Has anyone released an stl of the Trump/Epstein "Friendship" statue? Asking for a Friend with a 3D printer.

Weird question #201 that I find myself researching to support (or distract from) my writing: What was the status of marzipan in the late medieval period?

Debugging some vase mode prints earned an achievement! Also learned something about how cura calculates flow, and want to change it.

Minecraft has been a powerful way for my son and I to bond. If you have time, please check out our latest experiment #Severance, but in #Minecraft. youtu.be/BmSIKDaR0hc

Wait. I thought it was Millennials who were addicted. Oh wait. They're old enough to be subscribers now. They're suddenly cured. gizmodo.com/gen-zs-socia...

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Proposal. We should just stop calling the party "Republicans." They're The Trump Party. Make it stick. Make it last long after Trump.

If you're parents are still around (or you're still at home), look around the house. There's probably something on the wall that has just "always been there." There's probably a story about it. Ask now while you can.

It's more than a little disheartening when you spend over a month on video, and then a "company" fraudulently claims copyright on the CC0 music that you used.

Every time jump (and one real jump) in Severed Craft. #minecraft. youtube.com/shorts/WiaO6...

Minecraft has been a powerful way for my son and I to bond. If you have time, please check out our latest experiment #Severance, but in #Minecraft. youtu.be/BmSIKDaR0hc

The latest #minecraft snapshot (25W31a) has some weird bugs. If you like minecraft, we'd love for you to subscribe. As he's going off to college, this is becoming an important way for us to keep connected. youtube.com/shorts/pMGww...

Well that was fast #3Dprinting #Octoprint

#minecraft has some weird bugs/glitchs in the latest update. youtu.be/s2H6F7pcH6E

I had to reinstall #octoprint, which means I'm restarting my journey to hit all the achievements! #3Dprinting

The proof for this is trivial to find: Compare illnesses in naturally high fluoride ground water areas with low fluoride areas. Oh wait. They did. The only difference was in tooth decay and related diseases, and it was the low-F areas that suffered more.

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

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Signing up for ZipRecruiter is like being adopted by a "helpful" Uncle who really wants you to get a job, but has no idea what you actually do, no matter how many times you've explained it.

Come to think of it, have @asavage.bsky.social and @jamesgunn.bsky.social ever been seen in the same room together?

Every developer and city planner should be forced to watch this, Clockwork_Orange-Style, at least once a week. www.youtube.com/shorts/2zu05...

I'm not going to lie. Every time I see a picture of James Gunn, my brain says "Adam Savage on his Villain Arc"

I know this is a crazy idea, but what if we set tariffs based entirely on independently measured things like the Freedom Index, and the Democracy Index, and invite other countries to do the same for us to keep us honest?

I'm a woke person who knows why blackface is wrong, but sometimes I have my doubts about other "woke" people. Many just learned it's offensive without thinking why. There are other forms of false representation that are far more insidious & damaging precisely because we find them less offensive.

To websites like Smithsonianmag.org. I'm often willing to turn off my ad blocker to support you, but I'm not turning off Privacy Badger, that only blocks ads that DON'T RESPECT MY "DO NOT TRACK" SETTINGS. If you want to show me ads, be better.

I'm getting old, and starting to have opinions about "the way TV used to be..." Things I miss: Likable characters and >20 episodes/year * N>2 years. A BIT of suspense without pouring a new source on every episode. The ongoing story arc is allowed to fall into the background sometimes.

"In the long run, there is no distinction between arming ourselves and arming our enemies." — Norbert Wiener. That's why I think we should arm our enemies with the thing that can be extremely powerful, yet still limited to justifiable actions: the rule of law.

Finally a corporation is reacting to what’s happening here. Don’t be surprised that it’s not a car company or a shampoo brand. They’re all still pretending that life is normal. It’s a bookstore. Barnes and Noble fills their store display windows with Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale.

Somebody needs to compile a list, although something tells me most of the companies are already on my list. Which reminds me: everybody still avoiding Target? Good. www.huffpost.com/entry/junete...

I scored 5/6 It was also educational. Today I learned that Slate considers "science." There were 2.5 science questions (taxonomy, biochemistry and astronomy-but-phrased-as-astrology) 1 technology product trivia 1 mathematics 1 total woo (collective unconscious)

Piggy wishes you a happy #caturday

A teacher uses AI to inspire her students to visualize what they would look if their dreams came true. Yes, this made me tear up. It makes me happy cry watching precious moments like this.

This is so adorable, it makes me wish I had a Mac Mini. amzn.to/4e3lKWx "Honey, I need a Mac Pro." "We have a Mac Pro at home."

Happy Obama Day!

Communing with the moon jellies today.

Currently giving some back story to the eugenics movement. Dr. Oz's announcement today proves it's still around. Also, somebody needs to do a study of how likely a prisoner is to be approved for conjugal visits, broken down by race.

Canadians Have Cooled on US Travel https://twp.ai/4in1dk

As a chemist, this smells like a massive scam. I'd like to see a breakdown of how many kwh go into making a liter of gas. Prediction: You're basically turning your gas car into an EV with extra steps, and ~1/100th the mileage. www.popsci.com/environment/...

Sudden hit of nostalgia. I'm a little surprised that I've never seen a refillable version to make your own.

Happy #caturday!

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If you've never heard of them, do yourself a favor and check them out! Ruby 2 and other series were an unalloyed joy for me at a time before podcasts were a thing. If you Like Night Vale, this might be your retro-jam!

Junior and I got mulched, big time. youtu.be/w0n9g5Q3Q-Q

The thing is that I encounter accounts who have completely bought into the bot-spread misinformation and continue to spread it. They even seem to have learned their social media behavior from the bots. I suggest we call them MAWBABs. (Might As Well Be A Bot).

I'm not affiliated, just a fan, but you MUST check out ZBS if you like audio fiction. They've been making surreal, experimental, fascinating, and entertaining radio plays since the time when they were actually radio plays. I'm so happy that they're still at it. www.zbs.org/shop/