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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going with all three at once.

Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 1d

There's actually like 20 other Coast Guard guys, not part of the interview, who've just quietly entered the interview room and are listening silently, also riveted.

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Alexandria Neonakis @beavs.bsky.social · 2d

Lol my friggen dad. What a guy

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 4d

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 2d

Oh boy, what's happening now?

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 2d

Absolute mystery why adoption of this incredible operating system is abysmal.

Total god damned mystery.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 2d

I will say, one of the great cons the tech sector pulled was framing fixing security vulnerabilities as 'updates' and not 'recalls'.

Nash @radiodeadair.com · 3d

Those are all of your viable options.

Running Windows 10 without support IS NOT a viable option (or any older Windows version, for that matter).

Without regular updates, Windows 10 will be vulnerable to exploits more easily than other versions.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 3d

Guess we just wait 17 years and they'll just simply simplify it to "British Rail".

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 3d

Me watching "Endeavour": "Oh hey, that's an ISO 7010 exit sign. Oops."

(The 'Running Man' symbol wouldn't be invented for another ~15 years, in 1979.)

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 3d

@garethdennis.uk - Don't think this buffer is going to do a lot...

Signal of the Day 🚦🚥🚂 @signaloftheday.bsky.social · 3d

Could this buffer stop in P3 at Mansfield Woodhouse look any more miserable if it tried? (Submitted by Daniel Patterson)
#SignalOfTheDay #Stoptober

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 3d

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 3d

Sam Altman suggests ChatGPT is cannibalizing your fanfic and erotica to make its own clanker porn, rolling out this December.

ChatGPT just got filthy after new update lets it talk dirty to you

'You won't get it unless you ask for it.'

metro.co.uk

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Hey, nobody *made* them vote for the host of Wrestlemania 4 @legalminimum.bsky.social · 3d

I’m old enough to remember when their biggest fucking grievance was a made-up complaint that Obama did this.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING via WSJ

The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK

The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said.
The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS criminal-investigative division, or IRS-CI, to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, officials said. The proposed changes could open the door to politically motivated probes and are being driven by Gary Shapley, an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody wants Teams - we all use it because we have to.

It's, quite frankly, garbage-ass software and Lync was far a better experience when it wasn't sucking and dying as much as Teams.

Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 3d

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 3d

What the fuck was the original case even!?

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 3d

Individual manga volumes are superior to omnibus multi-volume collections, and softcover is better than hardcover.

unhinged eldritch abomination @rhymeswithk.bsky.social · 3d

Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥

a girl with blue hair and a yellow hair tie in a red jacking, rearing back to punch someone with an angry expression on her face

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 3d

Let him pardon them. Arrest them anyway, contend the pardons are invalid, and force each defendant to prove they're legitimate

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Cheryl Harris @cdh111.bsky.social · 4d

Other question is how many will be pre-emptively pardoned by DJT the day he leaves office. I suspect almost all (if not all) will just so they evade prosecution.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 4d

Put it in a box, in the back, so you have to ask for it, because nobody will ask for it.

Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 4d

Mailing a polaroid photo of every sign converted to Tony, so he can't escape it.

Yes, I know Derek Norman died a few years ago, because he was like 80 years old.

I don't care, it's a campaign of spite.

Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 4d

Going to the United Kingdom, and converting every traffic and pedestrian sign to metric, just to piss off the anti-metric, Eurosceptic groups, especially, and specifically Tony Bennett and Derek Norman.

It's not even about being pro-metric system, it's *JUST* about pissing them off.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 5d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 4d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 4d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 4d

It's kind of shocking how much of a fucking joke he is, yet somehow has managed to become a massive financial liability.

Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 5d

Me, like once a month: Just bring back the S-10.

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, yeah, like those chocolate coins with the gold wrap.

Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 8d

The "New York Post" is the American version of "The Sun" newspaper.

(Better known as "The Scum".)

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 8d

Move the picture of Steve Buscemi a little closer to act as Caboose's co-host, when he wants one.

Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 8d

I think about that fucking constantly.