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STEVE-il Dead Rise

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“Yes,” said the Indiana Zephyr, “what is the moral of the story?” (He/him; Ohio, USA)

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 20m
"aspirational sociopathy" really does get at something about american culture right now
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 2h
“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 2h
Anyway, I haven't read anything of hers since Autobiography of Red 30 years ago, but congratulations to a great poet.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 3h
Is Anne Carson the first Nobel Laureate to have gotten a shout-out on The L Word, or was there like a pre-Rohingya mention of Aung San Suu Kyi or something?
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 13h
Eyes without a Face is ravishing.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 18h
And Affinity is free-as-in-beer.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Race with the Devil was not _good_ but had a couple surprisingly effective scenes.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That assumes they get to "camera support"; early reports are not promising. bsky.app/profile/matt...
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In case you’re wondering, there is no prohibition on indicting a federal judge & sending him to prison, but he receives a salary and his seat judgeship remains occupied until impeached & removed
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A Trojan's prayer to Apollo.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The condition isn't about *borders* that are touching—that's the four-color theorem, like you said. It's this problem ( asking how many colors you need to color the plane such that no point is one unit away from another point of the same color): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadwige...
en.wikipedia.org
Moser spindle - Wikipedia
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In honor of the now-fired (seriously, what the fuck) Oriole Bird, please enjoy the greatest piece of Orioles-related art that will ever exist
4-panel cartoon of the Oriole Bird, mascot of the Baltimore Orioles

Panel 1: A weirdly humanoid bird wearing a baseball cap and holding a bat says "Hello. I'm the Baltimore Oriole!"

Panel 2: The Oriole hits a baseball, saying "I love to play baseball"

Panel 3: The Oriole is bending over, looking back over his shoulder toward the viewer, saying "All my bathroom stuff comes out of one hole. My cloaca"

Panel 4: A closer view of the Oriole who is looking straight at the viewer. The Oriole says "THEY SAID I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO
TALK ABOUT MY CLOACA BUT WHAT CAN THEY DO, KILL MY SON?
IT TURNS OUT HE WAS JUST A BEACH BALL PAINTED WHITE. NOT A
REAL EGG AT ALL! I TRULY AM THE LAST OF MY KIND!"
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A comic book panel with Spider-Man confronting the dinosaur-man Sauron: "You can rewrite DNA on the fly, and you're using it to turn people into dinosaurs? But with tech like that, you could cure cancer!" "But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs."
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm not sure McDonnell v. US is a top-5er, but "going to jail for bribes is un-American" is definitely part of how we got here.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And critically you can do that with *writing code*, in a way that you can't do that with writing a novel or even a business letter.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Generous of you to think they wouldn’t support razing Mamdani’s socialist hellscape.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In a just world @emilyflake.bsky.social gets like retirement money off of this nonsense.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 05/10/2026
Washington’s governor has denied every clemency petition he has received, InvestigateWest reports:
investigatewest.org
Washington governor faces criticism for clemency denials
Gov. Bob Ferguson has rejected everyone the state board recommended for commutation
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But Sherrod Brown was a Dem Senator from Ohio as recently as last January.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is the best explainer I've read yet on How We Got Here (minus all the sex cult stuff which, to be fair, absolutely sells).
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LucasArts Memory @lucasartsmemory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maniac Mansion (Lucasfilm Games) was released circa 39 years ago. "Strange things have been going on up at Dr. Fred's old mansion, ever since that meteor landed outside the house. But when Sandy disappeared into the basement, boyfriend Dave knew it was time to take a look." Art by Gary Winnick:
The mansion at night with a full moon.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Chait has never outgrown circa-1992 internecine struggles in the University of Michigan Student Democrats.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The accusation is that (over a nine-year period) City invented sham sponsorships and paid coaches off-books money, then falsified their financial records to the tune of nearly a billion pounds, so in that sense it's very similar to the Clippers.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's not a salary cap the way the NBA does it, but there are rules in the Premier League about teams having to pay for themselves; over a multi-year period teams' wages & transfer fees have to be at least matched by incoming transfer fees, TV revenues, sponsorships, & gate.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
STEM education is "Selina, Tarby, evil magic".
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's how I learned what a Hand of Glory is!
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sold out showing of John Wilson’s History of Concrete!
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Or Bobby vs. Satan.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ1p...
youtube.com
Kids In The Hall - My Pen
YouTube video by jahnnee 5
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Chicken Lady or My Pen!
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Evil Dead II comparisons were pretty apt!
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 03/10/2026
Busan has a new resident named Bukangi, a shark who started chilling in the canals near the train station a couple weeks ago. The city has been trying all sorts of schemes to gently lead her back to the ocean but she foils every attempt and swims back and forth being admired by crowds of fans.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My wife has suggested this but potato-leek soup, which would be named the Leeky Faucet.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I mean, in this case the tech was absolutely doing what it was supposed to: it was given some pictures and identified the guy in the pictures. The cops then turned their brains off because they had an answer from the computer.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1983 EARLY-WARNING SYSTEM: Four nuclear missiles in flight! 1983 STANISLAV PETROV: Why would the Americans fire only four missiles? I'll confirm that our radar is working correctly. 2033 CHAT-GPT JUNO 14.1: Four nuclear missiles in flight! 2033 DUTY OFFICER: Holy shit! *hammers WWIII button*
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Strong confirmation here of my theory that AI will kill us all not through turning us into paperclips but because lazy idiots will just do what the computer says regardless of how stupid and consequential it is
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It would be Rao, who is just as farcically in the tank for Trump but is more traditionally qualified and would let a lot of assholes talk about what a brilliant legal mind she has and how Dems are the real racists.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Like I said, it's genuinely puzzling! I guess maybe the pathway is "seeing the (bad) AI video made the victim more real to him, thus harsher sentencing"?
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Initial judge! www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026... The defense lawyers apparently were arguing that the judge was negatively influenced despite the content of the video (which came from the victim's sister, apparently).
telegraph.co.uk
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The judge apparently gave the killer a longer sentence than the prosecution was asking for. Bizarre story all around.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Early in-person
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Going for that "best fans in baseball!" Cardinals vibe.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Paxton winning despite having a giant “touch me, the hot stove!” sign taped to his back.
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 03/10/2026
>we must build the thing quickly because building the thing quickly is dangerous >outsider asks why the people most worried about AI apocalypse all work at AI companies >complicated field
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There’s still time for another Artemis splashdown.
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Today is the birthday of Harvey Kurtzman (Oct. 3, 1924-Feb. 21, 1993). He wrote, edited, & drew stories for Two-Fisted Tales & Frontline Combat for EC. The creator of the comic that became Mad magazine, he was editor from 1952-1956, & wrote Little Annie Fanny for Playboy from 1962-1988.
A black and white photo of Kurtzman at his typewriter, blowing bubbles with his pipe.The first issue of Mad, which was a comic book when first published.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Steven den Beste has gone to that great Ballpoint Pen Fu dojo in the sky.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I once read some critic saying about him that he was the kind of guy who would write a novel then bang out two short stories and a novella as a parachute brake.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
pulse pulse pulse
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