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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 10h

Like UBI and providing long-term contraception to teenagers, this will be repeated a billion times and never believed, but yes, reducing parking requirements encourages affordable housing.

Analysis: Denver Study Shows Removing Parking Requirements Results in More Affordable Housing Being Built

"We find that eliminating parking minimums creates more options for developers and renters."

www.westword.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10h

You know I'm something of a Halloween decoration myself

theonion.com/home-depot-i...

Home Depot Introduces New 12-Foot-Tall Willem Dafoe

ATLANTA—Saying the novelty decoration would add the perfect touch to Halloween yard displays, the Home Depot announced Friday it had begun selling a new 12-foot-tall Willem Dafoe in stores nationwide....

theonion.com

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Spike Cordiner @spikecordiner.bsky.social · 11h

Do they have cool patterns?

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Spike Cordiner @spikecordiner.bsky.social · 11h

Your hair is:

1) Fabulous
2) Reminding us of your goddess status by being your halo

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Spike Cordiner @spikecordiner.bsky.social · 11h

Hell yes!

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Spike Cordiner @spikecordiner.bsky.social · 11h

But... You ARE cute!

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Deanna Raybourn @deannaraybourn.bsky.social · 18h

😂

Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · Aug 7

Did a new one

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Spike Cordiner @spikecordiner.bsky.social · 1d

That's what the cameras are for.

Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 1d

Aquarius: Your home will be the site of a wild, celebratory bacchanal next week. You will be at the dentist when this happens.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 2d

Beat your Ring camera to death with a bat

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 3d

techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a... yeeeeeah

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

techcrunch.com

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Spike Cordiner @spikecordiner.bsky.social · 2d

You say weird, we say fabulous

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 3d

Shohei Ohtani literally just homered out of Dodger Stadium

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Spike Cordiner @spikecordiner.bsky.social · 3d

They'd better have corrected that oversight before the wedding or I, an absolute stranger to them, will be very disappointed!

Spike Cordiner @spikecordiner.bsky.social · 3d

WHAT

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Spike Cordiner @spikecordiner.bsky.social · 3d

You are the best marshmallow!

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Gonna do a thread of the poems I've had published this year!

@strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

@smallwondersmag.com smallwondersmag.com/piece/let-it...

@dreamtheorymedia.bsky.social www.dreamtheory.media/rhiannon-rem...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 3d

a bookstore window, in all caps:
"fuck social media.
marry books.
kill ai."

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Spike Cordiner @spikecordiner.bsky.social · 3d

I set up google pay on my phone specifically because I keep leaving my wallet at home but my phone is always on me 🤣

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Richard Moon, but, like, scaaaaaary! @rmoonhill.bsky.social · 4d

This is just an incredible moment in the history of redaction technology.

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 14d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Spike Cordiner @spikecordiner.bsky.social · 4d

"You're after Strike Book stuff? It's down the way, left at Garashir, straight on past Destiel. Watch out for the Superwholocks, they can get a little... Odd."

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Spike Cordiner @spikecordiner.bsky.social · 4d

If I cannot have Dean myself then Destiel is an acceptable second best 🤣

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 4d

Average Americans being called terrorists by their own government: 😱

Muslim Americans:

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

Lol that the London No Kings event is called No Tyrants because…you know…

www.nokings.org#map

A box overlaid on a map showing southern England, with London prominently marked. The box features bold black text reading:

"NO TYRANTS
INDIVISIBLE
LONDON UK"

Below this heading, the event details are listed:

Date: Sat, Oct 18

Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Location: US EMBASSY LONDON (UK)

The time and date information is accompanied by red calendar and map pin icons. At the bottom of the flyer is a large red button labeled “RSVP” in white text.

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