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CM Harrington @octothorpe.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2025

It occurred to me that Harold and the Purple Crayon and Green Lantern are basically the same thing.

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TwoThirds @rarely-typical.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025

ah yes, the technology worth trillions of dollars

me asking ChatGPT "make an image of an empty room without elephants" and it responding with an image of an empty room with only an elephant.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Just got fired from being a freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities. They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.

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Nicky🦨✌️ @skoombidoombis.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo #quote #Science

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2025

Around 15 years ago I went to an event in Singapore and met this queer woman who had just gotten married. She was the first queer woman I knew who had done that. Today she lives in Seattle with her beautiful family. Both of our families sometimes appear on newspapers together back home on […]

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Rufus J. Cooter @rufusjcooter.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2025

@msbellows [extremely Violent J from Insane Clown Posse voice] Employment agreements - how do they work?

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2025

Musk says he'll fire every federal worker who doesn't respond to his mass email asking, "what did you do last week?" The only safety is in numbers. If no federal employee answers that email, he'll have to retool. It's the only way. Anyone who wants to cave in and answer out of fear should be […]

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Rufus J. Cooter @rufusjcooter.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2025

@msbellows +or that one of the most powerful politicians in the history of the state of Texas could deliver the state as the VP candidate on the the ticket. No, Nixon decided. They must have cheated. And so, he resolved that he would never be cheated again, because he would cheat even harder […]

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Rufus J. Cooter @rufusjcooter.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2025

@msbellows At the risk of being 'that guy' who earnestly tries to answer what is probably a rhetorical question: I reckon the seeds were sown following Nixon's loss to Kennedy in 1960. Showing what can only be described as willful ignorance of American politics at the time, Nixon was certain […]

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2025

We're watching the new documentary "The Disappearance of Shere Hite," which is excellent. It confirms my personal memory that the Seventies were the peak of social progress in the U.S. The later scenes set in the Eighties, in which (mostly but not exclusively) men ganged up to willfully […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2025

I just spent 10 minutes zooming into every dish and menu item from a Cambodian restaurant in Seattle to check if it was truly serving the Cambodian Teochew food that I was wanting (very similar to the Vietnamese Teochew and Singapore Teochew food I like). I think it is, but the best way to […]

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Rufus J. Cooter @rufusjcooter.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2025

@msbellows lots of thoughtful replies in this thread! For me, I think it's that Allen's & Polanski's work often prominently features men who disgusting sex pests, which makes it harder to separate the art from the artist Jackson's music doesn't really have that complication? (well, I guess P […]

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2025

Why isn't listening to Michael Jackson as taboo among good people as watching Roman Polanski or Woody Allen? Pedophiles are pedophiles no matter how good their art is.

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2025

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Peti… Could anyone who has any Canadian followers […]

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Mark Ingalls 🎃👻🧙‍♂️ @ingalls.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2025

New article: Early morning earthquake jolts Southern Puget Sound Region on Saturday ingallswx.com/2025/02/22/early-morn… #Seattle #earthquake

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2025

This morning I had an incredible insight that the world sucks and everything feels weird but I really love being queer and nothing can take that away from me

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Rufus J. Cooter @rufusjcooter.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2025

@mattblaze Back then we used to tie an onion to our belt - it was the style at the time 'Course, those days, it was the big, yellow onions, we couldn't get the smaller, white onions, 'cause of the war, so we'd tie a big yellow onion to our belt, because it was the style at the time

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2025

@RufusJCooter I also remember back when infectious diseases were widely disliked. Those were different times.

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Rufus J. Cooter @rufusjcooter.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2025

@mattblaze [big sigh] I'm old enough to remember when the possibility of rogue states getting access to nuclear weapons was A Bad Thing [bigger sigh] where does the time go?

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Rufus J. Cooter @rufusjcooter.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2025

@moira That's the thing, tho'! if they'd gotten, say, anderson bruford wakeman howe to do the score... #Monsterdon

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Rufus J. Cooter @rufusjcooter.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2025

Yeah. That was, without a doubt, the silliest thing that I've ever watched on purpose. I think that the fatal flaw here is the score; Flash Gordon /worked/ as a film largely on the strength of the score by Queen. Bet they coulda got Cheap Trick to do the soundtrack 4 peanuts... Ah, well; thx […]

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Rufus J. Cooter @rufusjcooter.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2025

This is, literally, the silliest thing that I've ever witnessed. #monsterdon

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2025

Amazing to see how @transworldexpress starts to cover more countries with information for #trans folks who are looking to leave the US! :BhjFlag_Transgender: :HeartTrans: By now there's even a wishlist for countries that aren't covered yet, including #chile #mexico #portugal #spain and others […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2025

A bunch of boring things you might want to do soon *if you can*: Getting your MMR shot reupped*, your passport in order**, all age-appropriate preventive care (mammogram, colonoscopy, cholesterol check), eating more produce, getting established with a primary care doctor, getting prescriptions […]

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2025

## once again, the republicans want to hurt children Here’s the latest: Musk and Trump are cutting off the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children unless they delete all LGBT-specific information and start deadnaming trans kids. This will hurt […] [Original post on solarbird.net]

Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic.

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Madeline Bodin @madelinebodin.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

I’m celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth with a new great Black American scientist from history each day. Today: Vivien Thomas medschool.vanderbilt.edu/mstp/perso…

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Vivien T. Thomas, LL.D.

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 07/02/2025

This morning a customer told me that the new Samsung Galaxy S25 (and probably also the previous ones – but I hadn't noticed this on my S24) run, by default, a background service called "Meta Services," which belongs to Meta. And it runs even if you don't have any Meta apps, as it's the result […]

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

the other South Korea versus Elon Musk story I have is that it's extremely common to mix beer and soju, and that it's often specifically Terra beer and Chamisul soju. The combo is known as a Tesla — an amalgam of TE(rra)-(Chami)SUL-(Terr)A. So the Korean version of an Irish carbomb is a Tesla.

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Rufus J. Cooter @rufusjcooter.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

What has 2 thumbs & just voted? (Not pictured: other thumb)

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

🧵 One way of understanding what Trump/Musk are doing: below are the biggest corporations sorted by market capitalization (≈ value). Eight of the top ten are digital/tech (Apple, NVIDIA, Alphabet); the other two are Saudi Aramco (oil) and Tesla. Each has a value […] [Original post on c.im]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

Another day, another step towards linking up all these TBs under desks and local scrapes into the distributed archive we always deserved. Expecting sciop.net to enter public beta this weekend. > "I have 100 terabytes of storage under my desk. In theory, I could stick all of these on.” […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

Join the Fight for Trans Rights: Support the Christopher Street Project secure.actblue.com/donate/csp-text?…

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

okay so I got a real specific question May Creek Park Drive at SE 116th has like... half a block of bike lane on the north side of the street. In 2023 street-level images, it _looks_ like they've done the work to extend it further east. But did that happen? I don't have anything post-2023 […]

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hooray I am probably going to get thrown out of another discussion group. This one for adoptive parents. Many adoptive parents of kids born in other countries are very worried, even though our kids are citizens. Some kids have been asked for proof of citizenship. The thing is… /1

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Starting to seem like we’re not gonna get our USAID checks anymore 🫤 Chip in $10/month to help us out and grab a holler hat! 🧢 tnholler.com/holler-hats/

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

Just a reminder that our trans industry colleagues are literally running out the clock. Life and death. If you are wondering if you should offer them a gig even at a low rate outside America, for the love of Pete, do it now.

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

“Normalize Indian hate” So, as a father of two girls, who have a pair of grandparents born in India, and a pair of grandparents born in Mexico, please tell me more about how I should know my place when speaking about protests against this administration. I would love to know more.

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 06/02/2025

@iftas, an organization that's been helping make the fediverse a safer place by supporting admins, moderators and community managers, is asking for our support. "[...] despite our best efforts to secure sustainable funding, IFTAS is now facing a critical financial shortfall. Without immediate […]

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