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Bill Trinen
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I work at Nintendo but tweet about other things. My views are mine and mine alone, unless they are also yours. mstdn.social/@trintran Go Ducks 
United StatesJoined March 2009
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30 years ago today, the Digable Planets released their debut album Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time & Space) under instagram.com/p/Cobe8FRMn2C/
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Oatchie ❤️
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Remembering Karen Carpenter, gone 40 years today. Here she is performing a drum solo in 1968 at the age of 18.
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Ice, Ice Bison
Alright stop! Ungulate and listen. The bison’s back with a brand new admission.
If you’re cold, they’re (not) cold. 🦬
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White Lynx Spider, Oxyopes shweta, with male Oxyopes prey. In our garden, Konkan Coast. More photos below.
#spider #lovespiders #wildlifephotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #naturelovers
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A bit like Zeus flinging thunderbolts, physicists working on a mountaintop in Switzerland have used a high-powered laser to steer lightning.
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“I had just witnessed upwards of 20,000 people arriving in Japan within a span of two hours,” Sutter wrote in his autobiography. “We changed the world.”
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Thinking of going to see The Pharcyde in concert
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Going out on a limb here, but I’m guessing he’s doing a solo acoustic tour, there are 19 shows, and we know exactly which cities those shows are in. We may even know ticket prices.
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Our final clue comes from across the ocean.
Historical records from Japan told of giant waves hitting 600 miles of Japanese coastlines in January of 1700.
Those records, along with reconstructions of the wave, put the earthquake at ~9 p.m. on Jan. 26, 1700.
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Stop doom-scrolling and learn about how ghost forests and Native American oral histories tell the story of the last great Cascadia earthquake (323 years ago today!)
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The Great North Air Ambulance Service testing a Gravity Industries' jetsuit for mountain rescue.
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There is no better start to the weekend than watching your kid get an acceptance letter to a top 10 aerospace engineering school.
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Rock into the weekend with one of Seattle’s most-hyped bands, ! The Walker twins & band mate Brandon Bermudez jammed out to song “Ghetto Spaceship” at Martyr Sauce. Watch full debut episode of “Thank You, MS PAM.”: youtu.be/p_ahqMr-tis
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VIDEO: Rare video captured by divers shows a 2.5-metre giant squid swimming in the waters off Japan's west coast.
Giant squid are known to live in the waters around the country and occasionally wash ashore, but seeing them alive in the wild remains relatively rare
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released the first single from their only album on January 14, 1991.
“Hunger Strike,” written by , was recorded at Londing Bridge Studio in Seattle.
More in photo:
#TOTD #eddievedder #chriscornell #hungerstrike
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Built to Spill - You Were Right - Keep It Like A Secret (1998)
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Japan’s second goal in their 2-1 win over Spain was checked by VAR to determine if the ball had gone out of play.
The video match officials used the goal line camera images to check if the ball was still partially on the line or not.
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USC is 75-30-3 (.708) all-time against current Big Ten teams, and just 13-9 (.591) against Utah, and on a 3-game losing streak. Can see why they'd run.
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Is USC even the best USC? The other one actually beats top teams.
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My interest in Avatar sequels is unobtanium.
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I think Andor has the worst audio balance of any shown I’ve seen in at least the last decade
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Music critic and six different talent buyers—including folks from , , , and —talk about rising ticket costs, decreased attendance, and, most importantly, what the general public can do to help.
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Temple of the Dog from 1990
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