Marten

Marten

@puntloos.bsky.social

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Secure in my knowledge that most things are too hard to have opinions on. (v1 of inspirational message, let's workshop it)

V1.1 - been called a Bourgeois simp. I'll take it, I think the wife would approve.

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I know physiognomy (telling character from faces) has been disproven but all these republicans just seem dumb as bags of rocks before I hear a single word.. dangerous dumb bags of rocks, probably intermingled with snakes.. but..

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This is insane.

I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡

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"I have the incompetence necessary to effortlessly transition into a role at any company that yields a seven-figure income."

CEO’s Skill Set Transferable To Any Job That Requires Dumbass To Receive Big Salarywww.theonion.com NEW YORK—Claiming he could easily fit into a similar position at most companies, local CEO Mike Waltke told reporters Monday that his skill set was transferable to any job that requires an inept dumba...

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GPT-5 will suffer four consecutive years of severe emotional breakdown trying to say something new about Foucault

One of the best predictors of messages I don't want to show up on my feed is anything with this moots hashtag. Can I set up some block filter? @why.bsky.team

No qweqwerty keyboard though

The Macintosh Double Plus was designed to be twice as good as its predecessor - it featured double the pixels, width, floppies, and a pair of 8Mhz 68010 CPUs. Its planned successor, the Double Plus Good with a pair of 16Mhz CPUs was thrown down the memory hole. Pridecauseful.

At least one out of 3 hands has 5 fingers..

looks good

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Veal Calf Approaching Slaughter Wishes It Had Seen More Of 30-Inch Penwww.theonion.com SOUDERTON, PA—Taking stock of his life as his looming death crept ever closer, a local veal calf approaching slaughter reportedly found himself wistfully wishing this week that he had seen more of his...

www.readtpa.com/p/googles-ai... "Yes, hello? This is totally not russian PR bureau, we would like to buy your website for a trillion rubles, no questions asked. We have many humorous witticisms we would like to plant."

Google's AI-Generated Search Results Keep Citing The Onionwww.readtpa.com Plus other stories!

This. Of course normal discourse usually doesn't have your listing all your priors all the way down to 'the sky is blue' in every message anyway. On the flip side, rounding '52% for, 48% against == (all of) "Britain chose Brexit" also misses the mark.

And can we please get to a default state where we look at posts on this here website and think "The author is probably aware of these nuances, but couldn't fit them all in in 300 characters"? That'd be nice.

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Kids this is real beef

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Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalismwww.theonion.com JERUSALEM—Following its ban of the Qatar-based news outlet’s operations in the country, Israel accused Al Jazeera Monday of being a mouthpiece for journalism. “It is clear from its continuous, 24-hour...

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forget flying cars we were promised big women

Learning a lot “The woman of the year 2000 will be an outsize Diana, anthropologists and beauty experts predict. She will be more than six feet tall, wear a size 11 shoe, have shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck driver.” - Associated Press (1950)

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if one *must* respond, there is simply no way to improve on this classic

Some asshole is signing your name to stupid lettersnews.lettersofnote.com A legal letter of note

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Now “premium” just means paying extortionate extra fees to have whatever basic service you’re using not actively be trying to kick you in the balls.

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‘Some exciting new literary genres’ My latest Guardian Books cartoon.

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2024 be like...

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“I truly can’t overstate how much demanding clean air and clean water is not “living in fear” but simply expecting the bare minimum of a democratic society to which we pay taxes and refusing to be a bootlicker for billionaire talking points.” @juliadoubleday.bsky.social 🩺🧪

Institutional COVID denial has killed public health as we knew it. Prepare to lose several centuries...open.substack.com Public health cannot be individualized. Abandoning collective approaches to disease mitigation is a recipe for disaster.

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A Happy New Year to you all. It’s going to be a challenging one. The ongoing massacre in Gaza Accelerating environmental breakdown Trump’s bid for the White House …. Those of us who want a better world will have to work even harder than before. 🧵 1/9

Post a banger that isn't in English: youtube.com/watch?v=aFJ7... (As a side note I'm not sure what qualifies as a banger.. does it have to be danceable? Can classic music or slow ballads be bangers?)

DakhaBrakha - Monakhyoutube.com re:evolution film / mental dRive studioРежисер - Віктор ПридуваловОператор - Євгеній Креденцер Другий режисер - Дарина Римарев�...

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friendly reminder that predators have forward facing eyes

It's interesting to me that a ton of people don't take arguments at face value, but first try to determine who the person is, and figure out (alterior?) motives. Wonder if it is a type of defense mechanism necessary to stave off an onslaught of bots/trolls, but it does hurt quality of discussion.

Needs to add Grover : youtu.be/Pdk72Ns6sBE for the yohoho

Seasonal Venn Diagram

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this WWF ad is perfect, no notes

Raise your hand if you EVER heard: "we are experiencing an unusually low amount of calls so we can connect you right now... ..." Why do companies even waste my time saying this line..

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Putting my career on the line to make a run at Goliath: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... Please share.