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I am a babbling brook
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Michael Jay McClure
3 days ago
Not always but sometimes if you tell me story about your kid, I pretend youâre talking about a shirt so I can relate/sympathize.
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Michael Jay McClure
3 days ago
âYouâve gotta let them be who they are,â I say, looking toward the horizon.
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Retro Tech Dreams
4 days ago
Mac OS 8 (1997)
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Casey Newton
4 days ago
Help, I'm trapped in the Microsoft Execution Container and the walls are closing in
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It was another fairly steady month in podcasts!
2 days ago
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Derek Sheen
8 days ago
BREAKING: Daisy Domergue has backed out of Freedom 250.
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Mike Ginn
9 days ago
when I have to use a grocery store bathroom I always worry someone is meddling with my grocery cart. I know I havenât technically bought it yet, but socially the food belongs to me
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âIn a 2020 interview with SiriusXM, Noel finally said what everyone already knew: The song is nonsense. Noel said that he'd sometimes âdrift offâ while playing âChampagne Supernovaâ live, wondering if it ever actually meant anything.â
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The Alternative Number Ones: Oasis' "Champagne Supernova"
In The Alternative Number Ones, Iâm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
https://stereogum.com/2480318/the-alternative-number-ones-oasis-champagne-supernova/columns/the-alternative-number-ones
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âI think they were surprised by how effective it was. They probably asked themselves why they didnât do that before. So I think that we actually pushed them into this understanding that they had to play all their cards, which they did.â
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Why Any Plausible Iran Deal Is a Humiliation for Trump
Even as the U.S. claims to be nearing an agreement to end the conflict, Tehranâs ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and hold the global economy hostage has reinforced the power of regime hard-liner...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-any-plausible-iran-deal-is-a-humiliation-for-trump
8 days ago
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Topher Florence
10 days ago
living in a 24/7 d/s (damsel/snidely) relationship with a girl who keeps a pair of airpods in so she can listen to oncoming train asmr to stay in "trackspace"
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âThe sound of malevolent, mechanized almost-humanity never goes out of style, and Silent Shout still sounds like a future that we haven't been smart enough to avoid.â
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The Knife's 'Silent Shout' Turns 20
The voice doesnât sound human. It doesnât sound like one voice, either. Itâs a distorted monotone chant that comes through in several registers at once. Itâs a high-pitched whisper and a baritone rumb...
https://stereogum.com/2489365/silent-shout-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary
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No Sunk Costs
11 days ago
Ok this is a truly great tweet
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Conducted some science this weekend; theyâre very similar, and both are pleasing to my super refined palate (lol), but after much deliberation Iâm giving first prize to the OG Blapple
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Retro Tech Dreams
14 days ago
Angela's travel to-do list from The Net (1995)
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Biollante
17 days ago
Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent
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âItâs a great field to cover, because there are a lot of vindictive personalities, and theyâre all constantly fighting with each other. Naturally many of the people involved in that story went to prison for various things.â
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He Spends His Days Tracking Americaâs Wildest Conspiracy Theorists. What Heâs Seeing Lately Is Eye-Popping.
Will Sommer has watched our politics descend into darkness. We're not ready for what's coming next.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/qanon-election-denial-jan-6-will-sommer.html
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âEach is tested individually because each is engineered to order. A transformer ordered today, built over 2 years across 9 countries, and tested in a hall that another utility is also waiting to use, still has to cross a country whose infrastructure is older than the transformer it is replacing.â
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The US imports 82% of its large power transformers. How it got there, and what it will take to rebuild the capability.
Why the rebuild depends on metallurgy, apprenticeship, and one mill in Pennsylvania.
https://frontiermap.substack.com/p/the-us-imports-82-of-its-large-power
17 days ago
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Patrick McKelvey
18 days ago
Raspberries deserve the career strawberries have
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Cabel Sasser
18 days ago
every now and then i pop into threads. the meta algorithm is truly⊠one-of-a-kind
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âWhile many construction tasks have resisted automation and mechanization, tunneling machinery has steadily gotten more automated, to the point where a modern TBM is akin to a mobile factory that burrows through the earth and constructs a tunnel behind it.â
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The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines
Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only reasonable way to create a direct path between two points.
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-evolution-of-tunnel-boring-machines
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da share z0ne
20 days ago
DAMB -
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âIn the worst worst-case scenario, the station could break apart across thousands of miles and multiple continents. As NASA puts it, âCalculating the probability of this penetration cascading into loss of deorbit capability has a very large range of variables, making predictions ineffective.ââ
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This Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the International Space Station
Thereâs a good way to throw out the ISS. And then thereâs a really bad way.
https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-the-worst-thing-that-could-happen-to-the-international-space-station/
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universally beloved
21 days ago
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âThe advantage of this alternative route is that oil and gas pipelines come with their own security perimeters, access roads, and maintenance corridors already built around them, allowing a telecom company to lay fiber without digging new trenches through difficult terrain.â
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Big Tech is moving data out of the Gulf through Iraqi oil pipelines
U.S. hyperscalers secure "dark fiber" capacity along Iraqi land route to reduce latency and provide a backup to vulnerable subsea cables.
https://restofworld.org/2026/iraq-big-tech-gulf-war-data/
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Brandy Jensen
22 days ago
not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator
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False Knees
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Brian Miller
24 days ago
at what point does an interchange qualify as a textile from a woven art perspective
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Denny Carter
29 days ago
me sleeping seven hours vs. me sleeping six hours and 42 minutes
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"A week before Dallas, the Senate had cut $600 million from Kennedyâs NASA budget; a week later, it named the Florida launch complex after him and put the money back on the table. From then on, as one engineer said, âApollo had only three sacred specifications â Man. Moon. Decade.ââ
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Building Apollo
A review of Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/building-apollo
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Steven (with a PH)
25 days ago
If you cry enough when placing your drive-thru order the server will sometimes hand feed you through your car window while making soothing noises and gently brushing your mane.
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26 days ago
Allegedly, the X-Men cartoon theme was ripped off from Linda, a Hungarian show that ran from 1984 to 1991. The composer filed a lawsuit that was settled out of court. To me, the similarities sound a little too close to be a coincidence. Either way, this Linda intro absolutely rules.
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Michael Jay McClure
26 days ago
My fatherâs cult leader* girlfriend, to whom I have hardly ever spoken, said to me, âYour father doesnât know where his keys are. I did a quick psychic search through his brain & couldnât find a memory.â & now I guess I live in a void with no gravity, lodestar, way home.
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These beams are not actually low enough to collide with your head but it looks that way at first and I get a little jolt of panic every morning
28 days ago
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Nathan Yau
29 days ago
Divorce, by occupations:
flowingdata.com/2026/05/07/d...
Actuaries, professional estimators of risk and very on brand, are the outlier with the lowest rate.
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Will Sloan
29 days ago
Finger hovering over the "Add to Cart" button for a $50 4K Blu-Ray release of a late-1980s Italian horror film with this Letterboxd curve... trying to stop... can't stop... somebody help me...
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dsm-5 gum
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âJust like in 1984, Fn was used to make keys pretend theyâre Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, plus a few more rare keys like Break or PrtSc. But nature abhors a vacuum, freeways generate traffic, and keys end up being given more work.â
@aresluna.org
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I donât know what is Appleâs endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and Iâm not sure Apple knows either
The origin and the evolution of the most confusing modifier key
https://aresluna.org/fn/
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Stella Sacco
about 1 month ago
MAMMAL BULLYING A REPTILE: Nice body temperature dude. Did the sun pick it out for you
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âThe S-curve is a reasonable approximation of technology development, but the improvement phase might last for a very long time. The modern blast furnace works in the same basic way that a medieval one did, but itâs been improving, in fits and starts, for centuries.â
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The Blast Furnace: 800 Years of Technology Improvement
The modern world uses shocking amounts of steel.
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-blast-furnace-800-years-of-technology
about 1 month ago
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"Too much shooting, and the people might rise up in crowds too numerous to shoot. Or the military or secret police might turn against you. Or you might alienate your allies, provoke international sanctions, crash your economy, or risk losing the FIFA Peace Prize."
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Orban Was Bad, Even Though We Don't Have A Perfect Word For His Badness
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https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/orban-was-bad-even-though-we-dont
about 1 month ago
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It has been an extremely steady month in podcasts! Am I even awake?
about 1 month ago
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John Madden
about 1 month ago
ive watched this part like a dozen times now
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e.w. niedermeyer
about 1 month ago
regrettably, the sentence "She was as desirable as cream gravy" has appeared pushing on, in the spirit of the pioneers
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âThis isnât a gradual shift. Itâs a phase transition, like moving from hand-mined diamonds to industrial synthesis. I call this the post-Prohibition effect. When a scarce resource suddenly becomes abundant, the black market that grew around its scarcity doesnât simply adjust. It convulses.â
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The Quiet Collapse of the Zero-Day Economy
Three days ago, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing. The coverage has focused almost entirely on the modelâs purported capabilities â and if the claims are to be believed, ...
https://markabene.substack.com/p/the-quiet-collapse-of-the-zero-day
about 1 month ago
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Nate Jones
about 1 month ago
The Oscars fixed the Best International Film category! Or at least, created a workaround that should leave most people happy.
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Scifi Art
about 1 month ago
Art by Darrell K. Sweet (1934 â 2011) who produced an incredible 3000+ images between 1975 and 2005 1/2
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Michael Jay McClure
about 1 month ago
I was going to get mad that I never had the cute nickname Tab but then I remembered that a select group of Philadelphians called me Trotter for years & itâs the best nickname. You can call me it if you want. Iâll answer.
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Brian Miller
about 1 month ago
đ some from Seville
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Ferris Jabr
about 1 month ago
North America has three bluebird species: Eastern (blue head, red neck and breast), Western (blue head and neck, red breast), and Mountain (all blue). Here, a Western bluebird (Sialia mexicana) brightens the palette of a half-parched pine in Oregon.
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