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Landgenoten. Hoewel ik zoveel mogelijk interessante Nederlandse accounts probeer te volgen, vind ik dat Bluesky nog altijd behoorlijk Amerikaans is in de Discovery feed. Wie moet ik (ook) gaan volgen om hier wat meer balans in te krijgen? (ben die NY burgemeester race wel zat inmiddels)

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I’m at the phase of writing where a character suddenly speaks up and explains a plot point in such a clever way I’m kinda in awe? (It’s also the phase where you hide your enthusiasm bc you don’t want to be caught dead tooting your own horn)

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New whack-a-mole game just dropped

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everything about this article is so deeply American. exiling the truth teller, wanting to know the history but not too much, inability to come to terms with its own violent history. fam, this is as American as apple pie.

submitted 4 days ago • 65 comments

Just found out I'm 'when the first 30 under 30 list was published, I was already too old' old.

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In an old interview once featured on the Pac-Man fansite, Pac-Land, Toru Iwatani expressed interest in creating games that make people cry. He elaborated that he would like to envision a dramatic game that would provoke emotions beyond what gamers (at the time) were used to.

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Who can help me find current pop songs that qualify as ‘protest songs’? Who is singing about world affairs today? Politics? Climate change? Asking for a playlist.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

For when you wish to insult both Egypt, Greece, and pastry chefs

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We need to stop using press release language when covering this news: almost 2,000 people were fired to maximize shareholder profits. It’s not “right-sizing” it’s not “reducing headcount” it’s not a “departure” or “restructuring,” it’s using people’s livelihoods as currency.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

another Taschen banger - The Book of Miracles A full, faithful reproduction of the German 16th-century manuscript of supernatural phenomena, and one of the most spectacular discoveries in Renaissance art. Blending Bible stories, folklore, and apocalyptic visions www.taschen.com/en/books/cla...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Just once I would like to watch a drama about a detective with a healthy home life and a transparent uncomplicated past, who does things exactly by the book and gets results.

submitted 8 days ago • 199 comments

Overheard on the train: “it’s like buried people complaining about global worming”. They changed trains immediately after and I could not have been more curious about the rest of that conversation.

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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

submitted 10 days ago • 115 comments

Spent the weekend at a songwriting camp in Sweden. Recommend any writer to try to write with musicians, if only as an exercise. To be able to craft engaging stories and make them sing within a musical framework can be incredibly rewarding.

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AI is evil post #10023 I asked for a reliable Dutch translation of the English naval phrase 'holystoning the deck' (of a ship) and the answer came down to (translated from the faulty Dutch answer) 'decking your terrace with holly in the Christmas season.' A flogging is in order, Captain.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Liked 1/2 of the new Dept.Q series. The good half: Edinburgh, the motley detective crew. The bad half: cartoon psychopaths. I had a very hard time wilfully suspending my disbelief watching the iron lung thing and the family operating it. Will watch series 2, if only for the Syrian detective.

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Now that the teaching term is over, I would like to post this poem that I saw recently.

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#booksky

submitted 20 days ago • 384 comments

This is how easy it is to get Al to agree with what you want. I asked it where soap was invented and then responded with this suggestive but unfortunately wrong question. This, your honour, is called leading the witness. Chatgpt instantly goes along with it:

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Re-re(-re)reading this for a project. Damn, this guy could WRITE. One of the very best when it comes to historic fiction. Deeply awed.

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Allebei verbieden, nu!

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Big when true. Keeping my fingers crossed for all those affected.

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Really, we’re doomed.

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Brb even de vlag uithangen

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Answer: It's a duck hunting arrow! The wood bob makes it BOUNCE across water. I already knew "fire arrows" in games and movies were historically inaccurate, but apparently "water arrows" are real! 😄 (The V shape is to not pierce too much, as to not ruin the duck meat) youtube.com/shorts/IP0uw...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

headline construction masterclass

submitted 25 days ago • 489 comments

👇

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Bluesky’s as dead today as Paul McCartney was last Century: both churning out a nice tune every once in a while.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment