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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

How much is the predicted El Niño situation expected to push the global mean up?

ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It's just a ploy so he can sell a golden dictionary with his name on it next year. It will contain the newest and best words, like no other dictionary in history has ever had.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Great story, thanks. I wonder how Vitaly's plans on doing his shtick in Europe are going to work out for him. The European country I grew up in doesn't even allow you to film people and then publish this without their consent, but I guess it'll depend on the country.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I envision a case in which a potential stalker is interested in a random person they see in a cafe on a regular basis, but they don't know much about them. Now, using facial recognition, it would allow them to get actual personal information. It enables the stalker.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Man, you could also just say 500%, or 600% lighter. “People understand that better,”, “[] they're two ways of calculating” and “either way, it doesn't make any difference.” (from "Introduction to Trump Math, 1st edition)

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

He has a "special" relationship with Ivanka, though. About her he said: "If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her." And: "She's really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father..."

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

There's a kernel of truth to that whole "lizard people" conspiracy after all.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

There's "Florida Man", and then there's "Florida Cop"...

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Ha, oui. Il faut préciser de qui il s'agit. Il y a ici un vaste vivier de candidats pervers.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Oh shit, that's actually about twice as fast as I would have guessed if someone on the street asked me about my estimate about sea level rise, using my most pessimistic instinct.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

What I'd kinda want to see here in Oregon is an ALDI store. I wonder if they're planning to expand into the West Coast regions.

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Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @andysaunders-1.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is incredible. The new NASA image release from #Artemis includes a sequence of 'Hello World' still photographs. I've been processing / animating them and here's what the original didn't show us: Satellites, including their solar arrays, lightning storms and dancing aurora!

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Wow, this is amazing! Thanks for processing these images and sharing it with the world. Beautiful.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Wow, that's like a 800% reduction in stripes.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

What a crazy story. In the meantime, my neighbors in a more wealthy enclave of Portland can nonchalantly blow all the leaves of their property right into the street starting early fall, and then a month later (2'' deep mud by now) we have a free leaf-pickup day that the $693 probably subsidize.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

yeah, that decision could literally backfire on them...

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This looks great, and is making me really hungry. I looked through the article, hoping in vain I'd find a recommendation for a restaurant in Portland that offers this dish. Anybody here have any suggestions?

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Hey, that's the entry for "Backpfeifengesicht" in my visual German dictionary!

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Wow, their argument is that these birds cannot be protected by federal law because they are endemic to one state? That's insane.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I hope Europe appreciates the current chaos in the US as a historic opportunity to attract talent like her.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Ha, Le Vourdalak was the first thing that came to my mind as well. O'Reilly's best performance by far...

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In addition to that, I had to pay brokerage fees when ordering a small item from Canada. UPS isn't going to pay me back those fees even if they'd refund the tariff part, I'm guessing.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Seems like this administration is running a large-scale experiment on the Dunning Kruger effect. They only forgot to include a stable control group of actual experts.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It's annoying that WhatsApp is so prevalent in Europe. The only reason I have it installed on my phone here in the US is to communicate with family and friends in Europe. I see Signal as a much better alternative, despite it being US-based. But getting anyone to move there has been impossible.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I do not want to meet the single person that might feel sorry for that asshole.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

With this administration, I'd be inclined to think it is this:

An image of a dowser at work, from Pierre le Brun, Histoire critique des pratiques superstitieuses, (Jean-Frederic Bernard, 1733–1736). Found on Wikipedia.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

That guy has always smelled like a grifter to me. Also, a whiner. Remember when he was supposedly attacked on a max train, which turned out to be just him being a thin-skinned asshole basically.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Both men said they would be open to voting for a Democrat for Congress this November. And for the first time in 20 years, a Democratic primary will be held in their district, a sign that the party believes it has a chance to flip what has been a solidly Republican seat.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

But the past year has been a series of disappointments. There were the immigration raids. The killings of 2 U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. (Tim: “You can’t have masked thugs go out and kill citizens. Not in our country.”) And then, the war in Iran. (Joel: “He said he wouldn’t do war. And he did it.”)

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Quote from the article: [..,] In past elections, he voted party line for Republicans. He voted for Donald J. Trump in 2024, as did his father, a choice that, for both men, was part muscle memory, part dislike of the Democratic candidate.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

She was very famous in German-speaking countries in the early 80s when I was a little kid. My parents had an LP with her singing mostly in German. "Guten Morgen Sonnenschein" and "Weisse Rosen aus Athen" has been burned into my brain.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Well, I understand that , because he does interact with Stephen Miller regularly. (I'm leaning "vampire", but "demon" might be the correct taxonomy for that one...)

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

That's a cool time-lapse, thanks. I see myself in that video, ha! I want to say "Thanks!" to all the all the organizers and the creative people out there who made this such a special day.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Yes! For the fire in the sky, fill one up with a hydrogen and oxygen mixture! (Although, that would be risky to do by mouth.)

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I misread “Bold Christian Faith” as “Bold Christian Fascism". For a moment I thought: kudos to them for actually owning up to what this is about.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

He was very much anti-himself-going-to-war during Vietnam, receiving four student deferments and a 1968 medical exemption for bone spurs in his heels.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Man, I'm glad my senator is Ron Wyden and not this Dick...

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Great opinion piece on how the super-rich avoid prosecution and accountability for crimes they committed. (Hint: "donating" to Trump's inaugural committee pays off. ) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

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Opinion | One Man Stole $660 Million. He’ll Never Pay It Back.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

ok, I didn't realize this was the onion at first, because it sounds like something the guy would say. Similarly, I'm seeing a lot of articles these days that I think are from the Onion, but then turn out to be real news. The singularity has arrived...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

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DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email

The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I had the flu last week, and that's how I felt. Took a whole week for me to recover.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

It's a pretty funny article. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...

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Want to Reach Nirvana? Try a Colonoscopy.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I can't believe it's been more than 10 years already that David Bowie died. Well, there's something to be said about Gary Oldman's theory that the world started going to shit after he left us. (Thanks for posting all these great photos, by the way. Very enjoyable.)

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Such cruelty. ICE detained a family seeking medical care for their 7 year old. They didn't allow her to actually see a doctor. That's some Nazi-level shit right there... Gift article: www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

oregonlive.com

ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital

The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The remaining 1 billion was spent studying shrimp on treadmills, they say.

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