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Just another bozo on this bus: please deflate your shoes before entering. The artist formerly known as dr_memory@twit (and same on livejournal, remember them?) and currently also known as @memory@blank.org on mastodon. Banner photo by @lifewinning.com

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 5h
Gangs of New York was mostly a weird misfire of a movie but the final shot, where the city fades into the modern skyline and you instantly understand that everything the protagonists fought over has been quietly erased by the passage of time is for my money Scorsese’s finest moment.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h
look, if you're worried about being remembered, don't try to pursue immortality or whatever, the smart move is to start selling substandard copper and then make sure anyone who complains deposits a physical copy of that complaint in a site that will later be archaeologically significant
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 18h
I… was not expecting the host of the Great British Bake Off to summarize quite so much of my personal philosophy in a post to this silly little website but here we apparently are.
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 29/09/2026
NYers READ SHARE DONATE My friend Chelsea's daughter has leukemia & needs platelet transfusions. She can *only* have AB platelets. You can donate if you are AB+ or AB-. Please go to Sloane Kettering at 1250 1st Ave. Say they're for Stella Suther. DM me for her bday www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/s/a...
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 29/09/2026
I don't think we are ready for the level of stupid discourse if Paxton loses but Collins squeaks it out.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 29/09/2026
The city needs get out of the business of being a landlord to the city’s grocery wholesalers, since it’s clearly very bad at it. Other industrial districts (northern Brooklyn, Maspeth, South Bronx, Sunset Park, West Shore of SI) should be upzoned for modern warehouses, Hunts Point should be sold off
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 29/09/2026
READ THEORY I cannot believe this post is nearly 15 years old now. crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/i...
crookedtimber.org
In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You — Crooked Timber
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 28/09/2026
worthwhile read. super depressing. smartest thing in the whole piece is what kemal says in the beginning about whose war it is.
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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's a lot of confusion about what Covid-19 RNA in wastewater is telling us. Here's data from Biobot for the United States. Currently Covid-19 RNA concentrations are elevated *relative* to recently (a real "wave") but absolute levels are low compared to the height of the pandemic.
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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
metalinjection.net/news/gwar-co... RIP Sexecutioner
metalinjection.net
GWAR Co-Founder Chuck Varga, a.k.a. The Sexecutioner, Dead at 68 - Metal Injection
"Raise your glass and tell his tales. Legends never die. Hail Varga! Hail Sexecutioner!"
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 28/09/2026
AI-assisted yak shaving is a hell of a thing. Feed one problem to Claude. It fixes it, but it also flags three more (very real!) problems. Rinse. Repeat. Repeat. Now you have 3^16 problems!
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 27/09/2026
I cannot co-sign this hard enough. Some of us went to an entire school of proto-Yuds, but we mostly got better!
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 27/09/2026
(What I love about that photo is that it supports my headcanon that the muppets are not puppets being operated by puppeteers. The muppets are loa that _ride_ the muppeteers. Tell me I’m wrong.)
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 26/09/2026
Okay number one, skill issue. Number two: never speak again.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
as a former community news publisher: a. this is 100% true, and however bad you think emergent behavior in a bunch of regular people who know each other by sight disagreeing online is, it’s worse b. it kinda is news though
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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh my god. OH MY GOD. XD
Gul Dukat of Deep Space Nine gloweringGavin Newsome of California glowering.
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 26/09/2026
The fact that this is Gavin Newsom’s ex should be disqualifying all on its own for him as a candidate. Ethics are what you do when you think the cameras aren’t rolling.
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 26/09/2026
let's not let openai doing a fuckload of crimes and occasionally disclosing whichever ones they feel like whenever they feel like getting around to it be recast as a justification for the crackdown on open science the safetyists want it to be
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 26/09/2026
GBBO e1: …what he’s bringing to the lemon party??? Okay, whoever you are on the GBBO writing staff: well done. 🫡
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 26/09/2026
Ima say one word: MsScribe IYKYK
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 25/09/2026
Okay, I have a new bsky feature beg: a “you’re replying to a necro-repost, are you sure you want to” warning interstitial.
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a success story of vulgar YIMBYism and an indictment of places that are spending profligately on "affordable housing" for people who could, in the long run, easily be served by the market.
wsj.com
Portland Real Estate Is Such a Mess That All Housing Is Affordable Housing
Rarely has the Oregon city seen such a narrow price gap between market-rate and affordable units.
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 25/09/2026
I'm not normally partial to "it's fine for the GOP to do <obviously bad thing> because the democrats did <vaguely similar but much less bad thing>" but in this case? I don't think we get to complain after going full on Weekend At Bernies with Dianne Feinstein.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026
Dairy farms in Kansas? Raided. Barton County? Texts about entire hotel blocks rented out by feds for the next weeks. It is a pogrom. This is called a pogrom.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026
They have been raiding the golden triangle, six hours away, for three days now. I have people there sending me updates. Ghost town. Nobody is outside. People are delaying shifts. Schools are preparing kids for the possibility they go home and nobody is there. Majority latino cities and counties.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026
rolled out of my bed this morning and barreled down Linwood for 10 minutes to have the privilege of watching a neighbor get kidnapped with his son in front of a YMCA and high school, busses full of kids watching, while a kcpd officer joyfully cooperated. It was a car crash. How did ICE know?
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
what i am trying to get at here is that rationalism was an attempt to outline what turned out to be the extraordinary power of statistical systems at tasks for which they naively seem unsuited. viewed from 2011 they seem to have been prophetic, but were wrong on most details and insane about others
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 25/09/2026
Guys, you don't want to chase after Nancy Mace, you just want to have a fling with a divorced dentist who's had some work done
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 25/09/2026
It is a crime that this is still unimplemented. github.com/Crissov/unic...
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"Cool S" · Issue #408 · Crissov/unicode-proposals
The diamond "S" should have a unicode character. This guy: ʌ / \ / \ | | | \ \/ /\ \ | | | \ / \ / v See other examples about: https://mobile.twitter.com/JFriedhoff/status/971174957517590528
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 25/09/2026
Good night, New York.
Sunset over Manhattan, as seen from Long Island City, Queens.
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 24/09/2026
I am going to spontaneously combust the next time I see someone confidently assert that google intentionally "ruined" websearch. That's not a thing. That did not happen. Your only source for that is a bunch of substack articles that are effectively fanfiction about google management. Stop. STAAAHP.
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Coliseum of Comics @coliseumofcomics.com · 24/09/2026
We remember Jim Henson - puppeteer, animator, actor, musician, filmmaker, and creator of The Muppets - born on this day in 1936.
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 24/09/2026
If your politics cannot accept the statement "I do not think you should use slurs against intellectually disabled people" as constructive criticism, you need to be down on your knees every day and night, praying to whatever higher power you believe in for deliverance from the evil in your heart.
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Immigrant Punk @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
In retrospect, the fact that this was considered absolutely normal really explains the "mysterious Russian soul."
A medium shot captures a bleak, sparsely stocked grocery or dairy shop in the late Soviet era. On the right, a man in a thick, dark winter jacket and a furry ushanka hat stands at a metal counter, drinking or sampling a white liquid directly from a large glass jar. He holds the metal lid of the jar in his other hand. Behind the counter on the left, a female shop assistant dressed in a white uniform and a white paper cap watches him closely while gesturing toward a blue mechanical weighing scale. In the background, another shop worker in a white smock stands near empty shelves and tiled walls under dim indoor lighting, emphasizing a stark and institutional atmosphere.
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"[bi individuals] in CNM [consensually non-monogamous] relationships reported significantly higher sexual satisfaction, sociosexuality, and outness and lower internalized binegativity." 🧪 Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.108…
A pile of people under sheets. Doesn't look super comfortable, but if that's what's working for them - let them have their fun.
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Solarpunk Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026
This is effective because we are often the hottest thing around
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 23/09/2026
I'm so fucking tired. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
Bernie Sanders proposes banning ‘superintelligence’ and putting violators in prison
Sanders proposing treating AI superintelligence like nuclear weapons.
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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My new market rate apartment is affordable to households making ~80% AMI. It was built 5 years ago. I need every skeptic of “filtering” to spend five minutes looking at rentals on Zillow for Sacramento. Actually, let’s do it together: www.zillow.com/sacramento-c...
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Molly Olmstead @mollyolmstead.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s a long read, but I'd really appreciate it if you checked out my medbed story for Slate: slate.com/news-and-pol... It was a wild ride.
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Trump Posted About Magic Beds That Cure Cancer. Millions of Americans Believe They’re Real. I Found the Guy Who Started It All.
An internet conspiracy theory was killing people even before the president posted about it. I found the man who started it. He’s nothing like you’d expect.
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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
hilarious and insane article. full of the sorts of people you meet all the time in left activism, who combine neuroticism and narcissism to bring down any institution they're allowed into.
bostonglobe.com
A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe
Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Alright I skimmed this 75-page paper. The “brains are two organs, actually” headline is, as you’d probably expect, Reader’s Digest level clickbait The question the paper addresses is a pretty fundamental one in developmental biology: how & when are embryo cells marked for their fate?
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the recent story of homelessness in California, where those of us who support Housing First have done a piss poor job of explaining why billions in state investment haven’t meaningfully address the problem have thus handed a major propaganda victory to the right.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 22/09/2026
I think you had to be very online at a time when most people weren't to know that the bush administration was comically evil to the extent that it was, but for those of you who weren't: trust us! these were stupid evil people, not so different from the current ones!
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm not gonna lie, it's deeply blackpilling that this is exactly, in pristine detail, what people said would happen and aside from a couple high-profile cases immediately post-Dobbs it's just become complete background noise
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 21/09/2026
Oh my god. HE BROKE THE CRAZIFICATION THRESHOLD
The new pool, from American Research Group, conducted September 16-20 among 1,100 American adults, showed the president with a 29 percent overall approval rating, with positive views on the economy at 26 percent.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
at what point are ppl going to accept that just because this lady said a few things they agreed with a few years ago it does not mean that she's not a professional grifter who plays the exact same game the others you are more than willing to pillory also do
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
These are the AI risks we should be worried about and legislating against not freaking out over whether some poorly sandboxed security test leads to Skynet.
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