Ward Q. Normal (he/him)
@wardqnormal.bsky.social
Teacher, knitter, widower, Phish head, provincial park, strategy puzzle video game, type of volcanic crater, electronic device designed to trick or deceive radar, species of moth of the family Tortricidae, ...
Best thing about a really close primary is that it maximizes the number of folks who are angry, sad, disappointed, or butthurt.
All the people who are anti-Hitting Yourself in the Head with a Hammer, I have one question: If the Hitting Yourself in the Head with a Hammer robot disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without Hitting Yourself in the Head with a Hammer or any other Head-Hitting tool?
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 10h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
My benevolent superpower wish is to be able to correct any typo in print or digital media. Wave my hand over the menu and carmel sauce becomes caramel. Blink at the screen and the repeated word in the news item vanishes. So much peace of mind I could bring to humanity.
anyway, if anyone has a lead on jobs for a science journalist/writer who has been a planetarium director (meaning I can talk to the public), please let me know. I am *awfully* broke.
Iran pulled the rope-a-dope and we punched and punched until we lost all our stamina.
Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · yesterdayDonald Trump stands out historically in one way. He has demilitarized the US military more quickly than any other political leader in US history. A full blown pacifist would have struggled to throw away weapons faster than he has.
Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.
The framing of these Democratic primaries by many news orgs is "how did the party let these radicals take over?" instead of "what is going on in the country and the world that leads so many people to vote this way?"
In a country where most elections are 50.1% to 49.9%, I am in awe of the result from Missouri last night.
The Secret Language begat the Big Ball Jam. And the Big Ball Jam begat the Halloween Costume Album. And the Halloween Costume Album begat the Chess Game. And the Chess Game begat the Mini Drum Kit. And the Mini Drum Kit begat Acoustic Army. And Acoustic Army begat Keyboard Army. And Keyboard ...
"All the right wing news media think I'm on their side, now." For the love of fuck, examine that.
Wow. I bet that graphic you just posted is informative, persuasive, hilarious, fascinating, or thrilling, but you didn’t use alt text and I don’t understand what it means at all. Would it kill you to provide some more information?
"A.i." is bullshit. "A.i." detection tools are bullshit. "A.i." in education is bullshit. "A.i." in the arts is bullshit. "A.i." in business and government is bullshit.
I know this is completely unimportant, but does anyone else out there occasionally encounter online calendars that are frustratingly inaccurate? I'm signing up for an appointment, and it shows August 10 as a Wednesday, but ... it's definitely not? It's confusing me to no end.
Feels like a good day to say out loud: as a lifelong trivia lover (Scholastic Bowl, pub quiz, etc.) I don’t like Jeopardy. The format is annoying AF. The “questions” do not grammatically or factually match the “answers,” so it’s just a tic of saying “what is” to start and it annoys me to no end.
If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.
USA Today: “fucking taxes, how do they work?”
FIRST LORD In the meantime, what hear you of these wars? SECOND LORD I hear there is an overture of peace. FIRST LORD Nay, I assure you a peace concluded.
What day is it? What time is it? Where am I? Why is there no Phish tonight?
Dept of Defense basically putting up suggestion boxes in all the military bases. “How can we do better in this war? Let us know!”
Up to today I was blissfully unaware of Rod Liddle. Life was good.
You’re telling me that some dude actually wrote and published an op-ed piece where he said, for all the world to see, that he couldn’t be a teacher because he would fuck his underage students? And he still had a job after publishing that? Ye gods.
We really should be pushing more colloidal silver on the “Do Your Own Research” crowd—at least that way they’d be instantly marked and you’d know to avoid them
Marc Veldhoen@marcveld.bsky.social · 2d agoI'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.
Home Is where I want to be But I guess I'm already there I come home She lifted up her wings I guess that this must be the place
Downplay a book or movie: Project We've Still Got a Couple Options If This Doesn't Work
James Harbeck@sesquiotic.bsky.social · 3d agoDownplay a book or movie: Malaise on the Nile
