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Well, here come the tears.

It feels like the kind of thing that sometimes needs to be done but that's also potentially soul-crushing and shouldn't ever be given into the hands of entrepreneurs.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 46m

Eh... I'm not sure, and I'm not comfortable making an estimate there. There clearly needs to be some kind of discounting, especially when comparing potential future lives to the lives of people alive right now, but I hesitate to tie it to monetary value.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 53m

Absolutely no shade meant for anybody, to be clear. The majority of people will never have a reason to give this much thought, and even growing up Orthodox, I didn't know that a "Jewish Deli" wasn't necessarily kosher by anybody's standards until I was in my tweens or so.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 1h

I generally agree, though I think better protect management would probably do a lot to help keep costs under control. The amount of design and feature creep that I've heard about from AAA studios blows my mind as a non-game software guy. Not to mention late-term rewrites and redesigns. Oof.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 1h

This is hyperbole... I think.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 1h

This is an interesting point when one considers that a major problem in the culture of American business seems to be a discounting rate that is way too high, seemingly valuing 100 dollars today more than a million over the coming year.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 1h

I think there's an xkcd.com/2501/ thing going on here with regard to kashrut. I strongly suspect that the average gentile lacks enough knowledge of what "kosher" means to know that there could be a difference between "kosher" and "kosher-style."

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 1h

"a out" should be "about"

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 1h

I think we'd see fewer complaints over this if wages tracked cost of living (very much including housing and fuel costs) more closely, and if there were less crowing a out how the labor-saving technology du jour will lead to mass unemployment. That's not to say price stability is a sane ask, either.

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Civvie11 @civvie11.bsky.social · 2h

R.I.P. to one of the best who ever did it.

An easter egg from Duke Nukem 3D with a message from Richard "Levelord" Gray that reads "You're not supposed to be here. -Levelord"

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 2h

Seems you could just say "certified kosher by [kashrut organization X]" and then let people decide whether they trust X's hechsher.

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🏄🏼‍♂️Surfing The Law ⚖️ @surfdudeken03.bsky.social · 2h

You mean, doing it's Constitutionally derived duty to check the power of the executive branch? Heaven forbid!

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2h

I would like to publicly apologize for defending Jesse Singal's initial handling of the Talarico Mental Health story rather than doing what I should have done: simply wait for Jesse to be Jesse.

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 7h

Let's talk a little more about Margaret Hamilton because she deserves it In 1961, Margaret Hamilton was tackling massive systems, having previously wrangled room-sized computers that blared like a foghorn whenever they crashed.

The famous photo of Margaret with the code she wrote to put a man on the moon

The lego set of Margaret Hamilton my daughters gave me

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 2h

What do you mean by "higher-ups were errors wouldn't happen"? Is there a typo or missing word? I think I get the gist of the post and certainly of the thread, I'm just stuck on that phrase.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 7h

This is, in fact, a good consumer protection law, intended to avoid consumers being confused about whether the food is kosher. Which absolutely happens. I CANNOT tell you how many times friends and family have been sent non-kosher deli for a shiva, work meal, etc

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not sure. I feel like I knew since kindergarten at the latest, though.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 10h

already in 1609 scholars knew it was nonsense. here’s an annotation from the douay old testament

Only certaine late writers have framed a new word, by putting the points of Adonai, to the proper letters of this unknown name, which are lod, He, Vau, He, and so sound it Iehouah: which was scarce heard of before an hundred yeares. As Bishop Genebrard, a Cardinal Bellarmin, and F. Pererius prove, for that neither ancient Fathers, writing whole Treatises de Divinis nominibus, nor the elder Rabbins, not later most learned Hebricians, as Rabbi Moyses, Aben Ezram, Lira, Paulus Bargensis, and others, never mention Iehouah amongst the Names or titles of God.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 10h

Any film, from Life of Brian to Last Crusade, that uses the term “Jehovah” before Galatinus invented it in 1520 based on a misinterpretation of the Masoretic qere perpetuum

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 8h

Lotta folks aren't gonna get it, but it got a laugh out of me. Well played.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 10h

smotrich 🤝 collins racist onion

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16h

This is all a pretty transparent attempt to convince regulators to ban open source / open weight models

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 18h

After living through a few years of vice-signaling, virtue-signaling doesn’t seem so bad anymore.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like people's "why is [candidate] not running like he's in a D+12 district" question answers itself for most candidates they ask it about

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 21h

Grampa has good days and bad days but mostly bad days and he has a tendency to lash out when people don’t play along with his delusions on the bad days

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 20h

For this alone, for that alone, etc etc עד מתי ימלוך מלך אביון

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 23h

If they want proof, they can scroll Sayarer's Twitter and substack feeds, it isn't subtle

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 23h

It appears that @lighthousebks.bsky.social is a respectable outfit by reputation, judging on who follows them. Can someone more diplomatic than me with an established relationship with them kindly explain that the cycling writer they are hosting is a Nazi?

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 22h

Love the "Death to Marik, Glory to Marik" on the Hunchie.

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Blazbaros @blazbaros.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Portraits of #Battletech characters that my friends and I play. Mine is Ferdinand 😂

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 23h

Autocracies push conformity, which queer people pretty much definitionally buck, and queer folks are an easy and effectively omnipresent group to target, very useful as an "other."

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Virtue signaling is good*, actually, because it signals an endorsement of virtues. Given the tremendous right-wing effort to signal and perform vice (televised executions, racist politicized raids, denigration of empathy, etc.) turns out we cannot actually take "lip service to virtue" for granted.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

even if he did have any jewish ancestry, a claim of which there is approximately as much evidence as there is for bigfoot, doesn't matter, we have his journals, he was a rabid hardline catholic who saw his travels as a means of reconquering constantinople from the turks for christendom

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This will be broadly unpopular with the electorate but I don’t think involuntary denaturalization should ever occur in a liberal society. Once you take your oath of citizenship you should forever be a citizen.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And reminder to keep an eye out for "decolonial" sources pushing this idea

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Reminder: Columbus was not Jewish, no matter what you think you read/heard recently

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

With the caveat that I didn't watch it and don't plan on doing so... This seems so dumb of him. Why would you make "I'm a raging asshole who's creeping on women but also being hyper-judgemental" the centerpiece of your "comedy?" Does not seem like a recipe for success to me.

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you are using the political attack on Ilhan Omar to call Dems feckless because they - to your knowledge, that you’ve personally seen - haven’t issued strong enough statements condemning it within a few hours of it happening consider doing something more productive instead.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That should be the campaign platform, not the policy plan. The policy plan does need to include crushing the billionaires into millionaires at most, though.

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

TODAY'S COMIC: The one that tastes awful? www.sheldoncomics.com/comic/decaf/

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Jeffries has issued a statement, so the people who predicted he's going to hedge his support/that he's rejoicing have shifted the goalposts already. Some of you who do not suck still suck sometimes a fair amount

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My guess is some damnfool intern or AI agent wrote "Senate" instead of "House" by accident. The article is all about the House.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I have been in this store clerk’s situation before! With a much different outcome. I was a clerk at the MoMA bookstore. A customer came up with hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of art books. I didn’t look very closely at her, but her outfit was Bohemian and eccentric in the extreme.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is the least deranged Liel Leibovitz article I've seen show up in my feed for a long time

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Because Claudia Black asked me to, obviously.

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