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telling some yarn until you realize the form next to you has gone limp in sleep 🥺

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That reverse culture shock is always such a surprise. People keep trying to tell me things and I cannot figure out what they’re saying.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, …I know this is hard. But it’s a home robot I would accept 🥲

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I forget, the Wire Mother monkeys turned out normal, right?

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spooky Deirdre Connolly¹ ² at a distance @durumcrustulum.com · 08/10/2026

ill put 15 dollars on rsa going bust (from a non-quantum attack) happy to have this bag of pq tricks that rely on fundamentally different mathematics!

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Me I want a ceiling gantry system for my living room with an end effector for manipulating fabric to create a laundry sorter-and-folder 👕👔 I’m fine with it working slowly — would happily tolerate ~12h service if it meant waking up to folded clothes.

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This is a photo of the windsock at Keflavík

A photo of water droplets on a windowpane

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For a vivid example: Captain James Cook was 1 of 8, of whom 3 total survived to adulthood. Capt Cook managed to sail from England to make first European contact with Hawaii, where he was killed at 51; he had 6 children. His children each died at 31, 16, 4, <1, <1, 17. He has no descendants today.

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Reminder: the reason why average life expectancy used to be 30 wasn't because nobody lived longer, but because until recently half of everyone ever born died before puberty ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...

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Mortality in the past: every second child died

The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally. How do we know about the mortality of children in the past? And what can we learn from it for our future?

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 08/10/2026

Wooden tools crafted by Neanderthals at hunting sites have been found before. For the first time, there's now evidence from a domestic context too. “We know what was happening in the kitchen, in the sleeping areas,” says @iphes-cerca.bsky.social's M. Gema Chacón. “It’s like a snapshot.” @science.org

science.org

Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals

Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives

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Colm @dotcolm.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

A true pioneer has left us. RIP.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

French police: <looking at my passport> Qui es-tu? Me: <stares back> Je suis moi. French police: <stares at me> Me: <stares back> French police: <stares at me> Me: <stares back> French police: … <sigh>… D’accord. <hands me my passport and waves me away>

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best jokes are the ones with the highest ratio of elaborate effort to # of people who get it

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The Icelandic chain Maika'i is so interesting—why did they pick a Hawaiian word for their name? It’s like a weird tie back to where I was born. I’m gonna open a breakfast place in Hawaii and call it Frábært just to mess with people.

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I only pose questions to him where he has a say 😜

United wants me to bid to fly Saturday instead of today. 🥲

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Only guy taking off so far from KEF is of course Icelandair. I feel bad for people doing ground ops on the ramp today.

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Today, an ESE wind peaking at 28 knots sustained (14 m/s), gusting 41 knots (21 m/s), with the peak wind force expected exactly at the scheduled takeoff time of our airplane. It’s hard not to take it personally— like Iceland itself is also against us leaving.

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There’s a certain magic to Iceland — not the natural beauty per se, moreso that certain aspects of Iceland may choose to reveal themselves to you, or not, depending. We had that magic this time. The weather was great the whole way through. We were lucky in several ways, with people and events.

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Starting to acclimate us to jetlag, last night I took 4yo to Vatnaveröld (“Water World”) in Keflavík and we swam and splashed until 21:30 closing time. Very proud to see 4yo hit the high-water-mark of being able to play with several other groups of children while speaking only Icelandic.

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We leave Iceland today—4yo is completely miserable about it and does NOT want to leave. He made a deal with one of his friends that he could sleep under the other’s bed and then let me know that I could fly home by myself because he would prefer to stay in Iceland 😢

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None of the Icelandic candy companies are setup to wholesale individually-wrapped treats in the manner good for Halloween, but so many of my US friends want to try the Icelandic candy so here we go

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Oh I see context in the thread now.

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Ah also quoted guy claims AirCan was parked but article also says “The Air Canada flight was being towed to its gate” truly don’t understand why he is quoted. if I had to guess, sounds like the tug put the aircraft out of bounds on the stand.

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Without knowing exactly what happened… “that’s why you always gotta have a wingwalker”

Man the quoted guy has no idea how bad the parallax effect is around large awkwardly-shaped objects. Easy to sneer at the rampie from the nice plush seat with the good view.

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those ethereal green light ribbons are at it again tonight

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4yo samples a whiff of my coffee and cheerfully tries to make it seem like something you would actively want to consume: “yummm… it smells like pencils!”

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Svona ruglingur er að miklu leyti það sem ég tel mig þurfa að bæta í íslenskunni minni, en það er ekki ljóst hvernig ég get fengið þá endurgjöf sem ég þarf. Kannski myndi það hjálpa að vita hvernig aðrir sem lærðu að tala góða íslensku komust frá miðstigi yfir á hátt stig.

😜 þau kenndu mér ekki þetta slangurorð í Leifsstöð en ég mun nýta mér það héðan í frá 🙏

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Í fyrsta sinn sem ég gerði þessi mistök, ég notaði aðra af þessum tveimur setningum en átti við hina. “Ég er með kærasta.” “Ég er með kærustanum mínum.” Ég hafði ekki einu sinni rangt fyrir mér! Ekki alveg.. 😒

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Hér er gott dæmi um eina af mínum uppáhaldsgerðum íslenskra málvillna: þær eru ekki endilega rangar út frá málfræðinni, en gætu gefið til kynna eitthvað sem ég meinti ekki.

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Ég meinti að hann vill ekki lengur vera í bleyju

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