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I am a tall human person who loves hippopotamuses.
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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drakeis.gay
watch out for this! for folks who don't know:

- windows+R opens the run window which lets you run any program
- ctrl+V pastes

so this puts some malicious command on your clipboard, then convinces you to run it yourself. don't.
February 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
crankopotamus.bsky.social
One thing I miss about pre-Nazi Twitter was publicly shaming corporations. I asked Kensington to make a USB-C model of my wireless trackball receiver. They responded with the ChatGPT version of "lol fuck you."

"That would simplify things. Hopefully, you can find one that works well!"
January 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
January 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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weratedogs.com
This kid slightly misunderstood their homework assignment and we could not possibly love it more. 12/10
a white sheet of paper hanging from a black clip against a blue wall. the paper is a worksheet with the words, "my dog is a..." with the instructions to circle one of the following words, "hero," "companion," or "worker." instead, the word "circle" has been circled in pencil, and the rest of the sheet reads, "because he is round" in crude handwriting. next to the explanation as to why the dog is a circle, is a drawing of a very rotund dog with a tiny tail and little feet. this is an A+ assignment if we've ever seen one.
January 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
Bishop Urges Trump To 'Have Mercy' In Powerful Plea During Inauguration Prayer Service
Love this ❤️ And his reaction!
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January 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
crankopotamus.bsky.social
Share and enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_u...
Green Day - American Idiot [Official Music Video] [4K Upgrade]
YouTube video by Green Day
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January 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
crankopotamus.bsky.social
I'm taking my kid back to college today, as soon as I get the car shoveled out. In other news, Bluesky is not a great replacement for Facebook-as-it-should-have-been. I liked having a platform where only my curated audience could see my boring nonsense.
January 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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loresjoberg.bsky.social
What brand of potato chips do they serve at the dance club?

utz utz utz utz utz utz utz utz
January 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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nantanreikan.bsky.social
Need sound on.
December 5, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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bootsmcgoot.bsky.social
just flew in from the Michelin Man lookalike competition, and boy are my arms tyres
December 6, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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solidevidence.bsky.social
Maryland folks, I need another favor.

There is a person from Anne Arundel county that has been infected with SARS-CoV-2 for about 3 years (Delta infection).

They probably don’t even know they are infected, but they are shedding a ton of viral material in wastewater
1/
November 20, 2024 at 6:12 PM
crankopotamus.bsky.social
Dance of the Sugar-Plum Gary
November 28, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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ethankocak.com
Bats: I have no moth so I must scream
November 5, 2024 at 10:14 PM