Such colonising will increasingly be our future as we gain a critical mass of born-overseas migrants. Like tends to attract like and these new colonies can then more easily keep their cultures thanks to satellite TV, the internet, and cheap travel.
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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bendts2cents.bsky.social
I feel like this story needs to be added to the Crazy Archive Stories thread. Not every archive is in An Archive and all kinds of cool data can be found in surprising places.
chrisbaraniuk.com Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 3d
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹

They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.

A new scoop for The Reengineer!

www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
www.thereengineer.pro
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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britculpsapp.bsky.social
perhaps one of the larger issues with AI is the utter lack of guardrails around it as it is being essentially forced into everything we use & no way for opting in or out to consent to any of this

and then shit like this happens again, despite it being a constant concern for years
December 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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riseup.wiki
If you don’t stand with Israel, you stand with antisemitism’ is a false dilemma. In a 2025 poll, 61% of American Jews say Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza, and 51% of British Jews say its actions clash with Jewish values. Criticising a state is not hating a people.

#Riseup #FreePalestine
December 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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explaintrade.com
My neighbor told me pro boxers keep pummeling his douchebag influencers so I asked how many influencers he has and he said he just goes to the internet and gets a new influencer afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding influencers to boxers and then everyone's daughter started cheering.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d
Andrew Tate and Jake Paul losing the same weekend. Sad.
December 21, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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stilgherrian.com
I see a screenshot from the Australian Jewish Association doing the rounds. It’s worth remembering that the AJA is a bunch of fringe far-right cranks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...
In a debate over Jewish representation, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry in May 2024 criticised AJA as being unrepresentative of the mainstream of Australian Jews, and urged media organisations to be aware of who they are before engaging with them. The Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) voiced similar opinions stating that AJA is "extremist" and "fringe", and "utterly incompatible with Jewish values". The Jewish Council of Australia called AJA a "far-right extremist organisation",highlighting AJA's association with far-right figures like Pauline Hanson, Lauren Southern, and Moshe Feiglin, as well as AJA's stance that the Safe Schools programme is "child abuse for a Marxist social engineering agenda".
December 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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slothropsmap.bsky.social
There’s not a good reason to apologize for being white but I have a few million reasons to apologize for other white guys. This is an interesting problem!
December 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM