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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 9h

Spaghetti and mouseball

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 13h

BEST KITTY

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 13h

"I helped!" meowed Wendy.

Security camera catches cat dropping mouse into human family's dinner

Animal rescuers in California shared security camera stills showing the moment a foster kitten spiced up her human family's dinner with a dead mouse.

www.upi.com

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 20h

Link to Revkin's post: revkin.substack.com/...

Link to Deep Convection w/ Kerry Emanuel: deep-convection.org/...

Warming Worries of a Once-Doubtful Climate Scientist

Mike Wallace says reality is bad enough. Catastrophe-versus-hoax framing obscures the momentous dangers from unabated greenhouse-gas heating.

revkin.substack.com

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 21h

#medieval #monsters (in French)! reviewed by Dr Karl

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

People are calling it “the most significant attempt to stop people from being horny since the guy who invented graham crackers”

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Sen. Maria Cantwell @cantwell.senate.gov · 1d

If enhanced premium tax credits aren’t extended, new costs will hit some seniors hard. A 60-year-old woman in Yakima County earning $41K/year with a husband on Medicare would see her annual health insurance costs skyrocket from $70 to $1,945.

Net Premium Increase for a 60-Year-Old in Eastern WA: 2,600%

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 2d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Pr...

When Prophecy Fails - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 2d

😤 no one in this movie even HAS cats

Screenshot from CAT PEOPLE (1982) with Nastassja Kinski in a slip opposite Malcolm McDowell who is in a black leather coat like a badass

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 2d

lionness mid-meal, startlingly loud cracking sound from the ribs of an unlucky kudu, makes you think twice about behind-the-ear skritches #krugernationalpark #kapamariverlodge

Photo: close-up of a lioness looking right toward camera as she feeds, nose and upper whiskers stained with blood, big beautiful yellow eyes "the better to see you with", but white chin somehow unstained

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 2d

*me, incredulously, to St Peter*
“reskeeted false witness”?

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Columbo Day!

Picture of actor, Peter Falk, drawing sketches of his famous character, Colombo

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 2d

two shots of a Wahlberg’s eagle (Mark is a birder?!) from greater Kruger National Park, South Africa

small for an eagle, even beak-wise, but beautiful dipped-in-chocolate vibes nom nom

this one was v curious and flew over us a few times

Photo: Wahlberg’s eagle braking in flight, both wings outstretched, tips blowing upward, wings are a darker brown than lighter brown body, small hooked yellow beak, eye is on camera

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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 3d

Just like medieval Sweden in the Icelandic annals (looking at you, Snorri), I fully intend to start referring to myself as ”The Great.” Thank you, @mcsweeneys.net

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 5d

More Viking lore (targeted specifically for Bostonians) from the great Rowdy Geirsson.

A Short History of the Varangian Guard for Bostonians

Art by Matt Smith - - -Now, evuhryone knows that the Vikings were some sehriously hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs. ’Cept most’ah ’em actually didn’t go...

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 4d

I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

What Machines Don't Know

Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 5d

just Gov. Bob casually Stannis Baratheon-ing KIRO #fewer

Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 5d

Fewer cancelations and delays – Our investments in our ferries is paying off.

WA State Ferries seeing less cancellations and delays

Washington State Ferries is celebrating a record summer season as the number of delays and cancellations has dropped drastically.

www.kiro7.com

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Arozagayna @gaychel.bsky.social · 5d

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 6d

well that’s sorted!

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 6d

nor should you 🙌

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 6d

I'd like to see some like-mindeds club together to run it as a non-profit classic cinema club (sort of thing SIFF does out of sense of duty), all second-run, $5 tickets, themed double-, triple-features, put a super comfy couch café in so there's a hangout zone w maybe pizza slices?

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 6d

Paul, like the college instructors I work with, is Not OK. But he indulges his flair for the dramatic here, so this is a delightful read. See him compare a TikTok to "a diabolical amuse bouche." Read him let "the asides...flow like spice."

The future? "a TL;DR stamping on a human face, forever."

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 6d

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Subscribe to Systematic Hatreds

A personal view of international relations and political science: research, teaching, and current events. Click to read Systematic Hatreds, by Paul Musgrave, a Substack publication with thousands of s...

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 6d

How was this not my first thought 😤

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 6d

Paul Musgrave, observing a marked decline in cognitive skills:

“thanks to my too-extensive engagements with Strange New Worlds and Foundation forums, I can assure you that people do not grasp what is textual, much less what is subtextual”

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 7d

#leopard vision

Photo: crop of leopard’s shoulder and head in a thicket, it’s looking back with green eyes towards the camera, its mouth slightly open so two lower canines show, it’s been in some battles recently and there are pink divots across its face where the fur is gone including under its right eye, so it looks like a boxer

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