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  at one point i was looking at those concrete entrance statues they have and no one actually makes a lion lioness pair which seems like it's gotta be an underserved market

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  if you search "german sense of personal space" on kagi the sixth result is the wikipedia page for Lebensraum

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  worth flying here.

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  huh seattle 4? https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/global-cities-index/

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  so many strong perfumes. a ton of rose. can't tell if paired with amber or oud. public perfume etiquette being different is really interesting

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  the production of macbeth at the met is wonderful. they do flashbang the dress circle which was an unexpected creative choice but we support bold direction

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  plain seltzer with a dash of black walnut bitters tastes like the classy ghost of cream soda

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  it turns out when you're out and someone is explaining blanchard and the concept of agp at a table near you, you have to hear a LOT of their conversation before you start working yourself back from being ready for a fight

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  if i start typing in "sculpt" to my url bar, i should not get a helpful suggestion for sculptra everything is such a fucking psyop

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  seattle i really need you to absorb that not all shakespeare in the park has to be comedy

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  my life involves a lot of freedom i personally enjoy because i'm not getting socially pressured as a woman to be an unpaid carer and that is the flip side of the decline of the "village"

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  rewatching the decameron. there aren't many things so clearly Full Of My Nonsense that are nevertheless light and entertaining enough that i can recommend them without worrying

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  I am the first employee at $EMPLOYER to write in a ticket (non-locked-down-access, within the lifetime of the last couple ticketing systems) the phrase carthago delenda est I was not bullied enough as a child

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  terence tao on the value of mathematics and how to preserve that as people use AI to do more in math research https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/age-of-ai-icm-2026.pdf and now i'm going to be honest with you: i feel much friendlier toward this man since revisiting the page with the rules of cripple mr onion, the fan-devised eight suit card game from discworld that my family played when i was younger, and discovering his name there https://web.archive.org/web/20081209035939/http://cri...

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  chatgpt image generation is everywhere at the renaissance faire.

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  via @phire@phire.place : this is so good (and no not just because of the one GOTTIM bit you will read near the beginning, rolling your eyes at my whole deal in particular. finish it it's good!!!) https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/the-perpetual-present-tense

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  what do you MEAN apple's calendar cannot import a 6mb ics file with 730 events recurring every two years yes the descriptions contain the complete plays of shakespeare segmented into ~160 line chunks but someone MIGHT have needed that many events and that much text for something NORMAL

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  llms and design

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  i need to figure out what I'm doing with my hair

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  i love humanity and nerds specifically https://psarando.github.io/shire-reckoning/Lunar_Readalong.html

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  reading the lord of the rings since the first time since childhood i think i was so marinated in british authors that as a kid i failed to clock how english this all was

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  I don't want to see a single whimsical restaurant menu ever again in my goddamn life without this font involved https://www.hvdfonts.com/fonts/hvd-bodedo (via @kottke

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  i love this. and also: i want some abuse of it that upsizes and downsizes to create more compelling compositions for arbitrary images (you know, how you want to have areas of high detail and low detail) https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/content-aware-image-resizing-in-javascript/

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  i wonder if you were going to rank entirely shallowly decor, architecture, choir, instruments, floral what parish in seattle (west side only, let’s say) would come out on top

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  if this hadn't used so much LLM in its own composition i feel it has a good unhinged geocities website in it somewhere https://gist.github.com/gnusupport/3eea61c329b26400607e8b4ed6bc2208

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  oh my god we are a THIRD of the country??? https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/american-transportation-revolves-around-cars-many-americans-dont-drive/ (via @aphyr@woof.group)