Dave Ferguson
@daveferguson.bsky.social
Not as bad as you might think. Tangential. Instructional design, job aids, Ensampler.com. May be related to Alistair MacLeod. Francophonesque. Pic: Dad.
Chì mi Ceap Breatuinn, mo luaidh,
Fada bhuam, thar an t-sàil.
Chì mi Ceap Breatuinn, mo luaidh,
Fada bhuam, thar an t-sàil.
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What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
Hector Ó hEochagáin is on the money, for whatever language you want to preserve. I'd like to have better Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), while he's talking about Irish (Gaeilge). It took me too long to realize his "cùpla focal" is "a couple of words."
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November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Hector Ó hEochagáin is on the money, for whatever language you want to preserve. I'd like to have better Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), while he's talking about Irish (Gaeilge). It took me too long to realize his "cùpla focal" is "a couple of words."
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Remembrance Day in Canada.
My mom, circa 1943, as a lieutenant in the RCNVR (the Wavy Navy). A nursing sister, she served at the military hospital in Avalon, Newfoundland (which was not part of Canada till after the war).
Late in life, she was delighted to learn that counted as "overseas."
My mom, circa 1943, as a lieutenant in the RCNVR (the Wavy Navy). A nursing sister, she served at the military hospital in Avalon, Newfoundland (which was not part of Canada till after the war).
Late in life, she was delighted to learn that counted as "overseas."
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Remembrance Day in Canada.
My mom, circa 1943, as a lieutenant in the RCNVR (the Wavy Navy). A nursing sister, she served at the military hospital in Avalon, Newfoundland (which was not part of Canada till after the war).
Late in life, she was delighted to learn that counted as "overseas."
My mom, circa 1943, as a lieutenant in the RCNVR (the Wavy Navy). A nursing sister, she served at the military hospital in Avalon, Newfoundland (which was not part of Canada till after the war).
Late in life, she was delighted to learn that counted as "overseas."
No wonder that @democrats.senate.gov has posted four whole times in the last three weeks.
The staffers are too embarrassed, and the actual Senators are still using BlackBerries.
Shame on you all.
The staffers are too embarrassed, and the actual Senators are still using BlackBerries.
Shame on you all.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
No wonder that @democrats.senate.gov has posted four whole times in the last three weeks.
The staffers are too embarrassed, and the actual Senators are still using BlackBerries.
Shame on you all.
The staffers are too embarrassed, and the actual Senators are still using BlackBerries.
Shame on you all.
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Reminder folks that the CR still has to pass the House AND IT SHOULD DIE THERE.
Make sure your rep is on board to vote NO.
Make sure your rep is on board to vote NO.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Reminder folks that the CR still has to pass the House AND IT SHOULD DIE THERE.
Make sure your rep is on board to vote NO.
Make sure your rep is on board to vote NO.
@democrats.senate.gov DO NOT CAVE.
DO NOT CAVE.
TRUMP IS COUNTING ON SCHUMER TO FOLD.
DO NOT CAVE.
IT'S THE GOP SHUTDOWN.
THEY OWN IT.
NO NEED TO BUY IN.
DO NOT CAVE.
TRUMP IS COUNTING ON SCHUMER TO FOLD.
DO NOT CAVE.
IT'S THE GOP SHUTDOWN.
THEY OWN IT.
NO NEED TO BUY IN.
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
@democrats.senate.gov DO NOT CAVE.
DO NOT CAVE.
TRUMP IS COUNTING ON SCHUMER TO FOLD.
DO NOT CAVE.
IT'S THE GOP SHUTDOWN.
THEY OWN IT.
NO NEED TO BUY IN.
DO NOT CAVE.
TRUMP IS COUNTING ON SCHUMER TO FOLD.
DO NOT CAVE.
IT'S THE GOP SHUTDOWN.
THEY OWN IT.
NO NEED TO BUY IN.
If the day ever arrives that John Roberts finally feels shame and resigns… I mean, “retires to teach the yutes,” how does Chief Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sound?
Could hasten one or two additional more-time-with-the-family moments.
Could hasten one or two additional more-time-with-the-family moments.
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
If the day ever arrives that John Roberts finally feels shame and resigns… I mean, “retires to teach the yutes,” how does Chief Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sound?
Could hasten one or two additional more-time-with-the-family moments.
Could hasten one or two additional more-time-with-the-family moments.
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One last note about Watson, Crick, and Franklin: when Watson, Crick, and Wilkins stole her photographs, FRANKLIN was a PhD with a student of her own.
Crick was a grad student. Watson was a pretty newly minted PhD (1950).
Far too many people don’t know it was DOCTOR Franklin.
Crick was a grad student. Watson was a pretty newly minted PhD (1950).
Far too many people don’t know it was DOCTOR Franklin.
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
One last note about Watson, Crick, and Franklin: when Watson, Crick, and Wilkins stole her photographs, FRANKLIN was a PhD with a student of her own.
Crick was a grad student. Watson was a pretty newly minted PhD (1950).
Far too many people don’t know it was DOCTOR Franklin.
Crick was a grad student. Watson was a pretty newly minted PhD (1950).
Far too many people don’t know it was DOCTOR Franklin.
“No president, not ever the late, great George Washington, was able to do this, but WE did it!”
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
“No president, not ever the late, great George Washington, was able to do this, but WE did it!”
At least we can be sure the sub sandwich didn't have any fentanyl in it, or every cop within five blocks would have collapsed.
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
At least we can be sure the sub sandwich didn't have any fentanyl in it, or every cop within five blocks would have collapsed.
Online tip, contextual clue category:
Any purported survey that includes:
- “Challenge”
- “A little experiment”
- “Genuinely curious”
…is none of these things.
Any purported survey that includes:
- “Challenge”
- “A little experiment”
- “Genuinely curious”
…is none of these things.
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Online tip, contextual clue category:
Any purported survey that includes:
- “Challenge”
- “A little experiment”
- “Genuinely curious”
…is none of these things.
Any purported survey that includes:
- “Challenge”
- “A little experiment”
- “Genuinely curious”
…is none of these things.
“Systematic lying to the whole world can be safely carried out only under the conditions of totalitarian rule, where the fictitious quality of everyday reality makes propaganda largely superfluous.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which seems like the Ur-text of Project 2025.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which seems like the Ur-text of Project 2025.
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“Systematic lying to the whole world can be safely carried out only under the conditions of totalitarian rule, where the fictitious quality of everyday reality makes propaganda largely superfluous.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which seems like the Ur-text of Project 2025.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which seems like the Ur-text of Project 2025.
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I remember during Trump's first term that the US took per yer 28 families of refugees fleeing civil war in Syria, while Canada took 20,000. Outrageous.
US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans
Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I remember during Trump's first term that the US took per yer 28 families of refugees fleeing civil war in Syria, while Canada took 20,000. Outrageous.
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
Hectare: 2.5 acres
Acre: 43,560 square feet
Acre: 43,560 square feet
I was curious how big a 90k sq.ft. foot ballroom would be next to the Whitehouse. I went to google maps & drew this. the goog tells me 90k sq.ft is 0.836 hectares. This box is 0.822 ha. It is 9 times the size of the current East Wing and 3x bigger than the main Whitehouse. It means no more East Wing
October 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hectare: 2.5 acres
Acre: 43,560 square feet
Acre: 43,560 square feet
I saw this and assumed he was opening the East and West WINGS to drilling, based on his knowing more about oil than anyone attached to reality.
Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling
The Trump administration plans to open whole swaths of the East and West Coasts to offshore drilling, including areas previously protected for environmental reasons, documents show.
www.yahoo.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I saw this and assumed he was opening the East and West WINGS to drilling, based on his knowing more about oil than anyone attached to reality.
The entire thread (this one's midstream) is worthwhile; this one really stood out.
What I’ve taken in over the last couple years is that when people have an irrationally outsized emotional response to doing a task,90% of the time it is because they can’t do it — not that they won’t do it. They can’t. And most people will die trying to prove why that’s someone else’s fault.
October 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The entire thread (this one's midstream) is worthwhile; this one really stood out.
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Look if Trump wants to demolish the White House he can get enough Canadians to do it again for free
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Look if Trump wants to demolish the White House he can get enough Canadians to do it again for free
"Bias doesn't disappear in data; it scales."
New blog post (never a paywall): "The Default Body: AI, biased health data, and the illusion of objectivity." Medicine's idea of a “universal body” was never universal. It was male, and now AI is learning from that legacy. Bias doesn’t disappear in data; it scales. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
October 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
"Bias doesn't disappear in data; it scales."
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I have stolen
the jewels
that were in
the museumcase
and which
you were probably
saving
for visitors
forgive me
they were expensive
so shiny
and so old
the jewels
that were in
the museumcase
and which
you were probably
saving
for visitors
forgive me
they were expensive
so shiny
and so old
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I have stolen
the jewels
that were in
the museumcase
and which
you were probably
saving
for visitors
forgive me
they were expensive
so shiny
and so old
the jewels
that were in
the museumcase
and which
you were probably
saving
for visitors
forgive me
they were expensive
so shiny
and so old
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Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
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@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social snapped this at the #nokings protest in McLean, VA
October 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social snapped this at the #nokings protest in McLean, VA
None of this "Young Republican" stuff is surprising, including the crocodile tears and professional lamentations of nonentities like J. D. Vance.
Henry Hyde, whose NPR obit (!) praised him as "a forceful advocate for maintaining the dignity of the House," led the Clinton impeachment effort...
Henry Hyde, whose NPR obit (!) praised him as "a forceful advocate for maintaining the dignity of the House," led the Clinton impeachment effort...
October 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
None of this "Young Republican" stuff is surprising, including the crocodile tears and professional lamentations of nonentities like J. D. Vance.
Henry Hyde, whose NPR obit (!) praised him as "a forceful advocate for maintaining the dignity of the House," led the Clinton impeachment effort...
Henry Hyde, whose NPR obit (!) praised him as "a forceful advocate for maintaining the dignity of the House," led the Clinton impeachment effort...
One thing the many ICE goons (and the goon capos who shout them around) may have overlooked is the deep regulatory knowledge of the people on the admin sidelines—the ones tracking every expense voucher, every claim of overtime, every “temporary duty” or “special assignment” charge to payroll.
October 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
One thing the many ICE goons (and the goon capos who shout them around) may have overlooked is the deep regulatory knowledge of the people on the admin sidelines—the ones tracking every expense voucher, every claim of overtime, every “temporary duty” or “special assignment” charge to payroll.
During a lull in the game, we asked the Court about baseball.
Jackson: There's balls and there's strikes. I call them as I see them.
Alito: There's balls and there's strikes. I call them as they are.
Roberts: There's balls and there's strikes, but they're not a damn thing till I call them.
Jackson: There's balls and there's strikes. I call them as I see them.
Alito: There's balls and there's strikes. I call them as they are.
Roberts: There's balls and there's strikes, but they're not a damn thing till I call them.
October 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
During a lull in the game, we asked the Court about baseball.
Jackson: There's balls and there's strikes. I call them as I see them.
Alito: There's balls and there's strikes. I call them as they are.
Roberts: There's balls and there's strikes, but they're not a damn thing till I call them.
Jackson: There's balls and there's strikes. I call them as I see them.
Alito: There's balls and there's strikes. I call them as they are.
Roberts: There's balls and there's strikes, but they're not a damn thing till I call them.