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Standing on the porch Cool air from the heavy rain The smell of spiced tea

"Bible fandom isn’t nearly as clear about this as Star Wars fandom is. To be fair, that’s partly because the first installment of the Bible came out much, much earlier than 1977" www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt... As always, @slacktivistfred.bsky.social is worth your time.

If anyone has questions about Mastodon and the fediverse, I am happy to answer.

Yay, Secunda Mensa is back! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

News flash: Sky blue. Water wet. Computer program with all the answers already passes test in minutes.

if you enjoy fat bear week or have ever affectionately called an animal "chonk," i need to see from you some fat politics relating to humans.

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Enjoying the “Rapture” jokes here, but there’s not nearly enough giggling over Luke 17:34-35 in the KJV.

Here's the hottest take of AI rn.

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Hey, want to see what Jimmy Kimmel actually said?

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Picket Right, a font that's only 2px wide Pixel art done by trampolinebears at r/PixelArt. #pixelart #pixel #art #indiedev

3Blue1Brown discussing Sol LeWitt! Is it somehow my birthday? youtu.be/_BrFKp-U8GI

Bandcamp Friday!

‘Xena: Warrior Princess’ premiered on this day 30 years ago! (September 4, 1995) Created by John Schulian and Robert Tapert. Starring Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Kevin Smith, and more. #OTD #OnThisDay #TVHistory #Xena

Keytar Bear! Great post ❤️

An ankylosaur with a thagomizer. We live in a world of wonders.

The Muppets and it's not even close. Take away the entire rest of the franchise, which I know prompt conflicting strong feelings; The Muppet Movie, Great Muppet Caper, Muppets Take Manhattan, and Muppet Christmas Carol are instant classics, and most people you meet can identify Kermit the Frog.

Slightly diminish a band: Vsvally

HUNTR/X is the 5th fictional band to hit #1 on the Hot 100.

Going in tomorrow for an upper and lower endoscopy, or a "Catullus 16 procedure" for my classicist friends.

"Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Taylor's Version)" Just putting this out into the universe as something I think would be a Good Thing.

Had a dream that Bjork was playing Yoko Ono on SNL, and then the real Yoko Ono showed up, and the two of them had a Yoko-Ono-off. That's entertainment

Awesomeness from the 17th century: the margin is counting the lies in the text

Today in AI is a garbage ponzi scheme

My mom was the designated penmanship teacher at Timothy Christian School. She taught second grade, but a few times a semester someone else would cover her class while she taught one-period penmanship classes to everyone K through eighth grade. Her flawless cursive was what we all learned. …

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Paul McCartney had a really good dog. www.thebeatles.com/martha-my-dear

In _Leverage_, the team used Aspergillus flavus indirectly to help future cancer patients, and now it's being used more directly by real-world scientists: www.popsci.com/health/cance... @johnrogers.bsky.social

But I just learned there's a Blöödchëëp subreddit?! I'm so happy www.reddit.com/r/bloodcheep/

I know I’ve said this several dozen times, but right wing lunatics frankensteined together unrelated Bible verses to create “the antichrist” and a description of what he would look like, and then the guy fucking showed up and they love him.

this was kind of amazing

#nycpoli #uspoli Mamdani's winning the primary seems like a great time to remind everyone that it's not "selling out" to compromise to get things to happen. it's "being effective at your job" and that's something we should actively support.

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

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Anyone have suggestions in Latin for a familiar but respectful term of address for an older unrelated man? I'm trying to translate Japanese "小父さん" (ojisan). Thanks! #classicsbluesky

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if you are trans and/or disabled and looking for a way out of the US right now, my DMs are open.

maybe we should get the fuck ahead of this ourselves, MA legislature

UNBOUND AUTHORS: The administrators are scheduling a second creditor meeting to address concerns brought forward over director conduct. If you would like to attend, YOU MUST FILL OUT THE ADMINISTRATORS PROOF OF DEBT FORM (it’s simple and not scary). DM me with your emIl to be forwarded it

"bluesky is dying" look the world is falling apart in about 147 different ways all at once so i'm going to have to mute like 10 good informative accounts I follow so that I can keep up with my friends and a few of the best shitposters, don't tell me that bluesky feels fucking empty, for fucks sake

A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

Focus on telling people it's winnable right now. Focus on helping people find ways to have hope and follow that hope to action.

You could get to zero undocumented workers if you made a law that said that if an undocumented worker turns in their employer, they get immediate legal status and the employer gets fined heavily.