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We really need more people doing "Why are humans so easy to bamboozle?" studies. There were people who thought the ELIZA program from nearly 60 years ago was alive and the core code for that was less than 900 lines, including commentary!

I chugged a lot of water (and sometimes added some electrolytes) the last couple times I went from sea level to visit family in Denver and it seemed to help!

american wizcock

his running mate for governor is a Black woman (she's also the current republican Lt Gov) for extra wtf points

Winsome Earle-Sears, the Black woman running, is the republican candidate (she's also the current lt gov). The white woman running, Spanberger, is the dem candidate.

We are now also the most official looking Taco Bell account on here and I would just like to let everyone know that eating Taco Bell makes you trans

there are so many cardinals in my back yard are they having a conclave? are they electing the bird pope?

It's also transmitted specifically by saliva, so the animal doesn't even have to fully bite you to infect you. A coworker had a bat fly into her hair recently and she went ahead and got the vax just in case - it's the same as getting (a series of) flu shots now, not like it used to be.

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I hate how prescient this sci fi story ("Captive Audience" by Ann Griffith) from the 1950s about inescapable advertising keeps being

Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

Did you get any good bread pudding recently?

The bandages look so good!!

Photo of square orange tiles, set into the ground, across one of which several cats footprints are clearly visible.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

If Etidorhpa sounds interesting though (and you don't mind a little meandering -- but it's pretty short overall) The Blazing World published 1666 by Margaret Cavendish is another really neat sort of proto-scifi/fantasy novel

I have read it and it's an interesting book as far as weird old books go, but it really meanders a lot (there's a wild amount of space dedicated to at-home science experiments trying to prove the earth is IRL hollow). There's also a weird racist diatribe related to the evils of alcohol.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

"Do you not know, that in the service, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?"

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹

They could at least let you pick which Culture ship you want to be tagged with

Fear the Old Blood 🩸🧠👁️

Lol yup I've processed a little bit of fleece from raw before and I'm more than happy to pay for someone else to do those steps for me.

Tariff impacts aside, spinning your own yarn is never cheaper than commercial yarn unless you're only buying the REALLY expensive stuff lol. Good fiber isn't cheap even if you DIY it from a raw fleece.

Yep. I do spin my own yarn but it is an *entirely different thing* from knitting or weaving with it, and it took a while to get my skills to the point where it was viable to work with (and has very different properties from commercial). Pretty sure a lot of spinning fiber is likely imported too!

a watercolor of a happy, determined looking boar hauling a cart full of apples

Everyone cheer for the apple boar, bringing fall fun!! :)
(the fun is apples)

My state (and I'm sure the rest of them) has state ID cards that look mostly the same as a driver's liscence but it's not a driver's liscence. You can get a Real ID version of that.

It's so fun! Such a great love letter to the William Castle Era of theatre highjinks

good grief, you're pretty racist huh? You do realize it's white American Christians who got the anti-gay laws in Uganda and other places put in place? I'm queer and I face a lot more danger from white Christians than from Muslims.

probably "tar-jay" with a really soft J, like it's french