Jymbob

@jymbob.bsky.social

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Human. Technophile. Linguaphile. Bibliophile. Epistemophile. Husband. Dad. I also like other things.

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April Daniels

You are definitely those things. I value your views here and I am looking forward to reading your books and encouraging my children to as well - only discovered you recently so haven't got them both yet!

Part of that is in most other countries there'd be serious questions about where he got hold of a firearm and ammo, and how he got that close. When the answers are "gun store", "idk probably a vending machine", and "well it definitely wasn't /our/ agents who let him in" it starts to unravel

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I'm busy today, so here's my 2000+ word response to everything that happened on this anti-Black platform yesterday. You can read it, or not. www.patreon.com/posts/racism...

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

Everybody needs to step up for the climate or @qntm.org is never going to get his negative leap second

@katharinehayhoe.com Washington Post reports a study that polar ice melting caused by climate change is measurably affecting the earth's rotation speed and day length. wapo.st/3Y51KN9 (gift link.)

Why melting ice sheets are making our days longerwapo.st As polar ice melts, water moves from the poles toward the equator — making our Earth bulkier and rotate slower.

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Go make a website. mikegrindle.com/posts/web-ma...

I Was a Teenage Webmastermikegrindle.com

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Racism isn’t an historical event either, which I think has been missed in my responses. As a cisgender Black woman who wants children, it is very possible racism will kill me, or them at birth. Diversity programs are being disbanded; our history is being erased. Racism is killing us *now.*

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I can’t believe I have to say this: But white people can be anti-Black even if they have the right politics or a marginalized identity, and no amount of either makes racism ok. I am not going to waver on that. Maybe ask why anyone would want me to.

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ex-Lethality Jane

I mean, I dig the Captain Scarlet Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle too lady, but my kids have ... legs and stuff

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Very Very Common Mike Dunford

The thing that surprises me is the phrase "Judge Cannon made a decision"

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Technology Connections

*Smiles smugly in brise soleil*

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The Fig Economy

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If you are unsafe after the game tonight, call the Domestic Abuse Helpline 📞 0808 2000 247

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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Thanks For Sharing, Jerk

Fate every time someone English says "It's coming home": "Return the Parthenon marbles and we can start discussing what is or isn't in its rightful place"

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Senator who last week promoted a tweet that called his legislative opponents traitors punishable by death now asks “to take the political temperature down.”

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Wow: “If you grow an acre of corn, it will produce 900 gallons of ethanol, which will get you about 25,000 miles for a Ford F-150...which is, not bad I guess. But let’s say we put solar on that same acre. It will produce enough electricity every year to drive my Lightning 550,000 miles.”

Forty Acres and a Sense of Hopesubstack.com Sunshine on a Cloudy Week

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No, like Chaucer

No, no, not free for /you/, free for Elmo

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Popehat

I'm starting to suspect he has always understood it to mean "free as in beer"

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< clears throat I created my own degree in this very question in ye olde year of our livejournal 2005 because new york university didn't have a digital journalism program at that time journalism has never been a professional endeavor and to the extent it was, it was a problem

I actually disagree. The professionalization of journalism USED to be a bulwark against random assholes showing up, doing interviews, and styling their "content" as "journalism," when it is largely opinion and bias. This bulwark was weakened with the rise of the blogosphere which enabled the above.

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Unless the cyclist was wearing a helmet, in which case the solution is to also check they've recently swum in glow-in-the-dark paint and are better lit than Vegas

I am currently getting mental whiplash going from hearing about our newly minted Labour government immediately stopping new North Sea Oil exploration one minute to "Texas legalises moonshine" the next

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Cooper Lund

In Babylon 5 they had this tech. They were called "mass drivers" and using them was a galactic war crime

...and back!

"When reality rejects you, reject reality" is their motto

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Mark Chadbourn

The silver lining is that he'll finally get to meet some of his children

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BUNMAID RAE ΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️

Every living thing has a life-timer. When the sand runs out, Death arrives. In the Hogfather I believe there's a direct call-out to Great A'Tuin's life-timer in the "Special Room" for deities, demons and other anthropomorphic entities

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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate." news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...

Biden's poor debate performance had almost no impact on voter preference, new report saysnews.northeastern.edu A new report shows that despite Biden’s debate performance – poor as it may have been – voter preferences haven't been impacted.

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Bruce Grembowski

I think the guy I met was involved with the "emerging MIDI transcription software" she mentions, if that was the mid 90s I would have been about 12-14, so the specifics are somewhat hazy. I think he also had some "Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff" - super cool