Tau
@taustopheles.bsky.social
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
December 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Any candidates promising to bring back thinkgeek?
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Any candidates promising to bring back thinkgeek?
On behalf of all NYC nerd x outdoor enthusiasts---we object
REI to close three stores, including NYC SoHo location
SEATTLE (BRAIN) — A week after announcing a strategic plan to employees that would involve difficult decisions to grow sales, REI Co-op said it will close three stores next year, including the New Yor...
www.bicycleretailer.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
On behalf of all NYC nerd x outdoor enthusiasts---we object
Our. Precious. Little. Packages! 📦
increasingly convinced preventing americans from getting their little packages is the thing that will take this government down
How bad are tariffs going?
I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business.
UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me.
That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯
I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business.
UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me.
That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯
October 4, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Our. Precious. Little. Packages! 📦
Of all the parenting lines, never thought "I'm an adult, I'm allowed to use L'Hôpital's rule" was going to be one of them
October 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Of all the parenting lines, never thought "I'm an adult, I'm allowed to use L'Hôpital's rule" was going to be one of them
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Happy Lehman Day to those who celebrate
September 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Happy Lehman Day to those who celebrate
Margaret Hamilton lived to see this :/
It's full steam ahead for NASA, according to Sean Duffy, the agency's acting administrator. During an internal employee town hall, Duffy warned of "letting safety be the enemy of progress" when it comes to winning the space race, according to a recording obtained by NBC News.
Interim NASA head tells agency that it will beat China back to the moon
Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy also told agency employees not to let "safety be the enemy of progress."
nbcnews.to
September 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Margaret Hamilton lived to see this :/
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Boy, that deescalated quickly. #Invest91L
September 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Boy, that deescalated quickly. #Invest91L
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This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
August 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
Always good to see logical formal proof for what is intuitive. Thank you, Professor
www.cs.columbia.edu
August 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Always good to see logical formal proof for what is intuitive. Thank you, Professor
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getting my microplastics removed
August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
getting my microplastics removed
Someone thought @shteyngart.bsky.social wrote an instructions manual...
FFS, can we please not make the 3/5 clause great again?
Sen. Hagerty on his legal rationale for not counting undocumented immigrants in the census: "There's a constitutional interpretation I think that has been misapplied that goes back to slavery days and what portion of a person is going to be counted."
August 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Someone thought @shteyngart.bsky.social wrote an instructions manual...
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August 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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I came here to kick ass AND chew bubble gum
And I’m all out of gum
Therefore it is impossible to kick ass AND chew bubble gum
I should have come to kick ass XOR chew bubble gum
And I’m all out of gum
Therefore it is impossible to kick ass AND chew bubble gum
I should have come to kick ass XOR chew bubble gum
August 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I came here to kick ass AND chew bubble gum
And I’m all out of gum
Therefore it is impossible to kick ass AND chew bubble gum
I should have come to kick ass XOR chew bubble gum
And I’m all out of gum
Therefore it is impossible to kick ass AND chew bubble gum
I should have come to kick ass XOR chew bubble gum
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Smoke from wildfires in Canada wrap around the circulation of Tropical Storm Dexter as it moves farther out over the North Atlantic Ocean.
August 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Smoke from wildfires in Canada wrap around the circulation of Tropical Storm Dexter as it moves farther out over the North Atlantic Ocean.
We KNEW it!
Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up
SYDNEY—Saying the ruse began as a harmless prank about the continent’s mammals having pouches, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese admitted Tuesday that all those animals like wallabies, numbat...
theonion.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We KNEW it!
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What the F are we doing, people????
August 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What the F are we doing, people????
Yey, another mini-quake: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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earthquake.usgs.gov
August 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Yey, another mini-quake: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
I feel bad for other countries' intelligence services who don't know how to report that "the president of the USA is on the roof of the White House" and be taken seriously
August 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I feel bad for other countries' intelligence services who don't know how to report that "the president of the USA is on the roof of the White House" and be taken seriously
Paging Brendan Fraser
Strong new evidence suggests that liquid metal from the center of the Earth is making its way up to the planet’s surface, potentially ferried through two monster-size blobs sitting at the core-mantle boundary. @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/earths-core-...
Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface | Quanta Magazine
Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Paging Brendan Fraser
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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
Why didn't anyone tell me that NYPL literally has book dungeons?
The New York Public Library's Milstein Research Stacks | The New York Public Library
Every day, visitors relax and delight in Bryant Park, the beautiful public park behind the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. To the surprise of many, there is an unexpected, massive trove hidden beneath...
www.nypl.org
July 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Why didn't anyone tell me that NYPL literally has book dungeons?
10/10, no notes
This Epstein story doesn’t add up. For one thing, why didn’t he fall through a window of Trump Tower?
by Vladimir Putin
by Vladimir Putin
July 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
10/10, no notes
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Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
July 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
Warum??? To be replaced by what? Derived computed data isn't useless, but getting rid of a primary source is reducing possible quality, for no purpose
A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️
Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated
U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts
michaelrlowry.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Warum??? To be replaced by what? Derived computed data isn't useless, but getting rid of a primary source is reducing possible quality, for no purpose