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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 15h

No, that's a rime day. A prime day is when a computer program or other statement of formal logic produces exactly its own definition as its output.

V is for very, very spooky @alana-m-vincent.net · 17h

No, that's a slime day. A prime day is when you're accosted outside a wedding by an old sailor who tells you at length about his voyage to the Antarctic and the spiritual and psychological harms that violence visits upon perpetrators.

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 17h

no no that's a grimes day, a prime day is when you say "i don't know" on "you can't do that on television"

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 23h

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3d

Just wild sown 200 hundred acorns

Picked up in local paths where there was no chance of a future, & placed in areas where they have every chance

Within every acorn there is a potential forest

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 4d

ipads folded in half seven times crammed between the bricks

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 4d

I agree, but the Constitution says otherwise.

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 4d

#sharegoodnewstoo

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 7d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have unveiled a promising new vaccine that generates a powerful immune response against HIV and other viruses including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza with just ONE dose. By combining immune-boosting adjuvants, the vaccine encourages the body to generate more antibody variations.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d

Exceptional Doctorow piece on the solar rollout, why it's unstoppable, & why many old downsides of solar aren't factors anymore. The entire material mining needed 4 a global solar transition = only 17% of the fossil fuel mining we do every year! & then we're done! doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

Decarbonization at a distance

A post-American century that runs on sunshine.

doctorow.medium.com

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 6d

I beg your pardon. They're clearly playing otter polo.

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 6d

#sharegoodnewstoo

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 8d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 6d

I beg your pardon. They're clearly playing otter polo.

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 6d

Can you suspend it from a drone and have it float around?

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 6d

Boss, it's the fascism

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 6d

In the pool it's never too late

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 7d

For anyone who needs it, Big Bobcat and Little Bobcat doing a bit of fieldwork.

Magnificent big pointy ears on Big Bobcat and little nubby ears on Little Bobkitten as they rest their paws side-by-side on a gnarly fallen log and do serious faces as they look into the distance, surrounded on all sides by hundreds of red and purple flowers in the long green grass of a meadow.

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 7d

I had a Centurions lunchbox.

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 8d

"Second rule: learn first rule very quickly."

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 8d

... who happens to be a really good lawyer.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 8d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 9d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 8d

Get your MMR and encourage everyone else to do so.

Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 8d

I did not know that, along with everything else measles is nasty about, it can leave a ticking time bomb that ruptures and kills you years after you get "over" it.

publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/pub...

LISTING OF DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH PRESS RELEASES

publichealth.lacounty.gov

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 8d

No, no, that was the horror post-9/11 and the new war in Afghanistan. The new war in Iraq didn't start until early 2003.

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Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 8d

THE BURNER IS 9 MONTHLY SUBSCRIBERS AWAY FROM ITS SEPTEMBER GOAL! If you have $6 a month to spare for local, leftwing journalism, please join the ko-fi today! Ko-fi.com/hannahkrieg

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 8d

I don't think they're capable of understanding at any level what they've destroyed, even if it were to affect them personally.

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 11d

Drums, drums in the deep

Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 12d

No Country For Old Men

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 11d

obFreud

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 11d

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