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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 1h

TIL USCPSB is not furloughed during shutdown!

Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 23h

The sacrifices one makes for pupils 🥲

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 1d

Both nightshade and glaze are fundamentally flawed: an attacker can just store the image and exploit it later once a workaround has been developed. They are deterrants but won't prevent an LLM from eventually ingesting your stuff

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 20d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 4d

Roll forward, roll forward!

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 5d

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 6d

A. vulgaris can be added in small quantities for its interesting flavour to food. On the other hand, us Koreans can and will use entire bundles of A. princeps in a single dish.

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 6d

Extra sidenote, the mugwort in this story is Artemisia princeps. The mugwort common in Europe is A. vulgaris or A. absinthium and tastes a lot worse than A. princeps.

Source: found mugwort, got excited about it being 쑥, learned it was not quite 쑥

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김성일 Sung-il Kim @sung-il-kim.com · 6d

Context:
Korean myth says that a lesser son of god came down to earth to carve out something of his own. He and his retinue brought technologies and knowledges such as farming to the barbaric people below and began a civilization. (1/n)

muneo @literaryfish.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone please remember to always feed your Korean friends plenty of garlic, so we can maintain our human form. Otherwise we'll turn back into bears and we'll eat you. 🧄

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 8d

Oh hey remember that some more news episo— [turned into corn cream by warmbo]

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 10d

thank u Hades 2 for adding animal familiars 🐸💕

Hades 2 comic
Melinoë yelling”CHRONOS!!”
Chronos: “So you’ve returned…”
“And I see you’ve brought… a friend…”
Melinoë grinning goofily with hearts all around her standing next to Frinos the frog who looks equally goofy

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 10d

Me, about to be disappointed: I wonder what's going on in the world

Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 10d

Thinking about how Apollo, one of our two cats, insists on chewing holes through any plastic that contains grains or tortillas 🥲 you can't even digest uncooked rice, baby

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Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️ @helenareal.bsky.social · 10d

With alt text because this made me cry 😭

Screenshot from what-even-is-thiss tumblr

"Cats don't actually love you"

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don't you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it's helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 10d

Supergiant games keeps making bangers!

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 11d

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

Three pelicans diving after sunset, with a sailboat and a tanker in the distance, 2 terns also fly, the pelicans are shown in their dive motion

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 11d

[CSB person] Fire resistant materials would have added on average 10m to the response time before the fire was out of control. In some cases, it may have prevented a fire entirely. We at the CSB call upon HOAs to update their guidelines for shed materials for the safety of all American homeowners.

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 11d

[USCSB voice] Despite recommendations by the authorities, sheds were placed excessively close to the primary building. Fire-resistant materials were not mandated, allowing the fire to spread.

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 15d

But paracetamol is ok, right?

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 16d

Unfortunately the USSC has declared that the president is a very special boy who cannot commit any crimes as an official act

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 16d

Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!

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Erika’s (Too) Online @erikas.online · 20d

I wrote this after the election but it might be time to repost it, because it’s even creepier now, and more on-point.

Life in an Authoritarian Country Is Often Normal and Pleasant

But you will do normal things, mostly, and the rules about normal things generally aren’t confusing. People can live happy and full and good lives in authoritarian societies, and not even just the …

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 20d

It's okay to observe certain things, like bemoaning the state of the housing market in a general way. But don't vocalize who made it that way or who is responsible for fixing it.

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 20d

I feel like I said this last time too, but a lot of this feels spot on to my own experiences living in an authoritarian country. It's just so normal. But everyone knows not to say certain things in group chats.

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