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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah: Magneto, Polaris, and Joseph.

The Haunted Term & Condition @squatmaster666.bsky.social · Dec 19

what the fuck does this mean

headline from popularmechanics.com reading "Scientists Have Confirmed the Existence of a Third Form of Magnetism"

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official nikk account @nikk.ca · 15h

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 20h

Proposing marriage to someone in front of a crowd is coercion and a “yes” is not freely given consent.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 20h

a car’s horn should be as loud on the inside of the car as it is on the outside

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

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'cause rock is cool but the struggle is better @fairestcat.bsky.social · 14h

People need to be less weird about who a child's biological parents are.

Outside of some very limited circumstances, it doesn't matter who's genes a child has, it matters who's raising them and who the child consider to be their parents.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 1d

teleportation exists irl but you cannot fast travel when enemies are nearby and you can never get away from yourself

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The Dreaded Abighoul @popeguilty.bsky.social · 2d

I mean that's why I started taking it!

A screenshot from Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines. An inventory item: Pill Bottle. The description reads "Estrogen. Caution: Do not take if male."

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 9d

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

As someone on day 3 of a migraine, this is a little too close to the bone

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d

"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"

Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?

Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...

buff.ly

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Sharkhand @sharkhand.bsky.social · 2d

Well I’m convinced, let’s give it nukes.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2d

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 2d

wow both new frankenstein movies look great

cover of 'happy birthday frankenstein now pound my butt' featuring a shirtless buckaroo next to an old castle he is holding a package that is wrapped. next to him is handsome frank who is green and stitched together

cover of 'happy birthday bride of frankenstein' now pound my butt with two ladybucks in a graveyard one is holding a gift she is in lingerie the other is green and stitched together she has her hair up with a big white streak

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 3d

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 2d

I have been meaning to post pics of this as soon as I stop traveling all the dang time, but yes -- this is amazingly cool. Tara turned me into a Barbie doll and it's so excellent! There are tons of amazing details and accessories <3

Tara O'Shea @fringe-element.net · 2d

instead of telling you all the awful things going on in my life right now I am going to show you the doll I made that I finally sent to @charliejane.bsky.social because it brings me much joy!

full body photo of the doll who has pink hair very stylish glasses a chunky silver necklace with acute black boho lace dress, raspberry opaque tights, and 10 hole doc martens, wearing a black classic biker jacket and lots of chunky bracelets.

close up of the Charlie Jane Anders doll showing her handmade necklace and super cool dangly earrings.

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 2d

"No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people."

Thomas Paine

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 2d

"I’m gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose"

Woody Guthrie

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 2d

"You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation."

Fred Hampton

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cyclesixmile @cyclesixmile.bsky.social · 3d

Send this fake NY Times Wirecutter recommendation to every dad you know. It's the only way to save our neighborhoods.

NY Times Wirecutter page showing "The Best Leaf Blower" with a photo of some rakes

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[email protected] @estupi.do · 3d

for every policy like this, the marginal cost of automobile convenience can be counted in cadavers

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

I did not know right-on-red was 1970s invention!

Uytae Lee @uytaelee.bsky.social · 3d

Why tf does North America allow right turns on red? Was this ever a good idea? So proud of @ardenenglish.bsky.social for his first collaboration with the CBC!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDV...

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Euronews @euronews.com · 3d

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

l.euronews.com

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 3d

These places should just, for budget reasons, just become "Andrew WK" school et al

Philip Moscovitch @philmoscovitch.bsky.social · 3d

Prince Andrew High School in Dartmouth, NS changed its name a few years back.

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Ricci Sergienko, Esq. @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 3d

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Ricci Sergienko, Esq. @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 3d

It’s Friday. Shut the fuck up!

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 3d

Am I being detained or am I free to go?

I don't answer questions.

I am invoking my 5th amendment rights. I want a lawyer.

What day is it, @riccisergienko.bsky.social ?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5d

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 3d

Oh, Queen Elizabeth (the FIRST one) is spitting FIRE in her grave!!

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 3d

King to be first British monarch to pray with Pope in at least 500 years
www.bbc.com/news/article...

King Charles and Pope Leo to pray together in historic first

The King will become the first British monarch to pray in a church service with a pope since the Reformation.

www.bbc.com

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Mid Fimbulwinter @curgoth.bsky.social · 3d

This goes along with other things like "on an escalator, stand right, walk left" and "don't stand in the subway doorway unless the rest of the car is full".

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