Mel
@melistired.bsky.social
Writer, painter, frustrated gardener. Absolutely will never use AI. If you post AI images, I will block you. She/her.
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I SCREAMED www.instagram.com/reel/DSaex-X...
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I SCREAMED www.instagram.com/reel/DSaex-X...
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“ChatGPT define irony.”
December 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“ChatGPT define irony.”
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let’s eat the tomb bread, let’s drink the gelatinized mummies, let’s slice up any mysterious antediluvian cheeses we find, let’s hatch the doom egg and make doom egg salad, let’s make an apocalyptic charcuterie board and feast
December 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
let’s eat the tomb bread, let’s drink the gelatinized mummies, let’s slice up any mysterious antediluvian cheeses we find, let’s hatch the doom egg and make doom egg salad, let’s make an apocalyptic charcuterie board and feast
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Maybe we should just ... put it back. You know, given the way things are already going...
December 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Maybe we should just ... put it back. You know, given the way things are already going...
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Hilarious video by The Wall Street Journal newsroom, who ran circles around the chatbot running the vending machine. My favorite part was when they convinced it that it was Soviet Russia in 1962 and it should offer everything for free. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...
We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything. | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hilarious video by The Wall Street Journal newsroom, who ran circles around the chatbot running the vending machine. My favorite part was when they convinced it that it was Soviet Russia in 1962 and it should offer everything for free. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...
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the best two minutes you'll spend all day 🐾
December 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
the best two minutes you'll spend all day 🐾
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How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.
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Impeach.
The Trump administration’s release of the Epstein grand jury documents are entirely redacted.
It’s 119 pages of just black rectangles.
It’s 119 pages of just black rectangles.
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Impeach.
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one time michelle obama tried to get kids to exercise a little and the entire republican party ate its own face
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
one time michelle obama tried to get kids to exercise a little and the entire republican party ate its own face
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I also tried it recently. It does work. It’s like a little bit of magic.
I'm furious. Just changed my sheets, and very sceptically tried the burrito method for the duvet, prompted by a post from @oldenoughtosay.com a while back. It worked perfectly, damnit. Why has it taken me 60 years on this planet to discover this? Thanks to @cookiesandyarn.bsky.social for the link:
This ingenious duvet cover trick will change your life
YouTube video by Inhabitat
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I also tried it recently. It does work. It’s like a little bit of magic.
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Wait. It's real? I assumed it was satire. I ASSUMED IT WAS SATIRE! Is life... satire now?
Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
Trump just announced his own Hunger Games
In case you needed a reminder that we're living in a fascist hellscape.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Wait. It's real? I assumed it was satire. I ASSUMED IT WAS SATIRE! Is life... satire now?
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪
Love these so much. 🥰
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Love these so much. 🥰
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Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
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“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known"
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known"
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
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Hands down the funniest thing anyone has ever typed in mastodon
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Hands down the funniest thing anyone has ever typed in mastodon
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SHOUT-OUT to multi-talented International Treasure: DICK VAN DYKE! Today we celebrate his 100th year+3 days birthday.
From the day I first met him (story included below) he's been an inspiration & a source of joy to his countless fans around the globe, myself included. Thank you sir 🙏
For DVD: 🎂❤️
From the day I first met him (story included below) he's been an inspiration & a source of joy to his countless fans around the globe, myself included. Thank you sir 🙏
For DVD: 🎂❤️
December 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
SHOUT-OUT to multi-talented International Treasure: DICK VAN DYKE! Today we celebrate his 100th year+3 days birthday.
From the day I first met him (story included below) he's been an inspiration & a source of joy to his countless fans around the globe, myself included. Thank you sir 🙏
For DVD: 🎂❤️
From the day I first met him (story included below) he's been an inspiration & a source of joy to his countless fans around the globe, myself included. Thank you sir 🙏
For DVD: 🎂❤️
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the way my mood lifted on hold at the third pharmacy today trying to fill a paxlovid Rx when this was the hold music
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
the way my mood lifted on hold at the third pharmacy today trying to fill a paxlovid Rx when this was the hold music
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“Go AI-free, Be Free of AI” is RIGHT THERE as a brand and global marketing campaign and is a literal billion-dollar play right now, guaranteed.
And this is what these companies keep doing.
At least CEOs being utterly useless dipshits remains consistent as a theme.
And this is what these companies keep doing.
At least CEOs being utterly useless dipshits remains consistent as a theme.
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“Go AI-free, Be Free of AI” is RIGHT THERE as a brand and global marketing campaign and is a literal billion-dollar play right now, guaranteed.
And this is what these companies keep doing.
At least CEOs being utterly useless dipshits remains consistent as a theme.
And this is what these companies keep doing.
At least CEOs being utterly useless dipshits remains consistent as a theme.
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And with one post, they convinced me to uninstall Firefox. Bye bye. #noAI
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil
blog.mozilla.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
And with one post, they convinced me to uninstall Firefox. Bye bye. #noAI
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
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Fuck it I'm off to steal a pie just to show Big Mince it can't push me around
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Fuck it I'm off to steal a pie just to show Big Mince it can't push me around
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While I failed at my mision to get it finished, our new timed sketch tool is good enough for a quick beta release.
Notes below, otherwise let me know what you think!
Link: community.trueref.io/trueref_gest...
Notes below, otherwise let me know what you think!
Link: community.trueref.io/trueref_gest...
December 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
While I failed at my mision to get it finished, our new timed sketch tool is good enough for a quick beta release.
Notes below, otherwise let me know what you think!
Link: community.trueref.io/trueref_gest...
Notes below, otherwise let me know what you think!
Link: community.trueref.io/trueref_gest...
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THIS is how a President responds:
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
THIS is how a President responds: