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TeflonTrout

@TeflonTrout@mastodon.social

Natural-born softie who has had his fill of shit.

Standing offer to anyone who hates confrontation- If you're being berated or bothered and want some backup, tag me in.

I shouted, directed, ordered, and cajoled professionally at work for a decade and a half. Phone call, toot, email-IDGAF. I've got your back, all I want in return is for you to feel safe and have fun here.

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futurebird , to random
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In the Algebraicist by Ian M. Banks some aliens come to earth in early human history and take a bunch of humans and human DNA and set them up all over the galaxy— get them up to speed on tech and those humans and the aliens just leave Earth alone to develop “naturally” — so when humans on earth eventually explore the galaxy some of the aliens they meet are just other humans. (this is just a minor plot point if you can imagine)

So if this happened are you mad? Or no?

TeflonTrout ,
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@futurebird Hm... I find I'm more mystified and excited than anything. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun learning about all the cool stuff they know how to do.

wdlindsy , to random
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"The problem that the press needs to explain in those articles is this: why do most voters wrongly believe that the economy is terrible even if their lived experience of it is generally positive? Rarely do these chin-scratching articles ever figure out the most obvious answer: that the press is partly to blame—and that America’s information pipelines are broken, giving millions of voters a dangerously inverted sense of reality."

~ Brian Klaas

#economy #media

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/joe-biden-and-the-inversion-of-reality

TeflonTrout ,
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@wdlindsy The economy = rich people's stocks. That has no benefit to those of us who work for a living. Inflation adjusted Pay has catered while the cost of living is boosted by the same rich people.

The economy is NOT doing well because the entire thing is dangerously top heavy.

Remember how...well damn, every major civilization I can remember...had massive wealth inequality at it's end?

TeflonTrout ,
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@wdlindsy who said anything about blaming Biden exclusively? Majority of blame is on red.

However, I object to the economy being held up as a measure of how great the US is doing. You mentioned the very low employment- now THAT is something for Biden to be happy with, and while it is a part of the economy, its just a part. Alongside school debt forgiveness, green measures, etc.

However, I stand by the issue of real wages being terrible meaning the economy in general isn't healthy to start.

oatmeal , to israel group
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#Israel / Smotrich: If Hezbollah Does Not Comply with the Ultimatum We Set, the IDF Must Take Control of Southern Lebanon

During a visit to the North, Smotrich said that Israel should notify #Hezbollah that if it does not completely stop firing into its territory and does not withdraw beyond the Litani River - it must launch an offensive in Lebanon that will include a ground incursion, to take over the south of #Lebanon.

[Hebrew] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-05-19/ty-article/.premium/0000018f-9050-d17a-a9df-91511d3e0000

@israel
@palestine

TeflonTrout ,
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@oatmeal @israel @palestine We should really be delivering our US made arms to the Israeli government in the methods they were designed for

futurebird , to random
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From: https://www.instagram.com/matrondesign/?hl=en

Thing is, centipedes are famously fastidious. They wash every single leg multiple times a day and seem rather like a very leggy cat while doing it.

Perhaps it's because they are predators. Predators seem to tend to be into washing up more.

(I know it's a millipede in the cartoon, but that just makes it funnier since the centipede would roll their eyes at the complaining. )

TeflonTrout ,
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@futurebird not a lot gets to me, but I once woke up with a centipede inside my sleeping bag, under my shirt, biting me.

I woke up with the worst feeling of dread I've ever had, including a rocket hitting within a few hundred feet of my CHU.

THEN I FEEL PINCHES, AND THEY BURN

I jumped up, shimmied out of my bag, danced out into the moonlight, too horrified to make a sound. I shook the bag out and the little bastard scuttled away into a bush.

Bellingcat , to random
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We've seen an uptake in accounts using the term OSINT, in some cases to boost poor analysis. This can be confusing for those looking for considered and objective research in their feed. So we wrote a guide on the warning signs of bad open source research https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/04/25/oshit-seven-deadly-sins-of-bad-open-source-research/?utm_source=mastodon

TeflonTrout ,
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@Bellingcat EXCELLENT

For good examples of these, watch Perun, Patron Saint of PowerPoint Presentations

GottaLaff , to random
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Justice Merchan called #Trump’s lawyer to a sidebar to say Trump was “cursing audibly” & possibly intimidating Daniels... “I understand your client is upset at this pt, but he is cursing audibly & shaking his head visually & that’s contemptuous. It has the potential to intimidate the witness & the jury can see that...I am speaking to you here at the bench because I don’t want to embarrass him. You need to speak to him. I won’t tolerate that.” #TrumpTrial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/07/stormy-daniels-testimony-trump-hush-money-trial/

TeflonTrout ,
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@GottaLaff side note, gee, I wonder whose side the writer is on

appassionato , to palestine group
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A man in Rafah has described the night of heavy Israeli attacks. Here’s his account:

“Intense bombardment, very very intense bombardment.

“Air strikes, rockets, artillery shelling, tank shelling, drones – all firing at us!

“Never in my life – I am 69-years-old – have I ever seen bombardment like this, and I have witnessed several wars. I have never seen a war like this one."

@palestine

TeflonTrout ,
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@appassionato @palestine yeh, agreed. I've been to "war" (ish) three times, this isn't one. It's wholesale murder.

ElleGray , to random
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don't get me wrong, the rap battle is fun, but a fight between men named Kendrick Lamar Duckworth and Aubrey Drake Graham should really involve dueling with swords at dawn

TeflonTrout ,
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@ElleGray and they should be wearing bird costumes

jeffgreene , to psychology group
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What is a Master’s in Applied Educational Psychology and what can it do for you? Find out in this latest episode of the Emerging Research in Educational Psychology podcast, with David Timony and Jeanette King: https://soundcloud.com/user-883650452/david-d-timony-jeanette-king


@edutooters @psychology @academicchatter

TeflonTrout ,
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@jeffgreene @edutooters @psychology @academicchatter

Put me in debt for the rest of my life is what

futurebird , to random
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This morning the South Bronx smells like summer. There is a perfume in the air— a sigh of the earth, the smell of mosses life. Birds are making a huge racket— blossoms dance their way down from the trees. I didn’t need a coat today! Today is a great day to find a queen ant!

It’s incredible to me that there is no way as of yet to scan the air and identify smells. I wish I could pinpoint, name the elements of this smell of summer— all I want is a universal identifier for millions of chemicals!

TeflonTrout ,
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@futurebird what? It's in the repo, open your body's command line and run "sudo apt-get bloodhound"

futurebird , to random
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OK Maybe I just don't see ads often because I have them blocked so hard but the little box that shows ads in the CurseForge start up screen on Minecraft caught my eye. It's google adsense. I saw:

  • Ad from local college they want people to apply to teach STEM
  • Thriftbooks
  • Discount on makeup and brown foundation

I was disappointed there were no ads for antkeeping products. But this is CREEPY. Is this the current typical state of ads?

This is in ... a minecraft modpack login screen.

TeflonTrout ,
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@futurebird YUP, the Trouts use Curseforge too. My ads are random af though, as I have personalized ads turned off. I haven't de-googled yet, so I figured I'd at least do the bare minimum.

We played RLCraft into the dirt. Youngest fry likes skyblock and compactClaustrophobia, old one likes BedWars. Can't say I'm a big fan of any of those, but I try. What're you folks playing, I'm searching for a new pack, and I trust your taste!

jerry , to random
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I had a few minutes to get the camera out and take a few random shots. I really like this lens.

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TeflonTrout ,
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@jerry @futurebird

jeffowski , to random
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My friend died a few years ago. I got a surprise call from his number today. It turned out to be his little son. He asks me for a bike. I asked him if he knew me. He replied, "no", but I found a photo of my father with some man and on the back of the photo I saw this number and the text: "If you need anything and I won't be around, ask him, he's me, just in another place”
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    • TeflonTrout ,
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    @jeffowski Bro what the fuck

    Goddammit

    That's good shit, got you kiddo

    marcelias , to random
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    NEW PODCAST: I'm honored to have my hero, Secretary Hillary Clinton, on Defending Democracy this week! We discuss threats to our elections, the Supreme Court, and the harm Trump has caused.

    Watch the full episode on YouTube now: https://youtu.be/9UpNrRNL8Gw

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @marcelias Bernie probably would have won, but NOOOOO

    randahl , to random
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    1. The US denies Ukraine the use of US weapons against military targets inside Russia.

    2. For six months US has held back the Ukraine military aid.

    3. Now the US wants to deny Ukraine the right to attack Russia with Ukraine's own weapons as well.

    Would the US call these positions reasonable, if it were US soldiers being killed on the battlefield?

    Obviously not!

    Lloyd Austin reveals, Ukrainian lives do not matter to him as much as American lives.

    This is shameful.

    https://kyivindependent.com/us-defense-secretary-austin-ukraines-attacks-on-russian-oil-refineries-could-impact-global-energy-situation/

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @randahl nah. Two words: "oil," "market." This dude and the pieces of runny shit who tell him what to do dgaf about anything but money and power, he just likes to pretend that isn't true to make himself feel better.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/jx21z9/elite_panic_why_the_rich_and_powerful_cant_be/

    pluralistic , to random
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    Your periodic reminder that if you:

    a) Dislike long threads and;

    b) Follow someone who routinely posts long threads;

    that is a YOU problem, which you can solve by unfollowing, and, if need be, blocking that user so they don't show up in your federated timeline.

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @pluralistic right? To misquote XKCD about people saying they love science, "You don't really love infosec, you just like to check out it's ass as it walks by"

    futurebird , to random
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    I just read a review of a children's book written in 1911 (the review is from 1913) and the person reviewing the book totally missed the point of the story. The whole thing went right over the reviewer's head.

    Tempted to write the latest, least expected bad book review clap-back in the history of humankind.

    1/

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @futurebird The same phenomenon exists in music- hell, I've posted to some music hashtags here songs that fit the times amazingly but seem to have been forgotten.

    The Bangles are now just "the Walk Like an Egyptian" band and not the ones who demonstrated how "A Hazy Shade of Winter" was meant to be played.

    Santigold's "I'm a Lady" also comes to mind. Theres so much cool shit that's been forgotten, thanks for sharing your rediscovery!

    Ailantd , (edited ) to random
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    Undefined deep space object.

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @Ailantd I am 100% putting some of your work on a mug to go with my CERN bubble chamber one. I love your work.

    BeAware , to random
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    I have so many follow relationships with so many talented people here!

    It's so great to see all of you and your interesting projects and creations across such a variety of hobbies and professions.

    It's only going to get better with Threads federation under way! Future of Fedi will sure be interesting and I'm glad to be a part of something that could fundamentally change the way "Internet" is done as a whole.

    The future awaits. After years of gaining steam, Fedi has arrived.

    #Fediverse #Threads #Mastodon #Meta #ActivityPub #Fedi #Akkoma #Pleroma #Sharkey #Misskey #Pixelfed #SocialMedia #FireFish #IceShrimp #NodeBB #SocialWeb

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @BeAware

    Best case scenario? It flops and goes nowhere. I came here to not support Facebook or Twitter in any way, because they are accelerating the spread of ideological cancer across the world at a horrific rate. I just can't understand how anybody could be excited to support that.

    loren , to random
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    the true punishment for making a bad joke on here is being forced to see it again when someone likes it

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @loren Why do you think I choose jokes that you inflict, rather than tell? Sure, fire that fucker off at someone else, let's get some collateral damage

    rms , to random
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    https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/the-man-who-married-a-hologram-in-japan-can-no-longer/426715

    The man who married a hologram in Japan can no longer communicate with his virtual wife. The software that allowed the interaction is no longer supported… If a computational activity is truly important to you, never depend on being able to continue it by means of nonfree software controlled by someone else! That is asking to lose.

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @rms Krieger, nooo

    TheConversationUS , to bookstodon group
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    To create ‘Dune’, Frank Herbert found inspiration in unlikely places.
    Conservation practices of the Indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest taught him about ecology, and helped inspire the planet Arrakis. Thanks to Leslie Reid’s pioneering ecological study “The Sociology of Nature” he found a model for the ecosystem of Arrakis in the Guano islands of Peru.
    The ecological movement fully embraced 'Dune' after its publication in 1965.
    https://theconversation.com/how-dune-became-a-beacon-for-the-fledgling-environmental-movement-and-a-rallying-cry-for-the-new-science-of-ecology-225156
    @bookstodon

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @TheConversationUS @bookstodon

    And his son found his inspiration in porn

    Natasha_Jay , to random
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    National Portrait and Landscape Galleries

    (credit: Richard Graham Jolley)

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @Natasha_Jay orsonwellesclap.gif

    vampiress , to random
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    TeflonTrout ,
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    @vampiress easy there SHODAN

    wdlindsy , to random
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    "The future of proselytizing—and surveillance—has arrived. An app called Bless Every Home, which has been backed by some of the biggest names in evangelical circles, is mapping the personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and 'prayerwalking' rituals through their neighborhoods."

    ~ Elle Hardy

    #evangelicals #surveillance #privacy
    /1

    https://newrepublic.com/article/179397/evangelical-app-targeting-immigrants-surveillance

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @wdlindsy "Welcome to our home! The only we need is this here machete that sits next to the door"

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @wdlindsy I'm in this life to have fun. People who show up on my doorstep uninvited with things I don't like have put themselves there for my amusement.

    It's a lot less scary than signs with guns and attack dogs on em. Hell, in 'Merica, a machete is downright whimsical

    Ailantd , to random
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    The Metalongevitus train is still searching for its next station, even a thousand years after the last one turned to dust.
    These machines were built to last forever.

    #scifi #scifiart #train

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @Ailantd Nah, too late. Phone handset virus got them, too

    futurebird , to random
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    The cab ride with ants went OK we made it to school in one piece- the girls found the bumpy ride scary and hid in their sugar freight car.

    I had to leave half the colony at home. This colony is massive. If I inspire some kid to want ants their parents will hate me OMG

    Large black carpenter ants peer nervously out of a miniature “domino sugar” freight car

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @futurebird Oooooh, those ones are really pretty.

    They remind me of the big gentle ants we had in the Cascades back home. They are huge, but it was no big deal to let them walk on your hands

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    Have you ever had an uncanny or possibly paranormal experience?

    I have.

    It happened when I was in undergrad, I had a work-study in the Archivists Office in the rare books section of the library. The library is a classic modern building from the 50s, once ahead of its time, now well behind. The computer system was similar, my college being one of the first to adopt a digital library catalog in the late 60s

    So, as you can see, this is, in part, a story of a haunted computer terminal. 1/

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @futurebird Way, WAY cooler than my own experience.

    I was preserving stewed tomatoes for their future lives as spaghetti sauce, chili, and lasagna.

    Halfway through boiling, for NO APPARENT REASON, all 6 jar lids failed at almost the exact same moment.

    It was uncanny. <ducks>

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @futurebird For what I have wrought here this day I make no apology, as no apology could be sufficient.

    ...kinda

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Via nycsouthpaw:

    NYT wrote a piece with “five things to know” about Mark Robinson, the NC GOP nominee for Gov, including his support online and his upbringing. https://nytimes.com/2024/03/06/us/politics/north-carolina-governor-mark-robinson.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

    It doesn’t include, however, that Robinson is a Holocaust denier, so that’s no. 6

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @GottaLaff https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Ruckus

    hrefna , to random
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    No, googlers in general are not "worried that [we] are slowly being replaced by AI."

    I haven't done a formal poll, but it would shock me if the number turned out to be significant.

    That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works. What kind of clickbait nonsense is this.

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @hrefna You ever heard of the term "fractal wrongness"?

    It's when your basic assumptions are flawed, which causes an exponential increase in the flaws of everything that comes from that base assumption

    futurebird , to random
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    They are coming for IVF too. Always were.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/20/alabama-supreme-court-frozen-embryos-ruling-ivf/72662533007/

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @futurebird said it before, will say again:

    Imagine you are in a clinic that's on fire in a room with a canister of 400 frozen embryos and 4 year old kid with a broken leg. You are physically able to save one before the roof collapses, killing you.

    Bet I know which fucking choice you make

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @futurebird Nope, that's why I love that quote so much. They're taking the actual kid and they know it

    MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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    TeflonTrout ,
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    @MikeDunnAuthor Damn, I'm a cis man and that made me wet

    Likewise , to bookstodon group
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    Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @Likewise @bookstodon Wrong https://byjus.com/question-answer/what-is-the-approximate-amount-of-blood-pumped-by-each-ventricle-of-the-heart-during/

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    Which of the following are bugs?

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @futurebird @dhobern Wow. That sentence goes into the "oddly menacing" folder

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    That's so interesting.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @lowqualityfacts All while being "drunker than you have ever been," as Robert Evans put it

    TheConversationUS , to bookstodon group
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    Gen Z and millennials are visiting libraries at a healthy clip, with 54% of them trekking to their local library in 2022 (more than boomers or Gen X)
    https://theconversation.com/gen-z-and-millennials-have-an-unlikely-love-affair-with-their-local-libraries-220632
    @bookstodon

    TeflonTrout ,
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    @TheConversationUS @bookstodon Said it before, will say it again : "The kids are alright"

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