FyrDrakken
@fyrdrakken.bsky.social
I'm into knitting, cats, reading, sci-fi/fantasy, history, archaeology, healthcare, politics, tea, gardening. Deleted my Twitter a few weeks after the Muskrat bought it and went cold turkey on social media for a year or two. She/her.
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The Fitzgerald: nobody knows exactly why it sank
the Montgomery: we know exactly why and we know exactly how dangerous it is but every attempt to make it slightly less dangerous simply reveals a New and Exciting Danger that prevents access
the Montgomery: we know exactly why and we know exactly how dangerous it is but every attempt to make it slightly less dangerous simply reveals a New and Exciting Danger that prevents access
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Fitzgerald: nobody knows exactly why it sank
the Montgomery: we know exactly why and we know exactly how dangerous it is but every attempt to make it slightly less dangerous simply reveals a New and Exciting Danger that prevents access
the Montgomery: we know exactly why and we know exactly how dangerous it is but every attempt to make it slightly less dangerous simply reveals a New and Exciting Danger that prevents access
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November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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this is true, he did attempt that. And granted that's very stupid but on the other hand, we did build an airport on the Isle of Dogs and in 2018 they found a 500lb UXB right next to it in the river. that was a fun day to be living in Woolwich Arsenal
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Let's not forget that Boris Johnson wanted to build an airport on top of it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
this is true, he did attempt that. And granted that's very stupid but on the other hand, we did build an airport on the Isle of Dogs and in 2018 they found a 500lb UXB right next to it in the river. that was a fun day to be living in Woolwich Arsenal
bsky.app/profile/gari...
bsky.app/profile/gari...
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Your daily fortune:
Adventure might be waiting around every corner, but so may an octopus with knives.
Adventure might be waiting around every corner, but so may an octopus with knives.
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Your daily fortune:
Adventure might be waiting around every corner, but so may an octopus with knives.
Adventure might be waiting around every corner, but so may an octopus with knives.
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This is brilliant
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This is brilliant
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery?
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery?
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
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181.
Challenge: choose cool cover versions of great songs. Only one per day, if not every day, for as long as one can.
No explanations. No reviews
youtu.be/Y8LBkYjniTU?...
Challenge: choose cool cover versions of great songs. Only one per day, if not every day, for as long as one can.
No explanations. No reviews
youtu.be/Y8LBkYjniTU?...
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
181.
Challenge: choose cool cover versions of great songs. Only one per day, if not every day, for as long as one can.
No explanations. No reviews
youtu.be/Y8LBkYjniTU?...
Challenge: choose cool cover versions of great songs. Only one per day, if not every day, for as long as one can.
No explanations. No reviews
youtu.be/Y8LBkYjniTU?...
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Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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And there it is...
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
And there it is...
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X-rays were discovered on this day November 8 in 1895, by physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, allowing us to see inside the human body.
🧶 This free knitting pattern for X-Ray Mittens or Gloves designed by Marjukka Vuorisalo is on my fun handwear post
intheloopknitting.com/fun-mitten-a...
🧶 This free knitting pattern for X-Ray Mittens or Gloves designed by Marjukka Vuorisalo is on my fun handwear post
intheloopknitting.com/fun-mitten-a...
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
X-rays were discovered on this day November 8 in 1895, by physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, allowing us to see inside the human body.
🧶 This free knitting pattern for X-Ray Mittens or Gloves designed by Marjukka Vuorisalo is on my fun handwear post
intheloopknitting.com/fun-mitten-a...
🧶 This free knitting pattern for X-Ray Mittens or Gloves designed by Marjukka Vuorisalo is on my fun handwear post
intheloopknitting.com/fun-mitten-a...
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Abolish ICE is the conservative position. Jail huge numbers of administration figures is the moderate. If they keep pushing war crimes, starvation, kidnappings, and secret police brutality, we head towards the Terror. I'd rather not.
“Abolish ice” at this point is the conservative position.
Everyone involved in the administration at any level is going to have to be tried for crimes against humanity and dealt with accordingly.
This isn’t going away with elections and we certainly cannot “come together” after this.
Everyone involved in the administration at any level is going to have to be tried for crimes against humanity and dealt with accordingly.
This isn’t going away with elections and we certainly cannot “come together” after this.
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Abolish ICE is the conservative position. Jail huge numbers of administration figures is the moderate. If they keep pushing war crimes, starvation, kidnappings, and secret police brutality, we head towards the Terror. I'd rather not.
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don't remember if I've mentioned this before. tell anyone you see using Google to do this.
hiding "actually do what I asked" is another expression of the paternalistic techbro mindset that gives you "yes" or "not now" options for an unwanted new feature or only lets you hide something "for a while"
hiding "actually do what I asked" is another expression of the paternalistic techbro mindset that gives you "yes" or "not now" options for an unwanted new feature or only lets you hide something "for a while"
This is in no way apologism for Google but click Search Tools and select "Verbatim". It makes it work how you expect
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
don't remember if I've mentioned this before. tell anyone you see using Google to do this.
hiding "actually do what I asked" is another expression of the paternalistic techbro mindset that gives you "yes" or "not now" options for an unwanted new feature or only lets you hide something "for a while"
hiding "actually do what I asked" is another expression of the paternalistic techbro mindset that gives you "yes" or "not now" options for an unwanted new feature or only lets you hide something "for a while"
#ShowMeYourKnits This mitten has been in limbo since about March, waiting for me to be back in the mood to finish it. The line of neon green is the row of waste yarn where I'll unpick those stitches to open it up into a fliptop mitten. The colorwork is lifted from the pattern of the Vail sweater. 🧶
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
#ShowMeYourKnits This mitten has been in limbo since about March, waiting for me to be back in the mood to finish it. The line of neon green is the row of waste yarn where I'll unpick those stitches to open it up into a fliptop mitten. The colorwork is lifted from the pattern of the Vail sweater. 🧶
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One thing that kind of got missed in that oval office health announcement debacle yesterday is that they were saying they were decreasing the cost of ozempic so Americans could lose weight and be healthier and then the guy from ozempic turned grey and collapsed
November 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
One thing that kind of got missed in that oval office health announcement debacle yesterday is that they were saying they were decreasing the cost of ozempic so Americans could lose weight and be healthier and then the guy from ozempic turned grey and collapsed
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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The only people gung ho about AI are AI companies, Republicans, and the tech press. Should tell you all you need to know about how worthless it is. The reason you think AI is popular or inevitable is because the press says so. It isn't true. They made a bad bet and are trying to force you to eat it
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The only people gung ho about AI are AI companies, Republicans, and the tech press. Should tell you all you need to know about how worthless it is. The reason you think AI is popular or inevitable is because the press says so. It isn't true. They made a bad bet and are trying to force you to eat it
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Not now, carnivorous death ball
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Not now, carnivorous death ball
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Every now and then, my "hit the button enough times and something good will happen" approach to photography pays off.
November 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Every now and then, my "hit the button enough times and something good will happen" approach to photography pays off.