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this account will prefer to be shitposting rather than whining until further notice. used to run a nuclear reactor underwater. following based on {funny/articulate} posts. if you're not posting I'm probably not following back. 📍 MD, USA

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oom_rl @outofmemory.bsky.social · Oct 10

but I wish it were that simple.
It's not just war around the globe, but current-gen policing in America, and basic "how do we treat each other".

Best way I can put it is how Patrick Skinner (@SkinnerPm) who is a cop but ex-USCG+CIA puts it on Twitter: "All of us matter, or none of us do."

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 9h

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 7h

portland has fallen

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 7h

Dolly Parton is living proof that it’s possible to become successful and stay a good person who gives back and I love that so much

PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 15h

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 11h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 7h

European badgers. Sophisticated, handsome, look like they drink gin and tonics.

American badgers. Uncouth, violent, look like they drink Everclear and Meth by the pint.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 7h

Your hacking contest requires a license key? Really? What are we doing here

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 8h

If you are new to IT, I would ask you to be on the lookout for someone willing to teach you esoterics.

Because I am now in the senior principal position. And I am begging anyone to learn what I know, because I am the only one that does.

I previously tried to teach someone but they washed-out.

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Dgar @dgar.bsky.social · 8h

A dead fish is floating on the surface of the water. A seagull is standing upon it.

“I don't know a lot about fish

Pretty sure this is a perch though”

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10h

I wrote legal editorials for the Post for a hot minute many years ago, and I was constantly anxious about making sure I got the details right. This editorial is just humiliating for everyone involved

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 8h

it's crazy how fast movies become dated. for instance, the 2021 movie "Don't Look Up" no longer makes sense, because if an American scientist discovered a planet-killing comet heading towards us today, their main response would be "oh thank fuck for that"

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Dustrial @dustrial.net · 8h

Defrag Magentic
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Wiggles @callmemrwiggles.bsky.social · 9h

Uh

G... Go birds?

Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 22h

Please be aware that there is a scrapple sculpting contest at the Reading Terminal Market tomorrow at noon. (If you don’t know what this means you probably don’t want to.)

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oom_rl @outofmemory.bsky.social · 8h

screenshot from top of the thread, giving context for who hailey.at is and what the original point was...

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 9h

When the Yankees get eliminated

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 9h

best uses of ACARS

ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 12h

(1/2) VDLM2 Message From: N993AN / AA3245

Message: GIVING THE NEW PHILLY CAPT A PLANE WITH NO WIFI DURING A PLAYOFF BASEBALL GAME IS A BAD JOKE. THINK THEY BOOD ME AT THE GATE APPRECIATE IF YOU COULD UPDATE US WITH OCCASIONAL SCORES. I PROMISSED TO PASS THEM ALONG. UNLESS THEY ARE LOSING IAN

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 8h

From the Larchives: As we wind up the day here's another RHPS cast from my Larchives. Enjoy.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10h

This is the dehumanizing rhetoric that both Hailey and the person she was QPing were discussing. Neither of them are talking about dehumanizing "AI" or "robots". They are talking about dehumanizing the Black people, Mexican people, and gay people whom the slurs that were altered target.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

It is not actually good for you to rehearse racist sentences like "those damn [slur]s are taking our jobs" just by substituting the word that goes before "-back" because it legitimizes the actual racist sentence and moves you closer to "a person who says racist sentences about actual people".

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James G @orth.ca · 9h

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 11d

DRF for the 25th when Kim Il Sung died. Alert cycle launched so our battalion would be wheels up in 18 hrs. I was an antitank team leader & when I weighed my ruck for the loadmaster, it came in at ~ 140 # incl. 1 Dragon round & the thermal sight. So thankful we “light infantry” didn’t have to go.

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 11d

Someone should tell this dude that air burst munitions are not new. How much heavier do you want soldier load? How does this affect mobility? Survivability? You protect troops against these threats long before they are in contact. Soldier load a persistent challenge.

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Tomb👻Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 10h

My coffee table book, Open Circuits, with beautiful cross-section photos of electronics, is 25% off through the 12th. Use the super-secret discount code "SHOWOFF". What, you already have the book? BAM--you just thought of a friend who would enjoy a copy.

nostarch.com/open-circuits

two images of a small cathode ray tube. the upper image shows that it is nearly as small as a ball-point pen, starting out at the same diameter but flaring out into a tiny screen that is about 10mm in diameter. the bottom image shows the same CRT cut in half, with a complex array of small metal electron lenses.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 11h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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J M Millett @jmmillett.bsky.social · 10h

The Second tallest, load-bearing wall, building in the world. The 1887 Ames Building with 3-meter (9-foot) thick granite walls at base.
#UrbanGaze #Boston #Photography #HistoricBuildings #StreetPhitography

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 16h

Ellis highlights the attacks Reverend David Black has suffered at the Broadview facility, finding plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged that the feds' use of force against praying people "substantially burdens their excercise of religion."

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