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👻 YSUBoOoOooOooo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Guys, if you aren't already supporting the Internet Archive, please consider doing so. They are way more than just the Wayback Machine. They have a massive library of texts, audio, films, video games, and more media available. I'm downloading the 1933 OED right now as pdfs. It's insane.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 22/09/2026

I discovered my old cards from ‘98 a year ago and tried to get back into collecting. It’s been..challenging. This post brought me joy.

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 21/09/2026

Do I have any friends at Naughty Dog? 👀

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 20/09/2026

Still laughing about this, omg.

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Old DeuTaranomy🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 15/09/2026

Good on you @focus-entmt.com. We need more companies standing up for their employees like this.

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 15/09/2026

I’m so happy for all the Widow’s Bay folks. It’s so encouraging to see great work recognized and rewarded. <3

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I DESPERATELY need your help with something, even if it’s just sharing this skeet: I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 14/09/2026

This is really bad!! :(

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chris balser 🖤 @doomfunk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

we wouldn't have gotten the jose chung etc episodes out of the chris carter cinematic universe without 26 episode seasons and a writer's room needing a minute away from the current themes. the world is worse without writer's rooms having the space to just shrug and go "screw it, demon breakfast"

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Explaincars Drama: the reason a flight attendant cannot sell the unmanifested passenger a drink, as you probably already guessed, is because he is a ghost and it would just go straight through him and onto the carpet, which would require additional cleaning at the gate.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/09/2026

If you're wondering why authors are getting so rabid here: First Anthropic stole our books. Then we got denied compensation because of US unjust copyright law and publishers failing to meet their contractual obligations. Then publishers and agents apparently claimed author shares. Now this.

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 30/08/2026

Oh this is awful! :( Maryland is having an issue with rabid beavers at the moment, it’s not a fun time! :/

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Liam Robertson @liamrobertson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

These aren’t betas. They’re old builds and prototypes. The term ‘beta’ has an actual meaning in game development and isn’t synonymous with prototype.

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 25/08/2026

Today is apparently my 23rd work anniversary. 🎉

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 24/08/2026

Update: the swelling went down and I can now see that I got stung 3 times. My arm is sore and keeps getting weird stingy pain, but I still think I won, because oooh pears.

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 24/08/2026

I picked pears and got stung by a wasp. But now I have half a bushel of pears so I think I came out ahead.

A box with a large amount of yellow/green pears in it. They’re the Starking Delicious variety which is a hybridized version of a Bartlett pear.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/08/2026

I agree that the tech backlash has a lot to do with the fact that Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on giving us cool things - and has trained us to assume that tech products that *seem* cool are probably secretly evil. I wrote about this last year:

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I Just Want a Cute Robot Lamp That Isn't Evil

Apple's engineers have figured out how to design a robot lamp so adorable that everyone I've shown the video to says they'd die for it. By studying how to translate human expression into the movement...

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 19/08/2026

NYC friends please share!

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 19/08/2026

I have spotty internet access while on vacation & recovering from medical stuff but I have just enough internet access that I finally figured out why I’m getting a ton of phone calls from CA. Turns out an insurance company who is denying people’s FMLA put MY PHONE NUMBER in their denial letters.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 19/08/2026

What better place for Negativland than the Internet Archive? Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive brings their legendary sound collage, humor & experimentation to SF. Come hear them live, then stay for the Q&A! IN PERSON EVENT! 📅 Sept 16, 6 PM–10 PM 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/negativlan... 🧵

Event promo graphic for Negativland live at Internet Archive, presenting "Significantly Less Deceptive" (An Over the Edge Evening), Sept. 16 at 300 Funston Ave, SF, CA, doors 6pm, show 6:30pm, Q&A afterwards, tickets $20. Three ornate antique picture frames, one with a picture-in-picture inset, hold collaged, glitter-flecked portraits of members of Negativland, set among a field of yellow wildflowers. Photo by Jennifer Bennett and Negativland.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I saw this picture and immediately had to show it to some level designers.

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 14/08/2026

Ok why are women’s issues always like this? Medical websites: Ovarian cysts are usually painless but can be managed with warm compresses and ibuprofen. Reddit: Ovarian cysts - 10/10 worst pain of my life, I have defied the stars and been struck down by the hand of Zeus himself

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 07/08/2026

After work I got a slurpee and the cherry foam looks like the writing on the One Ring. Turns out the elven lore was actually “..Seven Eleven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone…”

A cherry slurpee from above with foam on the clear plastic lid that sorta looks like the writing of the One Ring from lord of the rings.

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

47 years ago today "Bela Lugosi's Dead" is the debut single by English post-punk band Bauhaus, released on August 6, 1979 and is often considered the first gothic rock record Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (Riverside) HD #punk #punkrock #postpunk #gothpunkrock #belalugosisdead #bauhaus #history #otd

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 07/08/2026

Is it fall yet? Why not? 🫠

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 03/08/2026

just a heads up that we're scheduled to have another Barbenheimer on December 18. Avengers: Dunesday

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 01/08/2026

I’m taking psychic damage from having to listen to this guy on the train talk to his friend. He hasn’t paused to let his friend talk in 3 hours.

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Em McDonald 🏳️‍⚧️ @emdash.industries · 10/07/2026

With intense frustration: Stuck in rush hour traffic on 237, again.

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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Please use this link twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338... and tell twitch how fucking insane this is. Comment and let twitch know that this is horrible. Thank you

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Kayleigh McKee 🟡, Blinded my a billion brilliant lights @ghaspey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Tell Twitch to leave out AI at this link! Its seriously just a button click as long as ur signed into Twitch! twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 01/08/2026

So he never read The Veldt by Bradbury, hunh.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 30/07/2026

Game devs start worker hardship fund for laid off colleagues: aftermath.site/uvw-cwa-game-w...

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.

Patrick MacGoohan in an episode of Columbo; he’s seated at a glass desk in a wood paneled office with plants and wearing a black turtleneck with a tweed jacket.

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Gazbang Goblin @gazbanggoblin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

That man's never been to Olive Garden in his LIFE

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 21/07/2026

I feel so bad for government agencies right now. I just got a letter from the IRS saying they’re going to need another 60 days or more to address my issue (I just need a check re-issued). It’s easy to forget but I imagine the stress of working in any agency this past year has been awful. :(

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Megan S @ghostgirl.net · 18/07/2026

Tornado watch. The clouds are moving SO FAST. It’s a little obnoxious because I can literally see it pouring north of me but I have nothing so I will probably have to water the trees tonight. 🫠

Dark clouds over an elm tree in a backyard of green grass.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 18/07/2026

Given the lack of details provided by Taylor Farms thus far, Consumer Reports' food safety experts are advising folks in the 27 states implicated by the recall to discard ALL iceberg lettuce until we know more about where the parasite-linked products ended up www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

A map of the 27 states impacted by the recall: AL, AR, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WI.

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