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colink.bsky.social
Disc golfer, programmer, podcaster (find me on 101sf.blogspot.com and Take Me To Your Reader), creator of frolfle.com
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What’s the point of this—besides promoting hate? Medical professionals swear an oath: First, do no harm It’s disgraceful to see VA leadership cave to politics and deny care. All patients deserve respect and treatment. Veterans deserve nothing less. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Today at NorCon I met one of the Oslo museum curators. ME: I am afraid I may have poked a little fun at your museum. But it was with love! I swear! HIM: (eyes narrowing) The thread about all the shite? ME: (meekly) …yes. HIM: Oh, we all loved it! bsky.app/profile/tkin...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

i'd rather ask ursula from the little mermaid for a favour and life advice than ask chatgpt anything

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Try this instead

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

“I can’t wait to bring Central Texas Barbecue to the West.”

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NYT EDITORIAL BOARD: “President Trump’s order on Saturday was both ahistoric and based on false pretenses and is already creating the very chaos it was purportedly designed to prevent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

submitted 7 days ago • 52 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 14 days ago • 859 comments

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

submitted 14 days ago • 1183 comments

He shall be known as Mad King TACO henceforth.

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@scalzi.com I have checked 3 moon rock samples in Denver. All non-organic, so far, so good.

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Putting together a go bag doesn't have to be daunting or expensive. Here's how to create a functional kit that doesn't require much money, time or effort.

submitted 36 days ago • 50 comments

@hcrichardson.bsky.social is a master of understatement. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 37 days ago • 36 comments

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

submitted 41 days ago • 162 comments

On this week's "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver," the host revisited the tale of the Eugene Emeralds' temporary re-brand as the Exploding Whales, named in honor of Oregon's notorious blubber fiasco.

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

2025 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Announced Congratulations to all these wonderful creators! locusmag.com/2025/05...

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

1/ Yesterday, it was announced that RFK Jr. is requiring placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines—potentially delaying this fall’s COVID shots as well as the approval of other vaccines. RFK Jr.’s repeated claims is that vaccines were “never tested against placebos” is simply not true 👇

submitted 45 days ago • 27 comments

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

submitted 47 days ago • 47 comments

If you're a fan of demon-fighting cats, may I recommend the excellent short story "For He Can Creep", by Siobhan Carroll? reactormag.com/for-he-can-c.... The story was published in 2019, but now you can watch it as well in Love, Death and Robots Season 4.

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