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@potateros.bsky.social

[er @potateros]

current speed: 12 bad decisions /hr

[justasistertryingtotweet @Igottafigh64510]

I’m howling my ass off💀😂💀😂💀😂💀😂💀😂💀

[Romy @Romy_Holland]

man i think a central part of aging gracefully is to really understand that the young will inherit the earth and at a certain point your task is to allow them to do so.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Sometimes I think about this tweet and how the joke wouldn't hit the same if someone generated the same image using AI, even if the two images were visually indistinguishable. The craft that went into the image matters as much as the image itself.

[Brent Hodgson @BrentHodgson]

If Kobie could read the signs, she'd see:

- A Cantonese butcher
- A Taiwanese restaurant
- A Tianjin restaurant
- A Nepali restaurant (with Nepalese making 15.8% of the suburb's population)
- Dishes from Jiangsu, Teochew and Beijing - three separate cultural/language groups in Mainland China
- A shipping business whose model depends on customers proudly sending Australian-made gifts (of high quality milk formula, Merino bedding, and high-quality vitamins) to loved ones across Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the US
- A yoga studio run by a trilingual Hong Konger, with trainers from Beijing, New Zealand, Sydney
- A supermarket with traditional characters on one side (海龍) and simplified on the other (海龙) showing the Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong migration wave being replaced by a Mainland Chinese wave

And if she panned her camera over the road, we'd be seeing Singaporean, Malaysian and Vietnamese restaurants too.

To be describing this as a "monoculture" is a thinly veiled dog-whistle to: "all Asians are the same".

If Kobie cared to look, she'd be describing this as a melting pot - diversity in practice, coming together as a shared community - not a monoculture.

Anyone with an atlas or a recipe book could tell you that's not a monoculture.

It's Dal Bhat Tarkari next door to Pho, next door to Boba, next door to Nasi Lemak, opposite Nanjing Duck, next door to Yum Cha.

If Kobie cared to look, she also wouldn't be using this video to try to tell a story of "suburbs full of people who have refused to assimilate for decades".

The changing signs (already visible in the video) show it's just the latest chapter in an ever-changing story of a suburb where SEVERAL generations of new Australians - from MANY different cultures - have got a start: first Italian and Greek Australians, then Hong Kong born Australians, then Mainland Chinese Australians, and now increasingly Nepalese Australians.

To those who don't see it yet, ask:
- Where did the Greeks, Italians, and Cantonese Hong Kong shop owners who used to be there go?
- Where did their families go?
- What happens to the people behind the windows when the shop signs fade and change?

Those Australians deserve better than dog-whistling and divisiveness.

[짤주워오는계정 @WkfxjfrP]

30대가 커피를 끊으면 생기는 몸의 변화

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[enki @Enkiwii]

mon corps est une machine qui transforme les liens hypertextes wikipedia bleus en liens hypertextes wikipedia violacés

[⋆*ken⋆ฺ｡* @glumiken]

pls look at this wooper print i got at the street fair :’) art by geeky.stop on insta!

[Meredith Gay 🛋️✨ @MerGarza]

Miffy 💙

[Dutch ambassador to Japan @GillesBP]

The ‘girl with the pearl earring’ by #Vermeer will come to #Osaka in August during the renovation of the #Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. Judging from the press-conference, she is very popular in #Japan. Maybe this is her last tour, since she is ‘advancing in age’ like all of us

[Klaas @forgebitz]

you can always spot vibe coders because they dont know how computers work

[kepano @kepano]

token merchant suggests using more tokens

[er @potateros]

so youre telling me

delulu IS the solulu

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

you need to be delusionally optimistic

negative thinking poisons your brain and leads to congitive decline

whereas positive thinking, and gaslighting yourself into thinking everything is amazing, ACTUALLY makes your life amazing too.

you must be a silly goose

[gaut @0xgaut]

3 espressos on an empty stomach counts as zone 2 training btw

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not.

Tough one.

Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[ɴ.🫧 @luvblessingz]

i think the generation who had picnics while they lynched people were worse than the midly cringy teenagers

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

The Strokes' Coachella video montage displayed images of leaders purportedly targeted by the CIA, including Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, Bolivian President Juan José Torres, Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos, Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz, Chilean President Salvador Allende, and Ecuadorian President Jaime Roldós.

The video also stated the US government was "found guilty" of Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder in a civil trial, a reference to 1999's King family v. Loyd Jowers in which a jury found restaurant owner Loyd Jowers and "others, including government agencies," liable for King's assassination.

The montage ended with a message claiming that more than 30 universities in Iran have been destroyed during America's war with Iran, followed by a final image of "the last university standing in Gaza" being blown up in a military strike.

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

Just found out about recency bias, it's gotta be the best and most interesting kind of bias

[Tyler @rezoundous]

Opus 4.7 is insane guys. It one shotted my session usage limit.