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Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social · 20h

Stay safe out there today.

I want a future in this country that's better for everyone.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 19h

Any discussion of traditional English food and identity that isn't grounded in eels is a lie. #TrueEelFacts

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 23h

British racists are mere weeks away from a scurvy outbreak because citrus fruits are "fancy foreign muck"

A tweet from a poster called Jess Gill, who writes: "I've never had curry or a kebab and don't intend to. British food is the best. English breakfasts, Sunday roasts, fish and chips, pies, pasties, scones. Also our national dish isn't a chicken tikka masala. We only think that because a Labour MP said it decades ago to push multiculturalism"

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 19h

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 23h

could be! it does cost like $100USD a year, but there are similar programs like UTM that are cheaper/free and do the same thing

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 23h

got to spend a little bit more time with it this morning and my M1 and its 16gb of ram are really showing their age 🤧

ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

digimon time stranger works in parallels 😍

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Basil 🌿 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 1d

Worm!

Drawing of a pink anthro dog named Basil holding a green bug

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

true, but it was a totally different kind of game developed by a different company. since MKW took almost 10 years to make, it wouldn’t surprise me if DLC also took a long time if they were going to add more tracks. i’m with you on outfit updates though, especially for DK and Pauline

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

it’s a desktop app that lets you run other operating systems without actually installing them. it lets me basically have a windows PC without actually having to use a separate machine. but because it’s not an actual machine, there are compatibility issues with certain games

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

digimon time stranger works in parallels 😍

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

BROCCOLI?! with pineapple? are you sure about that?

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

it just came out? i’m sure there will be DLC at some point but it’s still basically a brand new game

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 1d

New video. late night hydrology hours. Witcher 3: youtu.be/5QI5byXtxcQ

I Tried To Make Sense of The Witcher 3's Rivers

YouTube video by Any Austin

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Frog Every Day @frogeveryday.bsky.social · 1d

Terry the frog

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 1d

ceramic froggie

https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/584661/

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

sniffies! at the truck stop

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

omg that deck looks amazing. hope your Friday is going well too 😊

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

if you would just be spending $390 on what you specifically want, is $750 *really* saving you anything, or is it just encouraging you to spend more than what you might actually want to use? 🧐

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

surely there are more affordable lens kits out there? maybe you could just start out with whichever one you think you’d use the most

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

me when i try to get claude to help me identify an issue in a line of code and it wastes my time making shit up for hours when i could just take maybe one hour to figure out the issue myself/get help from someone who actually knows what they’re doing.

all AI does is waste time and “sound smart”

Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 1d

Would it surprise you that we had to double or TRIPLE the amount of time we worked correcting the AI's mistakes, sorry, "HALLUCINATIONS"?

Our final videos were not just flat and boring. They got basic facts about the client WRONG. The client's BOSS had to stop and write the script themselves!

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, it's Friday. You deserve a little treat. An eel history treat.

So enjoy this 12th C. image of a medieval hulk. It may be the earliest illustration of one that we have. But ALSO there's a saucy upside-down eel in the water. And that's the important thing!
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Medieval painting of a ship on the water, against an orange background. The ship has one sail, and it is being blown all out of shape by the winds, which you can see personified behind the ship. They look like little angry fuzzballs with faces, blowing furiously. The ship is atop a the crest of a good sized wave; this along with the wind suggest a squall. The front of the ship has been carved into something like a griffin's head.

The ship carries six people. The man at the back -- we'll call him Vambrohzha -- is controlling a long steering board, or an oar that he's using for a rudder. His moth is slack, and he looks distressed by the state of the sail. The other people on the boat seem uninterested, but do seem to be arguing with each other. Perhaps one of them was using loaded dice.

Below the ship, in the water, are several fish, including an upside down eel.

You are expecting me to make an Incredible Hulk joke here, but this hulk is wholly credible.

Source: Corpus Christi College, Oxford MS 157, fol 383r.

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

not bad! it would probably help to have more padding/a shorter line length on the post text and to center the post thumbnails/titles on the page rather than have them left aligned

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Tibo (Thibaud Goiffon) @heytibo.bsky.social · 1d

Small stream
Let's make googly eyes!

www.twitch.tv/heytibo

#webdev #twitch

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

i know that now! wonder if ecosia has a similar setting 🤔

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LeAnn Crimes @audhdylan.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know you can filter out entire sites from ever showing in search results on DuckDuckGo? Or that you can hide AI images from image search?

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ecej @portableclouds.bsky.social · 1d

hOW DaRE YOu NoT tAG EYe CONtACT aND FOoD!!!!!1 iM BLOcKING YOuR INStANCE AnD REPOrTING YoU!!!!!!!!!111

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