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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 3h

This'll have been my seventh covid shot. Pfizer is ahead.

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 3h

Mold
Meat
&
Phenazepam*

*-like weird Russian benzo analog.

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 3h

*compiles the proteins today, Pfizer and whichever influenza Kaiser is giving*

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Egypt Urnash 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚜️ 🥱 @egypturnash.bsky.social · 4h

today I encountered a true legend

egypt.urnash.com/blog/2025/10...

Wild Dave

A few years ago, I had an encounter. Walking home from the grocery store, I met a friendly orange cat. Outdoors, with a collar, and a tag that said something like “don’t worry I’m…

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 8h

meat only diets are ok for cats but not for humans.

Also, this is downstream of his whole phenazepam adventure.

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 9h

retro gaming I think we have but retro netting we may not likely because of how much of it has been co-opted, and the incessant bad actors involved in anything.

I've been thinking about how it would have to work and the main problems are not technical

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Roarin' Lady Rez (OMRLP), Prime Minister* of Mars @martianempress.bsky.social · 10d

This rant has been brought to you by No Pizza On Luna, a world where everything changes exactly the right amount all the time. If it doesn't, we don't report it! That's a NEWSCLOWN guarantee!

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It's everybody's favorite 253rd-generation LLM, NEWSCLOWN, in all its big-lapelled bubble-haired vectory goodness! HONK HONK!

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 10h

I think you should do it. Driving once you get into the West is a totally different thing and it gets really worthwhile once you get past Oklahoma.

So flying halfway and renting something is maybe cost neutral and saves you fatigue and vacation days.

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 12h

The legislature feels like a lot of octogenarians staring at each other waiting to see who dies last.

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Operation: Dr. Mack | Friend of Eggbug @jaidamack.bsky.social · 12h

The serfs have always been outside watching the castle burn down, fall over, then sink into the swamp.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13h

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 23h

yeah, that's the whole point, like nearly 30% of the Russell 3000 is 7 big tech stox

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 2d

The Ikea thing.

VËS: A pair of scissors, ideal for flowers and also for fingers.

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 23h

You put $1 in a target retirement date 2040 index fund which is about 2/3 stock index and 1/3 bond index and six cents of that dollar goes into stock of my employer (which is not NVDA)...

It's bad, it's really bad.

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 1d

It's unclear to me why anyone would watch (american) football when they could instead watch rugby (union).

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Spooky Scary SkeleFalco @falco.works · 1d

Day 8 -- Clockwork

Automatons by no means needed to be ornamental, but artisans of the deep woods didn't tend to understand concepts like "too much."

A deerlike anthro fella sits among jars of pigment and paintbrushes, closely focusing on painting filigree on the head of a yet-to-be-assembled automaton, which resembles a horned deer wearing goggles

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 1d

Trader Joe's, already the home of shrinkflation just shrunk everything and raised the prices by 15%.

It's gonna get ugly.

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Dee @deesketchs.bsky.social · 1d

(taur) commission 🦌🪶

digital illustration of a centaur-like character based on a white deer with wings. The character is folding his wings above him while it's raining, holding in one arm a small bunny, while on his opposite shoulder there's a fox character smiling and looking at the rain from under the centaur-like deer's wings

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 1d

There are lots of people beyond Prince Andrew who hung out with the guy and who could be exposed and it still is not clear why they did and where his money came from.

So it is not just Trump with an interest in this and maybe the hope is that the topic dies when Trump does.

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 1d

It is really structurally rough tho. I guess for you it would be like 'I have been successful in making remote teams produce' and contract accountability stuff.

Gotta pretend to be a line manager but that is what is needed.

Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 1d

I really don't know what the situation is and I feel like my own presence is owing to having connections and being able to wear a costume.

But at some level the work has to get done and they aren't making that many more people who can do it.

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 1d

Robots with weasel characteristics.

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 1d

There's times where you crumble to dust then there's times where you Crumble. To. Dust.

Paul Church @thepaulchurch.bsky.social · 10d

They titled a BBS door game "TradeWars 2002" because 2002 sounded like a long time in the future.

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 1d

The extent to which the job involves a lot of external mental context, or accountability to results is another barrier I expect.

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Just Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 1d

It's going to be getting it all set up that is a huge barrier, probably. Like all of this stuff demos well but the demos probably tend to obscure the real costs.

Like, part of this genAI is only an excuse to automate stuff that was possible to automate in 2022, too.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

sooner or later we are going to have to get to grips with cognitive decline, and start taking seriously the idea that lots of old people need as much or more protection young people, in both cases whether they want it or not.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

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