Discovered a cursed photo subgenre: "grift hands"
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Shakira occupies an incredibly vital cultural place for those of us who went though puberty while having Spanish teachers who played lots of music videos in class because they didn’t care about their jobs
As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵
Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher
Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.
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the cat's been in the litter box for an hour just scrolling on his phone
#PPP96 This is the NOMINATIONS THREAD for THE WORLD CUP OF 1996 which will start next month Please give me up to FOUR picks for tracks first released in 1996, indicating your MAIN (i.e top) nomination. Follow along on the spreadsheet here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.
My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday
A FATHERS DAY THREAD: Hey everybody whose dad is not in the picture for one reason or another: I am right there with you. My dad died in 2011. We weren't estranged, but he was such a distant figure in my life that not a lot has changed in our relationship.
i bought a bag last year for a birthday party and they were so good that a friend and i took them out of the room and ate them all ourselves all while looking at each other in disbelief. we felt no shame in this. we have discussed this moment at least once a month ever since
We’re officially on HOT MUSTARD DORITO WATCH. The FRITO-LAY SNACK CONGLOMERATE, despite inventing the GREATEST DORITO FLAVOR SINCE “COOL RANCH,” seems intent on QUIETLY BURYING THE PRODUCT despite an ENGAGED AND RAVENOUS PUBLIC LOUDLY CLAMORING for their IMMEDIATE RETURN!
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Court Watch@courtwatch.bsky.social · 2mo agoRunning a small independent news site covering the courts, we’re stuck by how many stories bigger news orgs missed. For example, a pro se litigant in Oregon filed a lawsuit to stop the production of a U.S. mint 24 carat Trump commemorative coin. He convinced a judge yesterday.
Running a small independent news site covering the courts, we’re stuck by how many stories bigger news orgs missed. For example, a pro se litigant in Oregon filed a lawsuit to stop the production of a U.S. mint 24 carat Trump commemorative coin. He convinced a judge yesterday.
Heatmap probably will hate to hear this but @heatmap.news sells its services to data center developers
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Here's an idea: instead of showcasing w/parachute journalism the embarrassing, self-harming, self-deluding ignorance of this fractional population, do the journalism that reaches them w/the information that we all need and that could help at least some of them out of their entrenched delusions
Reuters@reuters.com · 3mo agoTrump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These rural voters agree. reut.rs/4dL2y14
In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.
finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype
Recently updated on our site: Authors, illustrators and poets who visit schools in the UK & Ireland. 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/au... #kidlit Browse our UK and Ireland directory of children’s authors, poets and illustrators for school visits, with trusted recommendations, virtual o...
Authors, illustrators and poets who visit schools in the UK & Ireland
Discover children’s authors, poets and illustrators who offer school visits across the UK and Ireland, plus useful planning advice.
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“If it scares you, it’s spam” is all I say now to mum about scamming/phishing emails. Explaining everything doesn’t help. It’s the emotional punch using the easily replicated authority of banks and companies.
Apropos of superbowl ads… So, it costs a bit more, but if you’re looking for a doorbell camera that won’t get your brown neighbors beaten by ICE, UniFi has one that records to a hard drive you own in your own house that can’t be accessed by anyone but you.
Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie
