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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 3h

Niels Bohr was born on this day in 1885.

“When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.”

🧪 🦋🦫 #histSTM #philsci #PhilSky

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 4h

Hell yeah Chicago

Crate of apples with sign that says “frostbite: the Malort of apples”

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Cryptö-Zఠఠl໐gᴉcal Dis⅍ter 𓆑🏴 @eatyrselffitter.bsky.social · 6h

it will be like this forever

Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 1d

‘Six words or _fewer_.”

A meme. There’s a skull at the top, followed by the words ‘WRITE A HORROR STORY IN SIX WORDS OR LESS’

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MisanthropeLovesBirds𓄿𓄿 @bird-nerdco.bsky.social · 6h

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timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 9h

If you can somehow set aside the blatant racism: I agree, hospitals should receive the same base payment for doing the same amount of work under the same conditions! The status quo is stupid and one looks silly justifying it! And do I have a model to that purpose that will blow your mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 11h

I subscribe to @veryimportant.lawyer‘s ‘Everybody is Twelve Years Old’ thesis but this guy is by far the most twelve. The twelvest.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 12h

Absolutely gorgeous morning in Chicago.

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 11h

It's Great Chicago Fire day. Learn more about the conflagration in this terrific @robertloerzel.bsky.social article published during the Fire's 150th anniversary a few years back.

www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

The Great Chicago Fire, As Told By Those Who Lived Through It

As the city marks the 150th anniversary of the defining event, ROBERT LOERZEL mines the archival record to offer a compelling portrait of what it was like to live through those disastrous days.

www.chicagomag.com

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lake effect kid @mattenloe.bsky.social · 11h

Chicago is the greatest city in the world

Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 12h

Absolutely gorgeous morning in Chicago.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

would you like to live multi-modally?

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 21h

Lil Nas Taejong falling from his horse on the Old Town Road and saying "don't let the songwriter know about this"

zoraal ja's psychoanalyst @zoraalja.bsky.social · 22h

remember this phenomenal fucking post

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Decorative Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social · 21h

Me, reading your posts

Painting of a stone cube with a face in it, appears to be by Rafal obinkski

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Decorative Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social · 22h

My theory is that Samantha Harvey watched the ISS live feed and decided she was going to describe what she saw for 200 pages and honestly I get it
www.youtube.com/live/I190Q-n...

NASA Live now ISS Stream 4K - View Earth from Space: ISS Live Feed

YouTube video by ISS Live

www.youtube.com

Decorative Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: I finished the book club book, so I maintain my streak of always finishing the book club book. I warmed up to it a bit by the end and would characterize it as "pretty boring but alright"

Decorative Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

I hate the book for my work environmental book club so much but I have to finish it to assert dominance >:(

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Decorative Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

It also gives you enough to show that the motion of the planets follows the same rules as motion on earth which was the first time physics took two things that seemed totally different and showed they're the same. One of the most beautiful things in physics and you can teach it in high school!

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Decorative Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

It also gives you enough to show that the motion of the planets follows the same rules as motion on earth which was the first time physics took two things that seemed totally different and showed they're the same. One of the most beautiful things in physics and you can teach it in high school!

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Decorative Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

I go off about this several times a year but I am once again thinking about how the concept of inertia is such a huge intellectual leap. It makes so much sense to think that "not moving" is the natural state of things but once you let go of it all of mechanics falls into your lap. Newton, man.🐐

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 1d

Dmitri Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar! He also liked it so much he considered writing a rock music themed suite (like his earlier Jazz suites) but died soon after.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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public universal llkats @llkats.com · 1d

instead of using LLMs I've decided to learn vim. it's going great so far :wq

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Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 1d

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like an analogue to RFC1149, IP over Avian Carriers.

MIB is already a pretty heavily overloaded term in the networking space, so maybe IPoAB, for Aquatic Bottles? Keep me updated on the committee results.

www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149

RFC 1149: Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers

www.rfc-editor.org

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Decorative Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the play here is river for downstream and pigeon for upstream

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Decorative Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Please put 3 or 4 bottles in with the same message, we're still figuring out how to deal with packet loss

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Decorative Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Creating a Saint Louis-based startup to implement an inter-riverine bottle protocol to keep Chicago and the Twin Cities connected

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