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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If *you* attempted this, you'd be stopped pretty quickly. People would realize you somehow borrowed $100,000 of money using only $10 and go "woah that's fishy, nope." If a lotto winner attempted this, well they have no idea who the right guys to talk to are.

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

there should be an option to automatically block everyone from England that isn't trans or a solid ally. i want opt-out britblock

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‍ @hugeblank.dev · 01/12/2024

atproto devs who don't have someone test driving your app using a web DID, PLEASE reach out. In recent memory I've come across two proper sites that didn't function/crashed when attempting to log in with a web DID. Literally just a DM mentioning what your app does and a link to it would work.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A normal person would see a big chunk of money and think about what they could get with it. The goods and services they can exchange. Perhaps, they'll wonder if there's a way to make that money grow over time at a good rate. They probably *won't* think to immediately light it on fire.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

One way of thinking about finance is: You have $10 in your pocket. You ask someone for a $100 loan, pointing to the money you have. They give you the loan. You go up to another person and point to the $110 you have and ask them for a $1,000 loan. They give it to you.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

it's literally the honor of my life every time it happens to me

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 22/11/2024

calling a cis woman clocky is the highest compliment a trans woman can give and i will NEVER let anyone take that away from us

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 22/11/2024

wait a second why did nobody tell me that jay sounds kinda clocky???? no wonder this website is so good. women are so beautiful and talented.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

His name was Impenetrable Wall of Swine Johnson

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Good morning! You’ve bodied me to get started. Let’s go!

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

All the R2's sounds are in the SFX track of the movie, not the dialog track, so it never gets affected by dubs. Same with Chewbacca.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I want to both echo this and say that for anyone who might be quite rightfully worried about [gestures broadly] all of a sudden our pesky system of independent states with incongruent laws and institutions is an asset.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 08/11/2024

we don't see every network participant needing to store a full mirror of the entire network, any more than every web browser needs a full search index of the entire web. the goal is to have enough infra diversity to have alternatives and credible exit.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 08/11/2024

hrm! that Linode number is quite a bit more expensive than the couple hundred/month that both Alice and I found. even linode block storage (expensive!) seems to be on the order of $512/month for 5TB? current relay impl stores most data as files-on-disk; postgresql is an index

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Notes on Running a Full-Network atproto Relay (July 2024) | bryan newbold

These are some informal notes on setting up a full-network atproto Relay, using the bigsky relay software developed by Bluesky. This is the same software we run ourselves at https://bsky.network. The ...

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Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Love the footwear choice here; just because you're an unstoppable force of entropy doesn't mean you can't do it elegantly.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

POV: crunching in the fall leaves in the cemetery

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Emma Dow @emmadow.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

They're gorgeous! We spotted a huge fly agaric last month.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Like the oracle at Delphi, I would argue that Moo Deng’s prophecies are more open to interpretation.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I have a remote-controlled ceiling fan in my living room and ever since we had a brief power outage in a storm it's been responding to someone else's remote. So that's fun.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

i'm playing a horrible little makeover game and i've NEVER seen something more obviously designed by a straight man in my life

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 04/11/2024

NYC reaches built and residential densities rarely found in Europe. Only Spanish cities and Paris can really compete (and even then, not at the very highest end of NYC density).

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

An interesting part of this is that the original D rations had to be heat-resistant up to 49C. Later, they developed a "congo bar" that could withstand 60C, closer to the ambient temperature inside military vehicles in the middle east.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Hershey's infamously awful chocolate D rations, one of the top 3 contenders for real life dwarf bread www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar...

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Military chocolate (United States) - Wikipedia

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 29/10/2024

This potent and insightful literary essay on Thomas Hardy quotes lines that John Darnielle knows well @themountaingoats.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hardy’s poem “The Voice”: Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then,
Standing as when I drew near to the town Where you would wait for me: yes, as I knew
you then,
Even to the original air-blue gown!

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 29/10/2024

One of the most interesting things about submitting a building code change proposal is that it forces you to sit through a few others. They’re always very arcane and seemingly minor, but a great illustration of the drip-drip-drip of code requirement cost increases. Before my single-stair proposal, …

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Slay the spire post: contrary to my complaint yesterday a red/green shiny/lethal run turned out to be absolutely berserker fun because shivs + strength gain is a rare but lovely combo.

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𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗯 @meson.ninja · 29/10/2024

when threatened, gnome-terminal 0.47 will change color in attempt to intimidate the end user

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

OK, real talk Sky fam. A member of my group at the WNBA Finals this evening needed a tampon. None were available from the Barclays Center medical folks. WNBA and NBA venues should have tampons! Let's take care of the fans! Let's support women in the sports and the stands.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

When I was a kid we moved to the Catskills, and my dad transformed into full on hillbilly. Camo, venison jerky, foraging, weird car repair, the works.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 21/10/2024

I'm doing some prototyping on this right now, I'm able to get a ~10x reduction in firehose bandwidth without losing any authentication properties, and this is with some very naive zlib compression without a custom dictionary. (take this with a grain of salt because my test setup is a little janky)

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 21/10/2024

we have a bit of protocol work to make things more efficient. I think there are some order-of-magnitude improvements to be had w/ firehose before we need to look at things like batch sigs, but maybe we end up there. even then, something like jetstream has a place for large services...

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henry @hdevalence.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

one downside of building tools like this is that it shifts the economic incentives away from verification of the network data there’s a nod to this about “some projects it is probably not the right tool for”, but if it’s easier and cheaper to not verify people won’t bsky.app/profile/bnew...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

It’s incredibly frustrating that there are no discernible consequences for this major federal contractor who consistently acts against the interests of the united states, on disaster relief and a whole host of other issues. www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

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Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts

The billionaire is using the power of his social media platform to spread falsehoods that officials say are hampering recovery efforts.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

The more I talk about the election the more shocked I am by how many people memory holed 2016-2020. Every day was a new horror. New emergencies popped up constantly. I fundamentally don’t understand how people seemingly forgot about all of it.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Twitter is extremely creepy these days because 90% of the responses are bots and it’s not exactly clear why. Usually it’s not even political, it’s not selling anything, it’s just bots pretending to be people. The vibe is like boarding a city bus and realizing none of the passengers have faces

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 10/10/2024

I cannot over-emphasize the colossal loser energy of taking a platform where once the biggest stars in the history of popular culture voluntarily posted original content every day because they enjoyed it into a pyramid scheme where the worst dipshits on earth pay to be fake friends with each other.

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Art Velasco @artvelasco.com · 09/10/2024

Spreading the word on Twitter

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Almost 40 years ago in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2024

ah yes, what is worse? passing a law through congress to add more seats to the supreme court — as per congress’ explicitly stated constitutional authority — or a violent coup to overturn the constitutional order?