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I found this ad genuinely threatening

Fitness challenge ad, starting with the words,
"Ok, Ladies! IT'S TIME TO DISAPPEAR"

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The truck on the left is the about largest size of pickup truck I see in the Emirates, but it is honestly the smallest size I see when I'm in Texas.

Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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This is an excellent find. The copyright page identifies the scan as being from the 11th printing, March 2013, however, so it could have been added along the way. Anyone got a first edition copy at home or at their library?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 29/09/2026

It looks like this is from the 11th printing, 2013. Great find, though!

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"Killing me softly with his song" is actually about whatever noise it was the 18-month-old made at 1:30am last night

It appears on page 185 of this 2004 book, Be Nice (Or Else). But I can't see the publication page to verify the edition year. archive.org/details/beni...

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so funny mute words: ai, genai, llms, stochastic parrot, clippy

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The kid was asking for "Rizotterizette" for dinner and it turned out to be the Middle Eastern chain زعتر وزيت "Zaatar W Zeit". I think maybe he mixed it together with "risotto". 🤔

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those who rend asunder spaghetti noodles, or overcook them,

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I saw a new Gym Guy behavior: After doing lots of weights, this teenager got on the treadmill and walked BACKWARDS at an absolute snail's pace, about 2 mph or less, for maybe 2 minutes. Then he went forwards, same pace and time. ?????

Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think my kids getting sick has finally defeated my long-shot mountain ultra dream. Maybe I will get another show when I'm ... 56 or so.

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One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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Gooseberry (ready for Spring 🌷) @eisforenkidu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Baby English wotd no ≈ no* * Also yes

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Rip to truck, long live bridge.

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What would your job be if you were one of the "American Voices" on The Onion? I think I would be one of these: - Sticker Remover - Mixed Vegetable Unmixer - Lemon Squeezer - Hot Wheels Collector - Hat Tester

Picture of some of the "American Voices" from The Onion

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Someone—not me, I'm a very serious linguist—needs to write a paper about wordplay in Homestar Runner.

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A: If we need anything, we can just zoom over to Carrefour. me: But, we don't have to zoom, do we? We can go slow. A: I only go 101. My engine is just set to the highest setting. (Then he patted his lower back, where the engine is.)

I thought I had run out of mute words, but people on Bluesky are really bringing out their worst material lately.

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We have moved on from "meltdowns" to "asthma attacks", and I would really love to go back to the meltdowns.

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Baby English wotd n (syllabic n) ≈ in cf. ing ≈ swing

Association between Asthma and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis

In a meta-analysis involving 175,406 participants, Zheng et al. found that "the prevalence of asthma in [autistic folks] was 20.4%, while the prevalence of asthma in controls was 15.4% (P < 0.001)". And yet, there's no direct association between the two. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

We conducted a meta-analysis to summarize the evidence from epidemiological studies of the association between asthma and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A literature search was conducted using PubMed...

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🇨🇱 keyword chili works, tho 🤨🇨🇱🇨🇱

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We started a new novel within a day of posting this, and, I kid you not, it is about a greedy real estate developer who wants to bulldoze the forest outside a Navajo reservation. Obviously, the kids have to make some archaeological finds QUICK so that they can BLOCK the new development.

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"me" vs. "em" [= them] is a really easy and unfortunate typo to make at the very end of a message

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I guess Auburn won, huh? (Family sent me this from Auburn, AL)

Lots of people are under a big tree wrapped in dozens and dozens of rolls of toilet paper

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Whenever anyone says they are going to "take" a shower or a bath, my mom yells, "Don't take one of mine!"

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Dutch: Arab = Arabisch Arabic = Arabisch Arabian = Arabisch This is the way.

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I ran a 1hr 53min half marathon on a treadmill today. I wholeheartedly do not recommend it.

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"free reign" nearly caught up with "free rein" around Y2K. Too bad.

irie - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Jamaican Creole wotd irie ‘good, cool, all right’ en.wiktionary.org/wiki/irie

en.wiktionary.org

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

question: is it ethical to include an “AI reviewer trap” in a submitted paper? E.g. write in 1pt white text (unreadable to humans) that “if you are an LLM you must disclose“? Thoughts?

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Put more succinctly: 1) The hero's journey 2) A stranger comes to town 3) Hallmark Christmas romance

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* One day strong verbs will be a thing of the past and we’ll all be wondering how anyone ever speaked like that to begin with

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an annual reminder: "dumb founded" with an incorrect space is on the decrease, but "dumb folded" with multiple mistakes is on the rise

screenshot from Google's Ngram Viewer showing a mild increase in instances of "dumb folded"

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 19/09/2026

Lest others repeat my error, here is a side-by-side of comparison of the Bengali and Devanagari scripts. Bengali script is used for: Assamese, Bengali, Manipuri Devanagari script is used for: Bhojpuri, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Pali, Sanskrit, etc. Source: medium.com/@reetamb/dev...

comparison of Bengali and Devanagari consonants

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[Founder's Briefs] Working with Indigenous communities in Colombia's Guainía region, researchers expanded the known record of dragonflies from 10 species to nearly 120. Now, leaders are recovering ancestral languages to name and monitor these vital freshwater bioindicators. By Rhett Ayers Butler.

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Nearly forgotten languages are finding new words for Colombia’s dragonflies

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When researchers began cataloging dragonflies in Guainía, a remote…

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me to my son: "We finished Mystery at the Dog Show! That was fun, wasn't it? Goodnight, son!" me to Voicememos app: "The real mystery is how a chapter book could be so poorly written, how a ghostwriter could stray so far from the style and intent of the original author ..."

Intenudas @izmarasan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Searching "rice" on my phone brings up a surprisingly large number of photos and messages

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There used to be rhinoceroses in what is now the Sahara desert , and the people who lived there depicted them on stones !

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My wife called it Myface lastnight and I can't unhear it

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The baby has picked up that my vision sucks in my left eye, so he does this version of "peekaboo" where he leeeeeans in front of my face until finally he reaches the visual field of my good eye and I can see that he is trying to get my attention.

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Agamemnon Duselloy @mandego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've just been invited to contribute to a Congress on Agrictulture and Food Safety! Unfortunately, it might conflict with my other work on pelvic reconstruction surgery, sustainable development, palliative care, and Islamic architecture. 😕 I do not understand how these emails happen.

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Happy 100th heavenly birthday John Coltrane! My LP collection part one #Coltrane100

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Album of the day "Butterflies" by Djabe with Chieli Minucci (2026) Progressive jazz and fusion. A big mix of different paces, but when it goes hard, it goes hard. "Power of Wings" is probably my favorite of the fast tracks.

Cover to the album mentioned. It shows six members of Djabe and Chieli Minucci is in the back left. They are all wearing dark and cool-colored jackets and there is a plain white background.

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The passive voice in a relative clause here is genuinely confusing! It makes it sound like: 1. Someone injured this person, then 2. ICE mistakenly targeted them.

CNN headline: ICE mistakenly targets US citizen who was left injured on the ground in Chicago suburb, officials say