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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13m

It's from Dawkins unfortunately

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10h

Well it got at least one other boat stuck because your comment just let the wind out of my sails

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10h

Unfortunately he had already wasted the name The Milgram Experiment on some nonsense so he couldn't use it again for his music project

Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com · 13h

why does Stanley Milgram look like he's about to release the best industrial noise 7" of 1981

Stanley Milgram leaning against the machine that shocks people

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10h

Dems in d- wait hang on.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 13h

Disarray!
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Politico: Republicans are in disarray 1 week into the shutdown

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10h

Update: boat still stuck www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Salvage operation begins for ship grounded in Northwest Passage

Salvage operation begins to free cargo ship Thamesborg grounded in Northwest Passage, roughly 300 km north of Gjoa Haven

www.aptnnews.ca

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

Tatum? I 'ardly know 'um

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

This is basically 2/3rds of the way to my beloved quick tuna casserole from Joy of Cooking (pasta with canned tuna and canned cream of mushroom soup)

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

I the plural of doofus doofi?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

New iron triangle just dropped

LAaah! A Ghost! Guettler @laguettler.bsky.social · 12h

@sadhbhgirl.bsky.social my favorite library patron has this on the hold shelf: Bored Gay Werewolf.

Book: Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

That's the case with pretty much everyone! The more you know about AI the less you support it

The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It

You might assume that tech-savvy people are the most open to using AI, but research suggests it's actually those who are least familiar with it.

www.wired.com

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 12h

> LLMs and generative models are not “progress”. They’re products and we ban those all the time.

www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/they-ba...

by @baldurbjarnason.com

'They ban products, don't they?'

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

www.baldurbjarnason.com

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

All the doofuses salivating about ChatGPT extruding video game shaped slop don't understand a thing about the true opportunities of procedurally generated game worlds that have nothing to do with GenAI, such as this

lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 13h

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'

Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

pcgamer.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

I was looking up the Northwest Passage song because everyone kept referring to it on my post about the big boat stuck, and this cover slaps

UNLEASH THE ARCHERS - Northwest Passage (Official Video) | Napalm Records

YouTube video by Napalm Records

m.youtube.com

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 22h

If you like this change to the street, please let Brooklyn CB6 know by emailing [email protected]

I'm on the board and we're already getting some cranky emails. The folks who are using this and benefit from it don't know they have to stand up for good things, so help us stand up for good things.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

Who do you think is taking the photo

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

Product manager, software developer, UX designer

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

Gonna give this one a shot

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 14h

"Kids! come down for dinner! The ham and bananas hollandaise is ready!"

Old 1970s dish of food for ham and bananas hollandaise

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

Piece of school notebook paper with "AI hurts kids!" written on it in sharpie, taped to a lamppost.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23h

Me: I feel like I've lost control. I'm spiraling.

My therapist, Junji Ito: That must be really scary for you.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12h

I know this is said a lot but if you hate immigration, you can only eat the foods of your people prior to 1492. So for people of European descent that means not just no indigenous foods (no potatoes, no tomatoes, no corn), no Mexican food and no soul food either - there's no slavery exception clause

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h

Man…man.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

“Why Sergio?”: Deportation ends 36-year dream for celebrated Waco chef

Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE ...

www.texastribune.org

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Meg Adams (ArtbyMoga) @artbymoga.bsky.social · 3d

Comics about being a witch 🧹🐈‍⬛✨

How I thought I’d look at a witch (cool looking Meg with a pointy hat and wand)
How I look as a witch (Meg Meg is doing a ritual, holding back her cat duck and digging through her basket of herbs - “where is my mugwort?”)

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

Vending machines kill more people than sharks do

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15h

Friendly reminder
Cautious reminder
Annoyed reminder
Furious reminder
WAR DECLARED

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15h

This is the same argument as, for example, "we can't regulate cars, because what about disabled people" - an argument I've yet to see a disabled person make. Instead, assholes are weaponizing their needs to push an unrelated agenda.

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