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PORTMANTDOME: TWO WORDS ENTER, ONE WORD LEAVES

oh god oh fuck

Motherf-- The new Periphery album is out on YouTube, released on the band's own channel, by the band, and it's blocked in Germany on copyright grounds

Listening to #Empath like

@Gargron Oh, just that it reminds me of the Back to the Future music, not the main theme but the little tinkly bits right afterwards. Has a sort of movie theme feel too.

"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It wins at tic-tac-toe, achieves a perfect hi-score in Missile Command, starts an anti-nuclear protest movement, writes a doctorate in History of Science, creates a new philosophical theory of aesthetics centred mostly around cats, and then begins work on a massive underground installation of CPUs intended to simulate life in an ultra-high resolution version of Neko Atsume"

Hypothesis:

Canadians are so polite because they distill all of their rudeness into their geese.

They killed him, but thirst for revenge brought him back, as a spirit of vengeance. Only, not a very strong one. If he pushed hard, he could make them spill some coffee.
In frustration, he swore vengeance upon everyone.
You're not clumsy, you are just his latest victim. Napkin?
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

I've never seen this elaborate a website for a color scheme before. Also includes delightful animated sea creatures: https://www.nordtheme.com/

pronouncing pineapple like minneapolis

I saw a post once where someone was complaining they needed to charge their book but couldn't because their friend was charging their cigarette and honestly I think about it a lot

"Don't say a word."
*pause*
"Fergulous."
"I said-"
"Oh, two weeks ago in Scrabble it wasn't a word, but now that it's convenient for you..."
#Psych

<< (shout-out to the infosec community, a tiny band of nerds trying to make software culture grok prevention. let us cry into our whiskey together)

This naïveté is already damaging when it's in the software industry, where it has already led to the compromising of democracy worldwide. It will absolutely catastrophic if it manages to fully penetrate agriculture and food. Mark my fucking words.
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Marked, copied, pasted.

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2008/08/25/debunking-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

<< Hardin assumed that human nature is selfish and unchanging, and that society is just an assemblage of self-interested individuals who don’t care about the impact of their actions on the community. The same idea, explicitly or implicitly, is a fundamental component of mainstream (i.e., pro-capitalist) economic theory. >>

#baaddd

This sign is a perfect example of a primary source exercise. What does the source say? But more importantly, why does the source exist in the first place?

The sign doesn’t state what kind of behavior made its existence necessary, but we all know exactly what kind of behavior made its existence necessary