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Came for the books and sciency stuff. Stayed for the doomscrolling.
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Them: "Name?" Me: "August, like the month." The order: "Aguest." Another order: "Auguest." And another one: "Agast." On the way home:
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Gil Durán
about 2 hours ago
The stuff I write about is so nuts that I find myself quadruple-checking the facts with pen and paper. For example, in 2020 Andreessen Horowitz led a $12 million investment round in the Clubhouse app (at a $100M valuation). It had 1500 users. It reached $4 billion valuation in 2021, then...poof.
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Gil Durán
about 1 hour ago
I tried to rectify the defaced piece some years ago...no one was interested! Some typist (back when print pieces had to be manually entered into databases) clearly didn't like my story, so they changed a word to reverse the meaning of a key sentence.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
about 4 hours ago
"A War Without End" is collected in The Wave in the Mind (Shambhala, 2004). You can also read it here:
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/3...
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Guaranteed Status Quo at best
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What do you say to a funeral home that blames
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Big
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Welcome to Night Vale
3 days ago
This meeting could have been an all-expenses-paid trip to a Caribbean island.
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Hardcovers last way longer!
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🧵 Want to know why disinformation spreads so rapidly? 📌
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David Wellington
5 days ago
I mean, a Democrat party whose entire platform was “We’re going to focus on not hurting people in the name of computers anymore, and not throwing human lives into the money furnace, that would be good,” would be a real start.
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Adam P. Knave
5 days ago
Growing up, I feel that the game of Operation did not prepare me for reality in the way that I assumed it did
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I once again proved to myself and others that AI can't do things. "Find a restaurant within 10 miles of [address] that has a [very notable feature]." AI: "[The search] did not find results that met that description, so here are other results [at least 50 miles away]."
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win
5 days ago
every time someone is like "the pharmaceutical industry just wants to make money" they leave out that the Wellness industry is way way bigger and entirely unregulated
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My self-care regimen would be non-existent if not for sharpening my dark, self-depreciating humor every day.
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FrozenBBQ
6 days ago
The rampant cynicism in this country which enables this kind of straight-up deceit: People like Musk and Altman know UBI will never materialize, and while they have unbelievable amounts of political capital to enlist in making it happen, they will not, and the press will not call them out on it.
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Mr. Business
5 days ago
It’s like the Boring Company being created solely to impede public transit investment by saying they’ll “revolutionize” public transit and then not doing that.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
6 days ago
Love Privacy Badger? Well there's a new way to show your support! Donate today and you can choose our limited Privacy Badger Crewneck:
eff.org/spring
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Shane Hawk
9 days ago
Wanna brush up on our first anthology while you await your preorder for BACK FOR BLOOD? The ebook edition of NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT is yours for $1.99 via Bookshop. This specific link below gives a commission to Quiet Quail Books, a Native-run bookstore.
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Damon Kiesow
11 days ago
A thing learned this week: Neanderthals are named after the Neander Tal (Neander Valley) which is named for 17th century poet Joachim Neander whose original family name was classicized into Greek from the original "Neuman" which means "New Man."
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Ele Willoughby
12 days ago
Pretty sure I’ve seen this X-files episode
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Mysterious 'ship goo' contains new life forms
No one quite knows how the tar-like substance got on a Great Lakes research vessel.
https://www.popsci.com/science/ship-goo-great-lakes-mystery/?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=popular-science-newsletter&_bhlid=a3c9bc09644c9b00153658571231fb3f3397bb8d
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When the update everyone expected needs to get rolled back
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I am not having a Baja Blast with technology lately
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Before anyone suggests "use python", my colleague admits he needs more lines of code just for importing modules than is the entirety of my MATLAB data processor.
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How did you f*ck up reading text files, MATLAB? How? Same script, same file: works in 2024, doesn't work in 2025. I finally had methods to read all the labyrinthine data formats my never-met engineering predecessors created in the 90s.
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This is what it's like trying to update payment methods in Patreon
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Titan Books
14 days ago
Have you picked up a copy of SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH yet? 🖤 A masterfully frightening horror anthology of 17 short stories inspired by the iconic works of legendary writer H. P. Lovecraft, curated by award-winning anthologist Stephen Jones.
https://tinyurl.com/5n6rzek5
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14 days ago
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Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, HP, LOTR, Marvel.
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16 days ago
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Bookshop.org
16 days ago
Choosing local when buying books is more than just where you shop: You’re protecting creativity. You’re defending the freedom to read. You’re uplifting diverse voices. You’re investing in neighbors. Today, and every day, we celebrate and support indie bookstores. Happy Independent Bookstore Day!
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more mr. nice guy
18 days ago
restoring balance to my gut biome by reintroducing gray wolves
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Getting big "The Stuff" vibes.
#horror
#horrorsky
#coffee
17 days ago
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Evan Greer
18 days ago
I asked my developer friend: how long would it take you to write a script that sends emails to every social media company demanding they take down the account of
@massgovernor.bsky.social
by claiming that I am her mom? About 30 min. How long if i also want a fake birth certificate? About 40 min.
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Marco Rogers
18 days ago
"Interest payments on the U.S. national debt are set to surpass $1 trillion in 2026, some $88 billion a month—equal to spending on defense and education combined."
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When interest on national debt overtook military spending, it triggered a limit where the U.S. may ‘cease to be a great power,’ warns Hoover historian | Fortune
“The debt burden draws scarce resources towards itself, reducing the amount available for national security, and leaving the power increasingly vulnerable to military challenge.”
https://fortune.com/2026/04/23/national-debt-interest-military-spend-ferguson-law-geopolitical-power/
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Stan Fresh
18 days ago
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Ruthanna Emrys
18 days ago
Inspired by my complaints about Project Orion, James Davis Nicoll complains - with more equations - about classic Heinleinian torchships!
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The Science Behind Torchships - Reactor
A deep dive into science fiction's favorite hypothetical spacecraft.
https://reactormag.com/the-science-behind-torchships/
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Tade Thompson
19 days ago
Oh, NOW they want a conversation. After: Stealing our shit without a conversation. At the same time, telling us our shit is of no value. (Schrodinger's shit) Stuffing their plagiarism machine into all our devices without a conversation. But now it's our fault for not wanting to talk.
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@bsky.app
being DDoS'ed again? It's derping out on images.
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If I give you money out of my wallet, can you pretend it's toward a US preorder of
@francois-baranger.bsky.social
Shadow Over Innsmouth, and lie to me when it arrives?
freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-cal...
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Jerome Moore
21 days ago
It means there are too many investors who have no idea what to fund.
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Barb McQuade
27 days ago
My forthcoming book, “The Fix,” dissects the mob-like tactics of the Trump regime and proposes ideas to reclaim our democracy. Available now for pre-order here.
www.barbaramcquade.com
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Bookshop.org
21 days ago
Independent Bookstore Day is THIS Saturday! How will you be celebrating? 📚✨
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Liz Climo
24 days ago
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24 days ago
The only way it would be better is if Jeffrey Goldberg somehow got added to the group chat again so The Atlantic had it as first hand
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There is only one person who can get Bluesky working again.
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Welcome to Night Vale
24 days ago
Be the temporary & insignificant lump of organic material you wish to see in the world.
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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krat
25 days ago
In stranger eons death may be finger licking good
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@bsky.app can you manually revert all your code to whatever it was two weeks ago? I stress manually, not "agentically, because your AI code tools are 💩'ing the 🛏️.
25 days ago
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