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Infinitely many points, but zero length.
Thoughts and prayers for @helldude.bsky.social and @ugarles.bsky.social and the rest of the cast at this time
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d agoLegendary coach, Hall of Fame TE Mike Ditka dies at age 86
Me: its time to open up this pit! Orchestra Conductor: please, no
Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈@kennedy.northsky.social · 4mo agoMe: its time to open up this pit! Construction Contractor: please, no
Example I have seen: Hospitals want doctors to discharge patients early in the day in order to fill the bed with another patient by the evening ER rush. So they tracked early/on time discharges. So the hospitalists would keep patients one more night unnecessarily and discharge the next day at 8 AM
Micah@rincewind.run · 5mo agoI really cannot overstate how good employees - especially tech employees - are at optimizing for whatever metric you are paying attention to, performance-wise you had better make good and fucking sure you want a lot of something if you’re going to put up a damn leaderboard
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
Overheard at the physician’s lounge re: a new Tesla “I mean it works about 80% of the time. It’s almost killed me a couple times, you have to watch it”
See, when I first opened these pictures I thought the problem was just that the outside needed a cleanup. Then I saw the first inside photo, #7, and thought it was that the floor was unfinished. Then, I saw the rest of the photos...
Motherfucker I'm a minor science author with just a few articles to my name, and *I'm* in this database. If I'm in there, literally anyone who's ever published anything at all must be.
Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · last yr.There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
None of us are free until all of us are free. I believe this deeply. Civil rights for trans people, other LGBTQ+ people, black people, women, etc etc etc. None of us are free until all of us are free, and we must work for all of us to be free.
Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social · last yr.reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
i've been replaying a little bit of baldur's gate 3 and it's crazy how good this game is. imagine how great it could be if they had used an actually good ruleset, like 4th edition
“I don’t want my kid to be a shithead as an adult” is basically the single most important goal I have as a parent whatever else they do is fine, as long as they’re decent people
Let me state for my descendants: if you use AI to write my eulogy I *will* fucking haunt you
hey man come on don’t be a shut in everybody’s doing it you don’t have to worry about it because we’re not gonna get caught it’s real quick and easy man just come cutting for stone with us it’s eeeeasy money
Man it feels good to see some good election news for once. I almost forgot this feeling
Bro, you gotta block that guy, not because he sucks, but because he’s only here to get you to say stuff to him that will get you in legal trouble.
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · last yr.Vice-President JD Vance confirms he has joined BlueSky. @jd-vance-1.bsky.social
Don’t try to kill yourself with acetaminophen (Tylenol). It might work but will take days and you will either die horribly or regret it and get lucky enough to have a major liver transplant surgery. Likewise, don’t use acetaminophen when drinking alcohol. The alcohol makes the toxicity worse.
Kristi Yamaguccimane@wapplehouse.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat’s a life-ending medical fact everyone should know?
As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)
What's the Matter with Billionaires?
How America's wealthiest sabotage their own prosperity (and ours) to avoid paying taxes
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Hi Senator. Thanks for joining Bluesky. Can you use this space to explain why you're pushing a bill to remove Section 230, which would make it close to impossible for Bluesky to exist? www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...
While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize… Demolishing Section 230?
While an unelected tech billionaire is effectively orchestrating a coup of the US government, violating federal law with apparent impunity, and disclaiming all responsibility for the chaos he’…
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Senator Dick Durbin@durbin.senate.gov · 2y agoI'm reaching out to Americans wherever they may be... and now on Bluesky. 👋
I think the reason that ‘civic duty socialism’, or ‘socialism with small c conservative characteristics’ is having a moment in left of center circles is that the long hangover of the 60s, where the assumption was that the median citizen would be a square too trusting, too patriotic, is finally over.