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I think I would like it if my writing about recovery overlapped less with my writing about politics, but here we are. New newsletter: "The Lowest Bar Is Still Worth Reaching" anamariecox.substack.com/p/the-lowest...

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If you let an electron touch a positron (anti-matter version of electron) they'll both annihilate into gamma rays but if you are VERY careful and let them get close but NOT touch then they can form a bound state called positronium that acts kinda like a hydrogen atom for a few hundred nanoseconds 💫

submitted 8 days ago • 81 comments

VP Vance to President Zelenskyy: Have you said thank you once?

submitted 9 days ago • 765 comments

It's okay everyone. I have great news. I have done it. I present to you ... The greatest cat photo ever.

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NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social

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"I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobbed woman who voted for Leopards Eating People's Faces Party is one thing, but I never anticipated the voters who say, “But eating my face is part of the Leopards’ plan, so I support it"

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The United States just voted against a United Nations resolution condemning Russia for invading Ukraine. The US sided with Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and the Grand Ayatollah of Iran.

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Star of Leopard News Asks That Friend’s Face be Spared

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Trump: "There's a map on the back of the Constitution. We're going to be looking at it very closely. We've been talking about it from the day I got in, and we're looking at that very, very strongly."

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At this point it's just a question of how many times Trump repeats this proposal that violates all kinds of norms, offends most folks in the region, and is never gonna happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqXZ...

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

Cool cool cool.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

submitted 35 days ago • 215 comments

One. I wasn’t cool enough to record music from the radio.

submitted 49 days ago • 310 comments

Oh my god you fucking simpleton, the CA is for California. Ontario, CA is in San Bernardino County.

submitted 56 days ago • 384 comments

Good god, I can't believe DS9 is 32 years old

submitted 64 days ago • 24 comments

Could Donald Trump be a moderating influence on an Elon Musk presidency?

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Good morning, Bluesky. Would your day be improved with a version of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" sung in Latin? Perhaps! youtu.be/Xtt78SW-mgg

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Next up in my Silicon Valley history column after Tramiel is Compaq and Rod Canion. I get to tell the story about how Compaq got so good at cloning MS DOS for the PC that Bill Gates secretly agreed to licence MS DOS off THEM. Every MS DOS install on a PC Clone after 1983 was actually Compaq DOS.

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Come on, folks, put me over the top! In return I will… uhm… post even more cute animal pix????

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My favourite story is when Colm Meaney brought Alexander Siddig to a pub and the bartender said he wasn't welcome there, Siddig told Meaney that the man was racist. “Colm calmly replied, ‘No, it’s because you’re English.’ He obviously enjoyed taking me to places where they would hate me."

submitted 109 days ago • 5 comments

Join me and @dandrezner.bsky.social for a series of patrons-only episodes recapping Battlestar Galactica! www.patreon.com/posts/battle...

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

My only addendum to this: every device is an unsecured device. Yes, even if you're using Signal. Encryption protects your messages in transit. It does not protect your messages from subpoena, coercion, compromise, or targeted attack against you or the recipient.

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www.popehat.com/p/and-yet-it...

submitted 122 days ago • 188 comments

please enjoy this giant Lego Discworld model it is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen and the people who made it should be given several medals

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Cosmos, online, for free. You’re welcome. archive.org/details/cosm...

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journalism!! www.wsj.com/us-news/spri...

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he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned

submitted 179 days ago • 80 comments

friendly reminder to NEVER TALK TO THE COPS EVER THIS RED HAIRED KID LITERALLY SAVED THE ENTIRE FUCKING HUMAN RACE BY LYING TO A COP

submitted 192 days ago • 41 comments

Paul Verhoeven would cut this scene for being too heavy handed with its satire.

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Good headline, effective headline image, fucking terrific op ed www.statnews.com/2024/08/20/m...

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These people are relentlessly weird

submitted 204 days ago • 276 comments

My daughter got a new kitten for our house and she is about 30% ears. #caturday

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Happy New Weird Al Single Release Day! I decided to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of my last album Mandatory Fun by doing a polka medley of some of the biggest hits of the last 10 years. “Polkamania!” is out RIGHT NOW and available everywhere music is sold or streamed! youtu.be/y0ZoX4dBvwk

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