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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️
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I am asking one thing of you all: do not voluntarily detransition.

That is what they want most.
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replies on bluesky consistently talking about ai not working when the problem is that it works well enough that people end up working through their breaks and, in fact, doing a lot more work

i am probably working too much and i am posting all day long. these things used to be mutually contradictory
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Ahem (except cost estimation) jtraingraph.de
jTrainGraph - convenient application for train graphs and timetables
jTrainGraph - convenient application for train graphs and timetables
jtraingraph.de
February 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
You know what would be cool? A computer program where you can input an existing railroad’s schedule, track diagrams, and equipment, then do timetable-based infrastructure planning with a basic cost estimation tool.
February 10, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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representation is so important
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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WE KNOW THE SOLUTION JUST HANG THE CATENARY

...wait
The world's busiest waterway is starting to get electrified. Testing started on a battery fully electric on a 10,000-ton 740-TEU container ship on the Yangtze River. The ship will be used for China's inland waterway and coastal shipping routes.
February 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM
biathletes 🤝 bisexuals

messy
This is a famously messy Norwegian biathlete who was banned in 2023 from the Biathlon World Cup because he accidentally fired his competition rifle in his hotel room (he was also teary and apologetic then)
new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped

Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back

www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...
February 10, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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HOOOOOO boy.

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"

Lyons: "Yes ma'am."

McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"

"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
February 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
calling for a complete and total shutdown of heterosexuality until we can figure out what the hell is going on
If you have to wake up and choose not to act on your "gay thoughts" every single day, I have news for you, pet.
February 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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discord betrayed you? lol, I wouldn’t know, I’ve been self-hosting an open source voip server for the past fifteen years. it’s super low-latency and has much better chat tools than whatever your precious “nitro subscription” gets you. and as soon as I make even one friend,
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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Dawkins: i can't believe i went to the skeptics conference wearing my brand new $500 gucci sunglasses and not a single femoid even fucked me
Dawkins: all the fuckin stacys just want chads instead of nice guys
Dawkins: i'm gonna post my manifesto in the comments section of pz meyers squid blog
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Being wildly antisemitic about an Arab Israeli is a pretty narrow needle to thread but you managed it, congrats
February 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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this is what happens when you give up on a golden idea like Whisky Fridays.
February 10, 2026 at 4:47 AM
my relationship to the news and social media
February 10, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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Okay, but for real. Now jobless and looking.

I am very good at all things involving running servers and alright (mainly out of practice) with writing/reading code (Python/Bash/Go/Nix/Ruby/Typescript), and decent with hardware, but my work experience is very wonky because of grad school.

aly.codes
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
He really buried the lede about not allowing the Gordie Howe Bridge to open with the hockey nonsense
Trump: “The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup.”
February 9, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Transit: While CARGA committed to expanding frequent, reliable, and affordable transit on key corridors, including Vancouver Island and the Sea-to-Sky route, the BC NDP has delivered no concrete action that would put a single new bus on the road in 2026.
Today @emilylowan.bsky.social @jervaler.bsky.social @robbotterell.bsky.social announced that the BC Greens will not be renewing the Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord (CARGA).

#bcpoli
February 9, 2026 at 7:22 PM
They took the Alberta separatists into a SCIF? The fuck?
been wondering about
February 9, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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This reminds me of one of my favorite stories. During a Javelin Thrust in Yuma one year, we brought two Navajo Code Talkers out to talk to the comm Marines about doing the job in WW2, get a brief on modern comm gear, and so we could ensure we still had Marines who could say they shook their hands.
I really dislike this leftie tendency to use all of the horrible crimes this country has committed as proof that the country is irredeemable, when the people who fought against it often did so *as Americans* because it implies they were a bunch of stupid fucking rubes
January 22, 2026 at 4:20 PM
love having beliefs about internationalism so esoteric the only people who make me go “yes exactly” are Marxist-Leninists who probably think I’m a fascist creep
February 9, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Which Way, Pan-American Man?
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I’m somewhere off the main sequence between “irreverent Internet comedians” and “Progressive American writers & activists”, closer to specifically Minneapolis than you’d think based on my life story
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 9, 2026 at 1:37 PM
>TFW no charging her phone on her head in the metro gf
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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The two Floridas are battling it out in the Facebook comment section of every local news station's Super Bowl halftime post.

The Kid Rock fans can't spell and are getting very upset that people keep calling it the pedophile halftime show.
February 9, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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I've heard people talk about how immeasurably valuable tvtropes would be to a historian in the year 5000, so much more so than any literary work written in the last century.

Imagine what we could do with a relic LLM with weights deriving from the cultural/literary gestalt of Rome, of the Inca,
February 9, 2026 at 6:20 AM