Jay o’ Lantern 🎃

Jay o’ Lantern 🎃

@templinjay.bsky.social

Museum Nerd, Deadhead, and Dork Lord of the Sith. Master Gardener. Hunter. Jack of all trades. Veteran of the War on Drugs. Gizzard King of the Gizzard King Cabal. )O( #NoKingsButShortKings #ButlerianJihadNow

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c0nc0rdance
@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social

Replying to @thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social

I have a thread for this!

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social

But some miners became attached to their sentinel friends. They would whistle to their canary, cared for it. So someone had to invent this device. A canary cage with built-in resuscitator. Should the bird fall, a door could be closed, and an oxygen tank opened, reviving it & keeping it safe.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link
@criminalerin.bsky.social

Ahahah sure why not

soranews24.comChainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]Chainsaw-wielding robots prove they can contribute to human mobility in ways other than people running away from them in terror.
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social

Oh. Okay.

aol.comJapan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand: ‘We cannot make them fast enough’ - AOL‘Monster Wolf’ was originally designed to protect cropland from deer, boars and bears
Jay o’ Lantern 🎃
@templinjay.bsky.social

Somebody should tell the Marquis of Measles that “The non-European people who invented algebra, astronomy, celestial navigation, and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khyyam never won a European award so they must not be very good at it” is not the gotcha statement he thinks it is.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Jay o’ Lantern 🎃
@templinjay.bsky.social

Fuck farmed fur anyway. #SupportYourLocalFreetrapper #MountainyMan #Waugh

Liz Szabo@lizszabo.bsky.social

Bird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act. www.propublica.org/article/bird...

propublica.orgBird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that expe...

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Discworld Convention
@dwcon.org

October is Bat Appreciation Month! Did you know that bats make up 20% of all mammal species? On the Discworld, vampires turn into not just one bat, but dozens of them! Which Discworld vampire do you appreciate most? #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #BatAppreciationMonth

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Richard Wells
@slipperyjack.bsky.social

Ok but can I show you this 17th century Dutch memorial medallion and funeral spoon (everyone will receive one at my eventual funeral, don't you worry) I spotted yesterday at Bath's Holburne Museum...

Jay o’ Lantern 🎃
@templinjay.bsky.social

Sure, and there’s no way that trusting a private American company with vast amounts of secret information could possibly backfire in this year of 2026…

Securitas@securitas.bsky.social

All three secret services of Germany are planning to build a cloud service for exchanging secret information. The company tasked with building is... Google.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."

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Eric Lipton NYT
@ericlipton.nytimes.com

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.
Jay o’ Lantern 🎃
@templinjay.bsky.social

We call this a “bullshitcane.” No politician that anyone has ever seen has thrown out more bullshit than this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "When we had the hurricane. We call it a watercane. There's never been a hurricane that anybody's seen that threw out more water than that."

Jay o’ Lantern 🎃
@templinjay.bsky.social

Gonna be doing this in Norfolk in 5 years.

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social

The 4 km-long stretch of river in the city of Yanagawa, Japan is ideal for a relaxing time on a donko boat. And sometimes the boatmen can show off their skills in a somewhat theatrical way. Original post

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Micah
@rincewind.run

twitter brain is going to cost the GOP ohio entirely nobody outside the nazi hellsite thinks this is an acceptable thing to be doing but everyone in the campaign including the candidate lives there so they’re going to destroy the whole ticket

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

i don't think i've ever seen a campaign do a murder-suicide before (decent chance this drags down the entire GOP ticket in the state)

axios.comExclusive: Ramaswamy doubles down on explosive ad featuring rival's mother, despite backlashRamaswamy is gambling that the deeply personal attack by Amy Acton's mother will resonate with voters.
Jay o’ Lantern 🎃
@templinjay.bsky.social

He’s actually Paleo Spider Man- notice the spinnerets on his butt? Pre-Christian spidermen had spinnerets, and after Christianization, spidermen developed the ability to shoot webs from their wrists in imitation of the stigmata of Jesus. (Lee & Templin, 1998)

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Davis Bickford
@davis.social

I recently saw a 90s nostalgia post with an AI image of a woman using a disposable camera, captioned “you took photos without knowing how they turned out.” She had the camera backward and flashing into her eyes. It felt like a perfect metaphor for what looking at AI images feels like.

Saba 🏳️‍🌈 Kofi tiers ✨@ace-of-dragons.bsky.social

WHY are you, a restaurant, using AI for your posters????? that's literally not what your food looks like????? just use a picture of your damn food??????