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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 1h

I’m obviously an outlier, but as a kid, I enjoyed miniature candy at Halloween. Regular-sized candy bars you could get anytime, but the fun-sized ones only came out in full force around Halloween. They were a bit of a novelty.

a black and white photo of a woman in a chef 's hat standing at a counter .

Alt: Famous clip of Lucille Ball from I Love Lucy working on a candy assembly line and stealing bon bons by throwing them in her top.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 1d

Overall social media use is declining.

Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all.

A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 2h

Perhaps just stop asking Hillary Clinton what she thinks about anything at all.

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Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social · 8h

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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 4h

Indeed. Great point.

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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 4h

#MusicChallenge
#TheTwen2ie5

HM 5

Sexy Villain
– Remi Wolf
📍Palo Alto, CA 🇺🇸
2021

Yeah, on one hand, this may be cookie-cutter modern pop music. But it’s got a decent hook, and “sexy villain” sounds like a Halloween costume.

youtu.be/V4FGW93j974

cover art: Juno – Remi Wolf
A garish photo collage with a picture of the artist in a yellow trucker hat, beige dress and red boots, squatting. That portrait is superimposed over a collage featuring many pictures of what I will assume is her dog.

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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 4h

He’s not authorized to talk on certain subjects until he receives instruction.

MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 4h

Often these complaints are leveled against athletes, when actors, directors, talk show hosts and political pundits make comparable salaries.

They’re all just performers at the end of the day.

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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 5h

Donald Trump decided that. Johnson isn’t calling the shots.

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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 5h

It’s a play for power as much as money.

It’s a race to train the best model and have it embedded in everything. At that point they can lean on the algorithm to literally control information. From that, possibilities are endless.

The play is only irrational when analyzed in purely financial terms.

MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 5h

Politicians are performers.

Why do people assume she’s not part of the “conversion talk” stuff?

What better way to “legitimize” her for a position as leader in the Christian nationalism movement than to be “saved”?

Seems to me this could be a strategy the Vances planned together.

MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 5h

Indeed. “Poor Usha Vance” is sexism.

It denies her intelligence and agency, as if she is a child.

Usha Vance is a grown-ass adult who clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts. From all accounts, she’s very intelligent. I have little doubt she weighed the pros and cons against her ambition.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 9h

Are we really doing "poor trapped Usha Vance" content like people tried with Melania Trump? These wives are all on board the project. Let's not pretend.

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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 18h

People rarely talk about just how much the world discriminates against night owls.

It’s a lot more than you might think.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.

So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

Zohran with his hand on his chest leaning into the passenger side window of a taxi, talking with the driver.

Zohran extending his hand to shake hands with a taxi driver through the window.

An airport worker showing Zohran something on his phone, both are smiling.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Following Hurricane Melissa's devastation, Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build financial resilience will be tested. Its $150 million catastrophe bond, triggered by a storm’s low pressure and path, will provide quick relief. Jamaica’s model may serve as a guide for other climate-vulnerable nations.

Jamaica invested heavily in climate disaster insurance. It looks about to pay off | CBC News

Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build layers of financial protection in case of natural disasters might help the country access millions of dollars in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Melissa — an...

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 1d

Before and after: Satellite images reveal hurricane devastation in Jamaica (verified)

…entire communities wiped away

This isn’t just “natural”

It’s the cost of global climate inaction, and the silence of leaders is deafening

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Before and after: Satellite images reveal hurricane devastation in Jamaica - BBC News

The images reveal how the Category 5 hurricane caused devastation in some of Jamaica's communities.

www.bbc.co.uk

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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 1d

This gift is more than a little bit subversive.

Well played, President Lee. #korea

Trump and Lee stand behind a table on top of which are perched the gifts given to Trump: the Grand Order of Mugunghwa (which is framed but resembles a medal to be worn around the neck) and a replica gold crown.

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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicChallenge
#TheTwen2ie5

HM 4

Woman
– Little Simz • Cleo Sol
📍London 🇬🇧🇳🇬🇯🇲
2021

Aside from creating an uplifting track that grooves, kudos for rhyming “pepp-uh” with “leath-uh”.

youtu.be/zHGf6tmnLYE

cover art: Sometimes I Might Be Introvert – Little Simz

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 1d

I’m crying

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies.

“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.

“I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 2d

It exposes that so many of them inspire nothing and they don’t like that.

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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 2d

Ask him if he’s authorized to make any decisions without Trump’s input.

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Hackaday @hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 3d

Web Development in… Pascal?

Hackaday Article

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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 2d

#MusicChallenge
#TheTwen2ie5

HM 3

Anti-Hero
– Taylor Swift
📍Nashville, TN 🇺🇸
2022

Clever pop music, from an album with a great concept.

youtu.be/b1kbLwvqugk

cover art: Midnights – Taylor Swift
A photo of Taylor looking at a lit lighter occupies the bottom right half or so of the square, with the rest in ivory. Album title and track listings appear above and to the left, respectively, in Helvetica.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 3d

Obvious to say this, but the actual function of the smear job isn't to make us ask about his aunt, it's to show us the words "hijab" and "9/11" in a headline with his photo.

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MV @suzerain.bsky.social · 3d

This made me chuckle, because my father’s cousins were “aunts” and “uncles".

Me, the pedant: “Well, *actually*…they’re cousins once removed.”
My family: “They’re aunts and uncles.”

(My white New England family has American roots tracing back to the 1600s.)

#mamdani

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Jeremy DeHart @jeremydehartwx.bsky.social · 4d

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

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