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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hello little one. 😍

CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As long as I can remember, immigration has been an issue for both sides of the aisle to get votes. If you actually look at our immigration system, it is nonsense with a fast track specifically to benefit wealthy corporations. As long as it can be used to get votes, there is no incentive to fix it.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I grew up in Dayton, OH, and I spent a lot of weekends with my dad on Lake Erie fishing. He was an Aerographers Mate (meteorologist) on an aircraft carrier in the Navy, and we wouldn't head to the lake if the radio said the conditions would be bad. That radio was a giant part of my childhood.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am disabled due to US healthcare. Had I lived here in Germany after my cancer treatments in 2005, I would be perfectly healthy. Much needs to change.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe decline to try ridiculous lawsuits or even disbar the lawyers who filed them. That would reduce the need for a lot of insurance.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would be curious to see what percentage of people for or against AI are religious or atheist and in which direction they lean.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I believe it was because they dared leave the house without his permission.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing. If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so. If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“six million forms of communication-really C3P0?”: an investigation 1/1138

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All I hear is that conservative authors are bad.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sounds like you're good to go in that regard. I had to learn Spanish and German the hard way. heh

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Have you visited? How are your foreign language skills? What were you thinking that you would do for work? These are important questions to ask yourself. You might want to look into the work visa requirements where it is you would like to live.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No tax on tips seems wonderful until you want to get a loan and can't prove your income.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah, I couldn't tell you how many concerts I saw in other cities when I studied here. I live here now, and that hasn't changed. In the US, people have been prosecuted because they let their child walk around their own neighborhood alone, whereas here 1st graders regularly take the bus to school.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No, but the schedules were more like university than high school in the US. You would have free time during the day to do whatever.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

To be clear, the reading was only in my English and German classes. I had no homework at all in my other classes (Spanish, Art, Music, Math, History, Science, etc.). This was 1991-1992, and I was in the 12th grade in a 13 grade school system.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've been an avid reader since childhood. It just didn't seem like work to me. I stand corrected.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm sorry. My personal definition was different. I stand corrected.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here in Germany, kids either don't or rarely have homework. In my experience as an exchange student, we never did other than to read books which we were quizzed about in class and tested on when we had finals.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.

figure shows dramatic cut in research staff

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Related: The AI wheel of death for Universities via www.optimallyirrational.com/p/are-u…

This “wheel of death”, proposed by James Bedford and William Scates Frances in 2023 and updated by Bedford in 2025, illustrates how AI might progressively erode the current role of universities.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026

this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm originally from Dayton. Are they at Children's?

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My brother would answer the landline, "County morgue. You stab 'em, we slab 'em!".

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I slept in that day and didn't even know what was happening until almost 6 pm.

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Katherine T. Tyson @katherinettyson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fear being a high chance (>10%) of human extinction this decade They have agency in choosing to pursue Agentic AI but are acting like they have none. It's half a dozen US companies trying to secure individual enrichment through inflated IPO offers, while pretending they can't stop because "China"

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Exclusive | Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears

Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Griffon girls learned about physics today 😂 IG: @the.griffon.girls

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Masters of Magic was also a favorite as well as the Civilization series. I want to say that you can get all of them on GOG.com.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For the 90's it was T.I.E. Fighter.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Elite was, and is, awesome. I think my favorite 80's games all had Ultima then a number.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That's ridiculous. Here in Germany, first graders take the bus to school.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A long time ago, a Swedish friend of mine got me into the band Imperiet. I think it would be worth your time to check them out.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Follow the EU's lead and divest from all US tech firms.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That's illegal here in Germany.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I wish you nothing but the best and a competent team to bring you through.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I was once on hold with Dell for that long. It almost makes you think that they do it on purpose.

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CroTheFool @crothefool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That sucks. I would say to make it a Karen moment but no customer service person deserves that. I wish you the best with it.

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