Symora
@glitchesbrew.bsky.social
aesthetic appreciator, overanalyzer, and ostensible writer - she/they️⚧️ - ever finding the loveliest common denominator
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Frozen turkeys have ice which means they have water. When you lower a frozen turkey into hot oil, the ice quickly turns into steam. The steam expands and pushes the oil out of the pot and onto the open flame.
This is bad.
This is bad.
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Frozen turkeys have ice which means they have water. When you lower a frozen turkey into hot oil, the ice quickly turns into steam. The steam expands and pushes the oil out of the pot and onto the open flame.
This is bad.
This is bad.
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You will never in a million years guess to whom this post is referring
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You will never in a million years guess to whom this post is referring
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Every day there's a headline like "President's fire safety officer says we're going to set everything on fire and if you think that's bad you're woke"
Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Every day there's a headline like "President's fire safety officer says we're going to set everything on fire and if you think that's bad you're woke"
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![Steve Hogarty (@misterbrilliant) on twitter: "[gets olympic tickets to 100m butterfly] Oh my god this will be great. [sees the huge stadium] Oh wow that must be where they keep it."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreiggabvm73uur4tzdeeskjmre7l6zdobuur4dhlfpi2dc3bczfctwq@jpeg)
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Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
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And another thing: I'm mad. Please put it in the newspaper that I got mad. I am not ashamed of my emotions, which I believe are a normal and human reaction to events, and I welcome a frank and open discussion of why I feel that way, and possible paths forward.
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
And another thing: I'm mad. Please put it in the newspaper that I got mad. I am not ashamed of my emotions, which I believe are a normal and human reaction to events, and I welcome a frank and open discussion of why I feel that way, and possible paths forward.
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Welcome sign
Felch, MI
Felch, MI
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Welcome sign
Felch, MI
Felch, MI
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here you go, enjoy this leaf sheep of good luck and success
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
here you go, enjoy this leaf sheep of good luck and success
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it is very much Lovecraftian cosmic horror bc the horror isn’t something “scary” as much as an sense of deep violation upon the contemplation of a sexual act between a woman and a strange creature from New England that non-ironically hates human lives
has anyone pirated the Eldritch Horror post yet
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 AM
it is very much Lovecraftian cosmic horror bc the horror isn’t something “scary” as much as an sense of deep violation upon the contemplation of a sexual act between a woman and a strange creature from New England that non-ironically hates human lives
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The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
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this is like when that screenwriter asked AI to write a screenplay, and all it did was ask him for more time to complete it. Took a while before he figured out that it wasn't a complex task; "need more time" was the predicted response to "write a screenplay"
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
this is like when that screenwriter asked AI to write a screenplay, and all it did was ask him for more time to complete it. Took a while before he figured out that it wasn't a complex task; "need more time" was the predicted response to "write a screenplay"
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this, too, is homestuck
Season 6 of buffy is without a question my favorite season of television because I have never watched a season of television with that level of self-loathing before and it speaks to me at a visceral level
this is especially true of the last two seasons, where the show seems to hate the audience, its cast, and life in general
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
this, too, is homestuck
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I think Claude Code has achieved AGI
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I think Claude Code has achieved AGI
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Tim Cook you will pay for your crimes at the firey gates of hell
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Tim Cook you will pay for your crimes at the firey gates of hell
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“Luke learns design” month, (cheat) day #21:
Star Trek 1971!
In 1971 a high school kid wrote a game on punch tape about hunting Klingons. In 1972 he rewrote it in HP BASIC, and it became briefly the most distributed software of all time. The code is still available.
So I ported it! Check it out!
Star Trek 1971!
In 1971 a high school kid wrote a game on punch tape about hunting Klingons. In 1972 he rewrote it in HP BASIC, and it became briefly the most distributed software of all time. The code is still available.
So I ported it! Check it out!
Star Trek 1971 - Web Remake
Star Trek 1971 - web remake
dr.eamer.dev
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
“Luke learns design” month, (cheat) day #21:
Star Trek 1971!
In 1971 a high school kid wrote a game on punch tape about hunting Klingons. In 1972 he rewrote it in HP BASIC, and it became briefly the most distributed software of all time. The code is still available.
So I ported it! Check it out!
Star Trek 1971!
In 1971 a high school kid wrote a game on punch tape about hunting Klingons. In 1972 he rewrote it in HP BASIC, and it became briefly the most distributed software of all time. The code is still available.
So I ported it! Check it out!
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On top of how ridiculously invasive this is, the sheer number of distinct things they are testing reeks of p-hacking to me.
If you test every possible thing that could be wrong with something without adjusting for the number of tests you're doing, you'll end up finding SOMETHING by pure chance
If you test every possible thing that could be wrong with something without adjusting for the number of tests you're doing, you'll end up finding SOMETHING by pure chance
The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
On top of how ridiculously invasive this is, the sheer number of distinct things they are testing reeks of p-hacking to me.
If you test every possible thing that could be wrong with something without adjusting for the number of tests you're doing, you'll end up finding SOMETHING by pure chance
If you test every possible thing that could be wrong with something without adjusting for the number of tests you're doing, you'll end up finding SOMETHING by pure chance
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trump sobbing as they force him into the sensory deprivation tank with stephen miller to turn him back evil
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 AM
trump sobbing as they force him into the sensory deprivation tank with stephen miller to turn him back evil
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we had a special report into it and the fucking people tasked with looking at it outlined all the evidence it works and is good and literally (not fucking joking) said "well work brings dignity and that's more important" essentially and so recommended against it
its fucking diabolical
its fucking diabolical
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
we had a special report into it and the fucking people tasked with looking at it outlined all the evidence it works and is good and literally (not fucking joking) said "well work brings dignity and that's more important" essentially and so recommended against it
its fucking diabolical
its fucking diabolical
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(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?