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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 14h

Scott Adams was funny for a little bit, but has spent most of his life being an absolutely awful antisocial human. He won’t be missed.

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 2d

It’s in Oakhurst, 15 miles from the park.

ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 2d

There so frequently is.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 2d

The butler. The mistress of the house. The groundskeeper. There is old hatred between them.

ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 2d

I mean they are funny looking but the metaphor was just not working for me 😂 www.brecks.com/cdn/shop/fil...

ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Obama.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 2d

After a fourth read through I begin to believe this is not actually about fall bulb planting. 🤔

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 3d

We asked for this for like eight years on Twitter.

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Angelle Haney Gullett @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 4d

They literally ruin everything they touch

Scooby-Doo screenshots. Top panel: ghost labeled “Something I used to love sucks now” Fred says “Let’s see who’s behind this”
Bottom panel: Villain is unmasked, labeled “Private Equity”

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 3d

Skeletons for #Halloween, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). About the least rare rare book in existence (@theulspeccoll.bsky.social has 5 copies) but this one hand-coloured and part of a donation made in 1574 by Elizabeth I's Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker. Inc.0.A.7.2[888].

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Frank The Kitten @frankthekitten.bsky.social · 3d

Frank Senryu* Series 4
00011 - A Moment of Zen?

Frank has a brief thought -
an existential crisis.
...what if I'm the pet...

#CatsOfBluesky #poetry

*a comment made dad realize that these aren't really Haiku because they're not very serious or nature-focused, but instead are Senryu.

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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 3d

Today's my day to shine as my wife's co-workers drop photos of their costumed children into Slack and I explain them all. "That's a Saja Boy from KPop Demon Hunters. Soda pop emoji. That's a Labubu. Ogre emoji. Glinda and Elphaba. Pink heart, green heart. Showgirl. Football. 6 7. Twitchy eye emoji."

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

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Humm @humm.bsky.social · 3d

Blessed be on this Samhain. My your hearths be bright and your larders full!

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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted to once again return to the lab to find there has been an outbreak of crafting. Happy Halloween to everyone!

A virologist's office window with, taped to it, a string of painted Halloween decorations showing what, as the PI, I have to assume are examples of egregious lab safety violatios. They are (L-R) a hand in a nitrile glove, bleeding; a cat wearing appropriate PPE for lab work (might let that one pass); a ghost wearing PPE but no safety specs (and do note that it is, dear children, dead)

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 4d

hi, wreck expert here! this is not funny, two vast and trunkless legs of stone only do this when they’re in extreme distress.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 3d

UNMUTE. And look after your people.

You have neighbors who might be struggling? Show up like “help I made too much bread, would you like some, I won’t use it all in time”

Invite the next door kids over to help you make cookies, feed them lunch while they’re there.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3d

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 3d

It was nice when Sesame Street added Julia, but it's nonsense to claim she was their first autistic character. You've got a guy who collects paperclips and another who has to count everything

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Jennifer Griffin Graham @jgriffingraham.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t use ChatGPT, make friends with an academic librarian that can count your chat messages as “reference questions answered” on their daily statistics sheet

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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 3d

Always a favorite, and it does seem to be very portable for museum visits.

It came to SF Legion of Honor in 2021 (so of course I paid an old friend a visit)!

A woman in a cloth mask takes a selfie in front of a Pompeiian mosaic depicting a skeleton holding two wine jugs, installed in a wooden frame on an orange wall at the San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 5d

Sometimes learning a new foreign word immediately alters your neurochemistry, and today for me that word is 屁理屈 (herikutsu), which means sort of splitting hairs with irrelevant quibbles, but is most literally “fart logic”

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pumpkin spice linux @selectric.space · 4d

no, really. this owns. i love it.

a new pebble smartwatch, displaying the next few buses arriving near liz on a monochrome e-ink display. there’s a late G four minutes ago, a 60 now, and a 2 in one minute.

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Dr Cinnamon Remote @cinnamonremote.bsky.social · 5d

Sharing this again, as it is so brilliantly delightful.

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (Very scary) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · Aug 18

easiest way to nerd snipe me, apparently, is to go "hey what if vimes was in this situation" at which point i just start writing discworld fanfiction off the cuff

On today's docket: what if lord of the rings but discworld?

Vimes would take the ring, then turn to Detritus and say "Detritus. Listen to me. I'm not being funny. If I, for any reason, look like I'm about to put this on my finger, I need you to stop me."
"Like those re-strai-nin' techniques you told me about, sah?"
"Them's the ones, Corporal."
"The ones you told me not to use on account of them makin people's eyeballs pop out like eggs?"
Vimes gave him the kind of smile divers will sometimes see in their dreams, big and full of teeth and without even the slightest hint of a sense of humor.
"Yes," he said. "Those ones."

The tower fell. There wasn't much funny about it. There often isn't when a thousand tonnes of stone held together with nothing but hate comes tumbling down. The light of the dark lord shattered before the last brick had hit the ground.
But he was not, not yet, destroyed. Diminished, yes, but he had been diminished before. He had come back from worse. From being less. All he needed was power. The power of those bound to him.
A hooded figure strode between the rubble.
"Wraith," Sauron whispered, a voice like a thought on the wind. "My Black Captain. Come to me. Bring me your sword. Your ring.
"I'M AFRAID," the figure said, "YOU HAVE ME CONFUSED WITH SOMEONE ELSE."
"You have no power over me," Sauron said, and if you tried really hard you might have almost believed it.
"I'M SORRY TO SAY I LEFT MY SWORD AT HOME," Death said. "NOR DO I WEAR RINGS. ONLY THIS."
A scythe. A farmer's tool. It was no weapon any capable warrior would wield. And yet, at the foot of awakened Mount Doom, his army defeated, the dark lord Sauron laid his eye on the curved blade and for the first time in an age, he feared.
"There are heights even someone like you can aspire to, grey rider."
"THE LORD OF THE RINGS," Death continued, smiling at the rising sun over the mountains, like he couldn't hear the voice that scratched at the mind. "I DON'T SEE THE POINT OF EITHER. RULING. RINGS. ONLY THE WORK MATTERS. IT'S ALL THAT MATTERS, IN THE END."
"Nothing ends."
"SOME THINGS DO," Death said. "THIS DOES." He raised his arm, and swung. Once. One swing to end it all, in the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie. "YOU DO."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.

The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

Jason Odell @luminescentphoto.com · 6d

A quick reminder that the House is not in session because Speaker Johnson CANCELED it, not because of the current shutdown.

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