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They/Them Neurospicy middle-aged nerd, hands-on amateur historian (medieval and early modern), unrepentant leftie, owning my ENBYness more loudly in 2025, occasional gamer, swords are cool.
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@ioannes-tzmisces.bsky.social Well worth an hour of watching. So many cool ideas. youtu.be/onnLx90GnzY

👀 👀 👀 here’s big boy bob attempting to drag one of his constituents out of a public town hall meeting, and threatening to pepper spray her if she did not comply. he stated he wasn’t acting in his official capacity, yet he was wearing a hat that said sheriff and his badge was visible on his belt

Sheriff said he was "not acting in his official capacity," which means he gave up any claim of qualified immunity for battery and deprivation of rights.

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

I will never be on the Board of the SCA. If I were though, my one guiding principle would be to NEVER DO SOMETHING THAT BRINGS THE SCALLION OUT OF RETIREMENT. Especially not in a way that largely lets them to just go with the facts. Jesus fuck, guys. I’d resign. thescallion.blog/2025/02/22/b...

There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

If you have a device that CAN run Apple Intelligence you need to turn this off as well as the general Apple Intelligence setting. Settings > Screen Time > scroll down to Content and Privacy > turn on Restrictions > Intelligence and Siri > turn off the first three options

Yeah, this is the one

I’m not ADHD, but my OCD does a really great job of mimicking a lot of the same behaviors, including the whole “procrastinate until you absolutely can’t” thing. Which is why it took five years for me to record a new version of a training video I finished today.

The usa hockey team are bootlicking jabronis. 🇨🇦 Go Canada 🇨🇦

On one hand, testing positive for COVID for the first time five years into it with a full slate of vaccines is probably best case. On the other hand, it’s hitting me so mildly it’s hard to feel like the precautions are necessary. I’m following them though. Boredom’s worth it.

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Members of Congress swear an oath to defend the Constitution. If they are too scared to follow through on that—not unreasonable, many really are getting harassment and death threats—then they should step down so someone who is up for the job can do it. Of 220m US adults, only 535 are in Congress.

I tested positive for Covid today. First time ever, to my knowledge. I’m fully vaccinated and will start on Paxlovid tomorrow. So far, it seems pretty low-key, no fever, some tired, minor sore throat, occasional cough. The spouse and spawn are so far unaffected.

But I didn’t say fudge.

I am dead serious when I say we need someone to mount an aggressive primary against this absolutely feckless coward who shouldn’t get to be Speaker of the House during the next reckoning.

Received this today. Really digging the format.

Back in the day when I worked for some seriously dysfunctional bosses, I often used the term, "If I don't know how it's done, how hard can it possibly be," and it's fucking disturbing to see people who operate from that standpoint are dismantling our government right now.

Ya well we've got to get through the sledgehammer part with these Nazis then we can talk about rebuilding.

I keep thinking about this. And this is really it. This is the whole thing in a nutshell. I'm not even gonna paraphrase it. Just read this. Study it like a Bible verse or a koan. Everything is right here.

Bad night for intrusive thoughts. #ocd #itookmymeds

Remember when they mocked us for saying that democracy is on the ballot?

“The Double”

Felt not hideous. Might delete later.

On the left is Emil Bove, dressed impeccably for court. On the right is your humble friend and narrator at the gym last night, sweaty and disheveled. The man on the left is eighteen years my junior. Evil ages you.

Give your girlfriend what she really wants this Valentine's: an openly sexual knife fight that ends in everybody kissing. 🥰🔪

A reminder that @fetterman.senate.gov is the only democrat in the senate who voted for this

I made a phone call today and left a voice-mail. Please clap.

Some years ago, I was leaving work at my clinic and saw an odd-looking piece of paper on the ground. I picked it up and discovered it was a hand-written grocer's receipt from 1912 New England. Definitely one of the odder things I've encountered in the wild.

Idly wondering if anyone has done work on the impacts of English-born mothers on English kings and princes in the medieval period.

I look forward to purchasing a single egg.

Fuuuuuu- This is the reason disabled people are allowed to work at all, or access to (most) public buildings. If this goes, the ADA is next.

I'd rather continue to fund the banking police (who have returned billions to consumers) rather than giving everyone a check for $2.15

Finally home. We were on the road from Duncan, OK since around 9:30 AM. Had to go through Durant, drop someone off, and drop off a dressmaker’s dummy on our way south. Wonderful weekend, the company and turns of events were lovely. It’s rather weird to get out of the car to 30f warmer than OK tho.