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Jacobston

@jacobston.bsky.social
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He/him Computer Engineering Technologist and Volunteer Marine Search & Rescue The new bad boy of Technical Writing! (I get to be called that because I’m such a good boy 😇)

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 28/09/2026
One thing that Hearst, my former employer, did a great job of was teaching us bystander intervention— how to calmly and efficiently shut down behavior that looked like potential harassment in the workplace. Would love to see more employers include bystander intervention in anti/harassment materials.
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 17/07/2026
ass out flower ate this is how i like pollinate
a bee with its fuzzy little butt covered in pollen, hanging over a leaf all assed out, face not visible, just bee butt
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Jacobston @jacobston.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Remember Jimbo from simpsons? This is him now
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
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Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler @catalicu.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Drowning does not look like drowning in the movies! Always good to review before water adventures.
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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
These viruses have been known problems in Korea for so long that there’s literally a M*A*S*H episode about them. People work their whole careers on viruses most people have never heard of…so that you never have to hear about them.
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Jessica Francis Kane @jfkane.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Don’t know where this came from. It’s been on the kitchen chalkboard since the pandemic. Still endlessly useful.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026
I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".
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TRAUMAGOTCHI 🕊️ @traumagotchi.net · 28/03/2026
Thank you for all your support thus far!!! After % cuts from Ko-fi and their payment processors I’ve earned $128 to put towards my college tuition and that’s wicked!! I’m excited to work on the commissions and have more anthro art in my portfolio Please 🔁 if you can! I need to enroll by May 20th
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A few weeks ago CBC reporter Sheena Goodyear reached out to me for comment on the new Spinosaurus paper. I said I couldn’t, because of Epstein connection Nathan Myhrvold’s involvement with it. We got to talking about how paleontology - especially dinosaur research- remains hostile to women. 🧪
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Paleontology has an Epstein problem. Women in the field say it's a symptom of a deeper misogyny | CBC Radio
The names of hundreds of scientists have appeared in the Epstein files, including prominent dinosaur researchers. As the paleontology community reckons with the fallout of these revelations, women in ...
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Ever been riding with someone new to biking or from out of town and you feel it's your personal responsibility to protect them and keep them safe the entire ride? Would be really great if our cities felt like this.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/03/2026
yes, renewable energy is woke and soy. it's gay and feminine to not have to pay the electric company every month. it's unmanly to drive a sedan that handles like a sports car. you're not an alpha if you don't owe your life and livelihood to the CEO of exxon
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This, to me, is the root of it: the left is always going to be more stuffy, constrained and dogmatic because *the left believes that oppression exists and matters.* This is a turnoff to a certain sort of person who does not wish to believe this. But reality wins eventually.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
in honor of a certain surgeon general nominee’s hearing today, here is the story of (among other things) the time I tried to take her advice about milk www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.
My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms
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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I think the collapse of print newspapers and the end of linear TV habits has created a context collapse for news. Where once day to day reporting and investigation and lifestyle sat side by side in one package, now they live as seperate things in people's minds, with reality warping effects
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...
Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife
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eaei @tape.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
please imagine its christmas so this meme pops off PLEASE
the simpsons meme where ralph is saying "(chuckles) im in danger" but baby jesus is overlayed over ralph and danger has been changed to manger.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
i stand by this statement every year
tweet reading: GAME TRAILER: “Enter a world beyond belief...”

ME: “Yes”

GAME TRAILER: “An adventure like never before...”

ME: “YES”

GAME TRAILER: “Join your friends online”

ME: “I’m out”
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Delilah Dagger B. @delilahdaggercomix.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It's a snow and wind storm today. Spud does not approve.
Panel 1: the panel is shaded with warm colours, A dog and a person stand infront of a door and the dog says "sister! I wish to go outside."

Panel 2: the door is opened, the outside is cool and blue, while the inside is warm coloured. There is wind blowing the person's hair back and the dogs ears and jowels back.

Panel 3: , back to full warm shading, the dog and person are back indoors as the dog prances away looking back at her. "Sister, it is cold, do a couch wiggle instead."

Panel 4: the beagle is upside down on the couch wiggling.
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting at a little bonfire, gazing restfully into the flickering flames.
Blue: Do you ever think of the ways your life could've gone differently?
Green: No.
Blue: Like if you could start over with everything that you know now?
Green: Nope. The odds of finding you again in the right place at the right time are way too low.
Blue: You'd rather have me than a new chance?
Green: Having you is the best possible life.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20/11/2025
EPIRBs xkcd.com/3169/
Comic. [Two people transferring cargo between a dock and a ship on a cart. A box has fallen off of it into the water labeled “EPIRB: Water-Activated Distress Beacons, 1600 ct”] [caption] “Hello, Coast Guard? We’d like to apologize once again for the 1,600 simultaneous false alarms this morning...”
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Ms Rachel @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.
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oscar fever medley @sarrsfest.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“It’s my job to worry about you!” is a fun thing to shout at strangers
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🦇 Hexavier 🎃 @xavierck.com · 29/10/2025
I am proud to be a knobhead
Meme I stole from Tumblr:

A closeup image of a Sony point and shoot camera with lots of buttons and knobs and whatnot.

Text says "The tactile interface fandom is dying. Repost if you're a true knobhead."
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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A story in three parts
A story in the parts
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Jacobston @jacobston.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I was born calling it Super Nintendo and I'll die calling it Super Nintendo
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
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Per Axbom @axbom.com · 26/09/2025
Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer. I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World. 1/11
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 17/09/2025
Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
In this week's advice column, someone asks how to "look busy" at work. What are your favorite techniques? Also, it's ridiculous that people are expected to sit in an office 40 hours/week if they can do their jobs in less time than that. slate.com/advice/2025/...
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Every Office Job Has One Unspoken, Important Rule. I Just Can’t Bring Myself to Do It!
Everyone makes it look easy.
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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
$483k!! Can we get to half a million for PCRF?
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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Wolf and pup at Cape Churchill in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.
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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock.Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We ship 11 billion tonnes of stuff around the world and 40% of that is fossil fuels.
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Baltimore shipping channel reopened after explosion on cargo ship near site of 2024 bridge collapse
Authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion aboard a cargo ship that was leaving the Port of Baltimore when it issued a mayday call.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I've found it I've finally found it The Best Subreddit Ever www.reddit.com/r/Cutawayporn/
reddit.com
A slice of perfection.
r/Cutawayporn
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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025
Reskeet with a tweet you still think about
Wish I lacked critical thinking skills yall seem so happy.
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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
the guy who invented the merry-go-round and the guy who invented the ferris wheel never actually met, because they travelled in different circles
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We won 🚲 www.cycleto.ca/cycle_toront...
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 29/07/2025
difficult to overstate just how much of conservatism is a maladaptive response to paternal abuse
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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
No doubt cyclists can be annoying. So can drivers. But there’s only one of us in this interaction with responsibility for a deadly weapon.
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Jacobston @jacobston.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
First minute or so of this video is incredibly righteous stuff (and the rest is hilarious), thanks @nerdcubed.co.uk 🤟 youtu.be/jvYO6KCRqHo?...
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Nerd³ Plays... Hello Kitty Island Adventure
YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
80 years ago this morning—at 5:29 AM (Mountain War Time)—about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, the nuclear age began with a big bang. Contrary to widespread assumptions, the area surrounding the remote Trinity test site was not uninhabited, and the fallout did not drift away harmlessly.
A black and white, high-speed photograph of the Trinity explosion at 0.025 seconds, showing what looks like a very large, slightly irregular bubble with a curtain of dust all around its bottom edge against a pitch dark sky. A scale indicating “100 meters” shows that the fireball was already approximately three times that size.Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion a few milliseconds later, showing an almost ghostly mushroom cloud with glowing tendrils rising from the ground above the very bright fireball.Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion with the same 100-meter scale, this time at 60 seconds post-detonation, showing a very large and billowy mushroom cloud rising into the sky.Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion taken some minutes after the previous photograph and showing the ominous looking mushroom cloud at a distance, its top spreading out and merging with regular clouds.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Writing MURDERBOT "taught me about my own neurodiversity. ... I have had a lot of people tell me that it helped them work out things about themselves and that it was just nice to see a character who thought and felt a lot of the same things they did." @marthawells.com with @clarakm.bsky.social
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We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells
Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series
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Jacobston @jacobston.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Planet of the Apes parody where Goofy comes back from space and finds that Mickey is leader of a group of talking mice who have enslaved all the non-talking dogs, like Pluto
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
there was something special about print media
"She's this mysterious
The Doctor can't put his
on what it is about

We've already seen her as a souffle-making entertainment officer, trapped inside a dalek — but now it's time to meet her properly!>Will the real Jenna-Louise Coleman please stand up? girl. 
finger
her.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
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