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... OP somehow managed to delete an entire codebase for a group project, with no backups, 2 days before the due date. The bar to impress the OP is very, very low.

Heroes

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic “Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it…”

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

Please enjoy Matt's article about games where you kill nazis that he wrote for no apparent reason.

OK, I'm going to take the like as a yes. So, to be clear, this thread hits on three things - dealing with worry, dealing with feeling helpless, and focusing on limited available paths to productively help. Maybe some of this stuff will work for you - all I can say for sure is that it has helped me.

You don't have an AI friend, you have a BonziBuddy

Hello everyone! Finally made the switch. Stay tuned for bats, Borzois, and all things science.

How it started. How it’s going.

hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago! you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!) signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics

If I can sue the fucker I'm in

Heads up for the Weather Community! You can now find NOAA (@noaa.gov), NOAA Climate (@climate.noaa.gov) & NWS HQ (@nws.noaa.gov; still being set up) on Bluesky!

i followed up with ADL about how this nazi salute was different than musk's and the press person responded by asking if i could sent it to the main ADL media email lol. that's it.

@bsky.app It would be super great if you were to add the manifest to make the website PWA installable :)

Hundreds of subreddits are considering banning all links to Twitter/X in a pretty powerful display of collective action: www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...

And here is another likely contrarian AI reply bot: @iamshiqa.bsky.social Not everyone who argues with you is an AI reply bot :) But once you learn to identify them, you could easily block them and keep them from sucking in your energy and time. Let’s keep Bluesky clear

This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.

Fact: The fuel tanks on an A380 are so big, if you emptied them into an Olympic swimming pool, you would give the competitors nasty kerosene burns and ruin a global sporting event. Idiot.

MY CATS (STEVE AND AGNES) TAUGHT ME HOW TO SURVIVE FASCISM Buy your copy here: LessonsFromCats.ca

Scoop: RedNote Recruited US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban Uncertainty www.wired.com/story/rednot...

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

STOP CALLING IT “DOGE.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship 🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

It’s always fucking DNS.

Unhinged

Had a good run on this website but now the Censorship Cabal is after me for calling Heathcliff "Temu Garfield."