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Stephen Gadsby
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Soon, soon my entire org will join me in the 'tism!
screenshot of an item with Roadmap ID 529865 on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap website: Microsoft 365 admin center: New Admin Control for Turning off People Skills This is a new control that tenant admins may use to turn off People Skills User Experiences for the entire organization, user group subsets, or individual users. This control can also be used to selectively deploy People Skills to a small group of pilot users before broader deployment to the rest of the tenant. In Development Rollout Start: December 2025
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The feral cat family enjoys a midday sleep.
a feral, tortoiseshell mother cat and her tan kitten sleep snuggled together in the bed of dry needles under a scruffy evergreen conifer a feral, tortoiseshell mother cat and two of her kittens—one tan and one tortoiseshell like mom—sleep snuggled together in the bed of dry needles under a scruffy evergreen conifer
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Some go their entire lives questioning place and purpose. Others are born in certainty: Find a larger species; nap on it.
The white face and paws of an orange cat tightly curled on blue jeans.
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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elderman.bsky.social
This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Troudle season!
A cropped view of the instruction sheet for the Install Bay IBR65 Bluetooth audio receiver by Metra Electronics. Centered in the image is a bold heading, "Troudle Shooting Guide".
August 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Milkweed tiger moth caterpillars have particularly Jim Henson Creature Shop looks.
Photograph of a milkweed tiger moth caterpillar curling itself in an arch around the upper edge of the hole it is munching in a strongly veined milkweed leaf. The caterpillar is all tufts of black, white, and orangy-brown bristles, like a hirsute Hynerian turned insect.
August 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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quick and easy Flout-dredged Fried Fish Fillets recipe
Photo of a recipe for "Fried Pollock Fillets" from the back of a packet of frozen fish. The ingredients list includes a typo: "flout" instead of "flour". Fried Pollock Fillets * 1 lb. pollock fillets * oil for deep frying * 1/2 cup flout * salt and pepper Heat 1 inch of oil in skillet to approximately 375 degrees. Combine flour with salt and pepper. Dip and fully cover each fillet with flour mixture. Fry fish for 5 minutes on each side. Remove fully cooked fish fillets to a platter.
August 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Slightly diminish a band:

Greater Than Or Equal To One
nanoraptor.danamania.com Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · Aug 13
Slightly diminish a band:

Moderato Rock.
funkelly.bsky.social Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · Aug 13
Slightly diminish a band:

passable charlotte
August 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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sunflower dawn
A photo of a sunflower in the process of blooming. The left side of the flower is open, with typically bright, yellow petals spread wide, while the right remains closed, still covered by the curvy, spiky, green "bud" material that, in a film, would telegraph imminent facehugging.
August 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Each school year began with a routine rundown, in boring assemblies and papers to carry home, of district policies: academic honesty, attendance, chewing gum, checking your rifle at the office. Because after school you'd want to step straight off the big, yellow bus and into the woods to hunt, yeah?
tiffanyclay.dev Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · Jul 13
What’s a real thing from your childhood that kids these days would find completely foreign?

Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.

Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
July 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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The storm felled the large asparagus.
An open left hand, palm up, supports the muddy bottom ends of two asparagus stalks, each several centimeters in diameter. Though mostly green, the stalks show hints of the purply color they exhibited when small.
July 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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If this was kerned knowingly, for the ironic lolz, would that make it okay? Or even worse?
signmission.com/products/os-...
a stark, OSHA-ish, bold text on white, "NOTICE: REJECTED" sign wherein the "E" and "J" have, by surrendering unto one another their independence, created an unsettling, new glyph, one in appearance less alphabet and more outline of the business end of an old timey key
June 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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It's spring.
a mass of maple tree seeds piled at the end of a concrete downspout splash block by rainwater
May 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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It's nice seeing the goldfinches back at full power.
April 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Please dance as if no one is watching.
Within a small, rounded-square dialog box labeled "Alert", Microsoft Excel suggests, "Please save as if problem persists."
April 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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The LED "laser" in this Detective Conan wristwatch utilizes a positive battery connector that's simultaneously clever, disappointing, and Saint Patrick's Day appropriate.
A novelty, Detective Conan wristwatch with its back removed to reveal one layer of its interior. Dead center is a shallow, circular holder, in black plastic, for a coin cell battery. A loop of thin, red, stranded, hookup wire runs into battery holder from an LED module on the right. Within the battery holder the red wire ends in a bare, clover-shaped twist of uninsulated wire. This end of the wire shows clear signs of having been squashed by the coin cell battery.
March 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Maple the aged chaos goblin reclines while waiting for the spinner in her head to settle on "affectionate licks", "grumbling indifference", or "savage bites".
an elderly, tortoiseshell cat reclines on a bed
March 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I ruined my kid's lunch.
cropped screenshot of an RCS message with the text "I cant eat this now" below a photo of a hand holding a mandarin orange with a markered-on, friendly, "owo" face
March 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I placed a note next to the small, mostly empty bottle of honey my partner left lying on its side on the kitchen counter.
a Post-It note, "Darn it, RFK Jr.! No more of this!", is affixed to a kitchen countertop next to a small, nearly empty, bear-shaped bottle of raw honey lying on its side
February 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!"
Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
February 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Would prefer bird flu down, plane stay up, really.
February 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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brianphillips.bsky.social
If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”

The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
January 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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swilua.bsky.social
We don’t even know how many humans an embryo is at conception, we certainly don’t know their gender
January 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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karenhao.bsky.social
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM