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John Bowe

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Creating dumb solutions to dumb problems.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 5h
[A parody of MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD, in which the kindly Mr Rogers takes us to see local things in his town.]
 
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MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD

MR ROGERS:

Hi there

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Today, I’d like to take you to visit some of my neighbours… 

[He puts his coat on to leave his house]  

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At a wonderful local event,
 
[We see the cute toy-town diorama of his village famous from the TV show. The camera pulls out…]

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The Data Center protest.

[The camera has pulled out further and now we see a huge DATA CENTER at the edge  of town]. 

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MR ROGERS [joining a crowd protesting outside the Data Center]:

The Data Center is an enormous, windowless, endlessly humming building outside of our town

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…Which has tripled energy prices, drank all the water, and created four jobs.

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[to camera, as if kindly explaining to the viewing children]:

Four jobs! Golly!

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LADY PROTESTOR [probably NAOMI KLEIN, holding a sign]:

In a way, the Data Center is kind of a vivid metaphor for a future we feel locked out of!

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MR ROGERS [to camera again]:

A metaphor.

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That’s something that lets us clarify our feelings about something else. 

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LADY PROTESTOR:
How do you feel, Mr Rogers?

MR ROGERS:
I feel like bringing down the government!

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MR ROGERS [now holding a sign and protesting]:

It’s good to have neighbors.

[ends]
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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 13h
Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 39m
Years ago I wrote about one of these and did an interview that was scheduled to be ~30 minutes. I think I was on the phone with them for nearly 2 hours — told them so many times I really had to go, I had other commitments, please follow up via email or let’s book another time. I was near tears lmfao
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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 1h
I have a very old version of Word that I continue to use because I have an auto formatting comics template that I love and it only works in Word. But it might be time to consider making the switch. Just so I can use software that is still supported by the developer.
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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 1h
If you're using an Ai thumbnail to promote your shit Im slamming the Do Not Recommend This Channel. Im already inundated with 700 ads every 30 seconds. You want to post a thumbnail of yourself hanging out with Frankenstein, pay somebody or poorly photoshop that shit together as God intended. lol
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 15/03/2025
Who said the Germans have no sense of humour?
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 10h
Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing.
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ADIOS RETURNS! At the lowest price it will ever go! That's right: it costs less than the price of an Arby's Reuben sandwich! store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/... If you like the game, please leave a review? We're only a COUPLE reviews away from OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE!
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Amadeus Guy @amadeusguy.bsky.social · 9h
Adios is a phenomenal game that made me cry (TWICE), and you should really pick it up if you haven't. Then you should play it (immediately, you can clear it in an afternoon), so that you can cry too.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 15h
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WIRED @wired.com · 16h
A global network of detectors are reporting some of the most substantial measurements yet of neutrinos created deep underground by the radioactive elements that power our planet’s tectonic activity. www.wired.com/story/elusiv...
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Elusive ‘Geoneutrinos’ Are Building a New Map of Earth’s Volatile Interior
A global network of detectors are reporting some of the most substantial measurements yet of neutrinos created deep underground by the radioactive elements that power our planet’s tectonic activity.
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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 16h
Bury my heart at
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JBR @jetblackraider.itch.io · 16h
Commorragh working as a real city is so important 2 my heart
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Of all the politicians Navatek’s CEO courted, Susan Collins was its most important patron. The senator’s office steered federal contracts worth millions toward the company while her campaign was pumping its CEO and his network for donations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg
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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In a filing yesterday in Kennedy Center case, Rep Beatty says defendants have “categorically refused" to provide ordered discovery on Trump’s threats to close or demolish the Center if his name doesn’t go back on the façade. … 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Perhaps most starkly, Defendants have categorically refused to respond to admissions regarding Plaintiff's Supplemental Authority, which addressed two separate threats by Chairman Trump to close or demolish the Kennedy Center if he was not adequately recognized.
Defendants objected and withheld a response on the basis that such information is outside the scope of discovery, despite this Court expressly authorizing discovery by minute order into that precise topic. On Defendants' telling, although "the information requested" is the " 'subject' of Plaintiff's Notice of Supplemental Authority and facially within the Court's minute order," it is not "related to the 'substance, justification, mechanics, and process' of the Board at its August and September meetings." This directly violates the Court's minute order which made crystal clear that this is a topic for discovery.
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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
School music programs are getting absolutely bodied by tariffs, per @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...
The effective tariff rate on instruments in June was about 13 percent, said Cullen Hendrix, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. That was down from a peak of nearly 24 percent last September but more than twice as high as before Mr. Trump’s second term.
Band and orchestral instruments have been hit the hardest, he said. In the second quarter of this year, imports of instruments were down nearly 20 percent from the same period in 2024. Imports of orchestral string instruments, including violins, violas and cellos, dropped 50 percent. Brass instruments fell 43 percent.

“It’s hitting the horns, it’s hitting the strings, it’s hitting the percussion,” Mr. Hendrix said. “All of those things combined are kind of sapping the available pool of tools that we can provide these children to begin their journey.”
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've been a journalist for 35 yrs &never done anything like this. Esp in this area, I can't think of anyone reputable who'd do this. I hate this happened to you & IMO it's not ethical. IF it were possible they were going to share yr interview internally, you should have been told up front at MINIMUM
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TIL there’s a fish that lives in the lowest depths of the Congo River that has stunted growth, no color pigment, and no eyes. And locally it’s called “mondeli bureau,” which translates to “white man in an office” LMAO
A very small blind pasty white yellowish fish in the palm of someone’s hand. Lamprologus lethops, a fish that lives in the lower Congo River, is pale and blind like fish that dwell in caves deep underwater.
(Image credit: Courtesy of Melanie Stiassny)
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
imagine telling the pope “you’re not even an AI influencer” like that’s a sick burn
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Anthony Bellamy is now Deputy Chief of Ithaca pd
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Have you read the study about what's happening to families? The full stream of The Tim Heidecker Podcast gets real about children. Watch now: bit.ly/4rOMpxc
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Blame my assistant
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MegaApple @megaapple18.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Capcom Engineers are building tools that aren't just Game Industry leading, but Tech Industry leading. And making it open source. But this will neither get coverage or apprication. Instead people will blindly fall for clickbait.
So the fastest JSON serializer for .NET now is developed by CAPCOM as part of their game engine that powers Resident Evil / Biohazard

I did not see that coming lol

https://github.com/CAPCOM-TD-OSS/REDoxThey’re also doing their own memory-management work underneath this. Instances are managed in 64 KB pages, with page reference counting plus cache and GC optimizations. The goal seems to be reducing the cost of managing huge numbers of objects while improving locality and avoiding some of the fragmentation problems they’ve had before.
This also makes CAPCOM’s REDox project much more interesting.

REDox is their open-source .NET serialization/data library, with JSON, CBOR, MessagePack-style structured data handling, lazy decoding, streaming, compact token storage, etc.
At first glance it just looks like a standalone .NET library.
In context, it looks much more like the kind of infrastructure they can write and test normally in C#, then feed into this RE:Runtime / RE:C++ pipeline and ship as native engine code.
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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Portfolio of the Day | Wojciech Ostrycharz → buff.ly/KiRbsVB #art #portfolio #illustration #drawing
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The Art of Wojciech Ostrycharz
Discover the finest artists from animation, games, illustration and comics..
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小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 03/10/2026
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SeverLink - Wishlist NOW! @severlink.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
LOOK AT OUR GAME! please :) YOU CAN BACK IT NOW! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #y2k #lowpoly
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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026
GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb
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Gondor Flame
ALT: Gondor Flame
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s crazy fascinating. I never thought of it like that. I don’t expect this to survive appeal but for legal nerds it will be a very cool discussion on what Congress has the authority to legislate here in contrast to individual states. I assume most states criminalize this anyway.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I *knew* it
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Breaking news: A military judge has thrown out yet another confession in the 9/11 case, ruled it was involuntary.
nytimes.com
Judge Throws Out Another Confession in Sept. 11 Case (Gift Article)
Prosecutors have long considered the defendants’ admissions during interrogations in 2007 to be their best evidence.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i’ve got a new bit, now i just say “sorry i don’t speak chinese” in perfect chinese over and over until they get mad and hang up
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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Morning Star Rockford Illinois August 05,1915
P1- EVERETT SEES A HORSE LEFT OUT IN THE HOT SUN BY ITS OWNER 
P2-EVERETT LOCATED THE OWNER 
EVERETT : IF YOU'D HITCH THAT CRITTER A FEW STEPS FORWARD IT WOULD BE OUT OF THE BROILING SUN-SO AND DO IT YOU LAZY GALOOT!!!

EVERETT THROWS THE OWNER TOWARDS THE STREET WHERE HE LEFT HIS HORSE
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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 03/10/2026
Here's a funny thing that happened
pcgamer.com
After 30 years they finally let Ace Combat's director fly in a real jet, and I'm taking credit
This is what a man looks like after fulfilling a lifelong dream.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FA is being very up front about both the cost of hosting the site [it aint cheap] and how advertisers theyd been relying on prior are pushing all the same puritan bullshit weve been seeing other platforms push FA is one of very few Old Internet spaces around. Support em while we CAN
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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electric_glacier (windfallapples) @windfallapples.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Techbros could watch Johnny Got His Gun and take it as fodder for swindling investment for personality backup software.
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titsay 𓆏 @titsay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No one has ever been this high on their own supply
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NYT: Anthropic Nearly Walked Out on Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical — Then Lobbied His Advisers
Chris Olah saw an advance copy of Magnifica Humanitas days before the Vatican launch and proposed withdrawing over its stance on machine consciousness. The pope held his ground.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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RSpanner @rspanner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Without Question (2024) - (1/3) A Tessduin comic My answer to the question of where Tess Greymane was during the burning of Teldrassil. (Trigger warning: inferno/fire, blood, burns)
Years ago (WoD era)

A younger Anduin is reading in bed. There is a knocking at a curtained window. He picks up his cane and goes to check.(TW blood)

Anduin throws open the curtain, with his cane raised, only to see Tess Greymane sat outside his window covered in snow. She waves sheepishly, her hand covered in blood.

It cuts to later with him tending to her injuries.(TW blood)

Tess lays face down on his couch as he tends to her wounded arm.

Tess: I don't want to hear a word out of you about sneaking out. 
Anduin: Would it hurt to try not getting shot next time?
Tess: If it's that much of a bother, I could always trouble another healer.
Anduin: If you want your father to hear how his only heir has been jumping headfirst into danger, then be my guest... but I don't recommend it.
Tess: Then you won't have any problem helping me out the next time I get caught!

Anduin grumbles as he uses the Light to heal her arm.

Tess: Ow
Anduin: Sorry...Tess: But for what it's worth... thank you.
He smiles.
Anduin: You're welcome.

Years later.
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Visual Novel News @visualnovelnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sengoku Rance reached 1,000 concurrent players on Steam The game reached a Very Positive rating with 150+ reviews in less than 24 hours If you own Yoru ga Kuru, another Alice Soft title, you can get an additional discount
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🧛‍♀️🐺Marceline🔥🪭 @marceline2174.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Witches
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Pittsburgh graffiti @pghgraffiti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🤔
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Tom Schalk - Voice Actor Guy @tomschalk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Halloween times are coming 💀
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