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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 1h

OMG I think I finally managed to force my Android phone to open YouTube links in NewPipe. I had everything disabled for YT yet it would still insist on opening YT for videos. Turns out, I had to go deep into a menu for NP and click a bunch of URLs 💀

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 11h

Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies.

Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 12h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 13h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22h

if you're going to a protest today I wish you luck. The only specific thing I will beg of you is this: don't use milk to wash out tear gas or mace. if you see a street medic with milk, yell at them until they throw it out. do not continue to spread lies about emergency medicine.

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 18h

lol. Everyone always harps on about how many body things Magnesium supplements solve (digestion, energy, MCAS)... well, my bloodwork shows I actually have too much of it -__-

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 4d

"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 1d

List of US gov accounts peddling the current administration's fascist propaganda. Deprive them of engagement by blocking them 🚫

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1d

if the management of this place actually wanted to increase the userbase, the best way to attract a lot of progressives would be to take a public anti-conservative stance, & the best way to attract a lot of conservatives would be to take a public anti-conservative stance

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 1d

It's only been a few days since Sora was released and I'm already SO DONE with the number of fake wildlife videos flooding social media.

Comments like "I didn't know a deer could do that"-- they can't! They can't do that! See the Sora logo, it's fake!

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

Nicotine patches help relieve symptoms in some people with Long COVID. Can the science behind it lead to future therapies?

"Nicotine patches have been used, to varying effect, by thousands of people with Long COVID, but their mechanism of action remains unclear."

Source: archive.li/pLxtY

Nicotine patches help relieve symptoms in some people with Long COVID. Can the science behind it lead to future therapies?
Written by

Astra Lincoln

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October 17, 2025

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1d

They're called spirits because you're imbibing the souls of the damned, and being drunk is actually a form of possession. That's why they tell you not to mix your liquors.

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 1d

Annnnd that's another 10 Eurocent in the jar.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 3d

If you click through and hit follow on this Starter Pack you’ll automatically follow a bunch of photographers who will fill your timeline with birds, bugs, flowers and more. #birds

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 2d

Adding to this, I have stories from family members growing up in rural Austria where you'd walk barefoot outdoors a lot to prevent wear on your shoes. Unfortunately I forgot whether that's Boomer generation or earlier - definitely 20th century though.

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 2d

random German fact: the German word for glove just means "hand shoe" (Handschuh)

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 9d

No medieval filter here! A modern recreation of a Viking ruler for Denmark’s National Museum, based on the depiction of Cnut in the New Minster Liber Vitae and on clothes found at a grave in Mammen, Denmark. #medievalsky

A man wearing a thigh-length red tunic beneath a cloak of a darker red, both richly embroidered, blue leggings and soft, tan-coloured shoes.

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 2d

I always struggle with apps' payment methods, but yeah, having a public transit system displayed for a foreign city (or even my own!) is gold.

Like, in the app I can tap a bus stop and it'll show me the bus route! Not even our official transit apps can do that.

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 2d

Frank Schätzing, Nachrichten aus einem unbekannten Universum ;p

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 2d

This is fascinating to me also because (tangent!) there's a German author who wrote a book called The Swarm (which I disliked immensely) about... ocean creatures coming for mankind or something. He did so much research that he wrote a second book just about our oceans (which I enjoyed greatly).

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

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.:
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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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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · 2d

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes.
It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click.
I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 3d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately ALT text is just some words.

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 3d

Really love wanting to print something out real quick and then having to spend a fucking hour to try and get my Canon printer to stop shredding paper.

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inkbot kowalski @inkbotkowalski.bsky.social · 3d

Did my five morning planks* (doctor's orders), got slightly sweaty. Sat down, now I'm freezing. Thanks, body.

*hey, I don't name these things

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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 3d

It's #GlobalCatDay 😺

The Scottish Wildcat, aka the Highland Tiger.

A Wildcat dwells in The Otherworld, called Little Cat. It guards a vast treasure, and for any would-be thief, it transforms into a flaming arrow, reducing said thief to ashes!

#cats #folklore
📷 Tony Hamblin

Picture of a rather grumpy looking wildcat by Tony Hamblin

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