I am working on my day job PowerPoint presentations so that I can spend time tonight working on my hobby PowerPoint presentation.
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I prefer Mastodon but this is a fine “we have Mastodon at home” I guess.
Voting right guarantees you won't get a good ANYTHING, not just cities. social.notjustbikes.com/@notj...
One downside to @samferguson.bsky.social not posting about fountain pens all the time anymore is that I had no idea any of this had ever happened.
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From what I gather, in the Rockies, it's the mountains that will kill you. In the Appalachians, it's all the things in the mountains that will kill you.
I was literally JUST doing a talk about this with @mcmanlypants.bsky.social an hour ago! The thing is that the Rockies are so much bigger than you that they don’t notice if you exist. But the Appalachians are so much older than you that if they notice you, bad shit’s about to go down.
Kris Lorischild@direkris.itch.io · 2d agoIt's so cute when people on the east coast talk about mountains
I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them
Sam Ulmschneider@samulmschneider.bsky.social · 2d agoNormally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · 3d agoNew estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A core conservative demand is being able to benefit from living in a society without incurring any obligations. A philosophy for infants
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoNIH Director Jay Bhattacharya: "We shouldn't be keeping kids out of schools because their parents have made different decisions than other parents" (Note that Trump is asleep)
keeping with the tradition of it always being some mediocre bum whose athletic career basically doesn't exist, reminder that Royce White and you have scored the same number of points in the NBA
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoRoyce White on Fox News: "I'm just having a blast in my feminine area. I never thought I was a woman. I've always trusted science and thought I was a man, but after further review, a strong look at my personal preferences, it would appear I am indeed sometimes identifying as a transgender woman"
I am extremely horny a lot of the time but I'm not sure Bluesky either wants or needs to know the details of that
Matt Ufford@mattufford.bsky.social · 6d agothe discourse is wild, man. bluesky is like the least horny place on the entire internet, then one director was like "I cut nude scenes out of my sex movie" and INSTANTLY everyone demanded nudity. and frankly I'm here for it. let's see it all hanging out, baby. for art. respectfully of course.
SPREAD FAR AND WIDE. Multiple calls lately, looking for scarce books. "The cheapest copy online is $200!" Book prices are artificially inflated now due to AI purchasing 🚨 An INDIE BOOKSHOP can tell you whether the current price is reasonable or whether you should wait for the market to stabilize.
The Malazan comments section might be the only place on earth more gender segregated than Saudi Arabian spas
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 7d ago“men dont read” ok but put “mistborn review” in your ig search bar and take a scroll
I think one or two of these cards in a set is fine. However, Universes Beyond sets, other than the very best of them, are nothing BUT cards like this.
Matty@mattyhotdogz.bsky.social · last wk.Okay here is my problem with this kind of design. It means nothing on its own. It only has ludo-narrative value as a reference to something else. It is empty in and of itself. It forgoes its own story in exchange for a weak icon or index of another story that cannot stand up on its own.
Are you going to The Hobbit prerelease this weekend? Check out our complete prerelease deckbuilding guide for everything you need to know: youtu.be/KDNr-raXpVg #MagicTheGathering
Yes. We do not study the past with a view to feelgood vibes. Sometimes we encounter events and people that do that, but it is not the *purpose* of serious or just basically honest study.
Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller)@armchairclassicist.bsky.social · 2w agoTruth. #History
I once got into a Twitter spat with Rod Liddle during which he asked me if I'd ever read anything and I said I'd start with his obituary but I was lying. I will not be reading it, he isn't worth the time.
This is apparently the single oldest non-photo image in my Photos library. My babies are super old now, but @hollyhefner.bsky.social and I used to quote this to each other all the time when they weren't. Thank you @katebeaton.bsky.social
What having French players on your #WNBA roster looks like.
I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 2w agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
Do they have any good flavors of bleach or do they all taste the same