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The way BSky shows you ‘how it started/how it’s going’ single screen snapshots of the beginning and middle of a long arse conversation can be quite the record scratch :D

A tweet about how the OP no longer takes IQ anywhere near as seriously as he once did, displayed above a reply way down thread about someone’s aunt having had Opinions about crusts on bread.

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Jeanette @jeanette555.bsky.social · 11h

So they made a car that can fly (briefly) and called it Roadster. I guess Skyster looks too much like Shyster. Lol.

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Driving Miss Daisy for Tax Purposes

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Stabatha @stabatha.com · 15/10/2026

That is an epic solo.

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Some of the shapes in Galaxies solutions past about level 40 are pretty ludicrous, I have to say 😂

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Just an astonishing number of creative little games.

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fuck 'em up, Stath.

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Attempting Lanterns, but two episodes in and it's sooo slowww. Might come back to it later.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

i am simply too seated etc

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 14/10/2026

Actually, to be specific, the problem is that AI safety discourse keeps warning me “what if this turns into The Terminator or BSG?” Meanwhile real AI is doing New Wave SF or Borgesian fabulation, both of which are *more interesting genres.* It’s already outwriting its critics.

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Friends. I, too wrote off Digger trailers as a pretentious ham-fisted satire about climate change & oligarchy starring actors unaffected by the troubles of the industry. Turns out it might be one of the smartest, funniest, most tragic films about storytelling and I was just being a judgmental bitch.

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Learning yet-another-scripting-language to concisely embed diagrams in the docs of my side project. I've used typst+python+matplotlib in the past, but that needed quarto to mediate (made worse because I was pushing to confluence...), and updating later entailed a hunt for sources and credentials.

some markup, namely

== Prior art

TinyCrunch has a two pass system where `b` decompresses to `B` then `a` decompresses to `A`, using the codec's in-place mode to ensure the final output is seamless.

#mem-dia((
((3.8, "b", c0), (.2, "", c0), (5, "a", c1), (0.6, "r", cr), (1, "e", c2)),
((9, "A", c1), (0.6, "r", cr), (4, "B", c0)),
))

Some nicely rendered text from the source in the other image, with two rows of pastel coloured rectangles between the paragraphs.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is incredible and I hope this caring soul tells the story just exactly like this to HR.

Am I wrong for removing a wheelchair user from an elevator when I thought it might snap?
Context: I grew up in a small town and only ever really used elevators at the mall. I now live in a big city and take one every day at work.
Me and a bunch of other people, including a wheelchair user, were waiting to use the elevator at my work and all got on at once. A sign came on in red lights saying that we were over the elevator's weight capacity and the doors stated open. Since I mostly know about elevators from movies before this year, my first thought was that this was an emergency where the cable could snap.
I pride myselt in caring for others and my first reaction was to assist the person who was least able to help themselves by removing her from danger. I gently pushed her off and the warning light went off and the doors closed, carrying the rest of us all to the floors we punched in.
She was very upset about this and reported me to HR.
They called me in on Monday and had me take the week off and I explained everything. They said they'll talk to me this following Monday.
I feel like I might be about to get fired for trying to be a good Samaritan. Am I in the wrong?

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 10/10/2026

If your television show doesn't have an opening like this why are you even bothering? youtu.be/bl8Y56Llvlg?...

youtu.be

La Femme Nikita - intro

YouTube video by Jahel Voorhees

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i thought i couldn't possibly confirm this but i spoke the deep magic to the llm and it located records on sci-hub indicating a female psychiatrist born in about 1984-1985 lived at 2744 Telegraph Ave on the same compound, in the building now called Bayes House

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...

thebulletin.org

How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business

There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They must be absolutely knackered.

One migrant crossed Channel every six minutes in first week of October

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The geese always seem have the expression of someone about to write a strongly worded email. 🪶

A bar-headed goose staring directly at the viewer and one giving side-eye

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ranked responses to winning the Nobel: 3. Anne Carson (see below) 2. Peter Higgs (Went for a walk in order to hide) 1. Doris Lessing www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBO...

youtube.com

British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win

YouTube video by ReutersLC

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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026

Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection

A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)

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Jeanette @jeanette555.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

oh right, just after they've reduced the supply of books to drive up the price.

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Finally getting around Andor season 2, and *this* is Star Wars. All the Empire officers looking like they stepped right out of the 1970s is just perfect.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Come to BlueSky, they said. It will protect you from brainrot, they said.

some Perfectly Normal discourse.

@chrislarsen.bsky.social
You're lucky, you've got an ocean separating you from the Americans. I've only got a lake between us.
@cloudquistador.eurosky.social
No one is safe from western aggression and Canada is part of the cartel of violence terrorizing the globe

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Jeanette @jeanette555.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good write-up of the batshit Wharfie Time footie shenanigans.

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ironically I have to come to bsky to see much of this kind of content quoted into my feed. Over on the other place even on my barely used FYP I can scroll back 50 posts and see nothing but TV show fandoms, software development news and debates, and the odd bit of sports commentary and life updates.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looking at this accidental thread, it reminds me of my belief that a lot of smart people who don’t make engineering things in their day jobs understandably have the idea that, as in human affairs, things like electricity and chemistry have some room for negotiation. Alas, it ain’t the case.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The kids using “Brexit” and “AI” as insults makes me think the kids are pretty great, actually

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well I *was* going to start on the decompression routines for {project}, but of course it'd be handy if the exporter returned something other than None on error, which reminded me my assembler doesn't do errors yet either, so now I'm breaking the API another project relies on…

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 02/10/2026

Many people on here have convinced themselves that twitter is *exclusively* fascists now, and it’s simply deluded. There are in fact still many normal people there, including people on the left, as well as whole communities that never even talk about politics.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This SHOULD be the default of all men, not just some or a few.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not only are the flat earthers wrong, they are getting wronger by the day.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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VØ₦ ฿Ø₲ ₩ł₮₵Ⱨ @bogwitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An army of them. Yes.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm down to the last nine copies of this ISS Cat print, so if you want one, please order soon. It's in my shop along with other prints, badges and a zine: www.tomgauld.com/

A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out."

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

woot, got my biopsy results back from yesterday's little procedure. No prostate cancer, not even any of the prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia they found last time round. (free PSA levels have been a bit off, and my family history's not that great, so my urologist wanted to be sure)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Behind the scenes with Patrick McGoohan filming THE PRISONER at Portmeirion — North Wales in 1966. This iconic TV series first aired 59yrs ago today.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

One of the exercises I’ve seen to illustrate this is to have kids in intro programming classes tell the teacher how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and the teacher follows their instructions literally.

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