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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 10h

I think I have an infinite number of them also, but also I never look at them again (or like I do but only by searching for the thing again), they don't register to me as tabs

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 19h

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 10h

all my hallowe'en pictures are way old, I better take some this year so I'm not catfishing

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 10h

i was recently blindsided by this in a bad book bsky.app/profile/mang...

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Sep 7

My current mediocre psychological thriller unexpectedly started with the protagonist's husband disappearing on her baby's first day of nursery and her first day back to work. a bit on the nose really, but - imagine only having 25 tabs open on your laptop

opens her laptop. She never shuts it down and it currently has twenty-five tabs open, almost all of them Google

searches.

Baby not finishing meals.
How to stop bickering with husband.
Should my pelvic floor be better by now?

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 11h

in the same discussion I've seen that some people have to watch a kind of cybersecurity soap opera thriller for their corporate IT training, and I am j e a l o u s insideman.knowbe4.com

The Inside Man | Security Awareness Training Series

The Inside Man is KnowBe4’s an award-winning KnowBe4 Original Series that delivers security awareness principles embedded in each episode.

insideman.knowbe4.com

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 11h

HAHAHA

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 14h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 11h

I would ALSO never get over this

mags*

October 8, 2025 at 7:22 am

My mum has NEVER gotten over being made to go to a special Phishing Awareness Training thing after she clicked on the link in a phishing email from her IT department. Mostly because she’d followed proceedure and forwarded the email originally as a probable phishing scam…only to be told by the IT department that it wasn’t, it was an official email, and she should click through and respond.

So she did and, lo and behold, it was a fake phishing email and she got sent to a seminar. That was a few years ago and to this day she swears the IT guy just wanted to hit enough people to schedule a training day and get his lunch catered.

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 14h

I will be honest of all the things I've missed as a vegetarian, luncheon meat has never really been one of them

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 14h

That's good but I don't really want to make my own Hawaiian pizza, I want to order it from Pizza Hut

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 14h

I really wish there were more vegetarian Hawaiian pizzas. Nothing works as well as ham but even so

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15h

A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.

Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 16h

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 15h

I don't know if anyone has noticed this before, but there's a lot too much bullshit you can buy

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 16h

I wish

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 16h

Even without the link rot problem it's just... stupid

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 16h

Aaaaaaah

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 16h

Infuriating choice of illustration for this high contrast tiny baby book. As if there aren't plenty of things that ARE black and white, no, why not pick the one thing which FAMOUSLY is made of different colours?

Pictures from a board book. One is a black and white bee. The other is a rainbow, only it's all white with black lines denoting the lines between the non existent colours

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 16h

Tech bros: Check out our cute new chatbot-integrated toy Surveilo that'll record every single interaction for us to monetize.

5 y.o.: Plays with his "broken-down train" all morning and leaves for preschool with instructions that I am not to touch the train because it is very valuable.

Two small cardboard boxes wrapped in masking tape.

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 16h

always a terrible idea to have URLs in books. academic publishers are constantly trying to do this

Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 16h

Ahah. Whoops

We have been made aware that several titles in the Spy Dogs, Spy Pup, and Spy Cat series by Andrew Cope contain a weblink at the back of the book that no longer directs people to information about the books. Instead, the link now leads to inappropriate and unsafe material, containing pornographic content with no age restrictions.

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 17h

idk what this said but i can guess

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 17h

Your brain works fine when you're under 25 (no matter how 'inconvenient' this fact may be)

theneuroscienceofeve...

The myth that 'if you're under 25, you're not mature enough to decide anything' refuses to die. But it absolutely should

#Brains #Development #Maturity

Your brain works fine when you're under 25 (no matter how 'inconvenient' this fact may be)

The claim that, if you're under 25, your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make mature decisions, or held responsible for actions, is very common. But also very wrong.

theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 17h

Wow that's cool!

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 17h

This x100. Business degrees are cheap to run, easy to run badly, and face seemingly inexhaustible demand

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18h

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 23h

Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 1d

#TextileTuesday:
Firefighter's Coat (hikeshi-banten) with #Hawk and Waves
Japan, early to mid-20th c.
Cotton, plant dyes
On display at BMA (2024.374)
“The firefighter who chose this design…valued the protective power of water as well as the hawk's strength and keen vision.”
#BirdsInArt #JapaneseArt

photo of the fireman’s coat (design: brown hawk flying over blue wave) hanging on display at museum

photo of the gallery label:

“Unidentified Artists)
Firefighter's Coat (hikeshi-banten) with Hawk and Waves
early to mid-20th century
Japan
Cotton, plant dyes
This handmade firefighter's coat, made of layers of cotton stitched securely together, is displayed inside-out to reveal a hawk soaring above turbulent waves. Worn during a fire with its undecorated exterior facing out, the coat was saturated with water to protect the firefighter from flames and debris. Rather than using water to put out fires, late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese firefighters demolished structures near a fire to prevent it from spreading. After extinguishing a fire, the heroic men turned their coats to display the decorated insides.
The firefighter who chose this design for his coat valued the protective power of water as well as the hawk's strength and keen vision.
Anonymous Gift, BMA 2024.374”

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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