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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 1h

Great idea.

Let's expand it so places like bakeries are incentivized to donate their leftovers / day-old stock instead of tossing them in the trash!

Go Pyrate! ☠️ @gopyrate.com · 7h

Just saying. Je comprends pas que ça soit pas un réflexe.

BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 5h

So after AOC is done with her, she can do an interview with Isaac Chotiner.

That sound good? Or would that be Too Much?

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 15h

Our route started at Pinkham Notch, up Tuckerman's Ravine and up to the top.

It was BEAUTIFUL weather. Couldn't have asked for better, clear at the top. Jacket weather.

That hike KICKED OUR ASSES. We were SO grateful for the sag wagon that still had space and shuttled us back down.

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 15h

When I was younger than the number of years that have since passed I climbed Mt. Washington with a couple friends.

I was recently out of the military and back in college.

They were in the marching band, baritone players.

We were young and In Shape.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

I saw someone call Ai a Thneed and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionare. It left no real lasting impact, only damage.

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 1d

(Can we go back to computers — and, by extension, the internet — bringing joy? Please?)

BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 1d

Myself, I managed to find the version of Office *without* Copilot.

I have aging family that are still using Office 2010 & 2013 and refuse to upgrade.

As for Office Assistants... I used to have either Einstein or the cat. Never useful, but their animations as I worked brought a little joy.

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 1d

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO we had Clippy and the other Office Assistants that tried to help... but were either annoyances or window dressing.

Now we have "Copilot" *actively interrupting you while you try to work.*

Microsoft, real talk: Stop. Get help. You are hurting not-techie people.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 1d

Guess BlueSky isn't going to sleep tonight...

Tonight's game / Game 4 is going to be *interesting!* Those guys are going to be EXHAUSTED!

BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, there's a memory... originally a Flash video. You can set YouTube to repeat but it's just not the same.

And I think the Flash version had (optional?) subtitles? I remember those being helpful for figuring out some of the lyrics.

A cultural treasure!

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 2d

Could the limiting factor be mass? They can't pop off little furballs until they're big enough to survive the loss of mass?

So, upon achieving some manner of Gremlin puberty?

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 2d

Wet climate hazard: Pointy tribbles with the emotional regulation of a toddler.

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 2d

FDR, 1933: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"

We got Social Security, the CCC, the FDIC, and the SEC (to name only a few)

———

GOP, today: "Be afraid of everything, we are the only ones who can save you"

We get... masked agents of the state kidnapping people in blue cities.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 2d

(Oh, hey... I'm not the first to think this. Good to see!)

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 2d

Dip.

a man with a cane walks in front of a sign that says ' a & r ' on it

Alt: Judge Doom monologues in front of a giant vat of Dip, a solvent made to erase ToonTown

media.tenor.com

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 2d

I have one more kitten to rehome, and she's going tomorrow.

A bloody room. A text block at the bottom reads, "Caption this with the second to last text you sent."

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 2d

The problem is devs want to treat data as a property rights issue when personal data are actually observations of behavior to be used as evidence—primarily for social surveillance and control. It is rendering people in your community into relationships with power outside of their control or consent.

Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 3d

I do not have small enough words to communicate to ML researchers that if you take people's data, EVEN IF IT IS PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE, and then you upload it to huggingface without communicating with them or even talking to them about what it's for, people will be mad at you.

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 3d

The old dead ones were the 'giant powerstrip' type — the ones with no option to shut off the alarm when the power's out.

All the ones in use are the upright, plugs-in-the-back style with their alarms silenced.

I became conditioned to expect frequent, brief outages living in flyover country.

BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 3d

I have more UPSs than I care to admit.

Two desktops, each have their own. The server rack has a rackmount one. The network stack has one. The living room TV & stereo.

We moved and I kept going "Huh. Found another old UPS. Wonder if the battery is still good? [Nope.]"

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 3d

The ticks are causing death from blood loss (dudeholyshit!) and hypothermia because the moose will try to rub off the ticks and rub away their insulating coat in the process.

And that's just one example of climate-related consequences.

BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 3d

"Disease vector die-backs" ... wait, that sounds familiar.

Because of shorter, milder winters, moose in Vermont — particularly calves — are dying due to disease and parasites.

There's an embedded video which includes the fact that dead calves have as many as FIFTY EIGHT THOUSAND ticks. 😱

Moose Research | Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department

The Fish & Wildlife Department manages wildlife populations based on science. The department will continue to pursue scientific research to inform moose management decisions, and that management will ...

www.vtfishandwildlife.com

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 4d

I'd guess it's the risk of ending up on the wrong [regulatory] side of the current administration.

Get too successful, get enough notice and you'll be 'the nail that gets pounded down'*.

*Read: sued in order to coerce an 8- to 9-figure "settlement donation"

(I hate this timeline SO MUCH...)

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spooky boolantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 5d

Max Dubler
@maxdubler • 2/8/25
That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.
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@jasonc_nc・2/8/25
I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.
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Max Dubler
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True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties.

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 5d

LOL percussive maintenance for your skull.

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