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gospodyina @gospodyina.bsky.social · 26m

Thought I had the family road trip more or less locked down but then I realized we might be able to shoehorn in a visit to the World’s Oldest Ham

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 1h

I cannot emphasize enough: 3 year olds do not give a shit if people are gay. They don’t care. They want to know what your favorite dinosaur is, or why you’re not currently wearing a butterfly costume.

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gospodyina @gospodyina.bsky.social · 1h

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social you may know but just in case: if you go here and limit results to illustrations, you get adorable coloring pages of scientists and their “tools of the trade”

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Explore our planet through photography and imagery, including climate change and water all the way back to the 1800s when the USGS was surveying the country by horse and buggy.

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gospodyina @gospodyina.bsky.social · 3h

Accidentally, when my audiobook won’t load and I have to listen to the car radio

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Gustav Gnahler @gustavgnahler.bsky.social · 11h

[feebly from the back of the room]
It's not a peace deal it's only a cease fire and hostage exchange

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gospodyina @gospodyina.bsky.social · 5h

Please use alt text.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 11h

With respect, the reason people are assuming you'll cut corners by not checking is because you're already cutting corners by not doing the reading yourself and instead asking an LLM to do it for you.

Using LLMs for one part of a project undermines confidence in the integrity of the whole thing.

A post from a respected professor saying (with reference to her LLM usage) "Oh crikey of course I'm going to check it. How interesting that everyone on here seems to assume I wouldn't!"

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 19h

The best part of these is theres basically no win-condition once you enter the octagon with him

99 @ninetynine.bsky.social · 21h

A little frustrating that bsky moderation prevents us from seeing violence like this

Interaction between Derek Guy and Matt Stoller on X, the Everything App. Stoller: "Your weird insecurities aside, you consistently lie that native born Americans can't and never have made clothes, and push offshoring in sleazy ways. Then when confronted you have to talk about your left wing views. You're slime." Guy replies: "not true. i've been writing about and promoting US-made clothes for about fifteen years. an early article that comes to mind is my love for 3sixteen jeans, which are made in los angeles. that was published in 2011, the year the second iraq war ended, a war you promoted."

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 12h

I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 20h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Robin in the woods @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 9h

Why do people who talk about "figuring out how to live together" always mean we should shut up live with fascists, and not that fascists should shut up and live with minority groups

Fear Captain @cheercaptain.wang · 1d

Knightley said: "I was not aware of that, no.
I'm very sorry. You know, I think we're all living in a period of time right now where we're all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren't we? And we've all got very different opinions."
She added: "I hope that we can all find respect."

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 8h

I can tell you as someone who works on early medieval manuscripts, some of those books were not read. Over a thousand years ago they were killing a whole herd of cattle to make a book that sat on a plinth and looked pretty, so some bishop could say 'yes I have that text in my library'. So good luck

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 23h

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 15h

The American style of printing titles on spines top-to-bottom is superior to the European style of printing them bottom-to-top because when a book is placed face-up on a table the title appears right-side-up on the spine

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Barron Trump Finally Old Enough For People to Rightfully Shit on Him Just Like They Already Do on His Old Man

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gospodyina @gospodyina.bsky.social · 15h

Explaining the Brewers relay to the husband so he can participate in society

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gospodyina @gospodyina.bsky.social · 15h

aw man

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 16h

has anyone written a protest song yet that just completely avoids the fourth scale degree

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 16h

If you’re a politician who needs an alias for checking into hotels with your mistress, you could do a lot worse than

A package of crackers that says LANCE TOASTY

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 18h

If Pedro Pascal played Gomez Addams they'd have to replace all the seats in the theater

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 17h

Books aren't just what the writer puts in. They're what the reader puts in, too. And some readers are assholes.

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Ron Cassie @humanpoweredcity.bsky.social · 17h

"She married Danny Hoang, a fellow Vietnamese immigrant she met working at a nail salon...Tran became known in community as a devoted swim team mom and beloved small-business owner. She claimed in court documents that over the last 21 years, she never missed one of her ICE check-ins."

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 1d

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after five months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolonging...

buff.ly

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 17h

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Aide: Sir the protesters have started dressing up as kid rock. ICE doesn’t know what to do.
Boss: I was afraid of this.

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Collin 'Appears To Be A Typo' Woodard @collinwoodard.bsky.social · 20h

Mysterious Sign Impossible to Understand, Probably Means Nothing, Drivers Say

Photo of a "state law stop for pedestrians within crosswalk" sign at an intersection

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 21h

please post rare turing_polices

Turing Police @turing_police
when I was like 12 I went to the California science center which had a "drunk driving simulator" educational arcade type game and if you were too good at it the game would automatically crash the car after a while so you didnt undermine their message

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20h

Like, no wonder the Soviet Union fell a few months later.

What POSSIBLE counter could they have to Cher in fishnets on the USS Missouri?

If that's what you're up against you've lost.

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