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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.

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chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 2h

Hahahaha, that is awesome, well done.

(I don't get it.)

chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 4h

the key is to get the other people to an airport that will fly them out of ours

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chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 12h

Accelerated self deprecation schedule

chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 18h

Not all games have one move. Given the vast damage of the proposed budget, there are reasons that the common good would be better served by not consenting to it until you get more concessions than a vote.

chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 18h

Exactly. Honestly confused. Watch Casino Royale... suddenly Bond has no licence to kill... it started over... It's not chronological obv or he would be 90 by now.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18h

Oldie but a goodie

Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 23h

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

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chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly confused. Watch Casino Royale... suddenly Bond has no licence to kill... it started over... It's not chronological obv or he would be 90 by now.

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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 4d

I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear:

This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.

The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.

Nextstrain @nextstrain.org · 5d

On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger I never thought I was the kind of person to fall for a scam.
Portrait of Charlotte Cowles
By Charlotte Cowles, The Cut’s financial-advice columnist.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3d

Part of the reason why I’m so insistent about folks understanding AI capabilities is that they’re here to stay and we need to start thinking about what to do in such a world. Putting the genie back in the bottle is a pleasant fantasy that delays serious reckoning

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 5d

It's a small graphic design detail, but the loitering guy on TTC signage is actually in front of the red slash, casually leaning against it, making him look *unbelievably* cool.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 5d

the sandwich guy walking away from the court house and suddenly, his limp disappears

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chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 5d

Seriously don’t do it bad news, nothing to drink, friends dead, dead bird neckwear

Literally a whole poem telling you about this

chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 9d

because they couldn't run fast enough?

chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 10d

Or falling safes

chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 11d

the ratio may have always been this, but for a few decades we had some institutions that took the edge off the problem… newspapers being one

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chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 11d

Used to work with scientist and would get Nature and Science circulated to my desk. Would read it to find the 15-word article titles where i didn’t know a single word that wasn’t ”the” “of” or “and”

chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 11d

Look on my crosstabs, ye mighty, and despair!

chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 12d

The advanced light source!

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chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 12d

thanks for providing the compendious compendious definition

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org · 12d

Salt Typhoon was a recent direct attack on telcom infrastructure, probably from China, and probably exploiting "lawful access" wiretapping interfaces. It's pure insanity to relax security mandates right now.

I testified on this in Congress earlier this year: oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...

oversight.house.gov

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 12d

Dude is blowing up boats in foreign waters without due process, taking away food from 42 million Americans this weekend, randomly arresting American citizens, and tore down 1/3 of the White House without any push back or oversight.

But tell me again how he's "just trolling" about a third term.

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Sara @sportsandsuffering.bsky.social · 14d

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

a graphic showing the pantone numbers for the two core colors of the toronto blue jays. they are skydome blue (pantone 293) and Stieb Navy (pantone 282)

a hat and canvas tote with the pantone number for Dodger Blue (294 C)

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chrisvls.bsky.social @chrisvls.bsky.social · 13d

The key is to submit under a fake email address so you never get the rejection