The ads for Bravo on demand on Sling are so damn weird. A mixture of last Christmas's ads, promos for shows that have ended, Tom Selleck selling gold, and weird supplements. It's like a mix of the bottom-barrel and committed but unshown inventory.
jack the nonabrasive
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John Karabaic. he/him. BLM. NYC/BOS/USAF/CIN/PDX USA/Croatia Recovering engineer. The gurney is the reward. What is protest, if not rage persevering? #TCMParty #NoirAlley @bonbpdx @level4isgoinggreat @karabaic@mastodon.social https://brooklynbike.org
Dreamt that I bought a t-shirt for the first day of classes that says “Maybe WE are the Sea Peoples” and honestly need to make this happen.
"'There Will Come Soft Rains' read by Leonard Nimoy!" culturalgutter.com/2026/08/04/t...
“There Will Come Soft Rains” read by Leonard Nimoy
Listen to Ray Bradbury’s short story, “There Will Come Soft Rains,” on the day it is set–Aug. 4, 2026. It’s read by Leonard Nimoy! (via Lisa DeBruine) Listen here.
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I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
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Up next, Gloria Grahame and Glenn Ford in The Big Heat (1953).
jesus was famous for wearing a full face stocking
SometimesPDX@sometimespdx.bsky.social · yesterdayKaden is running around in downtown Portland, literally running at people, while wearing a full facemask and gloves putting his hands on people. He seems to be targeting Black men with his harassment/evangelism campaign. Kaden doesn't take "no" for an answer. He's a scary, creepy dude.
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
the cameras are known to just disappear like that at times, ya know
Cameras should dress modestly, not provocatively. Avoid bad neighborhoods. Never flash any money.
✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · yesterdaythe cameras are known to just disappear like that at times, ya know
In her house at R'lyeh, dead Morton Salt Girl waits dreaming
Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d agoBet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
Best Bond villain, wrong answers only...
Liz Tamny@etamny.bsky.social · yesterdayBest Bond villain, wrong answers only...
Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day to all who observe. My favorite adaptation, which shifts the date to this NYE: youtu.be/4oxP3TyuQx0?...
Будет ласковый дождь / There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) [Eng CC]
YouTube video by Алекс Кэрролл
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Matthew Cortland has been suspended from bsky for, you guessed it, bullshit reasons. Bsky continues to protect the rich from getting their feelings hurt while consistently banning those who advocate for the marginalized and vulnerable. Follow Matthew on Patreon or ShouldntNeedToBeALawyer.com
Ralph de la Torre, Steward Health Care CEO, Is A Murderer (And I've Been Banned By BlueSky) | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
nb. I have been suspended from BlueSky. Patreon — now with new, easier URL, ShoudntNeedToBeALawyer.com or ShouldntNeed.com — is the best pla
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It's amazing. Matthew is a lawyer, their argument is well-reasoned and measured, asking why the death penalty is applied to those who lack power, rather than to people who cause massive, irreparable harm. But it's always easier to pretend a challenging premise is a call to violence, huh, bluesky.
Rieve Alavaix@rieve.bsky.social · 2d agoMatthew Cortland has been suspended from bsky for, you guessed it, bullshit reasons. Bsky continues to protect the rich from getting their feelings hurt while consistently banning those who advocate for the marginalized and vulnerable. Follow Matthew on Patreon or ShouldntNeedToBeALawyer.com
Kaiser leadership: Hey you know the best way we can deliver better healthcare more affordably? No one: Replace living-wage security jobs with a robot that can't deal with a parking lot. via www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivin...
Episode 3.16 of Batman: The Animated Series, "Critters, appears to be kind of a precursor to Okja
The captain of the generation starship did not survive the passenger rebellion. She had no children and was pushed out the airlock, dying heirless and airless.
TIL that the talent as a unit of weight derives from what each culture thought a single man could carry, from about 30kg in Babylonia to 40kg in Greek Egina. Makes it an interesting connotation on the current primary denotation!
I grew up in NYC when the South Bronx was burning. I'm not sure this person understands how solving problems with problematic properties works. Maybe they're not serious. Even a joke about burning them down reveals more about the teller than any person concerned with a good reputation would risk.
“We have not been able [to get mgmt to spend the money] to identify an electric vehicle platform that is fully wheelchair-accessible while also meeting the very unique specifications that we need to retrofit that vehicle with our technology,” Matthew Walsh, Waymo. Our tech needs > your human needs.
NOTUS Metro@notusmetro.bsky.social · 3d agoAdvocates fear that autonomous vehicles will be allowed to operate in the District without accessibility requirements.
We are part of the world's largest company that claims to index all the world's knowledge. We hire the smartest people. Alphabet has $126B cash reserves. You, as impaired persons, are not worth our consideration for this world-changing technology we are developing. You are not in our changed world.
NOTUS Metro@notusmetro.bsky.social · 3d agoAdvocates fear that autonomous vehicles will be allowed to operate in the District without accessibility requirements.
Apparently, systems that categorize and map public safety calls using LLM's are all the rage in the software-defined radio hobbyist space. And, yes, they have a strong anthropomorphism game. www.rtl-sdr.com/scanner-comm...
13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
I was always very uncomfortable with folks who made fun of "nucular", now I know why. It's a natural thing. Folks made fun of both Jimmy Carter and W for it, but never the same folks. You know why. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What you guys seem incapable of understanding is that when people hear you say you've used AI in your work, they simply don't believe you when you say you've used it responsibly and carefully. Hank Green would have almost certainly said the same thing last week.