Reposted by ShanthJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists 2261761062
Reposted by ShanthOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words. 4839711480
Reposted by ShanthRachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶 17086861984
Shanth @towardstengen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Finally score a 950! And still there's two people ahead of me on the leaderboard 😭 000
Shanth @towardstengen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026#outlier-word-horde Been playing OUTLIER for a few days, and figured I'd start a thread of my 10 favourite unfamiliar words from the previous day — Day 87 XYLOPHAGES: An organism that feeds on wood. From ξύλον (xúlon, “wood”) and φάγος (phágos, “one who eats”) h/t playoutlier.com/p/gut 1/10playoutlier.comgut Player Profile & Stats · OUTLIERgut's OUTLIER player profile and stats: daily scores, worldwide and country rank, current streak, vocabulary index, and the rarest words they have found in the daily rare-word game. 100
Shanth @towardstengen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Very cool logic puzzle with cosy graphics and feel :) 121
Reposted by ShanthGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Played my new puzzle yet? Free to play in your browser! gwenckatz.itch.io/deductopia-t...gwenckatz.itch.ioDeductopia: Community Theater by Gwen C. KatzSort out the roles and actors at a theater production 11810
Reposted by ShanthCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/04/2026This is both evil and boring. 26651123
Shanth @towardstengen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026media.tenor.coma man with a cowboy hat and mustache is asking do you have to use so many cuss wordsAlt: A man with a cowboy hat and mustache is asking "do you have to use so many cuss words" [Scene from The Big Lebowski] 020
Reposted by ShanthBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Best ONN in months at least. 664013465
Reposted by ShanthAiyana White @aiyanaewhite.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard. 271118852246
Reposted by ShanthAdam Conover @adamconover.net · 18/04/2026I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!" 270127852905
Reposted by ShanthEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil? How likely does that sound? 🤷♀️ Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?' Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports... 🧵 1/25 291023496
Reposted by ShanthBat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The Pope is weak on crime. The Dalai Lama is soft on budget deficits. The Lubavitcher Rebbe doesn’t have a comprehensive plan for highway maintenance. The… 67514
Reposted by ShanthGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The Zoroastrian mobad is failing to crack down on inferior-grade copper 15410
Reposted by Shanthpriya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 01/04/2026thread of perfect suggestions for a new constitution, no notes 011
Reposted by ShanthKara Fagan 🇨🇦 Liberal @fagankara.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Americans are no longer capable of existing outside a meme world. Nothing is a distraction. Nothing is a cover up. He doesn’t gaf about Epstein or anything else. He is fully sure that America will permit him anything. And he wants a lot of anythings. 061
Reposted by ShanthKim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I will always bring up Hokusai who said he'd only just started to scratch the surface of his artistic journey in his 80s. "If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist." 09716
Reposted by Shanthgzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 25/02/2026this is very @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social coded 1226148
Shanth @towardstengen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026This is a wonderful list of comfort read recommendations! I pulled together all the ones I could into a list here to add to TBRs if you want: gist.github.com/sh4nth/b1a31...gist.github.comComfort read recommendationsComfort read recommendations. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. 043
Reposted by ShanthSecond Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Antifascists are a relatively sturdy quarter horse who are ready for things not to work and turn on a dime around a different barrel, the median voter is a thoroughbred who would love nothing more than to break their own legs and hurt everyone around them. 2304
Reposted by ShanthColin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...deadlanguagesociety.comHow far back in time can you understand English?An experiment in language change 19936571333
Reposted by ShanthJohn Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | www.instagram.com/neyestanimana 72685837
Reposted by ShanthMarty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 02/02/2026ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces. Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy. 391960652
Reposted by ShanthVal @ BOO! Goes the Bride (of Frankenstein) @valwrites.ca · 26/01/2026And remember everyone, while a perfect grade on this test is nearly impossible, it is not pass/fail. Even one makes a difference 03420
Reposted by Shanth👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/01/2026“Are you okay?” What words to die on. What a life to have lived, that his last words were concern. Not for himself, but for a stranger. May we all live with such honour. May no more have to die with such honour. 549175
Reposted by ShanthMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 24/01/2026Border Patrol murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this morning. He was a 37-year-old ICU nurse, a U.S. citizen, a legal gun owner. Video shows he was holding a phone when they killed him. This is the second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis in 17 days. A legal thread 🧵 322984
Reposted by ShanthBrink 🌙✨(they/them) @brink-moonbeam.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I am personally okay, but here’s how to support Minnesota right now. 021
Reposted by ShanthMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 23/01/2026WH posted AI faked photo of arrested protestor “Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comWhite House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protestGuardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration 812544
Reposted by Shanth👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/01/2026Okay so there actually HAS been a case of someone getting pregnant after she gave a blowjob, swallowed, and then got shot in the stomach later I am sorry for making you read that sentence but now you all know also there’s a very obvious joke here that I get to make but none of y’all do 1517911
Shanth @towardstengen.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Going into 2026 likemedia.tenor.coma cartoon of a girl wearing glasses with flames coming out of themAlt: Daria, a girl with black hair wearing round dark-rimmed glasses, facing the viewer. There are flames reflected in the glasses as she stares silently with an impassive expression 000
Reposted by ShanthSantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 31/12/2025Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939. 184116243298
Shanth @towardstengen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The bank robbery industry which sustains thousands will collapse if banks insist on locking their money in those pesky vaults 000
Reposted by ShanthMichael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 13/04/2025July 4, 1776. Read your primary sources, kids. 0267
Reposted by ShanthDavid Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Fun bit of wordnerdery for the day: So I knew that "butler" was derived from the word "buttery," referring to a type of cellar, but that _butter_ wasn't actually kept in the buttery. But I've just discovered that the words aren't actually connected at all; they don't even have a shared root. 1121
Reposted by Shanthweird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Ha ha WTF 2143
Reposted by ShanthＣＨＬＯＥ🦋 @lilmissclo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I don't know who needs to hear this, but start living. The days are flying by and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress. Enjoy what you can like walks, sunsets, music, laughter. Joy doesn't have to be expensive. You deserve it🩷 0495
Shanth @towardstengen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Ah! My time to shine! «As Polish airlines is flying into New York City, the captain announces, “for those of you on the right side of the aircraft, you can see the Statue of Liberty out your window.“ 1/3 ... continued 100
Reposted by ShanthKakistocracy of TERROR! 💀 @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 21/02/2025My whole life is a lie. 😭 061
Reposted by ShanthKameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 02/01/2025Was watching an academic lecture on Caravaggio on YouTube (premium is so worth it) and found myself irrationally angry when people in the audience started asking questions. "I'm not here to listen to the comments section!!!" 🤣 Also why I no longer argue with people online. They hijack your time. 3745
Reposted by ShanthMary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 31/12/2024Here's my 2024 roundup of several of the books I read and loved this year, including titles by @veronicaroth.bsky.social @edenrobins.bsky.social @scalzi.com @katrichardson.bsky.social and more. maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/what...maryrobinettekowal.comWhat MRK Read and Loved in 2024I read some truly wonderful books in 2024, and I want to share them (and my reviews!) with you. When you click on a book below, it will take you to Bookshop.org, so you can support both fabulous au… 3679
Reposted by ShanthZoë Plakias @zoeconomy.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Alt text: Screenshot of a quotation. "Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling." --Greta Thunberg. 0304
Shanth @towardstengen.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Name a Non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring. 010
Shanth @towardstengen.bsky.social · 29/10/2024Also, connecting from the combustibility of hydrogen to hydrogen (fusion) bomb to the more generic atom bomb. I can actually see the way that guy connects factoids and comes up with his dumb electric shark scenarios and it's always like the dumbest thing you'd expect from an LLM. 010
Reposted by ShanthDr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 29/10/2024Historians would like to have a word with Mr. Bezos about what was happening between 1933-1946. 021447
Reposted by ShanthNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 08/10/2024Let's celebrate #WorldOctopusDay with this lovely jug with an #octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC. On display at National Museum Copenhagen. 🏺 AncientBluesky 412330
Reposted by ShanthCanal Cryptid @canalcryptid.eurosky.social · 22/09/2024This is the energy I want to project on Bluesky: 1777
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Acyn
@Acyn • 2h
Trump signs an Executive Order dismantling the Department of Education.
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TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO DISMANTLE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.]
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Barack Obama
@BarackObama • 9h
I'm cutting it close, but here are my #MarchMadness picks. Who do you have
winning it all?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mhvcx2z27zq2jtb3i7f5beb7/bafkreibbruwshuqoebnc5hx6mphqmvxhlpjtdku72oybutamfzbc76dtua)
