Barry Schwartz 🫖

Monster Island Tea, Pen, Oxford Commas & Non-loco #Physics.
A Division of The Crud Factory.

☙ To be good at scientific method, distrust scientific authority. ❧

(Barry SCHWARTZ (Barijo ŜVARC), of Pig’s Eye, Minnesota Territory, United States of America. See me also on Pixelfed: @chemoelectric)

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2024-11-23 15:06:23

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@nprofile…hz70 @nprofile…ucuv That's the way the ash went.
People around here worry about Yellowstone blowing up but that is of extremely low probability and would be a global event. It is Mt Rainier that is the biggest threat. It is merely dormant, not extinct, and is absolutely covered with snow and ice and lies quite near a major metropolitan area.

2024-11-23 15:01:08

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@nprofile…hz70 @nprofile…ucuv A friend of mine who imagined himself educated laughed at the idea of being scared of Mt Rainier. People haven't the faintest clue how volcanic eruptions work. The risk from Mt Rainier is not from magma, it is from mud.

2024-11-23 14:57:06

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@nprofile…hz70 @nprofile…ucuv Are they preparing for the possibility in any way?
It strikes me as being similar to the situation in Tacoma, Washington. Evidence shows that flows from past eruptions of Mt Rainier have reached downtown Tacoma, but this surely is being totally ignored.

2024-11-23 14:57:06

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2024-11-23 14:53:47

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@nprofile…hz70 @nprofile…ucuv It IS a hotspot. That is, Iceland exists because the tectonic fault currently is sitting atop an especially active point in the mantle, or something of that kind is going on. Thus the ridge pokes above the ocean. So everything is coming together to create this situation.
Evidence is that every once in a while Iceland releases plumes of toxic fluorine-containing gases that envelop the population. Last happened a few hundred years ago, if so. That should be fun.

2024-11-10 11:46:20

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@npub1gxt…j9na @npub1g0t…tvm4 I think the main cause of this outcome is that the U.S. is currently VERY RAPIDLY becoming majority non-WhiteChristianEuropean. It is happening at a stunning pace. Trump's campaign was "I will deport the illegal immigrants" but no doubt was meant as and heard as "I will stop this change".
But it won't stop. Which is why also there is an attempt at Jim Crow II.
There will be lots of media and pols explaining what happened, but they will ignore this plain evidence.

2024-11-09 17:16:18

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@npub1txm…xp6c There is so much overgeneralization in this world. My opinion is that most art is supposed to complement a space into which it is put.
I cannot stand museums and galleries. There is simply TOO MUCH ART IN ONE PLACE. The setting is all wrong. It's like putting ketchup on ice cream. I have no idea how so many people cannot see this.

2024-11-06 02:06:53

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@npub1lse…5d80 I read that Silver Springs is now filled with Tilapia.

2024-11-06 02:03:59

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@npub1lse…5d80 @npub147n…m8mq @npub189n…satx I cannot wish ill upon the Everglades, the flora, the fauna. Otherwise I might rejoice in the submerging of A1A.

2024-11-05 14:06:23

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@npub132h…f594 Too obscure.

2024-09-11 02:48:26

There seem to be a lot of Russian trolls out and about, and they are extremely lame.

2024-09-04 12:21:16

US charges Hamas leadership over 7 October attack on Israel - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wj285xyp8o

2024-08-03 16:25:42

A bowl I cast in plaster has a red spot in it.
That might be stray glitter. It might be stray spices. Or it might be a clover mite.
One day, after I seal the bowl, we may be putting fruit on top of a preserved clover mite.

2024-07-24 18:11:38

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@npub1uul…dkn7 I can't see them. Are they transparent?

2024-07-22 21:35:49

If the Supreme Court were about to declare the Democratic Party cannot choose a nominee, it might as well declare the Republican Party the only legal party and its nominee automatically president.
That is how silly this conversation is:
https://masto.ai/@chemoelectric/112832274928714005

2024-07-21 23:35:53

I love good Colby cheese.
So much snobbery about cheese.
I know. I haven't been to Europe and tasted "real cheese". You must certainly be s snob. There is no way Wisconsin cannot have great cheese. I love Colby cheese and I love brick cheese.

2024-07-07 21:09:32

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@npub1sfl…gczt Mr Blue is jaded.

2024-04-07 14:34:24

I get offers from the local funeral homes.

2024-02-06 15:53:24

BBC: Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity, US court rules https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68026175

2024-01-15 22:51:49

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@npub1sfl…gczt I assume Dallas is evil.

2024-01-08 20:39:34

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@npub1f2y…m58m I often suffer miserably when I get sick, even with just a head cold. I have fibromyalgia and chronic migraine and so the pain can be many times what another would experience.
Still, that’s not the same as being on a ventilator. That’s merely wishing one were never born, because it hurts so much, and being afraid to sleep, knowing one will be awakened by agony such as sore throat. But then, eventually, it passes.

2024-01-08 04:01:39

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@npub1f2y…m58m Heck, if the vaccine did you in, the real thing is going to do you in big time.
(I got nothing from the vaccines but a noticeably sore arm for a long time. Maybe, should I ever get COVID-19, it will make my upper arm sore! One can dream, anyway.)

2024-01-08 00:07:51

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@npub1lrv…tth9 The only thing I have to say in favor of Maureen Dowd is she was hired to replace a spot vacated by Anna Quindlen, who is a graduate of the same obscure New Jersey high school I dropped out of. (The only other seriously well known graduate is Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.)

2024-01-02 14:09:38

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@npub1sfl…gczt @npub1lpa…v7tl
This situation is going to require a spatula, a pan, and a bible.

2023-12-25 21:20:03

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@npub1sfl…gczt I thought the grain looked more open than that, so I took a guess. I'm trying to learn to recognize.

2023-12-25 20:03:13

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@npub1sfl…gczt What is that, oak? :)

2023-12-14 17:01:04

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@npub1hgr…2e7r @npub1dtj…4htu
It was so much better when I went to school in New Jersey in the 1960s and 1970s. Then it was the teachers beating up the students and not getting arrested!

2023-12-03 14:09:32

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@npub1zak…d6uu I’m kind of that way with TUG membership. Just rejoined after many years, but used to keep it up merely to keep anxiety down.
Rejoining now, discovered there was a new version of ConTeXt. I thought I was still using Mark IV. Live and learn.
(It turned out I just entered TUG senior citizen discount age and so now there is little reason for me not to renew, anyway.)

2023-11-19 14:20:33

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@npub16u7…uend @npub1u2h…z4d7
I have an alternate interpretation: they are not as smart as reputed.

2023-11-14 14:49:58

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@npub1q8n…kct8 @npub1psy…pasy
You are doing a pretty good job of changing the subject from "Trump is a fascist" to "I am a person who changes the subject multiple times in one thread".

2023-11-14 14:43:15

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@npub1q8n…kct8 @npub1psy…pasy You have it backwards. If I am wrong, then you still have the difficulty that your definition is not in current use except among certain pedants. If I am right, then it was worth your while to do the research yourself.
As for me, because I do not use the definition, I have no problem to resolve. I'm just trying to be helpful.

2023-11-14 14:37:05

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@npub1q8n…kct8 @npub1psy…pasy
That widely used "definition" comes from a description by a Fascist and so is propaganda. You are using Fascist propaganda as your definition.

2023-11-14 00:54:22

The Hill: Ellis told Georgia prosecutors Trump planned 'to stay in power': ABC News https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4307912-ellis-told-georgia-prosecutors-trump-planned-to-stay-in-power-abc-news/

2023-10-30 19:42:23

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@npub1jpp…u59l I’m a very long time member of both and would love to hold some feet to the fire.

2023-10-07 17:08:14

Quantum theorists are swindlers. Oh, they won’t admit it even to themselves, but they are swindlers. How many swindlers won’t admit it to themselves?
But, if you keep making excuses for defying the hard and fast rules of mathematics, in a mathematical field, and you take $$$$$$$$$$$$ galore for doing that, using the modern ‘peer reviewed journal’ system to sell your snake oil, what can I call you but a swindler?
You are swindlers, if you do that. Thieves.
That is why I am so damn scared...

2023-08-19 16:08:44

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@npub1j8m…v5r7 Sparkly things.

2023-08-19 16:08:44

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@npub1j8m…v5r7 Sparkly things.

2023-08-14 17:29:07

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@npub1ddp…2tax Ideally they ought to have halfway pleasant waiting areas for people awaiting trials who have to be kept from interfering. Probably they do, in some countries.
I mean, he’s not there for punishment. He’s there to restrain him from interfering with his trial.
If he deserves punishment for that, presumably it would be a misdemeanor, anyway. And the punishment wouldn’t be designed to serve the purpose of restraining him.

2023-08-14 17:23:49

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@npub1ddp…2tax I don’t know, but he was removing his shoelaces while in the courtroom, so I presume he himself figured he was going to jail from there.
It seemed to me it took a while for this hearing to happen, but courts are not fast things. I once got a delay on a night court traffic case, and it was like a year or a year and a half before the case came up again.

2023-08-13 21:52:52

Sam Bankman-Fried is headed to jail: Judge revokes bail after DOJ alleges he tampered with witnesses, including ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison | Fortune https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/08/11/sam-bankman-fried-bail-revoked-going-to-jail-witness-tampering/

2023-08-13 21:52:52

2023-08-10 18:55:57

Close-Up Video Shows Texas Floating Barrier Has Circular Saws https://www.newsweek.com/video-texas-floating-barrier-saws-rio-grande-1818433

2023-08-04 14:02:31

Why would O.J. Simpson’s defense put on the show they did with the glove?
The only reason could be that they knew darn well it was his glove, and that it would fit him like a glove. It would be a good, tight fit, because it’s O.J. Simpson, not some schlub like me whose gloves aren’t tailored.
So they had to make the tight, tailored fit into a show that pretended the gloves were too tight for him.
So what it all proves is the gloves really fit Simpson EXTREMELY well!

2023-08-03 18:26:24

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@npub1ddp…2tax Steve Hudgins is a cheap indy horror film maker. So no pretense of stardom. Just fun and games! Though he got Joe Estevez in one of his films once. That's star adjacency, given Joe is the brother and uncle of stars. :)

2023-08-03 17:57:07

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@npub1ddp…2tax @npub1ggm…7842 @npub1uxz…5ma4 Interesting. Not as interesting, though, as if it had indeed been Ski Mask. (A rather more obscure actor and character.)

2023-08-03 17:18:34

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@npub1ddp…2tax @npub1ggm…7842 @npub1uxz…5ma4
My military experience is I was born on an Army base, but I am dang certain they’d not have followed DONALD TRUMP in particular.
They’d more likely have arrested Trump and turned control over to the Vice President, than have followed Trump according to some tendentiously ‘literal’ reading of the law.
(Indeed, my understanding is that, in effect, the VP WAS given partial control on that day.)
In other matters, isn’t that a photo of Steve Hudgins?

2023-08-02 17:15:48

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@npub1mz4…06zu I was there. One guy had a competent lawyer, the other had a doofus who put him on the stand. So at one point the jury was ready to convict the guy with the doofus and let the guy with the competent lawyer go free, even though the only difference is the one guy had a doofus for a lawyer who put him on the stand.
The evidence of the case was still the same against both defendants. That was my PoV. The same evidence. How can you convict one and not the other? That’s my PoV.
You see?

2023-08-02 17:12:46

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@npub1mz4…06zu There is nothing in jury duty that requires a person to accept the narratives provided by lawyers, or even to take them into account when evaluating the facts.
I do not like it and would make a strong point of trying to forget everything the lawyer said in that portion of the closing argument.
It is like the instruction given to Jews to forget gossip that one has heard, so that it will not affect one.

2023-08-02 17:10:05

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@npub1mz4…06zu As I’ve said, I served once on a criminal jury, when I was just 19. (Currently I have disabilities that keep me off juries.) I was at odds on principles and procedures with the rest of the jury. I saw how the lawyers worked, too, and it was disgusting to me how much the choice of lawyer mattered. I can’t stand the system.
I don’t know of a better one, but that’s probably only since I have not studied legal systems at all.

2023-08-02 17:06:14

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@npub1mz4…06zu I know that’s their job as currently done, but I do not have to like the way our legal system works, do I? :)

2023-08-02 17:01:48

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@npub1mz4…06zu I am analytic. Lawyers providing narratives irritate me. Provide me with the facts as a list. Let me evaluate them.
I actually served on a criminal jury only once, and it was over 40 years ago. Two armed robbers I am sure were guilty. They walked free because I refused to vote guilty (totally botched investigation) and everyone went along so they wouldn’t continue to be kept over a long weekend, as was happening because of it.

2023-08-02 16:54:11

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@npub1mz4…06zu I’m saying if I were ON A JURY. Not in my day to day life. I am a serious believer in letting people go free even if I am convinced they are guilty, if the authorities have not really PROVEN they are guilty.
I demand far better proof than Hamilton Burger does.

2023-08-02 16:39:39

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@npub1mz4…06zu Imagining myself in a jury, that’s one I would NOT consider proof BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT of Trump endorsing violence. It is only proof WITHIN a reasonable doubt of Trump calling for violence.

2023-07-16 15:52:54

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@npub10xg…h39u Coffee definitely is not my favorite drink, though. I am a tea drinker.

2023-07-16 15:52:22

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@npub10xg…h39u Uh oh, I don’t like LoA. :) I don’t know why, however.
I do tend to be very picky about big productions. They must apologize for themselves, somehow.
I can’t actually say I have a single favorite of anything -- EXCEPT for my favorite meal, which is corned beef and cabbage.

2023-07-06 02:58:24

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@npub1w30…dh68 Yeah, I’m a Jew who has read Hitler and has Hitler on his bookshelf but not out of reverence.
Nazism is unholy. It is impossible to be exposed to without special training, without also being ruined by it. Only specially trained persons may read it. One must be prepared for it.
The Nazis were onto something with the book burnings. The problem was they weren’t burning Nazi and Fascist books.

2023-07-01 16:10:53

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@npub1503…uxwg In SF that’s called a day ending in Y.

2023-06-29 11:44:44

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@npub10xg…h39u Right now I am in a thin band of orange that is actually not terribly far from some purple.

2023-06-28 16:30:14

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@npub10xg…h39u Of course it depends mainly on which way the wind blows. Which is very difficult to predict.

2023-06-28 16:28:52

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@npub10xg…h39u I went to airnow to get MY report. :(

2023-06-28 14:22:10

Once again in the unhealthy "red" air today.

2023-06-26 18:03:24

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@npub1503…uxwg Mine I was so small and weak (until age 15 when I stopped being a runt) and the rabbi gave me the biggest torah to carry, so naturally I struggled not to drop it and he was sweating beads.

2023-06-21 14:16:55

It turns out there is a very simple way compute the square root while purposely never underestimating it: Heron’s method, initialized with the maximum of 1 and the number whose root you are taking.
Just be sure NOT to run the algorithm to the full precision of the floating point type!

2023-06-20 15:01:26

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@npub10xg…h39u I go to whatever I have put ink into.

2023-06-20 14:57:22

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@npub10xg…h39u Levenger usually charged list price for fountain pens. No one else does. :) At the time, also, there were some very nice North American distributors for Pelikan and Platinum who sold directly. (Not the case now.)
Also pens often can be bought on the ‘gray market’, where you get them as they are sold in other countries, at the prices in those countries, sometimes in models not otherwise sold here.
Nowadays I also buy vintage, plus there is a kind of renaissance in cheap pens.

2023-06-20 14:38:12

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@npub10xg…h39u My downtown psychiatrist, too. He retired young and then died young. I liked to brag I had a downtown psychiatrist, but he wasn’t actually expensive. :) Just Nicollet Mall-located, with an office overlooking an ugly rooftop.
He wrote with fountain pens he obviously bought from Levenger and was self-conscious around me when they gave him trouble, because at the time I had slightly more knowledge of fountain pens than he did. :)

2023-06-20 14:29:22

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@npub10xg…h39u I haven’t worked in over 20 years, but I saw that my old boss, who was nice, died pretty young. :((((((

2023-06-20 13:45:09

I can't tell the difference between talking to an AI and talking to an AI developer.

2023-06-18 14:19:29

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@npub10xg…h39u @npub1qzh…qazt @npub19fc…ay3c
Also I have had mumps. I avoided measles long enough for vaccines to be given.

2023-06-18 14:12:41

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@npub10xg…h39u @npub1qzh…qazt @npub19fc…ay3c
LOL.
And I'm living history. I embody eras. I have had 4 teeth pulled for decay, and each was pulled before I had turned 21. I have made it to nearly 62 without a tooth pulled since, because new era in dental hygiene.

2023-06-18 14:04:35

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@npub10xg…h39u @npub1qzh…qazt @npub19fc…ay3c
(Btw a high speed toothbrush works fine even without toothpaste. The main thing is to break up the bacterial film.)

2023-06-18 14:00:41

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@npub10xg…h39u @npub1qzh…qazt @npub19fc…ay3c
They likely smelled. And people's teeth were really bad until high speed electric toothbrushes, actually. So my lifetime.
It does always strike me, though, that one of the gifts of the magi was toothpaste (myrrh).

2023-06-17 15:04:13

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@npub10xg…h39u @npub1utj…mepc
Don’t open the passenger side door next to a big rock, for instance.

2023-06-17 15:02:35

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@npub10xg…h39u @npub1utj…mepc
And, no, of course the film as not ‘Detour’. ‘Detour’ is not terrible, it’s just hilarious.

2023-06-17 14:59:50

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@npub10xg…h39u @npub1utj…mepc
She did something remarkable with the point of her sculpted eyebrow. I was very impressed.

2023-06-17 14:57:05

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@npub10xg…h39u @npub1utj…mepc
I saw a PRC noir the other day that was terrible, but it had Ann Savage in it so that much of it was good. So I guess I might watch it again.

2023-06-17 14:53:02

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@npub1utj…mepc @npub10xg…h39u
You ain’t never gonna get me to watch The English Patient again. Never.

2023-05-26 17:37:28

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@npub1v2s…mqq5 While Nitter was available I used that. But Skum apparently doesn't want people to read what's on Twitter! He makes it harder to get at.

2023-05-26 12:47:07

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@npub1v2s…mqq5 I'm technically still there but with the account taken private, all posts removed, everyone unfollowed, and a hazy blue circle (allegedly a distant planet) as my avatar. (Except posts and things kept reappearing, so I gave up trying.)

2023-05-25 14:48:47

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@npub1v2s…mqq5 This is very, very bad.

2023-04-23 09:41:10

The Daily Beast: Elon Musk Backs Off 'Legacy Checkmark' Purge, Re-Verifies Platform's Biggest Celebs https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-backs-off-legacy-checkmark-purge-re-verifies-platforms-biggest-celebs
Of course R.R. made some kind of silly scene. I blocked him on sight when I saw him in the Fediverse. But he was hilarious on Conan O'Brien. :)
Of course I would never put up with Skum's antics, and in fact haven't. My old account is now long nothing but Uranus. And a fuzzy pic of it, at that.

2023-04-21 11:49:08

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#[0] Now my earworm of ‘C is for Cookie, That’s Good Enough For Me’ is back, but it helps me imagine Big Bird and Snuffalupagus overwhelming DeSantis.

2023-04-18 18:14:35

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#[0] #[1]
It would seem a simpler and cheaper solution is to eliminate schools. /s

2023-01-24 20:50:28

My one-star Amazon review of John S. Bell, ‘Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics’, including a quick explanation of the math error: https://www.amazon.com/review/R3RWEBRI4AAIB4/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00AKE1QYK