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Deathcliff plus Hellmets @heathcliffhelms.heathcliff.cat · 3h

Thankfully the ham's onboard a.i. is a good therapist.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4h

This is a common mistake! Humans on bicycles are tremendously inefficient because they are always stopping to pet dogs and receive adoration from handsome people of their preferred gender

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5h

Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

www.scientificamerican.com

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 5h

It's a friggin' to-do list🤦‍♂️!

Or a grocery list - those work well too.

The Red-Headed Strangler @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 6h

losing my mind at “paper-based”. Do you mean fucking paper

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC

John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 6h

A delayed reax - is that a hearse or a crematorium?

John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 6h

I think I saw this person in an insurance commercial.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 8h

From a "women don't like the vehicle" reply thread. 👨‍🍳💋
(also A+ username)

daryl "treehouse of hormones" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 9h

a silver-grey tesla model 3 made into a hearse, with huge back windows

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 11h

Dinosaurs on parade.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 1d

Out today from @michellepitcher.bsky.social: At Alienated Majesty Books, the "screamo bookstore," volumes from small and indie publishers, plus works in translation, comics, and poetry stand side-by-side with shoegaze, noise and hardcore punk bands. www.texasobserver.org/night-at-the...

A tall bookshelf labeled "Fiction" stands behind a young masculine-presenting person singing at the top of their lungs into a microphone as they play an electric guitar.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 1d

Omg the map!! A+ watch face!

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 1d

I've been meh about the Maine primary, but... I just started getting inundated by "gimme money" texts from our 77yo guv and suddenly oyster dude and, to a lesser extent, beer dude are looking gooood.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 1d

Exact same thought.

John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 1d

sorrynotsorry

John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 1d

I would prefer not to.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 1d

Just booked a site at Seminole Canyon SP. Goal: looking at Pecos River style pictographs, esp the Halo Shelter and the White Shaman Mural. Hiking and railroad history also, too.

www.wittemuseum.org/event/white-...

Rock Art Tours: White Shaman Preserve

Experience the White Shaman mural, considered one of the most cosmologically complex narratives in the world, at the Witte Museum’s White Shaman Preserve.

www.wittemuseum.org

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from me and the Pinedust Guernseys - they're in the shed down the hill. Maisie, the wee slug-a-bed is still sleeping 💤🐶🌭.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 2d

I remember these arguments being applied (persuasively) to the David Cameron/Piers Gavelston Soc/dead pig initiation thing.

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2d

The unspoken meaning of regular "If this gets leaked we're cooked lololol" jokes is to remind everyone that they're in a position to coerce or destroy anyone who gets out of line.

Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 2d

the chat logs leaked clearly show members are aware they’re posting compromising messages, they’re even talking about how cooked they be if it leaked

bc the social function of extremist rhetoric is that in-group members bond and attain status by transgressing with one another as witnesses

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2d

The unspoken meaning of regular "If this gets leaked we're cooked lololol" jokes is to remind everyone that they're in a position to coerce or destroy anyone who gets out of line.

Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 2d

the chat logs leaked clearly show members are aware they’re posting compromising messages, they’re even talking about how cooked they be if it leaked

bc the social function of extremist rhetoric is that in-group members bond and attain status by transgressing with one another as witnesses

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 2d

Going to outsource my final comment on this shitshow to the 1st 2 comments on the youtube vid:

1st comment: "I'd like to thank Mark Cuban for single-handedly eviscerating the Billionaires Are Smarter Than Regular People narrative."
2nd comment: "'Pablo, you're only supplying a ton of circumstantial evidence, listen to my clumsy speculation instead' - Mark Cuban"

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

People think I'm being hyperbolic when I say "Yeah the GOP is just pro-slavery at this point."

If their actual farm labor policy wasn't enough, there's always this.

Screenshot from the Politico article on a leaked Young Republicans group chat.

"They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

Screenshot. "In another conversation in February, Giunta talks approvingly about the Orange County Teenager Republican organization in New York- which appears to be part of the network of national Teen Age Republicans- and how he was pleased with its young members' ideological bent.

"They support slavery and all that shit. Mega based."

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 2d

Well played, Mr. Torre. WELL PLAYED.

Screen shot of the Apu protects meme: billionaires protect other billionaires from Pablo Torre.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 2d

OMG Mark Cuban is back on PTFO (@pablo.show). BRB - time for a dose of billionaire class solidarity from Mr. Shark Tank.

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 2d

“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.

“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”

RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25

Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror

“Adam in the garden…”

Book cover: blood red background with black arms raised and hands outstretched from the bottom in front of white klansman hood with screaming mouths for eyes above words in black, RING SHOUT.

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 2d

www.slantmagazine.com/film/tashlin/

Born in 1913, Tashlin had a vast experience in show business, working for both Merrie Melodies and Disney and developing gags for Hal Roach, the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Lucille Ball and Red Skelton, among others. Working at the Warner Bros. animation studios along with Tex Avery, Robert Clampett and Chuck Jones, Tashlin learned the freedom allowed by the cartoon line, a freedom he brought to his live-action canvases after he graduated to directing.

John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 2d

I've been really enjoying a thriller/comedy based on a comic book, so it's no surprise that Frank Tashlin's cartoon aesthetic makes me laugh. The EXTREMELY SUBTLE milkman reaction? lol

youtu.be/Jfdw8jzCNAQ

Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It (1956) - HD

YouTube video by the rockabillie

youtu.be

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John P @drhypercube.bsky.social · 3d

That tour - esp the May '73 NatGeo article - led directly to a formative experience for high school me.

A bike toured (me) passing the smelter smokestacks in Sudbury, Ontario en route to Boston from Vancouver.

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