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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 16h

That sounds fun too

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 17h

Cheers. Mine’s the Balvenie and The VVitch to start

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 17h

In a weird place emotionally, going to drink whiskey and watch scary movies about it

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 1d

They have my book at the Air and Space Museum! (on the remainder rack)

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 1d

Someone shutdown the reactor core of hyperamerica

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 1d

Okay didn't do this two weeks ago but am doing this today. Last day it's open before being affected by the government shutdown. Also looking forward to attending DC Office Hours

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 16d

Going to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum by myself tomorrow. Looking forward to that.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 1d

I miss the smell of fresh paint

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta love the milkshake duck moments.

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Conor Nolan @nolanillustration.bsky.social · 1d

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 2d

No, weeks later

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 2d

This was irl

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 2d

Out for a run this morning and suddenly remembered I'd recently told a friend the same dumb story twice and they let me get away with it. Real unc moment.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 2d

I thought this post was about the future for a second

brennan @brennan.computer · 3d

we're only ~150 years away from all beds being made of whatever straw, feathers and horse hair you could shove into a coarse sack to lay on, and inevitably with whichever spiders and ticks and mice found their way in

we can buy the world's softest silk sheets for $38, delivered w same-day shipping

ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 3d

every king in pre-industrial history would have paid every penny they could find to have a motor vehicle. and every king in history would have failed to come even close to being able to afford it, even if the knowledge of how to make them had existed.

that’s how much wealthier we are today.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 3d

Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable!

- Brecht

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brennan @brennan.computer · 3d

we're only ~150 years away from all beds being made of whatever straw, feathers and horse hair you could shove into a coarse sack to lay on, and inevitably with whichever spiders and ticks and mice found their way in

we can buy the world's softest silk sheets for $38, delivered w same-day shipping

ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 3d

every king in pre-industrial history would have paid every penny they could find to have a motor vehicle. and every king in history would have failed to come even close to being able to afford it, even if the knowledge of how to make them had existed.

that’s how much wealthier we are today.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 4d

gm Penny!!

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 4d

In a first, I don't know if I'm up to teaching the Cyborg Manifesto this morning

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 4d

Cloudbusting, Kate Bush

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 4d

“Dorfmeister” in English would be something like “champion of the village” so to call yourself that implies, in his case, that he won the electronica competition at a village fair. I don’t think “Kruder” means anything, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he won a few village electronica contests as well

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 4d

I just finally learned what deontology is

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 9d

not just on a precautionary grounds, but also on a deontological ground. it’s bad for your soul.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 4d

A neat thread with back-of-envelope calcs on Bluesky's runway

neutral @neutral.zone · 4d

Anyway sorry for this and/or you're welcome.

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neutral @neutral.zone · 4d

Anyway sorry for this and/or you're welcome.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 4d

"Oh good, nothing on the calendar, maybe I'll actually get some work done today" is something I'm always naively optimistic about

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 5d

The Inbox and the Inbox

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 5d

Are you not intending to shame users?

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 5d

Old people.
Living in big cities.
Afraid of the sky.
- @bruces.bsky.social

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7d

Videos show panic among onlookers in China’s Liuyang city after a drone show malfunction sent burning embers to the ground, igniting fires.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 5d

Ticks are crazy because every year we'll hear like "there's a new variety this summer that's only visible in infrared; it's bite causes men in their 40s to become allergic to vodka martinis. It's moving north because you all won't stop ordering out for delivery"

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brennan @brennan.computer · 5d

the moon is super every night, what are you talking about

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neutral @neutral.zone · 5d

The fundamental question: are you moderating behavior or safety?

Because those aren’t always the same thing.

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