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Dan Nguyen
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chicago area data journalist/scientist/wrangler, duolingo vietnamese language learner. the best chicago banh mi is at nhu lan on lawrence st
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · Oct 12
Just ate the best pork banh mi in Chicago and may nap away the rest of Saturday afternoon 🫃
Photo of Nhu Lan sandwich shop counter, cramped with plants and Vietnamese decorations Photo of roasted pork sandwich from Nhu Lan
dancow.bsky.social
seems like they held off on publishing that they knew they knew in their “why we cold called trump at 430am” follow up
TIMES INSIDER Why I Cold-Called President Trump at 4:30 in the Morning How did a New York Times reporter reach the president right after he announced that the United States had captured Venezuelas leader?
January 4, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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mel.bzky.team
incredibly funny to see americans posting they hope congress will get the president for committing this war crime. what country do you think you live in?
January 3, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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castbound.bsky.social
PLEASE SPREAD THIS, THE US HAS STARTED BOMBING INSIDE VENEZUELA, I LIVE NEAR A MILITARY AIR BASE AND FIVE EARTH SHAKING EXPLOSIONS WERE JUST HEARD
January 3, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
once this site learns what a joke is it’s over for you hoes
January 3, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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tony.xyz
Nick Shirley’s lies: just click play.
The Star Tribune’s truth: No reading unless you give us your email address, make a password, choose which newsletters you want to subscribe to, agree to arbitration, a class action waiver, and let us use your info to sell ads www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
Screenshot of Minnesota Star Tribune article showing the headline and then a paywall. (We went to the day cares Nick Shirley did. Here's what we found. Some of the 10 day cares the YouTube content creator blasted for having "no children" invited reporters in to see for themselves. By Deena Winter and Jeffrey Meitrodt The Minnesota Star Tribune DECEMBER 31, 2025 AT 6:21PM + The Minnesota Star Tribune LAST CHANCE: 80% OFF PLUS get a free gift! $49 FOR 1 YEAR ($260) Subscribe Create an account to read this story LIMITED FREE ACCESS Register Already a subscriber? Log In ›)
January 3, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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ashtonpittman.bsky.social
This isn't about democratizing the news. It's about elevating "vibes" and "feelings" to be on par with lived experience and subject-matter expertise.
January 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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wesleymorgan.bsky.social
Year-end tally of Trump admin combat actions in 2025:

—Yemen—1,000+ strikes*
—Somalia—140+ strikes, 1 ground raid**
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids***
—Iran—3 B-2 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
—Nigeria—1 set of TLAM strikes
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Venezuela—1 known CIA strike
wesleymorgan.bsky.social Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 9d
First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:

—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
January 2, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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zhandlen.bsky.social
This aged well.
a well that is aged.
January 2, 2026 at 4:56 PM
dancow.bsky.social
the apple UI/UX designer who thought it was a necessary and useful feature to permanently (until you force a restart) apply a blur effect to the iphone clock and top right readouts should be taken out back and executed
screenshot of top section of an iphone screen, the clock and top right corner readouts have a “glass” blur effect permanently applied
January 2, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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renegadekangaroo.bsky.social
Video game ads in the 90's were something else...
January 1, 2026 at 6:10 PM
dancow.bsky.social
found a couple of bluesky users
a rice paddy pathway lined with concrete blocks that have written messages. one says “MARC BLUERSKY IN UBUD: Don’t forget to enjoy your life” a concrete slab inscribed with: Puppet Master DALANG I MADE GENDER
January 1, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI

Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.

Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
costasamaras.com Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13d
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
January 1, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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archive.org
Welcome to the public domain, THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK (1930), the first appearance of Nancy Drew 🔎🕰️

👧 It’s no mystery why people are excited — the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are now in the public domain!

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
January 1, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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amybrown.xyz
the baby got a doll that cries for christmas and the placement of the on/off switch seems like. well. it wouldn’t have been my first choice
the on/off switch is between the baby’s butt cheeks
January 1, 2026 at 4:45 AM
dancow.bsky.social
i have lived in 2026 for 7 hours now, i regret to report it’s basically like 2025 but with warmer temperatures
photo of an asian resort villa with an infinity pool
January 1, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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ndrew.bsky.social
the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored
December 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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lookitup.baby
HEBER CITY, Utah - An artificial intelligence that writes police reports had some explaining to do earlier this month after it claimed a Heber City officer had shape-shifted into a frog. However, the truth behind that so-called magical transformation is simple. "The body cam software and the Al report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be 'The Princess and the Frog,” Sgt. Keel told FOX 13 News. "That's when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports.'
December 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
dancow.bsky.social
i want this life
photo of a gelato storefront that is closed close up of a paper sign on the gelato shops door: OPEN When I'm not tired!
December 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
dancow.bsky.social
the hackers are getting it
hacker news comment: I had a very interesting discussion with a friend today, where I was talking to her about the /r/golang thread about Rob Pike's comments to OpenAI and how the thread was full of bots talking with other bots. No idea why the density of bots was so high in that thread, it was kind of absurd to see. Then she said: "I know nobody that comments on online forums. Nobody would ever comment to strangers on the internet. It's too dangerous." Took me a while to grasp what she meant with that, but I think she's right. Trust has eroded so much over the last two decades that most forums are either full of bots or full of annoyed and toxic people. It's very rare to find welcoming communities to newbies, and most of the ones I have discovered were offline connections. She also mentioned that all of her friends use private profiles only, because having public profiles is too dangerous because of stalkers. To me this sounded a bit absurd at first, but maybe that's a different perception on "how to use" the internet from a different younger generation that grew up post-socialmedia? My first contact with the internet was MIT opencourseware, her first contact was receiving dick pics at the age of 10 from assholes on the other side of the planet. I miss the old phpbb forum days when the most toxic comment was someone being snarky and derailing the discussion into "did you use the search function?" No idea how to fix the internet, maybe it's time to move to gopher or another protocol :-/ hackernews comment: Most of her friends are probably women. Try making an account with an obvious female name and you will see a marked difference on most social platforms I am saying this as a guy we really don't understand the world women live in online or offline. reply: funny story: I got the wife of a friend to install tinder, a couple of years back when I was dating. I was having a hard time getting matches, so I figured I'd see how the other side lives. She created an empty profile, with a blurry hippopotamus as a profile picture, and a single letter as name. Just "H". For hippopotamus. No bio. Within five minutes she was matching with every other guy she swiped right on. Which wasn't all of them, mind you. Within another five minutes, half of the guys she had matched with had messaged her. Regular looking guys. A lot of them had same opening line. "Did you know hippos are the most dangerous animal in the world?" After that, I got why I wasn't getting any replies >.<
December 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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ramiismail.com
I think Africa's top museums should acquire all treasures from the Louvre, its clear European institutes like this just aren't up to safeguarding European art

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Louvre is the pride of France – and it’s on the verge of collapse. Can we rescue it in time? | Agnès Poirier
From a jewel heist to crumbling galleries, it’s been a dire year for the world’s most visited museum. At least France has woken up to its predicament, says political commentator Agnès Poirier
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
dancow.bsky.social
Queen of the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party
Greene's last exchange with the president was by text message on Nov. 16. That day, she received an anonymous email in her personal Gmail account that threatened her college-aged son: "Derek will have his life snuffed out soon. Better watch his back." The email's subject heading used the nickname Trump had given her the day before: "Marjorie Traitor Greene." Greene promptly texted that information to the president. According to a source familiar with the exchange, his long reply made no mention of her son. Instead, Trump insulted her in personal terms. When she replied that children should remain off limits from their disagreements, Trump responded that she had only herself to blame.
December 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
dancow.bsky.social
by flying 10,000 miles away to eat pray and love, surely I can escape that accursed mem—
a utility pole in Bali with a paper sign that reads: JUAL TANAH 6 ARE 7 ARE TKD BADUNG 087700995868
December 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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seanpadilla.blacksky.app
My older son woke up and caught me eating jerk chicken in the middle of the night

He shouted “I say EH MON!!!” to startle me, then went back to his bedroom to go back to sleep

I feel utterly roasted lol
December 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
dancow.bsky.social
this is what my wet food gobbling cat also believes
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7d
There's a MAHA theory that you get all the water you need from your food so you shouldn't need to drink water.
johnbrooks.bsky.social John Brooks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 7d
Nonzero chance this guy tries to ban any product containing dihydrogen monoxide at some point
December 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
dancow.bsky.social
had my first calculus exam anxiety dream in which my dream avatar realized he could just use chatgpt 😰
December 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM