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Random musings & smartass remarks. Neurolurker. Dilettante. He/him/his. Interested in (but not necessarily posting about) (or even doing) higher ed, IT, infosec, cocktails, music, old movies, bicycling, & other stuff I don't have room for.
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Saturday Me: "Yeah sure, I'll cook dinner tomorrow, no problem." Sunday Me:

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Happy Birthday to WEB Du Bois, who wrote about the wildly important concept of psychological wages of whiteness in the first history of Reconstruction, *Black Reconstruction in America*, which he messily dedicated to his mistress, Dr. Virginia Alexander, and not his wife, Nina Gomer #BookSky

submitted 4 hours ago • 23 comments

I feel like this is my moment, as an American, to step up, because I have a lot of experience at ignoring emails

submitted 10 hours ago • 43 comments

the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

Vincero! VINCERO!

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

I got home from my rehearsal last night about 9:30PM. Mrs. D had been watching TV, and turned it off. About 10:15 I turned it back on and.... no picture. We paid $300 for it and it lasted six years. That's probably as good as it gets these days.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Well it's been a lousy week but at least I can rely on BlueSky to be a distraction. ::logs in, sees Brahms being cancelled::

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm tired & cranky & having a Manhattan so I'm going to say something that's been in the back of my mind that I've resisted posting. I work in IT. I, basically, do what I see is needed within the realm of IT for my employer to be successful. I have a plan for replacing all the employee computers

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

the thing is that not a single one of those people did anything in the years since to attempt to bring down the temperature within their own party, temper their violent rhetoric, or work against a second coup. sorry you’re scared of the monster you created, but you guys all kept feeding him!

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

#Meme #StarTrek #WalkinDead I found this entirely too amusing not to share

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Can a Black woman who’s drowning in student debt join up with her mall coworkers to defeat the Debt Police and destroy their student loan company by pulling off the heist of a lifetime? Find out in The Payback, out July 15, 2025, preorder now: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...

submitted 130 days ago • 113 comments

I am not kidding when I say Madison intended impeachment to be used on the first, next, and last President who referred to themselves as a king, and we ought to do him right

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Possibly the single most accurate description of parenting from 1970-89 ever written.

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

submitted 559 days ago • 100 comments

human beings were not meant to hear about elon fucking musk on a daily basis. it's highly unnatural, and the health risks are not yet well understood!!

submitted 397 days ago • 1 comment