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Fred Scharmen
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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 9h
Couch Rabbit

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updates troglodyte updates george: 2 @troglodytegeorge.bsky.social · 1d
honestly i'm really learnjng to love the bomb

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 1d
Which is better? Putting it in your pocket with the charge slot up or down?

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 1d
Still so depressed about this.
miniver.bsky.social JK @miniver.bsky.social · May 19
And I think there is Something There in Wells getting embraced as a pop favorite for Murderbot after Isabel Fall was immolated for trying to do something with striking similarities.
A sci-fi writer got meta about gender. The internet responded by ruining her life.
Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. A year later, she’s still picking through the wreckage.
www.vox.com

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 1d
Steve Jobs should invent a phone that charges when you plug it in.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 2d
Holmes was tpot
tedunderwood.com Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 2d
Sherlock Holmes was an insufferable edgelord; if alive today, he would abuse amnestic drugs and gloat about offloading most of his knowledge to models
From A Study in Scarlet: “His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. "You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it." "To forget it!" "You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 2d
Sherlock Holmes was an insufferable edgelord; if alive today, he would abuse amnestic drugs and gloat about offloading most of his knowledge to models
From A Study in Scarlet: “His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. "You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it." "To forget it!" "You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 3d
Not even a hater but this is what AI psychosis seems like to me

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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 3d
I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.

Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 4d
I find these days to be very relaxing, tbh

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 4d
Good morning from the Jury Duty Quiet Room at the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 4d
Hey! Say hello sometime

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 5d
"Ask your doctor today if learned helplessness is right for you"

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 6d
Not even going to hit “like” on that

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kate wehwalt forever @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 6d
Frank Gehry is in the Epstein files…
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 6d
Many people do!

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Jesús García, Fred

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 7d
"The Last Baby Will Be Born in 2012 and, Worse, He'll Look Like This."

A 1913 news article suggested that a decline in birth rates and social changes, such as women entering the workforce and fewer people marrying, would lead to a "neuter type" of human and eventually, the end of the human race.
This image is a 1913 newspaper clipping featuring an illustration of what the "last baby" might look like in 2012, based on predictions made by Dr. J. H. Kellogg. The article suggests that a decline in birth rates and social changes, such as women entering the workforce and fewer people marrying, would lead to a "neuter type" of human and eventually, the end of the human race. The picture looks like an alien fish baby

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 7d
We know these are people just experimenting and messing around with new toys right?

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 7d
I greet my pet rabbits every morning with “hello you STINKY BUNNIES” (well cared for house rabbits smell like sweet fresh cut hay)

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 9d
Area white boy playing the steering wheel like bongos as if he thinks he's part of the salsa band.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 10d
If I ever manage to dig it out I'm going to put a chair in my email inbox so it stays clear.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 10d
Having to trickle the taps all day really adds to the sense of doom from the ongoing closures and the single digit temperatures. Great environmental storytelling.

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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 10d
They’re gonna love me over there

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 12d
They were entranced staring at it falling! Do reach out if there's anything I can help with. The Prius travels and Northern Parkway is pretty clear.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 12d
Martin Denny on the stereo, John Pertwee Doctor Who on the TV, and roasted vegetables in the oven. I would be losing it if not for these things right now.

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 12d
I've been in a bubble here since Saturday night, had no idea how incomplete the clearing was in the outside world. Kinda shook tbh. You doing okay? Do you and Maggie have access to stuff you need?

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 12d
Same with us. This really underscores how often we rely on the idea that most of this stuff will just melt away after a few days

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 12d
It is way way worse on the roads than I thought

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 13d
Wow.

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hailey @hailey.at · 13d
it’s been said before but ceding “ai” to the other side would be one of the most atrocious tactical errors imaginable