Garoo 🦄
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Geekeries en tout genre et catsitting, en français and in English.
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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Ma collègue est au téléphone avec la CAF pour un bénéficiaire, je l'attends dire à l'agent de la CAF : Mais vous ne prévenez plus les gens par courrier ou notification quand vous clôturez leur dossier maintenant ?
L'agent : Ah ben, ils le verront bien quand ils ne toucheront plus d'argent
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L'agent : Ah ben, ils le verront bien quand ils ne toucheront plus d'argent
😑
December 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Ma collègue est au téléphone avec la CAF pour un bénéficiaire, je l'attends dire à l'agent de la CAF : Mais vous ne prévenez plus les gens par courrier ou notification quand vous clôturez leur dossier maintenant ?
L'agent : Ah ben, ils le verront bien quand ils ne toucheront plus d'argent
😑
L'agent : Ah ben, ils le verront bien quand ils ne toucheront plus d'argent
😑
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insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
December 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
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Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
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Dementia Patient’s Family Keeps Ripping Her Away From Idyllic World Of 1950s https://theonion.com/dementia-patient-s-family-keeps-ripping-her-away-from-i-1819578494/
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Dementia Patient’s Family Keeps Ripping Her Away From Idyllic World Of 1950s https://theonion.com/dementia-patient-s-family-keeps-ripping-her-away-from-i-1819578494/
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Shot, chaser, another chaser
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Shot, chaser, another chaser
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I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so
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![Eeeeet c’est encore une énième manif contre un pouvoir illégitime, sourd et aveugle (mais hélas pas muet). Comme d’accoutumée les robocops surarmés sont de sortie, avec ordre de se faire plaisir sur la tonfa. Une bande de petits vieux défile avec des pancartes « cœur ». Jean-Robocop lance à la mamie du devant : « Vous allez roter du sang, bande de TERRORISTES ! » La mamie, interloquée : « Quoi ? » Puis les robocops se mettent à robocoper avec tact (ils tabassent et gazent tout le monde). La mamie, au sol : « Mais on ne fait que marcher pacifiquement dans la rue ! » Dans la dernière case, on retrouve la même mamie, les lunettes à peine désaxées mais désormais vêtue de noir de pied en cape, un cocktail molotov et une barre à mine à la main. Son collègue petit vieux l’interpelle : « Eh bin ? » Mamie répond : « Quitte à se faire gazer, autant se faire plaisir. » [fin]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ektsqyfnb5apiiwvxdpudpzs/bafkreigft3mgdpi6s2anymzkguhkmfsnauxaxf7iziybup3gpilefdhshe@jpeg)
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Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.
October 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.
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Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.
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Guys I've figured it out. We need to harness Jared Leto's franchise killing powers for good by getting him cast in a Harry Potter thing
October 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Guys I've figured it out. We need to harness Jared Leto's franchise killing powers for good by getting him cast in a Harry Potter thing
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Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
October 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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The possibility immediately occurs (and not just to me) that the origin of O.K. - often explained as an abbreviation for Oll Korrekt - is from this same journalese.
October 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The possibility immediately occurs (and not just to me) that the origin of O.K. - often explained as an abbreviation for Oll Korrekt - is from this same journalese.
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Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.
October 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.
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One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-
September 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-
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" Les pesticides dérivent dans l’atmosphère et retombent sous forme de pluie ou de neige à des centaines, voire des milliers, de kilomètres de l’endroit où ils ont été utilisés. Notre planète est baignée dans un cocktail de poisons."
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Des dizaines de tonnes de pesticides présentes dans les nuages au-dessus de la France
Jusqu’à 140 tonnes de substances actives, dont certaines sont interdites, sont dissoutes dans les nuages au-dessus du territoire métropolitain, selon une étude franco-italienne. Les écosystèmes éloign...
www.lemonde.fr
September 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
" Les pesticides dérivent dans l’atmosphère et retombent sous forme de pluie ou de neige à des centaines, voire des milliers, de kilomètres de l’endroit où ils ont été utilisés. Notre planète est baignée dans un cocktail de poisons."
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
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Accidental renaissance feat. the world's most photogenic man
September 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Accidental renaissance feat. the world's most photogenic man
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"Where's my Breakfast?" by Daniel Arthur
September 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
"Where's my Breakfast?" by Daniel Arthur
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reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
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Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies"
Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."
Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."
September 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies"
Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."
Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."
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Il y avait bien les crocodiles, à l'époque, qui entouraient la statue de la place. Mais ils ont malheureusement été déplacés en 1941 dans un entrepôt avant d'être fondus par les Allemands pour faire des canons.
September 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Il y avait bien les crocodiles, à l'époque, qui entouraient la statue de la place. Mais ils ont malheureusement été déplacés en 1941 dans un entrepôt avant d'être fondus par les Allemands pour faire des canons.
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