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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm glad Ed Markey is doing well and all (55 days left btw) but somehow this line in the coverage of his primary win is the most staggering thing I've read all week. The man was the first person to beat a Kennedy in a Massachusetts election, ever. commonwealthbeacon.org/news-analysi...

An article about the recent primary win of Ed Markey, with a sentence highlighted that claims he was the first person to ever beat a Kennedy in a Massachusetts election.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall

Toad bangs his poor head against the wall.

From "The Story"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thinking about this exchange today

A YouTube video for the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The comments section has an exchange as detailed below. “@TheMrdangles16 • 11y ago:
i hate the water temple... too confusing :(“ “@KeithHalsell • 2y ago:
it's been 9 years, i hope you are doing great in life now.” “@TheMrdangles16 • 2y ago: it couldn't be going worse Keith.”

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Southbound traffic could still get through if they weren't cowards

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I need at least one of you to go home and change

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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

starting a collection of quotes like this

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Was walking on Florida Ave a couple nights ago and a guy said to me "Swedish, right?" and I said "No" and he goes "Huh." Whole conversation.

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This is the kind of energy we need more of in tech right now to be honest. It's a bit naive in places. Very human throughout.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 22/07/2026

in 2015 when you saw a low image quality photo you could say "what did you shoot this on a potato" and now everyone's like "oh what kind of potato is that I love how the blacks get crushed and the details go all soft it's so vintage. is that like a Russet or"

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

can't believe how long this article is

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Technology advice: The backplate on the Sun™ 450 MHz UltraSPARC™-II Module interferes with the plastic airflow guide in the Ultra 2, but it can be removed and replaced with any copper heatsinks you have on hand that are less than ~3mm tall.

4 pennies stuck to the back of a vintage CPU module, over top of some integrated circuits. It isn't obvious how they are remaining in place.

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Jonah Davidson @hangedman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I strongly believe in the breadth and influence of independent art, to grant us oblique angles on the world and ourselves. But also every indie game is somewhere on this spectrum:

A triangular range chart labeled "Indie Game Vibe Check", where the three axes are "Enpoisoned", "Pumpy's Big Clumpy", and "Misty Cube". Each intersection features a game - Lunacid is the most Enpoisoned, Untitled Goose Game is the most Pumpy's Big Clumpy, and Manifold Garden is the most Misty Cube. Undertale is directly in the center, surrounded by Tunic (Pumpy), Void Stranger (Misty), and Star of Providence (Poison)

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What AI is doing to the minds of everyone around me makes me want to invent a whole new substance to abuse

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valery0p.bsky.social @valery0p.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

If they keep track of everything why can't they tell me where I lost control of my life 🫠

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 31/03/2026

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Nearly there Assembly 👌 But I feel like there's at least one person avoiding the Revolution Drive entrance because the flag doesn't line up with the windows. #mbta

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Y'ever hit a 26 year old panic? No disrespect to NetBSD, because I'm doing something really dumb right now, but it's hilarious to me that this computer was brought down by sending one ☝️ IPv6 packet

A piece of code written in C. It appears that this code was never intended to be run by the computer, as all it does it call the panic() function. The history of the file shows edits from 1998, 2000, and 2005.

The output of a debugger after a computer has clearly crashed. The top message refers to an unimplemented function from ~1998.

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I attempted to recreate the Mountain Dew Baja Blast™ pie at home, but I kind of think the teal might be a bit too saturated...?

A grocery store flyer advertising a Mountain Dew Baja Blast flavoured pie for sale.

A slice of pie dyed a very unnatural looking colour.

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Y'know after a couple years of looking like a crazy person trying to find the US flags the #MBTA has tucked away in dark corners and at the top of weird atriums, I feel like Revere Beach 🟦 is making this one too easy

A US flag in a plexiglass case near a door labelled "Exit to Ocean Ave". The photo was taken inside the Revere Beach stop on the MBTA blue line in Boston.

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Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.

cracked.com

Penn Jillette Wants to Talk It All Out

The outspoken magician/comedian/writer talks to Cracked about leaving behind Libertarianism, why he’s worried about the future and how Trump is even worse than you think

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The C Programming Language @c-official.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The amateurs in the python steering council are fine with adding useless language features like "t-strings" or "r-strings" (???) but won't even acknowledge my ꙮ-string PEP. I'm fucking done

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aka_pugs @akapugs.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

OTD 1980: Publication of the Digital/Intel/Xerox specification for "The Ethernet", Version 1.0. 10Mbps then, 800Gbps now. I'm running 2.5Gbps (with P.O.E.) throughout my house.

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

@actionretro.bsky.social Truly heinous photography alert, but since you brought up FrogFind today; you can add "Solaris 2.6 running on a SPARCstation 5" to the list. Unfortunately my friend's SPA wasn't feeling cooperative with the HTML parser in the only photo I took last November 🤣

http://frogfind.com/ used on a 90s web browser, displayed on a CRT. The web browser is unable to display any content from the search result apart from the title, current address, and a prompt to return back to FrogFind.

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Jagex is cancelling their 2025 pride event out of cowardice. I have a cancel button too! #osrs #pride

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I don't know who was wondering if you can do a processor swap on late 90s Toshiba laptops, but it turns out, yes! You can! I'm holding the Pentium II this guy shipped with ✨(with its goofy MMC-1 cartridge form factor)

A hand holding a Pentium II CPU in front of an old laptop. The screen shows the laptop is running Windows 98 with a Celeron processor.

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Thanks DC Metro, I've never had an emotional reaction to a transit pass before.

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Of all the US flags behind plexiglass that I've found on the MBTA, this one at Harvard 🟥 is probably the best hidden. Are you even meant to see it there?

US flag in a dark corner of a subway station, above a darkened empty ticket booth.

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Airport Station, blue line. I approach 2024 still not understanding why the MBTA feels the need to put a protective case around the US flag.

A US flag in a metal box with a plexiglass cover.

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

The next time somebody in the webdev community gets angry at me for supporting Google Amp or Firefox's reader mode, I'm sending them this. Almost every recipe blog online is like this now.

A very cluttered website, where the entire content has been covered by ads, video players, and social media buttons.

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Assisting @assisting.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

I had a very fun night of trying to brute force an unsolved problem in mathematics, the Magic Square of Squares. I leaped into the code and got 4 hours into optimizing it... Before realizing my search space was in the nonillions, and there's some geometric proof that it's impossible. Ah well.

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