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Lynn Grant

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Security & database software engineer, game developer. Former mainframe guy. Big fan of modern Fortran, XQuery and all things XML, and dogs. (Cats are pretty cool, too.) Also interested in precision time (IRIG, IEEE-1588, White Rabbit) and typography.

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    Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

    I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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    Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social

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    There are hundreds (really) of AI-written stories on YouTube about nondescript civilian woman working as file clerks on military bases who turn out to be fabled snipers, laying low after the failure of some classified mission. They are discovered after they single-handedly save the base from attack.

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    Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social

    My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

    Turns out, mom was right.

    Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime Feb. 4, 1939 February 4, 1939, Page 1 BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany. Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence." As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today. What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…
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    @swop-usa.bsky.social

    We don't say sex work is work because it's a cute slogan.

    We say sex work is work because sex workers are left out of conversations around labor rights.

    Sex workers have the right to safe workplaces and legal protections.

    Sex workers shouldn't fsce discrimination because of archaic morals.

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