swilkes.bsky.social
“I would prefer not to.” Oddities, commentary, notions, plants.
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Here are some arty sfw accounts you might like:
@wendyo.bsky.social
@peterhuestis.bsky.social
@publicdomainrev.bsky.social
@sansculottid.es
@pomological.xor.blue
@letterformarchive.org
@sardonicus.eu
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I just looked at your profile, and your follower to following ratio is quite high. Maybe a lot of these ween-flaunters are your followers. Follow more accounts, and it may adjust to your interests. Follow enough accounts, and you won’t have time to even look at the Discover feed.
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I think the discover feed is based on who you’re following. If you don’t follow many, you get the default background radiation of Bluesky, which is furries and 🍆.
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I have mine enabled but on the “warn” setting so I have to affirmatively click on it to see it (comes up on some of my art themed follows). I also noticed a drop in both wieners and furries, and furry wieners, on my discover feed once I had added about 30-50 accounts to my follows.
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you might have to turn off “enable adult content” in settings. that might censor other aspects of your feed, idk if that’s an issue.
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Dr. Bronner at least had a coherent message.
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He sounds like a fucking carnival fortuneteller. He’s also nakedly desperate for the Nobel, which he will never, ever get.
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This one does have “if you don’t have AC, do this” advice, but a lot of the advice is “leave your home and go somewhere that has AC.”
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Do they trust the AARP? This article has a good lede: www.aarp.org/health/condi...
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News from last July: www.oregonlive.com/weather/2024...
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What’s her shampoo/conditioner choice? her hair is 💯.
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Great review btw!
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It’s going to be hard to convince me that the serial killer wave was caused by a single factor. I read that Freakonomics chapter and wasn’t sold. Could be a confluence of things: baby boomers coming of age, lead, bad policing, etc. Or, as others have suggested, a random cluster phenomenon.
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I grew up in Seattle in the 80s-90s, so I remember the latter years of this. I’ve thought the weather and the PacNW flavor of antisocial
tendencies were partially to blame, though I suppose that’s too easy of an answer.
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Somebody print this out in Yiddish and flyer the fuck out of Crown Heights.
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ah, thank you for the correction.
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The best case is the Onion coming true again: theonion.com/fbi-uncovers...
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cardamom would be really good! maybe cardamom plus rose water and pomegranate seeds for an Iranian version?
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a hot one with chocolate would be a champurrado, I think. I tried a cup of it at a local geladería. Very cozy!
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I think any seasoning that would be good for rice pudding might work. I tried horchata de chufa in Spain, made from tiger nuts instead of rice, and it was not to my taste, but it might be to yours. There’s also horchata de morro, aka jícaro, which I have not tried but would like to.
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“heightened pattern recognition” = “I have unexamined cognitive bias.”
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Love his implied definition of “non-profit” too—what an intellect!
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That’s what I would use haha, but I’m trying to be generous to lazy people who don’t own cookbooks. It’s like, the lazy thoughtless option is already there!!
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What I can’t stand with these examples is that we already had decent technology for asking embarrassing, inane, or ignorant questions: regular search engines, WikiHow, Google Scholar…so many ways to instantly learn how to toast a sandwich, for a couple decades before AI! it’s not a legit use case!
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Thank god no one can AI their boners (yet).
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It’s slightly relieving to know that erotic lit is still relatively unscraped by LLMs.
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Wow, I thought woods porn went extinct in the ‘00s.
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I should clarify that I think bringing big us flags to a protest is a good idea. but keep ‘em vertical and don’t look like you’re pointing the pole at anyone. idk.
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Same. it’s a fraught visual specifically for Boston.
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lol, I get it: no tofu scrambles here. I am impressed by razor clams n eggs, though.
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I’m lol’ing at blintzes being called “Manhattan crepes.” Is it because they don’t think ppl in OR know what a blintz is, or is it because the P&P themselves don’t know?
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The shin bet intelligence officers who caught it ahead of time were women, and weren’t listened to by the bosses.
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Every ostensibly leftish publication should know by now that we’re all sick to death of diner fly-bys, “understanding the opposition” pieces, and pseudo-anthropology of magas. Like I get this impulse from NYT, which institutionally never learns, but MJ??
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Who’s the editor at mother jones letting this crap through?
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BofA employees have @/bofa.com email addresses. Imagine.
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This reminds me of the time I saw the Port Townsend Victorian cosplay couple (google em, the lady went viral once for writing an extremely smug article about their lifestyle) shopping in a Safeway in Seattle.
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“it’s a baby fuckin’ WHEEL”
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The Peanut Butter Solution (1985), which I saw at a too-tender age, addressed this issue.
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Is white meat preference really global? I think of it as distinctly USian, but maybe it’s become more popular elsewhere. I remember reading somewhere, ages (decades?) ago that the US exported tons of chicken thighs/ dark meat to eastern europe.
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I used to defend English cuisine on the basis of fish and chips, but I recently learned that f&c was invented by Portuguese Jewish immigrants to London in the 19th c. , so lol.
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A Seattle protest food cart would have to have teriyaki chicken, in addition to the Seattle Dog. Not sure about the handheld aspect…maybe yakitori skewers.
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He got shunned in high school, but it turns out that for some people, that isn’t enough.
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Are you writing down your findings? This could make a great article or chapter in an anthology about, idk, the long shadow of 70s-80s TV.
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Microsoft obliquely admitting it’s cutting HR staff here.