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Sage 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Sage 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social
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zaratustra's avatar zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
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braid's janky (i'm sorry, "emergent") puzzles would be rejected by a more perfectionist puzzle designer and then braid wouldn't have come out and made indie games cool so it's impossible to say if janky puzzles are good or not

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Claire Willett's avatar Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social
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I think all the time about the interviewer who asked Meryl Streep “how did you not know about Weinstein” and she was like “I didn’t know because he NEEDED me not to know” it isn’t a character flaw to have been deceived by someone who is a deceit expert cultivating the cover of your faith & goodwill

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Gayle Force 🍉's avatar Gayle Force 🍉 @gayleforce.bsky.social
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I don't know where I read it but "abusers spend as much time grooming their character witnesses as they spend grooming their victims" has really stuck with me

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its jae's avatar its jae @fussybabybit.ch
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we salute our troops

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e.w. niedermeyer's avatar e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.io
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So the more I see of this, the more I respect it. The Cybertruck is so unrelentingly and singularly absurd that the only sane aesthetic response is to heap yet more absurdity on top. This exudes a level of "you're locked in here with me" energy that you don't often get the opportunity to witness.

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cₑₐₛₑfᵢᵣₑ ₙₒw's avatar cₑₐₛₑfᵢᵣₑ ₙₒw @self.agency
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haaretz confirms that an unknown but extremely significant number of the israelis that died on october 7 and whose deaths were subsequently laid at hamas’ feet were killed by friendly fire on israeli military orders

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zaratustra's avatar zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
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I had to order a custom made hk plushie for my son's birthday

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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Very funny that the Times was so certain about the panic they were causing that they set up a little live update election-season scoreboard for it

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josh (oldfriend99) 's avatar josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social
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This maze was easy to get out of. you'd just move the mouse

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Alex May 's avatar Alex May @psychicteeth.bsky.social
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If you never played this I recommend it. Very funny throughout

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the thing noticer's avatar the thing noticer @bug-deal.bsky.social
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jesus fucking christ

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Kate Barrett's avatar Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social
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it is funny that "four eyes" was an insult levelled at people with glasses as though having four eyes wouldn't make you extremely sexy

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Sardonicus 's avatar Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu
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'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.' Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell

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scott⚡️mccloud's avatar scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social
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Comics of the mid-14th century!

Here's a straightened-out, lighter version if you wanna check out more details...
( h/t @lizzzs.bsky.social )

I hope most now find it obvious that this is the same art form as the latest X-Men—not an easy sell when I wrote Understanding Comics in 1993.

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Hai Rui Bhagwan's avatar Hai Rui Bhagwan @rossisok.bsky.social
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As someone with a grad degree, I feel some solidarity with AI, in that it was also extremely expensive to train me to do something useless

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zaratustra's avatar zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
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Unfortunately, then they make some money

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zaratustra's avatar zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
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I thought phi males were pretty common

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Kris Straub (كريس)'s avatar Kris Straub (كريس) @krisstraub.com
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theoretical males, males in undiscovered islands of stability

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Pete Birkinshaw's avatar Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social
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Unfortunately FPTP is like The One Ring of UK politics: whoever wins does a Boromir/Isildur and thinks "Maybe we shouldn't destroy it, maybe we should use its terrible power for good?"

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”'s avatar pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social
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Doomers love to say the world is getting worse all the time but consider that in the last 30 years we ended both the ozone hole and people getting their faces ripped off by a pet chimp

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zaratustra's avatar zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
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is your name some kind of database default or something

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zaratustra's avatar zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
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i feel tolkien's approach to linguistics is that of an engineer: refining an entire tradition of fantasy writing to its ultimate form, rather than destroying it

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zaratustra's avatar zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
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lord of the rings was basically phileas fogg bringing passepartout and two of his upper-class failson friends to a trip

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zaratustra's avatar zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
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the only very small consolation i have is that the republicans didn't want exactly *this*. they wanted to benefit the rich assholes whose proclivities can be contained to epstein's black book instead the public went NO WE WANT WORSE. WE WANT THE BIGGEST, LOUDEST RATS TO SHIT ON US

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Colossal's avatar Colossal @thisiscolossal.com
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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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🍄Maze🍄's avatar 🍄Maze🍄 @meaninglez.bsky.social
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Unrelated to anything currently, but something I think about from time to time

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bakoon's avatar bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social
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if they have the joker in another batman flick they should do his face up like this. give him a foot long chin. make him the ambassador to iran again too

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Elena Kononenko 's avatar Elena Kononenko @kononenko.bsky.social
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Dedicated to everyone who fell in love unrequited. 💔

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arr's avatar arr @arr.bsky.social
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I have some exciting personal news. After a long nationwide search and an intense audition process, I’ve been selected to be the new Dr Disrespect

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Kate Barrett's avatar Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social
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my cohost posts are too long for this website but I want to post them here too and its not fair

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zaratustra's avatar zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
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have you ever thought about how weird is outer space it's nothing but nothing with a size measure it's just... distance. lots of it

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zaratustra's avatar zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
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if you need it without allocations and linq, just use a fixed-length array, populate it with a for-loop, and use your favorite sorting algorithm comparing list[x] instead of x

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zaratustra's avatar zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
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maybe this? listIndexes = Enumerable.Range(0, list.Count).ToList(); listIndexes.OrderBy(x => list[x]);

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megadrivers's avatar megadrivers @megadrivers.coolpics.biz
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90s localization was out of control lmfaooooo

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈's avatar David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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