Dirkbender.bsky.social

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Practice random acts of kindness if that's your thing. It's not mine, yet, but it's probably something to aim for.

Physically disabled due to Multiple Myeloma lesions in 15 vertebrae + multiple compression fractures. Cancer treatment keeps the MM at bay

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Some random person called me a "sanctimonious twat" on this platform and blocked me yesterday after I'd thanked her (I believe the pronoun is correct) So I can check that off my bucket list

A tired dog is a happy dog. (Part infinity, the song remains the same, et cetera)

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No need to post emojis, period. Christ on a crutch, I hate them even more today than I did when they began infesting online discourse. Write. And stop being QUITE so bloody lazy.

Meanwhile, 6 billion light years away

ESA's (updated) Picture Of The Month (POTM) for June: quasar RX J1131-1231, located ~6 billion light years away and one of the best lensed quasars discovered to date. A foreground galaxy smears the image of the background quasar into a bright arc. esawebb.org/images/potm2... 🔭 🧪

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I finally saw a cybertruck this week in real life and the very first thing that occurred to me was how much it resembles a taco bell quesadilla press. Add wheels to this grill and you would not be able to distinguish between them

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any excuse to post this one, happy 4th!!

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Also tomorrow in the New York Times, Bill Cosby on “Why It’s Paranoid To Watch Your Drink Carefully In Bars”

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Happy Birthday to rock ‘n’ roll legend Chubby Checker. 82 and still going strong!

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500songs.com/podcast/song... And this week's main episode is now up! This is an hour and three quarters on "Everyday People" and the career of Sly and the Family Stone

Song 175: “Everyday People” by Sly and the Family Stone Part 2, “My Own Beliefs Are In My Song”500songs.com For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first part of a two-episode look at the song “Everyd…

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When your friends arrange an intervention and they are all cats. @darthbluesky.bsky.social

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There is nothing to remind you about aging like renewing your passport. Like, I still think I'm the photo from ten years ago. But as it turns out, I am NOT the photo from ten years ago.

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couldn’t really sleep on the flight because a 9 year old kept opening, then closing the window every ten minutes, but in her defense, flying must be really fucking cool when you’re a 9 year old, what am i gonna do

About flipping time. Hey, rest of Southeast Asia? Yeah, all y'all. Stop sucking so bad. The world is watching.

Thailand will become the first Southeast Asian nation to legalize gay marriage - amazing news!

Thailand passes landmark bill to legalise same-sex marriagewww.aljazeera.com Country will become first in Southeast Asia to recognise marriage equality.

"We could truly put the robocall problem to bed if we addressed the fact that major corporations and corporate-friendly, rightward-lurching courts have turned our robocall regulatory enforcement into swiss cheese."

I talk about it! in fact I'm sure some people would like me to shut up already

Americans Received 55 Billion Robocalls In 2023, A 9% Jump From 2022www.techdirt.com It’s extremely weird that we’ve somehow normalized the fact that scammers, scumbags, debt collectors, and marketers have made the U.S.’ primary voice communication platform largel…

BMW decided to make the oil pump rotor housing out of plastic.

I'm sure it's a cheap fix 😬 The Popular BMW B58 Inline-Six Engine Has One Big Achilles Heel www.theautopian.com/the-stout-bm...

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I'm pretty sure that there will never be anything posted to Xitter that I will need to see ever again.

I guess we're still allowed to be happy for this mission's success, yes? apnews.com/article/chin...

Craft unfurls China's flag on the far side of the moon and lifts off with lunar rocks to bring homeapnews.com China says its spacecraft unfurled the country’s red and gold flag on the far side of the moon before lifting off with rock and soil samples to bring back to Earth.

That's that. I don't want to chitter-chat.

I'm a shallow person for laughing at this.

my mom got an intramuscular injection and I wasn't expecting how deep the needle goes, so I gasped "I thought it was just the tip!" and my mom, whose morals are corroded, laughed and laughed

Weird how Yahoo News went from a pretty decent down-the-middle no-ax-to-grind news feed app to a complete mess in the last week. Had to uninstall.

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Jim Cramer combines the wit of a circus carney with the trenchant financial analysis you’d get in a bus station bathroom

Rule one: never ever believe the corporate media spin. Rule two: no, seriously, stop being a sucker, you dumb consumer, don't make me hate you

ICYDK: Red Lobster has joined the list of private equity casualties. Stripped for parts, saddled with debt, wrung dry, left for dead. www.eater.com/24160929/red...

Red Lobster’s Demise Was Never About the Endless Shrimpwww.eater.com Blame private equity and a decade of mismanagement instead

Hence the aphorism about truth being stranger than fiction.

The truth is enough! The first guy, the suicide, was absolutely at least partly due to stress of that whole situation. That's damning enough! Crediting that to secret assassins is actually taking the spotlight away of what actually went on! This is why we hate conspiracy shit!

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as someone who spent half a life in bars & restaurants i am here to tell you that you, in fact, *cannot* tell a lot about a person by these categories. eggs: steak: milk: alcohol: warm drink: though it’s certainly fun to share!

So true and yes, at best, this is a reminder that the road to hell is paved with good intentions

Driving PSA xkcd.com/2932

Can't put it more succinctly than my favorite "recovering economist" did earlier today. Obviously if there's a guilty verdict it's almost certain the SCOTUS will just make it go away www.eschatonblog.com/2024/05/mich...

Michael Cohen Day At The Trump Trialwww.eschatonblog.com I admit I can't be bothered to follow all the ins and outs because, as with every other Trump legal issue, the real question is whether ther...

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I am relieved and impressed that NPR's board has resisted right wing pressure to dismiss its very capable CEO. They are an example to every organization dealing with bad faith attacks. popular.info/p/the-real-c...

The real cancel culturepopular.info In 2020, Bari Weiss quit her job as an editor and writer at the New York Times editorial page in a huff. In her public resignation letter, Weiss argued that she was forced out because the paper had be...

Well when you put it THAT way...

The idea that countries at all have a right to exist is so silly. People have a right to exist, countries are fake things we made up theoretically to serve the needs of the people within their borders.

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I feel like no edge on a car should be able to filet you, but I'm not a disruptor or whatever ➡️ Sharp Edge Slashes Cybertruck Owners Leg Open, But He Still Loves The Truck www.theautopian.com/sharp-edge-s...