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Thursday GNR: Saving Bluesky from a Fate Worse than X [1]

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Date: 2024-12-05  

“Bluesky now has more than 24 million users. Jay Graber is still vowing to keep it from enshittification.”

TechCrunch: As Bluesky opens to the public, CEO Jay Graber faces her biggest challenge yet Bluesky isn’t just a new Twitter competitor. The company also created the AT Protocol for social networking, which is completely open source. That way, the public has a 24/7 view into what Bluesky’s team is building, and how they’re doing it. and can add features themselves. Hey, can we interest the DK elves in going Free Software/Open Source?

Regular Good News

Rabidly Repellent Republicans Rushing to Ruin/Bad News for Them

None of that, here.

Red Dwarf: Cat- Better make myself look big!

Science! Lifeforms! Weirdness!

x The @JennerInstitute and @SerumInstIndia's R21 #MalariaVaccine has been a game-changing innovation for children in Africa. Helping to transform malaria prevention for vulnerable populations across the world, find out more in @OxUInnovation's spotlight video.💉🎞️ pic.twitter.com/jYXuqF0rIT — Nuffield Department of Medicine (@NDMOxford) December 4, 2024

x The young star cluster NGC 602, by #JWST.



There is such beauty in the Universe. pic.twitter.com/5EADGo5aWu — Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) December 4, 2024

x Professor Richard Scolyer was awarded Australian of the Year for his research into melanoma, but he’s also used his own experimental methods to treat his own brain cancer and is defying the odds of survival. pic.twitter.com/Gt6NnChHtL — The Project (@theprojecttv) December 2, 2024

x Have you heard of “zero-dose children”?



These are kids without any essential vaccines, risking diseases like measles and polio.



Every child deserves protection. Let’s ensure they get vaccinated! #VaccinesWork pic.twitter.com/mPj7vLehg8 — UNICEF Madagascar (@UNICEFMada) December 4, 2024

Funny or Fuggedaboudit

All of the DK comics this week violate our No [redacted] rule.

Nobody talks about Jesus’s miracle of having 12 close friends in his 30s.

x Sexual harassment jokes are not funny pic.twitter.com/8cC0754Edt — Thought Provoking Berserker ⚛️🦍🦅 (@Provokethoughtz) October 30, 2024

P. D. Q. Bach and More

P.D.Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem! (FULL)

9:47 - Desecration of the House Overture

14:36 - Schleptet

29:35 - Iphigenia in Brooklyn

44:58 - Unbegun Symphony

54:49 - Beethoven 5 Sportscast

1:12:43 - Fuga Meshuga

1:20:05 - The Seasonings

The overture is not available on YouTube separately. It is a parody of Beethoven’s Consecration of the House overture, appropriate in this political season.

Dmitri Kabalevsky : The Comedians, Suite from the incidental music Op. 26 (1938 arr. 1940)

There should be clowns with that.

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