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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 9h

The Diana Mini is has both a half-frame and a square-frame setting. FWIW, All the usual plastic lens issues apply.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s 10/4, say hi to your good buddy.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I once got a twofer, but this was immediately preceding my cardioversion so there was some nervous tension in the air.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Amazing. I love the reflection on the calm water.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In version 16.2.998 we’re removing the ‘6’ key from Calculator app!

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Restaurant name idea: Burgatory

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thanks for the notice. I’m now subscribed.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I just can’t decide if it makes that twinkle-toes sound from cartoons or the oompa lumbering tuba music.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Loading 120 in a darkbag with even the slightest humidity is playing one of those frustration games like QWOP.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I feel like they have been on fire lately. Funny, but also like “oof!”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026

Nation Demands More Jobs Where You Steer Ship With Big Wooden Wheel theonion.com/nation-demands-more-jo…

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/09/2026

I still think there is not a good awareness out there of just how much the AI industry plans to run off fossil fuels. This is a *conservative* estimate that excludes many planned projects. These are weak plans and they can be stopped. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-data...

Investing.com -- Data centers in the United States are projected to consume more natural gas than most countries within the next ten years, according to a new outlook from BloombergNEF.

Natural gas consumption for electricity generation at data centers is forecast to increase by 15 billion cubic feet per day in the decade ending in 2035, even when accounting for planned projects that may never be completed. This volume exceeds the current gas consumption of all nations except China, Russia, Iran and the United States, based on data from the US Energy Information Administration. The projection is more than double BloombergNEF's December forecast of 6.9 billion cubic feet per day.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/09/2026

It's official: The EPA has repealed a rule that would have directly saved thousands of lives by limiting fossil fuel emissions from power plants. Industry lobbyists successfully pushed for this repeal using surging demand from data centers as justification. The government chose AI over human lives.

EPA Finalizes Repeal of 2024 Power Plant Regulations, Delivering $300+ Billion in Savings, Proposes Repeal of All Remaining Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Power Plants

Trump EPA delivers reliable and affordable energy in the largest power sector deregulatory action in U.S. history

September 14, 2026

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...

In a dashboard available to the workers, human reviewers are able to select which “task” they want to take on. Once they click that, they are presented with the real ChatGPT user’s prompt. 404 Media has seen multiple real prompts but is not quoting any of them for source protection reasons. Some of the prompts indicate the ChatGPT user does not expect that a human may end up reading their conversation, because they ask ChatGPT to keep the content to themselves.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On the bright side, using some spare suspenders we'll be able to wear the empty barrels.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Don't know quite how to describe it, but that is a very Chicagoey looking place.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Developing ECN-2 at home was really easy. Just did everything C-41 as normal and then at the end gently rubbed off the sooty remjet layer. It came off pretty easily. #FilmPhotography

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Wisconsin has so many taverns because our adventurers need to meet up for quests.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Imagining a weird European car company decided to use the SI unit for rotation, Hz, instead of RPM and getting angry. Or Radians Per Second and gett even madder.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Architects would have more success if they used canilevers instead of cantilevers.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Shoes are just a kind of artificial hoof.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A New Color (1/5🧵)

Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.”

Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.

Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.”

Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s like that story about how NASA spacecraft dimensions were ultimately determined by the width of Roman roads. So much of biking infrastructure/good urbanism/traffic calming is curtailed by what size fire trucks your municipal government buys.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The film thing is real. So many people at the camera store were developing, buying film, and holding (analog) SLRs. #FilmPhotography

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Part of the answer, I think, is that sophisticated power electronics can help fill the role that large spinning masses have traditionally played on the grid. They can supply “synthetic inertia” to stabilize and prevent frequency excursions.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/08/2026

i think the big data center backlash has a lot to do with technology getting worse, costing more, building a surveillance state, destroying the environment, owned by a class of wealthy elite that coalesced behind the fascist regime that made clear they’d sacrifice humanity for their own power growth

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sorry to hear that ❤️‍🩹

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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Where "growing enthusiasm for nuclear power" means the federal government and the industrial conglomerates who build the plants are throwing an all-out grift fest.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I have written up the "Dobby's Grave" chortle, with my concerns about what it *really* says about the problems with British infrastructure ... backofmind.substack.com/p/chortle-on...

backofmind.substack.com

chortle on a chortle

an underestimated obstacle to infrastructure

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The “D&D player” and “tome appreciator” Venn diagram is a circle.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Storage and the computing, too! Everyone is walking around with a supercomputer in their pocket but we insist on processing data in the cloud only.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Searches have this tendency now to swap out what you search for and replace it with something kinda similar but unrelated and it drives me crazy.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This looks like a good-natured but ultimately unsuccessful attempt at Wisconsin cultural sensitivity.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

As far as I know the EPA AirNow app still works.

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Watch this video: Eric Adams getting heckled in Wisconsin as he tries to sell residents a Big Tech data center. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i... thanks to @hellgatenyc.com

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Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

An upcoming Montana ballot referendum would deny corporations the power to spend in state and federal elections. If it passes in deep red Montana, it could pass anywhere. State by state, this could effectively nullify Citizens United. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE

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Could This Actually End Citizens United?

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

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AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Sewer Socialists in Milwaukee were so popular that the Democratic and Republican parties combined and ran a unity candidate in order to defeat them!

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This makes me realize more media needs to be Rosencrantz and Guildensterned.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

In that half-awake morning sleep I dreamed there was an As Seen On TV CD that you could buy in the 90s that was just the ambient sounds of a dentist’s office. There would be faint muzak and the occasional high pitched drill. $19.95, order now.

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Christopher @twopoint718.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is the worst I’ve seen it here. There is a whitish haze outside and everything smells like a wood fire.

EPA AirNow app for Madison WI showing “416 AQI, Hazardous, Wildfires in WI”

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

You know what doesn't cause apocalyptic skylines and wildfires? Solar panels. Can we stop burning fossil fuels and just start massively investing more in renewables and battery tech, please?

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