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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PROPHETS AND KINGS ARE NATURAL ENEMIES

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 29/09/2026

As a person who would personally benefit from a new steel mill in Iowa, and you may find this hard to believe, I still don’t think this guy should have a third term in defiance of the the constitution.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 28/09/2026

They invented an “off” switch?

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 24/09/2026

Smoking my first brisket. Wish me luck.

A large, heavily seasoned slab of meat sits on a partially blackened smoking rack on a home kitchen counter.

This time the meat is viewed from above with a tape measure showing it to be a little over 21 inches long.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 24/09/2026

Any piece of infrastructure more complicated than residential plumbing is dependent upon the labor of furries.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 24/09/2026

I used to be really into wearable tech. I even spent a few years trying to develop an earpiece that would pick up and amplify dolphin sonar for divers and fisherman, but I eventually let that project go. It just wasn’t giving me a good sense of porpoise.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 23/09/2026

Bizarre Little Men: Social structures and cultural practices among the Jawa merchants of the Dune Sea.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 22/09/2026

Now that I’m married, get ready for me to start some insufferable Wife Guy™️ posting. Here’s a soft one to kick it off: My wife is a better painter than G. W. Bush.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 21/09/2026

You can just mix up some bbq sauce and lemon pepper and sip on it. It’s not even illegal.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 17/09/2026

There’s this ad I keep hearing on podcasts and I thought it was for a truck but after like the third listen I realized it’s for a COPD inhaler and it’s just being targeted at retired men who were too tough to ask their employers for proper respiratory protection.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 15/09/2026

ed sheeran does not speak for the Crappy Doofus community. we are not a monolith

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 11/09/2026

The fuck are you talking about? It’s a variety show. It doesn’t need a premise it just needs a cast. It has a cast and that cast is owned IP, this is a no brainer.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Roaring 20s are back baby, everyone is still mentally ill from a plague and a war, importing Canadian booze is illegal, James Carville is alive

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 07/09/2026

I remember months ago there was word going around that Fielder was visiting her in prison and I was like yoooooooo, next season of the rehearsal is gonna be WILD!

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 06/09/2026

WOOD SWORD! WOOD SWORD! WOOD SWORD!

A freshly etched, but unfinished sword blade. The pattern in the steel looks kinda like tree bark.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 05/09/2026

I have made copper “driftwood”. This is how we science. Copper over nickel over antique wrought iron. #blacksmith #metalwork

A hand holding two bits of metal that shine with a copper color in the sunlight but have the wood-like texture of etched or aged wrought iron. The effect makes it look like copper driftwood.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 05/09/2026

Ciabatta is older than credit scores, but by less than the span between GTA titles. Less than half of the time span between Incredibles movies.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 05/09/2026

Oh, hello, didn’t hear you come in. Don’t mind me, just doing some science. Make yourself at home until the science is concluded and I’ll join you for discussions of science.

A messy work bench with a power supply running electrodes into a mason jar. The power supply is set to 12 volts, causing one of the electrode to bubble. Next to that jar is a second jar full of a bright blue liquid. It’s all very sciencey.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 04/09/2026

No, they don’t. That’s the point, they don’t have their own ideas. That’s why the question matters, because obscuring that reality opens the door to nonsense like this headline.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 02/09/2026

Every conservative actually wants her so bad that she’s the fucking chief international land baron of rent-free mental real estate.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

like some of it documents history that archaeologists and anthropologists can at least partially verify, but some of it is poetry or song, and then there's a bunch of letters, and then John gets high at the end and starts yelling about dragons. you've gotta let the metaphors just wash over you, man

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 02/09/2026

Sitting here at the bar watching the Whitesox catcher have to delay the game because he’s having IT issues. Sports are stupid now, you can’t deny it.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 31/08/2026

What’s wild is that I’ve been around so much feminine stuff and my dick has never fallen off, nor have I ever been fooled into raising the children of another species, so I’m really confused about what these guys are afraid of.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

one time on facebook a local farmers wife was losing her mind about socialism so i showed her how their farm received over $1 million in farm subsidies and her husband made her delete the post and i think about that more and more lately

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 26/08/2026

Whats the point of having an American Pope if we can’t get an American canonized? I’m confident that there are more than enough anecdotes about Dolly that the Catholic Church could qualify as “miracles”. Leo, you’re on notice.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton taught me it was ok to be universally beloved

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 25/08/2026

I can’t help but feel like we could improve on this. What if, and hear me out, what if the legs were replaced but circles? Like a ring that moves around a central point, suspended from that point by rods. Like one big artificial foot instead of two, but it’s just a big ring.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A New Color (1/5🧵)

Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.”

Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.

Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.”

Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 25/08/2026

The doctor calls them “burn scars” but I call them Experience Points.

A white guy’s arm and hand with a bunch of pink spots on it.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 23/08/2026

Honestly, if this isn’t a #CakeSword, I don’t know what is. #blacksmith #bladesmith

An unfinished blade sitting on an anvil, viewed from overhead. The blade has the general shape of a bread knife, with long, straight edge and handle offset for additional knuckle clearance, but both the blade and the handle are way too long.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 22/08/2026

A man. *bang bang* A plan. *bang bang bang* A canal. *bang* Panama.

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Mitch Wells @miatch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The AI industry itself has worked hard to blur the difference between LLMs and ML. So, no wonder the general public has difficulty distinguishing between the two. ML allows us to do amazing things. LLMs are the things that dumb down writing and make you scream at call centers.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The difference in utility between the use of ML to tackle big data problems that would otherwise be intractable & the use of LLMs to produce pointless slop is so large they cannot both be usefully described as “AI“. The first is making real progress, the second is dragging us towards the abyss.

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Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Mister Rogers never misses

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 17/08/2026

This is some Alien Cake level shit right here.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 14/08/2026

Vance thinks converting to Catholicism is like, a diploma, or something. Like it’s a certificate you can now put on your resume.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 13/08/2026

If I owned a small restaurant right now, I would put out a sandwich board with actual pictures of our food and simply the words, “Actual pictures of our food.” Free idea, you can have that. Get your regulars to post about it online, one of them will go viral.

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Crabwith A. Cigarette @crab.institute · 13/08/2026

It finally struck me: the fonts, the colors, the layout, it all suddenly makes sense. This is the Taco Bell aesthetic. AI is how they win the Brand Wars.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Wow. I wrote about this at length in my book on logistics, I never thought any politician would do anything about it. For decades companies of every kind have used subcontracting to dodge responsibility for their workers.

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