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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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Replying to @terrainfirma.bsky.social

To be fair, the teacher might have been perplexed if she’d described her daughter as an outside-the-box thinker with great synergies who’s hitting all her KPIs.

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Even cooler is: Spielberg watched the godawful dreck, filtered out everything but the visuals, and concluded "this cinematographer is brilliant, I wanna work with him" I remember seeing this in a theater as a young critic and thinking "that's one of the best looking terrible movies I've ever seen"

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In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Replying to @torriangray.bsky.social

A lot of feminist commentary about modern politics boils down to “it’s all gender” and certainly the behavior of the far right’s primary panics on the ground seems to constantly validate that.

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Horror story in six words: Carpeted bathroom Squishy under your feet

Marcie808🎃💀👻@marcie808.bsky.social

Hey, kids. Gather round. Aunty Marcie has a story for you! Once upon a time, in an era known as the 1960s, we, as a society, covered our bathrooms with carpets. No one knows why. Toilet tanks, toilet seats, every inch of the floor including a cutout for the toilet base. What germs? 🦠 #VintageAds

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“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

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i can buy weed at the store instead of some shady guy’s apartment

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

In the past week I’ve seen Musk and You Can See Everything. They both will stick with me for quite a while, mostly because the Holmes one is getting way more attention, and is a more pleasurable watch, but is by far the lesser when it comes to importance.

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literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Seconding the 'please, if you have room and inclination, adopt' because what if you DO adopt some little creecher and you're like "I have never had a cat before, he is very cute but what do I do with him" and he's like "YOU DO THIS" for a solid month (Photo from July 2022)

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No one elected Elon Musk to oversee foreign policy. Yet he was able to unilaterally slow down Starlink in Ukraine — because his enormous wealth gave him enormous power. Now he’s using that enormous wealth to buy another election and amass even more power. See the problem here?