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Unsolicited Opinion: The song “Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls” by [@](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dvra7dsfp3glc7sk43vtakk5) is a work of comedic genius. In this 4 hour Ted Talk I will…

S P A R K S (@sparksofficial.bsky.social)
Ron Mael & Russell Mael | 💿 MAD! & MADDER! — out now | subjects of #TheSparksBrothers | writers of #Annette | www.allsparks.com ✨

De absurde Grand Old Party (Republikeinen): https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qxudeqrdbv6676vzjssrhllo/post/3mrubufz4ss2g
Immunoloog Fauci zwijgt bij coronaverhoor, beticht senator van 'krankzinnige obses…

Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social)
The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history, but just a reminder that Donald Trump was president during the lockdowns, and he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on COVID. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

When we later asked them about their stances on hybrid and remote work, manager's answers didn't correlate with how much they trusted their employees or how much they loved being around people.
The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism
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blah blah blah knicks blah blah trump blah blah "we should all not go to work and fucking take this country back"
(okay, now you've got my attention.)
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The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
“How do you feel about Trump?” KNICKS FAN: “I f*cking hate him… This shit right here? The revolution starts in NYC. Brunson is the Messiah— if we bring this energy to the pedophiles that run 🌎, we can do anything.” @nyknicks @NY_KnicksPR really going to the White House?😬

My fave reply from that thread
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björk 182 (@readsettle.rs)
once again a man taking credit for a woman's work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion

I've been getting emails like this about once a month with someone wanting me to commit employment fraud with them. Do these actually work & last more than a week? https://thisisnotajoke.com/engineering-collaboration-fraud

"Engineering Collaboration" Fraud
I've been getting emails about once a month with someone wanting me to commit employment fraud with them. Do these actually last more than a week? Hi Kurt Nelson, I came across your GitHub profile (h

US senator Mitch McConnell is still not cleared to return to work, his office confirmed on Monday,
six weeks after he was hospitalized after a fall at his home.
An update released alongside a new photograph of the Republican lawmaker – one of the highest-profile figures in Congress, as a former Senate majority leader – said he was undergoing “intense physical therapy” and is “working hard” to get back to his duties.
In the statement, he said that he wouldn’t be able to make…

Mitch McConnell still not cleared to resume Senate duties, office says
Kentucky senator has been absent and not seen in public since mid-June after he was hospitalized due to a fall

Good advice for any field, IMO
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Alan Baxter (@alanbaxter.bsky.social)
There's an old saying in the arts that if you want to be professionally successful there are three requirements: 1. You have to be good; 2. You have to deliver on time; 3. You have to be nice to work with You can get away with any 2 out of 3, they say. But I always bust my arse to be 3 out of 3.

Nice work Brighton https://bsky.app/profile/ayoub.bsky.social/post/3mo62vweoic26

elia ayoub (@ayoub.bsky.social)
We the anti-fascists outnumber the fascists by a mile. We are surrounding them. Brighton is anti fascist

Reminds me that we have an ai "Town Hall" meeting next week at work. Why do the have to call it that. It is never appropriate to refer to a meeting as a "town hall" except when it's open to the public and it happens at a town hall.
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CrimeDad (@crimedad.work)
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Sports Illustrated deleted the profile and articles of writer Parker Loverich, after Sportico editor Dan Bernstein accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sp…

Sports Illustrated Deletes Entire Author After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
Sports Illustrated deleted an author, and his entire archive of published work, after allegations of AI plagiarism.

This reminds me of the story of Ireland’s first equal pay regulator. Before joining the EEC (the EU, as was) it was national policy to pay women less than men. One of the prices the Europeans demanded of membership was that policy be scrapped and a regulator be installed to enforce equal pay.
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European Commission (@ec.europa.eu)
Equal work deserves equal pay. 3 years ago, the EU agreed that payment of all employees should be clearly indicated, so that men and women receive the same. Now, EU countries are bringing these new rules into national law.

High-motor UDFA looks to parlay time at VT, Oklahoma into Cowboys role https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/13/cowboys-player-profile-for-no-94-dt-kelvin-gilliam/90537076007/

This is a great thread on remote work. The notes about having to be 💯 while on camera made me realize that all my clients are fine if people have their cameras off (mine is almost always off), and how much that really makes doing meetings easier.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:svvjd

Snitty (@clofsnitville.bsky.social)
Matt and @ed3d.net have offered up some interesting thoughts on making remote work more workable with both technology and camera-facing skills, but I'll throw in my two cents about the limits of technology and why some *workers* still prefer to be in-person. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

On Bluesky last night
Catherine Rampell noted that in documents Trump released
there were confirmations of Russia’s work on Trump’s behalf in 2020
and that China “did not intend to “try to affect the election.”
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Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social)
one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)

A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs (Robert P Baird/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.c…

‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
The long read: Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference?

Working on tempolocus, a tool that analyses time-series activity patterns to infer a user’s likely location.
In @…, we work with a large volume of social-network time series. Estimating users’ locations from these patterns is often a manual task.
I prototyped a Python module that combines potential locations with yearly activity …

Sen Patty Murray:
I asked Director Patel to pass on my thanks for FBI's work stopping a crook who scammed Medicare out of $205 million. He obliged.
Only problem? Trump pardoned that scammer.
So which is it? Should the FBI keep uncovering fraud, or should Trump keep pardoning these crooks?
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Senator Patty Murray (@murray.senate.gov)
I asked Director Patel to pass on my thanks for FBI's work stopping a crook who scammed Medicare out of $205 million. He obliged. Only problem? Trump pardoned that scammer. So which is it? Should the FBI keep uncovering fraud, or should Trump keep pardoning these crooks?

When asked by Doocy, Trump answers with candor, admitting that the MOU with Iran is nothing,
that he doesn't want to put his signature on it,
and that all of this is a trumped up attempt to move on from war with Iran . . .
for which he will throw someone else, Vance, under the bus.
(JD, he's not kidding.
Ask Mike Pence.)

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
DOOCY: Why not stick around for the signing ceremony of this Iran peace deal? TRUMP: I might. But this is a memorandum of understanding. It might not be the kind of document I should be signing. If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming JD.

Great thread on cast iron skillets.
And lower down they mention cast iron woks.
I would put my votes in for cast iron griddles and dutch ovens as well.
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Der Fisher (@blackholefun.bsky.social)
Every time I see people posting on the internet about cast iron skillets, I am reminded that people genuinely seem to think they're mystical objects that either must be babied or need incantations to work properly. All of these conversations miss why your grandparents had a badass cast iron skillet.

Deep in the Atlantic, a vast circulation of water carries heat from the tropics towards Greenland.
This is the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or Amoc.
It does this work largely out of sight,
so doesn’t have the public profile of rainforests, polar ice caps or other huge climate-regulating systems.
Recent studies suggest it is weakening.
If it slows further, northern Europe could experience much colder winters even as the world warms,
while t…

One of the world’s most important climate threats has an image problem
A key current in the Atlantic may be slowing down. But changes deep below the waves don’t generate obvious visual narratives.

There’s absolutely no lesson to be learned in that you were unhappy that the AI company you worked with doesn’t have any humans available to help you.
None at all
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Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com)
The CFO of Spindrift is complaining on LinkedIn about Anthropic's customer service. He recommends OpenAI because it allows you to "work with a human sales person." Unfortunately there's simply no broader lesson that a c-suite officer of a successful CPG brand might extrapolate from this preference.

Seriously, this.
So what, you show up the first day and they’re like “welcome to Yale, here’s your AI ‘yAIe’ assistant who will be doing all your work for you” and I go fuck off drinking and perusing sex clubs for 4 years while hoping “yAIe” manages to get me a degree‽
Is College AI…
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jenny tightpants (@jtp.bsky.social)
after reading a bit about the state of college in the era of LLMs my honest reaction is what's even the point of college anymore. this isn't me saying LLMs are epic and replacing the need for college. but it sounds like it's just a place where you go to and play pretend now. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

A High-Order Flux Reconstruction Actuator-Line Framework for Rotating-Blade Aerodynamics on Fixed Cartesian Grids
Abdullah Al Imran, Meilin Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20347 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20347
arXiv:2607.20347v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work couples a high-order flux reconstruction/correction procedure via reconstruction (FR/CPR) solver with a rotating actuator-line model (ALM) to simulate rotating-blade aerodynamics on fixed Cartesian grids. Blade loading is represented by volumetric body force source terms projected through an isotropic Gaussian kernel in a blade-attached frame, eliminating the need to resolve blade geometry. Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) serve as the demonstration configuration, with a modified Boeing-Vertol dynamic stall model incorporated to capture unsteady lift and drag. A mesh-resolution criterion for the Gaussian projection kernel on reasonably coarse meshes is derived. It shows that cost-effective coarse meshes can operate in a mesh-controlled regime with negligible induction feedback, motivating a Double Multiple Streamtube (DMST) correction to recover the physical inflow. Simulations are carried out over a range of tip-speed ratios at a chord-based Reynolds number of Re_c ~ 3.6 x 10^5. The framework is validated against experimental near-wake measurements and previously reported LES-ALM results, and the mean wake profile shows good agreement. The predicted power-coefficient curve matches high-fidelity three-dimensional LES-ALM data to within 6% around the optimal VAWT operation conditions. The framework also captures the regime-dependent influence of dynamic stall, azimuthal blade loading, lift hysteresis, and characteristic wake structures. These results demonstrate that the FR/CPR-ALM framework provides an accurate and computationally efficient geometry-free approach for VAWT analysis, making it well suited for parametric studies and large-scale wind energy applications.
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I know I posted about this a couple months ago, but I never did follow up - By God It Does work!
You have to apply a little force so that the center breaks free, but it works
All these years, and learning new things…😂
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Zim De Mayo 5/5 🥳🌮🥃🤠 (@invadeherzim.blacksky.app)
🤣🤣 necessary keyboard 🎹 moments “ALL MY LIFE I HAD TO KNIFE”

Wow, I’d actually never read up on Magda Goebbels (married to Joseph Goebbels) - she was a real fukkin’ piece (of work and of shit)
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Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration (@mst3k.fan)
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AI apologists: “‘AI’ tools will finally allow us to break past the gatekeepers preventing us from making art!”
James Hampton: “gimme that scrap of aluminum foil”
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JP (@jpbrammer.bsky.social)
Ahead of its 250th birthday, I make the case that the greatest work of American art ever produced is made of garbage and was assembled at the behest of God by a Black man working the night shift as a janitor in DC https://johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/americas-greatest-work-of-art-is