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Amytiville Hoyrror

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 13d

"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"

"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 3m

ooh this looks awesome

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Afra Kroon 🇳🇱 @afrakroon.bsky.social · 14m

Dozens rescued as remnants of typhoon hits Alaska while nor'easter brings flooding to East Coast

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Dozens rescued as remnants of typhoon hits Alaska while nor'easter brings flooding to East Coast

Authorities say more than 30 people were rescued and three people remain unaccounted for in western Alaska after the remnants of Typhoon Halong brought hurricane-force winds and flooding strong enough...

apnews.com

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 6m

you should link to the source. there's no excuse not to.

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15m

TIL Cromwell’s Rule

don’t worry what it’s about, just enjoy the etymology:

Named by statistician Dennis Lindley, in reference to Oliver Cromwell, who wrote in 1650:

“I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken."

-Wikipedia

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1d

516.

Screenshot of aeschlus-stan account

“I hate it when I’m trying to look up a good golem recipe and the rabbi prefaces it with ten paragraphs about his life in 17th century Prague. Like, I feel for you, Maharai, but there are anti-semites going unsuplexed while I’m searching for the ingredient list.”

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 21m

Wayne Thiebaud, Cold Cereal, 1961

Painting of bowl of cereal and box with "Free" emblazoned on it

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 1h

has anyone actually proved a causal relationship between doing things and the things being done

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 34m

incredible content

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 35m

i have noticed that even haters seem to be less literate than they used to, and use more superficial, manipulative, and easily punctured "arguments" than before

i assume chatbots are rotting their brains

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 24d

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 37m

it's hard to quantify the difference in the news environment, and the giant tsunami of money in elections. these are more explanatory than individual voters' ethics

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 51m

wugbot

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 55m

paging drs @gretchenmcc.bsky.social and @superlinguo.bsky.social

Foone @foone.bsky.social · 1h

signing up for the hot new linguistic dating site

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 58m

what part of "learn history" applies to my comment exactly

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

jerking off to a dream of "real work" in the fields is downright bizarre and really says everything about you, and nothing about work or workers

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

not mean. if reporting facts sound mean, well, that's her problem

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

unironically a great movie

maybe not "good" but great

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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 1h

The only Italian Americans I want to hear from today are Mario Mario and Luigi Mario as portrayed by Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo in the live action Super Mario Brothers Movie. All other Italian Americans need not apply.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

the general population never undersrood XD

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1h

Columbo Day > Columbus Day

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

it is passive voice

but there's nothing wrong with it

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 2h

somewhere along the line my sleep problem went from struggling to wake up to waking up very early for no detectable reason

i would love it if only i could go back to falling asleep at 10 or earlier

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 2h

thanks, our payroll runs on a different cycle so i forget most are like that

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 2h

ahhhhhhhhh