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New project! Contributor @owenlacey.dev asks whether Kevin Bacon is the most-connected actor in Hollywood, per the popular game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”. 🔗: pudding.cool/2026/10/kevi...

🇺🇸🗳️ With the 2026 midterms two weeks away, I felt this election deserved a better map. 🧵

"American Express is a proud partner of Olivia Rodrigo" extremely poly coded sentence

Mmm I find those dots so pleasing, one day I need to go insane and, like, wallpaper a bathroom in this pattern

Munzy’s Freeport, IL

law to rename "property tax" to "municipal services tax" and then just Gen Z stare at Boomers

getting emails that your FICO score has changed are really weird. “Hey Mike the banks have been talking and we are all feel slightly different about you. We thought you should know”

Blue shards, Brinksway, Stockport

One of my favorite signs

“There is no brine that can cure a broken heart — in fact, high levels of sodium are dangerous for those with heart conditions. But for some problems, the ideal brine or brines may yet be out there.” @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social:

this has lived in my head for a week and I gotta let it out

Happy Departure Day to all who celebrate!

Minor potentate so charmed by a mechanical bird whose movement and song is so lifelike that they demand the bird or else have a tradesperson executed is a beautiful story thst echoes through time.

i hate modern AAA game design

Share someone who looks stylish wearing a headband

Getting into a PR war with a toy store in Brooklyn for not selling you a bird because you’re "only daytime TV famous" is a 30 Rock plotline that works for both Jenna and Tracy

it’s monday

Red and white stripes 2026/27

wth is up with its choice in graphics?? i mean, i love how its taking this seriously. feels like its trying to start a business out of this. but…

If i was an umpire and one of my calls got overturned i would start crying. You would see how red and watery my eyes were before i pulled the mask back down

Ungenerous balcony, Northern Quarter, Manchester

“SPR officials learned as much as they could about solution-mining caverns for petroleum storage from studying the West German reserve, but the much larger scale of the SPR (700 million barrels vs. Germany’s 30 million) meant that they were operating in uncharted territory.”

"The 21st Century Begins October 1, 1982." Disney's EPCOT Center opened its gates 44 years ago today.

“At this point in your retirement, would it take a Nolan film to get you to do this again?” “Well, no. Anything on Imax celluloid will get me out of bed. I did Joker 2. [Laughs.]” @chrisstanton27.bsky.social:

“The experts I spoke to agreed that reinforcement learning helps explain why AIs deceive. ‘Fundamentally,’ Bengio told me, ‘lying and deception are rational behaviours to achieve many goals. This is why humans do it. And this is why the AIs do it now.’”

Axolotl ice cream

Shigeru Miyamoto has claimed that Toad is his least favorite character in Mario Kart. Despite this, in all footage of him playing Mario Kart 8, he picked Toad every time. Whether he was joking or specifically picking a character he hates to challenge himself is unknown.

writing a rationalist fanfic about 'who framed roger rabbit?' but it's a series of spreadsheets and charts explaining the economic benefits of a freeway system and justifying the wholesale destruction of toontown

Nightmare about being insanely late for school but there was an incredible 2 body sunrise I took a picture of. Sadly I cannot show you as for some reason my dream phone won’t airdrop photos to my real one

“All of this struggle is invisible. Even for those who experience a problem firsthand, the hows and whys are opaque. ‘I never received any explanation at all,’ Turner says. Until I reached out to her, she assumed that the incident had been caused by turbulence.” @jeffwise.bsky.social:

12/x FitzRoy went back through the observations and produced charts showing the storm's track across the country. His argument: this was not an act of God that arrived without notice. It had been visible, in the data, moving. It could have been telegraphed ahead of itself.

historians and political scientists now believe that the United States simplified their political system in the early 21st century, replacing factional coalitions with a biannual referendum on gasoline. This "car juice economy" held strong until being replaced by Funko Pops due to electrification.

Road construction is so perpetual in Montreal that the traffic drum has apparently become a pop culture symbol for the city. Love it.