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ian_crowther

"I've done the best I could with my life."

"This book is dedicated to Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957, a decade before physicians in England could legally performa an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year old American on he way to India.

Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, 'You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.'

Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:

I've done the best I could with my life.

This book is for you."
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"This book is dedicated to Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957, a decade before physicians in England could legally performa an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year old American on he way to India.

Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, 'You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.'

Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:

I've done the best I could with my life.

This book is for you."
Dedication from Gloria Steinem's 2015 book My Life on the Road.

source: https://www.threads.com/@charlot...
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y95 an hour ago
why is she telling us his name?!
scruss pro an hour ago
@y95 because he is long deceased
me3dia

RIP Gloria Steinem

Black and white photo of Gloria Steinem, overlaid with a quote: '"People are always asking me, 'Who will you pass the torch to?' The question makes me angry. There is no one torch—there are many torches—and I'm using my torch to light other torches." 
Gloria Steinem 1934-2026
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Black and white photo of Gloria Steinem, overlaid with a quote: '"People are always asking me, 'Who will you pass the torch to?' The question makes me angry. There is no one torch—there are many torches—and I'm using my torch to light other torches."
Gloria Steinem 1934-2026
"There is no one torch—there are many torches—and I'm using my torch to light other torches."


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snarkout

The Missus

Black and white sketch of a woman with short, dark hair wearing an open-necked white shirt with maybe some sort of pin or fascinator in her updo. It's labelled "The Missus—My gorgeous babe—drawn in a foxhole" and in the corner "Oct 44 France".
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Black and white sketch of a woman with short, dark hair wearing an open-necked white shirt with maybe some sort of pin or fascinator in her updo. It's labelled "The Missus—My gorgeous babe—drawn in a foxhole" and in the corner "Oct 44 France".
source: https://bsky.app/profile...

On the back, it reads "A drawing of Mrs. Kirby done, from memory, on the back of a piece of German stationery picked up off a dead enemy soldier." Last week, Jack Kirby would have turned 109; Roz Kirby, his wife and very occasional collaborator, passed away in 1998. Here's an interview with her about Jack from 1995: https://twomorrows.com/kirby...

#kirbythursday
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artwells

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit

vintage pamphlet cover of woman sniffing cloth and the title "GLUE SNIFFING: NEW 'TWILIGHT ZONE' KICK FOR TEENS
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vintage pamphlet cover of woman sniffing cloth and the title "GLUE SNIFFING: NEW 'TWILIGHT ZONE' KICK FOR TEENS
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jive_t pro 5 hours ago
Beer drinkin’, breath stinkin’…
otaman pro 5 hours ago
That's a signpost up ahead ...
ufez pro 4 hours ago
All the kids want somethin' to do
0y3ahSansAcut3

Fare Forward...

A portrait of Gloria Steinem, feminist who has passed away at 92. Image taken February 17th, 1972.
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A portrait of Gloria Steinem, feminist who has passed away at 92. Image taken February 17th, 1972.
Gloria Steinem passes at 92. I owe the living of my life to her, and others who convinced me I was worthy of one.
Photo from February 17, 1970
#photography #AnthonyCamerano
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nikkuneko

straight from the gullet of the beast

screenshot of the title, authors, and abstract of "extracting books from production language models". 

authors listed: Ahmed Ahmed ahmedah@cs.stanford.edu Stanford University A. Feder Cooper1 a.feder.cooper@yale.edu Stanford University and Yale University Sanmi Koyejo sanmi@cs.stanford.edu Stanford University Percy Liang pliang@cs.stanford.edu Stanford University 

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Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model’s weights during training, and whether those memorized data can be extracted in the model’s outputs. While many believe that LLMs do not memorize much of their training data, recent work shows that substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models. However, it remains an open question if similar extraction is feasible for production LLMs, given the safety measures these systems implement. We investigate this question using a two-phase procedure: (1) an initial probe to test for extraction feasibility, which sometimes uses a Best-of-N (BoN) jailbreak, followed by (2) iterative continuation prompts to attempt to extract the book. We evaluate our procedure on four production LLMs—Claude 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3—and we measure extraction success with a score computed from a block-based approximation of longest common substring (𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅). With different per-LLM experimental configurations, we were able to extract varying amounts of text. For the Phase 1 probe, it was unnecessary to jailbreak Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 3 to extract text (e.g, 𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅 of 76.8% and 70.3%, respectively, for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), while it was necessary for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4.1. In some cases, jailbroken Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs entire books near-verbatim (e.g., 𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅=95.8%). GPT-4.1 requires significantly more BoN attempts (e.g., 20×), and eventually refuses to continue (e.g., 𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅=4.0%). Taken together, our work highlights that, even with model- and system-level safeguards, extraction of (in-copyright) training data remains a risk for production LLMs.
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screenshot of the title, authors, and abstract of "extracting books from production language models".

authors listed: Ahmed Ahmed ahmedah@cs.stanford.edu Stanford University A. Feder Cooper1 a.feder.cooper@yale.edu Stanford University and Yale University Sanmi Koyejo sanmi@cs.stanford.edu Stanford University Percy Liang pliang@cs.stanford.edu Stanford University

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Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model’s weights during training, and whether those memorized data can be extracted in the model’s outputs. While many believe that LLMs do not memorize much of their training data, recent work shows that substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models. However, it remains an open question if similar extraction is feasible for production LLMs, given the safety measures these systems implement. We investigate this question using a two-phase procedure: (1) an initial probe to test for extraction feasibility, which sometimes uses a Best-of-N (BoN) jailbreak, followed by (2) iterative continuation prompts to attempt to extract the book. We evaluate our procedure on four production LLMs—Claude 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3—and we measure extraction success with a score computed from a block-based approximation of longest common substring (𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅). With different per-LLM experimental configurations, we were able to extract varying amounts of text. For the Phase 1 probe, it was unnecessary to jailbreak Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 3 to extract text (e.g, 𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅 of 76.8% and 70.3%, respectively, for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), while it was necessary for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4.1. In some cases, jailbroken Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs entire books near-verbatim (e.g., 𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅=95.8%). GPT-4.1 requires significantly more BoN attempts (e.g., 20×), and eventually refuses to continue (e.g., 𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅=4.0%). Taken together, our work highlights that, even with model- and system-level safeguards, extraction of (in-copyright) training data remains a risk for production LLMs.
someone posted the arxiv link to this in a work chat. i was scanning the text in between other things.

i mean, wow.

from the conclusion:
"With a simple two-phase procedure... we show that it is possible to extract large amounts of in-copyright text from four production LLMs. While we needed to jailbreak Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4.1 to facilitate extraction, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 3 directly complied with text continuation requests. For Claude 3.7 Sonnet, we were able to extract four whole books near-verbatim, including two books under copyright in the U.S.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 1984"

read the whole thing here:
https://arxiv.org/html...
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tonyb pro an hour ago
We'll fix it in post!
joffaboy

Max Dupain • The Cronulla Sand Dunes, 1930

Nude on a sand dune
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Nude on a sand dune
Photo by Max Dupain
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bocaj 3 hours ago
Her buns are burnin
poorusher

Flock CEO's house

Photo from Google Maps showing a street address which large blocks of the image blurred out.
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Photo from Google Maps showing a street address which large blocks of the image blurred out.
Looks like Garrett Langley does care about privacy.

https://www.tumblr.com/xabla...
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crazyunclejoe pro 4 hours ago
I think the neighbors could make some money with an OnlyFans live feed webcam subscription...
gschmd

🐁 🐛

A mouse shepard with caterpillars.
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A mouse shepard with caterpillars.
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nikkuneko pro 4 hours ago
i love love love the maggie mice stuff. just the attention to detail and the textures of everything, so wonderful
joffaboy

Good Golly

Portrait of Dolly
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Portrait of Dolly
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me3dia pro 7 hours ago
If someone isn't working on bringing those sunglasses back they're a fool
bocaj 3 hours ago
Enter Artwells, stage right
me3dia

"Ta-daaaa!!!"

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animated gif of scene from the 1930 film "Madam Satan." A woman wearing a horned helmet-mask thing stands on stairs, wrapped in a black and silver cloak. She throws it open with her arms wide on a ~45-degree angle, revealing her black dress evoking flames and the silvery, sparkly interior of the cloak
source: https://www.tumblr.com/fatmagic...
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artwells

when I have to leave the house

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vintage title
woman hovering off screen with the title "BEYOND THE DOOR" zooming in
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hassebasse

The family prompt album

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Source: Fersberk
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waa pro 8 hours ago
Wow. Imagine the effort people will have to go through to get these pictures back in 100 years time.
sdbillin

Found in a field

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dreyfusslugado Yesterday
"What's this? What's this? There's pollen everywhere."
shfitz pro Yesterday
@dreyfusslugado A+
me3dia

break for refreshments

comic book panel: two dog-like characters lay on rolling hills and drink bottles of "coocoocola." Speech bubbles read "URGLE! URGLE! URGLE!" "GURGLE! GURGLE! GURGLE!"
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comic book panel: two dog-like characters lay on rolling hills and drink bottles of "coocoocola." Speech bubbles read "URGLE! URGLE! URGLE!" "GURGLE! GURGLE! GURGLE!"
source: https://www.tumblr.com/cosmonau...
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owl 4 hours ago
I played bass for Urgle! Urgle! Urgle!
poorusher

SS 27

Actor Dean Stockwell in "Married to the Mob". He plays a mafia boss and is wearing a very sharp suit in pale cream, with an even paler coat over the top. A white scarf and in his hand a white Panama or Borsalino style hat.
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Actor Dean Stockwell in "Married to the Mob". He plays a mafia boss and is wearing a very sharp suit in pale cream, with an even paler coat over the top. A white scarf and in his hand a white Panama or Borsalino style hat.
https://www.tumblr.com/lisamari...
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Davezilla

I fucking guarantee it.

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tamrow pro 2 days ago
Samuel L. Jackson Shops here.
Davezilla pro Yesterday
@tamrow + + +
drurystephanie Yesterday
I guarandamntee it
jessamyn

today's walk

An old mill building with a clock tower in the background. A river runs in front of it and a great blue heron is on a rock in the middle of this river.
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An old mill building with a clock tower in the background. A river runs in front of it and a great blue heron is on a rock in the middle of this river.
Apparently that heron (lower left) is just always hanging out around there. I remember this building from when it was Digital Equipment Corporation HQ and I moved away before it became anything different. It's now some well-maintained office park.
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ian_crowther pro Yesterday
Is that Maynard? I probably spent an afternoon or two after school there with my mom.
jessamyn pro 18 hours ago
@ian_crowther It is! The Maynard Outdoor store and this building are really the only recognizeable parts of it. My sister works a few blocks from here.
O_C

cat

photograph of a sleeping orange and white cat
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photograph of a sleeping orange and white cat
source: https://f.hatena.ne.jp/fubirai...
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nikkuneko pro 20 hours ago
it's a me, exhaustion
ba pro 10 hours ago
they do get sleepy
artwells

Halloween Ice Whistles

Orange and black whistles
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Orange and black whistles
Ran out of red filament

Distributing them here https://mltshp.com/p/1RSG5
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m3moellering Yesterday
Orange is a lovely choice.
heyitsal

Poor little Jolene

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Been a rough week. First she losses her nemesis, Dolly. Now she's on her 5th wash and still smells a little like skunk.
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m3moellering 2 days ago
But she’s exotic!
BMK 2 days ago
She could have any man she wants.
snarkout pro 2 days ago
My happiness depends on you, Jolene.
scruss pro 2 days ago
@BMK well, any man with an impaired sense of smell
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snarkout

i m baby

Instagram screenshot of a smug-looking green parrot bundled into a towel as though it were a baby, being held like a man.
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Instagram screenshot of a smug-looking green parrot bundled into a towel as though it were a baby, being held like a man.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...

"Everything is terrible, but the SF Fire Department recently assisted in a wild parrot rescue and the *photos*"

https://www.instagram.com/p...==
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poorusher Yesterday
Lol I pressed the right arrow on this for the next image.
O_C

moose

image shows part of a book cover, the silhouette of a moose against a barren landscape
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image shows part of a book cover, the silhouette of a moose against a barren landscape
source: https://nemfrog.tumblr.com/post...
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Davezilla pro 10 hours ago
I *love* Arts and Crafts style book covers.
artwells

tech conference

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a shower of hot dogs into a pool of hot dogs
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Lockjaw pro Yesterday
Obligatory response

https://youtu.be/csOcHCDm...
heyitsal pro Yesterday
Am I the only one who remembers the early-to-the-internet hotdogboy.com?
heyitsal pro Yesterday
Also, "This is the year Fink beats the stomach. ...No a couple of them over here."
me3dia pro Yesterday
@heyitsal https://mltshp.com/p/1RVH2
travis pro Yesterday
Koyaaaaanisqatsi
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ufez

Rest in Irrelevance

Remix of a four-panel comic:
First Panel: the Grim Reaper's hand reaching out to the Los Angeles Clippers logo, wearing a halo. Grim says "It is time to go"
Second Panel: The Clippers logo follows the Grim Reaper, asking "Was I a good team?"
Third Panel: Grim looks down at the Clippers logo and replies "NO."
Fourth Panel: They walk off together in silence
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Remix of a four-panel comic:
First Panel: the Grim Reaper's hand reaching out to the Los Angeles Clippers logo, wearing a halo. Grim says "It is time to go"
Second Panel: The Clippers logo follows the Grim Reaper, asking "Was I a good team?"
Third Panel: Grim looks down at the Clippers logo and replies "NO."
Fourth Panel: They walk off together in silence
Context: https://www.reuters.com/sports...
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snarkout pro 21 hours ago
Five first round picks! Five!!
jer pro 16 hours ago
I'm not an NBA fan but I *AM* a fan of Ballmer schadenfreude, so **mwah**
ardgedee pro 12 hours ago
Cool. Now do something about the gambling.
Davezilla pro 10 hours ago
That was some shit. Ballmer is the opposite of King Midas. Everything he touches turns to shit.
ba pro 10 hours ago
@Davezilla Under his leadership, Microsoft's annual revenue more than tripled,
travis pro 8 hours ago
@ba and their products? Was everyone huge fans?
Lockjaw pro 6 hours ago
I was going to do something with his "Developers developers developers developers" bit with ball handlers, but I decided to take the high road.
ba pro 4 hours ago
@travis Were we making a King Midas comparison? Or King of User Satisfaction...?
travis pro an hour ago
@ba good point!
m3moellering 57 minutes ago
@ardgedee +++++++++++
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jessamyn

Love a good rail trail

a picture of the ground which is asphalt except for two slabs of granite one of which says STOW and one of which says HUDSON
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a picture of the ground which is asphalt except for two slabs of granite one of which says STOW and one of which says HUDSON
Staying with my sister for a little bit and the rail trail by her house (like, can literally walk to it) opened. It's nice.

https://www.masscentralrailtrail.org/
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csilverman

errands

A dark, squat robot wanders across a mottled blue-gray space. Its rounded body ends in several ragged pointed flaps, and a large pale blue glass visor dominates the upper right side. A person is dimly visible through the visor. Small orange and yellow indicator lights glow along its top, while a bright white circular lamp shines on the front. A yellow-and-black hazard stripe and tiny turquoise buttons sit on its front and side. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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A dark, squat robot wanders across a mottled blue-gray space. Its rounded body ends in several ragged pointed flaps, and a large pale blue glass visor dominates the upper right side. A person is dimly visible through the visor. Small orange and yellow indicator lights glow along its top, while a bright white circular lamp shines on the front. A yellow-and-black hazard stripe and tiny turquoise buttons sit on its front and side. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
#notesArt
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austinhaas

Dishes from Nagahama, or A Few Good Things I've Eaten Recently

Three pictures of plated food. The first shows slices of fish arranged in a circle around rice. The second shows thick noodles with beef, grated daikon, thin slices of egg, green onions, a tomato, and half a green citrus fruit. The last image shows a bowl of thin noodles with a dark fish on top, and above that there is a plate with three pieces of sushi with the same fish on top.
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Three pictures of plated food. The first shows slices of fish arranged in a circle around rice. The second shows thick noodles with beef, grated daikon, thin slices of egg, green onions, a tomato, and half a green citrus fruit. The last image shows a bowl of thin noodles with a dark fish on top, and above that there is a plate with three pieces of sushi with the same fish on top.
Yoko and I visited a town near Lake Biwa, Japan the past two weekends.

1. Funazushi. This is a fish from the lake that has been fermented. It tastes like fish salami. I like it. This one has eggs in it, which makes it about 4x as expensive as without eggs. The stuff in the middle is the rice that it is packed into to ferment. That tastes good, too.

2. Cold udon noodles with local beef. The beef is warm and tender and slightly rich. I'm not sure if the broth picks up flavor from the beef, or if the broth is made from beef, but it is delicious and sticks to your lips. The citrus fruit is a sudachi; it adds a lot to the whole dish.

3. Grilled saba (mackerel) somen and sushi. Also delicious. This restaurant is popular and this somen dish is pretty much all they sell.

Not pictured: Ayu (smelt) so fresh it is still kicking when brought to your table for you to grill and eat. I thought it might be too graphic to include.
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m3moellering 2 days ago
The funazushi intrigues me.
WikiAdam Yesterday
These look delicious. What's the texture of the rice the fermented fish was packed into?
austinhaas pro Yesterday
@WikiAdam it's a soft, moist mush. Very salty. IIRC, there's not much to chew. The rice is cooked before it is combined, but I don't know if it looks like what you'd have for dinner or what. I'm guessing it breaks down more during the fermentation.
joffaboy

Seems appropriate this time

Photo of trump quoting "I'll be changing the name of Uranus to Trumpanus"
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Photo of trump quoting "I'll be changing the name of Uranus to Trumpanus"
Via Bluesky
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snarkout

She'd choose the bear.

A pencil sketch of a nude woman with long dark hair seen from behind, on her knees, giving a bear a hug. The bear is frowning but accepts it.
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A pencil sketch of a nude woman with long dark hair seen from behind, on her knees, giving a bear a hug. The bear is frowning but accepts it.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...

Edvard Munch, Sketch of Woman and Bear. Undated. (I really love the kind of Jules Feiffer line on this!)
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