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hockey player, disaster cyclist.
it’s cool to get on the computer, but don’t let the computer get on you.
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hairboat.com
can somebody please just do the thing
January 19, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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cassidoo.co
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

― Frank Herbert, Dune

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Do not give up your brain
It's tempting to just let tools think for you, but you still need to be able to think for yourself and stay sharp.
cassidoo.co
January 17, 2026 at 3:32 AM
hairboat.com
the only government agency or perhaps account of any kind who is doing internet correctly in the year 2026 is @cpsc.gov
January 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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cpsc.gov
Here's your favorite easy listening song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PYm...
Beats to Relax / Be Safe To - We're Safety Now Haven't We
YouTube video by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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alecperkins.me
ice on ice violence is out of control
mccabemontreal.bsky.social Peter McCabe @mccabemontreal.bsky.social · 8d
i believe the photographer who is taking the photo is Christopher Katsarov of the Canadian Press, and here is his photo
January 11, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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monteiro.bsky.social
I’m not against the future, but I’m very much against assholes deciding what it looks like.
December 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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colin.hoagie.fun
Another great choice is lex.games by @lexfri.xyz
Lex's Games by Lex Friedman
Games from Lex Friedman.
lex.games
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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antlervel.vet
If you're trying to ditch NYT Games, which you should be since their games singlehandedly prop up the entire dogshit rag financially, you should switch to Puzzmo. An annual sub is 50% off today for a crazy $19 and as a bonus doesn't enable the genocides of Palestinians and trans people
Puzzmo — The (new) place for thoughtful puzzles.
Re-imagined mainstays like the daily Crossword Puzzle, modern classics like Really Bad Chess and SpellTower, and even a few brand new puzzles.
www.puzzmo.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Bobbin' for Bubba
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Anastasia Trusova
"falling leaves" 2020
acrylic on canvas 70* 70 cm
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
hairboat.com
working nights sucks but one thing that makes it tolerable is that @leavittalone.bsky.social is always posting
October 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
hairboat.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
hairboat.com
i'll heart any post. literally anything i'll throw a like on there
October 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
hairboat.com
never been in the position to need the thread mute button before. works great. is this what it’s like to send a child off for their very first day of school
October 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
hairboat.com
this is so far from the point but it distracts me every time i see a video of one of those horrible motherfuckers: why do none of them have SUITS THAT FIT
September 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
Manny Jacinto posted this bc he knows how sad and anxious we all are
September 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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kennedytcooper.bsky.social
there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is
the album art for the upcoming 10 year anniversary edition of Carly Rae Jepsen's EMOTION with expanded tracks
September 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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amutepiggy.bsky.social
people love to say "pick your battles" when they mean give up. always remember: "pick your battles" suggests that sometimes you have to have the battle
September 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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thordale.bsky.social
Happy eating your breakfast by yourself day!
Shetland pony
September 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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figgityfigs.bsky.social
Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · Sep 15
Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents
September 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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merrittk.com
all platforms funded by VCs are fundamentally politically regressive by nature so really the answer is offline
scrub.bsky.social Scrub @scrub.bsky.social · Sep 12
Where to next?
September 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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monteiro.bsky.social
This is the only thing you need to read about Charlie Kirk. His own words.
September 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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folktunes.bsky.social
This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times.

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mylordshesacactus Carpathia received Titanic's distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours. (Californian's exact position at the time is... controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic's distress rockets. It's uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.) Carpathia's Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic's aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it. All of Carpathia's lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once. I don't know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope. Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake-prepping a ship for disaster relief isn't quiet-and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets. And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support. Here's the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms-which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she'd done that, he asked her to go faster. I need you to understand that you simply can't push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless-it's difficult to maneuver-but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can't do it. It can't be done. Carpathia's absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can't-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half. No one would have asked this of them. It wasn't expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.
September 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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briancgrubb.bsky.social
i understand that our attention is divided as a nation but i do need everyone to know that henry winkler is on a fishing trip
henry with some fish another fish for henry what a peach king
September 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM