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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 02/10/2026

Turns out cops and bootlickers don't like Flock cameras either if someone else controls them.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

They should make an upstream server that doesn't throw 503 errors.

Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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I’m seeing a new allergist-immunologist and today he brought up this study about how much Astepro nasal spray, which I use daily, appears to decrease the likelihood of COVID, flu, RSV, etc. I have barely gotten a cold since I started using it but had no idea why. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Azelastine Nasal Spray for Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 Infections

This randomized clinical trial evaluates the efficacy of azelastine as a preexposure prophylaxis against SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

Mickey 17 asks us to suspend a lot of disbelief, and I have no problem with that for a sci-fi movie, but... (spoiler ahead)

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 29/09/2026

My kid has zero physical textbooks and submits writing assignments via Google Classroom and somehow has a backpack just as overstuffed as I had at that age, just for the notebooks, which I bought at the smallest sizes on the teachers' supply lists. It's like Gates's Law for wide ruled paper.

Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 29/09/2026

A guillotine might fix me and therefore I should be allowed to purchase one with FSA funds.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 29/09/2026

After a couple of decades of wishing I had a magnet on a bendy stick whenever I dropped a screw somewhere difficult to reach, I finally remembered to buy a magnet on a bendy stick while I was at the hardware store. Please clap.

Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 28/09/2026

"Choosin' Texas" is the sort of "identity as aesthetic" kind of thing that white people who feel insufficiently represented in popular media can't get enough of, and ruined country music 25 years ago.

Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 28/09/2026

To prep for job interviews I've been vibe-coding a shared reminder app, which is the sort of composition of existing ideas that AI is quite good at, but it's extremely funny watching it contemplate the possibility that someone in my household might take my medicine or brush my teeth.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 28/09/2026

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was so engrossing that it took me a while after leaving the theater to realize I had been reading subtitles rather than comprehending Mandarin the entire time.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just got an almost certainly fake recruiter email, and I'm extremely tempted to fuck with them, but I can't figure out what the scam is yet. Anyone know what the hot recruiter scams are these days?

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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They should make a kind of alcohol that doesn't make you want to text people you know you shouldn't text

Are the weird background species in Tomorrow's Enterprise new, or did I just miss that in previous episodes?

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My taste in music has basically stagnated since becoming a parent, but my neighbor is blasting Tool on our porch and it is very clear that it has improved since college.

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From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 25/09/2026

Do those pet speech buttons pay for themselves the first time they prevent an unnecessary vet trip, or do they result in more unnecessary vet trips when your pets sit on the "ouch" button by mistake?

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The monthly Pixel update includes a theme that adds clips from the Harry Potter audiobooks as sound effects, in case you were wondering if Google has learned anything about how they treat their trans staff.

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I've got a job interview in a few minutes, so I made sure to get a frozen coffee to weed them out if they're petty about things like that.

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The Hasbara spin on this is going to be wild.

I went to get sushi and your dad was there.

hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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LLMs aren't made of neurology except in the most handwavey sense. They're made of narrative. That's why I started calling them text elementals: they're not human, they're most-likely-text generators we bent into living stories in a prose format centering the characters User and Assistant

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 20/09/2026

The tween wanted to make a robot costume for Halloween, and I warned her that people would think she's Bender, and she didn't know who that is, so I guess we're binging Futurama today.

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 19/09/2026

an AI pause will not address the real issue confronting us: california

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 20/09/2026

Our government is doing a lot of fucked up shit right now, but nothing better encapsulates the concept of "American Exceptionalism" than a sustained program of murder on the high seas, purely for propaganda purposes.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 19/09/2026

I thought of a podcast name so good that I would have been disappointed if it didn't already exist. Not only does it exist, but I already follow one of the hosts, previously unaware that he's a podcaster.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 19/09/2026

Occasional and unwelcome intrusive thoughts.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 19/09/2026

Watching Interstellar with my kid, and it has no business being this good. This should have been a totally forgettable popcorn movie. But it's not.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thread compression is the genuine best.

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Mind Titan 🎃 @porgus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The past never really dies. It just stands outside our window screaming at us.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 17/09/2026

You know how the AI safety people are saying a lot of things that seem at odds with the work they've been doing? There's a reason for that.

Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 16/09/2026

DuckDuckGo's AI has been reading those "What if we had nukes at the start of WW2?" alternate histories.

Iowa-Class Battleship Main Gun Power
Gun Specifications

The Iowa-class battleships were equipped with powerful 16-inch guns. These guns were capable of firing nuclear artillery shells, which had significant explosive yields.
Attribute Value
Gun Caliber 16 inches
Shell Yield 15 to 20 kilotons of TNT
Energy Equivalent 63,000 to 84,000 gigajoules
Energy Conversion

To understand the energy output in megajoules:

1 kiloton of TNT is approximately equal to 4.184 terajoules.
Therefore, the yield of the Iowa-class battleship's main gun translates to:

Yield (kilotons) Energy (megajoules)
15 62,730
20 83,640
Summary

The Iowa-class battleships' 16-inch guns were among the most powerful naval artillery ever, with yields ranging from 15 to 20 kilotons, equating to approximately 63,000 to 84,000 gigajoules or 62,730 to 83,640 megajoules. This immense firepower contributed significantly to their role in naval warfare.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 16/09/2026

In light of Kash Patel's testimony that they were only allowing *victims* of bestiality, I think we need a list of what crimes disqualify you from FBI employment simply by being a victim of them.