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burkebrewing.bsky.social
Did you also have a recent work meeting or social event end with “Well, hopefully 2026 is better”?

Well, get your 2026 off to a *better* start at our next Smarty Pints!

On Jan 19 we’re going rock collecting – examining medical minerals & bringing home asteroid samples.

See you here at 6:30!
Smarty Pints event poster, for January 19, 6:30pm at Burke-Gilman Brewing. A grayscale image with a rectangular device on a mechanical arm coming up from the bottom. Something circular is blurry, perhaps a spinning tool, at the end of the device. Beneath the equipment is a dark surface, with rough white shooting away from the spinning tool. It’s a picture taken from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at the moment it collects a rock sample from the asteroid Bennu. There is a text overlay for the talk, “Navigating a Spacecraft to Asteroid Bennu and Back”, and the speaker, Eric Sahr, Optical Navigation Lead Engineer at KinetX Aerospace. The image is credited to NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona. Smarty Pints event poster, for January 19, 6:30pm at Burke-Gilman Brewing. An x-ray image of a ribcage, gray and semi-transparent on a dark background, with what appears to be an anomalous oblong object inside. There is a glowing white text overlay for the talk, “Minerals in Medicine”, and the speaker, Dr. Jeff Otjen, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Seattle Children’s Hospital & UW.
December 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce
mzsibyl_® › •: Al Threads 3d Tired of the Prompt Thieves in the Al art community. Seriously, the moment a great prompt is public, someone immediately copies it, shares it, and pretends it's their own genius work. It's not about gatekeeping, it's about giving credit where it's due. Stop stealing and start creating! #PromptStealer 1/2 OscarAl @Artedeingenio X.com Never do this: Passing off someone else's work as your own. This Grok Imagine effect with the day-to-night transition was created by me — and I'm pretty sure that person knows it. To make things worse, their copy has more impressions than my original post. Not cool subscribe @Artedeingenio I don't know what you think, but this seems a bit unfel to me. My original post with the Saori Kido Athena prompt has 4,000 impressions, while @dvorahfr's post with an image created with my prompt has 30,000. As for not quoting me as the author, I'm not saying anything, because she has apologised. I would like to understand that it was an unintentional mistake, although I think I'm well enough known around here to use a prompt of mine without knowing it's mine. If I wasn't so well known, would there have been a rectification? I am afraid that many small accounts are stolen on a daily basis and nothing happens. But for a copy to be more widely distributed than the original is a very bad symptom. Without focusing on anyone, I think that some big accounts hardly create original content and just post other people's content, often without quoting the author, and that's very uncool. Respect and honesty above all else. Let's play fair.
December 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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sorenspicknall.bsky.social
They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab
December 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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wrongopinionman.bsky.social
The Seahawks are now 1-172 all time when trailing by more than 15 points in the 4th quarter
December 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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interfluidity.com
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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jfruh.bsky.social
hillary clinton doesn't get a lot of love on this site but let's never forget she took odo's virginity with such gentleness and skill that they made a baseball card out of it
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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gingerbearart.bsky.social
The council convenes once more
#deathblart
Comic, Page 1: P1: Outer space, showing several distant planets and a star, focusing on a foreground ringed planet that appears to have oceans and continents with large visibly man-made alterations, including bridges and a central trench of city circling the planet. Narration: "There are 11 billion sentient life forms on this planet. Uncountable artificial intelligences, consciousnesses stored in the core, more arriving every day" P2: A hand touches the top of an alien-looking casket. Narration: "One less, now." P3: The face of an alien person with an expression of grief, with pupil-less eyes, distinctive cheek markings, a metallic hoop around their neck, and a cloak, referred to from now as "MC". P4: Another person appears behind the first, with a floating holographic display of information in front of their face. Other person: "I take it you are aware of the duty the late Vhixyr is trusting to you?" MC: "Yes, I was told long ago." Page 2: P1: MC is pictured silhouetted from behind, standing in front of a far-future city, full of other citizens and glass transport tubes in the sky stretching into the distance. Narration: "Out of over 11 billion, me." P2: (Blank) Narration: "Despite Vhixyr's insistence that I was just the best fit, I always wondered-" P3: MC's foot stepping on a panel. Narration: "I wondered if my dear grandparent harbored some secret resentment," P4: MC standing in front of a doorway, raising a hand to a glowing panel on the wall. Behind the doorway is swirling shapes and light. Narration: "...or if they just thought I was the only one who could forgive them for this life-long burden?" P5: MC walking on a transparent bridge through a void filled with swirling light. Narration: "But really, all that mattered-" P6: (Blank) Narration: "Is that there are five of them. ...of us." Page 3: P1: Two arch-shaped desks with small cylindrical devices with 3 bulbs protruding from them, and a fan-shaped holographic display behind them showing a wave-form. MC: "I wasn't expecting your equipment to look so... ancient?" P2: A zoomed out view of the room, showing MC speaking to a larger smiling alien with an arch-shaped structure on their back, referred to from here as Council 1. Council 1: "For taking vibrations in the air. Ancient traditions, after all." P3: From behind MC, still speaking to Council 1, who is pointing at their own mouth. Council 1: "And I see you've been practicing your oral language!" MC: "No small effort - but we need to be able to speak this way for a full cycle after all." Council 1: "You get used to it." P4: Showing MC now. Council 1: "I trust you have now... viewed it, as well?" MC: "...of course." P5: Zooming out, showing both MC and Council 1, and another person in the back of the room by a large holo display. This person (Council 2) is slim, wearing a dark sleeveless shirt and a large brace over their shoulders. Council 2: "As of now, Earth has reached 89.3% of its sun-cycle." Council 1: "Then we will begin." Page 4: P1: From left to right seated at the desk in front of holo displays, Council 2, Council 1, and a third Council member with a robe and a U-shaped brace framing their head, all with somber expressions. Council 1: "Today we welcome Thonriel, third grandchild of Vhixyr, to the order of T'ddub. Thonriel has the terrible and honorable charge of speaking first today, as our order convenes for audiograph number 0X7B65D. -ahem- So... what did you think?" P2: Thonriel (MC), wearing a grim expression and slamming their hand down on their own desk. "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is still a bad movie."
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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pattymo.com
Just trying to live my life here 🙄
POPULAR MECHANICS A Tiny Apelike Humanoid May Still Be Living in Plain Sight, Scientist Says
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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luiscarazo.bsky.social
This means I can throw tantrums.
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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atrupar.com
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?

MAMDANI: I've spoken about--

TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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mattthr.bsky.social
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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amandasmith.bsky.social
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
Crosstitch guide image reads “this machine kills fascists” with clipart images of an onion, a sub and a bottle of mustard
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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burkebrewing.bsky.social
Cider fans! Come by next Thursday (11/13) for a Greenwood Cider tap takeover!

We've long been known as a brewery that takes cider seriously, with 5 dedicated taps. But now we're going to give all the taps to one cidery! Co-founder Marshall will be there to help us taste through them.
A poster with a bunch of apples on it, and the text: Greenwood Cider tap takeover at BGBC! Greenwood Cider co-founder Marchall Petryni will tell us about his ciders and take us on a guided tasting! Thursday, November 13th, 630 - 830 PM. $18 gets you a flight of five Greenwood Ciders (or just have a pint of your fave!) Also on the poster is Greenwood Cider co.'s logo, which is a log with growth rings, colored dark green.
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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petersterne.com
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!! Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn
November 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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johnmoe.bsky.social
It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.
November 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
My god, an AI trained on LinkedIn data would be so amazingly powerful. Infinite B2B sales hack.
proton.me Proton @proton.me · Oct 31
Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
Game 3 of the World Series will continue until morale improves.
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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jonbois.bsky.social
the last six weeks or so of m's baseball has been some of the most fun baseball i've seen in my life
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
Welp, it was a good season. Thank you, Mariners. / Eh bien, c'était une bonne saison. Merci, les marins.
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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danmentos.com
oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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rtodkelly.bsky.social
"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
October 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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rtodkelly.bsky.social
"Before we were Antifa we were the Originals, but we had to change our name because someone was already using that name. It was the Regulars, then they changed their name back to The Regulars and we thought, well, we could go back to The Originals but what's the point?"
October 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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marlo.ooo
Logan Hall @ @loganclarkhall • 19h Vance is so good: "The American Space Program, the first program to put a human being on the moon, was built by American citizens. This idea that American citizens don't have the talent to do great things, that you have to import a foreign class of servants, I just reject that." the quote retweet reads: “Funniest possible example to pick lol”
September 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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burkebrewing.bsky.social
A Very Special Smarty Pints is coming up on 10/6, featuring Drs. Stacey Hardin and Jodi Newman of the UW Dept. of Education, talking about JEDI Education!

You should come and learn about this and drink some great beer!
September 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM