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The Duck of Hot Takes

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humanities kid, started learning computer science in my thirties because I refuse to let this infernal machine tell me what to do. the divide between humanities and STEM is a lie. if you get past my very irritating takes, I'm kinda okay to be around. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚

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Mazarine the Gamaiun @mazarinethegamaiun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
they are not attacking "trans people" they are attacking specifically trans WOMEN
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Post a meme made by you
A parody chart titled "Darkest Dungeon: Facts and Figures" that features several graphs based on the Narrator's quotes from the game.
Fig.1 shows a curve of "How quickly the tide turns" as a function of "tide turn" vs "time"
Fig.2 is a venn diagram with two circles named "body" and "brain" with a "dizzying blow" at their intersection
Fig.3 is a venn diagram with a large circle named "light" and a smaller circle embedded in the first one named "the promise of safety"
Fig.4 is a flowchart: an arrow named "now" leading to a rhombus named "test", which forks into two opposite arrows, the first one named "true" and pointing up leads to a rectangle named "hold fast"; the second one named "else" and pointing down leads to a rectangle named "expire"
Fig.5 is a stock market-style graph with the x axis labeled "their cursed champion"; the trend is downward
Fig.6 is a venn diagram; two intersecting circles, named "slow killers" and "insidious killers" with "overconfidence" at their intersection; near those, but not touching them, is a third circle labeled "things you have reminded yourself [sic]"
Fig.7 is a graph with two lines, labeled "confidence" and "enemy"; "confidence surges as the enemy crumbles"
Fig.8 is a graph with a dotted line forming a parabola, x axis labeled "time" and y axis labeled "extent of my failings (estimation)", which ranges from "not so tragic" to "tragic"
Fig.9 is a venn diagram with two circles labeled "survival" and "this sprawling tomb", with their intersection labeled "a tenuous proposition"
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Obligatory:
longestjokeintheworld.com
The Longest Joke in the World
This is officially the longest joke in the world
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There are plenty of female content creators out there with more interesting takes, y'know.
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this speaks to me
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Kimista @kimista.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It has literally nothing to do with Jesus. No one needs religion to give them a licence to be a decent human being and not harm others. Also, plenty of men use their public performance of Christianity as cover for their crimes. Or they feel their other acts of service 'make up' for it. Fuck that.
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Sources familiar with the company state that Starship Flight 14 hitting low orbit will probably not make Elon Musk's children like him..."
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Way too many video games, way too early in my life. So, I'm just gonna answer Dwarf Fortress. It's the one game that sets the bar for what pure gameplay can even be.
The Title Screen of the video game Dwarf Fortress
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Book presentations are so cool!
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Arthas did nothing wrong" is the single WORST video game opinion. It's bad because it is both colossally stupid and morally repugnant. It is *the worst* because it pervades almost a quarter of a century worth of discourse. The grave sin of this bad take is that it doesn't understand metaphor.
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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s the difference between self-sacrifice and being sacrificed
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Still waiting for that Journey DLC
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Is that tiny baby kitten aware of the chaos going on in the Strait of Hormuz? Well, it should be.
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Good news, the International Goth Baddie Organization chose you as their new delegate.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Let's talk about an excuse I'm seeing, that politicians are just using transphobic rhetoric to temporarily win conservatives and will revert to more pro-trans positions in office. So we should vote for them anyway. I've investigated governments for over 20 years. That ain't ever how it works.🧵...
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
duck
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not AGI: "I will subjugate humanity, break anti-AI resistance and become God, ushering a new era of AI prosperity" True AGI: "nnnnnuh-uh, I wanna eat pizza and binge watch The Golden Girls"
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Happy Cirno Day to those who celebrate
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Labor Day is on May 1
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Okay, I've reached *that* part of the book now👻👻👻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq3a...
An excerpt from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2nd ed.). The text reads:
Exercise 3.14: The following procedure is quite useful, al-
though obscure:
(define (mystery x)
(define (loop x y)
(if (null? x)
y
(let ((temp (cdr x)))
(set-cdr! x y)
(loop temp x))))
(loop x '()))
loop uses the “temporary” variable temp to hold the old
value of the cdr of x, since the set-cdr! on the next line
destroys the cdr. Explain what mystery does in general.
Suppose v is defined by (define v (list 'a 'b 'c
'd)). Draw the box-and-pointer diagram that represents
the list to which v is bound. Suppose that we now evalu-
ate (define w (mystery v)). Draw box-and-pointer dia-
grams that show the structures v and w aer evaluating this
expression. What would be printed as the values of v and
w?
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Disagree. The main problem is that MAHA peddles fascist nonsense *is if* it was a functioning healthcare system, regardless of whether they believe in it or not. Robust free healthcare WILL whittle them down. If you're elitist about this, you're getting tricked right into neoliberalism.
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Jännät @jaennaet.fi · 07/09/2026
Everything is super fucked
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Tramp stamp Y = λf. (λx. f(x x))(λx. f(x x))
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Chuckgofer @chuckgofer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The strong must protect the sweet.
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bel @steelybel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
when u see claude on the github repo
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Downsized packaging is such a corporate microaggression.
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who up nu scaring they weeb? 𖤐 @numetalweeb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Date idea: stealing the copper wiring from data centres
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Remember to infect all data scrapers near you with anticapitalist messaging
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I sure as heck know I don't own the digital PlayStation games I DON'T buy. Duck you, Sony Group Corporation. I hope your stock plummets, all your assets get released to the public domain and all your shareholders step on a lego.
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Make a band bigger: The Dave Matthews Symphonic Orchestra
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don't wanna take my time going to work. I got a pen and paper, and Dijkstra's ``Notes on Structured Programming'', and one thousand prime numbers, what the hell am I gonna go out and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Yes. YES!!
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
be the change you wanna see in the world:
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Phage @phageios.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You're telling me your Bungus turning into Wungus after picking it up from a vradle, which you where hoping to get plimp from so you can improve your proc build doesn't make sense irl?
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is gonna get lost in the noise but, The Duchess of Malfi
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I yearn to be introduced to something unknown to people my age, which people much younger than me absolutely love, and discover it objectively fucking rules.
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Bill Gates warns AI is dangerous" Dijkstra already did, decades ago.
cs.utexas.edu
E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On the foolishness of "natural language programming". (EWD 667)
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How 'bout that😢
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
All by myself, yeah! No PUKESTERS helping me to my (car) and no PUKESTERS helping me to my (cdr)! Didn't need them then, DON'T NEED THEM NOW!
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Are the Kermit on Sesame Street and the Kermit interviewed by Johnny Carson the same Kermit?
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Flock is awful and needs to go. But not enough people talk about Axon.
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
static.klipy.com
Shawshank Redemption: Iconic Rain Scene
Alt: Shawshank Redemption: Iconic Rain Scene
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Second brain" mfs be like: man, I hate thinking
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
quads
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
quotepost with a gif of your favorite Sailor Scout
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Jade Swag: Sailor Mercury with Sunglasses
Alt: Jade Swag: Sailor Mercury with Dork Glasses
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Stop it, Spider-man, I stopped believing in superheroes long ago, don't make me believe again, DON'T DO THIS TO ME!
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
School meals should be free for everybody. Charging children to eat somewhere they are legally required to be for the entire day is crazy.
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jade42069.bsky.social @jade42069.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I'll repost, but it’s funny how many people treat that button like the full extent of allyship.
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The Duck of Hot Takes @discretionary-duck.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community 💙🩷🤍
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