Jon Pye
@jdpye.bsky.social
was j_pye on the Bad Site. Computer Scientist (Ocean Science) Habs fan. Opinions mine. Also at @j_pye@mastodon.social
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Being profoundly upset about the 51st state stuff was not an unreasonable reaction.
January 3, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Being profoundly upset about the 51st state stuff was not an unreasonable reaction.
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."
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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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it is a little disconcerting that none of the people in charge of anything right now seem to know how to do it. like, if you were on a bus and the driver started whipping around all crazy and yelling about how buses don’t need wheels you’d probably be like, hey. this guy shouldn’t be driving the bus
January 3, 2026 at 5:13 AM
it is a little disconcerting that none of the people in charge of anything right now seem to know how to do it. like, if you were on a bus and the driver started whipping around all crazy and yelling about how buses don’t need wheels you’d probably be like, hey. this guy shouldn’t be driving the bus
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The moderate position is indeed The Hague
January 3, 2026 at 6:45 AM
The moderate position is indeed The Hague
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January 2, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.
January 2, 2026 at 4:44 AM
There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.
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It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams
January 2, 2026 at 2:03 AM
It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams
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My stance with the “never Trump” right remains: These are the people who fucking built Trump. Years of shit in service of Reagan, Bush, Romney, McCain paved the way for Trump. I don’t trust them. They’re rotten. I trust the people who opposed this shit all along.
December 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
My stance with the “never Trump” right remains: These are the people who fucking built Trump. Years of shit in service of Reagan, Bush, Romney, McCain paved the way for Trump. I don’t trust them. They’re rotten. I trust the people who opposed this shit all along.
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“having to mask made me go fash” is so common and it’s just baffling
I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on
and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition
I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on
and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition
The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid.
I’m not making this up.
I’m not making this up.
December 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
“having to mask made me go fash” is so common and it’s just baffling
I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on
and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition
I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on
and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition
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Whenever we're out of this shit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be built into an absolutely nightmare bureaucratic goliath. Increase the original funding by a million times and hire thousands of staffers trying to fuck shit up for business.
December 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Whenever we're out of this shit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be built into an absolutely nightmare bureaucratic goliath. Increase the original funding by a million times and hire thousands of staffers trying to fuck shit up for business.
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Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans
December 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans
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Dear #rstats,
Is there a good review paper (or vignette) that details when/how to use the tuning parameters for `optim(control = list())`.
The inner workings of these optimization algorithms are currently a blind spot for me, and i just use the default params and pray everything is fine.
Is there a good review paper (or vignette) that details when/how to use the tuning parameters for `optim(control = list())`.
The inner workings of these optimization algorithms are currently a blind spot for me, and i just use the default params and pray everything is fine.
December 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Dear #rstats,
Is there a good review paper (or vignette) that details when/how to use the tuning parameters for `optim(control = list())`.
The inner workings of these optimization algorithms are currently a blind spot for me, and i just use the default params and pray everything is fine.
Is there a good review paper (or vignette) that details when/how to use the tuning parameters for `optim(control = list())`.
The inner workings of these optimization algorithms are currently a blind spot for me, and i just use the default params and pray everything is fine.
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I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.
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NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
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I don’t post as often as I shoud about that “extremely part-time musician” part of my profile, so here’s a song I made with some Halifax open mic friends that’s kind of about Jaws. Also available on a whole mess of streaming services. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...
A Bigger Boat (You're Gonna Need It), by Chuck Bangley
track by Chuck Bangley
chuckbangley.bandcamp.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I don’t post as often as I shoud about that “extremely part-time musician” part of my profile, so here’s a song I made with some Halifax open mic friends that’s kind of about Jaws. Also available on a whole mess of streaming services. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...
Watch what's going on in the now-captured US media, and understand what the people who fund the "defund CBC" movement here in Canada actually want to see happen.
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Watch what's going on in the now-captured US media, and understand what the people who fund the "defund CBC" movement here in Canada actually want to see happen.
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Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
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We have successfully recreated the Starship Troopers from the famous movie "Don't Recreate The Starship Troopers"
December 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We have successfully recreated the Starship Troopers from the famous movie "Don't Recreate The Starship Troopers"
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From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...