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If I was stuck on a desert island and could only bring one book, I’d probably die of exposure (KITH)

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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 19h
From this morning’s episode of NYT the Headlines “Researchers have found that dystopian Science fiction can have a surprisingly powerful impact on how the public views technology.” Re: Google’s 100 zeroes deal with Range: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/b... Yeah. That’s the point.
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Google Wants Hollywood to Stop Being So Afraid of Technology (Gift Article)
100 Zeros, a collaboration between Google and Range Media Partners, aims to give the tech giant a foothold in movies, TV and emerging forms of entertainment.
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seems relevant
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Microsoft is the enemy of good data management practices
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They’re still getting used to mediocrity being insufficient for accolades
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Human sock puppet
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Of course he does, he’s Trump’s favorite little sock puppet!
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would prefer a bottle of wine to literally all of these, but that's not saying much.
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Barbie Movie 2023: Kate McKinnon's Weird Barbie Split
ALT: Barbie Movie 2023: Kate McKinnon's Weird Barbie Split
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Dock Ellis @dockellis10.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
GTA is apparently short for Grand Theft Autogynephilia. Who knew ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’m sure this sentiment is completely unrelated to data center water consumption concerns
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I tried something in my class today that I was really excited about and I think went well! Basically a set of activities (with a bunch of polling) that turned students into an LLM in order to explain how they work. For example:
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sometimes I’ll open threads and immediately be hit with truths I never would expect to find there.
A Threads post by somebody called Georgie Porgie and it says no browse tomorrow for anybody tits at half mast for Dolly
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I support this guy’s spite run 💯
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Malcolm X’s Goatee ✊🏾🌱🧿 (aka Chief Skeet) @longlivethechief.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Is Bluesky like a social media retirement home for millennials?? Is this Shady Pines?
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Same
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hot take: I don’t think that “lower grocery prices” should count as a positive economic indicator, if it’s due to people not buying lettuce because of an explosive diarrhea outbreak
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
age 16: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 46: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for a functional search engine or the library or friends
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ceej @ceej.online · 10/08/2026
twitter users are now getting mad about stuff we say over here and logging in to complain. we've made it, baby. we are driving The Discourse
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
💪🏻
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s sad that it’s easier to get to an unwelcome data center these days than it is to get to a library.
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grant @subterrene.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
They managed to invent ketchup you can't dip fries into. We really are further away from God's light than we've ever been
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A guy went out to see what his dog was up to and discovered it happily playing with a capybara. Original post
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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
No one ever had to spend $175M on librarian misconduct settlements Not even when we drank that Dallas bar out of tequila
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
💯 this. We’re so used to internet services being unlimited (well, historically, cough Google Drive) but LLMs are so resource intensive that we need some way to understand the cost of what we’re doing.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If you are 38 years old or older, I want you to start working on your foot strength and ankle mobility. Unless I hate you. Then I want you to rest for ten years and then suddenly try to hop off a step one day, cold.
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It’s not you it’s me
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ooops!!
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is like the "I will share data, pinky swear" data management and sharing plan.
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigghhhhhghhhhhhhh
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Beyond comments, Pennekamp and his colleagues discovered 265 API keys, 4 private keys and 171 passwords" 👀
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Getting diarrhea like, "Hope this isn't the diarrhea that was on the news"
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
To get reserved bicycle parking at Northwestern, you may need a knighthood and a Nobel.
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We are stretching the definition of the word handbook
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I can’t stop watching
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Infowars Elf (2026-2026) was ahead of its time.
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Top Gun, yes, the original, in the theater this year for the *40th* anniversary. Best birthday present ever.
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Rebecca, at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It would have been epic
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The gentleman embroiderer's Insta: www.instagram.com/tattood.cloth/
tattood.cloth
TATTOO'D CLOTH | Brooklyn Chainstitch
170 posts 2,927 followers 366 following

"Presence over perfection"
Hand-cranked chainstitch embroidery
Commissions • Live events • Brand activations
Brooklyn —... more
@tattoodcloth.com

Picture of the gentleman embroiderer
Graphic logo of tattoo'd cloth, letters scrunched in the shape of the machine
A person in a barber shop, we see a loooong embroidery from neck to buttocks
URL at top: instagram.com/tattood.cloth/
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. 

Magic!

Goodnight.
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I just had the urge to google whether there are bike racks near my hair salon
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 02/06/2026
this is my kind of company motto right here
18 wheeler with one back door open splitting the company’s tagline into “if we can’t / we won’t“
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 31/05/2026
saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that read "THERE IS NO CLOUD, JUST SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER" and it took my last shred of self-control not to thank him for his service
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
GFP FTW!
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The Daily Northwestern @thedailynu.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
1/ This line is the border between Evanston and Rogers Park, Chicago’s northernmost neighborhood. On Oct. 31, it became the site of what appears to be an attempt by Evanston police to dodge the city’s sanctuary city ordinance... 🧵
A minimal map with the text “Evanston” on the top, “Rogers Park” on the bottom, and a dotted line as a border between them.
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
CAKE VICTORY. Thanks Giuseppe thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/recipes/all/...
a 3 tier carrot cake decorated with figs and candied carrots Three tiered carrot cake cut to expose layers of fig jam
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Stairs are hard, ok?
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Tobin @tobinmagle.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Ok data nerd hive mind. We hosted a computing&data management/science event at our institution where we gave out data themed stickers at our service table. We cannot figure out what this one means
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