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Francesca
@frafont.bsky.social
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Irremediably drawn to bad teams (NY Islanders, HC Ambrì-Piotta)
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frafont.bsky.social
The weather on Lake Bienne is just perfect.
September 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I am so jealous of this oblivious pile of fluff.
A large grey cat kinda spilling out of a wicker cat bed resting his chin on the edge of the bed. He looks comfy and sleepy.
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I just saw a TikTok like “the motivations of assassins don’t make sense anymore” but boy have they never.

Hinkley shot Reagan to impress Jodi Foster. Oswald was such a complete mess people just assume the CIA did it. Guiteau killed Garfield because no one would make him an ambassador.
September 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
frafont.bsky.social
If you see this, I implore you to post an image from your device without context.
July 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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pythonmaps.bsky.social
Few people realise the scale of the Himalayas because static maps are a bad way to convey topography. Fortunately, we can use interactive maps to explore topography. Here is an example using Pyvista.
July 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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chronicleflask.katday.com
This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice
Screenshot: No room for wokeness! @Wokenessisevil Notice how no one, not a single soul, has ever complained about the female gaze in entertainment. [photos show Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Alan Ritchson (Reacher) with ripped muscles]
July 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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draglikepull.bsky.social
Excellent article on how the US is starting to weaponise its control over critical financial and technological systems against its own allies. Contains a good explanation of the sanctions stuff I've been talking about lately. www.wired.com/story/enshit...
Infrastructure tends to be invisible until it starts being used against you. Back in 2020, the United States imposed sanctions on Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, for repressing democracy protests on China’s behalf. All at once, Lam became uniquely acquainted with the power of the dollar clearing system—a layer of the world’s financial machinery that most people have never heard of. Here’s how it works: Global banks convert currencies to and from US dollars so their customers can sell goods internationally. When a Japanese firm sells semiconductors to a tech company in Mexico, they’ll likely conduct the transaction in dollars—because they want a universal currency that can quickly be used with other trading partners. So these firms may directly ask for payment in dollars, or else their banks may turn pesos into dollars and then use those dollars to buy yen, shuffling money through accounts in US-regulated banks like Citibank or J.P. Morgan, which “clear” the transaction. So dollar clearing is an expedient. It’s also the chief enforcement mechanism of US financial policy across the globe. If foreign banks don’t implement US financial sanctions and other measures, they risk losing access to US dollar clearing and going under. This threat is so existentially dire that, when Lam was placed under US sanctions, even Chinese banks refused to have anything to do with her. She had to keep piles of cash scattered around her mansion to pay her bills.
July 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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bleuchz.bsky.social
Lou is writing an angry fax to Darche as we speak.
notnyislanders.bsky.social New York Islanders @notnyislanders.bsky.social · Jul 16
Clutterbuck joins fellow #Isles interns in our IslesU Summer Program!

His assignment? The Islanders 2025-26 Schedule Release. 😎

Check out the full schedule now: bit.ly/4nIWvwW
July 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
If you don’t understand how anything works, everything is a conspiracy.
July 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
it is hard to fully appreciate just how incredibly *dumb* America’s Troubles will be.

Our Years of Lead Paint.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jul 10
An “anti-government militia” is “targeting Oklahoma weather radars, days after a man vandalized News 9’s weather radar

Meteorologists are trying to explain that weather radars do not control the weather
'Anti-government militia' says it’s targeting Oklahoma weather radars
An “anti-government militia” called ‘Veterans on Patrol’ told News 9 on Tuesday that it is “targeting” Oklahoma weather radars, days after an individual vandalized News 9’s weather radar.
www.news9.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
One of the things that *actually*, *truly* makes America great is NASA. And Trump has slit its throat.
July 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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petbugs13.bsky.social
well it's obvious there was no intelligence involved in the decision
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Jun 22
Host: Are you saying the US did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization?

Rubio: That’s irrelevant

Host: No, that's a key point

Rubio: No it’s not… Forget about intelligence
June 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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katebevan.com
Sci-fi view of The Future: We'll all have flying cars and holidaying on Mars! Disease will be fixed with a quick blast from a Star Trek thingy!

The Actual Future:
robmesure.bsky.social 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · May 29
I have been logged out of my toothbrush.
An Oral-B login screen.
May 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Once again, @xkcd.com got it right.
XKCD 2-panel comic. Panel 1: "A crypto nerd's imagination:" Character 1: "His laptop's encrypted. Let's build a million-dollar cluster to crack it." Character 2: "No good! It's 4096-bit RSA." Character 1: "Blast! Our evil plan is foiled!" Panel 2: "What would actually happen:" Character 1: "His laptop's encrypted. Drug him and hit him with this $5 wrench until he tells us the password." Character 2: "Got it."
May 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.
Headline from the independent: Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the 'great late' Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address Headline from the New York Times: Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era
May 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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emsetc.bsky.social
There's a great investigative piece - or book! - to be written about who is actually governing in this administration. Who writes the EOs, who decides when they go to Trump, etc. This is a reality TV show masquerading as a presidency.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 23
"Is that it?" -- Trump did that thing again today where he signs a bunch of executive orders but doesn't seem to know what he's signing and needs to have it explained to him
May 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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jamellebouie.net
so who do we think trump is manipulating the market for today?
May 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
The Republican administration is also ordering all current international students (and postdocs, I believe) at Harvard to transfer or leave the country.

www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...
WASHINGTON – Today, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered DHS to terminate the Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification. This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status.
May 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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propublica.org
NEW: More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides made well-timed trades since Trump took office, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war.
More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging
Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the ma...
www.propublica.org
May 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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cultureoflosing.bsky.social
Definitely can't wait to see how the guy who failed miserably for 11 years leading a team with all of the money, resources, cache and power in the sport handles running... the fucking Islanders. I'm sure it'll go very smoothly.
May 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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cultureoflosing.bsky.social
As I detailed on the latest episode of Islanders Anxiety... I've hated this douche ever since he whined his way out of Hartford. Not really feeling this.

www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/...
Maple Leafs grant Islanders permission to speak to Brendan Shanahan
The New York Islanders have been granted permission to speak to Toronto Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan about an opening in their front office, Sportsnet can confirm.
www.sportsnet.ca
May 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
"The bare minimum will reach the population - simply so the world doesn't stop us and accuse us of war crimes."

www.bbc.com/news/live/cq...
BBC News: IDF is destroying everything that remains of Gaza, far-right Israeli minister says published at 07:19 07:19 Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends an inauguration event for Israel's new light rail line for the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, in Petah Tikva, Israel, August 17, 2023. Image source,Reuters We can now bring you some lines from a press conference held this morning by Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. He says the little amount of food entering the Strip will not reach Hamas: "The bare minimum will reach the population - simply so the world doesn't stop us and accuse us of war crimes." "What will enter in the coming days is very little: a few bakeries distributing pita bread to people, and public kitchens providing one daily serving of cooked food." Civilians, he says, will receive one pita and a plate of food - "that's it". He adds that Israel's military is "destroying everything that remains of the Strip", describing the territory as "one big terror city". He says civilians will be moved out of combat zones as the army leaves "no stone unturned". "The population will reach the south of the Strip, and from there, with God’s help, to third countries," he says. As we've been reporting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will take control of all of Gaza.
May 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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thedailybeast.bsky.social
Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office announced Sunday.
Joe Biden Diagnosed With ‘Aggressive’ and Spreading Cancer
The former president, 82, was diagnosed last week after experiencing “increasing urinary symptoms.”
www.thedailybeast.com
May 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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geohenning.bsky.social
On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher got up early to get some photos at Spirit Lake. Instead, he was forced to stop because of the massive, explosive Mount St. Helens eruption and captured this iconic photo with his own red Ford Pinto on the road. 🧪⚒️ #OTD

www.hemmings.com/stories/mt-s...
Photo by Richard Lasher. Horizontal and vintage photo of a road in a mountain forest. Red car with a motorbike on the road. In the distance a huge ash cloud from the eruption of Mt St. Helens on May 18th, 1980.
May 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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marygillis.bsky.social
NORTHERN LIGHTS: Take my picture! Please! I don't look great now but the photos will be spectacular, bursts of green and pink! Take as many photos as you can!
THE MOON: Do not take my photo, if you little apes dare to photograph me I will be so tiny, I swear to god I will make myself so goddamn tiny
May 11, 2024 at 4:18 PM