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J.R. Raith @jrronimo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I'm winding down an astrophysics lab at work. I found an IBM ThinkPad 600X connected via RS232 to one of the fiber SANs. It runs Windows XP SP2. I found the password and logged in. This computer has been sitting there, on, for 2,585 days (7.08 years). Its battery still holds a charge!

The output from the Windows XP command "systeminfo". The most relevant lines here:

Original Install Date: 1/17/2007, 9:20:30 AM
System up Time: 2,585 Days, 0 Hours, 22 Minutes, 31 seconds

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I Fully Endorse this Idea….

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Caelestibus Irae @bruceinaz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Sunset at Papago Park in Phoenix

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2025

As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/07/2025

Back in my day our parents tossed us out at daybreak and told us not to come back until sunset and had no idea what we got up to, why, one time, me and three of my buddies hiked out past the train tracks to see a dead body, I never had friends like the ones I had when I was twelve, Jesus does anyone

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Google search's AI summary is like the loud confident idiot in the room who doesn't always know the answer to your question but HAS TO be the first one to reply to it.

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Compliments for humans: "For a thing so full of blood, it's amazing you don't slosh when you walk." "Three breath-holes? Now you're just showing off." "The way you move makes it hard to believe you're stuffed with bones." "Wow, that's a lot of skin, but you really make it work."

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God @thegodshow.com · 28/04/2025

There's only one person who's allowed to enter someone's home without a warrant, and that is Santa.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

There it is. The clam before the storm.

A clam on a wooden railing with a stormy grey sea in the background

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2025

This will be an especially difficult year to tell the difference between fake bullshit and actual bullshit this April Fool's Day

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 22/03/2025

March 22, 2025 Happy Birthday William Shatner. Today, completing 94 trips around the Sun. Congratulations on your 55-billion mile journey.

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Eve Vavagiakis @evevavagiakis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

In response to headline “Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database” I want to re-emphasize that all these grants were public record and written in response to public solicitations supporting DEI content. No “uncovering” or “releasing” was done here

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

You know what is, to me, a modern cathedral? A flagship science mission spacecraft. 100% hand built, utterly unique, labored on by thousands, made with precious materials, lodged in people’s hearts forever even if they never see it again, producing awe and inspiration.

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