chassmith.bsky.social
Reader, life-long learner, ttrpg gamer, machinist
Current Books:
In Praise of Floods, by James C. Scott
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
The Comanche Empire, by Pekka Hämäläinen
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A house was renting an apartment in was reroofed around '95.
The workmen removed the old shingles and redid most of the house, but then stopped for the weekend without even putting a tarp down.
The storm that came through destroyed most everything I owned.
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You invented Moon Pie earth
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The Dawn of Everything, by Davids Graeber and Wengrow
The Rivers of London series, by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social
The Murderbot Diaries, by @marthawells.com
The Lord of the Rings, by whatshisname
The Discworld books, by Sir Terry
Most of The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher (a few only once)
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Information on kettling, beating facial recognition, and legal advice
www.reddit.com/r/DenverProt...
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Bloody hell. Now I'm on the same side as big Hollywood.
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Speaking from experience, it gets easier with practice
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youtu.be/aeIPBQjJ2P0?...
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I've taken to pronouncing AI as AL whenever I read it, and my stress level has notably reduced
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A contract employee delivers an inferior product, which that employee says should not be trusted.
Shouldn't any payments made for that product be clawed back?
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Great, now I gotta worry about getting pregnant?
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What I keep telling myself I'm going to do is break up my follows by subject matter and put them in different feeds
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My problem is that I've followed too many people
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Given the actual title of the traditional ice cream man song, I'd replace it with almost any song at all
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Wait, they make you buy oxygen?
Why hasn't this come up in the Rivers of London series yet?
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Hopefully this will have the same effect as this administration's endorsements in Canada and Australia
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Excellent movie
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His Girl Friday?
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Of course he's going to give us more explosions. He bills us for the vehicles no matter what the outcome is
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In which English words is the apostrophe used for a glottal stop?
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This is one of the things that continues to bug me. In English, "ʔ" is the symbol for a glottal stop. An apostrophe specifically means "don't stop".
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I think I would care somewhat more if they were known as "yampers".
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It's the umami
And the other flavors, but mostly the umami
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Don't be crazy, the gestapo was was a militarized police force that shipped unwanted groups of people to concentration camps in eastern Europe.
ICE is a militarized police force that ships unwanted groups of people to a concentration camp in El Salvador.
The two are nothing alike.
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Me as well
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While Al is absolutely the wrong tool for this problem, by this time (hell, by 1995) any legal search engine should have a "cite this" button that produces a properly formatted citation that can be linked to a quote via a footnote
The legal search sites wouldn't happen to be monopolies, would they?
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Cottage cheese with crumbled feta and blue cheese is wonderful
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If other people make progress, he's ready to jump in and claim credit
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Call you Rep TODAY!
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I am shocked, shocked to find…
No, I can't even pretend anymore
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"I lost my job. Well, I didn't _lose_ my job. I mean, I know where it is. It's just that when I go there someone else is doing it."
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They delayed until 2021 then ruled that, since he was no longer in office, the issue was moot and dismissed the case
Of course, when Trump wants something done, they're more than willing to rush cases and jump over lower courts to make rulings
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We need to revive FDR's Second Bill of Rights. This is what he left undone after his passing.
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Budigeg, Biden, and congressional Dems tried to modernize aircraft control technology, but were blocked by the Republicans
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Good thing the Supreme Court ruled that the constitution doesn't say anything about emoluments