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Joshua Curfman
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Nerd, maker, engineer. Lover of blankets and fireplaces. Collector of random facts.
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danielgray.com
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Shaxs from Star Trek Lower Decks is pictured. He's a cartoon, because Lower Decks, besides being the best effing show ever, is a cartoon. Shaxs is a big burly man wearing his gold Star fleet uniform and also an apron over the front like he's doing some sort of art project or baking a nice sourdough. In each hand he's holding a broken bottle like that thing you do where you take a bottle and break off the bottom and then use it as a weapon. His eyeballs are bulging large, his brow is furrowed, and he looks absolutely unhinged with rage and fury. Closed caption reads, "Fighting fascism is a full time job!"
January 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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tante.cc
This should be a legal requirement for being allowed to sell networked devices.

Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
January 8, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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parkermolloy.com
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
Carol in Pluribus: All the brains in the world, and you can't navigate a fuckin' pronoun?
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Scene from the Star Trek The Next Generation movie, "The One with the Flowey Ribbon Monster that Sends You To Nirvana." Picard, looking out of place in his uniform, is walking through a bougie Victorian home that is decorated for Christmas. There's a large Christmas tree filled with lights and bright colors, and a couple of ornate toy horses that aren't huge but aren't small either, and a large red and white candy cane? Sort of looks like a barber shop pole, and it extends through the whole picture, I think it's a carousel thing for the horse we discussed earlier in this alt text. Anyways, the rest of the house is just normal old fancy house stuff, furniture, drapes, chandelier, lamps, etc. No caption, but you know, because like, it's Christmas next week and all.
December 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
joshcurf.bsky.social
People forget that we’re trying to live in a society. The USPS is an incredible service for $30 a year.
2house2fly.bsky.social The Comfy Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · Dec 5
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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dresdencodak.com
Super non-controversial take: Oglaf continues to be one of the best comics on the internet.
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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badambulist.bsky.social
nobody ever believes me when I say this
badambulist.bsky.social alyson “end the BBC” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · Sep 21
I am 100% neurotypical probably!
September 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains." Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day
September 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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qntm.org
ME: hey so what's this process consuming all my CPU
WINDOWS: oh that's our Microsoft Search Indexer, it's building a search index of your files
ME: neat, so if I do a search on my files, will I get prompt, useful resul—
WINDOWS: [punches me in the face]
August 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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nome.bsky.social
Let's be generous, here, and assume that by the solar system Altman wants to put the sphere outside the orbit of Neptune, and we'll just exclude the kuiper belt entirely.

That would be a sphere with a diameter of 6 billion miles.

Let's assume that it has the thickness of an eggshell: .3mm thick.
kattenbarge.bsky.social Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Aug 18
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
August 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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gamechangershow.bsky.social
No kings in this country!

...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑
July 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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gamechangershow.bsky.social
Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌

DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
July 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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foundepisodes.bsky.social
Poignant #StarTrek
From “Star Trek: The Original Series.” On the main viewscreen we see a Roman commander. His face is smeared dirty and sweaty. He looks tired and resigned. The caption reads, “In another life, I could have called you ‘Labubu’”
July 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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uncleduke1969.bsky.social
I suggested to my wife that it seemed pointless to continually fill the bird feeder, as the squirrels always empty it in hours. Behind me, my son said, “It’s in your interest for the squirrels to be on your side when the Great War begins,” and ate another spoonful of Froot Loops.
July 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. Close up on Quark, a Ferengi with a smooth and domed head and huge earlobes that connect like a unibrow across his face. He also has nose loaf that kind of looks like a pine cone. He is pursing his mouth and doing a Jim from the office look right at us. Closed caption reads, "baseball, root beer, darts, atom bombs."
July 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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xkcd.com
Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063
March 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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xkcd.com
Bridge Types

xkcd.com/3097/
Comic. Bridge Types: Plank, Rope, Truss, Trestle, Arch, Suspended Arch, Draw, Suspension, Filler [bridge over hole filled in with rocks], Budget Overrun [bridge suspended by cables and extras], Jump [two ends of bridge are disconnected ramps; person crossing in the air on a skateboard], Halfhearted [bridge slopes down into hole], Waterbed [squiggly bridge above water as people crossing shake], L’engle [the hole the bridge is covering is warped so opposite sides of the bridge meet at one point underneath], Fun [bridge loops like a roller coaster; person skateboarding up the loop], Repurposed Elevator [horizontal elevator].
June 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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ratsquinks.bsky.social
ebi blasting you with her gay rat laser beam for pride
ebi the brown rat playing tug of war with a rainbow coloured ribbon fabric that is going from her mouth to disappearing behind the camera
June 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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lazarusbean.bsky.social
a collage of four pictures of a man in a red uniform with a thumbs up sign
ALT: a collage of four pictures of a man in a red uniform with a thumbs up sign
media.tenor.com
May 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin

archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
May 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
joshcurf.bsky.social
I will never not reskeet this one.
May 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Bridge shot from TNG. We've got unnamed guy with his back to us at a station, just behind Worf at tactical, Picard sitting in the captains chair and then for the main course, standing front and center we have William T. Riker. He's standing tall, arms clasped behind his back, shoulders wide, and his big Riker chest is puffed out as if he's being especially hoity toity for some reason. He also has his head cocked (pun intended) and has a bit of a curious forced grin on his face. Closed caption reads, "Shuttle bay 2, stand by to launch...the Egg."
April 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
joshcurf.bsky.social
Stock market line is going down? Hmm. Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
April 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM