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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Every day, there are the Horrors and the Fascism and in the cracks between them, tiny weeds of Joy.

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Ils constituent vraiment un trésor incroyable

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Really great article on the history of the HBC. I’m glad to hear the archives will still be funded despite The Company’s demise. I enjoyed my visit there last Summer and hope that future generations will be able to research their ancestors who worked for the HBC as I have been able to.

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Finished @nnedi.bsky.social ´s Death of the Author, which was amazing, reread @pennyvixen.bsky.social ´s Goblin Emperor. Rereading the rest of series before I read her latest, The Tomb of Dragons. Love falling in love with these books all over again!

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Just registered for Advanced Methodology and Evidence Analysis with @legalgen.bsky.social at IGHR! Registration opened today. What course are you taking? #ighr #coursethree #continuingeducation #genealogyeducation #genealogy

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Sometimes I love being late to the party because then I get to read an awesome book and the sequels that are already out. I don’t know who recommended “Station Eternity” by @mightymur.bsky.social to me but I’m glad they did!

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Excited for the books I pre-ordered that are dropping this year from @natashapulley.bsky.social, @jasperfforde.bsky.social, @older.bsky.social, @maryrobinettekowal.com, @scalzi.com, and @pennyvixen.bsky.social!

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Today in rereading books because another sequel just dropped, I’m rereading Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

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people who say “why do we need [fine arts, humanities degrees, mid-budget films] when they don’t make a ton of money?” are insufferable. why do we need chrysanthemums? why do we need bonfires or baleen whales or the color blue? we just do. we just do.

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Playing around with @dnapainter.bsky.social Ancestral Tree tool and created this “nutritional info” for myself:

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Hi all. I released some new features for ancestral trees at DNA Painter that I hope all genealogists will enjoy using. Please read more below.

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Always nice to read a book about English grammar to make you wonder why you’re trying to learn another language when you don’t even know English very well

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Over 20 pages and 100 footnotes later, I handed in my submission to the NGS family history contest. I don’t know what it is about hitting the submit button that makes you think whatever you’ve submitted is the worst thing ever, but I’m looking forward to the feedback!

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Really wish I could time travel so I could yell at the enumerator with poor handwriting as well as the technician with poor microfilming skills

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Just realized that I have looked for my ancestors in over 100 years of Montreal directories. Thankful that’s it’s all digitized and easy to access thanks to the BANQ!

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The good news is that I discovered the original documents (digitized!) that Gerald Neville used for his book “The Lanark Society Settlers: Ships Lists …1821.” The bad news is that I now I have to go page by page and see if the 1820 lists are there. Canadiana sure has a lot of digitized stuff!

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The person I’m researching worked for the “Hippo Company.” Of course I had to find out what kind of company it was: www.liveauctioneers.com/price-result...

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Today reasonably exhaustive research means looking at over 60 years of directories to find out what this guy was doing throughout the years #genealogy #reasonanlyexhautiveresearch

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Reading part of someone’s master’s thesis from the 1960s. Kind of wild that something about such a niche topic exists and that I can actually access it

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“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

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Reading about post Napoleonic War Britain and how the wages of workers (particularly my weaver ancestors) went down and the prices of things went up, especially after the Corn Laws (tariffs) were passed, causing many riots. Something about those who fail to learn from history came to mind…

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I’d like to remember important things but my brain thinks it’s more important to periodically serenade me with the theme song from Katamari Damacy

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For the @nytimes.com I wrote about how Enough is Enough with the incumbent president and his cabinet of folly and let’s stop coddling Trump voters and be real clear-eyed about what lies ahead. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

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So everyone’s clear: if your premise is that one party wins elections by demonizing and dehumanizing a group of people, the lesson is that we are insufficiently countering their efforts to dehumanize, not that bigotry/crimes against humanity are retroactively justified by election results. Thanks.

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I miss Sir Terry Pratchett but his wisdom remains.

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Tolkein is good strong medicine for any climate person and always has been they never at any point thought they would win, and winning came at a terrible price, but what is there to do except the work take the Ring, though you do not know the way

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So hey, maybe it’ll help somebody. About eighteen months ago, I found out I had breast cancer. I got a phone call and I sat there and said the right things and hung up and sat in my car and just had cancer for a bit.

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Don’t know who recommended Rust in the Root by @justinaireland.bsky.social to me but alternate historical universes are totally my jam. I enjoyed it so much I decided to read her book Dread Nation even though scary books are totally not my jam. They are both impossible to put down!

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To reiterate a post from the Other Site, for most of the last four thousand+ years, the vast majority of people living in cities got takeout. Many apartments lacked kitchens due to space and fire risk. Cooking yourself 7 fresh, varied meals a week is a VERY recent expectation.

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looking around at the group of friends I’ve invited over for a game night oh no! You guys, I’m so sorry, I’m afraid we’ve created an echo chamber. Does anyone know any frothing hate-mongers who might be up for scattegories tonight?

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