The Importance of Being
genpdx.bsky.social
The Importance of Being
@genpdx.bsky.social
Developer living in PNW. Gen-X, he/him

Go Pats, Go Sawx, Go Beavs
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To the contrary, the laws of thermodynamics are one of the most serious real-world constraints on AI.
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Korea is flexing here with this highly artistic floating solar farm, newly commissioned days ago.

47.2 MW of capacity located near the 50 MW Imha hydroelectric dam. The modules are arranged into the shape of Korea’s flag and the Mugunghwa, Korea’s national flower.
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.

Listen in ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Drake Maye’s crushed blitzes all year, but when teams get pressure without sending extra rushers, the numbers change fast.

@brykno.bsky.social breaks down why four-man pressure is the real test for Maye against Tampa Bay 👇

ftnfantasy.com/nfl/why-you-...
Why You Have to Pressure Drake Maye with Four Pass Rushers
We go inside StatsHub to show how Drake Maye excels against the blitz but crumbles if you can pressure him with four.
ftnfantasy.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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I don’t believe being an NFL fan means selling your soul, or even being a hypocrite. But we should probably at least not ignore that it’s adjacent.

My first for The Deep Shot:

www.thedeepshot.com/2025/10/27/e...
Everyone Is Someone's Baby
That guy is a beast. That guy is a monster. As he scores his first touchdown of the day, lowering his head and smashing his body like a weapon through other men, a few million
www.thedeepshot.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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And then one day Hooray!

The Gnome - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
October 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Celebrating the return of fall with “horse lunch” in which I get three apples at the produce store and walk around in the sun eating them
September 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Dudes rock
Carter Arey knew he couldn’t make a 45-yard field goal to win the $25,000 prize.

So the lifelong Missouri fan picked a different target.

“All I wanted to do was kick the ball as hard as I could at the Kansas football players."
September 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Cucumber picker. Imagine a tractor with wings. Each wing had 3 twin mattresses and you lay face down tossing the cukes into a basket suspended in front of you.

I was 12 and made $3.65/hr.
September 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Make it 6
Roman Anthony had 5 3-ball counts tonight.
August 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Roman Anthony had 5 3-ball counts tonight.
August 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall
August 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The most electric baseball video of the year comes to us via the college summer league PORTLAND PICKLES, who tagged in an ostensibly random fan for an at-bat on fan appreciation night and he immediately hit a tater. Elite pxp call too
August 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Guy next door is ripping gutters off the house and singing horribly off key to each one as it clangs to the ground:

🎶Closing Time, you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here🎶

🎶So long, farewell, Auf Wiederseh'n, adieu🎶
August 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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neal.fun/deep-sea/
Have a good night
The Deep Sea
Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.
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July 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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one trick to enjoying cooking is to first learn how to make just one dish really well tbh it can be as simple as u like but the confidence u can gain will inspire u
July 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Way to break out Romy Gonzalez!
July 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Calling the marines to drone strike Glonzo
It’s hard to find a trend in the electricity system right now that *doesn’t* point to near-term rate hikes if not a broad affordability crisis. That’s a serious problem for climate policy, but also the American economy writ large. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/ele...
July 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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3D Pinball: Space Cadet for Windows XP
February 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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One thing that keeps me up these days: how is the next party in power supposed to govern? The GOP has signaled it will not always be bound by laws or international agreements it disagrees with. It’s not absolute — they blew up part of reconciliation, but not all; ignore some court orders, etc. (1/7)
July 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
DH batted ninth today. Is that good?
Craig Breslow: “…this is in no way waving the white flag in 2025”

🤔
June 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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June 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM