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one day someone in ancient greece said to his buddy, "i bet the reason boys' voices get lower during puberty is because their vocal cords are tied directly to their nuts so when their nuts descend it stretches out the vocal cords like a bass guitar string" & his buddy said "ooh yeah write that down"

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 3h

shakespearean farce about a cartoon wolf in disguise as a human woman to woo a cartoon wolf who's actually a human woman in disguise

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 3h

another tricky thing is that `js/tracery.min.js` is not actually a minified version of `tracery.js`

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Spooky Poltergeist Ghouls 🎃 @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Are you an Austin based TTRPG Person? We're collabing with @distributeaid.org on some super secret Good Guy shit in the area and we need folks for a Secret Thing, hit me up or tag your homie in the replies!

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3h

One must imagine Sisyphus forklift-certified

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 3h

so tracery secretly depends on jquery (see blacksky.community/profile/did:...) but afaict actually only uses `$.extend`, which is just `Object.assign`, and only a handful of times, so excising it isn't that much work bearing that in mind, would anyone care to guess what's currently giving me agita?

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 4h

we should just copy that popular young politician from new york, al smith

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 4h

"let's try bribing voters, it works for democrats" is funny first because democrats haven't actually been having wild electoral success and second because the democratic party has been so traumatized by this straw man that they've come around to "never give voters anything they explicitly ask for"

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Queens Public Library @qplnyc.bsky.social · 4h

Let QPL help take the stress out of the citizenship exam and application process with these free, informative programs and workshops! queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea...

An American flag and a folder with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on the front.

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 5h

bumpin' Partch & readin' Polis

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 5h

the new INXS jukebox musical set in ancient Greece, LISTEN LIKE THEBES

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 6h

My son is in the grip of illness, and our hope rests with you 💔. He is currently in the Intensive Care Unit and urgently needs $1,200 to cover critical medical expenses. Your contribution no matter how small could, by the grace of God, help alleviate his suffering. chuffed.org/project/2046...

A screenshot of their campaign's page showing the title *Help Khaled and his family" with the donations: "0 €"

A newborn baby wearing a diaper sleeping in a hospital incubator unit.

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 7h

maybe they meant the pan went on a sports podcast

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 7h

just one more thing—you say you didn't want to be robbed...and yet you let the robber shoot you. it just doesn't add up...

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 17h

in my ecosystem, god's light strays from you!

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 17h

i really almost spiraled into some "o tempora o mores" shit until i remembered that actually js was always just Like This

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 17h

what should i do if i want to just like use tracery in a browser normal-style the minified lib in the github repo throws errors about undefined variables

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 22h

shoutouts to what remains one of my favorite bits of characterization, the opening of the second verse of "chillout tent"

He was rough around the edges
He'd been to school but never finished
He'd been to jail but never prison

—The Hold Steady, "Chillout Tent"

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 22h

you can't even put $500 on the fifth horse in the sixth race anymore, you just buy shares in sydney sweeney's ass

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 22h

I'M FINE ACTUALLY IT'S NOT UPSETTING AT ALL THAT THIS ALBUM IS TWO ENTIRE DECADES OLD

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 22h

i don't want to speak to soon but the guardians look totally outmatched

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While women’s and gender studies programs are being closed down all over the country, the work feminist scholars have done has never been more important.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 03/10/2026

reading Vector Media by Impett and Offert and am very fixated on this paragraph

deeply learned forms of representation, yet offer a mode of vision that seems removed from tangible interaction. Though, in truth, the relationship to touch is far more complex: from digital pictures that lack physicality to heavily textured paintings or bas-reliefs that invite, even simulate, a tactile experience, as in Bernard Berenson's
(1896) "tactile values" or David Freedberg's (2017) account of bodily
empathy.
Computer vision, shaped in Marr's shadow, rests on an unstated assumption of continuity between vision and pictures, overlooking that it is fundamentally modeling a medium (photography), perhaps even a genre (amateur smartphone photography), rather than a sense (vision). Computer vision's latent theory of photography, as Malevé and Sluis (2023) put it, stems from precisely these "ontological conflations between 'real world' and photograph, human eye and camera, snapshot and visual stimulus." Or, we might add, OpenAl's conflation of TikTok-slop video generation and world simulation. Conceptual or even philosophical contradictions that, as Agre suggested, tend to surface precisely in Al's highly material, technical impasses.
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Notes
This chapter owes a large debt to the connections between the history of philosophies of vision (especially those of the European Enlightenment) and computer vision first laid out by the art historian Michael Baxandall (1995, 60), who described neural networks as a "plastic, reactive, association machine that would have pleased Condillac more than Locke."
OpenAl's use of that term initially described something close to a technical report, a kind of self-published scientific paper, typeset in LaTex and hosted on arxiv; it now describes something between a blog post and a product launch page.
It is difficult to overstate the genuine surprise felt by the techr

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 03/10/2026

i wouldn't vote for this guy for dog catcher

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Juniper @gravepixie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‼️RENT IS OVERDUE‼️ ‼️OUT OF PROPANE‼️ ‼️LOW ON FOOD ‼️ $380/$3,320 EVICTION WILL HAPPEN IF I CAN’T PAY TODAY I have a landlord who doesn’t accept late rent anymore. If I pay a day late (the 3rd) it’s a $350 fee and if I surpass that we’ll be evicted. I’m still without a car so we’ll be stranded.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 03/10/2026

i think if you’re having complicated feelings about a man you looked up to being outed as a sexual abuser the thing to do is work through those feelings before/without writing an essay about it. the take economy has cooked your brain.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/10/2026

Woman’s Career Dies In Childbirth theonion.com/womans-career-dies-in-…

Woman’s Career Dies In Childbirth
Mother’s Livelihood ‘Gone Before Its Time,’ Family Says

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 03/10/2026

would you say this piece is more or less deeply thoughtful than Socrates's Apology

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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it is also really interesting when we talk about the survivors right to anonymity while positioning this man assuming some level of anonymity as some sort of draconian punishment. maybe not everybody gets to be famous.

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 03/10/2026

this is rude to the nurses who view doctors as narcissistic doofuses

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 03/10/2026

tired: reinventing the bus from first principles wired: reinventing the reformation from first principles

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thiiird person @thiiirdperson.com · 03/10/2026

$1920/2100 I'm so close, yall! Mortgage was due Thursday; I'm a little late but still ok if I can pay it by Monday. Can you help me save up the rest? I was unemployed and then I got into a job with no base pay. Been struggling, needing support. Cashapp/Venmo/Paypal/Kofi: thiiirdperson Thanks!🙏🏽❤️

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Donate to Help An Artist Feed Their Family, organized by Thiiird Person

Hello to you and yours! I'm a full time artist who fills my world up with music and la… Thiiird Person needs your support for Help An Artist Feed Their Family

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 03/10/2026

Liberty Biberty's goth sister Death Beath is still waiting for Spirit Halloween to call

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morosoph; ‿̩͙⊱༒︎༻♱༺༒︎⊰‿̩͙ Spookis‿̩͙⊱༒︎༻♱༺༒︎⊰‿̩͙ @allwillbewell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s gonna be over 100° outside. Pls don’t make me beg for $60! And the loan repayment got charged EST, it’s now outstanding. Still at $477. Fee pending if not paid now. This is urgent. 😵‍💫 linktr.ee/hiitsbritt #mutualaid #bipocma #homelesssky #marequest #helpsky #fundsky 💸💕 #helpfolkslive

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morosoph; ‿̩͙⊱༒︎༻♱༺༒︎⊰‿̩͙ Spookis‿̩͙⊱༒︎༻♱༺༒︎⊰‿̩͙ @allwillbewell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maha's family needs $180 for food, medicine and land rent. please help if you can, and if not, a share is free! 💸💕🍉 tinyurl.com/3fa6uu6n

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meave (frown) @meave.nyc · 02/10/2026

please help Bara'a. being the sole caretaker of a small, seriously sick child is putting her life at risk, too. she has to pay rent on the land where their tent sits she has to buy food she has to pay for Ibrahim's treatments no action is too small; everything matters bit.ly/support-baraa

A rectangular graphic of a night sky, with a galaxy and some bright stars shining in the background. In the center, an oval framed photo of a young woman, Bara’a in a dark blue hijab and black surgical mask, bent over a small boy, Ibrahim, lying on a large hospital bed. He has dark brown hair and brown skin, he’s wearing a white surgical mask and a brown t-shirt, and has an IV stuck into his small, skinny left arm. His eyes are closed and Bara’s hands are resting on his left hand and his right cheek.
Text:
Save Ibrahim’s Life!
Bara’a has lost two daughters, and little Ibrahim is all she has left. But he is very ill, and needs regular, expensive medical treatments.
A weekly or monthly pledge of any amount helps ensure he stays alive. Please, extend this dear family some mercy.

Their shortened campaign link: bit.ly/support-baraa

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