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\nNo Man’s Sky releasing yet another feature rich FREE update. Good god, will it ever end?
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The digital corner of evangelical Protestantism I occupy has been contending with a prominent apologists Trinitarian theological errors and how best to describe the Doctrine’s essence, so far this has been my favorite primer on the topic.
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\n\n@canneddragons I think the MB equivalent to this would be someone arguing that an excerpt from the 1662 Book of Common prayer is superior to the current version foe a pre-BBQ blessing OR someone getting dragged for saying they used Claude for a homemade ranch dressing recipe.
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@kfitz Agreed! My enthusiasm for the software is on par with my loyalty to my local NPR station or the LOC.gov.
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\n\n\nFor the sake of goodness, how much\nevil are you willing to do?\nFill in the following blanks\nwith the names of your favorite\nevils and acts of hatred.
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This site is the digital equivalent of the junk drawer in your kitchen. An assortment of random items, many of which happen to be incredibly useful in very specific circumstances:
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\nOpen a tool, do the thing, leave. No account, no download, and nothing between you and the answer.
\nI somehow managed to stumble on to this site this morning. The dev related tools are pretty handy, but I especially liked the band name generator tool. I think I might give it a go when I form my punk band.
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@jimmitchell This is incredible.
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\nWestlund recognizes the flaw in that logic. When each new increment of development creates more long-term expense than it produces in revenue, more growth doesn’t solve the financial problem. It makes the problem larger.
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@mcsweeneys.net updating their first draft of history:
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\n<p lang=””>We were stuck in line waiting for gas at a Freedom Fuel Station, so this installment is a little late. Apologies! Anyway, you add another 90 atrocities to the list. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors
\nbuff.ly/V207e2L<br><br><a href=“https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wf24ok2liiyzb633fe34dsel/post/3mu35l5beho27?ref_src=embed”>[image or embed]</a></p>— McSweeney’s (<a href=“https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wf24ok2liiyzb633fe34dsel?ref_src=embed”>@mcsweeneys.net</a>) <a href=“https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wf24ok2liiyzb633fe34dsel/post/3mu35l5beho27?ref_src=embed”>August 27, 2026 at 11:21 AM</a>
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McSweeney’s updating their first draft of history:
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— McSweeney's ([@mcsweeneys.net](http://mcsweeneys.net)) August 27, 2026 at 11:21 AM\n
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🍎🍏How some people feel about sports teams is how I feel about apple varieties in harvest season: Michigan apple growers expect strong harvest as crop arrives early.
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\nAssertive women populated Ms. Parton’s songs, whether through her proto-feminist rewrite of Jimmie Rodgers’s “Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)” or by advocating parity in the bedroom (“Touch Your Woman”) and in the workplace (“9 to 5”)…
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Seeing MSU students return always gets me to think back on those early college days when you’re anxiously trying to find some shared activity you can do with others to find friends and a pretense to join lunch or dinner tables.
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Boosting because I’d like to see this plugin become a reality!
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@isaacgreene I’ll have to check it out! Thanks for the recc!
\nSide note, if you’ve been to Estonia, have been to LCC in Klaipeda?
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@martynwendell.bsky.social everyone needs a bit of junk food in their life. If you were obligated to choose a serialized book series to act like the literary equivalent of white noise in the background what would you choose? I’d probably go with the Captain’s Table Star Trek novels.
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@acatwithnews.bsky.social Qawah House is one of the OG yemeni style coffee places worth trying. Saj Cafe and Bakery is (I think) Iraqi style bakery. They have a fantastic Zaatar flatbread “pizza”
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\nshould also get a sampler box of pastries at Shatila’s Bakery.
@flotisserie Yes. I have a version of this for my own academic journey. Though I think it can be really challenging to balance maintenance of the personal platform with curricular responsibilities.
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