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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 4h ago

Daily bunny no.3496 has been framed!

A bunny in the entryway of a suburban home witnesses a smashed flowerpot on the clean floor, with a look of shock on their face. On the drawer the flowerpot was on, a smug black cat is seated. There is a picture of the cat on the wall

Dr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social · 16h ago

I never realized it before, but Four Seasons and Chicken Man have the same anniversary. Is today a Philly National holiday?

Dan Rebellato@danrebellato.bsky.social · yesterday

A very happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day to all who celebrate.

Rudy Giuliani and a crowd of lunatics making absolute fools of themselves in November 2020 by going ahead with a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping rather than the Four Seasons hotel which they OBVIOUSLY thought they'd booked.

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 8h ago

My mom sent me some papers that belonged to my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, which included a collection of “Disfrustrating Puzzles” he created

Photo of a bound folder labeled “Disfrustrating puzzles and diversions for people who don't have time for the hard ones"

COIN ARRAY PUZZLE
You have nine coins, arranged as shown below. Which coin can you remove, (being careful not to touch the others), so that only eight coins remain?
[Drawing of nine coins]

DISCONNECT THE DOTS PUZZLE
If you very carefully erase the lines which connect the dots you will find a common household pet waiting to catch a mouse. Be sure you erase only the lines connecting consecutive numbers. (Hint: Start at number one.)
[Puzzle art featuring lines and dots]

ROPE AND PULLEY PUZZLE
If Billy pulls down on the rope, will the 100 lb weight move up or down?
[Drawing of a rope and pulley system]

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 17h ago

Niels made a new cartoon, rejoice everyone, rejoice!! www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse... If you want to read more about this topic: fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/01/18/a...

The JellyMuppet is at Dragonmeet and PAXU @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 3d ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FrQ... We're finally sharing the talks from last years' MuppetMeet. First up is my talk on printing and book production!!!

Being a Book Sicko with Zach Cox (MuppetMeet 2025)

YouTube video by SoulMuppet Publishing

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 3d ago

They're betting on AI. We're betting on the recurrence of people posing for photographs with exquisite, heritage sheep.

A person posing with a sheep with extremely long wool.

Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Wiggle your cursor to activate Gemini" is so insane I stared at this ad for a solid minute. Like, there's no explanation for this beyond "we desperately need to pad activation stats", right? Wiggle the cursor to activate Gemini?! WIGGLE THE CURSOR?! THE THING I DO FIFTY TIMES A DAY?!

Googlebook ad
"Meet Googlebook, with Magic Pointer. Simply wiggle your cursor to activate Gemini."

The JellyMuppet is at Dragonmeet and PAXU @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 4d ago

Gonna have paracetamol on hand! Also, we're a tad short on guests for this one! If you are invested in tabletop gaming logistics and want to join us on this panel, let me know via DM!!!

Eryk@peregrinecoast.press · 4d ago

I love flapping my lips and this time it’s my favourite subject of them all: ✨logistics✨ Come listen to me, my wonderful colleague Laura, and Zach talk about the engaging overzealous customs gendarmerie in bareknuckle combat

Marcus Falk @attusfalk.bsky.social · 3d ago

That feeling when you hear a podcast host referring to someone being in the military in the 19th as "out camping with 10.000 of their closest friends" and you just know that they have to be listening to @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social

Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is the official GOP cope thread, add to it at your leisure, we're gonna be smokin pack all week.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is the stuff.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 5d ago

After the reporting on Proton CEO Andy Yen pushing AI on workers and broader issues at the company last week, Proton employees are pushing for their colleagues to unionize and make sure Yen is held to account. More info here: molecule.build

The future
Fighting for a free, open, and private internet has never been more important. Every employee passionately believes in our mission.

But if Andy is allowed to continue on this path, he will be responsible for the collapse of our organization.

We demand:

1. An immediate cancellation of the re-interview process

2. A commitment to appraise employees based on outcomes, not arbitrary AI targets

3. Open communication from Andy and senior leadership, and a space for employees to share feedback on the current process and future of Proton

4. Increased investment into employee training and hiring, instead of outsourcing to AI

Our group is committed to holding Andy Yen and Proton to account. We aren’t going anywhere.

Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 5d ago

Det är en deppig arbetsuppgift att försöka förstå det ekonomiska läget vid landets universitet. Samtliga hittills granskade lärosäten beskriver statliga effektiviseringskrav som är svåra (omöjliga förmodar jag) att klara av. *tråd*

Morgan Finnsiö ⤦⤦⤦@morganfinnsio.bsky.social · 5d ago

I landet Sverige var det riksdagsval den 13 september. Landet Sverige måste nu vänta på att landet Centerpartiet ska hålla sitt eget lilla riksdagsval. Efter sin egen tidtabell och efter sina egna bisarra överväganden som ingen annan i Sverige, inklusive deras egna väljare, håller med om.

Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 6d ago

Apart from the likelihood that this would be used to "correct" people not only from being audibly disabled, but also audibly racialised, working class, from stigmatised regions/countries, it also moves us towards a world where we can't know real speech from fake, and that feels like an agenda.

Marcus Falk@attusfalk.bsky.social · 6d ago

Even apart from all the problems with deepfakes and missinformation - and those are many - this is what probably hit me the hardest. Stutters and similar speech impediments are already stigmatized. By surgically removing them fron live footage we even further paint them as weird and wrong.

The patent also posits that such a tool could be used to remove filler words like “um” or “ah” from live speech, or to erase stutters or speech impediments.

Marcus Falk @attusfalk.bsky.social · 5d ago

I just got a bunch of new followers after my dystopian technology post yesterday, so to lighten the mood a little let's look back at some insane microwave recipes

Marcus Falk@attusfalk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are back with another installment of 80s microwave cookbooks, this one gifted to me by the amazing @spookulv.bsky.social. This time it's Kokbok för Mikrovågsugn (Cookbook for Microvågsugn), published in 1987 by Ica Bokförlag. This is the fourth printing grom 1988, so must have been popular. A 🧵

Cover of Kokbok för Mikrovågsugn (Cookbook for Microwave Oven). A plate with meat, potatoes, carrots, and (maybe) sugas snaps is in front of an open microwave oven.

chaseacross☂️🇵🇸🇺🇦@chaseacross.bsky.social · 6d ago

Jim Crow, which was so much more brutal than we learn in school, is within living memory. My parents were born within its bounds. People got killed for looking "funny". That's not a bit or a joke. Human beings died in agony in front of jeering crowds for "Well, your eyebrows were raised wrong."

KatWomanScreamingIntoTheVoid @katwomanwalks.bsky.social · 6d ago

"As it stands, if people don’t like what they hear, they can simply turn something off; the system outlined by Microsoft describes an environment where people can instead adjust someone else’s speech to their personal taste."

Marcus Falk@attusfalk.bsky.social · 6d ago