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 Ars Technica wrote the following post Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:30:07 -0800 […]

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 Teppic wrote the following post Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:05:14 -0800

**Something fishy**
This is me, 15 years ago. I have always had an interest in wildlife. Also, the aquarium light was warm.

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 Ingalls Weather wrote the following post Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:39:10 -0800

## How Tillamook cheese creates snow in Oregon

When most people in the Pacific Northwest think of Tillamook cheese being made, they think of the cheese factory that is […]

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E-mail shows the right way to use alt text on images:

I suppose a lot of people will be infuriated by this. But maybe it's a good idea. Sell high-speed access to the AI companies, take some strain off the free access that the rest of us use.

 Ars Technica wrote the following post Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:27:42 […]

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_Bacillus tropicus_ , first identified in 2017, seems to be the cause of anthrax infections found in welders and metalworkers. Why?

 Ars Technica wrote the following post Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:37:59 -0800

Anthrax nearly kills healthy 18-year-old welder […]

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Should I be concerned if my financial institution doesn't know what year this is?

Today it's Fediverse screenshots of X posts, but this classic advice is still just as valid as when it was written.

No Cloudflare, it's football time. Or, another reason why centralization is bad for communication.

This reminds me of why I want a site with no domain name and no HTTPS and no Cloudflare, AWS, etc.

 Luzzy :verified_trans: wrote the following post Sun, 14 […]

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See, if they just stretched the roundabout, they wouldn't have this problem anymore.

Again.

 Rihards Olups wrote the following post Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:50:41 -0800

@maco@wandering.shop @walfischbucht@norden.social @tomasekeli@plud.re @eivind@fribygda.no The setting looks different.
Might indeed be «again» :)

Oops.

 Eivind (like the Terrible) 🦃 wrote the following post Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:45:27 -0800

Four bendy buses managed to enter a roundabout at the exact same time from four different directions in Oslo yesterday afternoon and get properly stuck, each bus […]

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Here's a large moth that visited our doorframe this morning. Looks like the common White-Lined Sphinx Moth, _Hyles lineata_.

Finally, a useful application for blockchains!

 Ars Technica wrote the following post Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:45:12 -0700

Hackers’ “bullet-proof” hosts deliver malware from blockchains
Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to […]

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A stubborn Portulaca seed escaped from our flowerpot, and is attempting civic beautification at the end of our driveway.

Cola dissolves anything.

 Ars Technica wrote the following post Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:04:43 -0700

Woman hospitalized with pain and vomiting—diet soda cured her
Doctor's dissolve mass in woman's stomach by getting her to chug soda […]

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I mean, this has been tried before, and the world almost ended.

Well, that idea has been shot down by the pro-trans NRA. Every day in the US is more surreal than the last.



Source: x.com/NRA/status/1963993115410198964

Well, that didn't last long. I guess it's hard to stay in a medical science position in the US government if you believe in medical science.

 Ars Technica wrote the following post Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:26:05 -0700

Report: CDC director being ousted just […]

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CW <a href="/hashtag/%E2%9A%A0%EF%B8%8F" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#⚠️ : #USPol <a href="/hashtag/USPolitics" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#USPolitics <a href="/hashtag/DSA" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#DSA <a href="/hashtag/OnlineSafetyAct" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#OnlineSafetyAct

I'll just note that I hate 4chan and the Trump administration.

However, it's just possible they will jointly put a stop to the attempts by foreign governments to apply their regulations internationally to […]

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Attn <a href="at://https://eigenmagic.net/@weirdestate" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">@weirdestate@eigenmagic.net - you might like this one!

The top story is ~10x the floor area of the bottom story. But don't worry, those posts are probably strong enough. Also, the house and garage are both hexagonal […]

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Very interesting article. Go past the "We used AI" bit, because they seem to understand the limitations.

 Ars Technica wrote the following post Wed, 13 Aug 2025 07:33:17 -0700

Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
"The [structural] mechanism […]

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This is a fun channel to follow, if you enjoy photos of unusual homes for sale...

 Weird Estate wrote the following post Sun, 10 Aug 2025 19:48:26 -0700

This is just your average imitation Elizabethan style manor house and then there's... that […]

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Beware: some Fediverse posts asking for Palestine aid donations are fake.

 Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: wrote the following post Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:08:06 -0700

⚠️ SCAM WARNING ⚠️

We’re getting blasted by a bot-driven barrage of accounts requesting […]

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