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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/08/2025

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

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Drew Conry-Murray @drewcm.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Not just any crab. A crab of mischief!

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billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

dude at Pitt Starbucks drew me a crab and it is making me unexpectedly very cheerful

a starbucks iced beverage with a hand drawn crab on the side, captioned, crab of mischief

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billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Just played around with some of these examples and damn.

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billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Hello, in your fields, are conferences held during the work week or on weekends? This is the second time this year I am dealing with needing to attend a work event on a Saturday and like... daycare is not open on Saturday? But also, why are any of you working on Saturday? Anyway, hard no here...

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

GPT-5 is like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.” Man, have you ever tried to get a PhD to follow instructions? It’s virtually impossible.

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billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

When you take the Test of English as a Foreign Language, you get a score, a useful result no matter how you perform. Not so for Portuguese -- if I flunk the B2 test, I won't walk away with a certificate saying I speak at a B1 level. Why design the test this way???

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 05/08/2025

Book historians, tech history folks, everyone: what are your favorite examples of pre-computational automated writing systems, machines, etc? I take a capacious idea of “automated writing” here: prompt books, Dadaist poetry, autopens, etc etc

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/08/2025

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Donut holes don't exist as traversable spaces in real life.

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billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Grateful to grow up in a generation of two body academics who had people like Lenore & Manuel (or Manuela & Jose) at CMU to show us that family life and a life rich with intellectual curiosity are not at odds.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I'm sure this is a serious social issue (on which I'm not qualified to comment) but I did find this genuinely hilarious: 'The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming "the technology is not advanced enough for that".'

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billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Maybe some more nuance is that in general, I enjoy reading with my kids. But, on the 37th read of That Volcano Book From The Library I am so damn tired of it but he remains obsessed. Sometimes I am just powering through it for the kids' sake...

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Silicon Valley loves to pretend it's all about science and logic, but it's run by the least logical, least evidence-based, most emotional men on the planet.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17/07/2025

It is a coincidence that ‘emoji’ and ‘emoticon’ sound alike. ‘Emoji’ is a Japanese term meaning ‘pictograph’ (‘e’ is “picture, drawing” + ‘moji’ is “letter, character”). ‘Emoticon’ is ‘emotion’ + ‘icon.’ 🤯

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billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Portuguese has "anteontem" for the day before yesterday which is also great

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2025

my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.

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KristinRuth 🏳️‍🌈 @kristinruth.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Pittsburgh is known as the City of Bridges with, allegedly, 446 of them. The Roberto Clemente Bridge is one of the Three Sisters Bridges, three similar looking bridges that span the Allegheny River. #UrbanGaze #coloraday #yellowthur #EastCoastKin #travel #photography #cityscape

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

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✨🌯 jamie @glitterburrito.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

HDYGH, @josephgalbo.com ? Social media specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov , documentary film lover, and former security guard. Come for the gonzo social media strategy, stay for me accidentally profiling him

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Joe Galbo - Social Media Specilaist for Consumer Product Safety Commission

Podcast Episode · How Did You Get Here? · 07/21/2025 · 56m

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2025

wrote this last month!

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Emma Payne @fedbybirds.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Strange little guy from the church in Cley, Norfolk

Carved figure with bulgy eyes & protruding tongue on a pew in St Margaret’s church, Cley

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Locutus Tips @locutustips.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Locutus usability tip: There will be no more user interface problems after you become the machine.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 17/07/2025

I want the job of writing an age analysis algorithm. I wouldn't use statistics or machine learning. I'd just write the most undeniable `isMillenial(account)` function ever designed

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 16/07/2025

the chilling of speech on college campuses is wild, and it's happening directly because people fear the government (Trump) will punish us if we say things he does not like. this is gross. triblive.com/local/fence-...

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Fence fight: CMU orders students' anti-Trump message painted over ahead of president's visit

Hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to arrive at Carnegie Mellon University for an energy summit, the school administration early Tuesday ordered the painting over of a provocative anti-...

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Tim Young (Global Refuge) @young25tim.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

NEW GALLUP POLL: the pendulum has swung **drastically** on immigration since last year. 🟢 just 30% want immigration decreased (55% last year) 🟢 79% of Americans think immigration is GOOD for the country (record high) 🟢 Path to citizenship (78%) beats mass deportation (38%)

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

"NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X" niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

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Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible - Nieman Reports

The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic

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billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Kid home sick from school so we are hard at work in the combination auto shop ice cream shop.

Baby, baby doll. Toy ice cream, hot wheels, lightning McQueen.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I'm doing some research for my next advice column and see from Bluesky posts that the term "mansplaining" has been adopted in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Everyone stop, this is important

A black and white drawing of three dachshunds arranged vertically, each holding a different optical illusion object in its mouth, and the dogs themselves drawn as if a single line optical illusion. The top dog holds a Penrose triangle, the middle dog holds a Necker cube, and the bottom dog holds a Penrose trident. The dogs’ bodies are elongated in an exaggerated cartoon style. The artwork is signed “@IndieTheIntrovert” in the bottom right corner.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/07/2025

Our pressure worked: The State Department has finally issued guidance for how individuals can proceed after a federal judge blocked President Trump's anti-trans passport policy. If you or your loved ones are affected by this policy, we're here with more information.

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Q&A: Orr v. Trump | American Civil Liberties Union

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 07/07/2025

magic teacup hat

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

"elon musk is autistic! and he's on ketamine!!!" so are all my friends, stop making him sound cool

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billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

My book club votes on books after reading a selection of ONLY one star reviews and it is always hilarious, but also often illuminating about what kind of book it is.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking. www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...

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Donate to US Flood Relief Fundraisers

Help those affected by flooding across the US. Donate to verified fundraisers to offer flood relief to individuals & their families.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 05/07/2025

This is brutal

A Reddit post asking people to identify a thing in an antique store, and it’s a manual AmEx card reader, where you’d put the card on carbon paper and take an impression. My good millennials and Gen Zers, why do you think credit cards have raised letters

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · 02/07/2025

Watch @gianniantichi.bsky.social (and Ludo) answer the question Why NINeS?

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billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Catholic trading cards are called prayer cards, and you get them at baptisms, weddings, funerals, and ordinations. You also find them randomly in coat pockets and prayer books and desk drawers in any Catholic house.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 02/07/2025

Never try to relight fireworks, America!

A person holding a firework in their hand while it is exploding. The text reads: Don't let this be the last thing you see. Light fireworks one at a time, then move back quickly. Never try to re-light or pick up fireworks that have not ignited fully. Follow all instructions and warnings on fireworks and never hold them in hand unless instructions specify to do so.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Thinking today about how rich conservatives throw their money at 500 different people doing whatever they want and if 10 payoff they consider it money well spent while rich liberals will make you complete a 35 page proposal to hope to get $15k for certain prescribed activities.

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