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Brian T. Rice

@briantrice.bsky.social

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Mad computer scientist; electric motorcycle hacker; software architect; data viz whatever? Former nuclear tech, always NB. They/them. https://signal.me/#eu/5U6AQo_peWVxKPh5raxwBKUp8UxZm4iwfIb-21fgVSVQFRgfXn1DF42nvXiWSNfu

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Brian T. Rice @briantrice.bsky.social · Apr 25

Proof of life on my electric motorcycle streamlining kit. We just had to rework the wheels which were giving us trouble due to maintenance issues.

A black motorcycle with gold trim viewed from the left side. A large smooth nose covers the cockpit and front wheel. Large teardrop luggage pieces cover the top and sides of the tail.

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Vinyl Cover Art 🌈 @coverart.bsky.social · 10h

The Cover Girls

💿 Show Me (1987)
🏷️ Electronic / Pop / Freestyle / Synth-pop

Artwork:
Mick Rock (Photography)
Mendel (Design)

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 10h

DRACULA (1931)

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 9h

it's so wild that windows just literally doesn't have working search. what even.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 6h

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking to Ezra Klein. Quote: "Was silence not an option?"

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Calvin and Hobbes @calvin-and-hobbes.bsky.social · 6h

Sometimes the world feels frustrating, but even the smallest moments of beauty can shift your perspective.
#CalvinandHobbes #FallColors #PerspectiveShift

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 5h

The AI bubble bursting is going to unleash such anger towards nerds everyone's gonna be mad at anyone with glasses

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 5h

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www.wwhge.org/resources/al...

All is not lost: USAID’s education data has been preserved - What Works Hub for Global Education

All USAID-funded education data - almost 1,000 datasets - have been rescued! This blog explains how to access the data through the DataLumos platform, established under a data sharing agreement betwee...

www.wwhge.org

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

This is a description of what happened with the intimidation protest the Proud Boys tried to stage across the street from my apartment building in 2020, back when they thought I was Public Enemy #1.

The community pushback was amazing and inspiring.

marymary🍁🍁🍁🍁 @marymarymary.bsky.social · 21h

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 15h

The most unrealistic part of Star Trek is that Starfleet HQ gets built in Marin County — apple.news/AeHM8UrfyRCO...

Opinion | ‘Not going to suck it up’: What turned this former hippie town into the angriest place in California? — San Francisco Chronicle

The first time Lisel Blash attended a City Council meeting in the woodsy, small Bay Area town of Fairfax, she was even more enchanted with her new home.

apple.news

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 9h

Who is Russell Vought cutting at our health agencies? The data people. The scientists. The comms people.

Project 2025 is a war on truth.
We are fighting an information war.

Sources of reliable truth are who they are after.

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

More CDC Cuts :: NCHS Edition 📊🔫

At least 1/3 of the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics has been cut (and remain cut). This is catastrophic for our nation’s health data.

Say goodbye to national health statistics that you can trust, healthcare surveys, NHANES and data systems.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 7h

I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you!

But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21h

NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

nokings.org

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 7h

Daily bunny no.3107 doesn't need a kitchen

A bunny in the wilderness cooks a stir-fry over a portable stove. It is evening, and he's hung up a tarpaulin nearby for a campsite. A chipmunk and a raccoon wait eagerly for their food.

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Shirley Chisholm @anickel4thought.bsky.social · 21h

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

tom buchanan should have said this to jay gatsby

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 9h

rest in power miss major. this is what it means to constantly be negotiating your existence!

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 9h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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ncnvrgnt @inconvergent.net · 18h

the alternative office of geometry will be open at normal angles tomorrow.

(always observe safety procedures)

unedited rendering. an inverse u shape constructed from rectangular black blocks. some blocks are made of white, cyan or magenta glass. light streams in from left and right. reflective base

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 14h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 6h

Google is now returning AI summaries even for searches that start with "-AI", this bubble cannot burst soon enough.

Send feedback to google: product design or functionality

Is it embarrasing to work at Google these days? I know that one upon a time google was the crown jewel of silicon valley, a part of the web so integral it became a verb. But every AI summary is so likely to be riddled with errors it detracts from my research. Now "-AI" doesn't prevent AI summaries. You're giving me the trash I'm asking specifically to not get. This is dogshit.

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The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️‍🌈🌲🇸🇩 @thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social · 8h

The amount of money you can make pretending to teach people to become published authors is significantly larger than the money you can make being a published author.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8h

Rest in peace, Miss Major.

We will carry the bricks forward.

ACLU @aclu.org · 9h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 8h

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6

"But if you refuse to let them go, I will
plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on
your people and on all your officials."

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 8h

Fun fact, in the original text of Exodus, the plural form is not used. It’s not a plague of frogs. It’s a plague of frog. A plague of frog that will cover all of Egypt. Frogzilla. One Kaiju frog.

Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 8h

This country needs a plague of frogs! 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸

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Geert Broekmann @geertzilla.bsky.social · 2d

Shinji, get in the ribbit

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