John #4
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November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Everybody loves to talk about owning the means of production but if you’re an independent artist, they say “not you.”
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Everybody loves to talk about owning the means of production but if you’re an independent artist, they say “not you.”
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Baldur's Gate 3 can kiss my ass. Disco is my CRPG homie for life
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Baldur's Gate 3 can kiss my ass. Disco is my CRPG homie for life
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Not all the specimens in my collection are "pretty." This is a hash plate of crinoid pieces with a partial calyx that has started to disarticulate.
Echinoderms rapidly fall apart after death.
Complete crinoids tend to be animals that were buried alive.
#FossilFriday
Echinoderms rapidly fall apart after death.
Complete crinoids tend to be animals that were buried alive.
#FossilFriday
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Not all the specimens in my collection are "pretty." This is a hash plate of crinoid pieces with a partial calyx that has started to disarticulate.
Echinoderms rapidly fall apart after death.
Complete crinoids tend to be animals that were buried alive.
#FossilFriday
Echinoderms rapidly fall apart after death.
Complete crinoids tend to be animals that were buried alive.
#FossilFriday
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back in the 70s they used to subdivide triangles like this
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
back in the 70s they used to subdivide triangles like this
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Gears & Numbers • Paige, Texas, USA
Rolleiflex 2.8 D • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2025
#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #Paige #Texas #Gears #Numbers #Gasoline #Registers #CloseUp #BroadwayPauls #Antiques #Salvage #November_7_2025
Rolleiflex 2.8 D • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2025
#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #Paige #Texas #Gears #Numbers #Gasoline #Registers #CloseUp #BroadwayPauls #Antiques #Salvage #November_7_2025
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Gears & Numbers • Paige, Texas, USA
Rolleiflex 2.8 D • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2025
#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #Paige #Texas #Gears #Numbers #Gasoline #Registers #CloseUp #BroadwayPauls #Antiques #Salvage #November_7_2025
Rolleiflex 2.8 D • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2025
#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #Paige #Texas #Gears #Numbers #Gasoline #Registers #CloseUp #BroadwayPauls #Antiques #Salvage #November_7_2025
turns out, all this structure to parse a model-number (over a handful of product generations). Love you too, 2000s-era -O flags
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
turns out, all this structure to parse a model-number (over a handful of product generations). Love you too, 2000s-era -O flags
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In Super Mario Galaxy, the stars on the letters of the logo spell "u r mr gay", while for the movie it says "he mr gay". This is because you are watching Mario, not playing him.
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In Super Mario Galaxy, the stars on the letters of the logo spell "u r mr gay", while for the movie it says "he mr gay". This is because you are watching Mario, not playing him.
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retweet for a cozy and bountiful winter
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
retweet for a cozy and bountiful winter
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The moment the Affordable Care Act was signed into law.
It is a dirty shame how Republicans have tried to get rid of it, with no replacement in sight. Ever! I will always be grateful for President Obama. He truly cared about America.
It is a dirty shame how Republicans have tried to get rid of it, with no replacement in sight. Ever! I will always be grateful for President Obama. He truly cared about America.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The moment the Affordable Care Act was signed into law.
It is a dirty shame how Republicans have tried to get rid of it, with no replacement in sight. Ever! I will always be grateful for President Obama. He truly cared about America.
It is a dirty shame how Republicans have tried to get rid of it, with no replacement in sight. Ever! I will always be grateful for President Obama. He truly cared about America.
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Breaking news: scientists discovered that we’ve actually run out of numbers. “We’re fucked” said one mathematician
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Breaking news: scientists discovered that we’ve actually run out of numbers. “We’re fucked” said one mathematician
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The Senate exists for the same reason that the ACA doesn't have a public option: it was negotiated to placate the necessary votes. Slave states were nervous about being beholden to public will so we massively over-elevated state representation. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...
The Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
www.law.cornell.edu
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Senate exists for the same reason that the ACA doesn't have a public option: it was negotiated to placate the necessary votes. Slave states were nervous about being beholden to public will so we massively over-elevated state representation. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...
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What is a particle? In one hypothetical answer, the properties of space-time — its robustness, its symmetries — essentially come from the way 0s and 1s are braided together. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-pa...
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
What is a particle? In one hypothetical answer, the properties of space-time — its robustness, its symmetries — essentially come from the way 0s and 1s are braided together. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-pa...
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Cowardly programmers calling it a 'Garbage collector' rather than an Orphan Destroyer
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Cowardly programmers calling it a 'Garbage collector' rather than an Orphan Destroyer
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Pro wrestling
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Pro wrestling
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"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
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Hi, we're Silicon Valley- you probably recognize us from classic inventions like 'Chatbot That Drives You Crazy', 'The App That Gives You An Eating Disorder', 'A Bus, Except Worse', and 'Doorbell That Reports Directly to the NSA'
November 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Hi, we're Silicon Valley- you probably recognize us from classic inventions like 'Chatbot That Drives You Crazy', 'The App That Gives You An Eating Disorder', 'A Bus, Except Worse', and 'Doorbell That Reports Directly to the NSA'
in the good timeline, whoever came up with Nerds Gummy Clusters was immediately promoted to CEO and also has a Nobel prize
November 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
in the good timeline, whoever came up with Nerds Gummy Clusters was immediately promoted to CEO and also has a Nobel prize
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I love seeing "primordial" in codebases because it means someone really fucked up some time in the past when they used the term bootstrap
November 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I love seeing "primordial" in codebases because it means someone really fucked up some time in the past when they used the term bootstrap
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