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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 3d

How Kyoto, Japan Became the Loveliest Tourist-Trap | Discussion

Kyoto Has Zero Zen

A great exchange rate, ChatGPT, and kimono-wearing bros have turned Kyoto into the loveliest tourist trap on earth.

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Hackaday @hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Entering the Wild World of Power Over Ethernet

Hackaday Article

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Melissa Summers @lisservel.bsky.social · 4d

So excited for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow with the theme of #glow! These are from Smith Island, a small inhabited island in the Chesapeake Bay. There are only about 200 residents on the island, but they’re pure gold!

#travel #Maryland #Chesapeake #EastCoastKin #PicMagnets #sunset #photography

Fishing shack on Smith Island with a golden sunset backdrop

Abandoned restaurant on Smith Island with a golden glow

Docked boat at Smith Island with golden sunset backdrop

A pier provides angles and framing for boats and another broken down pier with a golden sunset backdrop.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 3d

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Louise Stebbing, contemporary Norfolk based (UK) printmaker working mostly in lino printing & etching #WomensArt

Print featuring a sun rise over a river in dawn light with the silhouette of a church tower to the left bank

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Bips McCallister @hoomph.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t believe your brain if it tells you you aren’t good enough

A solved Rubik’s cube standing in front of a mirror with a reflection of an unsolved cube

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 5d

This week has been 1000 years

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 5d

Unutterably weird

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Iran Lures Transgender Foreigners for Surgery but Forces Operations on Locals

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K.E.M Lindblom @eggstronomer.bsky.social · 5d

-Doctor, you’re a geneticist, right? And you’re also the one we turn to for medical attention. How can we be sure that you’re not experimenting on us?
-Captain, as much as I sometimes wish that I was able to turn _you_ into a hamster, that is not how it works.

#SciFiFri

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Sheady Omahrt @sheadyomahrt.bsky.social · Aug 30

Banning books instead of guns is exactly what radicalized me.

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ann @annpersand.bsky.social · 6d

Joseph Peller — Evening, Brooklyn Bound (pastel on paper, 2020)

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ann @annpersand.bsky.social · 5d

Kevin Lucbert, The River (ink on paper, 2023)

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Pixels&AlchemyPhotography @pixelsandalchemy.bsky.social · 5d

#Sweetgum #FallColor 2
#Autumn #Leaves #Photography

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Alison @alisonauciel.bsky.social · 7d

“Books, because…they are the considered and painstaking work of many solitary hours and much revision, supply the antidote to the hot take, the angry riposte and the overconfident assertion.”

Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 7d

Cannot. Case for books, as the antidote to everything that makes Kemi Badenoch Kemi Badenoch, made here:

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Matthew M @pnubk1.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah I love a lot of these books.

Authorities that ban books aren't protecting anyone from harm, they are just insulating ignorance.

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Matthew M @pnubk1.bsky.social · 5d

Library bookcase in the US painted with titles of banned books

Great protest, very sad

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 5d

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Paul Lê @paulle.bsky.social · 5d

BATTLE ROYALE is in theaters this month? I'm tempted to get tickets.

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drewcifer @graysonsyd.bsky.social · 5d

Self-care is taking yourself out to go see a horror movie.

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Yheela🍒 @yheela.bsky.social · 6d

In the Mood for Love is such a superior film.

a man and a woman are sitting on a bed in a room

Alt: a Chinese man and a woman are sitting opposite each other in a room, sharing noodles. The decor and their clothes are a 60s style. From the film In the mood for love

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Yheela🍒 @yheela.bsky.social · 6d

The moon was pretty this morning.

A pale blue sky and a slightly waining full moon.

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K.E.M Lindblom @eggstronomer.bsky.social · 6d

In this issue I interview the one and only @drspacejunk.bsky.social and together we go through the existing space laws. Watch out, stupid space billionaires, we’re on to you!

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Amanda @hellomanders.bsky.social · 9d

Site of the Milwaukee gay bar Wreck Room which existed in the “fruit loop” part of town from 1972-1996. Recently designated as a historic building.

Picture of a stencil on the sidewalk which reads “a gay bar was here” In the frame are brown boots, grey socks & camo shorts.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 6d

Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable!

- Brecht

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 7d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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