henry sholar
@mapablue.bsky.social
eugene, oregon • cruiser on a beater • bookish hippie • great great great great grandson of isaac harby • rorty-esque flexibility in my anticipatory resoluteness • progressive • choice • LGBTQIA2S+ • BLM • fight fascism • social media doggerel • he/him/old
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henry sholar
@mapablue.bsky.social
· Nov 22
January 2017 — March 2020
every Tuesday, Eugene, OR
(i need to make another sign)
every Tuesday, Eugene, OR
(i need to make another sign)
still in awe of that end 10 steal by Great Britain's women's curling team yesterday agst the US, winning them the set.
As they might say on Discworld, "that hammer was a million to one shot."
As they might say on Discworld, "that hammer was a million to one shot."
February 19, 2026 at 7:24 PM
still in awe of that end 10 steal by Great Britain's women's curling team yesterday agst the US, winning them the set.
As they might say on Discworld, "that hammer was a million to one shot."
As they might say on Discworld, "that hammer was a million to one shot."
Our state motto might be "Be nice, yer in Oregon," but that will always include punching a nazi in the face:
*Wyden, Merkley won’t attend State of the Union, will Instead hold virtual Town Hall for Oregonians*
www.newportnewstimes.com/news/wyden-m...
*Wyden, Merkley won’t attend State of the Union, will Instead hold virtual Town Hall for Oregonians*
www.newportnewstimes.com/news/wyden-m...
Wyden, Merkley won’t attend State of the Union, will Instead hold virtual Town Hall for Oregonians
Oregon U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced they will not attend the State of the Union speech on Tuesday, February 24 and will instead co-host a live
www.newportnewstimes.com
February 19, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Our state motto might be "Be nice, yer in Oregon," but that will always include punching a nazi in the face:
*Wyden, Merkley won’t attend State of the Union, will Instead hold virtual Town Hall for Oregonians*
www.newportnewstimes.com/news/wyden-m...
*Wyden, Merkley won’t attend State of the Union, will Instead hold virtual Town Hall for Oregonians*
www.newportnewstimes.com/news/wyden-m...
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Sounds like Prince Andrew is newly available to join the Cabinet.
February 19, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Sounds like Prince Andrew is newly available to join the Cabinet.
so absolutely cool that this piece of shit just blatantly spells it out that he's the fucking "golden idol" that everybody is to worship as he brings "peace" to the world, starting in the "holy lands."
what a goddam cheap production of a rotten apocalypse movie a la fundamentalism. Just trash.
what a goddam cheap production of a rotten apocalypse movie a la fundamentalism. Just trash.
February 19, 2026 at 4:01 PM
so absolutely cool that this piece of shit just blatantly spells it out that he's the fucking "golden idol" that everybody is to worship as he brings "peace" to the world, starting in the "holy lands."
what a goddam cheap production of a rotten apocalypse movie a la fundamentalism. Just trash.
what a goddam cheap production of a rotten apocalypse movie a la fundamentalism. Just trash.
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Remember Trump’s past talk about abolishing the income tax and replacing it with tariff income? It sounds outlandish, but it’s rooted in a longstanding effort on the US right to replace progressive taxation with regressive taxation, while starving the parts of the government that help the non-rich.
1. The president is burning up the American middle class with the largest tax increase since the early 1990s, which itself is snowballing the price of everything from coffee to clothes to carpets to car parts.
Yet this isn’t a major, ongoing, attention-grabbing story.
Yet this isn’t a major, ongoing, attention-grabbing story.
February 19, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Remember Trump’s past talk about abolishing the income tax and replacing it with tariff income? It sounds outlandish, but it’s rooted in a longstanding effort on the US right to replace progressive taxation with regressive taxation, while starving the parts of the government that help the non-rich.
trumpsters not winning me with the beefcake.
not even a nice try.
not even a nice try.
February 19, 2026 at 2:02 PM
trumpsters not winning me with the beefcake.
not even a nice try.
not even a nice try.
morning thought:
thinking about Iran, thinking about how quickly trump's psychotic administration has turned this country into a rogue nation (ie, in a radically new way, for all you linear thinkers). interesting times. care and concern must grow in the hearts of decent Dasein.
thinking about Iran, thinking about how quickly trump's psychotic administration has turned this country into a rogue nation (ie, in a radically new way, for all you linear thinkers). interesting times. care and concern must grow in the hearts of decent Dasein.
February 19, 2026 at 1:07 PM
morning thought:
thinking about Iran, thinking about how quickly trump's psychotic administration has turned this country into a rogue nation (ie, in a radically new way, for all you linear thinkers). interesting times. care and concern must grow in the hearts of decent Dasein.
thinking about Iran, thinking about how quickly trump's psychotic administration has turned this country into a rogue nation (ie, in a radically new way, for all you linear thinkers). interesting times. care and concern must grow in the hearts of decent Dasein.
same
I am really surprised that the curlers of every country are all universally attractive I thought there would be at least a couple who looked like the bowling champion of fargo or the sioux city darts champion
February 18, 2026 at 11:55 PM
same
interesting 'theology' that winds up with advocacy for a “measured and theocratic caesarism.”
"i know, let's have a gov't like the gov't that slaughtered, persecuted and, in general, made life hell for the early followers of Jesus."
cool cool cool
"i know, let's have a gov't like the gov't that slaughtered, persecuted and, in general, made life hell for the early followers of Jesus."
cool cool cool
February 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
interesting 'theology' that winds up with advocacy for a “measured and theocratic caesarism.”
"i know, let's have a gov't like the gov't that slaughtered, persecuted and, in general, made life hell for the early followers of Jesus."
cool cool cool
"i know, let's have a gov't like the gov't that slaughtered, persecuted and, in general, made life hell for the early followers of Jesus."
cool cool cool
morning thought:
what clever mysteries lie(?)
at the ends
of the micro
and the macro
everything is
inbetween,
like past and future.
what clever mysteries lie(?)
at the ends
of the micro
and the macro
everything is
inbetween,
like past and future.
February 18, 2026 at 3:54 PM
morning thought:
what clever mysteries lie(?)
at the ends
of the micro
and the macro
everything is
inbetween,
like past and future.
what clever mysteries lie(?)
at the ends
of the micro
and the macro
everything is
inbetween,
like past and future.
morning thought:
trumpian fascism is basically criminality as a political system in which and by which every sense of morality and law is ignored by the actions of the state.
Hobbesian-esque, as in every rebuke of the state is met with "you and what army?"
& it becomes more and more infantile.
trumpian fascism is basically criminality as a political system in which and by which every sense of morality and law is ignored by the actions of the state.
Hobbesian-esque, as in every rebuke of the state is met with "you and what army?"
& it becomes more and more infantile.
February 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM
morning thought:
trumpian fascism is basically criminality as a political system in which and by which every sense of morality and law is ignored by the actions of the state.
Hobbesian-esque, as in every rebuke of the state is met with "you and what army?"
& it becomes more and more infantile.
trumpian fascism is basically criminality as a political system in which and by which every sense of morality and law is ignored by the actions of the state.
Hobbesian-esque, as in every rebuke of the state is met with "you and what army?"
& it becomes more and more infantile.
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Ramadan Mubarak!
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
⭐
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
⭐
February 17, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Ramadan Mubarak!
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
⭐
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
⭐
morning thought:
wanna hear this Jesse Jackson Robert Duvall dialogue that's going on in my head too fuzzy.
wanna hear this Jesse Jackson Robert Duvall dialogue that's going on in my head too fuzzy.
February 17, 2026 at 2:23 PM
morning thought:
wanna hear this Jesse Jackson Robert Duvall dialogue that's going on in my head too fuzzy.
wanna hear this Jesse Jackson Robert Duvall dialogue that's going on in my head too fuzzy.
i need to make a social media statement:
The United States Women's Curling Team need to replace noem, kegseth, gabbard and trump, IMMÉDIATEMENT!
The United States Women's Curling Team need to replace noem, kegseth, gabbard and trump, IMMÉDIATEMENT!
February 16, 2026 at 8:03 PM
i need to make a social media statement:
The United States Women's Curling Team need to replace noem, kegseth, gabbard and trump, IMMÉDIATEMENT!
The United States Women's Curling Team need to replace noem, kegseth, gabbard and trump, IMMÉDIATEMENT!
"doomerville #6"
as *our* physical world's stability is collapsing
caused mainly (and manly) by *us*
the civilizational world is collapsing.
as *our* physical world's stability is collapsing
caused mainly (and manly) by *us*
the civilizational world is collapsing.
February 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
"doomerville #6"
as *our* physical world's stability is collapsing
caused mainly (and manly) by *us*
the civilizational world is collapsing.
as *our* physical world's stability is collapsing
caused mainly (and manly) by *us*
the civilizational world is collapsing.
Another random reminder that Caroline Kennedy warned the country that her cousin was a psycho and a killer.
February 15, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Another random reminder that Caroline Kennedy warned the country that her cousin was a psycho and a killer.
"attention"
this language here
that image there
hobbesian thief in the night
in the always night
where the spotlight
is but the fleetest glimmer
of what might be
in this age
in this place
in this language
what?
philosophy?
the other's voice,
face?
poetry.
first
last
&
always.
until the end.
(love)
this language here
that image there
hobbesian thief in the night
in the always night
where the spotlight
is but the fleetest glimmer
of what might be
in this age
in this place
in this language
what?
philosophy?
the other's voice,
face?
poetry.
first
last
&
always.
until the end.
(love)
February 15, 2026 at 2:43 PM
"attention"
this language here
that image there
hobbesian thief in the night
in the always night
where the spotlight
is but the fleetest glimmer
of what might be
in this age
in this place
in this language
what?
philosophy?
the other's voice,
face?
poetry.
first
last
&
always.
until the end.
(love)
this language here
that image there
hobbesian thief in the night
in the always night
where the spotlight
is but the fleetest glimmer
of what might be
in this age
in this place
in this language
what?
philosophy?
the other's voice,
face?
poetry.
first
last
&
always.
until the end.
(love)
two morning thoughts:
li'l narco's speech in Munich was a demonstration of the knowledge of the world in the fetid mind of an ugly american, maybe a specific one — at the level of a superficial tourist.
will there be a new congress *seated* in Jan '27? election is necessary, but not sufficient.
li'l narco's speech in Munich was a demonstration of the knowledge of the world in the fetid mind of an ugly american, maybe a specific one — at the level of a superficial tourist.
will there be a new congress *seated* in Jan '27? election is necessary, but not sufficient.
February 15, 2026 at 2:17 PM
two morning thoughts:
li'l narco's speech in Munich was a demonstration of the knowledge of the world in the fetid mind of an ugly american, maybe a specific one — at the level of a superficial tourist.
will there be a new congress *seated* in Jan '27? election is necessary, but not sufficient.
li'l narco's speech in Munich was a demonstration of the knowledge of the world in the fetid mind of an ugly american, maybe a specific one — at the level of a superficial tourist.
will there be a new congress *seated* in Jan '27? election is necessary, but not sufficient.
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This is the most important thing to understand about AI.
…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls
How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
February 15, 2026 at 4:11 AM
This is the most important thing to understand about AI.
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#PaintedBunting is back! Didn’t see him yesterday, so I thought he’d moved on. 🪶
February 14, 2026 at 12:19 PM
#PaintedBunting is back! Didn’t see him yesterday, so I thought he’d moved on. 🪶
reviews are withering on wuthering
February 14, 2026 at 7:13 PM
reviews are withering on wuthering
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Yesterday, at the refuge, a Bald Eagle was soaring in a thermal. I’m going to miss the winter sunlight illuminating everything from the side!
#BaldEagle #Birds #BirdPhotography #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #CropToZoom
#BaldEagle #Birds #BirdPhotography #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #CropToZoom
February 14, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Yesterday, at the refuge, a Bald Eagle was soaring in a thermal. I’m going to miss the winter sunlight illuminating everything from the side!
#BaldEagle #Birds #BirdPhotography #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #CropToZoom
#BaldEagle #Birds #BirdPhotography #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #CropToZoom
morning doggerel:
i can feel the undertow
of this piggy squeal
of white supremacy,
sucking so strongly,
as it tries to undermine
and disembowel
any basis for humanism,
for history,
for kindness
rather than cruelty.
i can feel the undertow
of this piggy squeal
of white supremacy,
sucking so strongly,
as it tries to undermine
and disembowel
any basis for humanism,
for history,
for kindness
rather than cruelty.
February 14, 2026 at 6:04 PM
morning doggerel:
i can feel the undertow
of this piggy squeal
of white supremacy,
sucking so strongly,
as it tries to undermine
and disembowel
any basis for humanism,
for history,
for kindness
rather than cruelty.
i can feel the undertow
of this piggy squeal
of white supremacy,
sucking so strongly,
as it tries to undermine
and disembowel
any basis for humanism,
for history,
for kindness
rather than cruelty.
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I just found out a black woman named Charm La’Donna choreographed Bad Bunny Halftime Show!!!!!!!
February 14, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I just found out a black woman named Charm La’Donna choreographed Bad Bunny Halftime Show!!!!!!!
