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Five Golden Rings
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· Nov 19
Update for quiltsky: here’s the skull quilt with the double border (3/4 inch black border, 1/4 inch multicolor). I will hand stitch the binding to the back this week. I can’t wait to show you the back!
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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Hey y’all for those that missed it, my company’s death spiral is spiraling faster than I’d hoped. I lose health insurance on New Years, and need some $$$ for contacts/glasses before I lose it, so I’ve got a bit of a time crunch for some of this now gofund.me/c424c5446
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Donate to Tools for Sluggo's Career Revival, organized by Eli Burton
Hey folks I’m Sluggo and once again I must change careers. After a back injury put me out… Eli Burton needs your support for Tools for Sluggo's Career Revival
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December 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hey y’all for those that missed it, my company’s death spiral is spiraling faster than I’d hoped. I lose health insurance on New Years, and need some $$$ for contacts/glasses before I lose it, so I’ve got a bit of a time crunch for some of this now gofund.me/c424c5446
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Controversially, I don't think that if social media had existed that Montgomery could have lasted as long as it did. Bad actors and human nature would have spread negativity, trafficked in gossip, and torn down the leaders in ways that they could not do in 1955/56.
December 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Controversially, I don't think that if social media had existed that Montgomery could have lasted as long as it did. Bad actors and human nature would have spread negativity, trafficked in gossip, and torn down the leaders in ways that they could not do in 1955/56.
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A red grouse (Lagopus scotica) I encountered in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh last summer, demonstrating its very human-like alarm call. He seemed extremely cross that I'd had the audacity to ride my mountain bike across his patch and chased me along the trail for quite some distance.
December 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A red grouse (Lagopus scotica) I encountered in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh last summer, demonstrating its very human-like alarm call. He seemed extremely cross that I'd had the audacity to ride my mountain bike across his patch and chased me along the trail for quite some distance.
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what a great sentence to begin my sunday by reading
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
what a great sentence to begin my sunday by reading
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“Landlords may say ‘smart home’ devices are a tenant convenience. But the reality is, these AI-enabled systems can track patterns of tenant behavior, identify when people are home, and provide landlords with personal information that could be used to push out tenants perceived as too costly.”
ACLU Sues San Francisco Landlords over AI-Powered Surveillance in Tenants' Homes | ACLU of Northern CA
www.aclunc.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“Landlords may say ‘smart home’ devices are a tenant convenience. But the reality is, these AI-enabled systems can track patterns of tenant behavior, identify when people are home, and provide landlords with personal information that could be used to push out tenants perceived as too costly.”
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One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
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Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
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If you're planning a workplace holiday party this is your sign to triple-check that everything served is properly labeled, friend just had to do an epi-pen
December 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
If you're planning a workplace holiday party this is your sign to triple-check that everything served is properly labeled, friend just had to do an epi-pen
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Hey I’m in a really really bad spot and need help
Please send tips
I don’t want my car insurance and Internet to get shut off
I don’t wanna keep going without food
Please send tips or share my work. All my work is free. I am trans and independent and tip supported
Please send tips
I don’t want my car insurance and Internet to get shut off
I don’t wanna keep going without food
Please send tips or share my work. All my work is free. I am trans and independent and tip supported
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Hey I’m in a really really bad spot and need help
Please send tips
I don’t want my car insurance and Internet to get shut off
I don’t wanna keep going without food
Please send tips or share my work. All my work is free. I am trans and independent and tip supported
Please send tips
I don’t want my car insurance and Internet to get shut off
I don’t wanna keep going without food
Please send tips or share my work. All my work is free. I am trans and independent and tip supported
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Seeing Weird Al do Killing in the Name was great but I’m gonna need to hear Zack de la Rocha’s take on Eat It to see who is better
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Seeing Weird Al do Killing in the Name was great but I’m gonna need to hear Zack de la Rocha’s take on Eat It to see who is better
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You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
It is *always* projection.
I PROMISE you...
people like this guy, specifically, when they do public performative sadism like this?
This guy has incredibly bad/dark shit in his closet.
The kind of stuff that one might be publicly hanged for.
people like this guy, specifically, when they do public performative sadism like this?
This guy has incredibly bad/dark shit in his closet.
The kind of stuff that one might be publicly hanged for.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It is *always* projection.
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I PROMISE you...
people like this guy, specifically, when they do public performative sadism like this?
This guy has incredibly bad/dark shit in his closet.
The kind of stuff that one might be publicly hanged for.
people like this guy, specifically, when they do public performative sadism like this?
This guy has incredibly bad/dark shit in his closet.
The kind of stuff that one might be publicly hanged for.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I PROMISE you...
people like this guy, specifically, when they do public performative sadism like this?
This guy has incredibly bad/dark shit in his closet.
The kind of stuff that one might be publicly hanged for.
people like this guy, specifically, when they do public performative sadism like this?
This guy has incredibly bad/dark shit in his closet.
The kind of stuff that one might be publicly hanged for.
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What Cat's describing here is very real, and anyone who runs a software org feels it. We're beholden to velocity metrics almost exclusively, but software orgs that run flat out will ALWAYS lose velocity over time, because software is multi-disciplinary and you need to ingest new information & skills
Learning culture moderates how software organizations adopt tools and the implicit rules we're giving developers want what they can do, experiment with, push back on, and share.
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
What Cat's describing here is very real, and anyone who runs a software org feels it. We're beholden to velocity metrics almost exclusively, but software orgs that run flat out will ALWAYS lose velocity over time, because software is multi-disciplinary and you need to ingest new information & skills
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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
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please boost so everyone can see my adorable man
This is what it looks like when you're a cat and the vet shaves your tummy for an ultrasound
December 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
please boost so everyone can see my adorable man
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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
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This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.
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Rem needs $500 to be able to attend their fathers funeral
This is extremely time sensitive, every dollar helps
Please ↻💬♡
Nobody should have to be mourning a parents death and worrying about not even being there for the funeral
bsky.app/profile/mama...
This is extremely time sensitive, every dollar helps
Please ↻💬♡
Nobody should have to be mourning a parents death and worrying about not even being there for the funeral
bsky.app/profile/mama...
ko-fi.com/mamaremedy/g...
I've slept now after making a lot of the requisite calls. As I mentioned, my father passed away in Pennsylvania yesterday from a combination of aggressive cancer and CPOD, unexpectedly quickly. We'd only received the diagnosis of cancer a couple weeks ago.--
I've slept now after making a lot of the requisite calls. As I mentioned, my father passed away in Pennsylvania yesterday from a combination of aggressive cancer and CPOD, unexpectedly quickly. We'd only received the diagnosis of cancer a couple weeks ago.--
Support Mama Remedy
Support Mama Remedy
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December 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Rem needs $500 to be able to attend their fathers funeral
This is extremely time sensitive, every dollar helps
Please ↻💬♡
Nobody should have to be mourning a parents death and worrying about not even being there for the funeral
bsky.app/profile/mama...
This is extremely time sensitive, every dollar helps
Please ↻💬♡
Nobody should have to be mourning a parents death and worrying about not even being there for the funeral
bsky.app/profile/mama...
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We could have eliminated Hepatitis B infection in the US…
…instead we are going to let newborn babies risk 90% chance of chronic infection that cause liver failure and cancer so that a few incredibly stupid adults - who are all vaccinated btw - can force their selfish science denial on other people
…instead we are going to let newborn babies risk 90% chance of chronic infection that cause liver failure and cancer so that a few incredibly stupid adults - who are all vaccinated btw - can force their selfish science denial on other people
This is an excellent read. The more you know. #Science 🧪
“… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”
“… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says
A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
www.nature.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
We could have eliminated Hepatitis B infection in the US…
…instead we are going to let newborn babies risk 90% chance of chronic infection that cause liver failure and cancer so that a few incredibly stupid adults - who are all vaccinated btw - can force their selfish science denial on other people
…instead we are going to let newborn babies risk 90% chance of chronic infection that cause liver failure and cancer so that a few incredibly stupid adults - who are all vaccinated btw - can force their selfish science denial on other people
Going to try to nap after I try to drown my sinuses in saline solution. Wish me luck.
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Going to try to nap after I try to drown my sinuses in saline solution. Wish me luck.
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$120/2000
Thank you everybody!! 🙏💚💚
If we can get $500 in a chunk, I can lower this goal to $1500 total, so please keep boosting and sharing- new eyes help!!
Thank you everybody!! 🙏💚💚
If we can get $500 in a chunk, I can lower this goal to $1500 total, so please keep boosting and sharing- new eyes help!!
Hello again.
We didn't make November's goal, so I'm afraid I still need the same goal in December. Heating fuel, bills, feed, and groceries, still. I'm sorry I have to ask.
Still an immediate $500 goal, and $2000 for the month. Apologies.
Venmo, cashapp, Paypal:
BurdockAndBramble
We didn't make November's goal, so I'm afraid I still need the same goal in December. Heating fuel, bills, feed, and groceries, still. I'm sorry I have to ask.
Still an immediate $500 goal, and $2000 for the month. Apologies.
Venmo, cashapp, Paypal:
BurdockAndBramble
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
$120/2000
Thank you everybody!! 🙏💚💚
If we can get $500 in a chunk, I can lower this goal to $1500 total, so please keep boosting and sharing- new eyes help!!
Thank you everybody!! 🙏💚💚
If we can get $500 in a chunk, I can lower this goal to $1500 total, so please keep boosting and sharing- new eyes help!!
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We restored the zip ties on baby Jesus. The #Christmas story is literally about an authoritarian ruler using violence, causing fear, and eventually driving the holy family to become refugees in Egypt. The parallels couldn't be more clear between scripture and our nativity. We're not going anywhere.
December 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We restored the zip ties on baby Jesus. The #Christmas story is literally about an authoritarian ruler using violence, causing fear, and eventually driving the holy family to become refugees in Egypt. The parallels couldn't be more clear between scripture and our nativity. We're not going anywhere.