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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 1d

Once good thing I will say about cyber trucks though is that you get to park them anywhere, like even on sidewalks and stuff or taking up as many spots as you want, and also as a nice perk they come standard with a very very small driver-side penis.

isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 1d

it's working, keep it up!

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

oh no www.theverge.com/news/798889/...

Tesla Cybertruck sales are flatlining

Sales are down 63 percent in the third quarter

www.theverge.com

isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 1d

Only about 10% of blind people can read and write braille. Highly effective audio accessibility has just completely taken over.

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 1d

My point is is that if someone is blind, and says "I read this book", and you later found out they read the book using the Audible app, and you called them out and said, "LIAR! YOU DIDN'T READ IT, YOU LISTENED TO IT!" then you're 10000% an asshole. Consuming prose is "reading".

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 1d

This might help: would you disclaim it if you were blind?

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · May 13

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 2d

Listening to an audiobook is exactly the same as reading the text on paper or kindle, and it's appropriate to use the verb "read" to describe the activity.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 2d

things bullets say

Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 2d

Almost every time I go thru JFK something weird happens.

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 2d

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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It's Gloria! @smilodonichthys.bsky.social · 3d

Oh we posting brassica memes?

Ladies Get you a fella who can do it all

And it's a illustration showing the wild version of Brassica oleracea with arrows pointing to different vegetables it had been bred into.

Cabbage, selection for terminal buds. Brussels sprouts, selection for lateral buds. Kohlrabi, selection for stem. Kale, selection for leaves. Broccoli, selection for stems and flowers. Cauliflower, selection for flower clusters.

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 3d

Vibe coded error handling.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 4d

The Democrats rode the largest anti-police movement in HISTORY straight to the White House and then IMMEDIATELY capitulated to the fascists and told the progressives who HANDED THEM their talking points for the presidency to fuck off.

And yall wonder yall losing.

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 4d

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 4d

Oliver Sacks doesn't seem real. What do you mean if I'd been born a bit eariler, there's a chance my neurologist could have been a neurodivergent muscle bear who rode a motorcycle and wrote both compassionate case studies of his patients and breezily funny anecdotes about the time he had the DTs

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 5

The only thing more pathetic than these losers now, is them after another 6 months of slurping that dogshit directly into their brains.

The only thing more pathetic than that, is them after the bubble pops and they have to rawdog reality without their temu Misa Amane robot.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 5d

WHERE’S MY AWARD

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Emily L @laskin.bsky.social · 5d

I have a few more of these, if anyone would like one lmk!

Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 5d

finished slogging through that bio of shevardnadze so i can finally get started on this (very kindly mailed all the way here by @laskin.bsky.social)

my breakfast and a lovely turquoise and red book titled “tulips in bloom: an anthology of modern central asian literature”

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 5d

"Billionaires are dangerous. We should tax them until they aren’t. "

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 6d

Yet another example of why "fuck you make me" is the only correct answer to every fascist overreach, and "just this once" is always wrong.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 6d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 6d

I'm very pleased that the Guardian did not pass up the opportunity to choose the most hilarious headline possible for this story.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 6d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 6d

What people think autism is, vs what autism actually is. #actuallyautistic

Iceberg meme.
Above the line:
What people THINK autism is: flapping hands, poor eye contact, unusual fixations, social awkwardness
Below the line:
What autism ACTUALLY is: having a cute ass, always secretly the funniest person in the room, being a good kisser, luscious thighs, only bad at stuff that sucks anyway, being so sexy all the time, being right about everything all the time

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 6d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7d

people say to me all the time mr president mr president please, will you eat this lindbergh baby, and i say no you're not al- well i'm allowed i could eat the baby maybe later i'll eat the baby but- baby, what an interesting word, baby, you never hear about babies anymore, unless you're eating them

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 7d

how does that poem go? oh, right. first they came for trans people and I was like "I don't think the majority of the country is going to die on this hill"

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 7d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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