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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What in the AI slop is the scale and left axis of this graph? $475 and $312 are bigger than $938? $698 is less than $400?

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Honestly it's always weird times around here these days

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Most of them! I even enjoyed reading and had excellent English teachers, but I can't tell you how many books I read as an adult and thought "fuck I was dumb when I was 14".

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The tech CEOs know that all the nonsense that has been promised is nonsense. They know the burn rate of money is not sustainable, and they won't have AGI before the money runs out, so they are trying to figure out how to slow the spending without upsetting investors. It's marketing all the way down.

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ceej @ceej.online · 10/09/2026

with the way things are going I think it’s possible the money spent on ai coding tools becomes broadly distributed between small firms and local models while the frontier labs become more and more obsessed with burning money to keep their pet machine intelligences “alive”

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Some of us are trying to change things where we live, and to be real? Most days it feels completely futile already, and that's before being lectured by an insider of the most ineffectual political party since the Know Nothings. But we still try, because it's the right thing to do.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Think about what you are saying. Nearly 40 million people voted for Kamala in states that were won by Trump, plus all the other residents who don't vote (say, children). We should be dismissive of all those people just because they can't convince people hundreds of miles away to vote differently?

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not sure how you see being so dismissive of people who are actually trying to do the work on the ground is "being awesome to everyone", but keep telling us how backwards we are from your tiny state and see how that works out for you.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

4.8 million Texans voted for Kamala and only 2.1 million in Massachusetts voted for her. But please keep being condescending and miss the entire point of the original post.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

No, the point is that while a majority of people in Texas might vote for the 'bad' things, there are a greater number of people in Texas voting for the good things than in New York. So by saying "Texas is bad" you are writing off more good people than exist in New York. Hope that helps!

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026

i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The child of a billionaire getting famous because she stole someone else's song? Color me shocked.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Matthew McConaughey does our local radio "this has been a test of the emergency alert system" spots and it sounds exactly like you're hearing it in your mind right now.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I wanted to argue with essentially everyone in the comments, but everyone was pretty reasonable and mostly correct. Gas grill is a tool, especially good if used frequently and/or quickly. Charcoal is usually worth the effort, but that's assuming you have the time. If you can, keep both.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I missed this the first time through, so thank you for sharing. I'll just be over here in a puddle for a bit.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think the point is that 70% change of rain can me a lot of different things, and isn't as simple as a single multiple choice answer? Is there a particular source that YouGov is using to say that one of the answers provided is the only possible correct answer?

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chief kyiv @stefanivan.com · 20/08/2025

yeah i would be calling it that too

Bloody urine (haematurea) was recorded by Ancient Egyptians in papyri 5,000 years ago. They called it Aaa. 7 The first scientific report

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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Pickleball is pretend exercise for homeowners association vice presidents who want to eliminate all public space for actual exercise and replace it with the most annoying sound in the world.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Sorry if I missed it, but will you be posting the top answers on the board for each of these? Genuinely curious what the survey says!

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm hopeful small schools don't mess up your game, because the Delaware Blue Hen would be delicious.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is my exact origin story - being exposed to pure, unadulterated conservatism, boiled to the essence, and then juxtapose it to normal, chill people you want to hang out with, and I became a radical in College Station within 3 semesters.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Not sure about the response at the time (or how people feel about it now, to be honest), but The Beautiful and Damned between This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby feels like a miss.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is one of those skeets that is going to randomly pop into my head sometime between 2 and 47 years from now.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Me, an idiot: I wonder if a Sosa is a sandwich I haven't heard of, I'm guessing there are people reading this who don't know what a Reuben is. The maker of the list, an intellectual: SAMMY

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Financially. If I'm at an airport I hate myself financially so that way everything else is tolerable.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 02/02/2026

a thousand ships is the OPENING bid!

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I do not love the fact that I'm the exact age where an app of Guys Who Died Today would be highly useful. Feels like most days are a who's who of "oh dang, I know that guy".

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/07/2026

The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 12/07/2026

harpers.org/archive/2018...

21 Grahams

From descriptions of Donald Trump, stated between 2015 and 2018, by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina.

A race-baiting, xenophobic bigot
The Islamic State’s “man of the year”
The death of the GOP’s relationship with Hispanic voters
A death blow to the GOP’s relationship with women
The world’s biggest jackass
A wrecking ball
A salesman of fear
A politician whose ideas are gibberish
A politician who is incapable of representing a mattress company
A poor representation of a Republican
A president who is unfit for office
A president who sometimes crosses the line
A Twitter user whose tweets are sometimes beneath the office of the presidency
A man who has a blind spot
A thoughtful person
A good person
A strong person
A golfer with an accurate drive and an athletic swing
A president doing a great job
The best hope in decades for peace
A potential recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Can do the same thing on the stove with any pork products of you're looking for something faster (bacon is easiest). Just make sure to add a tart element (red wine vinegar/ apple cider vinegar) and if you are ok with spice, maybe some red pepper flakes.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I would never run for office because I was a bit of an asshole when I was younger. But being worried about accusations of sexual assault? I believe the phrase my grandma would have used is "a hit dog hollers".

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Coco13 brings up good points! Lots of filming has happened in the area for quite a while. Not sure if anyone is a Game of Thrones fan, but even if not the filming places like the Dark Hedges are still really cool.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Every teenager loves being told "this is the most bombed hotel in the world!" (But yes, your points are spot-on, it really is a great age to experience the wonders of the whole island.)

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'd like to echo Ireland as I haven't seen it mentioned much in the replies. Dublin, Cork, Galway, and the countryside are all lovely, and Belfast is a hidden gem.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Japan, Colombia, Morocco, Greece, Croatia, Turkiye, British Isles, Netherlands/Belgium

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Pretty sure PayPal is the bad example, as Thiel and Co haven't owned it for going on 25 years. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and other tech companies that you likely use daily are actively contributing to the growth of AI slop. But again, none of this matters, we don't "work for those companies".

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So you do use them! Congrats on the job at Google, I can't believe you personally forced all of us to use these shitty products!

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Do you use Google search currently? Any Microsoft products? Then you have used AI and LLMs whether you intended to or not. This doesn't mean you work for Google or Microsoft, and certainly doesn't mean you deserve blame for the plague of AI currently underway.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

And the "best friend son" is literally a Republican elected official. Fuck all the way off with the "oh how could anyone know these are bad people?!" schtick.

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Nerdluck Bang @nerdluck-bang.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The ones I invited to my wedding? Yes I can tell you what their fathers did for work, especially if they own a for-profit prison. This argument that it was an accident or oversight is insane.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.

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