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Rigged up a thing so my kid can change the color of her bedroom using her marker set!
April 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Rigged up a thing so my kid can change the color of her bedroom using her marker set!
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The fight to end the #deathpenalty needs more business engagement. Airgas should be applauded for standing up against the misuse of its products in executions: www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
#BizVsDP
#BizVsDP
Chemical company considers action against Louisiana over potential misuse of products in execution
Airgas, a nitrogen and oxygen supplier, is considering action against Louisiana over potential misuse of its products during Jessie Hoffman's execution
nola.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The fight to end the #deathpenalty needs more business engagement. Airgas should be applauded for standing up against the misuse of its products in executions: www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
#BizVsDP
#BizVsDP
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related: this is how the "career" section starts in Fabio's article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_L...
![Lanzoni is best recognized for his appearance on the covers of hundreds of romance novels.[13] In 2015, while describing his career, Lanzoni told The Guardian,
I'd be the biggest hypocrite if I said I really worked very hard for my career, because it was given to me on a silver platter. I can't take any credit. My major focus was sports and going to the gym.[14]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreibhzxipwhgpatkpe5o6qlpfuw4wiuwv5jokjzqd7y2c5jz5dywrtm@jpeg)
March 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
related: this is how the "career" section starts in Fabio's article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_L...
"Sometimes you go through your whole life not rocking the boat and they throw you over the side anyway. Any oppressive system needs an element of arbitrary punishment to keep people properly on their toes." - Alien Clay
March 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"Sometimes you go through your whole life not rocking the boat and they throw you over the side anyway. Any oppressive system needs an element of arbitrary punishment to keep people properly on their toes." - Alien Clay
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I don't want a bigger Emergency Department.
I want a functioning social care system and a primary care service that can meet demand.
If we don't get that, the blockage in ED is going to get worse and more people are going to come to harm and die.
1/3
I want a functioning social care system and a primary care service that can meet demand.
If we don't get that, the blockage in ED is going to get worse and more people are going to come to harm and die.
1/3
March 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I don't want a bigger Emergency Department.
I want a functioning social care system and a primary care service that can meet demand.
If we don't get that, the blockage in ED is going to get worse and more people are going to come to harm and die.
1/3
I want a functioning social care system and a primary care service that can meet demand.
If we don't get that, the blockage in ED is going to get worse and more people are going to come to harm and die.
1/3
"For an institution keen on its laws, the [Government] is not at all adverse to destroying the law-abiding when they dissent." - Alien Clay
February 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"For an institution keen on its laws, the [Government] is not at all adverse to destroying the law-abiding when they dissent." - Alien Clay
My Alexa has, without any prompting, issued me a Cheerios ad in the form of a "breakfast joke" and now I understand why older tech guys keep guns around.
February 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My Alexa has, without any prompting, issued me a Cheerios ad in the form of a "breakfast joke" and now I understand why older tech guys keep guns around.
"Just because the tyrant dresses like a clown doesn't mean he's funny." - Alien Clay
February 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"Just because the tyrant dresses like a clown doesn't mean he's funny." - Alien Clay
"Earthers cannot look upon a thing but wonder who it belongs to." - Anderson Dawes, The Expanse
February 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Earthers cannot look upon a thing but wonder who it belongs to." - Anderson Dawes, The Expanse
"And it's 'go, boys, go'/They'll time your every breath/And every day you're in this place you're two days near'er death"
February 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"And it's 'go, boys, go'/They'll time your every breath/And every day you're in this place you're two days near'er death"
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Indigenous group of Papau New Guinea whose culture revolves around giant yams! It determines a person's status by the size of the yams they grow. If only the rest of the world competed on ability to feed people!
![Yam growing forms a large part of Abelam society. The growing of large yams (they can be as large as 80-90 inches (2.3 m) long) determines the status of individuals as well as the whole village.[1] At yam festivals an individual would give his largest yam to his worst enemy who would then be obligated to grow an even larger yam or have his status fall each year in which he was unable to do so. Separate villages would gather at yam festivals where the hosting village's status would be determined by the size of their yams as well as their ability to provide more food than could be eaten and carried away by the rival village.
During the yam growing season, strong emotions were kept to a minimum as they were thought to impede the growth of the yams. Fighting was taboo as was sexual activity. It was thought that the yams had a spirit and could sense any of these strong emotions.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid7x3upm64jswmz7hcfxddklajmoqsmncxvex3f56qmmnjjfcpxre@jpeg)
February 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Indigenous group of Papau New Guinea whose culture revolves around giant yams! It determines a person's status by the size of the yams they grow. If only the rest of the world competed on ability to feed people!
I feel like we should have had to pick a philosophical doctrine and defend it to graduate high school.
February 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I feel like we should have had to pick a philosophical doctrine and defend it to graduate high school.
"Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act" some staffer is very proud of this one
February 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act" some staffer is very proud of this one
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There are some questions as to who is organizing these events and how safe they are to attend. Here's Snopes' answer to help you decide:
www.snopes.com/news/2025/02...
www.snopes.com/news/2025/02...
What we know about nationwide anti-Trump protests on Feb. 5
Posts on various social media platforms called for demonstrators to show up at all 50 U.S. state capitols.
www.snopes.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
There are some questions as to who is organizing these events and how safe they are to attend. Here's Snopes' answer to help you decide:
www.snopes.com/news/2025/02...
www.snopes.com/news/2025/02...
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Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
February 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
"20%. Acceptable wastage. If that sounds like an absurd loss of investment, then you don't know the history of people shipping other people against their will from place to place." - Alien Clay
February 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"20%. Acceptable wastage. If that sounds like an absurd loss of investment, then you don't know the history of people shipping other people against their will from place to place." - Alien Clay
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Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14!
These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience.
Apply here!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience.
Apply here!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...
docs.google.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14!
These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience.
Apply here!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience.
Apply here!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I'm seeing a lot of images advertising protests that look AI generated or promoted by accounts without strong histories. Be safe out there.
February 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I'm seeing a lot of images advertising protests that look AI generated or promoted by accounts without strong histories. Be safe out there.
"They break us like horses/How long will we pull their plow?/What will continue to be, is what we allow."
January 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"They break us like horses/How long will we pull their plow?/What will continue to be, is what we allow."
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Once you make a billion dollars, you should get a little trophy that says "Congratulations, you won capitalism!" and everything you make after that should be taxed at 100%.
January 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Once you make a billion dollars, you should get a little trophy that says "Congratulations, you won capitalism!" and everything you make after that should be taxed at 100%.
"Have you ever broken a law?" "We can try." "Will they come after us?" "They tend to catch up with you in the end." "Then what's the point?" "Time. Optics. Experience. Bragging rights? Not many can say they broke a law of physics." "... Okay. Let's jump." #microfic #microscifi
January 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"Have you ever broken a law?" "We can try." "Will they come after us?" "They tend to catch up with you in the end." "Then what's the point?" "Time. Optics. Experience. Bragging rights? Not many can say they broke a law of physics." "... Okay. Let's jump." #microfic #microscifi
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I feel like too many folks are failing to grasp that
something can be illegal
and also still happen.
“That won’t happen, it’s *illegal*” is a logically unsound statement.
something can be illegal
and also still happen.
“That won’t happen, it’s *illegal*” is a logically unsound statement.
January 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I feel like too many folks are failing to grasp that
something can be illegal
and also still happen.
“That won’t happen, it’s *illegal*” is a logically unsound statement.
something can be illegal
and also still happen.
“That won’t happen, it’s *illegal*” is a logically unsound statement.
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Evolution was pretty lazy. It rarely led to entirely new technologies (especially in higher organisms), but rather just jiggers existing things a bit to adapt to new environments.
It is important to try to remember the wonder one felt when one first really understood that.
5/n
It is important to try to remember the wonder one felt when one first really understood that.
5/n
January 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Evolution was pretty lazy. It rarely led to entirely new technologies (especially in higher organisms), but rather just jiggers existing things a bit to adapt to new environments.
It is important to try to remember the wonder one felt when one first really understood that.
5/n
It is important to try to remember the wonder one felt when one first really understood that.
5/n
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there are people out there saying "keep politics out of video games" and their favourite games will be like Fallout or Metal Gear
January 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
there are people out there saying "keep politics out of video games" and their favourite games will be like Fallout or Metal Gear