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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 18h

"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...

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Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot

An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 20h

TFW when the father of your children brings someone from HR to the breakfast table.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 20h

I'm ok with gimmicks. The musical ep was great and the mechanism fun and plausible. We even had a kind of callback with the music in the Uhura episode. My only frustration: no Klingon opera, even from the Klingons! The puppets just was a bad story.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

The last Uhura episode was amazing. Give me 10 more episodes like that and I'll happily rewatch them and skip a Muppet episode.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

You could dial down expensive fx and invest more in writing character-driven stories over more episodes and come out with a more memorable series that has a much stronger long tail. I don't get it.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

TNG, which is a better comparison to SNW than TOS, had a per-episode budget of about half of SNW: $2M in 1990's is about $5M today and SNW gets $10M/ep. It's doing 10 vs 26 eps/season. They spent more on TNG than on SNW per season but less per ep, yet return on more SNW eps seems less risky.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

You have to lasso and break that first pair, then you can breed them.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

Tu m'accuses? 1000 years jail

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

that works if you make a matrix or dependencies

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

The AI hucksters have invented a kind of fire. They want you to think it's alive and on its way to being a god. But it's not. It's autocomplete fueled by our written culture and their and our delusions. But it's still able to burn us, especially because of the fuels it's fed. Read this thread.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

My mom quit smoking the moment packs went to $1. Prior to that, she would have one cigarette just before we kids came home from school, after her last story was over. She started working again when her youngest turned 8 and we became latchkey kids, but she did not resume smoking.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

I feel as if since Claudia Winkelman is the host and Joe Lycett is a faithful on #TheCelebrityTraitors, they missed an opportunity to add Patrick and Esme and do a sewing challenge.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

Our neighbors had an extra bottle of peach schnapps they wanted to get rid of. I had a bottle of pom juice and an upcoming D&D session. Thus the Dragon's Punch was born 1.5 oz pom juice 1 oz peach schnapps 1 oz vodka optional: 2 shots Tabasco, then shake, otherwise stir serve with rock & cherry.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

It deserves to enter the vocabulary. Perfection.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

with apologies to jim carroll rip

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

Those are the posters who died died They were all parafriends and they died

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

Dune 3: Adam & Eve Clearance Sale

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

the payoff in this graf is very satisfying

Deep Fried is the only one that tastes remotely like it’s food for humans. Between two golden cookies are two layers of fried dough-flavored cream, which sandwich a third, black cream layer flavored like an original Oreo. That means the Oreo cookie is actually consuming itself. The taste is abominable, but those sick freaks have finally done what the ancients predicted as far back as the fourteenth century. They created the oreoboros.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 02/10/2026

Penumbral: Worst Person Has A Point.png Umbral: (theonion.com/researchers-...)

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 01/10/2026

IT'S CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOW GRAHAM COOKIE SEASON MOTHERFUCKERS

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 01/10/2026

chicken and waffle are right out remember oreo flavored coke zero? creating chicken and waffle oreo flavored coke zero is summoning a demon

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 01/10/2026

It was the connection to back to Bagdad that got me. You know the story of the Prophet cutting a shirt to avoid disturbing a sleeping kitten? Were both the fabric and the kitten tabbies?! They HAVE to be.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 01/10/2026

Today in stitching: From Joyce's Ulysses I was prompted to learn that tabby cats got their name from the striped silk taffeta used in waistcoat linings and dresses. It was named after the ʿAttābiy quarter of Baghdad where it was made.

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James Urbaniak @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

THE TAKING OF ANDRE 123

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 30/09/2026

“The Court is preparing to hear a case of enormous national consequence after one of the Justices who participated in granting review concluded days before the hearing that he should no longer participate. If Alito was the fourth vote, this case should be dismissed.”

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Alito Recusal Raises New Question: Should Supreme Court Be Hearing Suncor v. Boulder At All?

Did Alito’s vote put Suncor v. Boulder before the Supreme Court? Alito recused when Court rejected Honolulu climate case presenting nearly identical…

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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 30/09/2026

1. It results in benchmarks being given greater epistemic weight than they should be. 2. It leads to a false narrative of inevitable technological progress (first through scale, more recently through RSI). 3. It justifies people unethically imposing the technology on others without consent.

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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 30/09/2026

Because when I say them, I do not have the baggage of instrumentalist functionalism attached. My position has never been that LLMs are useless or that they are not remarkable engineering accomplishments. My issues with the epistemic distortion of instrumentalist function can be summed up as:

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 30/09/2026

i just realized that aesha is ted lasso #BelowDeck

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 30/09/2026

Text: There's a cocaine scene in Modern Times Subtext: Wait is that a Tabasco bottle?

Charlie Chaplain goes hyper after liberally sprinkling cocaine on all his food and eating some. A prisoner to his left, Big Bill (Tiny Sandford), has a thousand-yard stare. There is a bottle of what is clearly Tabasco in front of Bill's left hand.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 29/09/2026

I will die on the hill that a writer should care about worldbuilding and not just throw around terns like "three moonrises" unless it means something

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

PDX MAX story: 20ish white dude watching vids with loud speaker. I say, "hey, could you use headphones?" He looks at me like I'm from Mars. Says nothing. I repeat, "please use headphones, no one wants to hear your tiktoks" His reply is "why are you choosing violence?"

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 29/09/2026

Flipping Out premiere is a fucking disaster...most boring reality show I've ever seen.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 29/09/2026

Do not be your own threshold guardian. Accept the call to adventure. Ask to meet the elephants.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 29/09/2026

We used to accuse them of training circus elephants. Being the noisy upstairs neighbor is a plot point in Olivie Blakes's charming sf story The Audit. Also in the 2025 Best collection edited by Orkorafor & Adams. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Januaries

An instant USA Today bestseller!From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes Januaries, a stunning collection of short fiction featuring...

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 28/09/2026

Last night's Lanterns was an interesting take on time travel trope: what if you could talk with your parent when they were close to your current age?

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 28/09/2026

This is the best take I've read.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 28/09/2026

The implications of a culture using moonrise as a daily timekeeping tempo would be cool if the filmmakers actually cared about worldbuilding but they don't. They just want to create the impression of an alien culture without thinking that moonrise and sunrise are linked an an interesting way.

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jack the nonabrasive @karabaic.org · 28/09/2026

Obsessing over that fact that the planet Holzherr in Supergirl has a 24hr cycle between moonrises which means its actual day is longer (if that moon revolves counter to the planet's rotation) or shorter (otherwise) and am doubting the filmmakers cared at all because they're careless, really.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I love recession art with themes like “don’t buy food, make your fridge into a mid museum”

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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