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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Good point...

Description: A photograph of Steve the otter and another otter sitting side by side on a rock by calm turquoise water, nuzzling affectionately.
Embedded text: “It is a risk to love.
What if it doesn’t work out?
Ah, but what if it does.”

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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Suzie always empties a few pockets with her cover of Muskrat Love.

sidewalk chalk drawing of a muskrat with coins at her feet playing a cigar box banjo. She is singing, and may or may not be jinging the jango.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It turns out that oatmeal tastes better when you add cinnamon than when you accidentally add cayenne powder.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I got this image of Dolly Parton given the role to sit with St. Peter to approve who gets into heaven. But it shouldn't just be a white person from the U.S. in our lifetime who gets that role. Who else should join? Sojourner Truth? A tiny Romanian grandfather? A Boluvian villager? An Aztec child?

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What's it like not only having a very slow metabolism and subsisting mainly on leaves and green algae, but also being the only animal to be named after one of the Seven Deadly Sins?

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The man is entirely the reason my career took the path out did, with my certainty that whatever I ended up doing would be informed by the RISKS Digest. I'm profoundly thankful.

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jaculis.bsky.social @jaculis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Dr. Peter G. Neumann (1932–2026), a towering and foundational figure in computer science, cybersecurity, and system safety, passed away on May 17, 2026, at the age of 93 at Santa Clara Hospital, following complications from a recent fall. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G.... 🧵 1/3

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Peter G. Neumann - Wikipedia

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I love sound-alike words. "Our policy is quite ridged."

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 21/08/2026

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: We require vaccines. FLORIDA: On what grounds? CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: On the grounds that the bishops fucking say so and you ain’t a bishop.

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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The emergence of Bailey, who grows sunflowers for shade:

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

While dreaming I realized that Spiderman's web fluid and shooters must be astronomically expensive, in reality only accessible to Batman.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's the number one thing I retain from the Human Factors Engineering course I took. I regularly share it with others. If our template is not being understood by the people we send it to, they might not all be incompetent. We might want to test it out with a representative group first.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The corporate policies that specify your obligation to report information security incidents and the method to correctly do so are impossible to find for the average manager and employee.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@preetbharara.bsky.social #StayTuned I liked the phrase about "Bring me a 1-armed economist" to avoid 1-hand-other-hand, shared by Daron Acemoglu. But his attribution, likely wrong. Here's a source dating to the Truman administration. Not fact- checked by me. quoteinvestigator.com/2019/04/10/o...

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Quote Origin: Can’t Somebody Bring Me a One-Handed Economist? – Quote Investigator®

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Build your own air filter, cheap and effective. corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/ I'll do it when the air quality doesn't make it unsafe to go to the hardware store.

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How to build your own Corsi-Rosenthal Box - Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation

Dedicated to providing cleaner safer air for all.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A memory from 11 years ago: "Saw a very clever bumper sticker tonight: (my other car is a cdr)" #badlisphumor

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Juntos is a community-led, Latine, immigrant organization in South #Philly doing important deportation defense, community care work, and more. Spanish-language ICE hotline: 814-205-3293. #philadelphia Donate at the link: secure.actblue.com/donate/junto...

Colorful graphic in green, red, orange, and yellow. The fancy font reads "Juntos for humanity." Spanish-language ICE hotline: 814-205-3293. #philadelphia

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Dream last night - I want a patent: Traveling cross country with large group by train, including many teenagers. A nice lady paid for one train car to be a swimming pool. The lanes were a little narrow, but otherwise it was great! (I don't recall water sloshing as the train rounded curves.)

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I'm going to pick one of these to act on today.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will.

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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Some queries we're reflecting on as we mark our country's 250th anniversary today: What and who are you celebrating today? What are you mourning? What American ideals speak to you? How have we lived up to our ideals and how have we failed?

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Why, when you are getting a disease, you're contracting it, but when getting better you're not expanding?

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Left my phone at a neighbor's house. I found out later that she sent me a text informing me of that fact.

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Worldcon In Memoriam @wcinmemoriam.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Author Jane Yolen (b.1939) died on June 11. She wrote books and novels for all ages, including Briar Rose, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, and The Devil’s Arithmetic. Yolen won 2 Nebulas, a World Fantasy and was named Grand Master by SFPA, SFWA and World Fantasy. She served as SFWA President.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'll be forwarding this to several friends.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I am ashamed of the war crimes done in my country's name.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Did anyone else go around all yesterday thinking "may the Fourth be with you" even though it was June? I may just do it monthly now.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

What if buttons for pets, the kind that speak pet emotions out loud, could instead send you text messages? Dog 1: Dog 2 bad dog. Cat 1: Want birdie. Hungry. Dog 2: Dog 1 bad dog. Cat 2: This is your keyboard, not some buttons ydyfvigiguc I cucu h hcycychcycycu

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CNN @cnn.com · 31/05/2026

The booms were caused by a 3-foot-wide meteor entering the atmosphere near the New Hampshire border with Massachusetts, according to the American Meteor Society. cnn.it/4dGBal1

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

If only more things in life worked as perfectly as the waffle machines in hotel breakfast kitchens.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I played mini-golf today with my wife. The guy who explained the 18-hole course to us revealed he was the East Coast Mini-Golf Champ several years running. It got me thinking about what champions you wouldn't want serving you. Car Salesperson of the Year

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Google Maps insists our real address is another real house 17 blocks away. My kid doesn't drive, agreed to use Lyft. Last month, a panicked scream, "Dad, can you drive me to my Lyft!?" It's getting worse, more misdeliveries. Coupon for a free Lyft ride. Triple A to fix a flat tire. BIcycle pump.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Is there Mucil a well as Metamucil?

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Hey, @libreoffice.bsky.social , the hashes for 26.2 show one threat in VirusTotal by TrendMicro. I'm not really worried, but I'd appreciate a statement that it's been reviewed and, hopefully, dismissed. Also, I can't find the PGP key against which to verify the signature. Thanks for your good work!

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Food containers where you open one side and by the time you open the far side the first side has mysteriously reclosed.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Your annual reminder: WXPN (xpn.org) plays "Alice's Restaurant" at noon EST (UTC-0500) every year. It's better broadcast/streaming than on YouTube/Spotify/whatever.

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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The Moon tonight at about 75% full on Halloween from #SantaBarbara. #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography Camera settings: Canon T5i Sigma 150mm x 600mm Focal length: 600mm F-stop: f/11 Exposure time: 1/640 ISO: 800 Edited in Lightroom Classic

Close up photo of the Moon at about 75% full

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

A selection from the Mandelbrot fractal that I found beautiful today. xaos-project.github.io/XaoSjs/

Vivid bright colors swirling about 3 entirely black spaces

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Listservs I manage this week have been having a high number of subscription requests from Pakistan. Curious.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Add one letter to a phrase to ruin it, and make a reference to the result. I'll start. "spa day" becomes "spay day", as in "today the puppy did not have the day she might have anticipated" True story.

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Steve Thompson @poohstix16.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

WORDLE RESPONSE1: _______ was extraordinarily lucky today. You’ve eliminated all but one of the words in my dictionary: ______ RESPONSE2: There was only one possible solution left — and this wasn’t it. (_____ couldn’t be a possible solution.) But there’s still only one solution remaining. Oh well

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