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Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

「消えてしまった写植業。いま記録しとかんと。 写植の時代の仕事場の日常を書いてくれはるだけで貴重な記録になります」えむさんの呼びかけに共感し、雪も個人的体験を寄稿した書籍『文字盤の記憶』（記録編）BOOTHで買えます。写真植字に関わった人たちによる620頁の「記憶」、圧巻です。 「邦文写植機発明百年［記録編］」 『写真植字業の軌跡　文字盤の記憶』B6判、モノクロ、620頁 osakadtp.booth.pm/items/6186184 ここに寄稿したのは、印刷会社の新米社員としてほんの少し写植に接した個人的な体験です。これまであまり書いたことがなかったのですが、これもまた一つの記録だなと。

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

Another view of ITC Zapf Dingbats in U&lc, vol. 5, no. 2, 1978. Layout probably by Herb Lubalin. archive.org/details/ulc-...

❣️ (Heart Exclamation) has become a go-to emoji for me. Strangely, I never stopped to think of its origin. Hermann Zapf, of course! It was among dozens of his 1978 Dingbats adopted into Unicode 1.0 in 1991. The block was even initially named after the typeface! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat...

AI can pry Oxford commas and em dashes from my cold, lifeless, and dead hands—and I dare someone to say something to me about it

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

Come to 🇯🇵 #Japan and work to death 🧑🏻‍🔬🚨 PM Sanae Takaichi plans to relax work-hour rules—possibly expanding “exempt” job types with no overtime pay. Critics warn it revives karōshi (過労死), death by overwork. Workers could die unpaid, families uncompensated. Somewhere in hell, Abe’s looking up smiling.

「過労死ライン」って、それを越えたら「過労死が見えてくるライン」じゃないの？なんでそんなギリギリを上限にするんだよ。過労死する可能性なんて考えられないくらい手前にライン引きなさいよ。人の命を何だと思ってる。 上野厚労相「上限は過労死ライン」 労働時間の規制緩和を巡り、審議会で「議論深める」(産経新聞) https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/48ed84cbaf43a6748af0a2d17153b063c26f1665

"米共和党が嘲笑する「王はいらない」デモ、米国民は笑っていない" 良いタイトルのCNN記事。 数百万人規模だったNoKingsデモを、トランプ周辺はなんとか軽視しようしているが、調査では「トランプは危険な独裁者の可能性があるので、民主主義を破壊する前にその権力を制限するべき」という回答を56％が選んだ（4月から2倍に拡大）。 "これらは控え目に言っても、取るに足らない数字ではない。 「王はいらない」デモの中身について誰が何を言おうと、世論調査の結果はこのデモの趣旨が過半数の米国民にとって物笑いの種などではないことを示唆している。" www.cnn.co.jp/usa/35239535...

「生成AIがニュースを歪める」回答の45％で誤りなど「重大な問題」、欧米18カ国メディア調査 news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/artic... 平和博 桜美林大学教授　ジャーナリスト 10/23(木) 12:43

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【インフル　今季初の1万人超】 今日10月24日(金)、厚生労働省は2025年10月13日〜19日のインフルエンザ発生状況を発表。定点医療機関からの報告数は12,576人で、1万人を超えるのは昨年より約1か月早いペースです。 寒暖差の大きい日が続くので体調管理を万全に。 weathernews.jp/news/202510/...

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

A blaring red warning signal for the rule of law; a President declaring “we’re just gonna kill people” without a trial or even a shred of due process.

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

アイスランドで3匹の蚊を発見　「最後のとりで陥落」　温暖化影響か www.asahi.com/articles/AST... 北欧の島国アイスランドで今月、3匹の蚊が発見された。国営放送RUVが20日に報じた。 蚊の生息に適さないとされてきたアイスランドでは初めてのことで、発見者は「最後のとりでが陥落した」と驚いている。

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

Such rings were not designed to shock, but to keep grief and remembrance visible. They also encouraged the wearer to live with the awareness that death was certain. To us, wearing a skeleton on your hand may seem macabre. In the Georgian period, it was a sober part of everyday life and mourning.

This gold ring commemorates F. Meads, who died on 31 December 1725, aged 74. The band is decorated with bones and a skull, etched in gold and enamel. These motifs were reminders of mortality, known as memento mori.

I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.

Just noticed that the Louvre heist is categorized as “Entertainment” in Trending, lol

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This slow pivot towards a sort of budding global fascism has been wild and deeply unsettling to watch in real time

I was bored last night so I built a tool for searching @leaflet.pub articles: leaflet-search.catabush.com. Currently built on a cache of over 800 articles from active publications, and will be updating daily to bring in new articles (as soon as I finish that part).

Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people

Gaza Government Media Office says Israel has breached the truce agreement 80 times, including 21 violations on Sunday.

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

Sometimes I kind of wish I could go back and re-cancel subscriptions

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

This is a very good point about DHS. They direct harassment campaigns on Twitter using quote-tweets.

#NoKings #Manhattan

A Chicago-style No Kings Day. #NoKings

Abled folks who masked today: THANK YOU for caring about your fellow citizens’ health and safety. Your masking in and of itself is resistance.

Okay, one king

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😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Trying to crowd source crowd estimates with help from @thexylom.com Instructions are on the document for estimating crowds, and adding proof or a snapshot of those crowds.

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

冷蔵庫から物を出すときに薄口醤油のボトルを落とした。衝撃でワンタッチキャップが開いて床が薄口醤油だらけに。すぐに掃除したけどまだ匂う。手も洗ったけど手から匂う。意外に強烈。

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Japan’s former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who was known for his 1995 “Murayama statement” apologizing to Asian victims of his country’s aggression, died Friday. He was 101.

社会民主党の初代党首で、自社さ連立政権で総理を務めた村山富市さんが101歳で亡くなったとのこと。ご冥福をお祈りいたします。 1995年8月15日に出された、戦後50年の村山富市首相の談話（村山談話）の全文をシェアします。 1995年の村山富市首相の戦後50年談話〈全文〉　「植民地支配と侵略に対し痛切な反省、心からのお詫びを表明」 www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/441750 2025年10月10日 東京新聞