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Systems Mechanic, Aging Idealist, Civic Coder, Writer, Cyclist, Cold Plunger, Dad. "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." - Kurt Vonnegut Sr. https://write.as/attention-span-therapy/
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Exactly what no one is talking about are the traitors and weenies in the California Guard who just rolled over for the Fed when they came knocking. #noKingsHere

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This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

submitted 3 days ago • 310 comments

a simple choice.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“There’s an avocado 🥑 for every hole 🕳️ “ #accidentallySexy

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Fermi Paradox (v2): Humans are assholes, and no one’s ever going to talk to us until we get our act together.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I’m too corrupt to be racist.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

submitted 19 days ago • 152 comments

I don’t want AI to help me write my book, I want it to help me market it.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

In less than a year… The US, as a society, is gaslighting its way to inaction. There are zero practical reasons not to change other than we don’t believe we deserve to have nice things.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Netflix buying Sesame Street hits me a lot stronger emotionally than I’d like to admit; but, let’s face it, Children’s Television Workshop sold out any sense of educational vision decades ago.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

kids literally wanted to grow up and be public servants because of Richard Scarry.

submitted 22 days ago • 27 comments

…a man wearing headphones and a party hat dances with doubt in his eyes as if driven by unseen but sinister forces…

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

While going about your Saturday routine, please take a minute to stop and think about this. #Altgov exists because regular employees of the federal government must FIGHT this administration to simply be allowed to do the work we were hired and funded to do for the American people. THIS IS INSANE.

submitted 29 days ago • 31 comments

Remember Machine Learning…? #RATML #minnebar

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

We could solve world hunger if we weren’t so busy building ai data farms. But hey at least I can bring this unholy portmanteau to life after it comes up in a Bluesky thread…so there’s that. Behold, the demicorgon!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

submitted 40 days ago • 631 comments

“Was it there?” asked Toad. “No,” said Frog.

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

greyhound is doing more for Americans than most of our elected officials

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

submitted 40 days ago • 31 comments

I grew up watching 60 minutes with my grandma and it always felt especially frank and tight for mainstream television. This is exactly why.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

From corgis to demigorgons is a pretty wide margin for a collectible.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

I have met more of my neighbors in the past 3 days than I have in the past 2 years of living in Lincoln Square and it's all thanks to a temporary road closure, some benches, and chalk. We need to get cars off our streets, ASAP.

submitted 46 days ago • 9 comments

We’ve been here before, and we’re sure to be here again.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

One of the best historical frames for what AI will and won’t do that I’ve ever run across.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

The wildest pope fact I learned this week is that Francis was the first non-European pope since 741

submitted 47 days ago • 75 comments