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so this one hit me with some Feels
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
August 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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Did you know that all the generators on the power grid are spinning in sync with each other? The grid has a heartbeat and each and every machine connected to it must follow the rhythm.

This includes the machines in your home! Your buzzing fridge compressor is beating in time with the same heart.
March 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
February 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Damning. Embarrassing. Helpful.
To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

canada.ca/en/public-he...
February 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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For those in Massachusetts: the state will issue an ID card to anyone over 14, if you would feel more comfortable with your non-driving teen carrying ID, for whatever reason. You can get a standard ID regardless of immigration status. www.mass.gov/how-to/apply...
www.mass.gov
February 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
February 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Since there are always people who are part of today's "lucky 10,000", I also want to point out @naomikritzer.bsky.social 's "The Year Without Sunshine"
A reminder that speculative fiction has an incredible capacity for encouraging optimism and faith in humanity--here are five short works about hope, and choosing kindness:

reactormag.com/five-hopeful...
Five Hopeful SFF Stories About Believing in Humanity - Reactor
Short speculative fiction to help bolster optimism, even in dark times.
reactormag.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Successful large-scale and long-term kelp forest restoration by culling sea urchins with quicklime and supported by crab predation | Marine Biology https://buff.ly/4fe1j8m 🦑🌎🧪
Successful large-scale and long-term kelp forest restoration by culling sea urchins with quicklime and supported by crab predation
In 2013, a large scale (70 hectare) kelp forest restoration experiment was conducted in a sea urchin barren that had been stable for 45 years. We used 200 tons of quicklime to eradicate the sea urchin...
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December 29, 2024 at 3:52 PM