James Carlson

'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.' Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell

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hmm Sting is blue, Goblins are near.

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Saddened to learn of the death of Judy Belushi Pisano, whose high school boyfriend & first husband was John Belushi, of Animal House & SNL fame. I first got to know Judy ~ 1995, when she took over from me & my wife as chair of the Tisbury (public, elementary) School Parent/Teacher Organization. 1/

The Things

Ruin a movie by making it plural: Midnight Runs

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Well this be my first post here but I got nothing atm so here a picture of a B e a n.

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wow huh how weird

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[arriving in hell] Satan: welco- Me: hit me with a plate of your eggs bro Satan: Me: (sprinkling motion) with the paprika

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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is

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I wrote to the Tractor Supply board today. Here is what I sent. Even if you've only ever bought one thing there, I encourage you to write, as a customer.

Fuck. This one's going to sting, but add another company to our boycott list. x.com/TractorSuppl...

x.comx.com

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I know these are polarizing times, but if you take the time to talk to American conservatives and center-right types and really listen to what they believe is right and just and good, they sure do sound like the worst people on the planet .

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This is how your e-mail finds me

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Some now-blocked person asked me here on bsky.app today when I was going to start holding Democrats accountable and I don't even know where to begin with that. Maybe with my 30 year history of criticizing Democrats from my own perspective, often to my great detriment? 1/

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awesome that regulations now get to be made by elite law brained dipshits without so much as a Wikipedia-skim level of subject matter expertise www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutantwww.forbes.com The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.

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Reply to

Chris Geidner

Kagan is reading from her dissent. Here's a key part:

Seen on Facebook Marketplace.

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Please sign. It takes almost no effort.

Marcellus Williams was cleared by DNA evidence and the prosecutor is trying to vacate the conviction, but the state of Missouri still scheduled an execution date for him. Please sign and share this petition innocenceproject.org/petitions/st...

Stop the Sept. 24 Execution of Marcellus Williams, an Innocent Man - Innocence Projectinnocenceproject.org DNA evidence not available at the time of trial proves his innocence but has not been considered in court. Act today.

I’d like to know how movies like “The Nest” and “The Assistant” get made. No discernible plot or point. Good actors but no story. Are the writers just on strike again?

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a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths

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New blog post: Adding comments to the blog! I've written up how I did it, and why I think that it it's important that Bluesky makes it so easy to do. graysky.app/blog/2024-02...

Adding comments to this blog - Grayskygraysky.app 5 February 2024 - by @mozzius.dev

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Apparently someone at the Boston Fire Department had a wonderful, vindicating day yesterday, during the 911 outage:

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I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.

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FYI

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I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it

The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones. Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.

Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone.www.washingtonpost.com Phone scams are still hugely popular — and they depend entirely on people curious enough to answer.

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The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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An essential read from the former research manager of Stanford’s Internet Observatory, on how spreaders of misinformation (people who have been deceived) and disinformation (people who know they’re lying) view even *labelling* a post as misinformation as censorship. More … 🧵

I feel seen. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complexwww.theatlantic.com Online conspiracy theorists turned me into “CIA Renee.”

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Out for dinner. First one for us.

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tired: Nigerian scammers tried to steal Graceland wired: A trail of clues leads to a granny in Branson who’s known for scamming boyfriends, landlords, and faking cancer and her sister did time for a Vegas Ponzi scheme. Who tried to steal Graceland? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...