Atul
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🤖 🦾 MIT - AI x Robotics / AI x Music
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- This is Porter. He does not know why this odd-looking hamster keeps trying to fight him. Only a little bit worried about his ankles. 12/10 for both (TT: ashleydawn406)
- “How a major national newspaper will carry on without someone on staff to summarize the plots of midlist literary novels is beyond me.” @roncharles.bsky.social faces the post-Post world:
- You really can't be shocked with how awful people are being treated. How can a world of justice exist when there are trillions(yes I count fish too) of animals being exploited, killed, eaten, worn, used for entertainment, and tested on? We need to treat both humans and animals with compassion. ✌️💚

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- From Snoopy Presents: Lucy's School ~1:58
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- Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/
- New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

- "her plots feel truly original and she has a knack for guiding #sherlockholmes through the strange twists of each case to always arrive at a satisfying, logical conclusion. With the skill of a master conjuror, she both baffles and delights" @mxpublishing.bsky.social mxpublishing.com/products/dig...
- “ROAD HOUSE” (1948) dir. Jean Negulesco DoP. Joseph LaShelle Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark 🎬 20th Century-Fox 🎞 #FilmNoir
- So apparently there are alternatives to zoom - one Norwegian and one French. Guess what I will be researching today? I think the only US loose end in our business now is Notion - we have done really well xx
- Well thought-out summary.
- Good morning
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- Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
- Tower of Life — Klaus Klinger in Düsseldorf, Germany Street Art mural on building #StreetArt #art #murals
- One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals. When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.
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- This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm.
- Hey kitty kitty! New Film coming tomorrow...
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- Eruption, Iceland — Arnar Kristjansson, 2021
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- BOTD: Norman Rockwell
- Sorry for being nosy but I’m in a pretty quiet airport. a woman sat down next to a much older pilot here in the food court and started very obviously flirting with him but he absolutely cannot stop listing off aviation facts to her regardless of whatever question she asks him
- She may be old, but she did herself proud…
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- This is Teddy. Despite his name, he is not actually a teddy bear that has come to life. Just happens to be an exceptionally soft and cute and cuddly little guy. 13/10 (IG: teddytheduke)
- Hot wings
- Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first #NativeAmerican woman to become a physician in the United States. A member of the Omaha tribe, she campaigned for public health & for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of her tribe. #WomensPhysiciansDay #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine
- When animals like hedgehogs, pangolins and potato bugs (AKA rolly pollies or sow bugs) curl up into a defensive little ball it's called "Conglobation." Because they roll up into a cute little globe. In related news, here's an Armadillo Projection map: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadil...
- Lake forever, problems for now
- George Washington Carver developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics. #BlackHistoryMonth
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- So many (newly blocked) people have come to my page and told me they don’t like the books I’ve read or the fact that I casually track them! It’s too late, guys, I’ve read them already. That’s why I posted them.
- Proof Without Content xkcd.com/3201/
- My painting TROUT WATER
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- Here are the Top 5 Dogs of January!
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- Daihatsu’s first mass-produced EV can even power whole houses. insideevs.com/news/786124/...
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