Nire Bryce

sir, I worry a subset of the furries are reinventing astrology instead of working on themselves. Yes. *sigh* Yes, sir, again. I know. Yes. No, I don't think that's necessary but the diplomatic corps will need to be notified.

a good chunk of social media stuff could be solved if you gave me like 2 flags for every interaction, "This sounds right but I haven't vetted it" and "I've read the linked article or thread to the end" they'll be abused but also a sort of soft reputation-effects amplifier

well, the outlink equivalent of a quote tweet

give me a "degrees of gell-mann amnesia" slider for how far a given thing happens to land within the topological space of (out of my wheelhouse × ahead of my skis)

@drianweissman.bsky.social

mostly I want a way to go "this seems worth checking out but I'm not going to" and "I've read this all the way and am talking out loud about the whole" etc without the weight of a quote tweet

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Ian Weissman, DO

sciencealert.comWorld-First Cancer Vaccine Cuts Melanoma Recurrence or Death Risk by 42% in Landmark TrialIt's been 20 years since Australian researchers created the world's first vaccine developed specifically to prevent cancer.

The first personalized mRNA cancer vaccine has now succeeded in a phase 3 clinical trial, reducing the risk of melanoma returning by 42% compared with standard immunotherapy alone. www.sciencealert.com/world-first-...

youtu.beAn Elderly Shaggy talks about Mystery IncYouTube video by Michael Fry (BigDirtyFry)

He gave up that life of wealth to help ordinary people solve mysteries, to try and atone for family sins. One of the few ways possible back then, for someone who refused the draft. When charging into danger, he would always put others ahead of himself. Have some respect. youtu.be/Y-8ArFVUvCg

Jack Bernhardt@jackbern.bsky.social

sorry to ruin your fun but his whole stoner nice guy routine is an act. Scooby's not even his real name, it's Gideon, and the only reason he can doss about in a mystery van is because his family, the D'Oubay-Doux, made a fortune in the East India Company in the 1700s. educate yourself.

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damien 🥖🐈‍⬛🧣

@damien.zone

Well. Got laid off, position terminated this Saturday. I need some time to remake my resume and everything but if anyone is looking for a Front-End engineer with 12yrs of exp in the Bay Area/Remote U.S. Ping me.

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Jack Bernhardt

@jackbern.bsky.social

@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

are better webcams still worth it or should I get like a 4 year old budget mirrorless with a cheap prime lens for webcam distances that lives on my monitor at that price point

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Andy Craig

@andycraig.bsky.social

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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Kirsten Bladh

@kerstanley.bsky.social

Replying to @kerstanley.bsky.social

A lot of the comments on this petition go pretty hard.

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Rachel Coldicutt

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iPhone voice transcription Q: is it me, or is the dictation setting in Notes a completely different (and much worse) tool than the automatic transcription that happens when you make a voice note? I can see how this could end up happening and potentially never get resolved, but afaict...

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Kirsten Bladh

@kerstanley.bsky.social

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Micah@rincewind.run

chat I don’t think doubling down on this ad is working out real well for vivek

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union person

@junlper.beer

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

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Riki Wilchins

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social

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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct Advocate Berlin PD violently raids a Black, Indigenous, and POC health clinic's weekly transfem-only meet-up called "The Dolls", and seize medications, money, etc. Stand with The Dolls.

advocate.comGerman police raid trans health center over suspected prescription drug trafficking: A ‘violent intrusion’Casa Kuà says Berlin police officers searched attendees’ belongings, broke into lockers, and held people for up to four hours during a weekly transfeminine gathering.

youtu.beScience Says Stop Drinking Hot Coffee. Do This Instead.YouTube video by Lance Hedrick

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youtu.be/FXRxreccD2E

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Luis Villa

@lu.is

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Once you’ve finished the pop history version of Dormouse, graduate to @histoftech.bsky.social whose book Programmed Inequality is both fascinating and infuriating. bsky.app/profile/hist...

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social

Yep, when I titled the first chapter in my book “War Machines” I wasn’t being hyperbolic. And even tech workers themselves have long recognized this—for example, take this 1971 pamphlet from the group Computer People for Peace:

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Ryan Estrada

@ryanestrada.com

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Hey remember a couple months ago when I almost died from sleep apnea and begged y'all to be checked if you have symptoms of sleep apnea? Eric Bauza just died from sleep apnea. We were the same age. Don't ignore sleep apnea.

Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com

Do you get a full night's sleep but wake up feeling like death? Does your whole body feel off in ways you can't explain? Research signs of Sleep Apnea. Get a sleep test. You can't diagnose it yourself, cuz you sleepin'.

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Calli Giovanini COMMS CLOSED

@calligiovanini.bsky.social

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The online part was important too, of course. We collectively decided to not interact with any right wing post or comment ever. Trolls and bots lost their power. This is a good lesson.

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"Specialists" are gonna focus on how we fought the algorithm, but a huge part of it was actually about people being on the streets educating others and changing their opinions. News media refused to tell people about the crimes and intentions of the bolsonaro family, so we did that ourselves.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky

@sifu.tweety.fish

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This book on the topic is super cool: web.mit.edu/eecsgsa/6ins...

web.mit.eduweb.mit.edu

"Hmm, this heuristic stack is getting deep"

@amandamarcotte.bsky.social

so have any of the Democrats talked about the equal rights amendment that just needs like one signature from the archivist

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Amanda Marcotte

Replying to @amandamarcotte.bsky.social

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

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Amyville Hoyrror

@amyhoy.bsky.social

books.google.comGoogle Books Ngram ViewerGoogle Ngrams: rolled her eyes, rolled his eyes, 1600-2008

hwat

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com

The pettiest hill that I will die on is that if your cool character in a historical novel is rolling their eyes at social conventions, no they're not, eye-rolling didn't become a widely described gesture in English literature until the *1980s* books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

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I think the loss of student power in university decisions is going to go down in history as one of the retrospectively inciting events of *motions grandiosly* all this

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@tldrellie.bsky.evl.im oops my nose unfollowed you

i mean realistically if I wanted to table flip a lost election as an American autocratic dictator I'd simply call an article V convention immediately after the midterm election while everyone's burnt out and a good chunk of each state leg would be brand new and naive, but I'm built different so yk

there's zero slack in the system (you can tell bc the rate of petty fighting amongst ourselves is spiking again) and a convention would burn so much more of that slack no one has

"keep an eye on enough seats for either party to call an article V constitutional convention because the median voter would desecrate the spirit of the Constitution with no thought to the future regardless of party" has been a thing I've been thinking about since 2024

but if you've got nothing left to lose you can kind of bet on that and hope to persuade them if you've got media buy-in

the chances of this happening are like 0 but that fact that it's probably not going to happen just makes me so disappointed in the think tanks on their side. like, really?

thinking about how the US fracturing hard instead of soft would necessitate NATO-and-equivalents level crash intervention to secure the now half-county worth of, effectively, loose nuclear weapons (but unusable by the non-presidential side of split or buyers without rebuilding)

like fall of the Soviet Union planning except you have no idea which way any given military base will roll compared to the state it exists in

to be clear I don't think it will happen but i think a lot of the scale of the potential problems get swept under the rug as being American exceptionalism instead even though they're places that it... really is exceptional and that's the problem.

www.npr.org/2026/10/26/n...

npr.orgLoggers say Roadless Rule repeal won't solve their biggest challengesPresident Trump is planning to open up some of the nation's last pristine forests to road building and timber companies. But those who work in the woods say it won't do enough to revive the industry.

that girl pops her neck loud enough to set off shotspotter

in a game I play, you have 2 implant slots per loadout. there's a lot of great competition for those slots (like 8 good ones per class) so it's often a hard choice however, one increases your jump height by half at max rank (before that only increasing crouch speed) and this adds unforseen bonuses

1.5x jump height means doorways are suddenly "cover" because you can jump across s doorway so only your legs are visible in the door, and legs only take 0.8x damage it's really funny how useful it is. you can jump over a mine right as you set it off and take no damage if you jumped while sprinting

and that's not getting into the literal bonus of "the game was not designed for this jump height" so you get completely different traversal options

crouching reduces your cone of fire (an area centered around the middle of your crossgairs where there's RNG and gets bigger with movement or firing, shrinks as you stop firing) which means full speed crouched movement means better accuracy for you, and no headshot muscle memory for them

(at the expense of random body shots potentially turning into headshots for the enemy just thanks to the sampling algorithm being flawed and weighting towards the center of the screen)

you could have an implant that reduces explosion damage by half. but unless you're dodging missiles, all explosions are going to be ground hits. explosion damage falls off with range. if you jump and the grenade or mine is not directly below you, you take less than half damage with that height

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mtsw

@mtsw.bsky.social

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.