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I used to make a living playing Diplomacy, but then an AI took my job.
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Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. Here's what happened: https://cfl.re/4aw32qy
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impac...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Stop by the Cloudflare booth 1384 at AWS re:invent and chat with our team! Be sure to check out all things happening during the week: https://cfl.re/4oPPFG8 #reInvent
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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erikloomis.bsky.social
This Day in Labor History: December 1, 1868. A young black former Union soldier named John Henry was among a group of convicts sent from Richmond to West Virginia to blast a railroad tunnel, where he would soon die. Let's talk about the real John Henry!!!
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
dancescholar.bsky.social
Memory is like a whatchamacallit. RIP Tom.
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 5d
Have seen a few people passing around this story by Tom Stoppard from just last year, talking about how he learned he was Jewish and also much about his family history, and it's quite a read. He really knew how to write. www.huntingtontheatre.org/2024/09/11/t...
Tom Stoppard: On Turning Out to be Jewish | Huntington Theatre Company
www.huntingtontheatre.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
dancescholar.bsky.social
Big. Mood.
mikeyass.bsky.social Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 5d
PSA for the kids: never do a PhD unless they're paying you.

Even then, it's still a bad choice - but one you make because of a love of the game.
erisianrite.com The Fresh Prince of Donair @erisianrite.com · 5d
Okay this has to be a bit
November 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
dancescholar.bsky.social
There are some … choices made here!
eggsbened.bsky.social David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 10d
This is beyond…
3 minutes of astonishment putting pay to the notion that Germans have no sense of humour.
On a sadder note, its devoted stars Alice and Ellen Kessler – The Kessler Twins – chose to die last week by joint assisted death. They were 89. RIP.
#artdirection
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mKoX...
Quando Quando - Kessler twins - HD HQ - Scopitone
YouTube video by Marcelo Blanco Pinball
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November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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punkrockscience.bsky.social
Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired – which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents. In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets. At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much. Secretary Hegseth’s tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President’s posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death. If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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sifu.tweety.fish
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
sifu.tweety.fish tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 13d
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
awest.uk Andrew West @awest.uk · 14d
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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kathryntewson.bsky.social
I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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japersrink.bsky.social
New all-time NHL goal record and hardly anyone’s talking about it smh
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Big news! https://cfl.re/43A81T7
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
dancescholar.bsky.social
I've been looking forward to this movie since the first trailer dropped, and came away quite satisfied. Good popcorn movie, and a fine addition to the franchises.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25d
Great piece on the new Predator movie, which is shockingly good and super fun, even if you think you don’t like the franchise: slate.com/culture/2025...
Our Most Macho Sci-Fi Franchise Just Went “Woke.” It Did Not Go Broke.
The killer new Predator movie is … feminist?
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November 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
dancescholar.bsky.social
Yeah, for $18 bucks this is a worthy nostalgia dump.
cabridges.bsky.social C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · Nov 6
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t a fan of a lot of Image books when they started out.

But I’ll pay $18 just for a set of Astro City by Kurt Busiek, easily one of the best series from any company, ever.

Oh, and I liked Mage.
Humble Comic Bundle: Image Comics in the '90s
Collect the hottest titles from Image Comics with a mix of retro and modern hits and help support The BINC Foundation with your purchase!
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November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Space weather is a two-sided coin: it creates beautiful auroras, but it can also jeopardize the technologies we rely on daily. See all the impacts of space weather at weather.gov/safety
Space weather impacts: Aurora (northern lights). GPS. Satellites. Communications. Human space exploration. Aviation. Electric Power. The Geomagnetic Storm Impact Scale. G1 - Minor: Weak power grid fluctuations and minor impacts on satellites are possible. Migratory animals are affected at this and higher levels. Aurora is commonly visible at high latitudes. G2 - Moderate: Transformer damage is possible with long duration storms. Corrective actions to spacecraft orientation may be required; may affect orbit predictions. Aurora may be seen as low as New York and Idaho. G3 - Strong: Power system voltage corrections may be required. Satellite and LF radio navigation problems may occur. HF radio may be interrupted. Aurora may be seen as low as Illinois & Oregon. G4 - Severe: Possible widespread voltage control problems on the power grid. HF radio sporadic, satellite navigation degraded for hours, LF radio navigation issues. Aurora may be seen as low as Alabama and northern California. G5 - Extreme: Blackouts or complete collapse of power grids possible. Navigation systems may be out for hours or days. Aurora may be seen as low as Florida and southern Texas.
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
dancescholar.bsky.social
900!
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
dancescholar.bsky.social
Blue Moon - 10/10 for me, a musical theater nerd from waaaaay back. Ethan Hawke was AMAZING. Fantastic performances across the board. Truly an impressive film.
November 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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erikloomis.bsky.social
This Day in Labor History: November 4, 1942. Copper miners in Butte, Montana went on strike to protest the use of Black miners on the job. Worse, these were members of the leftist Mine, Mill. Let's talk about hate strikes and white workers again choosing their racial identity over class identity!
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
dancescholar.bsky.social
I would have bet against me watching a 16 minute video on 3-D modeling.

I would have lost. Wow. Thanks @tomscott.com!

youtu.be/lVz1meN46VI?...
3D펜으로 그로밋 만들기
YouTube video by 사나고 Sanago
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November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
dancescholar.bsky.social
Someone suggested this here but I can't remember who, apologies! Its a fun little daily puzzle that gets harder over the course of a week.

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Puzzle #307 (Easy)
Time spent: 00:59
17 moves • 0 hints
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November 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM