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superpixels.bsky.social
Former teacher, editor, filmmaker, magician. Current writer, actor, technologist, dad. Studying electronics, cybersecurity, and sustainability. Fan of cooking, Doctor Who, Star Trek, kindness.
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Waiter, there’s a screenshot in my soup

Ever know someone who escaped a drug test in a rocket

Marketing for preppers:

Epic

Opening the Office of Butt

🥗 I don't know how anybody can afford any of these, even with roommate(s).

Oh, God! (1977)

Dangit

Too Many Cooks

Putting up with various crap

The hardest demons we face in life are the ones invisible to everyone else. We battle them in silence as we try not to let them drag us down deeper into despair as we bravely put on a smile hiding the war consuming our soul.

Shot. Chaser. (So many examples like this from the GOP!)

Even one death from USAID funding cuts is too many. But the death toll is staggering. Restore these programs at State. Now.

The Aristocrats!

“The idea that the police are actively tracking the location of women they believe have had self administered abortions under the guise of ‘safety’ does not make me feel any better about this kind of surveillance,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @404media.co.

We have some news to share with you. 🥄 Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.

Me logging into Threads

I can only poop so long

Hook this to my veins.

During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...

Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location? weatherstar.netbymatt.com

Thank you, nerds. I will be integrating this into my Home Assistant setup 🙏

Unless it’s a meat blender <—- my response to a lot of things after 50

Nah I don't need to know the sex lives of fascists, I'm good bro

How this Thursday finds me:

Season 2 Episode 14 - Frame 843 out of 2712

It’s too easy to do what feels good

Mmhmm

Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

*nickelback voice*: Look at this mossy rock!

Canada, Germany, England, Denmark, Netherlands, and France all have travel advisory warnings for visiting America. US will lose 12.5 billion in tourism by end of 2025 www.cntraveler.com/story/which-...

Why it’s time for a new climate movement: Strategic adaptation for emergency resilience www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

In 2022, @propublica.org found landlords were using RealPage software to raise rents — potentially in violation of laws against collusion. Cities then moved to ban such pricing algorithms. But now, @wsj.com reports that House Republicans are seeking to “muzzle” those local efforts. THREAD

i am tired of hearing about all of the problems. in my opinion someone should fix them.

my parents choose to live with notifications on, all the time, full bore, never a moment's rest -- no fucking way

classic

Jimmy eventually became president

why are so many of these just OFMD with barnyard animals

can confirm

been awake for 2 hours, moving and scrolling, and pooping, and my phone and watch are still in sleep mode, but if I get up to pee at 3am the watch is like "ARE YOU AWAKE?"

I'm 100% for community, an antidote to authoritarianism. But I saw someone say community gave us cures, not the government... what community? The community of scientists working with government-funded science programs to find cures? Or do you mean little bottles of flower farts?

Sewage and Dividends: Life in the 21st century

And that little boy grew up to be president

If you’ve never been woken up at 3am to consult on the least bad treatment option for a pregnant COVID patient in the MICU, your “recommendation” means nothing to me

TABLES!

Sitting at work thinking about that Prance tweet about him finishing one task at work then his boss gives him another thing to do and like what the fuck is their problem