Nostr notes by Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2:

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2026-10-28T21:28:52Z

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2026-10-28T21:27:11Z

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"Free shipping"!! 🙃

2026-10-28T21:15:37Z

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"Free shipping"!! 🙃

A raccoon-involved shorting occurred...

2026-10-27T14:37:18Z

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A raccoon-involved shorting occurred...

This semester I've been getting a lot of AI-written excuse ...

2026-10-26T21:22:18Z

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This semester I've been getting a lot of AI-written excuse emails from students for the first time. It's deeply aggravating but I have to suppress all sarcastic inclinations for their sake, although I do ask them not to do it.

Another win for AI. Regular old intelligence just isn't ...

2026-10-26T21:15:15Z

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Another win for AI. Regular old intelligence just isn't capable of such surreal mistakes.

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2026-10-22T18:37:37Z

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2026-10-22T16:41:56Z

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An informative and concise review of an upcoming TV thing. I wish ...

2026-10-21T15:47:17Z

An informative and concise review of an upcoming TV thing. I wish more of them would just lay it out like this.

It reminds me of my favorite TV guide late-night movie review. This would have been about 1977-8 in the print edition and it went like this:

Lady Chatterly's Lover -- Character names by D.H. Lawrence.

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@userboxes/117464224267543160 I ...

2026-10-18T22:30:20Z

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@userboxes/117464224267543160

I am unreasonably thrilled that this account isn't called userboxen.

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2026-10-18T18:24:32Z

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Quirky and high-quality hand-selected music collections I've ...

2026-10-18T18:13:32Z

Quirky and high-quality hand-selected music collections I've found on soulseek recently. Actual human beings, some individually, some in organized groups, put these together to serve their own human purposes in defiance of the laws that would prevent us from organizing and preserving our own culture. There are dozens of collections like this floating around. These are just three of the most surprising and delightful.

* More than 10K Child ballad covers organized by number.

* More than 12K files from Woodstock organized as best as anyone can tell in chronological order.

* An uncounted number of recordings -- at least 20K -- of shape note singing along with PDFs of an incredible number of books of shape note songs, history, and methods. This includes recordings of singing at people's weddings, funerals, etc.

Both the music and the self-organized defiance of the law are absolutely beautiful!

If you listen to various blue maga reply guys on here you might ...

2026-10-18T17:46:29Z

If you listen to various blue maga reply guys on here you might think that anarchists in general and I in particular are somehow opposed to voting for the lesser evil, but here in the City of Los Angeles council district nine the choice is between the less fun and the most fun apparently. And the less fun guy happens to be the progressive one that LAPD and the landlords hate, and I, an anarchist, voted for him. Vote for the not as much fun guy! Yay democracy!

Not that I'm expecting much even if he wins. LA City Council can silence progressives if they can't convert them, and they convert most of them...

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2026-10-18T16:29:34Z

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Fedi also loves butt actuallys...

2026-10-17T19:43:23Z

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Fedi also loves butt actuallys...

Musicolet has been great for me although it only plays local ...

2026-10-17T17:19:41Z

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Musicolet has been great for me although it only plays local files (which is what I need). On the other hand it's not stable with too many files to scan. It could handle 200K on my sd card but it crashes repeatedly with 300K, as does VLC. This might be my phone's fault, though. So if you have 200K or fewer audio files I can definitely recommend musicolet.

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2026-10-17T16:19:24Z

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Or at least hipped would seem more aerodynamic.

2026-10-17T16:08:42Z

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Or at least hipped would seem more aerodynamic.

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2026-10-16T03:10:13Z

Well that's par for the cheesi.

How about Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss? The Sneetches is also ...

2026-10-15T17:45:30Z

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How about Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss? The Sneetches is also good. Not quite board books but not far from it

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Then again, from below, in the great heavy stack,
Came a groan from that plain little turtle named Mack.
“Your Majesty, please . . . I don’t like to complain,
But down here below, we are feeling great pain.
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights,
But down at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
We turtles can’t stand it. Our shells will all crack!
Besides, we need food. We are starving!” groaned Mack.

A friend of mine once said there are cover versions where ...

2026-10-13T17:01:13Z

A friend of mine once said there are cover versions where somebody liked the song and wanted to sing it and others that change the whole way you look at the song. Swamp Dogg's soul cover of John Prine's Sam Stone, which I heard for the first time this morning, is definitely the latter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWD2Re6SsUU

#SwampDogg #JohnPrine #SoulMusic #Americana #FolkMusic #KentRecords #Covers #SamStone #VietnamWar

Microsoft single log-on, for one. I'm forced to use it for ...

2026-10-09T23:44:39Z

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Microsoft single log-on, for one. I'm forced to use it for work, incl work email. I literally have to manually delete expired session cookies every morning before it will let me log in.

The capitalist hydra will sacrifice a head to its victims to ...

2026-10-09T21:09:01Z

The capitalist hydra will sacrifice a head to its victims to ensure its survival like a lizard dropping its tail to escape. But capitalists choose to let you cut off one biting head because they have other heads to bite you with and that one's going to grow back anyway.

You didn't like being sold liquidized calf brains as cream? Sure, have the pure food and drug act, for all the good it did preventing your brain being full of microplastics. You fought to have health care included in your job? Now you can't quit. The forty hour week was a big victory? Now you need gig work to make your rent. Don't even get me started about fucking PoLiCe ReFoRm!!1!

Every capitalist law, every capitalist policy, is a hydra head biting you and eating your flesh and drinking your blood. Cut off one biting head and you're still getting bit. They'll die or have to actually work if they don't drink your blood, which is why they're never going to stop until we stop cutting off this or that head and rip out their evil black heart.

#Capitalism #Anarchy #Anarchism

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2026-10-08T17:43:31Z

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It was 80° in Whittier, California when I got to work at 7 am ...

2026-10-05T22:06:45Z

It was 80° in Whittier, California when I got to work at 7 am and 108° when I left at 1 pm. It's a lot cooler in Los Angeles right now at 98° but it's really too much. Getting the dog shaved almost bald tomorrow morning cause fluffball that he is he's really suffering too.

Nightmare. There's the human cost in suffering and also all ...

2026-10-04T21:12:34Z

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Nightmare. There's the human cost in suffering and also all morning my phone has been too hot to use the camera, which it tells me right before it shuts itself down. The first time I've seen this particular error but I feel like it's not close to the last...

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2026-10-04T11:21:21Z

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2026-10-04T11:20:37Z

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2026-10-04T11:19:31Z

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2026-10-04T11:18:22Z

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I'm really pleased with these little terra cotta tumblers I ...

2026-10-03T19:16:00Z

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I'm really pleased with these little terra cotta tumblers I cast out of mostly redart with 10% large particle kaolin to speed up casting time. I'm still figuring out how to successfully glaze them because the clay releases tons of gas which really clouds transparent glaze. Bisquing very slowly and holding for 3 hours helps a lot but it's not enough. For now I'm sticking to opaque while I experiment with solutions to that problem.

I'm in the process of building some new shelves for my ...

2026-10-03T19:09:38Z

I'm in the process of building some new shelves for my studio. I finished the first but it's 102° outside rn so I think I'm going to hold off on the second one till tomorrow. I'll fill this one up tonight when things cool off and hopefully clear some space on the table. This one is big enough to hold gallon jars of casting slip. I'm in the process of mixing up a gallon each of ROY G BV (no indigo) and black so I need the space.

#Ceramics #Pottery

"I know a lot of anarchists." The anarchists: ...

2026-10-03T16:28:11Z

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"I know a lot of anarchists."

The anarchists:

Actually it turns out the only reason people follow the rules of ...

2026-10-03T16:20:25Z

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Actually it turns out the only reason people follow the rules of softball is because the police will kill them if they don't.

In another life I used to read zillions of public records from ...

2026-10-03T16:12:52Z

In another life I used to read zillions of public records from the City of Los Angeles and its various subdivisions. One bit that's really stuck with me is a private security report on a group of "self-proclaimed anarchists" holding an unpermitted protest on Hollywood Blvd. LOL at self-proclaimed as if there's any other kind of anarchist!

#Anarchism #LosAngeles

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2026-10-03T14:50:39Z

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Looks like he ate a tiny balancing sheep.

2026-10-02T01:56:34Z

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Looks like he ate a tiny balancing sheep.

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2026-10-02T01:54:12Z

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https://bcv.glass/products/uranium-round-glass-sphere-without-hole

One of my basic ethical principles is to not do things I would be ...

2026-10-01T23:40:24Z

One of my basic ethical principles is to not do things I would be deeply ashamed of if they appeared on the front page of the LA Times. This is one reason I never use AI for anything.

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2026-10-01T22:20:24Z

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RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/117367138827069053 Free black ...

2026-10-01T22:17:50Z

RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/117367138827069053

Free black flag stickers by mail! Email me at the address in my profile with a postal address and I'll send them off! Images in reply due to QP limitations.

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Active Distribution has produced a pocketbook version of "Every Flag Is Black in a Fire," our history of the black flag as a symbol of anarchism.

"Authors and artists from across a century and a half explore the meaning of the black flag, the anarchist standard of rebellion and negation. Featuring Louise Michel, the Haymarket Martyrs, Sergei Eisenstein, André Breton, Jean Genet, Léo Ferré, and more."

You can order them here:

https://www.activedistributionshop.org/product/every-flag-is-black-in-a-fire-by-crimethinc/

Or read the original essay here:

https://crimethinc.com/TheBlackFlag

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2026-10-01T21:11:55Z

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2026-10-01T20:12:47Z

I have a little seaweed problem. I see weed, I smoke it.

Time to come singing songs of love!

2026-10-01T20:10:43Z

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Time to come singing songs of love!

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2026-10-01T19:34:35Z

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"Portland’s formal alternative is a network of seven city-run tiny home communities, called Safe Rest Villages, that are heavily rule-based, with a 120-day limit on length of stay. In contrast, Dignity Village’s lack of time limits draws criticism from the city. Its model “generally does not provide in-depth case management and does not prioritize moving individuals into permanent housing,” Perkins said."
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Motherfucker, if people are living in houses with no time limit they *are* in permanent housing.

It's amazing what people can do to care for themselves and ...

2026-10-01T19:31:41Z

It's amazing what people can do to care for themselves and others once the cops get the fuck out of the way and they're able to figure things out together. We all lived like this before the invention of the state and we can do it again after its end.

H/T Rob Zazueta (npub1dd2…679z) for the link

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/the-homeless-community-that-became-a-self-governed-village/

#Anarchism #Anarchy #Homelessness

More serious tangent -- do you know Kleist's Michael ...

2026-10-01T19:06:59Z

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More serious tangent -- do you know Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas? It's absolutely perfect anti-border propaganda. On page 2 Kohlhaas gets upset at a new border crossing blocking the road he uses to bring horses to market. He protests. Things get worse. Much worse. About 30 pages later he's raised an army and is burning towns, calling himself "a viceroy of the Archangel Michael, come to punish with fire and sword, for the wickedness into which the whole world was sunk", and issuing communiques from "The seat of the provisional government of the world." The opening is phenomenal...

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Toward the middle of the six-teenth century, there lived on the banks of the Havel a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas, the son of a schoolmaster, one of the most upright and at the same time one of the most terrible men of his day. Until his thirtieth year this extraordinary man would have been thought the very model of a good citizen. In a village that still bears his name, he owned a farm on which he quietly earned a living by his trade; the children with whom his wife presented him were brought up in the fear of God to be industrious and honest;
there was not one of his neighbors who had not benefited from his benevolence or his fair-mindedness-the world, in short, would have had every reason to bless his memory, if he had not carried one virtue to excess. But his sense of justice turned him into a brigand and a murderer.

I mean, borders did give us the border collie but other than ...

2026-10-01T18:40:58Z

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I mean, borders did give us the border collie but other than that, yeah.

Slave societies ⊆ Rape societies. This even now largely ...

2026-10-01T16:39:53Z

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Slave societies ⊆ Rape societies. This even now largely undiscussed aspect of American chattel slavery never ended.

Ain't no sunshine when it's gone, though.

2026-10-01T16:32:44Z

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Ain't no sunshine when it's gone, though.

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2026-10-01T13:12:42Z

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2026-09-30T23:09:57Z

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2026-09-30T21:15:05Z

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I once got a little radio shack transistor radio at a garage sale for free because "it doesn't work." Add one 9V battery and ... Ninety Three KAY AITCH JAY!!!

I'm with you 98% here but falafel seems like an edge case.

2026-09-30T15:47:00Z

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I'm with you 98% here but falafel seems like an edge case.

Civicband is excellent! TIL. Here are a few recent ones. Can you ...

2026-09-29T21:39:00Z

I watched the first episode of season 3, realized I had no idea ...

2026-09-29T21:14:01Z

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I watched the first episode of season 3, realized I had no idea what was going on anymore, and then rewatched straight through from the first episode. Not only did it really hold up but the third season was excellent! I was completely surprised by the revelations. No idea that was coming!

Under the hood in a waymo

2026-09-29T19:09:07Z

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2026-09-29T19:05:14Z

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2026-09-29T17:39:38Z

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It's not hidden any more than usual. It's just in the LA ...

2026-09-29T17:24:05Z

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It's not hidden any more than usual. It's just in the LA City Council minutes rather than the LA County Board of Supes. They're all available online. The Controller has formatted data available for DL, which is easier to parse, I'm sure. But the LA City clerk's website with the minutes has pretty extensive filters, and these all have to go through a specific committee, so maybe they can be found directly?

This is great work and I know it's incomplete. It seems to be ...

2026-09-29T17:16:30Z

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This is great work and I know it's incomplete. It seems to be mostly counties rather than cities, which only doesn't matter for San Francisco since it's both, and this really skews the data. E.g. per the LA City Controller the City of LA just by itself has paid $456,290,364 settling LAPD cases since FY2020 alone. This isn't related to LA County at all.

https://liabilityclaims.lacontroller.app/

RE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/117354472120793825 Best thread ...

2026-09-29T14:22:47Z

RE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/117354472120793825

Best thread of the day

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A lot of analysis across a wide range of subjects right now seems to 1) have extremely specific ideas of what "human nature" is, 2) the ideas seem to boil down to "it ain't great", and 3) they seem to assume that the catastrophic outcome is the most likely one.

The first and second are explained by, well, the West's long obsession with how Sinful people are and how that requires Disciplining, usually by people who are even *more* Sinful but also extraordinarily cruel.

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2026-09-29T00:28:47Z

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For whatever reason I'm seeing a lot of posts about the ...

2026-09-28T23:59:16Z

For whatever reason I'm seeing a lot of posts about the Confederacy recently. You know the drill: "They lost every battle but won the war." "If only we had punished them after the war we wouldn't be in this situation." Et fricking cetera... This idea is not only wrong, it's dangerous too.

The US civil war was fought between capitalist factions. On the one hand Northern capitalists who had realized that chattel slavery was politically unsustainable and that it had to be replaced by wage slavery throughout the US in order to preserve the means of exploitation and on the other Southern capitalists who couldn't see that slavery couldn't actually continue because they were blinded like Scrooge McDuck by the unimaginably vast profits they were making from slave labor.

Northern capitalists never cared about the well-being of enslaved and formerly enslaved people. Those with the power to decide were never going to protect them. The Northern economy relied as much on slave labor as the Southern and they weren't about to let that slip away by failing to manage the end of slavery in a profit-preserving manner. Their goal was to integrate Southern capital into the modern system rather than to help any oppressed people whatsoever. The Southern ruling class finally figured this out and stopped trying to drown the lifeguard and we've had the boots of this unified ruling class on our necks ever since.

Governments aren't going to save us now and governments were never going to save us or anyone else who's not a capitalist. Ultimately these ahistorical fantasies support capital because they support the fantasy that governments protect ordinary people. Clearly enslaved and formerly enslaved people weren't going to free themselves by voting in the right government and just as clearly we're not going to either.

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2026-09-28T23:01:15Z

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2026-09-27T21:06:36Z

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Never do anything...if the state demands it. FTFY

2026-09-27T18:27:15Z

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Never do anything...if the state demands it. FTFY

Second this!

2026-09-26T21:37:05Z

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Second this!

Walk This Way: Drop once, Run DMC

2026-09-26T17:37:50Z

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Walk This Way: Drop once, Run DMC

Now I finally understand why no one ever saw Che Guevara and ...

2026-09-26T02:52:07Z

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Now I finally understand why no one ever saw Che Guevara and Danny Che in the same room. Or was that Che Kyser??

I did not expect that twist. A year is a loooong time.

2026-09-25T21:04:29Z

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I did *not* expect that twist. A year is a loooong time.

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2026-09-25T15:31:52Z

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4:30 -- it's the new 5:00! Actually for me it happens around ...

2026-09-24T23:48:16Z

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4:30 -- it's the new 5:00! Actually for me it happens around 3, but 🤷

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2026-09-24T22:09:37Z

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Programmer's partner calls them at work. "Stop and pick ...

2026-09-24T21:39:59Z

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Programmer's partner calls them at work. "Stop and pick up a loaf of bread. If they have eggs get a dozen." Programmer comes home with 12 loaves of bread. "They had eggs."

No one who doesn't get this joke can successfully program a computer.

Reminds me of this exchange between Joseph McCarthy and Dashiell ...

2026-09-24T19:01:02Z

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Reminds me of this exchange between Joseph McCarthy and Dashiell Hammett:

McCarthy: If you were spending, as we are, over a hundred million dollars a year on an information program allegedly for the purpose of fighting communism, and if you were in charge of that program to fight communism, would you purchase the works of some 75 communist authors and distribute their works throughout the world, placing our official stamp of approval upon these works?

Hammett: If I were fighting communism, I don’t think I would do it by giving people any books at all.

Really feeling the intro to Emily St. John Mandel's latest ...

2026-09-24T18:09:03Z

Really feeling the intro to Emily St. John Mandel's latest here in LA...

"In the first spring after the collapse of the United States, the blossoming of the jacaranda trees felt to Ari like grace. The trees bloomed in the same week that international peacekeeping troops withdrew from Los Angeles, and the convergence of flowers with the absence of foreign soldiers brought a delirious kind of hope."

#LosAngeles #EmilyStJohnMandel #ExitParty #Bookstodon

It occurs to me regularly these days that I'm in an EOL race ...

2026-09-24T17:46:09Z

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It occurs to me regularly these days that I'm in an EOL race condition with my OS.

Absolutely right about Kim. I also reread it regularly and love ...

2026-09-22T00:40:01Z

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Absolutely right about Kim. I also reread it regularly and love it so much I almost named my new puppy Kim.* It's like Treasure Island in that there's no other book that's anything like it. And you're right about Plain Tales too. Under the Deodars and The Man Who Would Be King are also very solid, but again, there's nothing like Kim.

* Went with Sunshine instead.

Internet services all suck now so thinking about self-hoisting. ...

2026-09-21T23:57:11Z

Internet services all suck now so thinking about self-hoisting. Okay, I've got my own petard... What's next?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/117310823893781486 ...

2026-09-21T22:13:46Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/117310823893781486

Actually, replacing university administrators with chatbots would be an improvement, especially if there's a kill switch. Or just give us a kill switch for the putatively human ones we have now...

(4+1)(3+7)(9-7)

2026-09-21T22:07:36Z

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Same with Los Angeles and parking spaces.

2026-09-21T00:23:22Z

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Same with Los Angeles and parking spaces.

6+85-7+8+8

2026-09-21T00:17:23Z

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6+85-7+8+8

7+91+8/(1+3)

2026-09-20T22:33:53Z

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7+91+8/(1+3)

3+6+3+87+1

2026-09-20T22:32:24Z

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3+6+3+87+1

-4+7+91+7-1

2026-09-20T17:11:03Z

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-4+7+91+7-1

(-2-8)5+275

2026-09-20T15:37:18Z

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(-2-8)*5+2*75

16+4+73+7

2026-09-20T02:19:06Z

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16+4+73+7

45+95-35

2026-09-19T22:49:52Z

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4*5+95-3*5

(4-3)(6+4)(7+3)

2026-09-19T17:18:13Z

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(4-3)*(6+4)*(7+3)

Only those which require me to own a land line. #GoAlfLandon

2026-09-19T16:51:46Z

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Only those which require me to own a land line. #GoAlfLandon

OMG!

2026-09-19T15:36:35Z

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OMG!

5+7+24+4^3

2026-09-19T15:22:07Z

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5+7+24+4^3

Look at the aspens! That's one of the things I miss most ...

2026-09-19T03:28:19Z

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Look at the aspens! That's one of the things I miss most about living in Flagstaff.

(33+5-4)(9+1)

2026-09-18T21:41:58Z

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