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W. Ethan Duckworth

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Mathematician, d̶e̶p̶a̶r̶t̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ c̶h̶a̶i̶r̶, husband, father, follower of news and sports.

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We owe him an apology

11.03.2026 08:58 👍 370 🔁 66 💬 0 📌 0

Usually I don't use block lists, but one for this purpose seems pretty unambiguously good.

11.03.2026 09:42 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess using the digital meter app in MacOS would be cheating.

10.03.2026 12:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hexcodle - The Daily Hexcode Guessing Game! Can you guess today's hexcode color? Challenge your color instincts and decode the hexcode with Hexcodle! Inspired by Wordle, but for color enthusiasts.

Very fun.I didn't get Hexcodle #943 :( Score: 56%

🔼⏫🔽✅🔼⏫
🔽⏫🔽✅✅⏫
✅⏫✅✅✅🔼
✅🔽✅✅✅✅
✅🔽✅✅✅✅

Now they need to have one in CMYK and (Hsb and Hsv and Lab and ....)

10.03.2026 12:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Thanks for the link, always like to read whole articles!

IMHO the criticism (majority of the article) was outstanding, but the boosterism (significant minority) not so much.

10.03.2026 11:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Under appreciated joke ↓↓↓

10.03.2026 08:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump on girls’ school
“The Tomahawk missile that destroyed it could have been anyone’s. A Tomahawk is very generic.”
Tomahawks are manufactured by RTX in Phoenix, Arizona. The US sells them to exactly 4 countries: the UK, Australia, Japan & the Netherlands
None of them are at war with Iran #cdnpoli

10.03.2026 08:09 👍 76 🔁 40 💬 8 📌 5

Don't know. I guess he's connected to wordpress, but it seems like more the backend.

10.03.2026 10:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah for me too. On the other hand, Jay doesn't tell me anything.

10.03.2026 10:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is to say: if you're an attorney who's hesitated to take on habeas cases because you think you lack the knowledge, or you're worried about whether you'll really help, I PROMISE you can make a difference. I'm just a dipshit with a 7-year-old laptop and a bad attitude. If I can do it, so can you.

09.03.2026 19:26 👍 2272 🔁 434 💬 31 📌 8

Hang in there geoffrey, sending you positive thoughts.

10.03.2026 10:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Interesting. Here's the other post from Jay's side

10.03.2026 10:31 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1

Yes, but he didn't say he sold them to Iran.

10.03.2026 10:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Customizable Text Short video about customizable text for web accessibility - what is it, who depends on it, and what needs to happen to make it work.

Some people need to change the way text is displayed in order to read it. This includes changing size, spacing, font, color, and other properties. When people customize text, the text should re-flow so they don’t have to scroll horizontally to read.

www.w3.org/WAI/perspect...

10.03.2026 09:56 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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Top Trump officials rush to purchase nuclear war-proof bunkers after Iran attack: report Since President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Iran last week, at least two top Trump administration officials have raced to purchase their own survival shelters designed to withstand an apoca...

A dude in Texas who makes bomb shelters for nuclear war has seen his business skyrocket this week.

Recent clients include 2 Trump admin members, and the rest were almost all “Christian, conservative CEOs,” which included “several of the wealthiest men on the planet."
www.rawstory.com/iran-war/

09.03.2026 04:35 👍 1001 🔁 588 💬 133 📌 133
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‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’ Mojtaba Khamenei, a candidate to succeed his father as Iran’s supreme leader, is no reformer.

"One acquaintance of Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of Ali Khamenei, told me that he was the most dangerous man in the world and considerably more violent and ideological than his father. One thing Mojtaba is not is a religious scholar."
#EpsteinWar

08.03.2026 22:57 👍 181 🔁 105 💬 21 📌 16
Country Joe Mcdonald - Feel Like i'm Fixing to Die Rag - Woodstock '69
Country Joe Mcdonald - Feel Like i'm Fixing to Die Rag - Woodstock '69 YouTube video by Lidia

Song for the Day: Feel Like I’m Fixing To Die Rag (NSFW) - Country Joe & The Fish

youtu.be/eRl6-bHlz-4?...

09.03.2026 07:46 👍 26 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 2
The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

08.03.2026 01:24 👍 4407 🔁 919 💬 89 📌 137

Let's talk about what happens when oil prices go through the roof and stay there - because it really isn't pretty, it's going to hit our economy incredibly hard, and it's only peripherally about how much it costs to fill the tank.

A short 🧵

#nzpol

07.03.2026 00:50 👍 116 🔁 53 💬 3 📌 11
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Don’t forget

07.03.2026 17:56 👍 190 🔁 30 💬 1 📌 2

I agree, homework can be useful if various conditions hold.

08.03.2026 10:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the math edu Mad 🆚 Easy dichotomy... chime in!

#iTeachMath ♾️ #MathSky 🧮

07.03.2026 15:56 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Were you not to use them, they would atrophy.

08.03.2026 01:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If I understand this correctly, in other words if you knock on 2000 doors, and 1000 people answer, and the number who were going to go out and vote was 400, you just increased that to somewhere between 412 and 420.

That's a long hard slog for those extra 12-20 votes.

08.03.2026 01:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

08.03.2026 00:29 👍 5953 🔁 3445 💬 284 📌 234

There's a reason they called Gordon Willis the prince of darkness.

07.03.2026 12:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Less homework is not the cause and more homework is not the solution to any problem we have in education at present.

07.03.2026 12:11 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Wind River (film) - Wikipedia

Not a dumb thriller, but good entertainment.

07.03.2026 02:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have a 50 year old tape and I’m afraid as soon as I play it, it’ll get eaten by the machine. Any advice?

06.03.2026 12:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sarah Gail Brand Trombonist of Improvised Music. Also seen on Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle series 1 & 2 For more info, contact me on here.

Hello Bluesky.

If you like Improvised Music/ Free Jazz, you can hear and buy it on my records here:

sarahgailbrand.bandcamp.com

I haven't released a new record for a while - I'm benched as a trombone player while I recover from hand and arm surgery, but my music lives on!

#BandcampFriday

05.03.2026 22:19 👍 40 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 3