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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

“After I put on my bathing suit, you must not look at me until I get into the water.”

“Why not?” asked Frog.

“Because I look funny in my bathing suit. That is why,” said Toad.

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 6h

The suburbs pray for war.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5h

This is a) utterly terrifying and b) vital. Don’t turn away. The crisis is fixable because it is, ultimately, political. We know the chemistry. We decline the action necessary.

Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 6h

The headline news that won't be headline news.

'A tragedy': World may have reached first climate 'tipping point' as coral reefs face collapse

Warm-water coral reefs - on which a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend - are on the brink of collapse, according to a major new scientific study

www.businessgreen.com

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 4h

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

Earlier this year, I interviewed Jacob Hurwitz, co-founder of American Trench. They mostly sell directly to consumers. To pay for the marketing, packaging, customer service, and other costs associated with retailing, Hurwitz says direct-to-consumer fashion models have to mark-up at least 3x.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

This is how a $45 shirt becomes $90 and then $180. This 2x multiplying through the chain is called keystone pricing.

So why can't the brand just sell it to a consumer for $90, cutting out the retail markup? Because if they become a retailer, they will need to raise prices to cover their new costs.

A clothing store with suits on the rack and bags on the shelf.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

The store is also in the business to make a profit. Their typical mark-up is 2x (many stores nowadays operate on 2.2x or 2.5x). This covers their cost of rent, utilities, maintenance, packaging, visual merchandising, fixtures, payroll, etc.

That means the consumer will pay $180 for the shirt.

A clothing store. There are some shirts hanging on the wall.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

In the clothing industry, the term CMT stands for "cut, make, trim." It means you are paying someone to cut, make, and trim the garment. Essentially, it's your manufacturing labor cost without taking into account the cost of material.

The CMT price for making a shirt in the US is about $35.

A worker measuring a part of a shirt on a work table.

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Sam Lowe @greenlantern44.bsky.social · 4h

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10h

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 11h

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 11h

funny and accurate thread about trickery in dancing robot demos

it’s funny how it exploits our natural sense of empathy — “that thing that looks like me must also find the same things i do difficult”

and i do mean exploits

just like chatbots do

pareidolia

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 21h

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 3h

Magnetic Journey - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/8dAfW1

A lineup of erupting magnetic activity on the sun's surface creates a trail of flares and coronal loops over 600,000 miles long. This is a portion of an image acquired today, June 26, 2010 by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) 171, a sensor attuned to extreme ultraviolet radiation.

I rotated the image about 80º clockwise and cropped it as shown, and adjusted the image levels and sharpness to enhance details.

Read more about the SDO mission at sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/.

Image courtesy of SDO (NASA) and the AIA consortium. Edited by J. Major.

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 21h

HIV vaccine clinical trials start in African nations.

Phase 1 clinical trial of HIV vaccine starts in Africa to evaluate immune responses to highly networked HIV T-cell epitopes

Led by a team of African researchers, first doses of the novel T cell-inducing GRAdHIVNE1 vaccine candidate have been given.

www.eatg.org

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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 11h

Happy 150th birthday to infamous occultist Aleister Crowley, born Oct 12, 1875!

Here's a rare recording of 'The Great Beast', chanting in the language of the angels (as received by Elizabethan mage John Dee).
#crowleymas

www.dailygrail.com/2014/02/list...

Listen to the Voice of Aleister Crowley, Chanting in the Language of the Angels

In 1920 the voice of the famous/infamous occultist Aleister Crowley was recorded for posterity onto wax cylinders, with the ‘Master Therion’ chanting magical incantations claimed by some to be in the ...

www.dailygrail.com

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Sam Lowe @greenlantern44.bsky.social · 11h

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 18h

This would be GREAT paired with my article in doctors in the Klan in the 1920s.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 18h

A Virginia Rail with a sparkle in his/her eye.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 19h

I think part of the derangement of things is the fact that every single member of the secret police knows that there is a decent chance that literally anything they do will be filmed and put on the internet. And if their face is showing, they'll be identified within minutes.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19h

This is why the work of community watch groups is so important. It's not just capturing the faces of ICE agents, but also their vehicles. In Massachusetts we are already seeing them adapt and change their tactics in response to the work of community groups.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 19h

One of the things that I think the internal politics of ICE/CBP is probably grappling with and didn't quite get when all this kicked off is that the fact that the surveillance state could be turned back on the secret police in a way that makes it very hard for anything they do to be ignored.

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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 5d

Mothman

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 18h

A good cause and a GREAT piece of art!

Gabriel Hardman @gabrielhardman.bsky.social · 18h

The Ed Asner Family Center auction is live. Here’s my contribution for this year. I’m always happy to help. Please bid! comics.ha.com/itm/original...

Drawing of Spider-Man by Gabriel Hardman

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 3d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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🎃Yagamimi🎃 @luigiyagami.bsky.social · 2d

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18h

the KMET broadcast, in southern California, was longer than the nationally syndicated one. Sunday night. by the radio for four hours. three hours of madness and one hour of the top ten, which was determined by petitions mailed in. the local Rocky Horror massive often dominated the countdown. 2/3

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