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It’s my birthday!! 🎉 Thought I’d celebrate by sharing some my fave art 💖🎁

Initial conditions: m1=42.6 m2=5.1 m3=118.5 (solar masses) v1x=-5.314 v1y=1.515 v2x=-2.881 v2y=3.848 v3x=-2.685 v3y=-3.815 (km/s) x1=-20.0 y1=32.0 x2=-28.0 y2=7.0 x3=19.0 y3=3.0 (AU from center) Music: The Shape of Things To Come (BSG) – McCreary

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Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them

I honestly couldn't believe they actually stopped carrying it so I asked three different healthcare workers who all saw us separately just to make sure it wasn't one rogue nursing assistant or whatever. Every single one of them looked embarrassed to confirm it.

retro game collectors when the value of their whole retirement plan evaporates overnight

I'd so love one for Yunica Tovah that includes her puffy oven mitts 💖 It's been a few years, so I need to replay Ys Origin this year

I’m your lawyer. Do you trust me?

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Train to Busan but they’re riding the Haundae Beach sky capsules.

Something incredible I learned (re-learned?) tonight is that the blog post where the first SARS-CoV-2 genome was shared - six years ago on Saturday - included the most iconic footnote of all time

I got yelled at like two days ago for saying "you aren't taking this seriously because you can't imagine your hometown on Bellingcat"

My newest creation is Amelia the Lovely and the Terrible. I designed and hand-sewed her, and I hand-embroidered all her flowers and markings. She is lovely to good people and terrible to bad ones. She enjoys coming up with new blessings, curses, and cookie recipes. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

2026 has been a long-ass year so far.

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Autoplay resets back to on with every login.

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Initial conditions: m1=84.9 m2=51.6 m3=83.2 (solar masses) v1x=3.066 v1y=6.955 v2x=6.747 v2y=6.667 v3x=-6.828 v3y=-6.519 (km/s) x1=-5.0 y1=-3.0 x2=32.0 y2=-33.0 x3=-26.0 y3=-35.0 (AU from center) Music: Passacaglia (BSG) – McCreary

Lmao at Amazon asking for feedback why I’d opt-out of them trying to scrape items from my shop using AI. Gee I dunno, maybe because you opted me in without consent?! I don’t want my shop associated with Amazon, I detest genAI, and you violated my copyright. Offensive I have to explain this to you.

It's really about ethics in game journalism... #sailormoon #abridged #teamfourstar

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

There's a good reason that section 3 of the 14th amendment was written and no good reason that it was ignored in 2021. We'd be living in a very different world now if we had taken what the constitution says seriously

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This is the reminder that there is an entire section of the Constitution that imposes consequences for trying to overthrow the government because it has happened before! “What were they supposed to do?” Use the goddamn tools labeled “for traitors” instead of asking voters to do it

There should have been an effort to expel the ~140 reps who still voted against certifying the 2020 election results even after the failed coup under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause. Dem. leadership's failure to treat the GOP as the domestic enemy that it is has doomed us for decades.

i love your cat. please tell them that

The first two hours this morning

Just a reminder, because everyone seems to have forgotten: Tumblr wants to or is actively selling your data: mashable.com/article/tumb...

Comic: somethingpositive.net/2026/01/05/j...

old way: start > run > notepad.exe new way: launch microsoft 365 copilot for sharepoint copilot for office copilot 365 hbo max 365 and simply say: "hey cortana. copilot run notepad copilot. sharepoint"

head of chiquita banana wanting to ask the forbidden question now that trump is overthrowing governments for oil companies

One of the murkiest questions on Bay cleanup seems like it would be the easiest to answer: Is the water getting clearer? The data long said no, but underwater grass expansion said otherwise. Turns out ,researchers now may have measured wrong. marylandmatters.org/2026/01/02/u...

In the US in the 21st Century, without an explicit denial from Congress, presidential power defaults to the institutional "allow all" policy.

Hahahaa, in 3 days it’s the fifth anniversary of the first American coup. I wish we had an opposition that was capable of drawing a line between attempting to kill Congress to install himself as a dictator and starting an illegal war with nary a public argument. Oh well.

Zzzzzz 🦈 #art #sharks

Waiting for @reuters.com to credulously interview Grok about this statement as well.

Does MasterCard advertise on X dot com?

So glad her husband got that job so at least one cartoonist in New York can have health insurance.

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day one in mamdani’s new york

Lemon party

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Orb pondering