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Cargo Occultist @whisk.bsky.social · Jun 14
With blank stares, they feast upon their neighbour. They will learn, too late, that Busytown demands their blood. The wheel must turn.
A barbecue event in Busytown. The pig firefighters can’t wait to eat those delicious sausages.
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abomination.computer
that’s absolutely right Alex 🗣️🗣️🗣️
you shouldn’t rake the leaves in your yard. the leaves act as habitats for beneficial insects and break down into nutrients that strengthen the soil
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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elsplice.bsky.social
whappin' time
cartoon of a plump black bird with long neck, tiny head, holding a big hammer
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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hillarymonahan.bsky.social
An illustration of a man holding a knife against a creature of roots and trees. Caption: when you find a year old potato in the farthest corner of your pantry The man says HOLY SHIT
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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thehyyyype.bsky.social
Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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sifu.tweety.fish
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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cethanleahy.com
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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michaelwarburton.bsky.social
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy
[uspol]

This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave […]
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woof.group
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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opinionhaver.bsky.social
emotive butlerian jihad now: the machine may not wear a human face.
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18d
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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perryodontal.bsky.social
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
Some fool tried to tell me how steel wool is made, like in a factory or something. Everybody knows you get steel wool from these sheep
An entire unit of sheep, a huge stocky linebacker of a sheep, a sheep that's looks like it was bred in the caverns of Orthanc, like if you asked this sheep whom does it serve it would say Saruman, like it's so wide and thick it's head looks like a completely different animal. This sheep could kill you if it felt like it
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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thetyee.ca
The United Conservative Party government recently awarded a $95-million settlement to the Australian mining firm Montem Resources.

About a third of that settlement will go to an investment firm in Melbourne. The same firm that funded Montem’s lawsuit against Alberta.

Andrew Nikiforuk writes.
Alberta’s Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners | The Tyee
Two firms that invested far less are getting $235 million. Taxpayers face more such hits.
thetyee.ca
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)
Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are (animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them, and I think most of my readers are too. Technology is the active human interface with the material world. But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources. This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any meaningful sense. We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe... One way to illustrate that most technologies are, in fact, pretty “hi,” is to ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one?
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
In 1911, Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt was diagnosed with cataracts, where lenses in the eye become clouded with protein deposits as we age.

A failed cataract surgery left her essentially blind. Her last painting was 1914.

Claude Monet was diagnosed with cataracts in 1912...
An impressionistic painting of some water lillies in a pond in a garden. It's surrealistic but also realistic at the same time, little puffs of green with vague flowers, and the reflections of the unseen garden on the surface of the water. "Claude Monet - Water Lilies - 1933.1157 - Art Institute of Chicago"
October 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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sfbaybees.bsky.social
Ever see a complete bee grooming routine up close? I’m not saying this Agapostemon subtilior female and I are heroes, but we are here to help. Enjoy this quality motion picture, complete with PG&E construction noises for that true California flavor. [Alameda, CA 10-27-25] #bees #nativebees
October 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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sonnyross.bsky.social
Hello, I'm about to go on parental leave.
Please enjoy this reissued print, now in A3 size, edition of 50.
www.sonnyross.com/shop/shutupa3
#illustration #medieval
An Illustration showing a dragon being slain in a naive medieval style with the caption "SHUT UP". Could be about anyone.
October 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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babyshoes4cash.com
press F to poaljxy reopseot
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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pantspants.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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fukuda-toru.bsky.social
新作完成しました！
August 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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utopia-defer.red
when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign
A young boy holds a sign that simply states in plain handwriting: Trump hit on my girlfriend
October 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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wafflecut.bsky.social
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024 INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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bft.wtf
Resisting fascism by writing strongly worded letters to the editor of Der Sturmer (posting on X)
October 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
whisk.bsky.social
one of the fallacies of distributed computing: "there is one administrator." an administrator can fail to heed safety-critical elevator advice, briefly becoming multiple administrators. (this is known as a split-Brian condition.)
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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niedermeyer.online
in the annals of silicon valley startup pivots, "ok, fine, you can fuck the superintelligence" is one of the very funniest
October 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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kennwhite.bsky.social
The Wired piece by @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social on this just dropped, and the research by Heninger et al is stunning:
“sensitive [sat] traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, corp, gov't, and…private citizens’ voice calls & SMS". 🧵
matthewdgreen.bsky.social Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · Oct 14
This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
🛰️ SATCOM Security
Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.
satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
October 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM