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“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

TATERS!!!

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

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Always the perfect centerpiece for any occasion. Photo from my collection no info/date.

I think punk rock taught me this plus: (1) If you can’t do it, do it anyway (2) No one else will care about it as much as you do, so do as much of it yourself as you can (3) Support other people who are doing it the way you are and don’t cut people down

In Mario Kart Wii, crashing the game and activating the crash handler will eventually start playing back the contents of the Wii's RAM as sound. Since the data was never intended to be interpreted like this, it ends up sounding like experimental harsh noise music.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

I hate that almost every search stopped supporting quotation marks around a word or phrase to match it exactly. There are so many times that I know exactly what I'm looking for but it keeps trying to show me unrelated bullshit. The loss of booleans and advanced filtering is a whole other issue.

tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying bsky.app/profile/slcl...

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

Proving I'm a human by being forced to mechanical Turk imaging analysis being fed to a techbro's private terminator army

LOGGING ON

Today in Japan it's National Cat Day. In Japan, cats say "nyan" rather than "meow" and today's date is 22/2 (ni ni ni) which sounds a bit like “nyan nyan nyan”. I don't need any excuse to celebrate cats & I've written about cats in #JapaneseFolklore & culture here: open.substack.com/pub/curiouso...

Conserve The Sound: An online museum of vanishing and endangered sounds www.conservethesound.de

I recently got this set of four shots of an adorable tabby. None of them are in focus and honestly I don’t really care. ☺️ I started collecting cat photos primarily because of the love they represent, if they’re technically nice too that’s just a bonus. Ca. 1950s.

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Harold Budd & Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois: Lost In The Humming Air - from their 1984 album, The Pearl www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKPs...

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

*nodding*

Meet the 1591 cat man. I am counting 7 cats on and near him. #catcontent

The night sky simmers and sparks. Any attempt to understand what we see in the cosmos relies on knowing how it changes, night after night. These variations are preserved beautifully on a hundred years of glass plate photographs.

A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

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Look, if you wanna listen to REAL chiptune (and fakebit still counts, we're not having THAT discussion here) I'll make a list for y'all! Anyone interested in that sort of thing?

They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.

In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS: Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring. Here's a weird starting point: There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr. Cats that roar = genus Panthera Cats that purr = genus Felis

I will never forget the chill I felt the first time I read "About Face" by @natepowell.bsky.social I didn't want to accept what it said about the future that is now staring us in the face I encourage everyone to read it now that we no longer have a choice popula.com/2019/02/24/a...

You don’t have to use their words to describe crimes they committed. You should not use their words at all.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

nibble express: volume IV, book, excerpt (1984) archive.org/details/isbn...

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

“Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden.” In the comments, by Annessey.