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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 3h

years ago, some right wing clown said that Antifa was flying planeloads of protestors somewhere, and that kicked off some amazing threads about what flying Air Antifa might look like

catering by Food Not Bombs, FAs are all Black Bloc, etc 😂

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 12h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Black & white photo of a ~50yo woman. She has short-ish wavy blonde hair, intense eyes, and smiles slightly towards the camera. She is Carla Capponi, one of the more prominent women in the Italian resistance during WWII.
A comrade in the struggle described her as "this young blonde woman who went out at night to shoot Germans... with arms in hand, first among the first, she participated in dozens of actions, distinguishing herself in a superb way."

Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 14h

two options I've seen recommended are raindrop.io and zotero.org. I don't think either one is a direct parallel to Pocket but possibly one will work for you

Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 17h

Sault Ste Marie 😂

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 22h

it only gets worse when one imagines the kinds of "social media" that DW would supposedly steamroll and absorb:
• some random blog about K-drama/C-drama crossovers
• a chatboard about Nepali yarn spinning (total membership: 4)
• a dozen phpBB instances devoted to arcane RPGs nobody has ever heard of

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 22h

this still makes me lolsob in the worst way any time I see it. like...the contrast between DW being portrayed as some angry, snarling Katamari of social media, vs our practically active disinterest in promoting the site to new users writ large 😅

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 22h

sorry, I think the methodology on this poll is superior
bsky.app/profile/char...

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · Jan 26

Polling Canadians:

77%: No
23%: Non

Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · Jan 26

"Canada should join the US"

Disagree: 64%
Agree: 15%

Ipsos / Jan 21, 2025 / n=1077

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 1d

it's always amazing when kids are like "what Nintendo game was popular when you were born?" and my answer is:

Two decks of Nintendo Daitōryō Hanafuda cards (aka "Japanese Flower Cards").

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 2d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 2d

…while completely ignoring the instructions we provided.

I felt so bad for these people. not only are they not getting an interview, they just wasted 4+ hours on a task that was designed not to take anywhere near that long 😥

Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 2d

srsly, this kind of thing drives me BONKERS.

I created an assessment task that was "1) download this app build; 2) follow these exact repro steps; 3) write a bug report for the issue with component XYZ."

we got tons of responses that were a laundry list of every possible minor issue with the app…

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 2d

we already know too much about who is fucking, can we please do something else 😥

Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 2d

seriously, the guy is infamous amongst journalists for being a non-stop carnival of comical corruption
bsky.app/profile/bruc...

Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · Aug 21

Eric Adams, while cartoonishly corrupt and dumb as a particularly dim limpet, is the funniest politician alive

THE CITY @thecity.nyc · Aug 20

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 2d

kind of amazing that his idea of war basically hasn't advanced since the 16th century, ie "nooo you can't just vaporize my platoon with artillery, we were so manly and did so many push-ups"

Quoted passage from Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote:

"Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 2d

it did, thankfully! if it wouldn't have done, I might just have went back to bed and curled up in a tiny ball for the rest of the day 😅

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 3d

a soda bottle just fell off my desk and landed directly on the switch of the power bar that all my computing equipment is plugged into, shutting it all off

how's your Monday morning going? 😂

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 3d

afaik no judge has ever bodyslammed a DoJ lawyer through a courtroom table, but these guys are trying VERY hard to make it happen

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d

DOJ's Hamilton is arguing that the order from Trump as to California NG isn't related to Oregon NG. It "does not have a geographic limit."

Immergut is not happy.

"What would the purpose of 12406 be?"

"Why is this appropriate?"

"Do you believe this is appropriate way to deal with my order?"

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 3d

tfw you ask an LLM to generate sequences of 8 random letters

and it repeatedly gives you 'qwertyui', 'asdfghjk', 'lkjhgfds', 'poiuytre', etc 🤣

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 3d

that's amazing. have you ever considered a career in software testing? you appear to have the "Bug Magnet" aura that many of us do 😊

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 3d

baseball is suddenly starting to pour into my non-sports-related social media circles and it's not hard to see why. 😂

MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 3d

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 3d

Genau! Und zur Hölle mit der verdammten bösen Eule 😂

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 4d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 4d

Overall, this code takes the list of filehandles provided, and maps each one into an n-dimensional Klein bottle space.

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Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 5d

probably the least important critique of Takaichi, but this really made me cringe. Japan literally coined a word for "death from overwork", so I'm sure "working overtime" is definitely a strategy that's never been tried before
bsky.app/profile/econ...

The Economist @economist.com · 5d

“I will abandon the notion of work-life balance,” Takaichi Sanae has declared, pledging to “work, work, work” to rebuild the ruling party and revive Japan. She will have plenty of work to do

Victory for Japan’s polarising Iron Lady, Takaichi Sanae

A hardline right-winger is set to become prime minister

econ.st

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